MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-07-14 00:31:01+00:00
Because the gap between tier 1 programs and those that aren't is massive in countries like China and India.

Generally, those institutions managed by the central government of both countries are better managed than those under local and provincial governments.

R&D output, calibre of student base, and access to research equipment is also reflected by that trend. And any private sector funding goes to those programs.

And it's hard to describe the mismanagement that happens in lower tier programs in countries like China and India compared to the US - corruption remains a massive issue in both countries.
by bitwize | 2025-07-14 00:31:28+00:00
Indeed, one feature of active-matrix (and even passive-matrix) displays is that it needs only m + n signal lines to address a pixel in an m + n display. To change the color of a pixel, a signal goes out over the lines corresponding to the row and column of the addressed pixel, selecting it; and then another signal is transmitted over another line to actually change the value of that pixel. In this scheme, it would be impossible to address all pixels simultaneously. Nor would you actually want to, as this would require millions of control lines to drive the display!
by SuperNinKenDo | 2025-07-14 00:32:14+00:00
On the other hand, this does lead to a situation where people simultaneously scoff at a school of thought while telling you that all the useful stuff from said school has already been integrated into whatever orthodoxy they represent. Must be nice to be able to claim credit for something while deriding the people who actually discovered it. Not that I'm a huge "stan" for TCM or anything. I'm very much not.
by lucideer | 2025-07-14 00:32:28+00:00
While nobody is required to like the copy, or "brand" of any project, commercial or otherwise, I do feel like the rhetoric of your comment is largely grounded in a kind of "maximum appeasement" strategy that belongs in for-profit corporate marketing & isn't really appropriate in the open source community.

For example: there's very reasonable arguments that COCs are needed to protect against actual material harm/bullying/abuse targeting individual contributors on projects but this copy specifically does none of that.

In that context, it's just a matter of taste - there's no real reason to police tone that isn't harmful (to anything other than a bottom line).
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 00:32:38+00:00
Left-wing fediverse is a good illustration, too. The way things work on Mastodon, if you try to spin up a node, you quickly find out that many such nodes will ban you e.g. simply because you run Pleroma (because it's "made by fascists for fascists"), or even just because your block list doesn't have a sufficient similarity to theirs.
by DragonStrength | 2025-07-14 00:33:18+00:00
You're arguing with the article not me. I replied to

> How is your brain doing it then?

Do you have an answer? What indication do we have that any AGI we would create would have to follow the same process to achieve the result? Can humans recreate all phenomenon observed in the universe? You're arguing yes in all of these then? I'd love to read more of that argument. I don't care about this proof though. I don't think I've indicated I think AGI is impossible. I care far more about why someone would be convinced it must be possible for humans to recreate in the exact same manner as the brain, which this commenter and you seem to think. I know humans have not shown we can fully model our observations cohesively.

> But also: if general intelligence were computable, but it was not possible to learn how to make the computer that can compute it, then you've disproved evolution.

record scratch What? Did I agree to all of these premises? Do you have some backing for the three or four assumptions you've made in this sentence? You still need to show humans not only could be but are capable of replicating the system. I am asking you for some argument out there that says everything we observe in nature humans can replicate in the exact same way it occurs. That's a much stronger statement than such intelligence exists. You can just link a book. I am not sold on one way or the other, but you seem very confident. Is there some argument I can read? To me, our models in physics point to a fragmented and contradictory understanding of our world to get results. But yes, results are results, but that doesn't mean we are doing anything but modeling -- but can we model everything? Is that the implication of evolution?

We seem to be wandering into capital-S Science vs. science, and I'm not really into religious discussions here. I would love to understand why you seem to think I'm so dimwitted as to dismiss with an edge, when all of this stems from a glib reply to a glib reply that I am no less convinced is in fact glib and fatuous. (And that original comment was not yours, lest you feel insulted in the same way you have insulted me.)
by DoctorOetker | 2025-07-14 00:33:40+00:00
Oh come on, the seconds are entirely predictable, run from 00 to 59, so basically storing 10 frames ("0" to "9") in the font and foreground/background colors, the location on the screen into a small reserved buffer in whatever piece of code is responsible for the final screen frame handover, and this could be updated with minimal overhead and without a context switch,...

Yes, it would require a small API addition to the desktop server (wayland, X11, ...) to "register"/transfer/update those 10 frames, their locations ... whenever the user initializes or changes the fonts, font size, ... the context switch can be totally eliminated.
by Supermancho | 2025-07-14 00:33:41+00:00
> The problem isn’t a lack of housing, it’s a lot of breeding.

> As long as people keep having babies in excess of the replacement rate

To reiterate, the thread was about "breeding". The birth rate has fallen behind.

You are referring to the overall population growth being due to immigration. This may be true, but is unrelated. Respond to the post about why overpop is driving the housing pricing, not to the factual corrections.
by senectus1 | 2025-07-14 00:34:27+00:00
>Employees generally want to put in the least amount of effort possible and go home at 5.

Really?

In my experience coding engineers are coders because they enjoy the challenge. they like building things, breaking things and rebuilding things.

Its the white-collar 9-5 office workers that churn out power-point and word documents that want to do as little as possible.
by ILovePopUps | 2025-07-14 00:34:41+00:00
We built I Love PopUps because we were tired of tools that do everything except help you actually convert. Most are bloated, confusing, or force you to upgrade just to access the features you really need.

https://ilovepopups.com/

We wanted something different: a simple, fast, and effective way to create popups and banners in minutes. No plugins, no complex builders, just a small script you install once and you’re ready to go.

What makes I Love PopUps stand out is its focus on speed and clarity. You get a growing catalog of ready-to-use templates you can customize in seconds. Built-in analytics help you see what’s working, and A/B testing lets you optimize your messaging without guessing.

It’s also built with agencies and project managers in mind: you can control multiple sites or brands from a single dashboard, without limitations or added costs.

What we’re most proud of is that, even though we’re still in the MVP stage, people are already seeing results and validating the concept. From day one we made it fully unlimited, with no locked features or "Pro" plans. We want anyone to be able to jump in and get value right away.

If you try it, let us know what works and what doesn’t. Every bit of feedback helps us improve.
by spauka | 2025-07-14 00:35:14+00:00
Ironically, you've picked an example (Artemisinin) which is discussed at some length in the linked article - as an example where TCM success is overstated and not backed up by real-world results!

See P5-6 in section "The implausibility problem" - which points out that in order for the treatment to be effective it had to be refined into a form that is not rapidly eliminated from the body.
by physix | 2025-07-14 00:36:15+00:00
I've been actively working with Spring since about 2008. About 3-4 times a year, I cuss and curse some strange side effects that occur during refactorings. And in some areas we've painted ourselves into a corner.

But all in all, it's a great set of frameworks in the enterprise Java/Kotlin space. I'd say it's that synergy, which makes it worth the while.

I'm curious, though. Is the use of dependency injection part of the portfolio of criticisms towards Spring?
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-14 00:36:20+00:00
Because if you get zoning out of the way, we can keep building, and keep building, and keep building.

Let them keep buying. But if we build enough, they won't be able to rent it all out. Are they going to keep buying to control the rent-able supply forever? No, they'll run out of money before we run out of buildable land. (Maybe not before we run out of wood, shingles, and labor though...)
by chongli | 2025-07-14 00:36:22+00:00
American football rules have the clock stop every time play stops, unlike association football which runs the clock continuously. This means that for 11 minutes of gameplay there is a lot of other stuff going on with a lot of commentary and replays as the players substitute on and off the field and move to get in position for the next snap.

So that means it's not 100 commercials per 11 minutes of content since much of the content happens while the clock is stopped.
by arp242 | 2025-07-14 00:36:26+00:00
> Nobody whines about the unscientificness of giving yourself a bunch of salt through chicken noodle soup after a hangover.

Sure, but that doesn't come with an entire theory about Chi energy lines, and no one claims this is "medicine" either (other than perhaps jokingly).

That's really the key thing. If you want to get a massage, or aromatherapy, or Reiki or whatever just because you like it, then that's fine. I'm happy for you! Massages even have proven benefits. Some may have benefits that are not yet proven. If you start claiming it will cure your cancer however...

This is also why I don't buy "detox" drinks that some restaurants have, even though some of them seem quite nice. The "detox" is just bollocks. I once even saw "detox" coriander leaves in the store. I like coriander. Maybe it's even good for you (I don't know). But "detox" coriander? Just, ugh...
by throwup238 | 2025-07-14 00:36:50+00:00
They don’t provide any concrete evidence for how they classify “mom and pop” (to be fair i haven't had the time to read the original paper). It’s standard operating procedure to split investment properties between many subsidiaries to limit the financial splash damage. It’s mostly a legal fiction because the property managers are directors of multiple corporations managing dozens of properties, but the courts haven't cracked down on it yet. I’m suspicious of whatever statistics they use to classify investors.

(I’m speaking only of the investors that buy to rent extract, I have no insight into the flippers)
by tolerance | 2025-07-14 00:37:01+00:00
I think what makes this time worse than the past (with respect to the idea that the past was bad too; see the sibling Jim Crow comment) is that in the present everyone is a target.

Was it Marshall McLuhan say something about man devolving into tribalism with the expansion of digital media? The individuation of the literate mind as opposed to the shared vision of the tribal, oral mind; new technology replacing one thing and simultaneously bringing back another from the past.

I want to say that the notion of unity was subsidized by a faith in liberal democracy. Even during the 60s and the 70s, my impression as that the language of activists back then, and consequently the conceptualization of their ideals, didn't stray far from a common dialect of the establishment, rooted in some kind of shared interpretation of democracy during that time. At least in a shared interpretation fundamentally, with conflict stemming from subsidiary ends.

Maybe what we're faced with now is the natural progression of the dissolution of a shared interpretation for social cohesion and whatever's meaningful behind why we want to bond with each other. So we tear away from each other in order to come back together. And it will never be exactly how it was before and maybe that's for the better in the end. Because what it took to get here wasn't great to begin with.
by bitwize | 2025-07-14 00:37:19+00:00
> Regarding CRTs, at the vector CRTs section, they mention "they were mostly monochrome and so the phosphor dots could be tightly packed" - this is not true either I believe, monochrome CRTs had a uniform phosphor coat on the inside, no pixel patches.

This is one of the reasons why emulated versions of Asteroids (arcade game) can never match the real thing: the razor-sharp, perfectly straight lines with zero aliasing used to paint the display. The computer also has fine-grained control of how bright to make the electron beam that raster displays typically don't allow (this is perhaps as simple as holding the beam in place, or drawing back and forth over the same line segment), meaning that your ship's projectiles and enemy shots appear as super-bright points with a phosphor bloom around them, glittering in the dark. Most emulators simply draw them as nondescript pixels. I suppose with some effort a CRT simulator can be hooked up to the emulator... but it still wouldn't be the same.

I'm glad I got to play an authentic Asteroids before I died. Working machines are getting rarer. Some of those who come after me may not get that chance.
by woodruffw | 2025-07-14 00:37:27+00:00
> Would you consider `foo` a blue function and `bar` a red function? That doesn't seem particularly helpful to me.

In the sense of effect/capability typing, I think the answer is yes.

"Coloring" isn't magical, it's just a way to describe effects. Those effect can be described by keywords (`async` in JS, `throws` in Java, etc.) or special token parameters/types (what Zig does), but the consequences are the same: the effect propagates to the caller, and the caller becomes responsible for dealing with it.
by nwienert | 2025-07-14 00:38:41+00:00
I don’t think happening to not fall mostly within left or right makes any of your ideas necessarily more valid, there’s a smart and dumb versions of left, right and center to an extent.

All the things you listed imo are either extremely marginal or not an issue at all, especially compared to the lefts recent antics. Then again, I was pretty left leaning until I lived in SF, which quickly dissuaded me of it, along with the American left moving pretty far leftward. 15 years ago I guess id be considered somewhat left leaning even still.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-14 00:39:01+00:00
No no, my point is that it's unbelievably hard to know things. The reason we do unfathomably expensive clinical trials is because that's what's required to isolate signal from noise in a biological system. The reason they fail so frequently is because we're wrong most of the time we try it.

It is absolutely possible to stumble upon things, as is often the origin of hypotheses that develop into drugs, but 99.999% of these will still end up being false.

It's way more likely you found a thing that convinces you it does something desirable in the body than that you actually found something that does something desirable in the body.
by kasey_junk | 2025-07-14 00:39:29+00:00
You can’t extrapolate anything about owner occupancy rate broadly from this stat because it’s about who _bought_ in a short period.

If 28% of sellers that quarter were investors then the owner occupancy rate went up.

Now I suspect that’s not the case but if you look at home ownership rates for non-investors they stay in a very tight couple of % points in the mid 60s and they track interest rates. This has been true since the US started making home ownership a governmental priority post ww2.

Prior to that it was in the 40s for as far back as I could find any data.
by sevensor | 2025-07-14 00:39:49+00:00
I have a single system that I use for both digital and paper notes. Start writing, put new stuff at the end. Date every entry. Use topic headings that stand out clearly from the text. When it gets too full, slap a date on the file / notebook and open a new one.

Mostly this is not for returning to, but for thinking things through, although the paper system is also good for to do lists.
by Shorn | 2025-07-14 00:41:14+00:00
Yesterday, I was thinking "is it just me or did this get way dumber than it was yesterday?"

Turns out: nope, Claude Sonnet regressed and got significantly dumber. The internet, obviously, assumed dastardly intent from Antrhopic. But they reckon "nope, we messed up - sorry about that, but hey - stuff happens".

It's kind of scary how Anthropic makes a change that makes the model dumber and my knee-jerk reaction is "What am I doing wrong? Am I getting dumber?".

And their response doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.
by kibwen | 2025-07-14 00:43:18+00:00
By "immersive" are you thinking of first-person games like Doom? Sadly most first-person games prefer to use a mouse to control the camera, and most also reward twitch reflexes. You said you were willing to buy a joystick, so maybe you would enjoy a flight simulator? And if you wanted something more game-y, then the Mechwarrior franchise is a very immersive, slow, ponderous first-person game that makes good use of a joystick as well.

Sadly most games these days are not accustomed to be entirely controlled by a keyboard. However, any game that supports a controller should allow you to configure it to use a keyboard instead. The only games I can think of that are keyboard-first are old-school genres like MUDs and classic roguelikes. For a starter MUD I'd recommend DiscworldMUD, and for a starter roguelikes I'd recommend Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (which is not quite "forgiving" in an absolute sense, but is relative to its genre). Both of these games are free, can be played in either the browser or a native MUD client/SSH terminal (respectively), are extremely Linux-friendly as a result, and are "immersive" in the sense that they invite you to use your imagination (although DCSS also has a graphical version).

If you're willing to be "immersed" by a game with a top-down perspective, I'll go out on a limb and recommend Moonring. It's free and made by a single indie developer and designed to evoke the classic Ultima-style RPGs of the 80s, but with modern conveniences and sensibilities. It gives you a free-form world to explore, and even if combat can sometimes be punishing you never really lose any progress for dying.
by xphos | 2025-07-14 00:43:36+00:00
I don't think you understand who the tax hurts in that case. If investors can pass that tax off to a renter, than this type of policy just hurts renters. It seems similar to rent to control its great if you own a house but you ultimually create a shortage that has a lot more slient unknown victims. The real solution is to just build more housing in places people want it so that renting it becomes insanely cheap because there is a glut of supply. It also drives the cost of houses down but I think that might be for the better despite hurting my bottom line as a single family house owner
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-14 00:44:06+00:00
That's an extremely silly objection when (a) artemisinin is effective as a standalone drug if you administer it frequently enough, (b) the discovery of artemisinin and its derivatives in malaria treatment was quite literally inspired by TCM, and (c) most natural products are modified prior to use in pharmaceutical industry, and artemisinin is particularly lightly modified. (Just given a simple ester in artesunate's case.)
by tcfhgj | 2025-07-14 00:44:10+00:00
> The virality of async await is that once you mark a function async, then you can only call it from another async function

Rust calling async function in non-async function:

... // Create the runtime let rt = Runtime::new().unwrap(); // Get a handle from this runtime let handle = rt.handle(); // Execute the future, blocking the current thread until completion handle.block_on(async { println!("hello"); });

https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/runtime/struct.Handle.htm...
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-14 00:44:17+00:00
Way to headline.

The numbers in the article suggest a violation of conservation of mass:

> Today, the LIGO Collaboration announced the detection of the most colossal black hole merger known to date, the final product of which appears to be a gigantic black hole more than 225 times the mass of the Sun.

> GW231123, first observed on November 23, 2023, seems to be an unprecedented beast of a black hole merger. Two enormous black holes—137 and 103 times the mass of the Sun—managed to keep it together despite their immense combined mass

Is the explanation here "225 is a nice round number, and 240 is technically 'more than' that", or "a lot of mass evaporates into other forms of energy when black holes merge", or "during a merge, it becomes possible for matter to escape an event horizon", or what?
by rayiner | 2025-07-14 00:44:42+00:00
Journalists are, on average, shockingly innumerate. Here is Brian Williams (famous anchor) and Mara Gay (NYT Editorial Board member) thinking that $500 million is enough to give all 327 million people in America $1 million: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/msnbc-bloo....

Note that this was pre-planned. They had a little graphic overlay prepared for this and everything. Probably a dozen people laid eyes on this and they didn't catch it. If you're a functioning human, your gut-level understanding of the world should have caught this. It would be like reporting that the weather in phoenix this weekend will be 327 degrees F.

It reminds me of my dad's story of watching about the moon landing on TV from Bangladesh. The guy next to him said he didn't believe it, because "how did they break through the dome of the sky?" That's what American reporters are like with statistics and economics.
by bitwize | 2025-07-14 00:45:34+00:00
For me, OLEDs fall into a category exemplified by Anton Gudim's "YES, BUT" comic series.

YES, OLEDs consume less power, offer truer color reproduction, and are physically more compact.

BUT, they are prone to CRT-like burn-in.

SSDs, the same thing.

YES, SSDs are much faster and immune to mechanical failure.

BUT, they tend not to last as long as HDDs due to limited write cycles, and their price per GiB is still much higher.
by davidw | 2025-07-14 00:46:08+00:00
People want to blame The Bogeyman so bad, but the answer is usually right around the corner in their own neighborhoods:

https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-hearing-and-the-housing...

I wish everyone who cares about the cost of housing could go to a hearing like that. It's a huge eye opener.

Also, here's a good debunking of investors being some kind of root cause rather than a symptom of housing that is scarce: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...
by jarpadat | 2025-07-14 00:46:39+00:00
My theory is that is what is latent in the terrain of human psychology is a propensity to view misconceptions about which problem it is, as evidence there isn't one. When I stop to think about it, I realize that the misconceptions are evidence there is.

With that in mind: in what way should we terraform the latent terrain of human psychology to fix this problem? Because breaking up the tech companies seems like a way, but you seem to have a different one in mind.