MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pitpatagain | 2025-07-23 20:21:29+00:00
It is not. Much of the SE article is about testing a newer hypothesis that the amount of juice loss on slicing is entirely explained by the temp of the meat at the moment of slicing, and that the various other explanations for what resting does are irrelevant.

The meathead article argues: - Resting doesn't change perceived juiciness the way you think it does. - Meat that you will slice on your plate continues cooking on plate. - Therefore recommends just cook to temp and dive in and don't do any traditional rest.

The Serious Eats article: - Tests the temp at slicing theory. - Says this means that appropriate resting time only has to do with aligning the carryover cook time with the temp you brought it to while cooking with the temp it will be at slicing - Suggests that the real benefit of resting is that it is easier to time and stick the landing with desired temp because of the gradual glide at the end - Therefore recommends: Using a rest, but shorter than traditional, just long enough as appropriate for temp control.
by m00x | 2025-07-23 20:21:37+00:00
The democrats are just as guilty of this.

There was bi-partisan support for blocking congress from trading due to clear insider trading and the Democrats refused to support the bill.

Democrats were also the ones to move all manufacturing to China, which hurt the American worker more than anything we've done in the past 20 years. If the democrats were actually serious about the working class, they would've let Bernie compete against Trump.
by yorwba | 2025-07-23 20:22:12+00:00
I think it would be difficult to make that work, because Wikipedia has a direct way of converting users into contributors: you see something wrong, you edit the article, it's not wrong anymore.

Whereas if you do the same with machine learning training data, the influence is much more indirect and you may have to add a lot of data to fix one particular case, which is not very motivating.
by mtlynch | 2025-07-23 20:22:52+00:00
Oh, I see. I thought you meant I should buy an 18 TB drive, move my data there, blow up my pool, create a RAIDZ2 pool, then move my data back.

Yes, I agree I could have reduced the risk of pool failure if I bought an extra 8 TB disk and not degraded the pool.

So, it came down to do I for sure spend an extra $120 on an extra drive or do I just take the <1% chance that one of my three other disks fails in a 6-hour window while I'm migrating data. I took the chance, but I also had my data backed up in cloud storage at the file level in case there was a pool failure.

In other words, it wasn't worth $120 to me to avoid a <1% risk that I'd have 8ish hours of hassle of recovering from cloud backup after a pool failure.
by cmiles74 | 2025-07-23 20:22:57+00:00
AccuWeather has been trying to privatize NWS since it's inception. I believe the current head of the NOAA was actually the AccuWeather CEO. IMHO, it's only a matter of time before he shuts off public access to NSW forecase data, no matter the impact on real people and businesses (except maybe AccuWeather).

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea...
by lukewrites | 2025-07-23 20:23:00+00:00
Others can make more informed recommendations; to the best of my knowledge it's going to depend on your keyboard and what firmware it runs. (There are some os-level heatmappers you can use, too.) When I used a Voyager I used the Heatmap feature in ZSA's keymapp app. When I was using a corne I used Via/Vial to do it. I finally found my way to the glove and used the data from those.
by RamRodification | 2025-07-23 20:23:01+00:00
Cynical: People who makes decisions at Google push for features that trick people into enabling system-wide always-on location services that they otherwise wouldn't. For functionality that shouldn't actually require system-wide always-on location services. The primary goal being to sell more ads, not to help with earthquakes.

A conspiracy: Governments push or force or encourage Google to do it in order to have access to location data on citizens.
by throw0101b | 2025-07-23 20:23:21+00:00
> Also talked about in Michael Lewis’s book Fifth Risk.

Highly recommend that book. Haven't gotten to his most recent Who Is Government?:

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/788713/who-is-govern...

But from the interviews it sounds interesting as well. Colbert interview from April 2025:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T30BF32qPgg
by 0x457 | 2025-07-23 20:23:36+00:00
If your checklist is PITA to got through, then completing it will more like to lure you into that false sense of security that you might even miss something obvious.

IMO the best way is to start small, and every time checklist didn't catch an issue either modify existing item(s) or add new item(s). Organic complexity is the best complexity.
by greenie_beans | 2025-07-23 20:23:57+00:00
do you have a brick & mortar store? if so, what do you use for managing your inventory? if not, then you might not be the right fit. nonetheless, great feedback if this distinction isn't clear.

also, bookshop is wonderful! we love them. from my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662335

> i think the modern indie bookstore tech stack should be bookshop.org doing it's thing + a website with your local inventory. let bookshop sell all the inventory you don't have on hand but can easily get from ingram, and then your unique inventory will rise above in SEO.
by tim333 | 2025-07-23 20:24:22+00:00
>can't conceive of a use of this which is beneficial beyond a marginal improvement in content consumption

AlphaFold is having a big influence in medical research. There's more to AI than chatbots.

It's quite interesting the work they are doing there now - article on it https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/alpha-fold-3-drug-discover... I've got a personal interest because my sister has ALS and I think an in silico breakthrough is the only thing that could fix that before her dying.
by jstummbillig | 2025-07-23 20:24:32+00:00
The pay gap is a such a sad metric. I understand where it's coming from (a mix of envy and sense of unfairness) but I think it's just not the right number to look at if we aim to increase prosperity. Much more interesting, if we cared about the prosperity of people, is the average inflation adjusted compensation of a companies employees, and that is something we could measure CEOs by.
by jychang | 2025-07-23 20:24:39+00:00
How many channels of DDR4 ram? What speed is it running at? DDR4-3200?

The (approximate) equation for milliseconds per token, is:

Time for token generation = (number of params active in the model)*(quantization size in bits)/8 bits*[(percent of active params in common weights)/(memory bandwidth of GPU) + (percent of active params in experts)/(memory bandwidth of system RAM)].

This equation ignores prefill (prompt processing) time. This assumes the CPU and GPU is fast enough compute-wise to do the math, and the bottleneck is memory bandwidth (this is usually true).

So for example, if you are running Kimi K2 (32b active params per token, 74% of those params are experts, 26% of those params are common params/shared expert) at Q4 quantization (4 bits per param), and have a 3090 gpu (935GB/sec) and an AMD Epyc 9005 cpu with 12 channel DDR5-6400 (614GB/sec memory bandwidth), then:

Time for token generation = (32b params)*(4bits/param)/8 bits*[(26%)/(935 GB/s) + (74%)/(614GB/sec)] = 23.73 ms/token or ~42 tokens/sec. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+sec+%2F+%2816GB+*+%5B...

Notice how this equation explains how the second 3090 is pretty much useless. If you load up the common weights on the first 3090 (which is standard procedure), then the 2nd 3090 is just "fast memory" for some expert weights. If the quantized model is 256GB (rough estimate, I don't know the model size off the top of my head), and common weights are 11GB (this is true for Kimi K2, I don't know if it's true for Qwen3, but this is a decent rough estimate), then you have 245GB of "expert" weights. Yes, this is generally the correct ratio for MoE models, Deepseek R1 included. If you put 24GB of that 245GB on your second 3090, you have 935GB/sec speed on... 24/245 or ~10% of each token. In my Kimi K2 example above, you start off with 18.08ms per token spent reading the model from RAM, so even if your 24GB on your GPU was infinitely fast, it would still take... about 16ms per token reading from RAM. Or in total about 22ms/token, or in total 45 tokens/sec. That's with an infinitely fast 2nd GPU, you get a speedup of merely 3 tokens/sec.
by b112 | 2025-07-23 20:24:59+00:00
This worked brilliantly in Debian for more than a decade, had almost zero downside, and just did what asked. I went through 3+ dist-upgrades, for the first time in my life, without a NIC change.

It was deprecated for this nonsense in systemd.

Yes, there were edge cases in the Debian scheme. Yet it did work with VMs (as most VMs kept the same MAC in config files), and it was easy to maintain if you wanted 'fresh'. Just rm the pin file in the udev dir. Done.

Again it worked wonderful on every VM, every bare metal system I worked with.

One of the biggest problems with systemd, is it seems to be developed by people that have no real world, industrial scale admin experience. It's almost like a bunch of DEVs got together, couldn't understand why things were "so confusing", and just figured "Oh, it must be a mistake".

Nope.

It's called covering edge cases, ensuring things are stable for decades, because Linux and the init system are the bottom of the stack. The top of the stack changes like the wind in spring, but the bottom of the stack must be immensely stable, consensus driven, I repeat stable change.

Systemd just doesn't "get" that.
by tzs | 2025-07-23 20:25:00+00:00
Do criminals do those things much more frequently than non-criminals?

In Spain 86% of phone buyers buy from the top 5 brands. Pixel is not among those. Only 1.7% buy Pixel phones. Police say that they have observed that among criminals the percent with Pixels is much higher.

Suppose police have a dead store clerk and only 3 people who could have possibly done it, and those people are 1 Pixel owner, 1 Samsung Galaxy owner, and 1 Apple iPhone owner. Given that criminals are buying Pixels at a rate higher than the general population does, and assuming they are not buying Galaxies and iPhones at a higher rate, can the police use that in statistically valid way to help their investigation?

The answer is yes.

Let (c) = the probability that a random phone owner in Spain is a criminal.

Let (p) = the probability that a random phone owner owns a pixel, which is 0.017 in Spain.

Let (p|c) = the probability that someone owns a Pixel given that they are a phone owning criminal. Police say that this is higher than 0.017, but they do not give a number. I'd expect they wouldn't really notice if it was only a little higher. I'd guess it would need to be at least 0.05 for them to notice, so let's go with that. If someone finds a better number it is easy to adjust in the following calculations.

Let (c|p) = the probability that someone is a criminal given they have a Pixel.

Bayes' Theorem tells us that (p|c)(c) = (c|p)(p).

Rearrange that to get (c|p) = (p|c) (c) / (p). Plugging in 0.05 for (p|c) and 0.017 for (p) gives:

(c|p) = 2.9 (c)

In our case with 3 people to investigate, one with a Pixel and two without, if we are sure that one of them must be the criminal the probability that it will be the Pixel owner is 59.2%. It is 20.4% for the Galaxy owner and 20.4% for the iPhone owner [1]. If the police don't have the resources to investigate all 3 in parallel they should check out the Pixel owner first.

[1] Actually, I don't think that is quite right. I think that because I added the condition that we are sure it must be one of them the distribution will change slightly. It still should be close though.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-23 20:25:13+00:00
Well it's great that they are writing down reasons for resting that aren't total nonsense. The old folk wisdom about resting for the juice never survived any amount of critical thinking. But, it's unfortunate that they've still fallen short of learning anything about heat transfer, because they still aren't mentioning anything about the conditions under which the meat rests. The air temperature, the material the meat is resting upon, and the initial temperature, size, and other properties of that material are going to make a large difference in the outcome.
by Aachen | 2025-07-23 20:25:33+00:00
I have yet to hear of someone wearing out an SSD on a desktop/laptop system (not server, I'm sure there's heavy applications that can run 24/7 and legitimately get the job done), even considering bugs like the Spotify desktop client writing loads of data uselessly some years ago

Making such claims on HN attracts edge cases like nobody's business but let's see
by grillitob | 2025-07-23 20:25:38+00:00
As someone from Spain, I asked an LLM about the L button and the Dateline tragedy just to assess how witty the situation was, it seems shared culture played big here. Also, I looked up about the serendipity reference, and there is a love film of 2001 in which elevator plays a romantic role. In my mostly scientific life L button, Dateline and serendipity has different meaning, furthermore luck and romance occupy infinitesimal space. To stay on topic, I really hope you luck and romance.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-23 20:25:39+00:00
> That's just what it means to use windows.

Windows is currently the most egregious of them, but that's what it means to use a proprietary operating system in general.

> The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can.

Take it a step further. The best thing you can do is to avoid using software that you don't control, or software that you can' audit the source code yourself and audit exactly what its doing.

When you're vendor locked in to a proprietary OS, there's nothing stopping the software from turning on you at any given moment. Apple could decide tomorrow they want to start scooping up data like Microsoft, or Google does and there's nothing we can do about it except for not use their stuff.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-23 20:25:43+00:00
For all the article's hand-wringing over "just how wide the American wealth gap has grown" - how luxurious was John Jacob Astor IV's voyage on the Titanic, compared to the those of the 3rd-class passengers? Let alone the stokers - who toiled long hours every day in a sort of industrialized hell, shoveling coal into the ship's boilers.
by max-privatevoid | 2025-07-23 20:25:55+00:00
That's true for this and many other features of Zed. For example, telemetry can be disabled with a simple switch. However, I feel deeply uncomfortable knowing that my editor is ready to report every file I open, commit I make, code action I perform, etc. at a moment's notice, held back only by that one line in my config file.
by smokel | 2025-07-23 20:26:31+00:00
This is related to the exploration–exploitation tradeoff studied in reinforcement learning [1], for which no universally optimal solution is known. This article suggests to explore more, but it might be wise to exploit your knowledge and be somewhat risk-averse every now and then as well.

Also, there is a difference between making decisions at the individual level and looking at the actions of all humans combined. A strategy that is sub-optimal for most individuals can still yield positive outcomes at the societal level. For example, it is fortunate that many people go into research, even though it is highly unlikely for an individual to find a massive breakthrough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%E2%80%93exploitati...
by Nevermark | 2025-07-23 20:26:34+00:00
Yes beta is a work in progress.

But so is alpha, which is where looniness gets to live without judgement. Beta is supposed to be polished and working well, except where there are explicit warnings of incomplete or sketchy functionality. I.e. small areas that are still alpha.

Which is the opposite of how Apple framed "liquid glass" in the beta.

Apple lowered the bar on its beta. Strong feedback is how customers suggest a course correction at a higher level.
by brokencode | 2025-07-23 20:26:35+00:00
Just because they have a plan, doesn’t mean they have a clue. Their reasoning for this could be as simple as “government bad”.

Just look at the wild abandon with which DOGE has gone about its cuts. They literally fired the experts who inspect our nuclear arsenal, then had to scramble to hire them back because you know.. it’s literally nuclear bombs we’re talking about.
by krapp | 2025-07-23 20:26:52+00:00
You're talking about an administration voted in by people who attack meteorologists because they think they cause hurricanes[0], and a President who has called climate change a Chinese hoax.

This is a perfectly rational set of policies as far as these people are concerned. How else are we going to stop the Jewish space lasers?

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/meteorologists-threats...
by basisword | 2025-07-23 20:27:00+00:00
I think life has gotten too expensive. People have zero leverage. Part of that is self-imposed in terms of unnecessary expenditure but the basics like food and housing are now so expensive people can't strike. They can't quit and try to find something new. You need an exceedingly strong union to get anything these days and even then most of the recent strikes in my country have achieved very little.
by lukewrites | 2025-07-23 20:27:05+00:00
Yeah, I have found it most comfortable to use two keys on each thumb cluster. Space, Enter, Layer 1, Layer 2. I also like how ZSA's thumb cluster it moved out (Keyboardio really did it the best imho), but for some reason the keywell on the glove80 makes it much easier on my pinkies than the ortho layout on the voyager.

How did you find an ideal tent + tilt setup? Whenever I've tried I've wound up with sore wrists or hands, so just gave up. It seems like the glove80 w/out wrist rests does "good enough" so I stopped trying to optimize, even though the temptation remains.

I've seen some members of the erg keyboard community design and print their own pcbs based on their hand dimensions. I just don't have the time for it and fear how far down the rabbit hole I'd wind up if I did.
by csa | 2025-07-23 20:27:14+00:00
For the curious, “luck surface area” was coined/popularized by Jason Roberts from the Techzing and Tropical MBA podcasts.

Our own patio11 (Patrick McKenzie) also helped propagate the concept.

The basic equation is L = D * T — that is, luck surface area equals doing times telling.

I think the author strays from the original concept a bit. She’s not necessarily wrong, but I get a sense of focusing on style over substance in most of her examples as compared to the original concept.
by sczi | 2025-07-23 20:27:56+00:00
Interesting, I hadn't heard of pyrasite, it has a nice GUI with info about objects' memory usage, threads, open files and more. I'll definitely take ideas from it.

I'm working on a live coding environment for python[0], based on emacs' SLIME mode for common lisp. It's quite new and I haven't written documentation yet, but all the main SLIME features not covered by LSP are working.

- All results printed in the repl are presentations that can be inspected, copied around and used again -- as the actual object, not just it's str or repr text like in most repls.

- On any uncaught exception you get an interactive backtrace buffer where you can jump to source, see arguments and local variables for each frame, and eval code or open a repl in the context of any stack frame. And the arguments and local variables aren't just text but presentations you can open in the object inspector, copy to the repl and use, etc.

- A thread viewer where you can view stats on all threads, get the backtrace of any thread, spawn a repl in the context of any of it's stack frames, etc.

- An async task viewer with somewhat more limited functionality as async tasks don't keep a full stack.

- A pretty documentation browser using mmontone's slime-doc-contribs.

- The ability to trace functions, where again their arguments and return values aren't just printed as text, but as presentations, that you can open in the inspector, copy to the repl, etc.

- I took some code from IPython's autoreload extension, so interactive development without restarting and losing state mostly works.

If you want to collaborate or just talk ideas that'd be fantastic, I don't have any experience with the Pharo/Smalltalk world.

https://codeberg.org/sczi/swanky-python/
by eproxus | 2025-07-23 20:27:57+00:00
I don’t quite get what Zed’s emulation of :e has to do with being a modal editor. It’s a completely different editor so of course the interface to interact with files is going to be different, but in my experience Zed’s implementation of modality when it comes to its Vim mode is extremely good. Even better than the already excellent NeoVintageous for Sublime Text.
by carefulfungi | 2025-07-23 20:28:04+00:00
If you want to read about this, "industry concentration rate" is a good search term. In general, studies show that US industry concentration (percentage of the market claimed by the largest entrants) is increasing (indicating a decrease in competition).

Here's an example: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/a-no....

And another: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/7/129...

This doesn't seem like a topic with an irrefutable answer, though, due to the complexity of measuring. Here's an interesting paper on that complexity and a contrary point of view: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32762/w327...
by nlawalker | 2025-07-23 20:28:10+00:00
This article could have been called "How to increase your surface area for opportunities to find you", because that's another component. You still have to recognize them and act on them, but these behaviors can potentially get more of those opportunities "into the funnel".

Scott Adams' book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" talks a lot about this, and is an enjoyable read, despite the author's current reputation.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-23 20:28:20+00:00
In addition to the obvious problems of the US government illegally firing one family-member solely to punish a different family-member's constitutionally-protected free-speech... I'd also highlight these aren't even the same part of the federal government. ICE is under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), whereas she is/was employed as a forensic accountant at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

To make an throw-back reference, this like the DOJ firing one of their forensic accountants just because her spouse gave out t-shirts at a convention with DeCSS source code on them and pissed off the Copyright Office.
by Havoc | 2025-07-23 20:28:47+00:00
The march towards walled gardens continues.

The internet as we know it (blogs etc) is going to stop existing and this will just turn into an protocol layer communicating between said walled gardens

Bit miffed that the big tech orgs basically killed something that could be organic & community driven. If somehow a path could have been found to maintain and possibly even scale that sort of grassroot internet I think it could have turned into something unimaginably awesome. Big tech actively killed that trajectory