MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2025-08-06 09:08:43+00:00
It's a tool, like anti antidepressants. When used right and in the good settings they can be amazing, when used as a magical pill without treating the underlying issues and not understanding its mechanism of action you're in trouble.

I know people who used anti depressants for a few weeks, while going to therapy and fixing their shit, they were out of trouble in less than 6 months. But I also know people who've been basically been taking pills for their entire adult life with absolutely no sign of getting better, the pills just make them cope slightly with their shitty routine/job/&c. while completely destroying their body and making them numb to everything. Same for ozempic, I know people who think you just swallow the pill and that's it, they still have horrendous diets, drink 800cal stabucks "coffee", snacks on sweets all day long, and they're actually gaining weight...

Another good example would be sleeping pills, take them once a year to fix your jetlag and they're amazing. Take them for 10 years because you can't fix your routineof watching tv shows in bed until 1am and "need" pills to fall asleep quickly, you'll just fuck up your circadian rhythm for good and it'll be 10 times harder to get out of the cycle

If you truly want to fix your shit virtually any tool is good, but if you just want a magic pill without putting any work you're doomed, the main issue is that it's advertised and sold as a magic pill
by eqvinox | 2025-08-06 09:08:54+00:00
https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/bq77908a

https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/products_inactive_d...

Look at the reference circuits, it's a pair of antiserial NMOS on the negative pole.

(Those 2 protection circuits are at the opposite ends of complexity & features)

To be clear, using 2 PMOS on the positive pole is also quite common, my choice of words with "standard best practice" might be a bit misleading.

> use bus bars to minimize wiring resistance.

Those come after the protection circuit, there should always be 2 MOSFETs in series with the individual Li-Ion cell in a design like this (specifically: user swappable cell).

(Protecting paralleled cells together is kinda nonsensical because you also want to protect them from each other, I don't think I've ever seen a 2P combined protection circuit.)
by mathverse | 2025-08-06 09:09:32+00:00
Sheer numbers. In Singapore there is more chinese ceos than indian.

I am not american so i wonder what is the situation like in US but in Singapore it is very visible that each race stick to its own and pushes its own up. Indians to indians, chinese to chinese, filipinos to filipinos.

SG is touted to be multicultural but what is the true meaning of this?
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-08-06 09:09:32+00:00
Those 725 drones were spread across a fairly big geographic area, and didn’t hit all at once. Also they operate more like cruise missiles, not the FPV drones it seemed like the article was referring too

“Swarm” to me means more than just number. It’s number, concentration, and tactics, like a swarm of bees… the problem is they are concentrated and hitting from many directions, While individually they are not that bad, when they use this tactic it is very effective, Which is how they can drive 500 pound bears away from their hive.

Otherwise “swarms” have been a thing for along time. Would you call an 19th century infantry regiment (let’s say about 600-1000 soldiers) a “swarm”. Or how about those formations of B17/B24s/Lancasteres in WW2 which would attack in similar numbers (hundreds). I would say no, partly because they didn’t use a swarming tactic
by maxglute | 2025-08-06 09:09:56+00:00
I think the even broader answer to battlefield level drones is... to establish stupid levels of decisive overmatch where cheap drones can't be effectively operated at scale, i.e... IDF vs Hamas. If one can afford it, to spend much more to shape battlefield to deny cheap drone usage. But there's probably not many that can afford it.

My main uncertainty is how likely performant autonomous drones will proliferate. The skill ceiling to train someone with fingers to fly a drone is lower than developing autonomous targeting software for potentially specific battlefield conditions. Maybe short/medium term will be technically beyond irregular forces skill ceiling and their 2 guys who read AI for dummies. Maybe it will be COTS tier and anyone can pull out the companion app, tap human, male, Caucasian, or passenger jet, airline, engine nacelle.
by willprice89 | 2025-08-06 09:10:34+00:00
> You have to be willing to be direct and to the point. Beating around the bush only shows you don’t believe that what you need to say is valid or worthy. Stuttering or dancing around the topic at hand conveys uncertainty and undermines your position. You must be intentional and explicit in what you say, if you want the other party to fully grasp where you are coming from.

I don't know about the premise of the article but this suggestion definitely resonates with me. It's easy enough for misunderstandings to arise even when people are trying their best to communicate what they mean. Once you start beating around the bush it's almost guaranteed the other party is going to hear something completely different than what you intent.
by cess11 | 2025-08-06 09:10:44+00:00
"Ketamine has been found to increase dopaminergic neurotransmission in the brain"

This property is likely an important driver of ketamine abuse and it being rather strongly 'moreish', as well as the subjective experiences of strong expectation during a 'trip'. I.e. the tendency to develop redose loops approaching unconsciousness in a chase to 'get the message from the goddess' or whatever, which seems just out of reach (because it's actually a feeling of expectation and not actually a partially installed divine T3 rig).
by GenBiot | 2025-08-06 09:11:05+00:00
Slowing in this context means going down. Basically they look at 'age acceleration', I.e. how old are you epigentically compared to chronologically. They saw a reduction of several years in this measure over a much shorter period, basically meaning their epigenetic ages went down.

Although one of the clocks they used, DunedinPACE, only looks at pace of ageing, so in that case you can only infer that it slowed (as you do not get an 'epigenetic age' figure from DunedinPACE).
by bardr98 | 2025-08-06 09:11:29+00:00
Every week, someone I know forwards me a suspicious message: “Does this look legit?” “Can I click this link?” “Why is PayPal asking for my password?”

So I built PhishProof — a lightweight, browser-based tool that helps anyone analyze whether something might be a scam. It supports:

Emails and SMS text

Links (shortened or long)

Copied message content

Screenshots of messages

PDF attachments

The AI analysis behaves like a scam analyst: it examines the input, flags common red flags (like urgency, impersonation, link manipulation, payment fraud), and provides a risk score along with a plain-language explanation of its reasoning.

Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is stored. PhishProof runs entirely in-browser. No accounts. No tracking. No hidden logic.

Why I built it: Most scam detection relies on email clients, spam filters, or user intuition. But people are still getting tricked — not just by emails, but by texts from fake delivery companies, social engineering over WhatsApp, and PDFs pretending to be invoices.

The idea was to build something simple, private, and immediate — a tool someone could open in their browser, paste in a message or link, and get a quick, explainable result.

Under the hood: Built with Base44 for deployment

Stateless, fully client-side

Detection logic uses rule-based signals and contextual analysis

No third-party services or network dependencies
by assimpleaspossi | 2025-08-06 09:11:48+00:00
I closed my web dev business just three years ago. I found that many people who work with the web don't want to do the work to understand how it all works. They think there must be a library somewhere to do "that" while doing "that" is simple enough using standard components and features.

Another issue is people basing their fears of things in the past. Yes, the web was more difficult to do fancy things but often they're trying to push the web to do things it just couldn't do back then. Now you can using basic, built-in functionality and it's often easier that way.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-06 09:12:17+00:00
Do you feel like Claptrap did?[0].

In all seriousness, good work. Sorry about the rejection, but it reminds me of the story about the Homebrew guy getting rejected by Google[1].

[0] https://youtu.be/hDzWw5rfefQ

[1] https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
by TheChaplain | 2025-08-06 09:12:35+00:00
It is not. Ask your family, friends, acquaintances how much they use AI in their work and even at home to get through paperwork.

I am very interested in new technology and how people use it, I've brought it up a lot in my own circles and encountered several occasions where some "stop thinking" and takes the output from ChatGPT as "done-and-dusted".

And remember that people at municipal offices are just normal humans like you and me. Most just want to get things over with so they can go home, and AI is a convenient tool to help with that.
by eru | 2025-08-06 09:13:19+00:00
I don't think you have to assume that CEO-ness is evenly distributed.

I can even believe that kids born in Singapore have more CEO-ness in them on average than kids born in eg Indonesia or PR China. Even if for no other reason than that Singapore is the kind of place that's comparatively more tolerable / less horrifying for the kind of people with CEO-ness traits. (It's also pretty expensive, so only rich people can really afford to have kids here.)

(I'm assuming here that CEO-ness runs in families.)

In any case, the rest of your argument still makes sense, even if someone born in Singapore statistically has a 3% higher chance of becoming a CEO than someone born in Portugal or whatever.
by simianwords | 2025-08-06 09:14:19+00:00
>So averages and social dynamics map exactly to individuals?

I don't think anyone claims that but patterns are significant enough that it is useful in mapping to individuals but within context.

When I'm interacting with an Indian, I can reasonably guess what their values are, what their personalities are and what they find important.

Same when I'm interacting with a woman.

Same when I'm interacting with an older person.

Of course, with context I'll learn more about the person, but I will not dismiss patterns that do exist and are largely true.

If you consciously dismiss these patterns you are just lying to yourself and robbing yourself out of meaningful starting points.
by eadmund | 2025-08-06 09:15:04+00:00
> it fundamentally allows capitalism to decide which cultural norm is socially valid

That’s like complaining that the 100 yard dash decides whether more or less speed is good. ‘Capitalism’ (really, the free market) is just a voting and sorting system. Cultural norms which produce more value outcompete those which produce less. That’s part of why Protestant Europe (with fewer feast days) outcompeted Catholic Europe (with many more). That’s why blue laws in the U.S. have faded out. Does that mean that days off are bad? No, it just reflects that a day spent not working is a day spent not producing.

Chasing economic value is what has created the entire modern world: science, medicine, an economy in which farmers are less than 1% of the population.
by tovej | 2025-08-06 09:15:05+00:00
Using LLMs to produce material is not a good idea, except maybe to polish up grammar and phrasing.

As a former teacher, I know you need to have a good grasp of the material you are using in order to help students understand it. The material should also be in a similarly structured form thoughout a course, which will reinforce the expectations of the students, making their mental load lesser. The only way to do this is to prepare the material yourself.

Material created by LLM will have the issues you mentioned, yes, but it will also be less easy to teach, for the reasons mentioned above. In the US, where teaching is already in a terrible state, I wouldn't be surprised if this is accepted quietly, but it will have a long lasting negative impact on learning outcomes.

If we project this forward, a reliance on AI tools might also create a lower expectation of the quality of the material, which will drag the rest of the material down as well. This mirrors the rise of expendable mass produced products when we moved the knowledge needed to produce goods from workers to factory machines.

Commodities are one thing, you could argue that the decrease in quality is offset by volume (I wouldn't, but you could), but for teaching? Not a good idea. At most, let the students know how to use LLMs to look for information, and warn them of hallucinations and not being able to find the sources.
by tom_streambased | 2025-08-06 09:15:12+00:00
Iceberg won the table format wars, but after victory comes the unseen pain of real-time colliding with Iceberg's architecture:

• Snapshot overload and painful expiration workflows • Small-file hell and the constant battle for compaction • Why Partition evolution is not as simple as it first appears

This article also presents a fundamentally different approach that keeps data in Kafka and projects it logically as Iceberg.

No file movement. No snapshot churn. No endless compaction jobs.
by vlindhol | 2025-08-06 09:15:25+00:00
I'm tempted to take the opposite stance to the author. The web as a platform is wildly successful, and it's interesting to think about why.

Surely the "loose" standards encouraged neat hacks that at some point were encoded as best practices and then standardized. Maybe that would tempt us to want to "cut the cruft" but a) people probably thought that many times previously and b) backwards compatibility is probably more valuable than one would think.
by ramazandogna | 2025-08-06 09:15:57+00:00
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by vincentvanbush | 2025-08-06 09:15:57+00:00
Speaking to many members of the Elixir community including developers as well as technical and business decision-makers, we've identified that the Elixir ecosystem needs a curated and showcase of business adoption in digital products.

Elixir's presence in its own niches, as well as the language finding its foothold in new areas, result in hearing about Elixir being adopted by someone big and relevant every once in a while.

The Elixir Hub was built to bring this to the spotlight, as well as to be a go-to place for informative and educational resources on the language's ecosystem.

Visit the Elixir Hub at https://elixir-hub.com
by metalman | 2025-08-06 09:18:00+00:00
As a very dedicated voratious reader of almost anything, I have recently developed an alert for slop skim mode, ie: if I get something boggling for no good reason, linguistic garble flop, then I cut and run with zero retention or emotional envolvment, it's almost effortless.......since there are people who are required to read this stuff as part of there job, I will have to remember to watch for that as well and be gentle, but the ones gobbling it up voluntarily will off course have that antic glow and are generaly looking for softer targets , or go loking for softer targets after I am done with them, wana talk trash?, OK! I know a lot about trees
by otikik | 2025-08-06 09:18:01+00:00
There is another way to look at it.

People who don't experience difficulties moderating their diet and could flounder their "self discipline" are now on a level field with people who did have difficulties with their diet. So they feel threatened by it.

Another example of a world in which people are not challenged to grow as people; instead of being happy that more people can get healthy they dismiss the medical advances as "moral failures" since they can no longer feel superior.
by alias_neo | 2025-08-06 09:18:02+00:00
Not inaccurate; it's perfectly understandable to a native English speaker, the nuance is subtle, "this guy", "him/that guy", but it is clear and commonly used language.

"I just spoke to a guy about X, his opinion was different to the guy I spoke to about it last week. This guy said Y, but that guy insisted it was Z."
by agent327 | 2025-08-06 09:18:04+00:00
They had a strong focus on family and tradition. They were against globalisation, which is mostly a centralising force that benefits the super-wealthy, and _only_ the super-wealthy. They believed in themselves, as a people and as a nation, something we are not allowed to do anymore.

Will you now argue that those things are intrinsically linked to starting wars and conducting genocides? If so, you are going to need MUCH more than just "the nazis did that, therefore everyone who holds even one of those views must hold all of them". And just to make sure: my description of good points applies to the Amish as well, but I don't think anyone would accuse them of wars and genocides.
by jxf | 2025-08-06 09:18:24+00:00
> If Ozempic is so great then how come our bodies don't just produce more GLP-1?

We don't know. But one early signal is that you lose an atypical combination of muscle mass and not just fat, which is not a good evolutionary adaptation if you are an endurance hunter.

https://healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/news/2025/08/new-study-...
by XorNot | 2025-08-06 09:19:25+00:00
The problem with Shaheeds and other slow air like them is they're not substantially different to the type of vehicle which would be needed to intercept them.

So a stockpile of Shaheeds can be largely countered by launching something very similar provided you can detect it. You could very much imagine having a vehicle which can simply leave the payload behind for better air speed when used in interception mode.

This is quite different to most conventional missile threats where the time between detection and interception, as well as the performance characteristics, necessitates extremely high performance interceptors.

An analogy would be that you can hit a baseball with a bat, but not a bullet even though they're both just ballistic projectiles.
by ezst | 2025-08-06 09:19:56+00:00
> I struggle to imagine how it could realistically be not complex.

Pretty easy, we should have had 2 standards, one being "Web for applications", built on a VM, stdlib, bytecode, RPC, UI framework and standard library of controls, ... And "Web for web pages" which was a solved problem pre-HTML5 days.

Java and Flash (although very problematic from a security point of view) were probably better bases on which to build "Web for applications" than HTML5+/CSS3+/JS/WASM will ever be, but it was intolerable for Google/Microsoft/Mozilla to hand the keys to Oracle/Adobe for that. It's all politics, and it's all worse and more complicated and more inefficient as a result.
by eru | 2025-08-06 09:20:19+00:00
> The second point I haven't seen discussed is that weight loss drugs prior to GLP-1 agonists include cigarettes, which (worst case) give you cancer; [...]

Nicotine works just fine as an appetite suppressant without the carcinogenic tar you get from burning tobacco leaves. Similar for other stimulants or stimulant-like substances.

But I agree that they get a bad reputation, despite actually working pretty well, and with manageable side-effects: not worse than what I've heard about the nausea people get on GLP-1 drugs, and much better than the health effects of obesity.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-06 09:20:59+00:00
> Those datasheets show creating a series pack/cell.

You seem to only have looked at the TI one, the Diodes one is for a single cell.

& if the cells are "permanently" connected in a pack, you wouldn't have individual cell protection and just have them properly balanced before connecting them in factory.

> parallel the packs together

You parallel cells, not packs.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-08-06 09:21:07+00:00
Be aware that many non-EAs have no model or context for interpreting East Asian culture or thought. Even amongst EAs, there's no firm mutual bond.

There's superficial recognition, of course, but it's difficult to even begin to have conversations when so much effort is spent in every interaction confirming, validating, or outright missing critical aspects of each other's ideologies. And it's usually more one way than the other.

On a different note, it started as a joke, but I've found it helpful to give out copies of "The Xenophobe's Guide" to people I'm going to be working closely with. They're not perfect, but they're short, hilarious and humanizing. The books, I mean.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-06 09:21:12+00:00
> Having a long memory about this, the reason Lisp died out even though it was supposedly the best programming environment ever, is that Lisp programmers (called "Lisp weenies" at the time) were so unbelievably emotionally abusive that nobody believed them about it or wanted to interact with them.

Agreed.

> You couldn't ask them for help with anything without them calling you a moron who should kill yourself.

Never got that, though. I hung out on comp.lang.lisp back in the day.

I recall once, writing a small utility to read a file in /etc/ and do $SOMETHING based on the settings therein. I asked about the best way to read ini/config files; did not mention /etc.

I got flamed for not storing my configs in s-expr and simply using the builtin reader ... needless to say I was never going to switch all the files in /etc to s-expressions.
by ryao | 2025-08-06 09:21:17+00:00
You seem to describe commodities, rather than new technologies that are not commodities. New technologies start so far out on the supply demand curve that an order of magnitude decrease in price can expand the market by orders of magnitude.

The first cellular phone in modern currency cost something like $15,000. At that price, the market for it would be orders of magnitude below the present cellular phone market size. Lower the price 1 to 2 orders of magnitude and we have the present cellular phone market, which is so much larger than what it would have been with the cellular phone at $15,000.

Interestingly, the cellular phone market also seems to be in a period where competition is driving prices upward through market segmentation. This is the opposite of what you described competition as doing. Your remark that the real world is more complicated could not be more true.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-08-06 09:21:39+00:00
Many devices have parallel lipo cells, from powerbanks to electric cars, nothing special here.

If one cell is weaker, the other provides more current, there is no "one discharging/emptying into the other" during normal work (read below). No real need for any proper matching either, if you only care about capacity (if you care about current, you don't want to get into a situation where any of the cells has to provide more current than designed for and safe.

The only "problematic" part of parallel batteries is making the first connection, where one might be at a much higher voltage than the other. Usually this is mitigated by equalizing voltages (either dis/charging to a fixed voltage, or do a parallel connection through a proper resistor), and after they're safely connected in parallel, it doesn't matter.

On the other hand, two cells, user removable and replacable can cause exactly this issue, where the user removes one, recharges it in an external charger and replaces it (while the other, empty one, still stays inside)... but maybe there's a diode somewhere that prevents reverse currents.