MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dawnofdusk | 2025-08-26 23:13:23+00:00
The error in the OP is a typo that could never seriously confuse anyone, as the element Gr does not exist.

An interesting perspective is Terry Tao's on local vs. global errors (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/advice-on-writing-papers/on-l...). A typo like this, even if propagated, is a local error which at worst makes it very annoying to Ctrl-F papers or do literature review. Local errors deserve to be corrected, but in practice their importance to science as a field is small.
by aeve890 | 2025-08-26 23:13:24+00:00
>One of our classes being thrown in limbo for several months after we found out that a bunch of foundational research underpinning it was entirely made up (See: Diederik Stapel).

That's mild. In one of Chile's largest and most prestigious universities, Jodorowsky "psychomagic" is teached as a real therapeutic approach.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-26 23:13:35+00:00
It very much blows my mind, but also sadly unsurprising.

I watched a local Superior Court hearing, where a prosecutor argued against a motion to revoke bail/bond conditions. Thankfully, the Judge had a different perspective:

Prosecutor: "Because blah blah blah, and in addition, the defendant shows zero signs of taking responsibility for his actions, we..."

Judge, cutting her off: "I'm going to stop you there. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty and has not been found guilty at trial as of this moment. In the eyes of the court, the defendant has precisely zero obligation to take responsibility for alleged actions."

I was also juror on a trial for theft (stealing from an organization by the treasurer). The theft had occurred but the amount of rubber stamping was horrific. "It looks like $50K was stolen, including approximately $20K in diverted checks". In fact, the bank statements showed that no checks were diverted, and it was painfully obvious (in the statements, in some months, the checks claimed to be diverted were the -only- transactions, so it wasn't a hard find), and there was even a statement from the organization's president, taken by the Sheriff's Office, "It was later found that the checks had been deposited properly". But everyone, Sheriff, org, prosecutor had "oops, failed to remove that amount from the claimed loss", and the defendant's attorney had to bend over backwards to demonstrate this. At one point, the prosecutor had said "Demonstrate to us how you came to the number of $30K"... "Uh, if you want to claim the loss is $50K, it's on you to prove THAT. It's not on us to prove it is LESS".
by hopelite | 2025-08-26 23:13:40+00:00
Especially considering the ruling class does not like when people are reminded that China has its own space station and has never allowed a single non-Chinese person on it, while we failed in several ways over months to return the astronauts from the ISS, and President Trump just decreed that he’s going to give 600,000 (more?) Chinese students visas to study at American universities and invariably displacing their indigenous.

I personally have nothing against the Chinese and respect them being oddly far more interested in the wellbeing of their own people than remotely anything in any western country, but it sure is odd behavior by people who consider China a threat.

“China’s an enemy” … “let’s bring in 600,000 Chinese every single year to learn from us and take the knowledge back to China and the ones that remain will be embedded spies like the people of other foreign nations who have burrowed into America and its power structure”.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-26 23:13:45+00:00
Quite big tiny particles in this application: Xenon is a fairly hefty atomic number of 54 - exactly double iron.

And you need quite a bit of it: even fairly small spacecraft like probes can have nearly a tonne of the stuff. Which, considering there's only 30-40ish tonnes extracted per year at a cost of about 1.5ish dollars per gram is quite a bit!
by orwin | 2025-08-26 23:13:54+00:00
In Kazakhstan, it was a power play to designate a new common enemy (in the case i know, Orthodox christians). The man was close to the president but fell in disgrace. It was used to quell the protests (i was an adult when this happened, so probably after 2009, i'll have to look), and the group that supported him, the Orthodox church, fell with him as public ennemies (it was also racism/ethnicism because most of the orthodox were ukrainians/Cossacks displaced under Staline during the famine, and looked quite different than ethnic Kazakhs). Basically fascistic behavior.

The refugees i've met were all part of the church, so the purge hit a lot of people. Not sure if it worked, after all, i think they changed president recently, but i'm definitely not an expert on the area.

In Russia i have no idea, probably you have underhand deals and politics happening, but its a fairly lock down country, information-wise
by corbkise | 2025-08-26 23:15:12+00:00
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Rough edges you hit on first use

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by bratao | 2025-08-26 23:15:31+00:00
I'm really curious about the history of spaCy. From my PoV: it grew a lot during the pandemic era, hiring a lot of employees. I remember something about raising money for the first time. It was very competitive in NLP tasks. Now it seems that it has scaled back considerably, with a dramatic reduction in employees and a total slowdown of the project. The v4 version looks postponed. It isn't competitive in many tasks anymore (for tasks such as NER, I get better results by fine-tuning a BERT model), and the transformer integration is confusing.
by binarymax | 2025-08-26 23:15:33+00:00
I’ve been a user of SpaCy since 2016. I haven’t touched it in years and I just picked it up again to develop a new metric for RAG using part of speech coverage.

The API is one of the best ever, and really set the bar high for language tooling.

I’m glad it’s still around and getting updates. I had a bit of trouble integrating it with uv, but nothing too bad.

Thanks to the explosion team for making such an amazing project and keeping it going all these years.

To the new “AI” people in the room: checkout SpaCy, and see how well it works and how fast it chews through text. You might find yourself in a situation where you don’t need to send your data to OpenAI for some small things.

Edit: I almost forgot to add this little nugget of history: one of Huggingfaces first projects was a SpaCy extension for conference resolution. Built before their breakthrough with transformers https://github.com/huggingface/neuralcoref
by fencepost | 2025-08-26 23:17:10+00:00
And of the ones identifiable as Jewish, the ones where it's just because they wear a yarmulke or something similar probably also don't have problems.

And then there are going to be the ones festooned with Stars of David, and pushing for every conflict they can possibly get into so they can claim antisemitism. Those? Those I'd believe having problems, but they're not having problems because they're Jewish - they're having problems because they're assholes.

Is there antisemitism in France? I'm positive there is. Is there anti-Muslim sentiment as well? I'm positive there is. (side note, aren't middle-eastern Muslims generally considered Semites as in descendants of Shem?)
by goosejuice | 2025-08-26 23:18:04+00:00
Well your father can't buy a Waymo. Even if he could it wouldn't go very far, wouldn't work everywhere and would cost at least 2x a model 3 or Y. So there are at least several leads Tesla has.

It's a horrible comparison. Why do people keep making it? This isn't Lyft vs Uber. A better comparison to Tesla FSD would be blue cruise, super cruise, drive pilot, god's eye, and every other consumer level 2 ADAS.
by prmoustache | 2025-08-26 23:19:52+00:00
> That's sounds like an exaggeration: most jewish people won't deal with any type of discrimination simply because they aren't identifiable as jewish.

As an identity, yes they still receive a lot of hate.

As individuals unless they wear distincrive signs like a kipa they will probably receive less hate and discrimination than say...people with red/ginger hair which is still super common. If they are transexuals and gay black redhead jews with rumanian nationality and and live with an asian partner, they are fucked.
by philipkglass | 2025-08-26 23:20:07+00:00
Measured by the fraction of incident sunlight that gets transformed to usable energy. Solar farms generate about 30 times as much power per hectare as corn farms, assuming that you can use electricity directly:

"Ecologically informed solar enables a sustainable energy transition in US croplands"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2501605122

As a rough estimate, you'd lose 2/3 of that energy if the electricity had to be turned into liquid fuels. That would still mean 10 times greater usable energy produced per acre.

Plants genetically engineered for fuel production might be somewhat more efficient in the future, but future solar farms are also probably going to be more efficient.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-26 23:20:46+00:00
Why not just let it play out in their own arena? We already had the major unwind with the interest rate hikes. The tide went out and the players with their pants off were exposed for the most part.

That said, allowing VC into 401ks and such I would agree is an abominable idea, because this stuff isn't marked properly until it is in distress. Actually, that area could use better regulation. Volatility laundering is already a systemic risk. Many of these vehicles have creative ways to not mark to their market value, which makes pension fund managers and leered participants happy because it greatly improves the perceived risk metrics and performance, at the equal expense of cloaked fragility.

But perhaps just let them have a thunderdome, and if they want to breach the walls and enter areas like retirement funds where society agrees standard are higher, there is a strong set of filters/regulations that must be adhered to.
by ggm | 2025-08-26 23:21:45+00:00
> So it's not that I dispute the data that there's a lefty bias in universities (there obviously is), I dispute what that actually means.

The issue at hand isn't perceived bias in universities, it's voting tendencies of people who have higher education.

PS, this conversation is a waste of both of our times. I won't be continuing it. Because there is no good faith either side. I'm certainly not going to display any and I aver you aren't either, but you can judge for yourself.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-26 23:21:50+00:00
Yes, as GP said you'll need enough memory to load the weights (and KV cache).

Beyond that it's just how fast you want to go. Pure CPU will be slow, but will work. There has been a few stories and comments here[1] about people running this model.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=671B+DeepSeek
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-26 23:22:06+00:00
I have particular issue with “diseases” defined as done for osteopenia.

Rather than define an objective measure of the problem, they (by definition) effectively define the percentage of the population affected.

In other words, osteopenia is defined in such a way that it is not curable, preventable, etc.

What is the point saying, “disease X affects 5% of the population by definition”.

It’s like throwing away half the resumes for a job position and saying we don’t hire unlucky people…
by contingencies | 2025-08-26 23:22:44+00:00
Can of worms. My understanding is that VFD refers to any control system capable of varying speed and torque, usually through varying the supply frequency and voltage to the coils of an asynchronous AC induction motor. However, it is important to note that a VFD can also control synchronous motors such as BLDC and Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM), although in practice the term is usually applied to control systems for high power industrial AC asynchronous induction motors. It would therefore be incorrect to state "they're really all 3-phase synchronous motors", although some VFD control systems could be seen to emulate synchronous motors with asynchronous motors.
by kingstnap | 2025-08-26 23:23:06+00:00
I can relate. Often times I find myself staring at my screen looking at the code that has to be written, at refactorings that have to be done, at data that has to be collected, at bugs that have to be squashed, at presentations to be made, at understanding my brain has to develop, and I just glaze over.

Inevitably I spin around, open my phone, and browse hacker news articles, reddit, the news, or YouTube.

Honestly, I wasnt always like this. Homework in university was never really a big deal. But as of late sitting on my office chair just feels like it withers me into dust.

This withering effect has a huge negative feedback loop in that putting things off causes stress induced insomnia. I think about the work that needed to be finished and cannot sleep because of it. Sleeping poorly causes horrendus energy drain the following day.

I have to shake things up. God help me I'm going to sleep properly tonight. If you have this problem you should too.
by cduzz | 2025-08-26 23:23:46+00:00
Oh, I understand why those old-time sysvr3.2 and sysvr4 systems would default to # backspace / @ kill -- even in the early 90s most places that ran unix had a weird zoo of different keyboards that would randomly put the backspace (or delete, or both!) keys in weird an inspired places, but the @ and # are usually in the same place everywhere. There were also some really old terminals that were basically just "screen is printer without paper" without even vt100 emulation mode (maybe they had fancy termcaps that'd let you run vi, but we only ever just used them on servers that weren't actually used too often, in the server room).

To this day, I use a 1990s vintage PS/2 keyboard, with a chain of adapters, on my mac (an old IBM M4-1 keyboard/trackpoint thing). At least on the mac it works perfectly because you can remap the caps lock key to command; it works pretty poorly on windows but such is life. Also, I very often, even today, use the # key as something akin to "kill" but instead in modern bash in vi mode if you're in escape mode it comments out the whole line.

But woof, watching people who'd never interacted with real (and old) sysv derived unixes instantly going insane trying to type things with @ or # and not understanding what's going on... kids that's what everyone had to fight with in the bad old days...

EDIT: and -- in old times, "backspace" and "delete" were actually different keys; bash and other modern shells hide this from you, (just as newline and carriage return were different actions) -- I guess learning how to type on a mechanical typewriter where you make the ! glyph with a ' and a backspace and a ., and where 1 and l were the same glyph, hopelessly burned the physicality of character rendering into me...
by stephen_g | 2025-08-26 23:24:45+00:00
I mean, let's be real - Telsa almost definitely has at least a whole PR department's worth of people who do PR kind of things, I'd bet they just don't call them PR or have a dedicated department for that PR so he can keep saying that...

Or who knows, maybe they actually just do have a PR department - plenty of stuff Musk has said has just been plain untrue, like when he promised that like his money was first in to Telsa, it would be "the last out" [1] (he has since sold billions in shares now).

1. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/342107352041922560
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-26 23:25:05+00:00
TLDR - it is Chinese cultural groups like hometown associations. This reminds me about how various groups like Confucius Institutes are leveraged for espionage or intimidation or whatever (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute#Criticism_...).

> The groups are mostly “hometown associations” of people hailing from the same town or province in China. Some have been around for more than a century, while dozens of others have sprung up over the past decade. Like other heritage clubs in a city of immigrants, they welcome newcomers, organize parades and foster social connections.

> But many hometown associations have become useful tools of China’s consulate in Midtown Manhattan, according to dozens of group members, politicians and former prosecutors. Some group leaders have family or business in China and fear the consequences of bucking its authority. Consulate officials have enlisted them to intimidate politicians who support Taiwan or cross Beijing’s other red lines. In one case, a Chinese intelligence agent and several hometown leaders targeted the same candidate.

> This meddling may seem modest, involving politicians who are unlikely to affect international policy. But China is determined to quash dissent in its diaspora before it spreads back home, said Audrye Wong, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies Chinese influence.

> Beijing is also making a longer bet, she said: “You never know which politician might eventually run for Congress at the national level, or become a presidential candidate.”
by glenstein | 2025-08-26 23:25:36+00:00
Thanks for elaborating (would not have expected cracking knuckles to be a place where emergentism gets invoked!).

I think I agree with you that this notion of emergentism is wrong although I'm inclined to say it's more super wrong than respectably wrong. If you're interested in another philosopher, I agree with Jaegwon Kim that physics operates on casual closure, which leaves no room for this form of emergence.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-26 23:26:39+00:00
> Data centers consume a lot of water. The example they start with is Google's data center in Dalles, Oregon, which used 355 million gallons of water in 2021.

For comparison, one acre-foot of water is 325,850 gallons. Google’s data center used around 1090 acre-feet in 2021. One acre of alfalfa requires 4-6 acre-feet of water per harvest, so another way to look at it is Google’s data center used as much water as 218 acres of alfalfa. There are a million acres of alfalfa growing in California.

https://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk12586/files/...
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-26 23:26:42+00:00
yeah well i mean...best of luck i guess? You kind of sound like a 15 years old basketball kid who meets LeBron for the first time, I personally can't idolize billionaire who is setting his balls on fire + made 3 apps none of which i like. I loathe twitter/x and have zero interest to ever try nostr/bitchat. To make it somehow worse, i had difficult time on x.com explaining to users that bitchx was actually a chat client for linux...like pick an original name? But anyhow, i'm just a random user from the world, hope they accept you.
by broker354690 | 2025-08-26 23:26:50+00:00
Why isn't OpenAI criminally liable for this?

Last I checked:

-Signals emitted by a machine at the behest of a legal person intended to be read/heard by another legal person are legally classified as 'speech'.

-ChatGPT is just a program like Microsoft Word and not a legal person. OpenAI is a legal person, though.

-The servers running ChatGPT are owned by OpenAI.

-OpenAI willingly did business with this teenager, letting him set up an account in exchange for money. This business is a service under the control of OpenAI, not a product like a knife or gun. OpenAI intended to transmit speech to this teenager.

-A person can be liable (civilly? criminally?) for inciting another person's suicide. It is not protected speech to persuade someone into suicide.

-OpenAI produced some illegal speech and sent it to a suicidal teenager, who then committed suicide.

If Sam Altman stabbed the kid to death, it wouldn't matter if he did it on accident. Sam Altman would be at fault. You wouldn't sue or arrest the knife he used to do the deed.

Any lawyers here who can correct me, seeing as I am not one? It seems clear as day to me that OpenAI/Sam Altman directly encouraged a child to kill themselves.
by ggm | 2025-08-26 23:27:36+00:00
There has indeed been a step function. Fuelled from Russia and Iran amongst others. For example, Australia has just expelled the Iranian ambassador (the first expulsion of diplomats since WWII) for paying criminals to firebomb synagogues.

France's problems are a function both of history, and push politics. Some of it is endogenous, some of it is externally driven. I have no doubt the same is true in Germany, Netherlands, the UK. Sure, an underlying mass migration pressure is feeding this, but many of the migrants in france pass through, seeking better times in the UK. The ones who stay, are in the main francophone, and appear to bring with them weaker guard lines against radicalism. Thats a huge bummer.

He isn't signalling this because of conviction, he's signalling this because his government wants him to, to continue to back the Netenyahu government. I wouldn't cease trade or relations with France or any EU country on these grounds, its a political dispute about recognition of Palestine, not a statement for or against antisemitism.

You know, and I know, after this evil war ends, Netenyahu is in big domestic trouble. There will probably be another weak, rightist dominated government but the court system will catch up with Bibi. Now .. what does that parallel in the USA?
by anthem2025 | 2025-08-26 23:28:29+00:00
I think the obvious conclusion from my post is that I don’t find any of those people credible. At all.

I’d go so far as to say I think anyone peddling horseshoe theory is a politically illiterate fool regardless of their supposed qualifications.

It’s funny that you want me to read the imitation though.

“ Several political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists have criticized the horseshoe theory.[3][4][5] Proponents point to a number of perceived similarities between extremes and allege that both tend to support authoritarianism or totalitarianism; political scientists do not appear to support this notion, and instances of peer-reviewed research on the subject are scarce. Existing studies and comprehensive reviews often find only limited support and only under certain conditions; they generally contradict the theory's central premises.”
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-26 23:28:40+00:00
Democratically elected leaders can represent their country, but they can also do things on their own. When Emmanuel Macron eats at a restaurant we don't typically understand the nation of France to be involved. Trump's dispute with Brazil doesn't serve US interests and isn't permitted by US law, so he's not representing the US when he pursues it, even if he's illegally abusing the powers of his office to do so.

It's a subtle distinction, of course, and I don't blame anyone outside the US who decides they're not going to bother making it.