MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by polygot | 2025-07-02 20:24:07+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I didn't expect my post to garner a lot of attention. I am totally ok with rewriting part 1, potentially to make it more concise to prevent confusion (wow, this post is super long, monads must be complex!) is what I'd like to avoid.

I can reproduce the double line issue in part 2, this was my mistake and I missed it as part of my editing process. I'll delete part 2 while I make the corrections.
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by const_cast | 2025-07-02 20:24:23+00:00
Or, more likely, leadership is sloppy and lazy. They make mistakes and color outside the lines, and they pay for it. The hope is that they don't hurt themselves too bad.

Luckily for leadership, opportunity cost is completely invisible. They can't travel to alternate realities so they can just pretend they made a good decision and go with that. This is what causes the fun phenomena of "failing upwards" we see in modern American corporate leadership.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-02 20:24:59+00:00
Yeah, that killed my battery... at least it got me a free battery replacement, even though actually getting that locally was a bit of a pain. Couldn't "reserve" or make an appointment ahead. Just call uBreakIFix and if they had one, come in. That Google did the release that broke the batteries after they had recalled all the spares from the fixit companies was really poorly timed.

Still using my 4a, though have been thinking of a switch to the 9XL.
by joe_the_user | 2025-07-02 20:25:14+00:00
They list two references I think. The first is from the Journal Of Satifiability. The link appears empty to my browser but this link leads to an article of the same authros and the same journal; https://www.cs.uky.edu/~marek/papers.dir/11.dir/JSAT8_10_Wea...

The second paper was from a conference originally and found this link to it through Google Scholar (also listed in another comment); http://t-news.cn/Floc2018/FLoC2018-pages/proceedings_paper_4...
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-02 20:25:45+00:00
But historically, wasn't there a fair period of time between Haskell insisting on referential transparency (and therefore not allowing traditional mutable state) and monads being introduced as a way to deal with it? That was my understanding of the history.

And if so, then it seems fair to say at least that monads were a way to get around the limitations imposed by a desirable feature of the language...
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-02 20:26:24+00:00
Yeah, they can't always get it right but something that would go a long way towards combatting it: Reputation scores on reporting. Accounts that have spent a fair amount of money over a fair amount of time and which do not have a track record of making false reports should be allowed to flag things. And if a product gets enough flags a human looks into it. The more times you flag something that is deemed wrong the more your vote counts in the future. The more times they decide it's clearly legit the less your vote counts. (And there would be a not sure range in the middle that produces no change.)

And let me flag this is a that. Many years ago I reported a search that returned three pages of results for one product that only comes by the box and by the case. Last I looked it was still three pages.
by codytruscott | 2025-07-02 20:26:24+00:00
Whole Genome Sequencing is affordable now. I’d suggest a 20x hifi long read from broad clinical labs for $1200 or so. Use opencravet to dig into the results. They just posted a webinar for personal analysis https://wse.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-VvYJ8FKRcGaKCQtLFrU...

Franklin by genoox is a slicker and possibly more approachable product depending on your interface preferences.

Genetic research — due to the number and subtly of variants — is ripe for citizen science in my opinion.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-07-02 20:26:42+00:00
Isn't that exactly how these companies scale across multiple data centers? They write the code once, package it all together, and host it in multiple areas?

Getting back to games, I still don't see why allowing users to host private servers with their friends is impossible. If anything, it seems like its strictly a DRM issue...but at EOL for a game you no longer find profitable enough to keep the servers online, who really cares about DRM
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-02 20:27:05+00:00
And you don't find links with the underlined name of where they lead to be "easy to quickly identify and understand"?

Are you saying that you need links to say "click here" in order to understand what to do?

Then how did you manage to navigate to this discussion and press the reply link, which did not say "click here"?

Do you not think this looks like superfluous noise at all?

click here for mat_b click here for 1 hour ago | click here for undown | click here for root | click here for parent | click here for prev | click here for next click here to collapse [–]

bla bla bla

click here for reply
by ivape | 2025-07-02 20:27:16+00:00
If it can't be done with CSS, then how can it be done? How can you apply GPU shader effects to a common div? If we can't apply GPU effects to basic HTML and need to do so on custom things like an arbitrary Canvas concoction, then we may as well rebuild a brand-new rendering engine that can apply GPU effects.

HTML is dead. I see no reason to care about it because we only need <p> tags to get some text across, as just about everything else is used to make a webpage an ad-bomb. So let's just start again with the <p> tag and better gpu integration, and leave everything else out.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-02 20:27:40+00:00
> Median disposable household income is probably the best measure

Median disposable income won’t meaningfully capture OP’s case of losing a high-paying job and having it replaced by a low-paying one. For that you need to look at the distribution of household disposable income.

We have terrific economic metrics in America. It really should be part of a mandatory civics class to learn how to read them.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-07-02 20:27:52+00:00
Take a look at the headline flagged in the article, which the tool flagged as "framing the action as unprecedented in a way that might subtly critique the administration". The headline is factually accurate, and the facts are not cherry-picked.

Yes, some reporting is biased. But some reporting is simply accurately reporting damaging information, and "biased" is a way of attacking that without addressing the substance of the problem.
by taeric | 2025-07-02 20:28:00+00:00
I hear what you are saying, but I have a hard time thinking it is an argument against RCTs. Notably, Adderall is a strong counter to this idea. It is clearly effective per all of the tests it has been through. Not surprisingly, it is one of the only ones listed in this website that works. Quite well.

There is an argument that people should treat their own lives as an experiment. Where you track the things you do and see if you can find patterns on mood and productivity and such. If you want to know what generally works, though, there is no counter to effectiveness in RCTs, though?

Put differently, when has evidence ever gone counter to RCTs? Not just are there some questions that an RCT hasn't covered, but times it has been counter to the results?
by ysofunny | 2025-07-02 20:28:05+00:00
they're an upgraded version of self-executable zip files that compresses knowledge like mp3 compresses music, without knowing exactly wtf are either music nor knowledge

the self-execution is the interactive chat interface.

wikipedia gets "trained" (compiled+compressed+lossy) into an executable you can chat with, you can pass this through another pretrained A.I. than can talk out the text or transcribe it.

I think writing compilers is now an officially a defunct skill of historical and conservation purposes more than anything else; but I don't like saying "conservation", it's a bad framing, I rather say "legacy connectivity" which is a form of continuity or backwards compatibility
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-02 20:28:15+00:00
That as well as the words and tone that are used to describe things and the context surrounding those things. A headline that is neither negative nor positive is not strictly unbiased because it implies that the thing being reported is not very unusual. If it is unusual, then the neutral tone is communicating a bias that this unusual thing should not be regarded as such.
by baggachipz | 2025-07-02 20:28:25+00:00
>And an electric car is not an alternative for gas cars. A zero km electric car has already tons and tons of CO2 on it's back because mostly of the battery. >It's not being "green". It's just make polution to be produced in another location.

I get very tired of hearing/reading this fallacy. Yes, producing EVs creates carbon emissions, just like ICE cars. The difference, though, is that EVs offset those CO2 emissions after a few years of use. And some would say that the most "environmentally friendly" car choice is a used car, that is the case on a net-zero basis. Over time, that used car's emissions will surpass the cost to produce and operate an EV.

Usually, the fallacy described above is bundled with "but an EV uses electricity, mostly created by coal. So your car burns coal!" Even if this were the case (it's not [1]), energy production on a large scale is so much more efficient than using a small gasoline engine that it would still be much better from a carbon emissions standpoint.

[1] Coal is only 15% of the energy mix, I asked ChatGPT and burned lots of energy in the process.
by crote | 2025-07-02 20:28:27+00:00
> Law enforcement radio should be unencrypted

I disagree. Every single criminal is going to have a scanner the next day, and it'll become impossible to apprehend genuine criminals.

On the other hand, I would support mandatory recording and archiving of law enforcement radio, just like we are already doing with air traffic control. Combine this with independent incident investigations with public disclosure, and you've essentially achieved the accountability you are asking for.
Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
by jshchnz | 2025-07-02 20:28:34+00:00
Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past.

Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?
by naasking | 2025-07-02 20:28:49+00:00
The reason it's inevitable is because because it follows from physics principles. The Bekenstein Bound proves that all physical systems of finite volume contain finite information, humans are a finite volume, ergo a human contains finite information. Finite information can be fully captured by a finite computer, ergo computers can in principle perfectly simulate a human person.

This + continued technological development entails that AGI is inevitable.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-07-02 20:28:55+00:00
Yeah the requirements are pretty much the same for me.

The friendships I was alluding to were basically in-person in-office sort of friendships that demanded a larger upkeep once the pandemic hit and later when I left my job. So like you I needed some online platform to coordinate in person meetups. It worked for the most part fortunately, but there were definitely some friendships that got lost along the way.
by smaudet | 2025-07-02 20:29:21+00:00
Being able to see was more evolutionary pertinent to us. Same with smell...

Animals that can hear extremely well (owls for instance) rely on this trait to be able to survive.

It's always been more important to us to be able to see versus hear things, we evolved our large brains to take advantage of symbols and information. You can hear a symbol but it requires relatively a lot of energy to relay that over any long distance. In contrast, a smoke signal is visible for many many miles.

Things that are seen tend to be more durable, too. A scream lasts for only an instant, but the signs of a scuffle may last for days or weeks. A carving in stone can last for hundreds of years... and many of the things we eat can be seen but not heard (well).

So it is a far bigger deal to us to be blind than to lack any of the other senses.
by aapeli | 2025-07-02 20:29:29+00:00
I'm one of the Couchers founders and wrote this blog post (and incidentally spend way too much time on HN), awesome to see this show up here!

This launch is the culmination of a huge push from our volunteer team to clean up a bunch of core features and make the platform easier to use. We are also launching a new branding strategy and new landing page.

Quick plug: we are looking for senior React Native devs to join us and help us get a mobile app out, as well as React/Python devs for frontend/backend. Everything we do is open source (under MIT): https://github.com/Couchers-org/couchers/

Happy to answer any questions folks might have!
by xp84 | 2025-07-02 20:29:36+00:00
If “the administration” is The Good Party, the action is “groundbreaking” and “landmark.” If the administration is The Bad Man, the action is “unprecedented.” This is how you frame things to maximize the propaganda effect and scare/please the audience, while maintaining plausible deniability that you’re definitely not pushing an agenda.

(If my comment offends you, I assure you, don’t worry, your party is definitely the Good Party in this scenario.)
by Dig1t | 2025-07-02 20:29:54+00:00
That was always the cost of free and open exchange of ideas though. The idea of the internet in the first place was to allow people to communicate in the open and publish ideas freely. There was never any stipulation that using the published ideas to make money was off limits.

Technology has advanced and now reading the sum total of the freely exchanged ideas has become particularly valuable. But who cares? The internet still exists and is still usable to freely exchange ideas the way it’s always been.

The value that one website provides is a minuscule amount, the value of one individual poster on Reddit is minuscule. Are we asking that each poster on Reddit be paid 1 penny (that’s probably what your posts are worth) for their individual contribution? My websites were used to train these models probably, but the value that each contributed is so small that I wouldn’t even expect a few cents for it.

The person who’s going to profit here is Cloudflare or the owners of Reddit, or any other gatekeeper site that is already profiting from other people’s contributions.

The “parasitism” here just feels like normal competition between giant companies who have special access to information.
by blibble | 2025-07-02 20:30:02+00:00
> Either we believe in the principles of OSS or we do not. If you do not like the idea of your intellectual property being used for commercial purposes then this model is definitely not for you.

I've been writing open source for more than 20 years

I gave away my work for free with one condition: leave my name on it (MIT license)

the AI parasites then strip the attribution out

they are the ones violating the principles of open source

> then perhaps a different licensing and distribution model is what you are after.

I've now stopped producing open source entirely

and I suggest every developer does the same until the legal position is clarified (in our favour)
by mchonedev | 2025-07-02 20:30:13+00:00
Oh goodie. My 6a has had terrible battery life (and actually overheated about a month and a half ago while charging) yet my phone doesn't qualify for the replacement for whatever reason.

This is my 3rd google phone in a row with issues:

Nexus 6p - Had to have the battery replaced and then inexplicitly died, dead to the world Pixel 4a - Similar battery issues + a screen that physically fell out of the phone Pixel 6a - Battery woes BEFORE this update in the near future
by ajmurmann | 2025-07-02 20:30:21+00:00
Why does wealth inequality matter? If my real wealth doubles and Elon's real wealth doubles, inequality went up, yet everyone is tremendously better off. I think we are using inequality as a very bad proxy for poverty but we have much better metrics for that. I suspect people just dislike it for emotional reasons. I want to point out that Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US. Yet everyone is fine with Sweden.

I can set an argument about political influence that's gotten really strong lately but maybe that's better addressed by strengthening the politically system
by photonthug | 2025-07-02 20:30:44+00:00
> This happens with any sufficiently big/old codebase. We can never remember everything, even if we wrote it ourselves

The important thing about a codebase wasn't ever really size or age, but whether it was a planned architecture or grown organically. The same is true post-LLM. Want to put AI in charge of tool-smithing inconsequential little widgets that are blocking you? Fine. Want to put AI in charge of deciding your overall approach and structure? Maybe fine. Worst of all is to put the AI in charge of the former, only to find later that you handed over architectural decisions at some point and without really intending to.
by gnabgib | 2025-07-02 20:31:53+00:00
Related:

Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply (129 points, 2 months ago, 180 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881065

Uruguay wants to use gene drives to eradicate devastating screwworms (3 points, 1 year ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39405779
by CoolGuySteve | 2025-07-02 20:32:15+00:00
The current generation has a massive leap in storage speed but games need to be architected to stream that much data into RAM.

Cyberpunk is a good example of a game that straddled the in between, many of it's performance problems on the PS4 were due to constrained serialization speed.

Nanite and games like FF16 and Death Stranding 2 do a good job of drawing complex geometry and textures that wouldn't be possible on the previous generation
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-02 20:32:21+00:00
I just got it on my Windows, but haven been postponing updates for ages before that with zero issue. Hence I was quite surprised. I'm almost certain what triggered it was some application trying to load a website.

Not sure which technique the application used, but after few seconds it loaded the error message, and after that I couldn't open new tabs or windows without getting that error.
by t43562 | 2025-07-02 20:33:34+00:00
Another tutorial which makes monads about 100x more impossible to understand for me by relating them to something else and describing all the weird ways that they are NOT that thing.

IMO if you already have it, this will be a lovely comparison full of insight, but if you haven't then it's full of confusing statements.

IMO what they are is utterly unimportant, except to mathematicians, and what you can do with them is more to the point.

The fact that explanations are so often in Haskell just makes them more unintelligible because you really need to know what problem they solve.
by walterbell | 2025-07-02 20:34:15+00:00
Enablement of archive links is a decentralized decision made by content owners.

Shouldn't HN respect the distribution decisions of content owners? The primary link on an HN story is always the paywalled link, which offers search engine benefits to the target.

There's a long history of multi-channel distribution policy and variations in priced and non-priced benefits to content owners, from the first days of print to the ever-evolving online economy of paywalls, traffic brokers, ad brokers, content scraping and surveillance capitalism.
by hansonkd | 2025-07-02 20:34:20+00:00
To the point of the article: A lot of Quakers dont label their worship as meditation. The point of quaker worship is to open your heart to "listen". The point of meditation is often mindfulness. there is some overlap but i think it is a different ends from similar means.

Another contrast is quaker worship is done in a community looking inward towards the center of the room, Zen meditation when done in a temple is done looking at the wall. for me this is a contrast between the quaker "society of friends" and zen can be done in isolation

Quakers for me have a special place in my heart.

I'm a bit sad that in California there are very few Quaker communities when compared to Buddhist or Zen communities. The quaker communities that do exist seem to be hanging on from the counterculture movement several decades ago.

I've attended a Quaker community for the past couple of years and sadly it is dying out. Almost all of the members are past 60 y/o and almost zero young adult members or younger members attend.

I think the Quaker philosophy is powerful and unfortunately i believe it has lead to its downfall. The lack of creed and resistance to structure makes it hard for new members to feel comfortable and make it easy to be more casual about your membership. this leads to people just dropping out.

also the structure of quaker practices can seem offputting for people from more conventional religious backgrounds. For example christmas "celebrations" are done entirely in silence from the moment you enter to when you leave. this is a staggering contrast to almost every other celebration. (also in contrast to most of christianity a lot of quakers dont believe jesus was "holy" but rather an ordinary man who was more in touch with the "light", underscoring the intensity of their egalitarian beliefs)

I think Quaker has a branding problem. People think of quaker oats or amish. (amish have nothing to do with quakers). Zen is more trendy and "mystical". If quakerism was "rebranded" a lot more people would be attracted to it.

My heart yearns for more Quaker communities. Its so sad to see them die out.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-02 20:34:27+00:00
Everything in user interface design is a trade-off. There are many usability and accessibility and readability and design factors that every interface designer must balance and trade off against each other.

So of course usability can decrease usability, readability can decrease readability, accessibility can decrease accessibility, beauty can decrease beauty, and all those desirable traits can decrease each other, because there is no one single "technique" you just apply mindlessly to achieve any of those goals.

There are many many ways of achieving (and ruining) each of those goals, and you constantly have to balance and trade them all off against each other.

If somebody is so lazy and careless and poorly educated that they always use links saying "click here" as a solution to their problem of not being creative enough to come up with a better more descriptive link, I can guarantee you 100% of the time they are not going to give a flying fuck about aria or even have a clue what it is.