MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-19 04:28:56+00:00
Streaming has replaced piracy, and scammed artists in the process. You can complain to the labels for that.

As for why I download: I am legally forbidden from buying the music that I want. Either it's the selling label geoblocking, or they only sell versions in a shitty format like mp3. I'm not jumping through hoops to give you my money, either I can buy FLAC files, or I download.

I want convenience, the same way users want it. Artists discovered that they were scammed by the labels instead of the pirates.
by imuakame | 2025-08-19 04:29:06+00:00
Warp can actually index your codebases and cross-reference across indexed repos for context: https://docs.warp.dev/code/codebase-context#multi-repo-conte... For example, if you reference the example repo in your prompt, the agent will use that in what it's working on in your current repo in coming up with code diffs and running commands
by robocat | 2025-08-19 04:29:21+00:00
What a weird viewpoint.

> But for regular people it's a fantasy

So for authentic people it's a fantasy???

I can only imagine that either

(a) you struggle to differentiate fake authenticity from authentic fakeness

or (b) perhaps you don't have enough authentic non-wealthy acquaintances.

Some welloff people countersignal successfully. But many don't because status signaling is difficult (evolutionarily).

> it only works if you're rich

And you imply that you think that people look up to the rich - however many people don't - perhaps that says something about your own pretensions?

Disclaimer: I'm a well off geek - definitely not rich and I'm rather poor at recognizing or playing status games.
by buu700 | 2025-08-19 04:29:26+00:00
It looks like the protein powders were a bad example — I'd understood that they were comparable to flour, which GPT had at one point corroborated, but Grok is giving me more detailed and better referenced information which contradicts that. The powders are definitely UPF under the Nova classification system[1], which I would argue (per my "heuristic" reasoning) invites justified skepticism and need for long-term studies, but doesn't inherently make them unhealthy. The system is based more on the number of steps and/or ingredients involved in preparation than a deep qualitative analysis of what those steps are.

That being said, the same system would categorize Meati, tofu, and cheese as merely processed (Nova group 3), not ultra-processed (group 4), at least according to Grok (which provided detailed reasoning that sounded credible). For comparison, Beyond Meat and Impossible Meat were deemed to be firmly in group 4.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification
by mandeepj | 2025-08-19 04:29:43+00:00
The other candidate went on stage and said - he’d lower the grocery prices on day 1, and then declares off-stage: once prices go up, they never come down . He told Palestinian-Americans in Michigan - he’d bring peace in Palestine. People were so desperate to hear what they wanted to hear - whether lower prices or peace back home. He sold lies to everyone; I don’t see Democrats doing that. Ironically, prices are comparatively high now and going to get even higher. You know the statements coming from Israel.

I wish there was a way to challenge - these corrupt and lying politicians - in court. Unfortunately, currently, Supreme Court is compromised as well.
by magnat | 2025-08-19 04:30:25+00:00
If one node kept transmitting non-stop, it could push data out at 3.5kbps and no one else in that range can transmit at the same time.

However, in EU there is a legal limit of 1% duty cycle on 868MHz band and collision avoidance mechanism, meaning on average you can send a packet (up to 255 bytes) once a minute.
by motorest | 2025-08-19 04:30:28+00:00
> Under the pretext of protecting denocracy, the unelected, supposedly impartial brazilian supreme court waged an all out legal and political war against our "Trump equivalent". They have engaged in unconstitutional censorship and politically motivated arrests.

This personal opinion sounds awfully outlandish, and it's baffling how it leaves out the fact that the "trump equivalent" engaged in a coup and your wall of text boils down to "he is facing a trial for his coup attempt, and he is currently awaiting sentence".

In fact, each discussion you cited reminds you of this fact, but somehow you repeatedly posted outlandish comments, such as claiming that judges ruling over a coup attempt are somehow the ones perpetrating a coup?

Perhaps someone else from Brazil should chime in, as I feel your comments convey an alternative version of reality that doesn't reflect the majority of facts and instead leans heavily on unsupported and very emotional and partial interpretations.

Edit: while reading through the discussions you cited, I stumbled upon your comment discussing how you are going through therapy and your therapist already gave you recommendations on how you should modulate your behavior. Perhaps it's time to consider the recommendation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744606
by sriram_malhar | 2025-08-19 04:30:46+00:00
Incredible!

Assuming I understand such a feat even with exposure to pure O2, how does he manage to avoid CO2 build-up? Or, how did he train to retain CO2?

Cells use up O2 and release CO2 into the blood to form carbonic acid (keeping it simple), so the blood pH levels drop, which the body does not care about at all. This is what induces the suffocation reflex.

I wish I had known this while trying to master breathing while swimming freestyle: it is not just their VO2 max, but also their ability to retain CO2. Both aspects need to be trained.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-19 04:31:24+00:00
What does this mean? The majority of people, regardless of 'group', are facing similar issues. I think this sort of rhetoric, alongside the endless hyperbole, is a big part of why the Democrat party is facing substantial difficulties.

I also think this claim is falsifiable by the homogeneity of party views. The stereotype of a Republican is pro-gun, anti-abortion, yeehaw. In reality? Only 24% of Republicans completely oppose abortion [1] and only 27% think gun laws should be less strict. [2] The party has become extremely heterogeneous. By contrast, stereotypes on Democrat views are somewhat more accurate with 86% thinking gun laws should be more strict, and 56% supporting abortion at any time, for any reason.

Were the Republican party supporting some specific 'group', you would expect to see a general homogeneity of views. And were the Democrat party supporting a large number of otherwise relatively independent 'groups', you would expect to see a general heterogeneity of views. Instead, we see something much closer to the exact opposite.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/246278/abortion-trends-party.as...

[2] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts...
by sgtwompwomp | 2025-08-19 04:32:15+00:00
So what I meant is this: When you run our Cyberdesk agent the first time, it runs with the computer use agent. But then once that’s complete, we cache every exact step it took to successfully complete that task (every click, type, scroll) and then simply replay that the next time.

But during that replayed action, we do bring in smaller LLMs to just keep in check to see if anything unexpected happened (like a popup). If so, we fall back to computer use to take it home.

Does that make sense? At the end of the day, our agent compiles down to Pyautogui, with smart fallback to the agent if needed.
by oceanplexian | 2025-08-19 04:33:07+00:00
Not allowing something to exist is a really strange way of conceptualizing reduction of harm.

I'm perfectly fine eating something that was alive, so long as it was treated with respect and was killed humanely. Doing so connects you, a living being, to other living beings that are part of the circle of life, which live and die the same way you and I will.
by klipklop | 2025-08-19 04:33:49+00:00
> The climate report that the Australian government penned is apparently so grim that the experts who have been privy to it have publicly stated that it's far worse than anyone is willing to discuss.

Or they are not releasing it because their data is likely not reliable. Almost everything the Australian government produces like this is agenda (neo-feudalism, anti freedom) driven and almost never is in favor of the common person.

I am not a climate change denier, I do believe we are messing up the environment at a rapid pace. I do question the methods and motives of these countries where their solutions are to take away arbitrary freedoms and in exchange do nothing to actually fix the problem.

As long as we pay more taxes we will be all saved right?
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by scythe | 2025-08-19 04:34:58+00:00
>I'm just not sure how you could justify calling plant-based meats non-ultra-processed under any useful definition of the term.

The most pressing question here: is tofu ultra-processed? It's a protein isolate prepared by a solution-precipitation process. If you replace the tofu salts (calcium sulfate and similar) with ethanol (an anti-solvent for proteins) you get protein powder. This is not the most efficient way make protein powder, but the point is that on the one hand you have a traditional centuries-old process, and on the other you have what seems to be a sine qua non of ultraprocessed food, and the difference is... ethanol.

Beyond Meat, which contains... dietary fiber... is part of a particular subset of highly processed foods that are trying to be healthy. If you see "chicory root extract" on a food's ingredients label, it's probably in this club. This is a telltale sign of spiking the dietary fiber content. (Beyond Meat does not contain chicory; its fiber is from peas.)

Most ultra-processed foods are not trying to be healthy. They are designed to be addictive. It's a little bit like the old kerfuffle over "weapons-grade" encryption being restricted for export. The technology can be useful for military purposes, but encryption is not a weapon per se.

The critical diversion is not from meat to processed foods, but from the practice of deliberately engineering addictive foods to the techniques that facilitate it. The food product companies would like you to look anywhere other than their intentions, because they can always change the how and what in pursuit of them. They will always be happy to ostentatiously move away from the old way of making a bag of chips you can't put down, to the new way of making a bag of chips you can't put down. The root of the problem is the incentive structure.
by conductr | 2025-08-19 04:36:12+00:00
This is a fun project to take on. Couple years ago I built an autonomous controlled chassis onto a push reel mower (removed handles of course). It’s not as safe as the typical robot mower given they use tiny blades to trim (and reel mower will take a finger) but it’s relatively low maintenance since the blades need replacing every month or so. I opted for lidar as the reviews on RTK GPS seem pretty hit or miss and didn’t want the base antenna thingy. It works well for me and the cut quality is amazing even just running once a week.
by notpushkin | 2025-08-19 04:36:33+00:00
> I 100% commend CC-BY-SA-NC and other fair source licenses. These are sustainable efforts.

Funnily enough, the CC BY-SA-NC is not a fair source license, as it doesn’t include a provision for delayed open source publication. It is quite important, actually:

> DOSP ensures that if a Fair Source company goes out of business, or develops its products in an undesired direction, the community or another company can pick up and move forward. Will this be meaningful in practice? Again, time will tell. – https://fair.io/about/

But I do agree with the sentiment otherwise.
by jchw | 2025-08-19 04:37:23+00:00
While I do agree, I've definitely seen some container images that do actually intentionally export SSH for debugging, and run an init system. Personally, that goes against my sensibilities, but it's not a strictly invalid way to use Docker either, and Docker has a lot of weird features that would let you use it in really counter-intuitive ways (like using `commit` to save a mutated container's changes back to an image...) that don't match the typical container-oriented workflow.

But honestly, I kinda suspect in this case there's no real reason to argue over the (lack of) merits of exposing an SSH server from a Docker container, since there's really no evidence any of these images with the vulnerable package even contain OpenSSH, less a way for it to get executed and exposed...
by kragen | 2025-08-19 04:37:33+00:00
That's an interesting idea: maybe instead of `for x, y in points: ...` (Python syntax) we should write `points do |x, y| ...` so the IDE has a maximum amount of type inference information available? That would also suggest writing variable declarations with the variable at the end, as in Forth or Levien's Io. 80 CONSTANT COLUMNS or `80 -> columns;`.

It doesn't look anything like Lisp, though.
by phillipseamore | 2025-08-19 04:37:52+00:00
A more recent source. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/climate/heat-deaths.html (https://archive.ph/xTsNO)

"While 2023 was the hottest year on record and led to at least 2,325 heat-related deaths in the U.S., more than 21,518 people have died from heat since 1999, according to a study published Monday in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association."

"Heat kills more people in the United States than any other type of extreme weather, according to researchers. The study noted a 117 percent increase in heat-related deaths over the past 24 years, with a significant upswing since 2016."

"But heat-related deaths are hard to track. The C.D.C. relies on death certificates from local authorities but there is no consistent criteria to determine the contribution of heat to a death. The tally of deaths from extreme heat could actually be higher, with an average annual number of 10,000 deaths across the United States from 1997 to 2006, according to a 2020 study."
by bigums | 2025-08-19 04:38:00+00:00
I have so many memories as a kid have so much fun on these servers. You guys had the rogue with almost complete invisibility. I played dust2 WC3 mod so much, hiding in weird corners with a knife waiting for someone to walk around the corner hoping it wasn’t whatever class had 300hp.

I owe much of my career in tech to counter strike. I learned to manage servers hosting clan websites, security and programming making the sites and “borrowing” designs from Clan Templates or whatever the company was that had the awesome animated flash headers. I remember learning about IDORs and SQL injection, before I even knew what it was called.

I learned 3d modeling with MilkShape for custom skins and models. Made dozens of surf maps and a few KZ. The AMX Mod community was so helpful learning to program. I think it was Small to write mods.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. That was a pivotal moment in my life. I learned how to control a computer and found my passion.
by krackers | 2025-08-19 04:39:46+00:00
I think it's the same underlying principle of learning the "joint distribution of things humans have said". Whether done autoregressively via LLMs or via diffusion models, you still end up learning this distribution. The insight seems to be the crazy leap that this is A) a valid thing to talk about and B) that learning this distribution gives you something meaningful.

The leap is in transforming an ill-defined objective of "modeling intelligence" into a concrete proxy objective. Note that the task isn't even "distribution set of valid/true things", since validity/truth is hard to define. It's something akin to "distribution of things a human might say" implemented in the "dumbest" possible way of "modeling the distribution of humanity's collective textual output".
by billfruit | 2025-08-19 04:40:00+00:00
Does not ranked matchmaking make for more competitive matches, a bit like if you play ranked in lichess it matches with someone of your own level, and you have a real chance of improving your own level over a period of time.

There is seems to be lot of negativity against ranked ladders in the gaming community, but isn't that what would be best system to play with people of your own skill level.
by dokyun | 2025-08-19 04:41:21+00:00
> I'm sick of open source purism.

> Open source purism - especially for non-viral MIT and BSD licenses - is how Google and Microsoft and Amazon stole from the commons and turned it against us.

So why don't you advocate for Free Software which has always worked in the interest of the commons and provided the GPL as a way to combat this, instead of something else that isn't free and restricts the freedom of users more than a weak license?
by palmfacehn | 2025-08-19 04:42:16+00:00
It is a digression, but I imagine many others are facing similar issues.

> The main IAPSOP server is being overrun by unknown crawlers running on IP addresses controlled by Amazon Web Services (AWS), crawlers with IP addresses in the People's Republic of China, and other miscreants...

I've blocked most of Amazon, Alibaba Cloud and other cloud ASNs. Facebook's page preview crawler API was another abuser. There are also several problematic Chinese ISPs. You'll identify those networks from the outdated and impossible generated user agents. As I have no customers in those regions, it seems obvious to block the entire ASN.

In addition, the common User-Agent filters should be employed. You can drop ASNs when they hit an excessive number of 403s, are from a cloud provider or are in a problematic region.
by Teknomadix | 2025-08-19 04:42:21+00:00
As far as I'm aware—I first must admit with the caveat that I really only know about these early mechanical turbo diesel Mercedes-Benz. I don't pay attention to any of the petrol versions and most of the later versions I have no interest in at all—none of the North American vehicles, even the "Sonderklasse" had dual zone AC in 1987. This was a feature that came later.
by fho | 2025-08-19 04:43:01+00:00
> I just got back from a goth music weekend this weekend

> the mean age would be 40-something

At least in Germany the "black" scene has a serious "recruitment" problem. It's basically the same set of people for decades now with very little additions to the pool.

It strange to me that I am amongst the youngest attendeds at concerts and "disco" events at 40.
by LinchZhang | 2025-08-19 04:45:06+00:00
Thank you for the valuable and constructive comment!

I just didn't feel like discussing the satire angle was very interesting! In the article:

> In Omphalos, Young Earth Creationism is empirically true2. Astronomers can only see light from stars 6,000 light-years away. Fossilized trees have centers with no rings. The first God-created humans lack belly buttons. The scientists in that story keep discovering multiple independent lines of evidence that converge on creationism: because in that universe, they're simply correct.

I think this section makes it very clear that in one sense, it's a clear satire of religion, or at least Creationism (implied: we do not see this, so it's implausible we're in a YE Creationist world). I didn't think it was worth spelling it out. Also overall I thought anti-religious satire in fiction is fairly common (I remember reading Candide in high school, and Pullman around the same time or a little earlier) and far from what makes Chiang special.

Agree with your thoughts on Exhalation. I hope they make it out, but also completely understand why Chiang ended the story where he did.
by accidentallfact | 2025-08-19 04:46:15+00:00
The filter is obviously supposed to be there, it's "neurotypical" people who have a problem.

It means you need to use your higher thinking to do sensory processing. It's like if your GPU had burned out. So you had to find a way to do everything on the CPU. It sucks, and you don't have much capacity left for the actual thinking.
by buu700 | 2025-08-19 04:46:15+00:00
Agreed. UPF-ness is a useful and now-trendy heuristic to determine whether and how to more qualitatively analyze the health properties of a given food, but it's not the final answer. Sugar isn't a UPF (it's in Nova group 2), but I think most people would choose to eat a plant-based burger before a bowl of sugar.
by brewdad | 2025-08-19 04:47:30+00:00
How do those compare to Leafs driven in the EU? Leafs in the US market certainly experienced large degradation. None of those other vehicles have been available in the US market.

Wondering if the driving pattern of US vs EU drivers or the more extreme temps (high and low) in the US are the real culprit in the degradation of air-cooled batteries.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-08-19 04:48:15+00:00
Even today I sometimes yearn for those good old days of CS 1.6. CS was never the same again after that. Until 2022 I played it. Then on Apple Silicon macs somehow I never got it work, besides I doubt anyone would be playing 1.6 anymore. I did try in browser couple of times but the links I got were riddled with popups and I am sure malware. Thanks for all the shots, CS.

Among og, de_aztec was my favourite map, but somehow ended up playing de_inferno and villa piranesi the most.

But the real fun was the go bonkers world of custom and modded maps.
by mkw5053 | 2025-08-19 04:48:39+00:00
Very cool!

I was just going down a rabbit hole yesterday about the use of AI techniques (or lack of success) in deciphering still-forgotten languages. Unsupervised models have partially cracked Ugaritic and Linear B [0], and Pythia/Ithaca restore Greek inscriptions at scale [1], but Linear A or Proto-Elamite still stall because the corpora are too small and there is no bilingual ‘Rosetta Stone’. The most promising direction now seems to be hybrid pipelines that combine vision encoders to normalize glyphs with constrained decoders guided by phonotactic priors.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06718

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06262
by fayten | 2025-08-19 04:48:40+00:00
Unless you are actively managing your own herd or actively hunting I don’t see how you are connecting to nature at the grocery store.

People don’t care as long as it tastes good. The current methods we have for farming meat do not scale and we need to work on alternatives. Meat is tasty and people want to eat it.

Innovation will continue in the lab grown meat sector and when it eventually scales it will over take traditional methods. Current factory farming is anything but natural and there is plenty of harm being done.
by wtallis | 2025-08-19 04:49:17+00:00
Based on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/spars... and subsequent links, it sounds like sparse files count against disk quotas as if they weren't sparse, but otherwise sparse files actually work on NTFS.

If sparse files didn't save on actual space allocations, it would simply be a lie to call them sparse files. Granted, that's totally something Microsoft would do, and has done for other features they lack, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.