MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cdf | 2025-07-14 01:10:35+00:00
I am biased as an ethnic Chinese, but I feel modern medicine is afraid that it's approach, the sum of parts empiricism may be incomplete, in that we dont understand all the parts yet.

The human body is not just human DNA organs working together, but also an ecosystem with myriad bacteria, and we are still in infancy when it comes to understanding the bacteria.

TCM seeks a black box metaphorical approach, which sounds like quackery but I do think it is capable of addressing _some_ blindspots in modern medicine, eg why some medication would work on a yin body but not a yang body... the difference is in the bacterial ecosystem.

That said, I see TCM (and other traditional approaches) as a last resort when modern medicine fails, and I certainly agree the approach is incapable of resisting shamanic beliefs.
by orionblastar | 2025-07-14 01:11:01+00:00
My friend from India, Zubin, told me about the $500 to $1000 used car. It is cheaper to fix it up than it is to pay interest payments on a new car. It usually is a compact car like a Toyota that is easy to fix and doesn't have a computer to control the car. Just replace the stereo with a better one and keep fixing the car.

My son is the same way; he learned from YouTube videos on pickup trucks, earned his CDL, and learned how to fix diesel engines. He just welded his exhaust pipe on his truck today.

Rich people used to do this. Sam Walton had a Ford pickup truck from the 1960s that he kept getting repaired.
by paulcole | 2025-07-14 01:11:17+00:00
I love streaks like this.

My current bests are: 686 days for completing the New York Times Crossword and 582 days of 20+ minutes of Apple Fitness+ classes.

Plus 15,344 days without driving a car (I never learned) and without having alcohol or soda (just never had the interest). And 5,123 days since I've taken Ecstasy (tried it once).

Around 6,000 days since I last intentionally ate meat, but I couldn't tell you the exact date.
by recursivegirth | 2025-07-14 01:11:19+00:00
I do weekly notes instead of daily. My problem with daily notes was that managing them was tedious and felt very duplicative (even when I found ways to automate their creation). It made searching for a particular topic or task more difficult because the unfinished item is in 3-4 daily notes cause it gets buried and I have to search through all of them.

Now that I am using weekly notes, I find myself finding information easier and the work to create the note is a 1/5th of the chore since I only do it Monday mornings.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-14 01:11:42+00:00
Housing is expensive in large part because of how illiquid supply is. This is in large part because the fixed compliance costs of doing work upon "land near cities" is high. I'm not talking the $50 permit. I'm talking the $50-500k worth of engineering and lawyers and whatnot you need to bulldoze a 1-family and put in an N-family even in a place zoned for it. You typically wind up going rounds with the city at every step just because while you're nominally allowed to do whatever it is you have to bicker over everything like parking and setbacks and whatnot that are nebulously defined for the purpose of allowing the .gov to extract concessions. This is why only big money 5-over N apartments get built. When you have a ton of fixed costs nothing less makes sense.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-14 01:11:52+00:00
My neighborhood is like this. It's been underresourced and neglected for decades, but is well connected to transit and is adjacent to more prestigious neighborhoods.

The buildings being bought are 2-4 unit apartment rental buildings, and quite old, so 300-500k is typical. Then they're downzoned into single family homes or possibly two condos and resold for about double the price I think.

Obviously the ones using (and then losing) them as rental housing and the ones buying are completely different groups.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-14 01:12:49+00:00
> If the top 1% of companies drive the majority of VC returns

The fact that the author brings this up and fails to realize that the behavior of current staff shows we have hit or have passed peak AI.

Moores Law is dead and it isn't going to come through and make AI any more affordable. Look at the latest GPU's: IPC is flat. And no one is charging enough to pay for running (bandwidth, power) of the computer that is being used, never mind turning NVIDA into a 4 trillion dollar company.

> Meta’s multi-hundred million dollar comp offers and Google’s multi-billion dollar Character AI and Windsurf deals signal that we are in a crazy AI talent bubble.

All this signals is that those in the know have chosen to take their payday. They don't see themselves building another google scale product, they dont see themselves delivering on samas vision. They KNOW that they are never going to be the 1% company, the unicorn. It's a stark admission that there is NO break out.

The math isnt there in the products we are building today: to borrow a Bay Area quote there is no there there. And you can't spend your way to market capture / a moat, like every VC gold rush of the past.

Do I think AI/ML is dead. NO, but I dont think that innovation is going to come out of the big players, or the dominant markets. Its going to take a bust, cheap and accessable compute (fire sale on used processing) and a new generation of kids to come in hungry and willing to throw away a few years on a big idea. Then you might see interesting tools and scaling down (to run localy).

The first team to deliver a model that can run on a GPU alongside a game, so that there is never an "I took an arrow to the knee" meme again is going to make a LOT of money.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-14 01:13:44+00:00
Democrats and progressives believe that factual arguments are what wins elections, so they are tripping over themselves to present the lectorate with proof. this would be a winning strategy if the whole electorate were like Dems and progressives, but it's not.

They need to develop parallel atavistic messaging that bypasses the prefrontal cortex and goes straight for the limbic system, but they're (mostly) terrible at this because they're so conflict averse. Democrats are the party that always wins gold stars at policy debate but can't figure out how to avoid getting shoved in a locker afterward.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-14 01:13:46+00:00
I don't think this is an entirely fair characterization either. Note that everything I lay out here is just based on accumulated information gathered over the years due to vague interest, I haven't worked on or with CRTs (did use them though).

Monochromatic CRTs were well and truly resolution agnostic, there were legitimately no pixels or subpixels or anything similar to speak of. That said, the driving signal still had to be modulated to produce an image, and so it's not magic either. You can conceivably represent [0] all the available information in them using just 720 samples per line, which is exactly why DVDs had that as their horizontal resolution (720 pixels).

This story changes a bit though with color CRTs, where you did have discrete sets of patches of different phosphor chemistries called triads. There was absolutely a fixed number of them on a glass, so you could conceivably consider that as the native resolution for that given display, with each triad being a pixel, and each patch being a subpixel. The distance between these was the aperture pitch, much like how you have a pixel pitch on a typical flatpanel display.

The kicker then is that as you say, there's no strict addressing. From what I understand there were multiple electron guns scanning across the screen simultaneously, only being able to hit the specific color they were assigned, but the patch they were hitting wasn't addressed, they just scanned across the screen like the single electron gun did in monochromatic CRTs. You'd then get resolution invariance by just the natural emission spread providing you with oversampling / undersampling without any kind of digital computational effort. It's not really true resolution independence like with the monochrome ones, I'd say. I even recall articles where they were testing freshly released CRT monitors, and discussing how sharp the beam was, resulting in what kind of resolution adherence.

[0] an earlier version of this comment said "extract from" here; for various reasons you might already know, that's a different thing, and would not actually be true.
by lerno | 2025-07-14 01:13:47+00:00
It is a problem for manual memory management. I am not quite sure where you're coming from. In Modern C++ this is managed by RAII, but if you instead look at C there is no solution that doesn't involve various additional code.

You seem the same in "C alternatives" such as Zig.

But obviously if you're coming from a language which already has some form of automatic memory management it won't seem like a big thing.

But in the context of manual memory management it is solving a very real problem.
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by alepeak | 2025-07-14 01:14:06+00:00
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by WalterBright | 2025-07-14 01:14:32+00:00
Big business is the engine that drives the economy. Small businesses are the future big businesses. Economies where big business is discouraged don't do very well. Small business doesn't have economy of scale, nor can it raise the capital to do big projects.

> extreme concentration of wealth

Big business does not concentrate wealth. What you're seeing is the creation of wealth. This created wealth then flows out into the rest of the economy, via paying the workers and buying plant&equipment, etc.
by lauriewired | 2025-07-14 01:14:51+00:00
This is my own channel, but I made a 10+ part series on modern ARM assembly you may find interesting. I used CPUlator for the demonstrations, which is a nice way to inspect the memory as well as the individual registers as you are running a program.

All runs in the browser:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn_It163He32Ujm-l_czgEBhb...
by thequux | 2025-07-14 01:14:59+00:00
If you actually read ITU T-REC X.200, which specifies the OSI model, you'll find that it doesn't match the modern internet at all. E.g., we don't have an OSI-style transport protocol at all (connections themselves aren't addressable independent of the SSAPs), TCP and UDP are actually layer 5, the presentation layer is protocol-specific, and pretty much the entire stack falls to bits if the network layer isn't packet switched.

There's a separate term for the bits of the OSI model that are actually relevant; it's called the IETF model.
by chabska | 2025-07-14 01:15:09+00:00
> but it also gets released again

Quite slowly. Lignin, which makes up about 30% of woody biomass, is very difficult to break down biologically. Only a few specialized bacteria and fungi have the enzymes for it.

We don't need to sequester carbon permanently, we just need to bind enough of it into soil carbon to reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. The long residence time of carbon in the soil is sufficient for this purpose.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-14 01:15:10+00:00
Just like I don't blame people for hating me because I'm a symbol of ongoing colonization, I expect people to be ok if I blame them for ongoing atrocities carried out in their name in public with no shame or believable justification.

If North Korea is just as bad, at least they're smart enough to not let me see evidence that invades my dreams.
by ogurechny | 2025-07-14 01:15:10+00:00
Even 20 years ago the so-called “geeks” were reacting to those news with “We can fix that!”, and indeed were making the tools. They were often primitive, but modern ones are based on those developments and collected knowledge.

Today's crowd is full of lickspittles who are constantly searching for someone or something to kneel before. Money, power, or at least flavour-of-the-month fame. A lot of work was put into spreading those ideals, and not teaching anything “outdated”, “dissenting” or “controversial”.

So you're not just waving the white flag even before anyone intimidates you personally, you're actively working for that cause, willingly or unwillingly.

Something tells me that you were not using 56 bit encryption when posting. In a different world, you would, and lament how pathetic and insecure it is to let someone calling themselves “government” have access to everything, but how understandable it is in presence of communists, terrorists, degenerates who have rejected the democratic values and thus stopped being humans, etc.

Dystopias and the dystopian outlook actually helps any kind of high profile swindler a lot. People treat them as the portrayal of “how the world really works”, and expect it to be normal when someone does it, or just hints at such option to scare the public, while they were intended to portray how stupid people can be if they cease to think. Please choose some higher standards.
by mcny | 2025-07-14 01:15:25+00:00
One of the many reasons I don't like to give references, social security number, date of birth, and so on to anyone except the end client hiring manager. I don't really care if the talent manager software has a required field to put last four of social security number. I simply don't trust random job postings to keep my information secure.

Would it help if I could query some IRS service to check what paychecks have been sent to me? Does this have a delay of a quarter year or more?

How do these people avoid getting the people they impersonated and or scammed in trouble with the IRS?
by Aeolun | 2025-07-14 01:15:45+00:00
They’re making more too! We got a new underground tank underneath the park nearby that they’ve been working on for years.

I guess it’s connected to this one, though I can’t find any information on that reservoir in specific.

https://sushitech-startup.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/sightseeing-tour...

It’s pretty relevant as my house is about 50m from that river.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-07-14 01:16:02+00:00
Our understanding of this universe constantly changes. We all know those - Earth is flat or it is center of universe, on and on.

The black hole is happening. So it exists. So either the observations are wrong or the undeying assumptions are wrong or math / physics we are using to make sense of the event is wrong.

Click-bait articles serve no purpose in advancing science.
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 01:16:17+00:00
A quick Google search reveals AdGuard is only a DNS resolver, so it has the adblocking power of something like a Pi Hole. So... nowhere near as capable. It can't inject JS into webpages to prevent pop ups, which is going to lead to white boxes everywhere. In addition, ads can obfuscate the URL or share domains with non-ad content - so that content won't be blocked with a DNS resolver.

However, the software seems safe. Their privacy policy says they only store websites locally, and never upload them to servers. The app is also open-source.

Ad Block Plus is not privacy respecting. They collect usage data as well as unique device identifiers.
by kasey_junk | 2025-07-14 01:16:34+00:00
That doesn’t change the question though. Why would the house you bought last likely be good for renting out? There are much better properties out there generally for residential cash flow.

But the probable answer is mortgages. If you got a 30 year mortgage for less than 3% you almost certainly want to do anything you can to keep your hands on it. It’s probably the best financial device ever given to the average consumer.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-14 01:17:02+00:00
~6 months (in an RV, not a more hospitable mobile home). I’ve had worse apartments. Not through winter, though. Millions of people have more experience than me (I’m sure) but a couple days is a pretty low bar.

I’d definitely say it wasn’t ideal, the waste situation was certainly not great without a septic tank hook-up! But it is a something that can be iterated on. NIMBYs, on the other hand, there just isn’t any traction there at all.
by kistaro | 2025-07-14 01:17:18+00:00
Because it costs $1000/mo and insurance wants to make it as hard as possible to get that covered because they cannot afford to pay $1000/mo * 45% of Americans without doing things to their rates that are forbidden by the ACA and, for that matter, any approximation of good sense. If people cannot afford an additional $450/mo each on average for their health care, how do you cover a critical long-term $1000/mo drug that 45% of the population needs?

Gating it behind mandatory expensive, difficult-to-schedule appointments with a specialist who is in abruptly short supply where the insurance company is doing their damndest to kick as many of them off their network as they can without getting caught to keep the shortage going is certainly part of that strategy. And the result is “people do not stay on the drug”, which is their goal, and if they don’t meet that goal they have an even bigger problem and can’t continue to exist as a functioning company.
by walterbell | 2025-07-14 01:17:43+00:00
https://medium.com/@villispeaks/the-blitzhire-acquisition-e3...

> Blitzhires are another form of an acquisition.. not everybody may be thrilled of the outcome.. employees left behind may feel betrayed and unappreciated.. investors may feel founders may have broken a social contract. But, for a Blitzhire to work, usually everybody needs to work together and align. The driver behind these deals is speed. Maybe concerns over regulatory scrutiny are part of it, but more importantly speed. Not going through the [Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Act] HSR process at all may be worth the enormous complexity and inefficiency of foregoing a traditional acquisition path.

From comment on OP:

> In 2023–2024, our industry witnessed massive waves of layoffs, often justified as “It’s just business, nothing personal.” These layoffs were carried out by the same companies now aggressively competing for AI talent. I would argue that the transactional nature of employer-employee relationships wasn’t primarily driven by a talent shortage or human greed. Rather, those factors only reinforced the damage caused by the companies’ own culture-destroying actions a few years earlier.

2014, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/should-tech-work...

> A group of big tech companies, including Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel, recently settled a lawsuit over their "no poach" agreement for $324 million. The CEOs of those companies had agreed not to do "cold call" recruiting of each others' engineers until they were busted by the Department of Justice, which saw the deal as an antitrust violation. The government action was followed up by a class-action lawsuit from the affected workers, who claimed the deal suppressed their wages.
by cyberax | 2025-07-14 01:19:12+00:00
> If they say they live in, say, Seattle, you’d expect they could carry on at least a basic conversation about their local area.

When I was working at $LargeCompany, we were encouraged to NOT engage in small talk with applicants beyond the regular politeness. It's too easy to ask questions that would open the company to discrimination lawsuits.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-07-14 01:19:53+00:00
I feel many commentators here are overly dismissive of TCM to the point of intellectual laziness and even geopolitically-motivated paranoia. Yes, there are plenty of things in TCM to be skeptical about, but skepticism shouldn't be about dismissal but about improving tangible outcomes. Regular/western medicine (however you want to call it in contrast to TCM) can treat many big things but I'm sure many of you have had experience with small, vague, chronic things (like "stomach discomfort problems") that doctors have had absolutely no idea how to deal with, and they just send you away with a "take paracetamol for a few weeks and come back when you're nearly dying lol" attitude. In the mean time TCM can treat many of those cases even if you don't believe in their theories.

The current medical paradigm has blind spots, and we should be humble enough to acknowledge that alternative perspectives, even if they're not as rigorous as we'd like, can give us chances to improve patient outcomes. Wholesale dismissal to the point of labeling TCM as "govt propaganda" is forsaking improved patient outcomes for the purpose of winning an argument based on intellectual purity.
by zmgsabst | 2025-07-14 01:21:26+00:00
I was curious how densely you needed drones — 1 per 5 or 6 sq km. A level that a force might accidentally have that many.

Assumptions:

- 5 drones per vehicle to achieve a neutralization

- 50 vehicles breaking through the line

- total of 250 drones to neutralize

- 30km range (60km/h with 20 minute flight time)

- which is ~1400 sq km (half circle of radius 30km)

- for 1 drone per 5 or 6 sq km required density

If you just hand out drones to squads and transport teams, there’s a non-trivial chance you’ll have that many in the relevant area. My understanding is that we’re only missing the tactics or automated swarming.

Also, I’m assuming wireless drones; only being able to use fiber drones would significantly change the math (with their more limited range).
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-14 01:21:39+00:00
Sure but that is also true going the other way.

There's a fixed pool of ppl who need housing (aka the entire population of the country) and a relatively fixed pool of interior floorspace to divvy up among them.

Whether each person chooses to/prefers to/is forced to rent or buy is not the driving force behind rent and price changes

Rents & prices are moving because the amount of floorspace that exists (in places people want to live) is much lower than the aggregate amt of floorspace people would like there to be. Each month, everyone who needs to buy/sell/rent is forced to play a game of musical chairs. If you don't have a lot of $, you are going to be one of the people w/no chair, and be forced to leave.

In any normal market this would trigger vast increases of floorspace (or chair) manufacturing, but in the anglosphere we have convinced ourselves that there is only one true way to live - in a square box with a triangle on top - and we forbid almost every other form on most land, making it extremely difficult to increase the # of chairs.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-07-14 01:22:39+00:00
> the rest just vote to say fuck 'em.

The rentier class has tools to prevent such coordinated voting. They divide us with scare tactics on fringe issues, religion, encourage over identifying with things/movements/celebrities, etc.

I'm afraid things would have to fundamentally and undeniably bad to rally enough people to change things. It's amazing how much folks with overlook or rationalize if given an effective distraction, like fear or hate.