MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-30 20:06:43+00:00
"Should"? I don't think that was a "should" statement. I think it was a cause and effect statement. Bad people in power leads to suffering in the population. This observation goes way back, at least as far as the book of Ecclesiastes: "Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!"

Will the US suffer for putting bad people in power? Almost certainly, even if it doesn't come to the level of being nuked.
by taeric | 2025-07-30 20:07:04+00:00
I mean, sure. But doing it poorly always comes before doing it well. So, the best advice for people that aren't aware of how much they eat is fine to start at anything basic. Probably the more basic the better. Though, as you note, that will be different for different people.

That last is notable. I agree that personal signals are very different between people. But so is basic capability to track things.

What is truly obnoxious here, is that what works for you will also not be static. Expect that what worked for you now will someday not work.
by popalchemist | 2025-07-30 20:07:49+00:00
I think it does show, though, that the creation of models have already become a commodity. China has always struggled to compete with American creative products (for a variety of intersecting cultural, educational, legal, and economic reasons).

However they have always excelled at reverse-engineering / duplicating existing technologies, which falls more into their manufacturing-based educational-technological paradigm.

AI is a target industry well-tailored to their industrial pipeline, and the state has a vested interest in dethroning western tech companies.

So while they may not lead innovation (or when they do, it is only momentary), they will most likely follow this trajectory for the foreseeable future.

They particularly have an advantage with regard to copyright law. OpenAI, Stability, etc are under fire for the use of copyrighted materials in their training. No such issue there.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-30 20:08:29+00:00
As I've said, go look at the literature.

If you find in the literature any evidence for your theory that the people who invented these concepts believed they had no relationship to the biological concepts then please contribute it.

If you're unwilling to do the bare minimum required to take the opposite of my position then you aren't really defending a point of view you're just gainsaying reflexively.
by robrenaud | 2025-07-30 20:08:34+00:00
I recently got to know someone with a resting heart rate of 45, who will pretty frequently do 8+ mile trail runs and 100 mile bike rides. He is also an amazing cook who makes decadent and delicious foods. He says he consumes 4,000 calories a day. He still has a sizeable belly. I'd say he is at like 10/10 on exercise, but 3/10 on diet. I was surprised at his extreme cardiovascular fitness while still managing to be overfat.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-30 20:08:46+00:00
Kernel/distro upgrades can cause severe regressions. Generally the approach we do is have the service run a canary which runs on the newer kernel for a while to A/B test the upgrade. Generally we rely on the service owner to validate this A/B test as we don’t want to own making sure services are healthy on the new kernel. This means it is primarily on the service owner to look at the results of the A/B test to determine if the upgrade is ok.

I build a cloud (such as AWS) and we have many tenants running on the cloud. Much like AWS will not force upgrade AMIs, we will not force tenants to upgrade either.
by ben_w | 2025-07-30 20:08:46+00:00
Europe is certainly shifting.

I think the USA is unlikely to shift for as long as it's one single democratic nation, owing to internal political demographics. Same reasons it hasn't shifted on Cuba. But the USA keeps surprising me by failing to implode despite what all the politicians have been saying about each other, and by the anti-government language often used to justify gun ownership, so if I was in a position to influence Israel, I would be suggesting a diversification of international support.
by jerf | 2025-07-30 20:09:35+00:00
"what's weird about AI -- and I guess all hype trains -- is how part of me feels like it's hype, but part of me also sees the value in investing in it and its potential."

The DotCom bubble is an instructive historical example. Pretty much every wild promise made during the bubble has manifested, right down to delivering pet food. It's just that for the bubble to have been worthwhile, we would essentially have had the internet of 2015 or 2020 delivered in 2001.

(And because people forget, it is not too far off to say that would be like trying to deliver the internet of 2020 on machines with specs comparable to a Nintendo Wii. I'm trying to pick a game console as a sort of touchpoint, and there probably isn't a perfect comparison, but based on the machines I had in 2000 the specs are roughly inline with a Wii, at least by the numbers. Though the Wii would have murdered my 2000-era laptop on graphics.)

I don't know that the AI bubble will have a similar 20-year lag, but I also think it's out over its skis. What we have now is both extremely impressive, but also not justifying the valuations being poured into it in the here & now. There's no contradiction there. In fact if you look at history there's been all sorts of similar cases of promising technologies being grotesquely over-invested in, even though they were transformative and amazing. If you want to go back further in history, the railroad bubble also has some similarities to the Dot Com bubble. It's not that railroad wasn't in fact a completely transformative technology, it's just that the random hodgepodge of a hundred companies slapping random sizes and shapes of track in half-random places wasn't worth the valuations they were given. The promise took decades longer to manifest.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-07-30 20:09:42+00:00
What are you providing to the dev building this? Can't they just build it without you? You're on HackerNews...the home of self-agency...

Voice chat feels unnecessary and bordering on being predatory towards creating parasocial relationships with your 'advisor', imo.

How do you expect this to handle poor lighting vs different skin tones? Can you differentiate between a poorly lit room and a darker skin tone? To me, this would be the largest hurdle to clear
by harmmonica | 2025-07-30 20:09:42+00:00
Ha, I gotta say after reading your reply I feel kind of dumb for even saying the 80%; I had blinders on. Most, when it's relative, is the highest of a set even if that number is super low. Totally spaced on that when I asked, but I was fixated on how it's used to define something that's a percentage like in the 65% example. It happens so frequently in journalism and it's frustrating because it's trying to make an argument that sometimes the numbers themselves don't support.

Anyway, appreciate you reminding me (and I deserved to feel dumb so also making me feel a bit dumb about it).
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-30 20:10:34+00:00
>a generation of youth has been addicted to gambling by mobile game companies

I think you nailed it. I made a comment about the new "religion" of games in the current youth in another discussion a while back. It really seems to me that there is an incredibly strong illogical loyalty to game companies in the current youth. So much that they ignore bad actors assuming that they must be just another game company, even after they get scammed. I'm guessing it has something to do with zero real value nature of loot box and skin gambling that is prevalent.
by aarond0623 | 2025-07-30 20:11:22+00:00
The first one was portrayed in a clickbait "everything you know about electricity is wrong" way. There have been several response videos to it that lay out why it's misleading that explain it better than I can, but suffice to say that the lightbulb does not turn on immediately like he claims.

There second one takes a mathematical model for the path integral for light and portrays it like that's actually what is happening, with plenty of phrases like light "chooses" the path of least action that imply something more going on. Also, the experiment at the end with the laser pointer is awful. The light we are seeing is scattering from the laser pointer's aperture, not some evidence that light is taking alternate paths.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-07-30 20:12:29+00:00
I think you mean overridden (i.e. defined in both base class and derived class) rather than overloaded (i.e. defined more than once in a single place but with different argument types, as least from a typing point of view [1]). Your comment seriously confused me till I figured that out.

[1] https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/overload.html

Even then, to be honest I'm a bit sceptical. Can you point at a link in the official documentation that says overriding methods of dictionaries may not work? I would have thought the link to UserDict would have mentioned that if true. What do you mean they are "runtime dependent"?
by breuleux | 2025-07-30 20:12:37+00:00
I mean a session that isn't limited to interaction with a single program. For example, if I have an agent in this paradigm, I want to easily interleave prompting with simple commands like `ls`, all in the same history. That's not what I'm getting with apps like claude code or crush. They just take over the entire terminal, and crush even quits without leaving a trace.
by bobtheborg | 2025-07-30 20:12:41+00:00
"Community banks mostly don’t have programmers on staff, and are reliant on the so-called “core processors” ...

This is the largest reason why in-place upgrades to the U.S. financial system are slow. Coordinating the Faster ACH rollout took years, and the community bank lobby was loudly in favor of delaying it, to avoid disadvantaging themselves competitively versus banks with more capability to write software (and otherwise adapt operationally to the challenges same-day ACH posed)."

From the great blog Bits About Money: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/community-banking-and...
by layer8 | 2025-07-30 20:12:46+00:00
C and C++ do have multidimensional arrays [0], in the sense that they are arrays of arrays where the inner arrays all have the same fixed size, encoded into the multidimensional array type. Likewise in Go and Rust. This is different from, say, Java, where if you have an array of arrays, the inner arrays can all have different sizes, and there is no array type that could express that they shouldn’t.

Being able to express slices across arbitrary dimensions natively is another matter.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/array.html#Multid...
by tgbugs | 2025-07-30 20:13:29+00:00
The relation of these results to natural short sleep [0] is of great interest. In particular the observation that individuals with these mutations also appear to be protected from Alzheimer's disease. A strong indication that these mutations may have some downstream interaction with the mitochondrial maintenance cycle described in the parent article.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_natural_short_sleep
by ElevenLathe | 2025-07-30 20:13:40+00:00
For one thing, the social contract among the states was already changed in the 1860s. We're no longer some loose confederation of independent states. The Feds are in charge, whether you like it or not, and the states are effectively administrative divisions, whether you like it or not. We literally fought a war about this and the "states' rights" people lost.

For another, we're not bound to contracts between people who are long dead.

For another, the constitution (little c, not the actual document) is not a literal contract. That's a methaphor.

Finally: Why do you, as a person, want a system where land can vote? Or are you a parcel of land pretending to be a person?
by thinkxl | 2025-07-30 20:14:05+00:00
I came to reply this. They have been building very cool CLI projects and those projects end up composing new bigger projects. This is their last one (That I know of) which use most of the other projects they created before.

They didn't do it flashy for this project specifically (like Claude Code, which I don't think is flashy at all) but every single one of their other projects are like this.
by tome | 2025-07-30 20:14:11+00:00
> During a surprise attack.

Yes indeed, I'm talking about the surprise attack phase. (Israel has experienced a surprise attack before that has put its continued existence in question: the Yom Kippur war.) And in fact, looking at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks

it seems as though the ratio was closer to 3:2.

In any case, Israel is surrounded by a hostile population of hundreds of millions (yes, still hostile despite the cold peace treaty it has with Egypt and the lukewarm one it has with Jordan), and it itself numbers about 10 million. So it is outnumbered by double figures to one.

I certainly don't see Israel's continued existence as guaranteed despite "nukes" and despite "American support" and despite having the "nth most powerful army in the world". And that point of view has helped me to understand the conflict like no other explanation.
by FunkyFreddy | 2025-07-30 20:14:11+00:00
I am aware of the fact that I am on HackerNews ;) and thats why I am posting it here.

It is extremely interesting if you look at the current state of the art of AI tools to use and build on top of with this product.

The dev could become a co-founder or be compensated for the success of this.

Ultimately, I think the likelihood of succeeding is 10x with a good understanding of branding (ui/ux) - its not a tool for developers. It is a consumer product for a very different user.

And understanding the user is a challenge, if you are not the user yourself.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-30 20:14:16+00:00
> Should the US be nuked because ~51% voted for Trump (or Bush, Obama, Clinton, pick the one you hate)?

During a declared wartime? It happens. I mean, what can you do? It's war!

The allies didn't care that there were non-nazis when they carpet-bombed Dresden, nor did the US care that Hiroshima and Nagasaki possibly had large numbers of people against the Japanese rulers.

So, yeah, should the US enter a hot war against a sovereign government that can strike back, that government will not care that only 51% of the population voted for the current US government.

That's how war works, and that's why no one (short of actually insane blood-thirsty killers who are in it only to see corpses) wants to escalate a cold war to a hot war. If a population collectively elects leaders who provoke an escalation into a hot war, they can't very well be surprised at the response.

OTOH, the US voting population has not had first-hand experience with a hot boots-on-the-ground-invasion war, hence they can be so cavalier about their choice of rulers. They haven't seen first-hand the result of engaging in war.

The Palestinians and Israelis, however, have plenty of first-hand experience of the horrors of war, so those bastards have no excuse for supporting pro-war leaders.
by sheiyei | 2025-07-30 20:14:25+00:00
I think AI evangelists avoid talking about search because AI is why every internet search engine sucks. I use DuckDuckGo and Startpage, and when trying to find answers to nontrivial questions I get ONLY AI spam sites as results. (Come up with 1500 semi-specific SEO-friendly articles vaguely relating to subject the theme of website N. Then repeat until N=100

And shortly enough, AI is not even going to help with searching – it will eat its own s*t and offer that as answers. Unless the AI giants find some >99.99% way to filter out their own toxic waste from the training data.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-30 20:14:29+00:00
> For me, a big part of Python’s productivity is its ecosystem of useful abstractions

Yeah the huge amount of libraries that are readily available and can be used right away without messing with a complex build system is a huge deal.

For me personally, C# is like the middle ground. A language I like much better than Python but also has a fairly rich ecosystem, and usually nuget makes including dependencies easy.
by ccppurcell | 2025-07-30 20:15:13+00:00
Yeah I came to make the same comment. But Messi and Ronaldo didnt play each other that many times in the grand scheme of their careers. A big part of the comparison is statistical. Trophies, records and so on. Tennis might be a better comparison because to win a grand slam, Sampras really had to beat Agassi.
by ben_w | 2025-07-30 20:15:19+00:00
I don't trust the Iranian government, not for any deeply researched reason but because basically everyone I meet who talks about them says that government is not trustworthy. Some of those people are themselves Iranians, and one told me that the Iranian government is speaking literally when describing the USA as "the Great Satan" (and Israel as the little satan).

But: there is a big difference between "we killed some people while targeting actual military assets" and "this city we levelled, it was full of civilians as well as a handful of valid military assets, and now it doesn't exist".
by quantummagic | 2025-07-30 20:15:57+00:00
> How the previous generation was able to just casually cruise along and live comfortably..

This is a very skewed perception of reality, one that we'd all do better to moderate. There was indeed a relatively small population that were the beneficiaries of a confluence of factors (technology, geopolitics, demographics, etc), that let them live as you describe. But it was an anomalous miracle that was confined to a select few Westerners, for a very short time span. And MOST of the previous generation were living in pre-industrial subsistence farming communities spread around the world, like countless generations that went before.

That concentrated wealth has now been spread to other people around the world, and means that we don't get to live like kings, while the rest of the world lives in squalor. There will always be wealth inequality, and it's easy to see those who are living like near-gods around us, but in general, the world is much more fair today, and the wealth is spread to a much higher percentage of the world's population, than ever before.
by wonger_ | 2025-07-30 20:16:04+00:00
Flashy TUIs have been around for a few years. Check out the galleries for TUI frameworks:

https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/tree/main/example...

https://textual.textualize.io/

I've been drafting a blog post about their pros and cons. You're right, text input doesn't feel like a true REPL, probably because they're not using readline. And we see more borders and whitespace because people can afford the screen space.

But there's perks like mouse support, discoverable commands, and color cues. Also, would you prefer someone make a mediocre GUI or a mediocre GUI for your workflows?
by adwn | 2025-07-30 20:17:29+00:00
> "so if we make it execute in 0 seconds, does it mean you're going to make an infinite amount of money?"

I don't get it. Wouldn't going from 1 second to 0 seconds add the same amount of money to the yearly profit as going from 2 seconds to 1 second did? Namely, $1M.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-30 20:17:30+00:00
That gets into a very interesting question of controlled vs. uncontrolled components.

On one hand I like controlled components because there is a single source of truth for the data (a useState()) somewhere in the app, but you are forced to re-render for each keypress. With uncontrolled components on the other hand, there's the possible anarchy of having state in React and in the actual form.

I really like this library

https://react-hook-form.com/

which has a rational answer to the problems that turn up with uncontrolled forms.
by guywithahat | 2025-07-30 20:17:51+00:00
Yeah but how do you decide who's educational content and who isn't? Mr Beast does tons of "educational" videos in the context of "$1 vs $10,000,000 house" or "living in Antarctica for a week". Same with Jubilee.

The real big-brain move is understanding this isn't about protecting kids, and there isn't really anything YouTube can do long-term. Australia has been going after US big tech for a long time
by FunkyFreddy | 2025-07-30 20:17:53+00:00
Maybe a good example is this: https://elfnalysis.elfcosmetics.com/

So the tech for the picture to propose a colour type for in the analysis isnt so hard imo.

The elfnalysis example is very poorly executed thinking about the output that it generates.. there is really no value.

But then extending this into a better and more in depth analysis for more styling tips and feedback is where I would take this.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-30 20:18:04+00:00
I used to date a woman in Germany who was trying to shake her farm roots for corporate aspirations. I didn't understand German that well but apparently other Germans could tell her accent. No different than someone from Appalachia being assumed to be uneducated, and how we debate the validity of poor English versus "dialect". It seemed like an unnecessary distraction to her life.

Eventually I met the father, and he was big into the farm life. running a small but industrial farm. I still didn't understand, he mentioned a love of feeding people, why is he doing this and why is he putting his family through this, my girlfriend was translating the things he said but I didn't get it, so I assumed language barrier. They did seem to be respected in the town though by all the shopkeepers. But given the options, they were quite liquid and wealthy, it seemed contrived.

Then I met the grandfather, now, I liked that guy. The grandfather had a diversified portfolio, golf ranges, restaurants, farms, different siblings and children running them all. There was no "I just love feeding people" bullshit, just revenue streams and property. The farmer son just got the short straw and had to adopt that persona.
by 9rx | 2025-07-30 20:18:39+00:00
I own both a farm business and non-farm business. I feel the "ick" he talks about.

I don't know how to exactly describe it, but I'd suggest it has to do with more autonomy in non-farming businesses, where you are always trying to balance between trying to make the business work and not taking advantage of people. Or if you end up taking advantage of people...

In farming, it is all laid out for you. Prices are already set in Chicago. The buyer is always there. You grow the product, deliver it, and that's that. These days, with the way technology has gone, you might not even interact with another person in the process.
by mlazos | 2025-07-30 20:18:42+00:00
It’s because capitalism assumes a free market with competition. If you allow monopolies to thrive, you will not get those benefits. It’s just that some of these types of markets have different dynamics due to their structure. E.g. natural monopolies where the barrier to entry is huge up front costs. Interestingly the AI startup ecosystem is raising enough money to surpass the barrier of needing a ton of data to train AI.
by GeometryKernel | 2025-07-30 20:19:24+00:00
Public release of a hybrid classical–quantum algorithm that solves the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) for both 21-bit ECC keys and full ECC-256 (secp256k1) keys. Built using a novel regulator collapse framework, deterministic ECC-256 recovery using field-reduction and braid-based geometry. All code, circuit-related data, and files are available.
by cm2012 | 2025-07-30 20:19:33+00:00
I try very hard to find credible primary and secondary sources of what's true on the ground. For Gaza, but also for Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, I am basically a nerd about conflict zones. From all of my research, I believe the IDF gets a bad rap but is no worse in Gaza than any Western army would be in the same situation. And indeed we can see that in dug in cities like the coalition forces vs ISIS in Mosul, civilian casulaties happened at quite similar rates to Gaza.