MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dtagames | 2025-07-15 16:35:27+00:00
This comment, too, would have more to say had the author seen the movie.

I'm not sure I love this trend of opining on an obvious and current topic without reflecting on a big piece of it. It feels like the intent is to get out one's preloaded opinion first, so as not to have to address the issue that it might not be correct in light of current information.
by jbreckmckye | 2025-07-15 16:35:43+00:00
Summary (no gpt):

- Why are people in the West fat when people in developing nations are thin?

- Prevailing wisdom is that Westerners use fewer calories / have sedentary lifestyle

- Study compared calorie expenditures across societies and found this was false

- Cause is probably diet, maybe ultra processed foods, but not movement

- Data covered 4213 men and women across 34 countries
by kragen | 2025-07-15 16:35:43+00:00
I think Bedrock's choice of not having floating point at all is a good example of the divergence in design goals.

That said, I don't see a completely independent redefinition of IEEE 754 in the 226-page https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/_download/WebAssembl.... In §4.3.3 it does restrict IEEE 754, for example requiring a particular rounding mode, and it defines NaN propagation details that the IEEE 754 spec leaves open-ended IIRC, and it does define some things redundantly to IEEE 754, such as addition and square roots and so on. But it doesn't, for example, describe the binary representation of floating-point numbers at all, even though they can be stored in linear memory and in modules (it just refers you to the IEEE spec), nor permit decimal floating point. §4.3.3 only runs from p. 74 to p. 87, so it would be hard for it to independently define all of IEEE 754.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-15 16:35:59+00:00
In an ideal world, you'd be able to tag a post (or a comment) with arbitrary tags, with an optional real number to turn it into a vector. This would make it possible to rank your suspected level of AI generatedness of a comment, for example, without having to disturb other things.

The UI for said system, on the other hand, is something I can't even imagine.
by duxup | 2025-07-15 16:36:22+00:00
The powerful tend to like the idea of less democratic governments / rigging the game (business) so they win. It's easy, they're not interested in competing in a market (ideas or business) if they can simply cuddle up to a despot and easily get theirs. So we see many line up to take their turn to bend the knee.

There's a weird idea among those on the right in the US where they see business people as somehow having some good insights as far business overall (the market) for the country. But really many of those who gain power are very much not interested in competing / open markets / competition, quite the opposite. They got theirs and for many the inclination is to close the door (market) behind them.
by munificent | 2025-07-15 16:36:37+00:00
I had a similar but more intense experience. Last week, I had a minor medical procedure and they used twilight sedation with Versed (Midazolam). It causes anterograde amnesia.

With previous anaesthesia experiences I've had, it's like a slice of time is cut out. I'm going into the procedure room and the next thing I know I'm in recovery.

This time was different. When they wheeled me out to my wife, I was completely lucid (confirmed by her). I told my wife I remembered essentially the whole procedure. I can remember telling her this. But later, throughout the rest of the day, the memories faded out a piece at a time.

Now, though I just barely remember telling my wife that I remembered the procedure, I don't remember the procedure at all. In fact, I can't even remember where I was when I was talking to my wife. I don't remember the recovery room or even leaving the hospital at all. I have a very faint memory of being in the car. Even my memories of the rest of the afternoon are vague.

It is so weird. It's like the tape slowly degraded over time. I wonder if this is what dementia feels like.
by anthomtb | 2025-07-15 16:36:54+00:00
Being completely sedentary was not my suggestion. My intention was to re-frame the asker's question from "how can I make this exercise tolerable" to "how can I maintain good health without engaging in this miserable activity".

I too once preached the exercise gospel to any that would listen. But I have mellowed out with age (while still riding my stationary bike).
by thanhhaimai | 2025-07-15 16:36:57+00:00
In case you're serious about the question, the answer is a yes.

Emphasis mine.

> Seventy-five percent of the prisoners in U.S. Marshals custody are detained in state, local and _private_ facilities; the remainder are housed in Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities.

https://www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/prisoners/operation/cu...

Here is another source:

> The U.S. Marshals Service detains about 60,000 people a day who are awaiting federal trial or sentencing. While it doesn't operate jails, it does partner with public and private detention facilities. The service assesses detention conditions at these facilities.

> We found shortcomings in its oversight. For example, many deputies who reviewed state and local facilities hadn't received required training. Additionally, some facilities didn't meet some standards for 3 years in a row, including food safety standards.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106348
by antonymoose | 2025-07-15 16:37:07+00:00
Depending on the circumstances, the mood of a Federal agent, and of a prosecutor it could be charged either civilly or criminally. The sibling comment explains this better than I could.

Stepping past the direct offense of being here, one must ask how are they supporting themselves financially? Assuming they are workers, they’re either not paying taxes (a crime) or stealing the identity of a citizen in order to fool an employer. Now they are at least paying taxes, but they’ve victimized a lawful resident or Citizen. This is far from a victimless crime, it took my mother two years to fully clear her name after this occurred to her identity. The IRS and credit agencies are not very understanding.
by beng-nl | 2025-07-15 16:37:08+00:00
Just an amateur interested person here, but I think there is something very positive about these developments. There are probably more, that experts can chime in on, but one I know about is that gravitational waves can give us a signal of what happened when the universe came into existence. The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is a similar thing with photons - it is a signal from the earliest photons to be emitted after the Big Bang / inflation. But the universe was opaque to photons for the first 300000 or so years. Even so cosmological theories have been confirmed and falsified based on this data. But gravitational waves are signals that originated right from the start, and are not blocked by anything unlike photons, and so likely give us much clearer information on the state of the universe when it was created. This might make new insights in fundamental physics possible (quantum mechanics, relativity).

This overlaps with the fascinating topic of multi-messenger astronomy: observing an event using photons, neutrinos, and now: gravitational waves, leading to triple-messenger astronomy, leading to (hand waves) more insights than.. otherwise.

How this might make real life better ln earth: that is a gamble, but progress in fundamental physics has frequently made life better on earth.

I wish you All the best in feeling better about the world.
Show HN: I built a no-code ETL tool (v0.2) to clean messy CSVs using prompts
by Ukd_1209 | 2025-07-15 16:37:13+00:00
Hey HN!

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by tsunamifury | 2025-07-15 16:37:16+00:00
in Adam Curtis‘s all watched over by machines of loving Grace, he makes a pretty long and complete argument that humanity has a rich history of turning over its decision-making to inanimate objects in a desire to discover ideologies we can’t form ourselves in growing complexity of our interconnectivity.

He tells a history of them constantly failing because the core ideology of “cybernetics” is underlying them all and fails to be adaptive enough to match our DNA/Body/mind combined cognitive system. Especially when scaled to large groups.

He makes the second point that humanity and many thinkers constantly also resort to the false notion of “naturalism” as the ideal state of humanity, when in reality there is no natural state of anything, except maybe complexity and chaos.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-15 16:37:18+00:00
> When I see a family of 5 my first thought is "holy fuck they must be loaded.

This is an interesting divide between social media reality of children and the real world.

Any parent will recognize that having 5 kids does not mean paying 5X the cost of infant daycare, which is obvious when you think about it. Infant daycare is expensive but it's also temporary.

It's also fascinating that so many people assume daycare is the only option. With 5 kids, having a parent stay home or work part time is fine. You can also hire a nanny. Many of my friends do a nanny share where two families split the cost of a nanny to watch both of their kids together. I have friends who took jobs working offset schedules for a while. Many people move closer to parents who are able to help (not an option for everyone, obviously).

It's also not the end of the world to take a couple years off work. It's a hurdle, but not the end of the road. Many people do it.

I think many childless people who don't spend a lot of time with parents or families become fixated on the infant phase. They see high infant care costs, sleepless nights, changing diapers, and imagine that's what parenting is like. In reality, it's a very short phase of your life.
by jdauriemma | 2025-07-15 16:37:45+00:00
> they're performing at at least graduate student level across most tasks

I strongly disagree with this characterization. I have yet to find an application that can reliably execute this prompt:

"Find 90 minutes on my calendar in the next four weeks and book a table at my favorite Thai restaurant for two, outside if available."

Forget "graduate-level work," that's stuff I actually want to engage with. What many people really need help with is just basic administrative assistance, and LLMs are way too unpredictable for those use cases.
by convolvatron | 2025-07-15 16:38:20+00:00
Programming with concurrency is hard. Concurrency can make programs faster than sequential ones, but having multiple threads read and update shared variables concurrently and synchronize with one another makes programs more complicated than programs where only one thing happens at a time. Why are concurrent programs more complicated than sequential ones? There are, at least, two reasons: The execution of a sequential program is usually deterministic: If you run the program twice with the same input, the same output will be produced. Bugs are reproducible and thus easy to track down, for example by instrumenting the program. They are called Bohrbugs. However, the output of running concurrent programs depends on how the execution of the various threads are interleaved. Some bugs may occur only occasionally and may never occur when the program is instrumented to find them. We call these Heisenbugs—overhead caused by instrumentation leads to timing changes that can make such bugs less likely to cause havoc. In a sequential program, each statement and each function can be thought of as happening atomically (indivisibly) because there is no other activity interfering with their execution. Even though a statement or function may be compiled into multiple machine instructions, they are executed back-to-back until completion. Not so with a concurrent program, where other threads may update memory locations while a statement or function is being executed.
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-07-15 16:38:21+00:00
We currently have about 800 times the population as we did during the time of hunter gatherers, so we can lose quite a large portion of our population while still greatly exceeding the previous levels. It could be that we are seeing the end game of logistic growth. A decline in population would mean that resources would become cheaper, which in turn could stimulate population growth again.
by anonym29 | 2025-07-15 16:38:36+00:00
There is no contract between taxpayer and government. We use "the social contract" as a polite euphemism for the terms of tyranny we live under.

Real contracts offer a chance for all signatories to consider the terms and the opportunity for either party to reject the terms and not be bound to them.

You'll note that you never had the choice to decline "the social contract", because again, it wasn't a contract you agreed to, it was the terms of tyranny you were being made aware of.
by nucleardog | 2025-07-15 16:38:44+00:00
Not going to dig too far to try and find updated numbers, but as of 2014 about 2/3 of people who had entered the country illegally that year were people that overstayed their visa and the ratio had been on an upward trend for quite a while.

I'm sure you could torture that into applying to that situation, but at least on a very plain reading it doesn't sound like it applies generally to those people.
Show HN: Turn any successful website into a business idea with AI
by zxcholmes | 2025-07-15 16:39:04+00:00
IdeaMiner analyzes successful websites and generates related business ideas using AI.

Instead of generic brainstorming, it: 1. Extracts key data from proven businesses (audience, model, positioning) 2. Uses AI to generate adjacent opportunities 3. Provides similarity control (copycat to completely different) 4. Supports multiple languages and target markets Database includes 7,000+ successful sites across 40+ categories. Built this because most startup ideas fail due to lack of market validation, not lack of creativity. Better to start with proven demand and find new angles.
by raincole | 2025-07-15 16:39:57+00:00
It does feel like Blender is eating the world of 3D content creation.*

I know the industry standard of animation is still Maya, and geometry node isn't as powerful as Houdini, but Blender has made such great progress so far... I wonder if there any hobbyist/student who learns 3Dsmax or 3DCoat as their first DCC anymore?

*: Assuming genAI won't deliver and make that world disappear entirely, ofc.
by hluska | 2025-07-15 16:40:12+00:00
My grandmother passed away almost ten years ago in her late nineties. She was born in the 1920s and was a teenager when ww2 broke out.

One of her memories is interesting and very relevant. There were a lot of soldiers trained in Canada and the government put on dances to entertain them. Had my gram or of her sisters asked to go to a dance with a bunch of soldiers in 1936, they would have been locked in a barn while he burned something down. But by 1939, it was his patriotic duty and he’d buy his girls dresses and take them to the dances.

When my Gram was in her nineties, she would talk about the soldiers, the music and the dances. Then she’d start to glow and her neck would turn red. Romance of the times is a comfortable euphemism. :)
by mindslight | 2025-07-15 16:40:15+00:00
Republicans will argue whatever orange Kim Jong Un and mass media tell them to this week, but this doesn't mean any of those arguments are logically sensible or connected to reality. As a libertarian I steelmanned Republican points for far too long, but at this point they're completely off the rails. All that remains is a fascist anti-American juche cult, and the main question is what are we going to do about it.
by SkiFire13 | 2025-07-15 16:40:29+00:00
> but all references to stack values simply have to be relative offsets

Then such references are no longer pointers, and in order to have a generic reference (that can point to both stack memory and heap memory) you have to store additional data (which one of them it points to) and conditionally use the correct one any time you access it. This is a very invasive change to the memory model.

> then a simple implementation of shift/reset is just capturing context and copying stack fragments, which you can do using setjmp/longjmp in C

That sounds like you're just reinventing green threads then, which basically forces everything to be async once you start noticing its issues.

> https://github.com/koka-lang/libhandle

This returns a 404 error for me.

> This is not akin to making everything async, nor is everything "of one kind", whatever that means.

Sure, if everything has to be able to "wait" for the result of a continuation then you're forcing async support on everything.

If instead you implement continuations as some kind of monads that users have to return from their functions then you got function coloring because you can't normally wait for the result of a continuation from a function that does not return a continuation.
by wavemode | 2025-07-15 16:40:40+00:00
The thing a lot of people haven't yet realized is: all those AI features jammed into your consumer products, aren't for you. They're for investors.

We saw the same thing with blockchain. We started seeing the most ridiculous attempts to integrate blockchain, by companies where it didn't even make any sense. But it was all because doing so excited investors and boosted stock prices and valuations, not because consumers wanted it.
by tharmas | 2025-07-15 16:40:44+00:00
Precisely. Evenly matched teams can make for an exciting game. Sure, if they play extremely conservatively it could be a bore.

But is one team thrashing another 5 - Nil (even in the first half) an "exciting game? Id argue not, for both sets of fans.

But in the money league (aka EPL) this is a big problem for many of the games.

Also, its the same small set of teams vying for the title EVERY year after year after year. Its almost as bad as the Bundesliga. Seriously, is Bayern Munchin going to win the Bundesliga this year? Or is it Rael Madrid or Barcelona that are going to win the Spanish League? Celtic or Rangers? BORING!

Say what you will about the American NFL, but at least they have more variety in who wins the Super Bowl. But they do have to sort out the lopsided score always in the final.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-15 16:40:47+00:00
I just hope that if it comes to that (and I have no doubt that it will), regulation will catch up and mandate any ad/product placement is labeled as such and not just slipped in with no disclosure whatsoever. But, given that we've never regulated influencer marketing which does the same thing, nor are TV placements explicitly called out as "sponsored" I have my doubts but one can hope.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-07-15 16:40:49+00:00
> I’m going to push back very, very hard on ascribing any sort of blame on anyone other than those who are committing these acts.

Pushing back to remove blame from anybody that could potentially solve the problem? And place it exclusively on those who have all incentives to perpetuate and grow it?

That kind of blind moral grandstanding is why we live in idiocracy.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-15 16:41:13+00:00
1632 by Eric Flint - It's an alternative history in which the real town of Mannington, Virginia is fictionalized as "Grantville" and thrown back in time to 1631 Germany, causing it's citizens to band together, and kick off the American Revolution more than a Century Early.

It's a fascinating study of society and the infrastructure that makes civilization work. Their struggles to avoid starvation and being over-run by the armies of the 30 years war are gripping reading.

It was so popular it spawned a community of writers and a series that lived until the authors demise a few years ago.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-07-15 16:41:14+00:00
I've wondered about it too, but I think it might just come down to it's far easier to say "papers, please" and verify them, versus auditing a business to understand where their payroll is going. You also need to account for people using stolen/borrowed credentials to appear to be able to work legally in the US(and generally verified by the federal government). If someone says they are Bob Jones, and they show you an ID, and you send that to the government and the government says Bob Jones can work for you, then you have no real way to tell that Bob Jones actually holds 40 different jobs simultaneously all over the country - but the government does.
by pantalaimon | 2025-07-15 16:41:44+00:00
IMHO it reads a bit too much like a Rick & Morty episode, the characters lack depth and it keeps pushing ever extremer events without taking the time to establish a baseline of normalcy.

The 'anti-memetic antagonist' idea is interesting, but that seems to be the only idea that's in there - the constant amnesia get's old quick and it tears reality apart way too quickly to still care.
by secstate | 2025-07-15 16:42:33+00:00
Cynicism wins the day because negative outcomes are easier to plan for than positive outcomes. Humans defaulting to optimistic outcomes of the future often end up littering the ground with externalities that they failed to consider. And we also only have a single model for infinite growth (cancer) that always leads to destruction, so relentless optimism as a biological organism means a need for infinite growth, which we only know to be a path to destruction.

The answer, therefore, is not bitching on the internet about all the wet blankets who only see negative outcomes, but acknowledging that everything we know needs to end eventually including ourselves, and balancing optimism for the short term with cynicism for the long term. And thus discovering that a healthy cynicism for the future predictions is probably appropriate, unless you truly want to live forever and have infinite energy for everything. But that's a god.
by roughly | 2025-07-15 16:42:58+00:00
Social networks finding profitability via advertising is what created the entire problem space of social media - the algorithmic timelines, the gaming, the dopamine circus, the depression, everything negative that’s come from social media has come from the revenue model, so yes, I think it’s worth being concerned about how LLMs make money, not because I’m worried they won’t, because I’m worried they Will.
by probably_wrong | 2025-07-15 16:43:08+00:00
I know there are smarter ways to invest your cinema money, but I checked how much I could spend in a fancy cinema in Munich, Germany for the OPs experience and came up with 19€ per ticket (balcony plus a popular superhero movie), plus 16€ for a (big) popcorn and two drinks, for a total of 54€ or ~USD 63.

I agree that the average experience could easily cost half that, but the point of how expensive cinema can be (imagine adding a second popcorn or, God forbid, nachos!) is a good one.