MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyanydeez | 2025-07-24 23:55:04+00:00
the board strokes is: Google should have bought the company. They didnt. They basically bought the employees. They call it a "acquihire". Without these employees, the real value of the company fell, allowing cognition to buy the company. Had the employee taken employement with Google, it's likely their shares in windsurf would have been voided, or otherwise not vested. Who knows, these private corporations are often doing a bunch of shady things to dilute share ownership.

In a private company, there's no "real" public valuation of a share, so an employee who has some kind of stake really only has two real options to dump their shares, either through a company buying it (cognition) or the company going public. Without either of these events, it's really difficult, even if there's no contract about it, to sell the shares.

So the value of the company took a nose dive in the private market through the hiring of windsurfs principals, and the employee either kept his shares and went with the company, or took a job with google. So the two values are:

1. Stay with Cognition and retain the private market shares of Windsurf and salary

2. Leave cognition, forfeit(?) the shares, get whatever salary google offered

So those are the payouts being compared.
by machomaster | 2025-07-24 23:55:45+00:00
And that is the same amount as having 10 extra pounds of fat burns.

1kg of muscle tissue burns pretty much identical amount of calories as 1kg of fat tissue. Heart, kidneys, brain etc. tissues burn more than muscles/fat, but you can't really grow those.

Xkg person's basic energy burn rate is the same, regardless of his fat percentage.

Therefore it is definitely a myth to promote weightlifting on the merits of muscles being some kind of great energy expenditure machine.
by cousin_it | 2025-07-24 23:56:01+00:00
Good analogy. There's a flip side to it though. You can be a great comedian on the level of individual jokes, or short bits, but be unable to write a story. And you can be a great jazz musician when it comes to soloing, but be unable to write a song. Stan Getz was a famous example. So yeah, learning jazz by imitation and immersion (as one learns a language) is very cool: learning these hundreds of songs will most certainly teach you how to solo. But it won't teach you how to make a song. Not nearly as reliably. It needs something else, I don't know what.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-07-24 23:58:20+00:00
There are an enormous number of papers like this. I wrote a paper accelerating a small CNN classifier on FPGA and when I compared against the previous SOTA GPU implementation and the numbers were way off from the paper. I did a git blame on their repo and found that after the paper was published they deleted the lines that short-circuited eval if the sample was all 0 (which much of their synthetic data was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).
by pseudo0 | 2025-07-24 23:59:43+00:00
That's a card with a $800 annual fee... And the Amazon Amex requires a Prime membership, so you are paying at least $140/year for that card.

Credit card companies aren't stupid, they offer a few loss leaders but they make it annoying and time-consuming to come out ahead. And most of the big perks are one-time only, they have gotten much better at banning "churners".
by hollerith | 2025-07-25 00:00:14+00:00
Intel's market capitalization was approximately $150 billion in 2015, which translates to about $193 billion in 2023 dollars.

2022 saw a significant decline, with the market capitalization falling to approximately $100-110 billion, which when adjusted for inflation, is $104-114.5 billion in 2023 dollars.

In late 2023 and early 2024, Intel's market capitalization recovered and was generally in the range of $180 billion to $200 billion.

But since then it has gone down a lot, and today it is $98.7 billion, which is $93.2 billion in 2023 dollars.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-25 00:00:30+00:00
Only an anecdote here: a guy I know claimed to have "defensively" used his gun. When I pressed him, it turned out that he drew his gun on a guy "that looked like a dirtbag" when he was staying at a motel.

From his point of view his life would have been threatened (he might not be alive today!) had he not presented his firearm.
by arjie | 2025-07-25 00:00:42+00:00
The realistic reading is that: In the future, a treatment based on this technique could help parents going through IVF rescue more embryos from trisomy-21.

Considering that scope, the people for whom this could be useful are those who have very few embryos, one or more of which have trisomy-21. With a young couple, they will have many embryos and preimplantation genetic testing will reveal trisomy-21 early enough that even if they have fertility issues they can just run more rounds of IVF.

With an older couple or one with severe fertility issues, they may only have one or two embryos to work with.

This is all science-fiction, though, since a technique like this will require a lot of work (both in development and in regulation) before it can go live.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-25 00:00:58+00:00
Didn't want to blow the lid off for a lot of people.

Wasn't "out to get" Trump because if we was out to get Trump (or anybody important out to get Trump) he wouldn't have gotten away with Jan 6.

Trump is in trouble because he promised a lot and didn't deliver and if he does deliver, his name is in those files.
by toast0 | 2025-07-25 00:01:28+00:00
It'a already possible to test for trisomy in a fetus. There's a newish method (NIPT) that does analysis on maternal blood which has very low risk (it's named non-invasive, but drawing blood is routine but not risk free). Having a treatment, if it's feasible, might be more (or less) paletable than ending the pregnancy when diagnostics indicate likely trisomy.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-07-25 00:01:35+00:00
This, exactly. Especially since these files are basically the "this database was not cleanly closed" markers for SQLite. From SQLite's docs:

> If the last client using the database shuts down cleanly by calling sqlite3_close(), then a checkpoint is run automatically in order to transfer all information from the wal file over into the main database, and both the shm file and the wal file are unlinked.
by charleslmunger | 2025-07-25 00:01:51+00:00
I tried implementing an optimized varint encoder that did something similar, by populating an 8 byte value and then storing it to ram, but unaligned overlapping stores caused big regressions. The approach that worked required a different technique. This one is for encoding backwards:

1. One branch for the one-byte case, always inlined, just store the byte

2. Calculate the size size of the unencoded zero prefix with a branch-free construction: (((uint32_t)clz + 7) * 9) >> 6

3. Hand roll a jump table taking advantage of arm's fixed instruction width to calculate the jump target with a shift.

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/b039dfe26...

This results in one branch for 1 byte varints, plus one additional branch for any larger size, and the branch predictor does not have to track a varying trip count through a loop. This approach resulted in a 2.64% speedup for overall encoding (which includes a lot more than just varints) on mid sized arm cores.

I think it's very difficult to beat a single comparison and branch for the 1 byte case for actual encoding forwards or backwards, unless you know there's going to be long runs of one-byte values.
by andoando | 2025-07-25 00:02:25+00:00
Take a look at allometric scaling. "The rationale for dosing regimen utilized was based on a number of factors. First, we sought to model high-dose used in a clinical study for chronic pain, where patients were administered a psychedelic dose (25mg) of psilocybin. Using the standard allometric scaling method, a human dose of 25 mg of psilocybin translates to a mouse dose of 5.14 mg/kg; "
by zbentley | 2025-07-25 00:02:34+00:00
Not for I/O. If many goroutines all request a socket read, the golang runtime shoves them all onto an IO multiplexing event loop very similar to Python's asyncio stdlib event loops: https://www.sobyte.net/post/2022-01/go-netpoller/

And sure, Golang's much better than a cooperative concurrency system at giving work out to multiple cores once the IO finishes, no argument there.

But again . . . async/await in Python (and JavaScript, Java NIO, and many more) is not about using multiple cores for computations; it's about efficiently making IO concurrent (and, if possible, parallel) for unpredictably "IO-wide" workloads, of which there are many.
by knome | 2025-07-25 00:03:35+00:00
that would probably depend on how much power it takes to send the messages, how much actual usable bandwidth you could manage over the distances involved, and how much data you want to send.

if it takes a large amount of energy to send the data, we probably wouldn't want to run the equipment all the time. strong pulses would let the equipment cool down or recharge capacitor banks or whatever during downtime.

interstellar dust and other debris floating through space could cause interference, not to mention radiation from everything else around us, and our own sun shining right next to our little laser.

might want to move the laser out onto pluto or something to avoid having it right up against the sun.
by com2kid | 2025-07-25 00:03:40+00:00
You are technically correct that processed foods are no less healthy than any other foods.

However they are engineered to be hyper palatable, meaning they taste way better than other foods and they will not satiate you even after eating and excessive amount.

Or to put it simply, it is really damn easy to eat a thousand calories of potato chips and still be hungry for "a real meal" but most people will tap out before eating a thousand calories of steak (12 to 16oz).
by plantwallshoe | 2025-07-25 00:03:47+00:00
The number one thing that has improved my bus riding experience here in Seattle was them getting all their buses onto a real time tracking app.

I usually have a couple different bus route options, and now instead of just waiting blindly at a bus stop I can actually see which bus is going to be getting to me the soonest and go to that stop instead.

I ride the bus 4 to 5 times a week and pretty much never use the actual “schedule”
by Shank | 2025-07-25 00:04:40+00:00
AliPay, WeChat Pay, and PayPay succeed because they don’t target this market at all — they target cashed based transactions and provide cash-equivalents. The whole reason why people use them in Asia is because people could use cash but it’s inconvenient to collect and store. These are far and above lower value transactions where fees are important but not as important as simply existing.

I think QR payments can exist in the US if they do the same things that happen in asia: you charge via cash and the balance is stored with the provider. There aren’t any ACH transactions to reverse. If you allow charging with ACH you only cover a small amount and you control risk accordingly.
by renewiltord | 2025-07-25 00:04:41+00:00
IQ polygenic score companies do exist. Just look at the circle around Jonathan Anomaly and you likely will find them all. I know of a couple that are going to go full open this year.

You have to be of the right genetic origin because of the source data, but the truth is it's very risky to do embryo editing. It's hard to tell which way things will land. For all we know, gametogenesis may arrive first. And if that happens, then selection will suffice.
by crooked-v | 2025-07-25 00:04:53+00:00
I would also have to wonder how much of that is the supposed general 'manual dexterity' problem, and how much is just greater unfamiliarity with those specific items because they're no longer immediately using them every day. I certainly know that my own ability to hand-write for long periods dropped off hard once I got out of high school and shifted into typing almost everything.
by piotrbednarski | 2025-07-25 00:04:58+00:00
structllm is a universal and lightweight Python library that provides Structured Outputs functionality for any LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, local models, etc.), not just OpenAI. It guarantees that LLM responses conform to your provided JSON schema using Pydantic models.

If your LLM model has 7B parameters or more, it can be used with structllm.
by zeroCalories | 2025-07-25 00:05:53+00:00
I don't think this is entirely fair. One analogy I like is boat racing. In boat races if you follow someone you're almost always going to do just as well as them. Take a dfferent path and you could get lucky, but just as likley you're going to hit a bad current and throw the whole race. So you follow the crowd and wait for oppritunities to take the lead instead of rolling dices. I don't think they're nessesarily doing anything wrong just because they don't want to do something super aggresive.
by snickell | 2025-07-25 00:06:43+00:00
I think many open source projects already experience two buckets of contributors which maps nicely to the two class distinction inherent in this model:

1) a bunch of people who contributed one or two PRs, but it took the maintainers more time to review/merge the PR than the dev time contributed

2) a much smaller set of people who come back and do more and more PRs, eventually contributing more time than it takes to review their work

A major existing reason to review PRs from class 1 "once or twice" contributors (perhaps the main reason?) is that all class 2 "maintainer-level" contributors start as class 1.

I agree there's an awkward middle ground here, now you have to define where the boundary is between class 1 and class 2, but I think if you were able to graph contribution level you'd find there's already something of a bimodal distribution naturally in many projects anyway.
by benreesman | 2025-07-25 00:07:15+00:00
It's a shame that they don't have you writing marketing copy! The docs are indeed a lot more reasonable looking (to me at least). I work for a small proprietary fund and not some Godzilla company these days so maybe I'm just not the audience, but whew, for purchasing decision makers with subject matter background, that home page would have been a back button real fast if it wasn't linked from your thoughtful comment.

I'm interested in your opinion as a user on a bit of a new conundrum for me: for as many jobs / contracts as I can remember, the data science was central enough that we were building it ourselves from like, the object store up.

But in my current role, I'm managing a whole different kind of infrastructure that pulls in very different directions and the people who need to interact with data range from full-time quants to people with very little programming experience and so I'm kinda peeking around for an all-in-one solution. Log the rows here, connect the notebook here, right this way to your comprehensive dashboards and graphs with great defaults.

Is this what I should be looking at? The code that needs to run on the data is your standard statistical and numerics Python type stuff (and if R was available it would probably get used but I don't need it): I need a dataframe of all the foo from date to date and I want to run a regression and maybe set up a little Monte Carlo thing. Hey that one is really useful, let's make it compute that every night and put it on the wall.

I think we'd pay a lot for an answer here and I really don't want to like, break out pyarrow and start setting up tables.
by biimugan | 2025-07-25 00:07:56+00:00
I'll just note that this seems entirely predictable. So much so that I can't help but see it as purposeful. The federal court system itself only has about 25,000 employees. SCOTUS has 9 judges plus a couple dozen clerks and other assistants. Lower courts already do not have enough employees to contend with an executive branch made up of millions of individuals, especially when that executive is ordering its employees (seemingly) to just ignore or purposefully misinterpret laws, leading to an ever-increasing number of lawsuits. To further reduce the power of lower courts at this time (which this SCOTUS seems to do in almost every decision involving the executive) means even more cases for SCOTUS and even less time for arguments.

Conveniently, we have the shadow docket. A way to issue diktats without any arguments before the court and in many cases without any reasoning whatsoever.

And conveniently, lower courts can then interpret a lack of details from a shadow docket decision however they want. So that the executive can appeal yet again, to get another thumbs down from SCOTUS (without any explanation), and round and round we go. The executive gets to keep the plates spinning while it essentially does whatever it wants.

With this situation, why shouldn't we simply pack the courts? If SCOTUS is going to take more cases than it can handle and not provide any real guidance to lower courts, then clearly they need more employees.
by karim79 | 2025-07-25 00:08:13+00:00
> Or is it just following the latest fad?

I think there's a lot of "monkey see, monkey do" going on in the corporate world.

Also, shareholders and all that.

Intel doesn't have a meme-stock/vibe-stock thing going on at the moment (think Elon and getting to Mars by 2030, or robotaxis everywhere by the end of 2025 etc).

So I guess downsizing seems to be the only potential appeal for them right now.

Disclaimer: I know nothing
by giantg2 | 2025-07-25 00:09:14+00:00
"It appears that the concept of utilizing "parental controls" is "not enough" in the UK but the solution to the problem is frankly a more far reaching measure whilst also being absolutely invasive"

Your children aren't really your own. The government merely lets you raise them provided you do so without violating restrictions. The government feels they have a duty to protect the children since some/many parents are not capable of preventing the harm they wish to prevent (access to porn etc), so they attack the problem on the industry side.
by StanislavPetrov | 2025-07-25 00:09:32+00:00
>You can't outrun a bad diet.

You certainly can. If you eat Mcdonald's every day, that's a bad diet, and if you just sit around all day, you will gain weight. But the same person that eats the same exact McDonald's meal every day but also walks for an hour a day is going to be thinner. The real myth being perpetrated on this thread is that if you start walking an hour every day that somehow you will started eating more and that the only way to lose weight is to change your diet. This may be true if you eat a giant box of oreos every few hours, but it is certainly not true just because you have a "bad" diet. Eating healthier food is a good idea and I certainly recommend it, but it seems to me that the refusal of so many to accept that daily exercise in itself can lead to a healthier weight is a sign of denial by the overweight.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-25 00:11:00+00:00
This feels like the same kind of issue as Google and Meta have with their advertising platforms:

They don't know what they're facilitating.

Which, in my opinion, means that their workflow is flawed and regulation is needed to prevent private companies from shirking responsibility for promoting malware to the general public.

If they own the platform (be it advertising or marketplace) it should be curated such that the platform's brand is at risk if bad actors are allowed on it.

They've been so proud of their ability to scale, but it's only "worked" because they avoided a lot of the hard problems, flushing essentially their waste products into the internet. Without punishment.
by kgermino | 2025-07-25 00:11:20+00:00
What? Unintended acceleration happens _all the time_. It’s usually driver error or a stuck floor mat. The vast majority are drivers who hit the accelerator thinking it’s the brakes then panic when the car speeds up. Toyota had some design issues that seemed to make it more likely (though the software was found to be fine) and got attention due to a viral 911 call and a poor response.

They were absolutely not the only make with unintentional accretion reports/issues at that time; nor presumably today, but I haven’t seen recent numbers
by josephg | 2025-07-25 00:11:23+00:00
> Sure, there can be call for writing your own String type. But what's unique about Java as compared to say C, C++, Go, Rust, even to some extent C# is that …

You also can’t make a first class string type in most of those language because “hi” is defined to be of a system specified class. You can make a different type to store strings but it’ll never be as ergonomic to use.

It’s even worse in JavaScript, where the standard library is written in a different language (usually C++). It’s impossible to write JavaScript code that matches the performance of the built in string primitive. At least outside of specific niche use cases.

Rust has lots of alternate string like libraries in cargo that are optimized better for different use cases - like smallstring or ropey. They’re fast, convenient and ergonomic. I imagine C++ is the same.
by TheFreim | 2025-07-25 00:11:24+00:00
This might be the impression one gets from watching movies or television shows, but its not reality. Anyone who has either trained with a handgun, or even just viewed videos of real-world confrontations will know that this isn't the case. In many encounters you have almost no time. Racking the slide and acquiring the target adds a massive amount of time (its even worse when you are under pressure).

Most defensive uses of a firearms occur at a short distance, less than five yards. It takes very little time to cover the distance. For those who are interested, here is a video covering what it looks like when someone with a knife runs straight at someone at 21 feet, you will see why the idea that people have time to rack the slide is absurd (https://youtu.be/_2zfw_4DYdQ?t=79).
by igouy | 2025-07-25 00:11:52+00:00
The source citations are facts. We can check that Alan Kay "The Early History of Smalltalk" shows this on page 82:

"Unfortunately, inheritance — though an incredibly powerful technique — has turned out to be very difficult for novices (and even professionals) to deal with."

When the presenter tells us — 13:45 "he was already saying he kind of soured on it" — that is not a fact, it's speculation. That speculation does not seem to be supported by what follows in "The Early History of Smalltalk".

One page later — "There were a variety of strong desires for a real inheritance mechanism from Adele and me, from Larry Tesler, who was working on desktop publishing, and from the grad students." page 83

And "A word about inheritance. … By the time Smalltalk-76 came along, Dan Ingalls had come up with a scheme that was Simula-like in it's semantics but could be incrementally changed on the fly to be in accord with our goals of close interaction. I was not completely thrilled with it because it seemed that we needed a better theory about inheritance entirely (and still do). … But no comprehensive and clean multiple inheritance scheme appeared that was compelling enough to surmount Dan's original Simula-like design." page 84
by beadey | 2025-07-25 00:12:45+00:00
From an implementation standpoint, this is great! Definitely had a vibe coded feel to it, but I don’t have a problem with it. In terms of the service, I don’t understand the hyperfixation on privacy. It’s just tracking sexual encounters? I’ve probably had less than 15 sexual partners in my life and not really concerned with keeping track of it nor am I in a place where the actual number matters to me.

Clearly I am not the target demographic, but it seems like people who care about their body count don’t care about keeping it private. I haven’t done any research on this to know though. Good luck.
by ClimaxGravely | 2025-07-25 00:12:50+00:00
For me the text has changed from "don't show me this" to "show less of this" and they come back about once a week now. I also have no option to remove them from the subscriptions feed.

I think a similar thing is happening with their crappy games too. They keep coming back (the games still say "don't show me this" though).