MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Willingham | 2025-07-11 19:24:55+00:00
12 step programs disagree, to grow a flower you water it and give it sunlight and good soil(the 12 steps version of this: reversing selfishness and getting out and helping others) but you don’t actually grow the plant, the DNA, photosynthesis, electromagnetism, soil chemistry…even quantum forces(AKA a power greater than yourself) are ultimately the core of what grows the plant. Therefor when one gets sober and becomes generally content and happy in life when previously they were suicidal, AA suggests that the core of the work was done by a higher power, even though the individual was indeed responsible for watering their flower.
by majormajor | 2025-07-11 19:25:36+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean?

This is what I said isn't true: "Everyone thinks that they are being more respectful than average"

I think most people don't think about being respectful much at all.

I think someone who does want to be respectful would be like "hey, locals say tourism is currently out of control in Barcelona, we'll pick somewhere else for now."
by missinglugnut | 2025-07-11 19:25:40+00:00
>Let's not forget that the "12-step-infrastructure" is a VERY American thing based around mostly christian religious nonsense and is by design completely inaccessible for people without a belief in fairy tales.

This is both wrong and deeply harmful. As others in this thread have pointed out, you can choose any higher power you want, whether it's a tree or the inevitable increase in universal entropy. Don't throw away the whole thing because you might have to talk to a Christian.

Free, accessible addiction help is hard to come by so it's terrible to discourage people based on misinformation and culture war bullshit.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-07-11 19:26:36+00:00
>But where I also really notice it is in idling: just writing this blog post my CPU was right at 46°C the whole time, where previously my computer idled right aroud 60°C. The whole computer just feels a bit healthier.

I get this same feeling whenever I change the fluids on my cars. I know from a practical perspective, it's very little changed, but I can't help feeling like the car just feels like it's in a better place. Which I guess it is? But I know it's entirely mental.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-11 19:26:51+00:00
First, you're mixing up capabilities of PWA vs native apps (no one stated they're equal) and how an OS presents Apps differently from PWAs (which was my point).

Second (even though it's completely beside the point), especially Liquid Glass could be implemented in PWA, because it's a rendering effect the OS could put on top of appropriately tagged elements of the application. And voila, the same webapp could render in Liquid Glass in IOS26 and in less-gaudy Liquid Glass in IOS28, and meanwhile in no Liquid Glass at all on devices that don't have it...
by fake-name | 2025-07-11 19:26:54+00:00
You missed where I said it's the act that matters.

So trump /says/ one thing, but his actions say something very different.

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So, if you say nothing and do nothing, you cannot be defined.

If you say fascist things (even if you're "joking"), but do nothing, you are a fascist.

If you say non-fascist things but /do/ fascist things, the thing with the most active action defines you (i.e. the person doing the fascist things is a fascist).

Words mean little in the face of taking active actions.
by userbinator | 2025-07-11 19:27:24+00:00
I was provided the $699 M4 Pro 4TB SSD upgrade by M4-SSD. It's quite expensive (especially compared to normal 4TB NVMe SSDs, which range from $200-400)

Depends what type of flash that's comparing. QLC is cheap, TLC a bit more expensive, MLC nearly unobtainable, and SLC insanely expensive unless you SLC-mod a QLC drive.
by sbarre | 2025-07-11 19:27:39+00:00
I feel like we're having 2 different conversations here. I never said you should not feel what you feel about AI imagery.

"Human for reference" is about scale. There's nothing about "human for reference" that implies any kind of authority or accuracy in the content.

If I put a human in my image standing next to an imaginary creature, or a sci-fi spaceship, or a building I rendered in Blender, am I implying that those things are in fact real?

I am not (although you may choose to assume I am). I am providing a reference for scale with something that everyone will recognize.

Look, I accept your aversion to AI imagery. I certainly don't understand it, but I don't need to understand to accept, so all good.
by jorvi | 2025-07-11 19:28:33+00:00
Not sure what warranted such an aggressive response.

I grew up in the 90s, on 56kb modems and PCs that rumbled and whined when you booted them up. I was at the tail end of using floppies.

I never said I didn't love the speed of SSDs, and when they just started to become mainstream it was an upgrade I did for everyone around me. I made my comment in part because you mentioned dumping 4K into the SSD and/or editing it. It can be a nasty surprise if you're doing something live, and suddenly your throughout plummets, everything starts to stutter and you have no idea why.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-11 19:29:01+00:00
Stellar comets haven't been ejected from another solar system. We have vanishingly few examples of those, and we've not directly observed any up close.

"Flat as a pancake" is one of several theoretical possibilities from its light curve, not a known fact about the object.

"Highly unusual" in space tends to mean "there are a bunch, but we haven't seen them until now". In 1992, exoplanets were "highly unusual". Now they're everywhere.
by pimlottc | 2025-07-11 19:29:16+00:00
Wandrer [0] is a good site if you want to do something like this in your own town. It integrates with Strava and automatically imports your walks/rides and tracks your progress on the map, which lets you see where you’ve been and what streets you still need to conquer.

It doesn’t have any routing features, so you’ll still have to plan your own routes, but it is pretty mobile friendly.

0: https://wandrer.earth
by michaelcampbell | 2025-07-11 19:29:30+00:00
Betamax was objectively better in many categories; that it doesn't fit your narrative is now another one.

It was smaller, had better picture AND audio quality, and a better head to tape ratio.

It was also proprietary and stored less, which were 2 causes of it losing to VHS.

.zstd may END UP being a standard, or it may not, but sheer technical merit is not enough to guarantee it.
by pengaru | 2025-07-11 19:29:38+00:00
"Lead in Spices, Herbal Remedies, and Ceremonial Powders Sampled from Home Investigations for Children with Elevated Blood Lead Levels — North Carolina, 2011–2018" [2018]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6289082/

"Researchers find lead in turmeric" [2019]

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-turmeric.html
by RattlesnakeJake | 2025-07-11 19:29:42+00:00
I cut my Apple-repairing teeth on an iBook G3 that would lose its BGA-soldered GPU if it overheated. The "fix" was to use a heat gun, propane torch (my choice), or even burning alcohol to gently reflow the solder:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/repairing-ibook-g3-grap...

I did it at least three times before that laptop died. Fun times.
by lostmsu | 2025-07-11 19:29:45+00:00
There's a long list of topics where this particular reasoning could draw a line somewhere. It is unfeasible and pointless to cover them all unless they are all banned or all allowed (this essentially is the current state +- AFAIK).

I'd say it is worth looking at redrawing that based on the maximum effect achieved. Drugs would be at the top of this list, followed by motor vehicle use and unhealthy foods. There is probably not enough justification to go beyond the 3.
by spindump8930 | 2025-07-11 19:29:57+00:00
The many sources of stochastic/non-deterministic behavior have been mentioned in other replies but I wanted to point out this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09501 which analyzes the issues around GPU non determinism (once sampling and batching related effects are removed).

One important take-away is that these issues are more likely in longer generations so reasoning models can suffer more.
by riku_iki | 2025-07-11 19:30:00+00:00
> Well, maybe it was my fault but since I'm using the exact same system with the same hardware right now (same NVMe SSD), I really doubt that.

anecdotes could be exchanged in both directions: I run heavy data processing with max possible throughput on top of btrfs raid for 10 years already, and never had any data loss. I am absolutely certain if you expect data integrity while relying on single disk: it is your fault.
by swyx | 2025-07-11 19:30:04+00:00
could you point me to what jurisdictions require analytics opt in esp for open source devtools? thats not actually something ive seen as a legal requirement, more a community preference.

eg ok we all know about EU website cookie banners, but i am more ignorant about devtools/clis sending back telemetry. any actual laws cited here would update me significatnly
by dekhn | 2025-07-11 19:30:12+00:00
Yes, almost certainly in this case Google sees traffic die off when a data center is in the dark. Specifically, there is a diurnal cycle of traffic, and Google usually routes users to close-by resources. So, late at night, all those backends which were running hot doing low-latency replies to users in near-real-time can instead switch over to processing batches. When I built an idle cycle harvester at google, I thought most of hte free cycles would come from low-usage periods, but it turned out that some clusters were just massively underutilized and had free resources all 24 hours.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-11 19:30:33+00:00
Yeah but in the UK there actually are lots of people claiming benefits that probably shouldn't be. Especially Personal Independent Payments.

It's enough of an issue that even Labour (left wing) is having to deal with it. Though as usual Starmer has chickened out (I think this is like the third thing that was obviously a good move that he's backed down on after dumb backlash).
by timhugh | 2025-07-11 19:30:47+00:00
Inspired a little bit by org mode (as someone who knows zero Emacs and didn't really jive with nvim-orgmode) and a little bit by Obsidian, I decided to finally make my first Neovim plugin to fill my need for a markdown bullet journal with proper vim bindings.

It's still very much in development but I've been using it daily for a couple of weeks now and I'm really happy with it.

Current features:

- Access your bullet journal from any vim session: :Bujo now, next, and previous will open the spread for the current date, next date, previous date, and also navigate further forward/backward

- Default keybinds for everything, but completely configurable

- Support for "spreads" (documents associated with a date span) and "notes" (topic-based documents, searchable by name)

- Template support using https://github.com/leafo/etlua

- Everything is standard markdown so you're not locked in to using it

- Date spans are arbitrarily configurable -- hourly? daily? weekly? monthly? it doesn't care, just configure a filename template and it will infer the rest

- Integrates with telescope.nvim to easily navigate to spreads/notes and to quickly insert links to other documents

- Optional git integration to automatically commit and push your journal on save (I have mine in a private repo)

There are a couple of other miscellaneous things I'm still iterating on, like convenience mappings for toggling markdown checkboxes and an integration with michaelb/sniprun for executing codeblocks (both of these are working but very basic right now).

So in summary, if you've been looking for a note taking plugin for neovim and this sounds like it might fit your flow, I'd love to get your feedback!
by aeon_ai | 2025-07-11 19:30:55+00:00
Moloch devours breakthrough potential not through conspiracy but through everyone rationally optimizing for their individual/local situation while collectively producing suboptimal outcomes.

Individual insight doesn't map to institutional action. Systems can't integrate experiences they can't measure or systematize.

I do think that there are some truths to government desire for narrative management, too. It is unwise to be a hugger in a knife fight, and you don't want the populace to get high, see God, and deteriorate national security.

All in all though, it all boils down to life being complicated. The resistance isn't adversarial - it's structural. Which makes it both less intentionally evil and harder to overcome.
by peteyPete | 2025-07-11 19:30:59+00:00
I have the same fight in my life... As an atheist I push back pretty hard against any intrusion of religion in my life and depend on myself for pretty much everything, and am also the provider for others. If I'd sit on my behind and pray for good things instead of taking actions, nothing would get done, so I skip the time consuming part of dedicating a part of my life, time, brain power to all these things and instead focus on tangible things anchored in reality.

With how my brain works, I find it insulting to be told to pray the weakness away figure of speech..

That all being said, our brains, as wonderfully capable and complex as they are, are also pretty stupid and simple in other ways. Willpower and inner strength are a trained skills and mental states combined with chemical states. If the goal is to free yourself from addiction, the means of getting there don't really matter as long as they work and don't cause direct harm to yourself or others. The placebo effect is real, so if one gets strength from believing that there's a "god" or "higher power" giving them a high 5 and believes in them, then go for it. Whether I believe thats a delusion or not is much less important than the person breaking their addiction. Its a whole other fight of its own. I do think there should be as much available support for people that isn't based on feeding you religion if thats not your thing, regardless of the fact that one can attend AA+12step and not be religious and get value out of it too.

I feel like having faith in a higher power is almost like a part of your brain never grew up, in the sense that you're allowing yourself to believe in magic, like a kid. When you were a kid, that made you excited, dreamy, which puts you in a certain state. If you believe and that allows you to put yourself in a mental state where you think the end result will work out positively, whether thats because you felt empowered, you found strength to persevere, or whether you think god's got his quantum digits up your ** and is going to partially puppet you, thus relieving you of some of the pressure, strain, and allows you to get to the same end point, then good for you...

If this was a discussion about whether religions and faith in higher powers should be the guiding philosophies for humans going forward, my answer would be capital F no.. But if we're talking about current crisis response/management and addiction support, you can't rewire everyone's brains before you can start helping them out..
by refulgentis | 2025-07-11 19:31:12+00:00
The amount of people who will be using it at 1 token/sec because there's no better option, and have 64 GB of RAM, is vanishingly small.

IMHO it sets the local LLM community back when we lean on extreme quantization & streaming weights from disk to say something is possible*, because when people try it out, it turns out it's an awful experience.

* the implication being, anything is possible in that scenario
by tialaramex | 2025-07-11 19:32:09+00:00
I know I'm long winded, but, you did see there's a lot more text right?

The US Supreme Court says it's politically independent. And so the UK's Supreme Court just did that. It wasn't difficult, unlike the US the rest of our court system, including the predecessor "Law Lords" were in fact chosen by an independent non-political process already, the law making a Supreme Court more or less says "Oh, when we need more Supreme Court justices do the thing for judges again, only more so"
by adolph | 2025-07-11 19:32:10+00:00
This stems from the fact that if a landowner successfully discovers a valuable resource or identifies a creative way to utilize their land more productively, the government will increase their tax burden accordingly.

One of the difficulties of arguing against a hypothesis is avoiding stawperson construction. In claiming "An LVT discourages searching for new uses of land" the author sees land value as something different from what I've seen in LVT proponents. As I understand it, the point of LVT is avoiding what the author proposes.

As an example, many "downtown" areas in the US have many blocks with surface parking, a form of underutilization. Under the current system, consider a typical downtown and two adjacent blocks within it: 1. an multi-story office building, and 2. a surface parking lot. 1 will currently pay more tax because some of the assessment is based on the value of the building. Under an LVT system, 1 and 2 pay the same amount of tax because they occupy the same amount of land. Does the owner of 1 pay more because they utilize the land more productively? No.

To treat the argument fairly, consider two plots of land on a secondary highway in an entirely rural, impoverished county, taxed at $1/sq ft. On one plot, the owner builds a farmer's market and it is incredibly successful. (I use a market to avoid digressions into mineral royalties and negative externalities from things like an oil well.) Under the current system, the improvement of the market building is assessed for value without regard for how successful it is. The taxable value is land at $1/sq ft plus improvement. Under LVT as I understand it, after the market is built, both plots are still taxed at $1/sq ft. The economic activity of the market is not discouraged by taxing its existence (this is seperate from sales taxes, which the market would create). There is no increase in tax burden because of a creative use.
by nivertech | 2025-07-11 19:32:20+00:00
Saying everything is X is like saying nothing is X

So, you think that if I had BTC, it would’ve magically changed my views on how Bitcoin consensus works?

BTW: I think Scrum/Agile is also LARPing, do you think if I’ll get a Scrum Master certification it will change my views on Scrum?
by x3qt | 2025-07-11 19:33:07+00:00
I’ve seen multiple instances of robberies where the attacker was a head shorter and could have been easily stunned, or worse, with a single hit, yet people gave away their valuables because even the thought of using violence is taboo. Of course, the police always say, “Just file a complaint,” which never results in anything. It’s not a joke: even if violence is used purely to stop a criminal, the police will prosecute you, lol. I’m not American, but I like the idea that one could defend themselves and their property using all means necessary.
by gherkinnn | 2025-07-11 19:34:00+00:00
> There's also Google Maps and Yelp vs. Japan's local version (pretty much any review on the former two are useless, and hopelessly biased by clueless tourists).

I do not understand why one would even look at tourist reviews for "authentic Japanese jalapeños" or whatever on Gmaps. But people do so what do I know.
by ddahlen | 2025-07-11 19:34:03+00:00
Eccentricity!

You can approximate the orbits of basically everything in the solar system using 2-body mechanics (IE, ignore the planets). If you do this you get orbits which are elliptical (eccentricity <1), parabolic (eccentricity = 1), or hyperbolic (eccentricity>1).

If the object has an eccentricity above 1, its not bound to the solar system.

Many long period comets have eccentricity hovering near 1, often these long period comets will be on their first pass (sometimes only pass) through the solar system. These comets though usually dont get much above eccentricity of 1. The 3 interstellars we have spotted have had like 1.2 or bigger. This one is above eccentricity 6! Its moving fast.

Edit: I have heard that when the first interstellar was found it actually broke a lot of peoples code, as it was common to hard code limits to allowed eccentricities (or simply not support ecc>1 at all).
by dockercompost | 2025-07-11 19:34:08+00:00
I didn't realize you all had changed your name and I'd already installed Nxtscape and thought something was wrong when I opened up BrowserOS and saw the same UI and fox emoji icon in the chat. btw I'm not gonna lie, I liked your old name better. I'm guessing you changed it for legal reasons?

I tested it out asking it to summarize the comments of an Arstechnica article and at first it said:

> I am unable to summarize the comments as the provided page content only contains the article itself, not the comments section. The extract tool does not appear to be able to access the comments on this page.

I had to tell it to click on the "comments" link for it to actually start going through the comments. For reference, there's 3 pages of comments and it's taken more than 20 minutes and performed around 100 actions, with lots of those actions being scrolling down a very specific 1074 pixels. I am currently sitting here still waiting for the actual summary while it says "Validating task completion..."

Seems like it could be powerful, but the hand holding required and extremely slow speed make it unusable for me at this point.

Since I had Nxtscape installed, I tried the same experiment and it successfully did it in less time with fewer actions. Not sure if that's just random chance or if there's different logic running under the hood.

One final note: There's a Chrome extension that lets you use your iCloud passwords in Chrome and it doesn't work in either Nxtscape or BrowserOS. I'm not likely to use a browser that requires regularly having to go into my password manager to manually retrieve usernames and passwords, and I'm not changing my password manager for this.
by patrickdavey | 2025-07-11 19:34:14+00:00
I think that "Mr Bates vs the post office" (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27867155/) should be required watching for software developers.

It was an internal developer bearing witness that made a material difference here. If you're the developer logging in to fix errors and the postmaster scandal is in full swing, then it's time to look at being a whistleblower. If you're the developer writing code to hack emissions tests in cars, again, look at your ethics.
by protimewaster | 2025-07-11 19:34:40+00:00
To be fair, though, NTFS predates APFS by over 20 years.

Don't get me wrong, there's no reason Microsoft can't transition to another filesystem (like offering ReFS outside of Server or whatever Windows variants support it currently), but I don't understand why a company would transition to a new filesystem in 2016 and not include a data checksums option. Hell, ReFS predates APFS, and I think it even has optional data checksums.
by brookst | 2025-07-11 19:34:59+00:00
> IMO you can never use an AI agent benchmark that is published on the internet more than once.

This is a long-solved problem far predating AI.

You do it by releasing 90% of the benchmark publicly and holding back 10% for yourself or closely trusted partners.

Then benchmark performance can be independently evaluated to determine if performance on the 10% holdback matches the 90% public.
by tmtvl | 2025-07-11 19:35:03+00:00
If I remember correctly, gaijin is just how you say 'foreigner' in standard Japanese. The rude slang is jingai.

And I also have the experience of people really appreciating it if you actually speak and read Japanese. Which makes sense, I can easily imagine it being a relief to find that you can just speak with someone normally instead of having to struggle with this absolutely bonkers weird language that one may be only vaguely familiar with.

I can imagine that people in, say, the United States wouldn't be very happy if I went around and only spoke Dutch.