MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by int_19h | 2025-07-07 21:31:04+00:00
Digraphs can still unambiguously denote sounds, but Zamenhof really wanted the canonical spelling to have one character = one phoneme.

And, ironically, it was easier to do it back then compared to the computer age, because typewriters did something similar to Unicode combining marks - specifically, on the French typewriter, you'd have a single key for ^ which was used to overtype letters where circumflex was needed. And since French typewriters were very common in all countries Zamenhof used circumflex for his letters (except Ŭ, seemingly just because).

As far as digraphs, using "h" can be ambiguous in some cases, which is why Esperanto digraphs are more often written using "x" these days when diacritics aren't available for some reason. I actually quite like that scheme for several reasons. The obvious one is that "x" is then strictly a modifier letter with no sound value of its own, like hard/soft sign in Cyrillic, so all digraphs are unambiguous. But also, there's a matching diacritical mark, "combining X above". So we could e.g. say that "cx" and "c̽" are the same thing, and you use the latter when possible falling back to the former when you need ASCII.
by alganet | 2025-07-07 21:31:07+00:00
We're talking about different things.

You need to imagine a surveillance system that you cannot lie to, and cannot avoid or replace. It will be there, no way of escaping it. Sattelites, network monitoring, doesn't matter. Assume it exists.

Anyone in control of such hypothetical systems can act upon the surveillance information to manipulate a target (not only observe it). This could be done in several ways. LLM bots encouraging you to volunteer information, gaslighting, etc.

The load bearing component of such surveillance systems are _not_ these actors (LLMs, bots, etc). It's _the need for surveillance_.

What encourages a society to produce surveillance in the first place? Catching bad guys, protecting people, etc. I'm not saying that I agree with it, it is just that this is the way it works.

Anyone doing shady things is a reason for surveillance to exist. Lying is one of those things, making LLM bots is one of those things. Therefore, to target the load bearing aspect of surveillance, I need to walk in a straight line (I won't deploy LLM bots, create alt accounts, etc). There should be no reason to surveil me, unless whoever is in control is some kind of dictator or developed some kind of fixation on me (then, it's their problem not mine).

I can do simple things, like watching videos I don't particularly like, or post nonsense creative stories in a blog, or just simple things designed to hide nothing (they're playful, no intent). Why does someone cares about what I post in a blog that no one visits? Why does someone care about the videos I watch? If someone starts to act on those things, it is because I'm being surveiled. They're honeypots for surveillance, there's nothig behind them.

With those, I can more easily see whoever is trying to act upon my public information by marking it. They will believe they're targeting my worldviews or preferences or personality, but they're actually "marked with high-visibility paint". In fact, I leave explicit notes about it, like "do not interact with this stuff". Only automated surveillance systems (unable to reason) or fanatic stalkers (unable to reason) would ignore those clear warnings.

This strategy is, like I mentioned, mostly based on honesty. It targets the load bearing aspects of surveilance (the need for it), by making it useless and unecessary (why are you surveiling me? I see how you are acting upon it).

It's not about making honest people targets, it's about making surveillance useless.
by imoreno | 2025-07-07 21:31:28+00:00
This was a very confusing article, full of filler. I couldn't stand to read the "detective story" style.

Sounds like the technique is for high-dimensional ellipsoids. It relies on putting them on a grid, shrinking, then expanding according to some rules. Evidently this can produce efficient packing arrangements.

I don't think there's any shocking result ("record") for literal sphere packing. I actually encountered this in research when dynamically constructing a codebook for an error-correcting code. The problem reduces to sphere packing in N-dim space. With less efficient, naive approaches, I was able to get results that were good enough and it didn't seem to matter for what I was doing. But it's cool that someone is working on it.

A better title would have been something like: "Shrink-and-grow technique for efficiently packing n-dimensional spheres"
by hinterlands | 2025-07-07 21:31:33+00:00
First, it just reads that way. It's the default style if you ask ChatGPT to write a couple of paragraphs that explain why lightfastness is important.

Second, while I know there are reasons to be skeptical about AI text checkers, the author's earlier (less verbose) style doesn't get flagged at all, while the style in more recent articles gets classified as heavily AI-assisted.
by seethedeaduu | 2025-07-07 21:32:27+00:00
> That's the definition of it.

I have seen multiple competing definitions.

- People who are transitioning socially

- People who are transitioning medically (hrt)

- People who have transitioned surgically (depends what surgeries the person that says it considers necessary)

- Using some biological distinguisher (this lets you refer to people who are currently repressing as trans, and makes it an inherent property of a person that was predetermined)

- People who want to transition (socially, hormonally, surgically)

- People who have dysphoria

- People who have an f64 diagnosis

Etc
by zokier | 2025-07-07 21:32:36+00:00
The GPUs themselves are named after norse mythology (utgard, midgard, bifrost, valhall), the driver names have been related to those (panfrost, panthor, and now tyr). And the whole theme comes from the fact that the GPUs originate from Norwegian company (later acquired by ARM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(processor)
by achillesheels | 2025-07-07 21:33:37+00:00
Echoing the difficulty in making friends - it is a horridly transient city with no real intentions for newcomers to establish roots - and the techies are less ambitious compared to the Bay Area or NYC. RSUs are silver-cuff links, as earning 3-5x the Guatemalan Hotel Office Manager puts one on a different cultural experience. (It’s America’s Brazil)

But weather is incontestable, food culture exciting, if you have a creative itch to scratch you can bump into a major creative professional accidentally at a bar (like a TV animator or music recording producer/engineer who works for one of the major labels) and before you know it you have a pilot episode or album you’re ready to pitch. shrugs

LAX will get you anywhere in the world non-stop and is easier to make compared to JFK.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-07 21:34:18+00:00
Just because it's not strictly novel doesn't mean that the LLM is outputting the right thing

We used to caution people not to copy and paste from StackOverflow without understanding the code snippets, now we have people generating "vibe code" from nothing using AI, never reading it once and pushing it to master?

It feels like an insane fever dream
by mseri | 2025-07-07 21:34:24+00:00
Sounds all cool and interesting, however:

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by zhynn | 2025-07-07 21:35:41+00:00
If you love hard-science dinosaur books, I cannot recommend Abby Howard's "Earth Before Us" series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/257878-earth-before-us

They are so so SO good, they have so much care about the science while also being delightfully whimsical and the art is beautiful. Please check them out!
by edenthomaz | 2025-07-07 21:36:09+00:00
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by jtrn | 2025-07-07 21:36:23+00:00
I’m not sure if “kicking in open doors” is an idiom in English, but this is a good example of that concepts. This is basically a rehearse of old tropes.

Hollywood has lost its story telling edge.

Jurassic park is inaccurate but successfully combines historical context with fictional storytelling, creating a sense of awe and reverence for dinosaurs.

Modern dinosaur films often suffer from heavy reliance on CGI and lacks soul.

The article is basically these points made over and over

So ironically the article is exactly what it accuses Hollywood of being: unoriginal and boring.
by jwrallie | 2025-07-07 21:36:33+00:00
I think also trying to work around a faulty server with client code is a bit weird, I could see it happening in practice but my first instinct given this interview would be to insist the server should receive some attention first, or if it is impossible at least this queue should be implemented by another process or machine near the server side.

I agree this could work if framed as a coworker rubber ducking his problems to you and asking for ideas to get to a solution, because it could clear up the naming issues and focus on the candidate solving problem skills without the pressure about giving the one right answer to the problem.
by lurk2 | 2025-07-07 21:36:55+00:00
> She's a writer submitting original short pieces to the New Yorker in hopes of being published, by no stretch a "journalist" let alone "at the New Yorker".

Her substack bio reads: Writer/Photographer/Editor/New Yorker. Is the ordinary interpretation of that not: “I am a writer / photographer / editor at the New Yorker”?
by IncRnd | 2025-07-07 21:37:21+00:00
Hmmmm, what might Feynman say about a horse?

So, what's a horse? Well, you look at it: it’s this big animal, standing on four legs, with muscles rippling under its skin, breathing steam into the cold air. And already — that’s amazing. Because somehow, inside that animal, grass gets turned into motion. Just grass! It eats plants, and then it runs like the wind.

Now, let’s dig deeper. You see those legs? Bones and tendons and muscles working like pulleys and levers — a beautiful system of mechanical engineering, except it evolved all by itself, over millions of years. The hoof? That’s a toe — it’s walking on its fingernail, basically — modified for speed and power.

And what about the brain? That horse is aware. It makes decisions. It gets scared, or curious. It remembers. It can learn. Inside that head is a network of neurons, just like yours, firing electricity and sending chemical messages. But it doesn’t talk. So we don’t know exactly what it thinks — but we know it does think, in its own horselike way.

The skin and hair? Cells growing in patterns, each one following instructions written in a long molecule called DNA. And where’d that come from? From the horse’s parents — and theirs, all the way back to a small, many-toed creature millions of years ago.

So the horse — it’s not just a horse. It’s a machine, a chemical plant, a thinking animal, a product of evolution, and a living example of how life organizes matter into something astonishing. And what’s really amazing is, we’re just scratching the surface. There’s still so much we don’t know. And that is the fun of it!
by kragen | 2025-07-07 21:37:40+00:00
This story can be summarized as "Low water activity and low pH keep honey fresh permanently." The other 14 paragraphs are just filler. Moreover, even that summary is factually incorrect; low water activity and low pH don't come close to explaining honey's astounding shelf life, which amounts to centuries in many cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Preservation in particular mentions gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide produced by the bees' glucose oxidase, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Medical_use_and_research also mentions its content of methylglyoxal, which damages DNA and cross-links proteins somewhat like formaldehyde, thus killing microorganisms; mãnuka honey is required to contain at least 85mg/kg of methylglyoxal, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81nuka_honey. I suspect that there is a great deal more research on the topic.

It's disappointing to see such a low-quality article on the BBC website; I generally regard the BBC as a reliable source.
by shawndrost | 2025-07-07 21:37:42+00:00
As a matter of fact, the police return fewer stolen USD to rightful owners than the "financial system" (ie regulated banks, credit card companies, etc). If you report an identity theft (a theft of your USD via your CC or bank info) to the police, nothing will happen, even if they find the guy. The party that is going to return your money (if anyone) is your CC or your bank.

The "financial system" is even more central a player when you consider the universe of potential crimes. Why don't drug dealers put their illegal and ill-begotten money in the bank? It's because the bank is obligated to ask a million questions, and occasionally, to freeze accounts. Why don't North Korean hackers request payment by bank transfer of USD? Because those payments can be put on hold or reversed by the financial system, which is a tool of the "police" in a way that Bitcoin never can be or will be.

The "financial system" is literally a technical system which has been effectively deputized by the "police", and as a matter of technical reality the "financial system" enforces the laws in ways that bitcoin (and exchanges, custodians, etc) are designed to prevent. Financial systems sometimes return stolen money and enforce laws with the involvement of literal police, but mostly not.

Some may not like the laws, and they can argue for why bitcoin is great. But if you like the laws, you should grapple with the fact that Bitcoin was designed to robustly foil the laws. On purpose! This property is called "permissionless" or "censorship-proof" by people that like it.
by Retric | 2025-07-07 21:37:56+00:00
I could list a bunch of sources supporting what I just said but I’ll just say.

https://www.ifeet.org/files/DSM-5-TR.pdf

DSM V has depression as depressive disorders, but lists “Schizophrenia Spectrum” and “Autism Spectrum” so I invite you to consider what distinction for spectrum is being used.
by vel0city | 2025-07-07 21:38:03+00:00
> There was that one Windows handheld recently that released a SteamOS version

It is the device I mentioned earlier. The same device I suggested wasn't sleeping right. And now sleeps fine for me, now that I've disabled that device from waking the machine.

> I never, ever have this problem on Linux

Good for you, and I believe you. I've experienced runaway processes many, many times on Linux systems. Its great when the desktop session gets completely locked up so I have to hop on a different tty to go kill something because the machine is just too overloaded.

> Oh and it gets an extra hour or so of battery. But the tradeoff is... wait... 10% extra performance in games?

Once again, I'd point to crappy drivers. Lenovo has been really slow to actually push graphics drivers on their devices. And Lenovo's tools for managing power profiles is pretty bad, if the reviewer wasn't manually changing between power profiles that could easily have explained those big battery life deltas. And once again that's a Lenovo thing, they really push managing the power profiles in their Legion app instead of using any kind of good profiles in Windows itself. I play pretty similar games to those games he reviewed with big battery life deltas, and I get roughly the same battery life as he did running SteamOS.

> The bottom of the barrel of experiences

I constantly get sleep issues on my Linux hardware where it just fails to resume and sits at a black screen or throws kernel panics. I've got coworkers whose external displays don't get reconnected right from sleep. These are pretty bottom of the barrel experiences. Meanwhile, every one of my Windows machines sleeps and wakes without any issues.
by lurking_swe | 2025-07-07 21:38:05+00:00
We can agree to disagree. yes Ikea offers _some_ products that are made of solid wood. But i’d say maybe 75% of their selection is particle board mixed with _some_ wood elements. That was what i saw during my last trip in ikea in 2020, in NY. Their selection of office furniture is similarly sad. Office chairs that might last 10 years with gentle use MAX. A lot of the ikea stuff is what i’d consider “buy it for life if you treat it gently and don’t have kids”.

I think Ikea is wonderful on a budget. But i personally wouldn’t waste my time there, except for rarely used pieces of furniture. im blessed to have more discretionary income these days. The one product i really like from ikea is their PAX closets. I think they are a very good value, despite feeling a bit cheap. I like how customizable it is, and it’s very functional.

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For example the Amish make very high quality wood furniture in the U.S., at a fair price. If that’s not your thing, there are companies that focus strictly on buy it for life high quality wood furniture. My dining room table was made by MS&Wood (based somewhere in bosnia i believe…they sell direct and wholesale to furniture companies).

https://www.adakezic.com/images/Zastupstva/mswood/2018_MS&WO...
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-07-07 21:38:15+00:00
If I were to infer the meaning from GP's comment, I'd characterize 'artslop' as "works created with some particular artistic intent, in which the literal elements are neglected in favor of their metaphorical connections, especially when these connections are more relatable to artists than a general audience". The connotation being that it's slop intended for other artists and critics, who will think "how meaningful and relatable!" and love it in spite of the poor execution of the literal elements.
by torbid | 2025-07-07 21:38:16+00:00
These sound like good improvements but I still don't really get why the ct log server is responsible for storage at all (as a 3rd party entity)..

Couldn't it just be responsible for its own key and signing incremental advances to a log that all publishers are responsible for storing up to their latest submission to it?

If it needed to restart and some last publisher couldn't give it its latest entries, well they would deserve that rollback to the last publish from a good publisher..
by mpalmer | 2025-07-07 21:38:27+00:00
Adaptation is a creative act.

If it were a simple matter of not deleting things, why haven't we seen more totally faithful adaptations of well-written, detailed speculative fiction?

Choosing to include details like this is a risk, because it means X% of the production's budget goes into making this detail apparent in the final cut. Painstaking production design work, location scouting, etc.

Working through the details is a big part of the process, and Crichton gets the credit. But translating his detailed world faithfully to the screen is neither simple nor easy, nor does it automatically make your movie a box office success.
by beryll1um | 2025-07-07 21:38:41+00:00
Hey folks, I used Arch based distros a lot during all my Linux life, but I always was wonder to try Nix or Guix type package managers. I always thought they were the solution to the problem of reproducible project environments or neat environment management, and they (partially) are. The problem that they are too bloated. I really don't want to install another GC daemon or learn domain specific language (that no one knows) to setup my system. Finally I come to the conclusion that I need nothing else rather the kind of `python-venv` functionallity, but for kind of any needs :P

Luckly, the Arch Linux developers were so kind to separate the core of the `pacman` (`libalpm`), so It was easy to implement first PoC of this kind of tool. In short it's just a tool that is able rootless installation of the any `pacman` compatible package(s) in the separate directory, so you can configure you're environment that way to use it (see `Usage` section of `README.md` file). It's really not Arch specific if configure dependencies and environment kindly, do it kind of ultimate solver of all my problems.

What do you think? Did I missed any similar tool I can try? Is it solves any of problems or I'm just too worried about my packages and projects dependencies in my system?
by JohnFen | 2025-07-07 21:39:12+00:00
In fairness to the article, they're specifically not talking about PTO. They're talking about unpaid leaves of absence.

It doesn't make the term "micro-retirement" any less cringe-worthy, though, as taking unpaid leave is also something that has been done since forever. Normal people just call it "unpaid time off" or, for longer durations, "leaves of absence".
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-07 21:39:26+00:00
Are writing our next program in Lean then? Where does that run?

There seems to be a fundamental difficulty here. Either we prove things in the language we want to use, which means modelling the behavior of the things we use in that language, or we prove things in Lean, but then cannot apply that to an actual implementation, because of issues like the one above.

I would be surprised, if there was no standard approach for modelling bounded integers and their specific properties in a language (which can differ) in a proof language like this. There must have been more people having thought about this and come up with solutions.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-07-07 21:39:26+00:00
I understand the general sentiment. But without a discussion (meeting by another name?), how will you figure out things? Emails and chats can go only so far.

Sometimes meetings are productive to hash things out. For meetings and discussions to be productive, they need to follow some guidelines - like:

1. Have a clear purpose: Why are we meeting and what decision are we trying to make or problem we are trying to solve

2. Share agenda in advance

3. Invite only the minimum set of people necessary

4. Be punctual - enough said!

5. Assign roles and responsibilities to the attendees

6. Summarize the meeting and share it along with next steps and who is doing what (and by when, if applicable). Call out blockers

7. Audit meetings - especially recurring and cull them if they are not required

8. Default to async if possible

When we follow these principles, meetings stop being the "mind killers" and start becoming a lever for clarity, alignment, and momentum.

“If you believe meetings are always a waste, no structure will change your mind. If you believe in making them count, even a short one can change everything.”