MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stevenAthompson | 2025-07-03 02:32:37+00:00
Those are valid points, and I appreciate you taking the time to make them. To clarify, when I misspelled "cannon" I just meant "big gun" rather than a literal piece of primitive weaponry.

More importantly, I would like to point out that while all of your concerns are valid, many of those problems were already solved in the 1960's. Project HARP[1] was able to use a 400 lb projectile to launch a 185 lb payload to a height of 111 miles... in 1966. We don't need anything close to 185 lbs of payload.

You'll note that 111 miles up is considered suborbital space. HARP was built mostly of 1950's era technology, and cost between $1000-$3000 per payload to fire. It had a 16" barrel and could be reloaded in about an hour. The payloads were encapsulated within a "sabot" to protect them, and the sabot seemed to do it's job, because primitive electronic instrument packages were deployed without being destroyed and weather balloons were deployed with success.

The long term plan for that project was to add a second stage which would push the payload into orbit, or beyond. There is no reason to believe it wouldn't have worked, but the Vietnam war happened and people lost the taste for funding space exploration. It was shut down. The enormous gun is still there, rusting where it was abandoned after firing nearly 100 ballistic payloads into suborbital space

Now, if we could fire ballistic payloads into suborbital space in 1966 what do you think we could achieve today? Honestly, the engineering isn't even that difficult, it's just a matter of figuring out how to pay for it. The rest is an incremental improvement over something we could already do in the 60's.

Sure, I'm glossing over a ton of minor issues (like the entire second stage), but those problems are also basically solved and we've learned a few things in the last 60 years. I not only think it's possible, I think someone should give it a shot (pun intended).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-03 02:32:56+00:00
That's exactly the brand of nonesense that is sold to people there as "progressive" and "anti-colonialism" while infact it's just pure nonesense.

Of course every culture/society had to have come from some previous place/culture/society that changed over time due to an incredibly long and complex set of circumstances. The story one must believe to accept your view is that at a flick of the wrist, humans turned from Cave Men to some vague list of "root societies/civilizations" people moved around. Understanding how that movement happened 15 thousands years ago won't make the jews take over Egypt I promise.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-03 02:34:34+00:00
For sure this doesn't replace mechanical cooling.

But efficiency is extremely important in this context, not just for saving energy, but because the inefficiency manifests as heat generated, which undermines the intended refrigeration. So as far as Peltiers go, a doubling of efficiency is like a 3x ~ 4x improvement in effectiveness. Peltiers are already used for cooling in some contexts (eg. cooling CCDs) and this greatly grows the envelope for where they can be effectively employed.
by Nursie | 2025-07-03 02:34:45+00:00
Yeah, Western Australia.

And of course not! As mentioned - the rule has even recently been extended to 'protect' people like us who live semi off-grid, with rainwater capture for drinking and a septic system.

Australians really seem to loooooove rules.

And of course, for the most part, nobody's actually checking this stuff and people pay varying levels of attention to the rules. Seems like a waste of time all round.
by ghushn3 | 2025-07-03 02:34:49+00:00
Some of TikTok is great. I mean, most of it is just dopamine hits, and it's potentially quite bad from a health perspective. But also, plenty of TikTok is news, or political theory, or thoughtful commentary, or explanations of how things work.

It's a bowl of fun size candy bars, with a few razors, a few drugs, a few rotten apples, etc. mixed in. You can, by and large, get the algorithm to serve you nothing but the candy, but you are still eating only candy bars at that point.

Some people can say no to infinite candy. Other people, like myself, cannot and it's a real problem.
by timr | 2025-07-03 02:35:17+00:00
> I only pasted a direct quote from an article you urged everyone to read.

Mea culpa, I missed the line because it was at stranded at the bottom of a bunch of blocked ads. About the only thing I can say is that "NASA" and "any details" is doing all of the heavy lifting in that sentence.

The reporter just quoted someone from the administration saying that they'll follow the law. So the reporter runs over to NASA, doesn't get an immediate or exact answer, and says "OK, I'll just make it sound like maybe they're being dodgy about following the law, then."

Its a fairly standard reporter trick, but it's sleazy nonetheless: "At press time, we've received no answer from the man about when he stopped beating his wife."

> > How you get from that to "we don't know if they'll ever publish it again!" is beyond me.

> I didn't say that either.

I now realize that this language could be misconstrued. I wasn't literally talking about "you". I meant it as "how one gets from that statement to..", and I was talking about the reporters.
by MBCook | 2025-07-03 02:36:12+00:00
Why would Vulkan, as opposed to a custom solution designed to target that hardware and games specifically, be a better solution?

If you’re making a PS game you’re already doing tons of bespoke PS stuff. If you don’t want to deal with it there are plenty of pieces of middleware out there to help.

Honestly these “where’s Vulkan” posts on every bit of 3D capable hardware feel like a stupid meme at this point as opposed to a rational question.

Maybe they should just ship DX12. That’s multi-platform too.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-03 02:37:10+00:00
This potentially is so awesome!

In the submission on Cloudflare adding AI blocking, one of my asks was for better tools to donate limiting (rather than add client pain with Anubis). The AI crawlers are alleged to be pretty merciless about changing their identity (IP address, user agent) if rate limited, but by having data sets like this, I feel like we stand a chance of building tools to analyze the behavior and being able to build rate limiter systems that can still function against these adversarial forces (without penalizing regular users). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443480

It'd be awesome if we had an http spec alike GitHub's rate limit headers, so that we could just tell crawlers what we'll grace them. Sure many crawlers would ignore it or try to bypass it. But there should in principle be some means for cooperation, should be a way to say what you will allow! We should be trying to coax food behaviors, but there's no protocols to set bounds for what good is. GitHub's done real good here, imo, and something like this should be enshrined, to hopefully help get server loads back to reasonable levels, to let the calm be enhanced.
by repiret | 2025-07-03 02:37:14+00:00
There is no overflow risk. The trick works on any Abelian group. N-bit values form an Albanian group with xor where 0 is the identity and every element is its own inverse. But N-bit values also form an Abelian group under addition with overflow, where 0 is the identity and 2s-compliment is the inverse.

If you’re working on an architecture where a single multiplication and a bit shift is cheaper than N xor’s, and where xor, add, and sub are all the same cost, then you can get a performance win by computing the sum as N(N+1)/2; and you don’t need a blog post to understand why it works.
by 9x39 | 2025-07-03 02:37:24+00:00
Many of these ways are promoted by people without any experience fighting, struggling, or even being competent in exercising, in my experience.

Were it so simple, police forces would simply act out Hollywood-esque movie moves. But in reality, individual officers must often resort to firearms to stop assailants, or in some countries, mass unarmed officers must swarm a single assailant.

In regards to states' self-defense claims, they have every incentive to claim it as a casus belli. It's too powerful and righteous to not try to get it to 'stick', and big lies do sometimes work. That doesn't obviate there being actual cases of self-defense, it's just not something that can be taken for granted, and when information is a battlespace all its own, I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
by billy99k | 2025-07-03 02:37:46+00:00
With remote work? good luck. Unions only work where all the work is localized.

I'm in tech and I would never join a union. Why do I need collective bargaining to set my salary (and not give me raise until it's collectively raised) when I can bargain for my own raises?

In addition to this, unions don't bode well for innovation and technology. Look at the Taxicab unions. We could only get a cab in person or through the phone, because the unions had no incentive to innovate. It look a non-union startup to push them to actually make it convenient and better for the customer.
by jmye | 2025-07-03 02:38:01+00:00
Medicare should be cutting reimbursements. It’s the only way to deal with runaway bullshit in a fee-for-service healthcare economy.

The real answer is, and always will be, shifting the model entirely away from that to capitated models and better care model incentives (instead of incentives based around just ordering more shit for patients). It’s also an easy way to account for better geographic distribution.

That said, you’re also not solving rural healthcare without dramatically increasing the number of providers, so the revenue models are only going to get you so far regardless.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-03 02:38:32+00:00
Oh I wad hoping this would go back another step in the 5 whys and why use an LLM conversationally at all.

By the time you got a nice well established context with the right info... just give it to the user.

I like the idea of hallucination-free systems where the LLM merely classifies things at most.

Question -> classifier -> check with user action to take -> act using no AI
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-03 02:38:56+00:00
In addition to giving free advertising to companies mentioned in the article that are _not_ producing prodducts "Made in the USA", the article could also mention some companies that _are_ producing products "Made in the USA"

Would that be unfair

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/01...
by leakycap | 2025-07-03 02:39:55+00:00
Thanks for the tip and for helping me understand what might be causing this! I wondered if the original iPods had more power output or something.

The headphones in question were cheap Koss Porta Pro Classics, and they appear to have a 60 Ohm impedance. That seems somewhat normal, but would that stand out to you?

If you've never tried the Porta Pros, they're the best bang/buck I've ever found for headphones.
by Rexxar | 2025-07-03 02:40:04+00:00
The first number is based on statistical observation of mortality rate the second is based on classification by doctor at death. It's not comparable at all. For example, if there is an increase in heart related death when it's hot it's not accounted in second stats.

WHO European region also covered Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries from central Asia so I don't see how you can conclude anything about EU with this piece of statistic. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WHO_regions)
by accoil | 2025-07-03 02:41:17+00:00
I did suspect Poe was involved.

Been trying to think it through, but I guess I'm getting annoyed by how trivial people seem to think fines are.

I'm not sure how to research this, but it seems like most companies hit with a fine like that will change their behavior. Malicious compliance exists (and I would not put it past Google), but it is at least moving in a better direction.

That said. I also think Google has access to powerful tools to manipulate the laws behind the fines....
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-03 02:41:50+00:00
One thing that stands out to me in this conflict is that when IDF apologists lose their appetite for this war, chosen tactics, and its impossible aims, this validates everyone else’s opinions from the very beginning

People that have been vilified, and associated with a designated terror group for disagreeing with the mere rules of engagement, having nothing different about them or this conflict except Israeli residents realizing their fragile coalition government doesn’t have a plan to achieve its stated goals of getting hostages out of gaza.

Israeli residents have nuanced critique of their government and its not extrapolated to be anything more than that, but there is a defensive hivemind to a non Israeli having the exact same view. Puts most of the hyperbolic rebuttals in a very counterproductive territory
by timschmidt | 2025-07-03 02:41:58+00:00
I think, as much or more than Hawass's ego, the fact that tourism to Egypt and specifically Giza amounts to nearly a tenth of Egypt's GDP: https://egyptianstreets.com/2024/12/09/tourism-contribution-... accounts for a lot of his behavior.

It's big business, has been for almost 5,000 years, and keeping the mysteries alive keeps the money flowing to the cult of Kufu or the modern equivalent.

History for Granite ( https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryforGRANITE ) touches on this powerful explanation for several observable aspects of these ancient sites that otherwise defy explanation. The top of The Great Pyramid was likely flattened so that rich visitors could pay to have an unforgettable picnic at the top. Many passages were filled up with sand and rubble because guides didn't enjoy the extra time and effort in hot dark bat infested areas that tourists demanded. And so on. Zahi is carrying on a long tradition.
by hopelite | 2025-07-03 02:43:30+00:00
This is a mistaken belief. Sure you get all those negative aspects to being degrees, just like you get them under all other conditions … Chinese, Russian, Israeli espionage over the last ~80 years, anyone?… but you cannot actually get diversity without isolation that permits actual diversity to emerge.

Diversity is not pouring oil into water and using the polluted oil-water in lieu of oil and also in lieu of oil. If you want actual diversity you need differences that are separated from each other. It is precisely what has been collapsing for the last 80+ years, actual real diversity, precisely because unique separate groups and clusters have been shattered, scattered, mixed, and polluted.

Even AI is now accelerating this collapse of what is really a form of human biodiversity, or should it be called cultural diversity, as AI is causing a conformity of thought. There are several reports and papers on that phenomenon already.

It’s absolutely ridiculous to claim that somehow those factors will increase over the prior situation simply because we increase actual, real diversity of unique things; not this fake, fraudulent, delusional diversity that has forced on us like a toxic sludge dump that has destroyed human diversity as everyone increasingly consumes the same “content” slop and eats the same food slop, and has the same cultural and musical slop.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-03 02:43:35+00:00
Yes, Zahi Hawass is a comical example at this point. But I'm afraid he is merely the manifestation of general desire from the political regime as well as the majority of the uneducated masses there. Zahi Hawass is just the current sociopath to happen to benifiet from the situation to call himself a "scholar".

I spent a significant part of my teen years in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. There isn't really 1 unified feelings towards the "Ancient Egypt" history among Egyptians. First time I heard about the "Ancient Aliens" conspiracy WAS from an Egyptian. I never really paid the theory much attention until all the articles about how "it's a racist theory" "basically indigenous people can't do things without aliens" narrative was surprising.

There was pride in the telling of the conspiracy theory of Ancient Egyptians contacting aliens. "Of course when the Aliens visited Earth, they had to come to Egypt, you konw. We were in touch with aliens and had far more advanced technologies than all other societies. sadly it's been lost" type thinking.

The general opinion was split between people who don't give a shit about all this pharo shit, people who think it's a cool marketing story in the 21st century, people who think it's their history and identity. It was allover the place
by zdragnar | 2025-07-03 02:43:36+00:00
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_function_call_syntax - the examples section has two side by side. The Nim language version is also pretty readable even if you're not familiar with it.

As for idup... The first several search results for "dlang idup" are all useful.

> I really want to look at the code and be able to know straight away what it does, or have a rough idea.

I presume you really don't like perl, ML based (ocaml, f sharp, rust) Haskell or K.
by macNchz | 2025-07-03 02:44:05+00:00
> In this case, when you see anything about the rich and famous are they likely to live in "high density" the way developers think of it?

There are an awful lot of exceptionally wealthy people living in buildings in Manhattan with hundreds of apartments. Their apartments themselves are larger than average, but given how much they cost per square foot there’s clearly a lot of demand to live in that environment.
by 9x39 | 2025-07-03 02:44:25+00:00
States do have a right to self-defense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defence_in_international_... What state does not?

It's the individual that generally has no right to self defense, if measured by the ability to mount an effective armed self defense. In most countries, the individual is as expendable as a red blood cell is to the overall organism. They are not prevented from fighting back per se, but this natural right is severely and harshly limited.
by btown | 2025-07-03 02:44:32+00:00
When I see things like "The coordinator threw up its hands when tasks weren't clearly defined" but the conclusion is to not use a coordinator at all in favor of imperative logic... it's really hard to know how much of this could be solved by using much more specific prompts/tool descriptions, and using interim summarization/truncation LLM passes to ensure that the amount of context from prior tool outputs doesn't overwhelm the part of context that describes the tools themselves and their recommended use cases. And when the article doesn't even provide a single example of a long-form tool description or prompt that would actually be used in practice...

I think there's some truth to using the right orchestration for the job, but I think that there's a lot more jobs that could benefit from agentic orchestration than the article would have you believe.
by MrJohz | 2025-07-03 02:44:36+00:00
This might not be quite what the previous poster meant, but in my experience it's often not that the developer missed a meeting and now doesn't know some critical piece of information. Rather, it's often that the developer has some knowledge about the code that changes how something should be implemented. Because they weren't at the meeting, nobody else knew about this, and it's only later, when the developer sits down to write the code, that everyone finds out.

In this case, there's nothing to document from the meeting because the information wasn't shared in the first place. The information could only have been shared if the developer had been in the meeting.

(FWIW, I've rarely seen this from a developer not being in a meeting entirely, but I've seen it a few times where a developer has treated the meeting as a "read-only" event, i.e. expected that other people provide all the requirements and not used their own expertise or experience of the code to push back on decisions.)
by leakycap | 2025-07-03 02:45:04+00:00
> Consumption is consumption, you don't get things for free.

While this is true, desirability in the used market doesn't work linearly. Apple devices fall off quickly in value after 2 years. If you buy early in the product cycle, selling as soon as you can buy the next year's model has proven to be the most economic way, because resale on last year's model is still great but 2 years ago is in the tank.

I've been upgrading yearly since 2007 and my spouse waits 3-5 years between phones. Doing the math, over the years I've spent less overall because of the value of sales when I trade up vs. their phone was worth sub-$200 when I sold it recently, because it was older than a few years.
by doom2 | 2025-07-03 02:45:31+00:00
There are a few different varieties of Quakerism and their forms of worship differ accordingly. Some worship in silence, with members of the congregation providing vocal ministry. Some are more like traditional churches, with a pastor leading the service. Others still are more like evangelical Christian denominations.

If you're in the US or Canada and interested in experiencing silent worship, Friends General Conference maintains a directory of meetings here: https://www.fgcquaker.org/find-a-meeting/
by ghushn3 | 2025-07-03 02:45:34+00:00
I saw (on HN, actually) an academic definition for prejudice, discrimination, and racism that stuck with me. I might be butchering this a bit, but prejudice is basically thinking another group is less than purely because of their race. Discrimination is acting on that belief. Racism is discrimination based on race, particularly when the person discriminated against is a minority/less powerful person.

LLMs don't think, and also have no race. So I have a hard time saying they can racist, per se. But they can absolutely produce racist and discriminatory material. Especially if their training corpus contains racist and discriminatory material (which it absolutely does.)

I do think it's important to distinguish between photoshop, which is largely built from feature implementation ("The paint bucket behaves like this", etc.), and LLMs which are predictive engines that try to predict the right set of words to say based on their understanding of human media. The input is not some thoughtful set of PMs and engineers, it's "read all this, figure out the patterns". If "all this" contains racist material, the LLM will sometimes repeat it.
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by jessehorne | 2025-07-03 02:46:29+00:00
The website looks AI generated, which I'm not necessarily complaining about but I am noticing patterns with using claude to do similar things. Just a heads up.

I think you could make it quite a bit clearer what this actually is. It feels like it took me too long to realize it's a prompt for asking questions about your ad data.

Also, this feels like a scam, because why would there be a line for me to skip and why does it cost me $199 to do that? Seems like a weird profit strategy.