MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anton-c | 2025-07-12 14:43:46+00:00
Yes I acknowledge this. But I also retain control to the very last moment. I don't have to bank on the driver of my vehicle not being suicidal. If I feel another driver is dangerous, I can just stop. This obviously doesnt prevent all accidents but I've never been in a serious one.

That being said ive flown plenty of times. My fear comes from lacking any control and just finding out mid-flight were going down through no fault of my own. I wouldn't want to know, but then again air France 447 is terrifying too.
by submeta | 2025-07-12 14:43:54+00:00
Haha :) I lived inside Emacs, used orgmode for everything, have written tons of Elisp, used org-roam as my second brain, used vanilla Emacs shortcuts instead of Evil (with a special keyboard settup using Karabiner Elements), did even my googling from Emacs, used emacs calc instead of my calculator, but in the end I spent more time tinkering my Emacs setup than doing real work. Emacs was a lifestyle. At some point I realized: Unix and the terminal are what Emacs try to be: It tries to be a one-stop shop offering you everything: Surfing the web, writing emails, word processor, calculator, planner, terminal. Unix and the terminal offer me all of that. Plus any scripting language. Why miss all the beautiful apps, just to be an Emacs zealot? The editor in emacs is just one usecase. Neovim does it just as well, if not better.

But relax, noone is taking your Emacs from you :) I still like it, but am not a disciple anymore ;)
by shayway | 2025-07-12 14:43:57+00:00
Another aspect to consider is how quickly tolerance builds. After a few weeks of regular low psilocybin doses, even what's considered a high dose can have little to no noticeable effects. Taking equivalent amounts in the study isn't as far-fetched as it might seem, given a few weeks/months of tolerance building.

The question remains though: would it still have the same effects? The psychological effects are certainly diminished with tolerance, but who knows if this study's findings act on the same/a similar mechanism.
by quuxplusone | 2025-07-12 14:43:58+00:00
Ryuta Kinugasa, Yoshiyuki Usami. "How Fast Can a Human Run? Bipedal vs. Quadrupedal Running." Frontiers of Bioengineering and Biotechnology 4:56 (June 2016).

That looks remarkably like an April Fool's article released at the wrong time of year. The second-to-last paragraph is where they reveal the joke to anyone who wasn't already in on it:

> This study has limitations. Although statistical models are significantly related to mathematical formula [sic], the use of a statistical model to accurately predict future athletic performance is challenging (Hilbe, 2008). Fitted linear models should be treated with some caution. The use of linear regression for world record modeling would yield a continued decline that would eventually become negative, thus suggesting that update of world records can be continued until 0 s. It must also be noted that quadrupedal world records did not exist before 2008. This relatively recent involvement [sic] of quadrupedal running results in a somewhat tenuous comparison of world record times. Therefore, despite a high coefficient of determination, a large diverging confidence interval was found.—

—and then right back into it—

> —The 95% confidence intervals [sic] indicates that projected intersects could occur as early as in 2032 (9.238 s) or as late as 2076 (9.341 s).

A "rebuttal paper" might accept their major premise (i.e. feasibility of "a statistical model to accurately predict future athletic performance") but argue that rather than fitting a straight line (linear regression), we should fit an exponential decay curve (exponential regression). In an appendix, we'd try fitting a hyperbola (y = K1/(x-X0) + K2), taking X0 for quadrupedal running at 2008 and X0 for bipedal running anywhere from 2 million to 10 million years ago.

In an alternative "experimentalist approach," the rebuttal paper's author would actually run 100m himself, first on two legs and then on four; plot these as an additional data point (with x=2025) in each set; and fit a polynomial to that data. This would likely change the conclusion quite drastically. ;)
by GiorgioG | 2025-07-12 14:44:01+00:00
On one hand I empathize, on the other hand - she made the poor choices that wound up getting herself incarcerated. There are long-lasting consequences to their actions. When society has to choose between spending a dollar on re-entry or spending it on other more (perceived) worthwhile causes - we know how that goes. Before you all get mad at me for saying that, we don't live in a fantasy world with infinite resources that can do X and also do Y.
by xg15 | 2025-07-12 14:45:30+00:00
Lame: Submit a PEP, campaign for community support, write a patch, go back and forth with the maintainers, endure weeks and months of bikeshedding, then maybe, eventually have your feature included in the next Python release.

Game: Use the codec hack, immediately publish your feature for all Python versions, then write "please do not use" to be safe.
by agubelu | 2025-07-12 14:46:50+00:00
I keep reading "muscle memory" but the theory that one pilot shut down the engines instead of performing another action has nothing to do with muscle memory.

Muscle memory allows you to perform both actions effectively but doesn't make you confuse them. Especially when the corresponding sequence of callouts and actions is practiced and repeated over and over.

All of us have muscle memory for activating the left blinker in our car and pulling the handbrake, but has anyone pulled the handbrake when they wanted to signal left?
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-12 14:47:05+00:00
> I worry about the long term picture a lot; does all of infrastructure become a little untrustworthy at baseline?

Isn’t that a scenario that is better?

If you stop trusting potentially insecure systems you start developing hard and solid ones.

I don’t worry about deepfakes or AI malware, I welcome it. It’s stupid that we have insecure systems like unencrypted emails, social security cards, unsigned documents, passwords in PIN codes alone, etc.
by the__alchemist | 2025-07-12 14:47:09+00:00
I use iso strings for dates in JS, because they're such a trap. (As evidenced by even the first few quiz questions here). Moment, a popular alternative, is as bad in many ways. It conflates "date", "time", and "datetime", which causes so much trouble. The explanation I've heard is "time" and "date" shouldn't exist, which is, semantically, incompatible with my experiences.
by neilknowsbest | 2025-07-12 14:48:14+00:00
The imperative for the government is to reduce the deadweight loss of under-improved land. Whether or not the owner chooses to improve should be their choice, but there is an opportunity cost to not improving.

Absent a LVT, that opportunity cost is mostly born by the people who don't own the land, i.e. the coffee shop that _could_ have been there instead of whatever lower value use is there now. With a LVT, that opportunity cost falls more on the person who owns the land, i.e. the owner wants to keep their SFH in the urban neighborhood, but now pays a higher tax which reflects that under-improvement.
by phil21 | 2025-07-12 14:49:10+00:00
When you are being spammed with grifters who are basically using system inefficiencies, subsidy, and dumping externalities onto the public grid there is very little way to keep up.

If all the actors here were acting in good faith, I would agree. This is not a problem of well-sited and competently researched energy generation plans simply being held up by nothing but red tape and a rubber stamp.

There is certainly some of that, but it’s not the whole story. Operating the grid has historically taken a lot of “gentleman’s agreements” and inertia from the proper overengineering of overbuilding from generation’s past to function. Those social constructs have largely broken down by now.

When you don’t build stuff for a generation (no pun intended) you lose the ability to.

Interesting times ahead indeed.
by fosk | 2025-07-12 14:50:06+00:00
Actually the parent comment was wrong:

You can physically cut off fuel without pulling the thrust lever to idle, because the two are separate controls.

However, it’s against procedure to do so - even dangerous. Throttle should always be at idle before pulling the cutoff switch, because otherwise excessive pressure can be created in the fuel system.

Essentially this is just a best practice, but there is no interlock between throttle and fuel cut off.

Then I got intrigued by your comment in case the throttle encoder fails. Turns out there is double redundancy on the throttle encoder (if one computer fails, the next one takes over), and if both fail the airplane will run on the last known setting at which point the only possible action that can be taken is to cut off the fuel (or keep it running with the last known throttle level).

In this regard both Boeing and Airbus follow the same implementation and there is no difference whatsoever between them.

Perhaps something they I have learned is that cutting off fuel during max throttle position (take off) may have damaged the fuel system of the Air India airplane because of big pressure in the lines and that may have interfered with the restart of the engines when the fuel valve was opened again.
by ufmace | 2025-07-12 14:52:37+00:00
I don't think so. A moderately hard landing with an engine(s) smoldering because they were on fire but had their fuel cut off is probably survivable for most of the passengers. A moderately hard landing with the engine(s) a raging inferno pouring burning fuel all over the place because the fuel couldn't be cut off or took too long to do so is much less survivable.

Putting complex and fallible restrictions on safety-critical controls like fuel cutoff is usually a bad idea overall.
by quuxplusone | 2025-07-12 14:54:16+00:00
Very cool! Reminds me of Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" (2001), which did quadrupedal running with practical effects — harnesses, towed treadmills, all sorts of tricks — i.e., cheating, from the POV of this thread. :)

"Behind the Scenes of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KighzjHkZtY&t=803s "Ape School" starts at 9m35s. Quadrupedal running starts at 13m23s.
by xp84 | 2025-07-12 14:54:38+00:00
> Matter over ethernet, as designed, should work exactly like matter over wifi and matter over thread.

Sorry, I've again failed to explain properly.

My main point: I dislike smarthome things where the individual endpoints are wi-fi, especially small things like switches and lights, because it means there has to be some usually cheesy way to pair it to the network (and also because I don't have Ubiquiti or anything so I don't have a separate IoT network, so it would clutter up my LAN and annoy me). I like Zigbee (and I suppose Zwave is cool, but don't personally have it) and will probably like Thread someday because they don't require me to get my network credentials into a lightbulb in the first place, which if I know manufacturers, will in practice mean some horrible iOS app is mandatory and that app's eventual retirement will someday brick the device.

For that reason, I am rooting for Thread to hurry up and actually make an impact on the market, and not really interested in Matter-over-Wi-fi because in that sense, moving from Zigbee (or Caseta, my other major thing) to Matter-over-Wi-fi would be a big step backward in that way.
by netsharc | 2025-07-12 14:55:41+00:00
The description field uses a typeface that obnoxiously renders 0 (zero) to look like^W^W (upon further investigation: be identical to) lowercase o...

At least on my pretty standard Windows 10 system. No idea which ones of the fonts Avenir, Montserrat, Corbel, URW Gothic, source-sans-pro, sans-serif is being used.
by 93po | 2025-07-12 14:55:49+00:00
There is an extremely wide spectrum of how buddhism is practiced and I'd argue most ways are "wrong" and violate things the buddha very specifically said not to do (e.g. don't worship him).

There are no "requirements" in buddhism. there is no hell for you to go to if you do it "wrong". take from it what you want and leave the rest behind.
by Bender | 2025-07-12 14:56:28+00:00
- Lean back in my recliner, turn on IR heater and NIR lamps. Take a nap. I recommend everyone try this, hard to explain, has to be experienced.

- Play Mahjongg

- Go pet or brush the outdoor cat.

- Brush the horses and put anti-fly ointment on their faces.

- Clean up the house, organize things.
by the_af | 2025-07-12 14:57:10+00:00
A nice emulated alternative used to be TheC64. I own one, not sure if it's available at a reasonable price anymore. Not a real Commodore -- it's running a version of VICE in an ARM chip -- but with the actual form factor of a breadbin C64 and with a working keyboard, which brings back memories!

You can play games and even program (basic, assembly, etc) using a real keyboard. Pretty cool!

I like this is hardware based rather than emulated. However, I'm unconvinced by the color changing case, which the C64 didn't have...
by rchaud | 2025-07-12 14:58:31+00:00
I think of the box art and physical manual of a video game like Diablo from 1996, compared to the game itself. The manual had several detailed drawings of monsters and otherworldly creatures with a very "evil" look, but the game itself they were represented as blocky sprites with fairly comical movement, as characters moved on a isometric chessboard-style grid, with abrupt turns and limited speed. Ultimately the gameplay is what mattered, the box art, in-game music and sound effects all created an atmosphere that wouldn't have been as immersive with just graphics.

A point of comparison would be to the game Quake, which came out the same year, and whose graphics felt light years ahead . But Quake mostly became a multiplayer hit, as the single-player story and overall atmosphere weren't very compelling.
by riku_iki | 2025-07-12 14:58:33+00:00
I would recommend btrfs as general purpose root filesystem. Any FS will have people encountering data loss. I can believe btrfs has N times higher chance of data loss because its packed with features and need to maintain various complicated indexes which are easier to corrupt, but I also believe that one should be ready that his disk will fail any minute regardless of FS, and do backup/replication accordingly.
by rtaylorgarlock | 2025-07-12 14:58:56+00:00
That is indeed how things work. I can think of a few 'good' media-relevant examples, including e.g. that recent super-quick cart project [1], that reach beyond the more vanilla startup-spinoffs or basic media efforts.

1 https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/09/fro...
by yorwba | 2025-07-12 14:59:12+00:00
Looking it up, it seems like the CEO actually got raided by the FBI last year: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-raids-polymarket-ceos-h... So maybe the wheels of justice are just grinding a bit slowly. The terms of use want to have Panamanian law apply https://polymarket.com/tos but that doesn't provide much protection when the company is physically operating in the US.
by jameshart | 2025-07-12 14:59:18+00:00
A little bit of truthiness seems like a good idea at first. You decide to treat empty strings and undefined as falsy and it feels good, so you go ahead and start treating zero as falsy too.

And then all of a sudden code that is expecting to get an array or undefined gets handed a zero or an empty string because someone called it with

x && [x]

Or

x.length && x

And that’s how you end up with a zero showing up on a webpage instead of a list of to-do items when the list is empty.
by phil21 | 2025-07-12 15:01:44+00:00
This was predicted far before the latest datacenter investment craze.

It’s what happens when a generation of people decide to stop building electrical capacity. Writing has been on the wall for decades and the AI craze was the final tipping point. It will be scapegoated of course.

I’m highly skeptical that these are great investments overall, but the fact the answer isn’t “use this money to help subsidize rapidly expanding grid capacity” is indicative of the unseriousness of society today.

Ideally you use this newfound demand to build out capacity and if the demand goes away due to it being malinvestment - at least you have a bunch of shiny new grid capacity that was half paid for by stupid venture capital money.
by dahart | 2025-07-12 15:03:48+00:00
I wonder why Andreesen doesn’t suggest public funding of higher education, instead of fighting DEI. If education was free for all Americans, it would achieve what he’s arguing for and it would undermine and make DEI efforts completely moot. As far as I can tell, we can afford to fund university for all entirely on the extra income taxes that people with degrees make above people without degrees, at least according to income data studies I’ve read from the Fed. (I’m honestly curious why our country hasn’t come to this conclusion already - it certainly looks today like funding higher education for all would increase GDP and reduce the tax burden.)
by ternaus | 2025-07-12 15:04:08+00:00
Interesting representation. Not rows in the database as samples and columns as features, but a whole graph.

Makes training much more flexible, and fine tuning as well. Now, when a new data in terms of samples or new tables are connected to the olds ones you just extend the existing graph, without changing its existing morphology much.

Although it is unclear if it is scientific: "Look how cool we can do" or business result: "Look how much value do we get from this representation"
by xp84 | 2025-07-12 15:05:28+00:00
> market research indicates that most consumers think it’s a cash grab

This I 100% believe and it's so sad. I'm clearly suffering from the fact that smart home enthusiasts, while being the only ones who can even build an even remotely useful smarthome setup, are a minority, and by the numbers, probably 10x the devices are purchased by very nontechnical users who say things like "I just paid the wi-fi bill" and who would buy and return devices that need hubs. And yeah, we all need those people to make a product 'mainstream successful.'

Among enthusiasts of course, we all know a hub basically gives you (the user) control, rather than being reliant on some cloud server that will be turned off (like this article illustrates). (And they're usually like $30 so I'm astounded at how cheap people are. I've had Hue and Lutron hubs for literally 8 years and I suspect they'll last 10 more.) The problem of NAT which I didn't remember to talk about, created a lot of this, as obviously some kind of cloud thing needs to be involved for out-of-home control, but yeah, I think you and I agree that we're better off letting Apple and Google and Amazon be the cloud relays for things that connect to some device in our home that can serve as a hub.

The thing that's the most irritating is that without standards and hubs, you either have to go all in on one company's ecosystem, and none of them are the best at everything, or you have to use 12 different apps: this one for lights, this one for smoke alarms, this one for audio, this one for cameras, this one for smart speakers, this one for that one switch that you bought because they're the only one who offered a really specific type, etc.
by mgkimsal | 2025-07-12 15:05:37+00:00
Was at a friend's place a few years ago. He had an original c64, tape drive, disk drive, okidata printer, and a trove of disks. We'd been friends since high school, but I think he'd stopped using his by then, and I was more of the computer guy (we bonded over guitars, not code).

This was just sitting in his garage. "Take it - take it all" he said. Then... was sort of forceful with it, and started putting it in my car. :)

I took it back home, and... realized I can't connect it to anything. And I'm not a hardware guy. I hate hacking on that sort of stuff. So I ended up giving it all to a friend who was getting in to retro stuff with his son. I think they got it working and connected up to something. I also gave him my C128.

I still have the original Commodore 'Prolog' and (IIRC) 'Forth' packaging somewhere in the office here. :)

Looking at these (and probably some other incarnations) I'm tempted to get one only because of the built in HDMI.

I've poked around with some emulators online and it's fun, but the combination of the original keyboard and shape plus HDMI might be enough to get me to commit. Probably just the original beige though.
by nottorp | 2025-07-12 15:06:42+00:00
The way i read what avherald highlighted is that a part that the manufacturer said should be replaced wasn't and failed as the manufacturer said it will. So it would point to the airline maintenance right now.

What the bbc says is truncated and omits the info about the failing part, so people can point towards murder suicide because they don't have all the info.

Which is why you should always read avherald first...
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-12 15:06:45+00:00
Andreesen says that its been 60 years of "discrimination" against white people. My alma mater didn't even admit women in 1965. He says that immigration is "discrimination." The world he pines for is a world of explicit and massive discrimination against women and non-whites.

Andreesen is calling for the NSF to be destroyed. What does that have to do with DEI? The Trump administration is demanding that universities expressly hire conservatives as faculty and admit conservatives as students. Where's Andreesen's concern about this?

If Andreesen gives a shit about merit, why'd a16z hire Daniel Penny when his entire "qualification" is killing somebody on the subway?
by tialaramex | 2025-07-12 15:07:10+00:00
What does "useful" mean here? Useful the way it'd be useful if butter knives could also cut trees down more easily or if hats were also televisions - ie more uses = more useful?

Programming languages aren't for the machine, they're for humans, and humans make mistakes so we need to design the language with that in mind. "Truthiness" is a footgun, it increases the chance you'll write something you did not mean without even realising.
by anton-c | 2025-07-12 15:07:14+00:00
I don't think that number is up to you and as evidenced by being mass flagged you should follow your own advice. You speak opinion as fact. Car mechanics notoriously take advantage of customers. It happens in every industry. Certainly not every car mechanic has nefarious intent.

Two of my therapists got into it to improve themselves then pass it on to others. The therapists those 99% of other people see, as it seems you feel, are not all grifters. Not even close.
Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX
by grace77 | 2025-07-12 15:07:46+00:00
I’ve been using AI to generate some repetitive frontend (guilty), and while most outputs felt vibe-coded, some results were surprisingly good. So I cleaned it up and made a ranking game out of it with friends, and you can check it out here: https://www.designarena.ai/vote

/vote: Your prompt will be answered by four random, anonymous models. You pick the one you prefer and crown the winner, tournament-style.

/leaderboard: See the current winning models, as dictated by voter preferences.

/play: Iterate quickly by seeing four models respond to the same input and pressing space to regenerate the results you don’t lock-in.

We were especially impressed with the quality of DeepSeek and Grok, and variance between categories (To judge by the results so far, OpenAI is very good for game dev, but seems to suck everywhere else).

We’ve learned a lot, and are curious to hear your comments and questions. Excited to make this better!