MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apical_dendrite | 2025-07-20 19:49:09+00:00
It's reasonable to criticize the excesses of academics. But let's be really clear about what's happening. The vast majority of federal funding for research goes to medical science and the hard sciences. Relatively little goes to the social sciences. The vast majority of the foreign students and researchers are going into STEM fields. So when the Trump administration makes huge cuts to research funding (something like a 40% cut at NIH and even bigger at NASA) there is a huge, huge impact on scientific and medical research that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the topics that you listed. Same with the arrests and threats to foreign students. The tenured left-wing social science professors will be fine. The young Chinese computer scientist will probably just stay in China and China will get the benefit of their work. The young American neuroscientist will just not have a career in the sciences because funding isn't available and so instead of working on curing brain cancer, they'll be working on data analysis for a marketing company.

Cutting research on ovarian cancer because you don't like the fact that the researchers used terms like "women's health" is stupid. Cutting brain cancer research because you don't like the fact that some completely unrelated people at universities are "woke" is even more stupid.

You don't like something that Noel Ignatiev said? OK, fair enough. But do you really want to kill the careers of young apolitical cancer researchers because you don't like something that a guy who died in 2019 said 20+ years ago?
by Spivak | 2025-07-20 19:50:10+00:00
This implies that Amazon is The Paperclip AI and is just building data centers for no purpose and isn't using them or is using them for non-productive means like Bezos' gaming rig.

But they're not, they're building out data centers because the world demands more AWS capacity. Shouldering the emissions from this on Amazon, unless you believe they're being particularly inefficient about it, is shooting the messenger.
by weinzierl | 2025-07-20 19:50:30+00:00
Teufel is a super cool company and they deservedly have won numerous awards not only for their audio quality but also their design.

As much as I applaud the idea behind the MYND and going only by the pictures from the article: It’s not a beauty.

The partially filled holes on the front make it look as if it has already accumulated some patina. The armchair designer in me can’t help thinking: If you want to go for the gritty look, do it all the way, otherwise keep it clean.
by mindslight | 2025-07-20 19:50:46+00:00
... thus giving the whole system the constraints of public funding and single-payer, so that scarcity isn't something to be feared - we're already suffering it. But furthermore, that scarcity is then leveraged by less regulated market actors to constrain competition and jack up prices, giving us the worst of both worlds.

A fully public single payer system would mean bureaucrats would produce a report concluding that more doctors are needed to keep costs from spiraling, and the number of residency slots would be increased. A more freer market would mean hospitals/doctors were paying for all of their own residency slots and they'd up the number through price signals. Instead, we have neither feedback mechanism.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-20 19:50:55+00:00
>gluing together third party stacks like there's no tomorrow

That is why I don't really like ROS. lol =3

>doesn't make you better evaluating how a vision-only ML model

In general, the monocular SLAM algorithms rely on salient feature extraction, and several calibrated assumptions about the camera platform. How you interpret that output is another set of issues, as the power budget is going to take the hit.

For machine vision, I'd skip the proprietary Jetson Nano... and get a cheap gaming "parts" laptop with a broken LCD and several USB ports (RTX4090 or RTX4080 is a trophy.)

No one wants to fork over $30k for an outdoor lidar, but using only cameras is a fools errand. The best platforms I've seen commercially use camera + lidar + radar.

For student projects, one can get small radars and TOF sensors for under $20 off sparkfun (similar to the one in iPhone Pro 11/12/13). We live in the future... =3
by Saline9515 | 2025-07-20 19:51:30+00:00
There is ongoing research linking depression to ultra processed food consumption: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/ultraprocessed-...

Sugar derivatives such as glucose-fructose syrup are well-known to cause various problems, among which the fat-liver disease that is skyrocketing in the rich world. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/abundance-of-fru...
by nomilk | 2025-07-20 19:51:31+00:00
The two facts you provide, 1. life is short and 2. books are time-consuming lead to the conclusion you should be extremely judicious about which ones you read, and not hesitant in ditching any you believe are unworthy of your time.

I'm also a slow reader; lucky to finish 10 books/year. I notice I'm a much faster reader on topics I'm familiar with.

Also, exercise aforementioned judiciousness with Sapiens; it's 400 pages of conjecture masquerading as fact.
by eviks | 2025-07-20 19:51:45+00:00
> entire life savings or die is not acceptable

Making stuff up for dramatic effect is also not an acceptable argument.

> there's no time or deliberation or competition that capitalism requires to find "balance".

That's not a requirement, but also there is time and all that- otherwise how did the people manage to use airbnb in the first place if they had no time? And you can deliberate for 5 minutes looking at a very high price and decide that you can temporarily stay in a much smaller place and further away than you wanted/used to. Or maybe move to your friends /relatives instead
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-20 19:51:46+00:00
Men have been losing arguments with their wives since the beginning of recorded history lol. And I don’t disagree that women can be outspoken in the workplace. I just have seen a lot of capable women not willing to advocate for themselves.

My wife will spend many evenings arguing with me about why she can’t just ask her boss for a raise (rather than venting to me about it for months) before finally agreeing to do so.. and winning.
by anon84873628 | 2025-07-20 19:51:57+00:00
I don't think anyone disagrees that 1) vegan/vegetarianism is growing, 2) vegans/vegetarians are being served better than ever, 3) Beyond Meat and similar products will be part of the constellation of choices.

The rest of the thread is full of people saying why vegetarians will mostly keep eating regular vegetarian food and meat eaters will mostly keep eating regular meat. And indeed what we haven't seen is the mass one-for-one substitution by meat eaters that Beyond seems to have bet the firm on. That's not to say the whole category will fail.

I don't live in Germany so haven't had the pleasure of trying the brand you mentioned. It sounds like they found better PMF than Beyond with a more sustainable, incremental growth model. It also sounds like they might not be trying the same one-for-one raw ingredient strategy. Curryworst and packaged meals are already a value-added, prepared product with unique flavor profile that seems more amenable to substitution.

Tangentially, I think Beyond does deserve some credit for taking the first mover risk and bringing the topic into the limelight, where other brands can now benefit from the consumer awareness.
by cameldrv | 2025-07-20 19:52:18+00:00
Just because a hospital is non profit doesn't mean it's "socialized." A lot of places have county or state hospitals, but most non profit hospitals were originally started by a religious or community organization, or a group of doctors.

Medicine has a lot of things that make it naturally not work like a normal good or service market. To deal with some of these issues, it's a heavily regulated field, but many of these regulations also make it ripe for exploitation by for-profit entities.
by quotemstr | 2025-07-20 19:52:21+00:00
Clever work. I'm glad to see Rust is at the AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean stage of its lifecycle.

Look: patterns like this might unblock people locally but they point to a gap between what people want to say and what the base language allows them to express. In the long term, it's better to expand the language than devise increasingly heroic workarounds for syntactic sclerosis.
by JeremyNT | 2025-07-20 19:52:44+00:00
When you get "black bean burgers" they usually have a bunch of other stuff in them which reduces the protein. Combine with a bun and you get a lot of calories without much protein.

Beyond/impossible are not great, but they are better.

A few fast casual places like Chipotle do have pretty good bean options.

But your friendly neighborhood restaurant? Probably you can get a salad or a Portobello sandwich or some pasta or a black bean burger. In relation to those, the packaged burgers provide a reliable source of protein.
by veeti | 2025-07-20 19:52:48+00:00
Well, client-side "on-site" trackers are used because it's easy and flexible to do so using JavaScript tags (and then get blocked by privacy aware user agents). But in my experience at a publisher many years ago, most of the important client side measurements tracked (think page views, conversions) ultimately correspond to a browser request made to a server in the publisher's control, such as fetching the article's contents or finalizing a purchase.

It logically follows that the same measurements could have been made by tracking events on the server, possibly without involving additional client side scripts at all. No, it wouldn't be as easy or allow tracking everything the user does down to the pixel, but that's not the adblock enlightened user's problem...

It is my understanding the industry is moving towards server side "tagging" to improve performance and probably also to try and obfuscate it from ad blockers. But I haven't paid much attention to that.
by fxtentacle | 2025-07-20 19:53:17+00:00
While I hate the TonieBox using DRM like everyone else, I feel like it's still one of the best options. (And one of my best purchases.)

Just like Nintendo Switch cartridges, kids can borrow the figures to each other. And here in northern Germany, we even have a public library where you can borrow a selection of figures for free (up to 2 at a time, up to 2 weeks). That means apart from the pricey initial purchase, you can get a wide variety of content legally for free, if you're willing to accept the slight inconvenience of renting/returning the figures in person. Plus no spyware, no notifications, no ads, no subscription. It's superior to YouTube kids in every way.
by llbbdd | 2025-07-20 19:53:19+00:00
That's fine, I've only lived in the US and can only provide that perspective. However I cannot imagine a version of public transit that would be so good that I would actually use it - and this includes looking at the options available in other countries, because as far as I know we're still operating with buses, trains, subways, carpools, etc. Until ya'll have free taxis that come to your house and take you directly to your destination, it's just not a comparable sell.

To that extent I think it comes back to preference and maybe culture, and doesn't indicate any kind of failure. In the US we can afford not to take public transit and exercise that preference, in many places, it's not an option.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-20 19:53:25+00:00
"The Bitter Lesson" certainly seems correct when applied to whatever the limit of the current state of the art is, but in practice solving day-to-day ML problems, outside of FAANG-style companies and cutting edge research, data is always much more constrained.

I have, multiple times in my career, solved a problem using simple, intelligible models that have empirically outperformed neural models ultimately because there was not enough data for the neural approach to learn anything. As a community we tend to obsess over architecture and then infrastructure, but data is often the real limiting factor.

When I was early in my career I used to always try to apply very general, data hungry, models to all my problems.. with very mixed success. As I became more skilled I started to be a staunch advocated of only using simple models you could understand, with much more successful results (which is what lead to this revised opinion). But, at this point in my career, I increasingly see that one's approach to modeling should basically be to approach the problem more information theoretically: try to figure out the model with a channel capacity that best matches your information rate.

As a Bayesian, I also think there's a very reasonable explanation for why "The Bitter Lesson" rings true over and over again. In ET Jaynes' writing he often talks about Bayes' Theorem in terms of P(D|H) (i.e. probably of the Data given the Hypothesis, or vice versa), but, especially in the earlier chapters, purposefully adds an X to that equation: P(D|H,X) where X is a stand in for all of our prior information about the world. Typically we think of prior data as being literal data, but Jaynes' points out that our entire world of understand is also part of our prior context.

In this view, models that "leverage human understanding" (i.e. are fully intelligible) are essentially throwing out information at the limit. But to my earlier point, if the data falls quite short of that limit, then those intelligible models are adding information in data constrained scenarios. I think the challenge in practical application is figuring out where the threshold is that you need to adopt a more general approach.

Currently I'm very much in love with Gaussian Processes that, for constrained data environments, offer a powerful combination of both of these methods. You can give the model prior hints at what things should look like in terms of the relative structure of the kernel and it's priors (e.g. there should be some roughly annual seasonal component, and one roughly weekly seasonal component) but otherwise let the data decide.
by kwk1 | 2025-07-20 19:53:34+00:00
It seems to me like the better strategy would be to "do the right thing" according to the internal values of the project and make GNU be the one who breaks ties, otherwise the opportunity for positively influencing something important is lost. Still a newcomer though, so that's just my 2c. Hope to be there with y'all in Brussels next year! By the time I found out about it, it was apparently already full.
by teitoklien | 2025-07-20 19:53:55+00:00
India’s ban wasn’t legislative, it was done by the supreme court.

It has one of the most weirdest and also defacto the most powerful supreme court globally by authority.

It can pursue its own laws, legislate them, overturn even laws passed by supermajority in parliament if it doesn’t agree with it and thinks it’s not what original constitution makers would’ve wanted.

The Court can take up cases on its own (suo motu) without any petition being filed. This allows it to respond to media reports, letters, or social issues — an almost unheard-of power in most democracies.

I don’t think indian society or gov should be blamed for banning adult content, supreme court by itself passed the law and gov didn’t wanna contest it as they didn’t feel the point to spend political capital to reverse it.

India is the origin of kamasutra texts after all and isn’t that sex negative as you might think ( it has the highest population for a reason)
by camgunz | 2025-07-20 19:54:35+00:00
(I've successfully resisted the urge to make my entire reply "Wait, you don't like Judge Dredd?")

I feel like we both understand each other at this point so I'll ask because I'm curious, what languages are you into? I'd really like a chance to dig into Erlang, OCaml, or Racket, but I can never really justify it. Mostly I'm a boring C/Python person (believe it or not, I don't like Go all that much)
by wredcoll | 2025-07-20 19:54:39+00:00
> n the US, over a third of conservative academics and PhD students have been threatened with disciplinary action for their views

Hmm, what views do you think those might be? Do you think they're views on whether or not the capital gains tax should go up or down by 1%? Or maybe they're... other.. views.

I miss when I believed that conservatism meant making slow but effective changes to society. It was a simpler life.

On a slightly related note, someone linked this article a little while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Braden

Let me quote from it:

> In 1954, directly confronting the practice of rigid racial segregation of residential neighborhoods, the Bradens assisted an African-American couple, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, who wanted to buy a suburban home but had been unable to do so due to housing discrimination

[...]

> White segregationists immediately lashed out – initially by throwing rocks through the windows of the house, burning a cross in front of it, and firing gunshots into the home – and then bombed the house (setting off explosives under the bedroom of the Wades' young daughter while the home was occupied), driving the Wades out and destroying the home. As a result of their actions, Carl Braden was charged with sedition. Although housing discrimination was illegal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling specifically on a case in Louisville, Buchanan v. Warley, in 1917, charges were brought against Braden for hatching a communist plot to stir up a race war.

This was in NINTEEN FIFTY FOUR. Like, yes, that is now 70 years ago, but all of our recent presidents and a significant number of politicans are older than that. They were literally alive and party of the society that allowed these things to happen.

I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that things are in fact better now, we've improved on a lot of things, but that really isn't some kind of excuse to pretend that none of these awful things happened OR that they aren't still affecting us right now.

It's not the only thing by any means, but just imagine the difference it makes when your grand parents bought a cheap home in a nice neighborhood that you're now inheriting in 2025 and is worth millions, compared to the black people denied that opportunity, and had to rent this entire time.

(Could every white person buy a nice home in 1950 and leave it to their grandchildren? Obviously not. Were they denied this chance specifically because of their skin color? No.)
by rjh29 | 2025-07-20 19:54:49+00:00
It's at least 5 years older, it's not 1.0 yet, and it seems to be still under heavy development. For example compression was only added in 2022 and people reported severe performance issues / high RAM usage with larger backups only a few years ago.

Fair point though, both have enough of a user base that they could be considered safe at this point.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-07-20 19:55:54+00:00
> India is the origin of kamasutra texts after all and isn’t that sex negative as you might think ( it has the highest population for a reason)

I think you’re making a mistake here. It is completely possible to be appreciative of sex, and hate pornography. Even in the US, “Feminists Fighting Pornography” was a powerful cultural force for almost 2 decades.

Only in the Western world is “pro sex” = “pro pornography” in most people’s minds. Everywhere else, these are separate issues, with pornography bans actually being from a pro-sex cultural position (I.e. it shouldn’t be commoditized online).
by globular-toast | 2025-07-20 19:56:58+00:00
This is why I actually argue that LLMs don't use natural language. Natural language isn't just what's spoken by speakers right now. It's a living thing. Every day in conversation with fellow humans your very own natural language model changes. You'll hear some things for the first time, you'll hear others less, you'll say things that get your point across effectively first time, and you'll say some things that require a second or even third try. All of this is feedback to your model.

All I hear from LLM people is "you're just not using it right" or "it's all in the prompt" etc. That's not natural language. That's no different from programming any computer system.

I've found LLMs to be quite useful for language stuff like "rename this service across my whole Kubernetes cluster". But when it comes to specific things like "sort this API endpoint alphabetically" I find the amount of time to learn to construct an appropriate prompt is the same if I'd have just learnt to program, which I already have done. And then there's the energy used by the LLM to do it's thing which is enormously wasteful.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-20 19:57:08+00:00
Yup, the thing is the price difference between the humongous flash (do they even do EEPROM anymore?) and the "appropriate" one is less than the overhead of designing/making/handling different sizes. And the bigger the chip the more sectors for wear leveling and you can tolerate lower total write counts on the chip.

Thus we end up with circuits designed to feed the reinforced concrete outhouse in the center. And they're unrepairable because the troubleshooting cost is more than the replacement cost.
by michaelt | 2025-07-20 19:57:26+00:00
There are also a lot of religious anti-pornography folks in America, and with views on sexuality they are eager to impose on others. I doubt the pressure came from Australia alone.

And there's a long history of people taking credit for things they were barely involved with.

It would be an awful shame if free-speech-loving Americans' anger at the action American payment processors towards an American game distributor were diverted to some unreachable, unaccountable group on the other side of the world.
by codys | 2025-07-20 19:57:46+00:00
Yes, but I suspect there might be some confusion by the author and others between "io_uring completion of a write" (ie: io_uring sends its completion queue event that corresponds to a previous submission queue event) and "fsync completion" (as you've put as "completion of all writes", though note that fsync the api is fd scoped and the io_uring operation for fsync has file range support).

The CQEs on a write indicate something different compared to the CQE of an fsync operation on that same range.
by cameldrv | 2025-07-20 19:58:09+00:00
Under certain circumstances you can price shop for hospitals. For certain types of procedures, especially self pay ones like elective or cosmetic ones, the market works fairly decently.

There are other circumstances, that I recently dealt with in our family, where someone shows up to the ER with an emergent issue, and then, say, based on what's found in the ER, winds up in the ICU for a significant period of time. It's extremely difficult to price shop this, because you don't know what you're going to be buying until after you've already chosen the hospital.

This is also why provider networks were invented, so that these prices are negotiated in advance.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-07-20 19:58:09+00:00
> There's a difference between fictional depictions and reality. The argument is that if we can understand and accept that difference

It's big if especially for the underage group who are the most involved in game playing. That group is definitely influenced by fiction, they get most of their real world knowledge from... fiction and fictional characters. Even more, since the dawn of humanity fiction has been used to express and discuss social norms and dilemmas. "To be or not to be"...

We don't have to guess, there are studies showing increased aggression in the players of violent games and a viral effect of that aggression, propagating to their acquaintances who don't even play such games [1].

It's one of the reasons why silly valley wants to kill government's ability to fund such studies which get in the way of messing up the heads of our kids.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/