MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by classichasclass | 2025-08-03 19:41:20+00:00
I read the chart before I come in and get it fresh in my mind, and I do my orders immediately after I've seen them. This is Epic, so that tends to merge with the workflow, since it really wants you to do your documentation after you've done everything anyway.

At least for the health maintenance stuff, I already know what needs to be done on that score before I even enter the room. If I have to grab something out of the record, like a result I wasn't expecting, I can quickly run back to the office (it's just around the corner) and come back.

So, no, no paper.
by CooCooCaCha | 2025-08-03 19:42:01+00:00
We both know you’re trying to frame it as a hack. There’s no point in emphasizing fasting as much as you did if you didn’t think it was a significant improvement over traditional calorie restriction.

So no, I don’t think a “similar or modest” improvement over traditional calorie restriction supports your point. That phrasing suggests they’re not even willing to commit to it being a modest improvement.

You also seem to have completely misunderstood my point. It’s not about ketosis breaking things down slowly. Like I tried to explain, your body has various substrates it can use for energy (fat, muscle), and if you try to “trick” it by forcing it to burn a disproportionate amount of one, it’ll try to make up for it later. So if you do fasted cardio you might be burning more fat during your cardio session, but your body will try to compensate by burning less fat later. So these tricks don’t work, fasted cardio doesn’t help you lose weight more than non-fasted cardio.

Frankly it sounds like you’re getting your information from misinformed right-wing influencers.
by actinium226 | 2025-08-03 19:42:38+00:00
I think there's a lot of useful idiot bandwagon-ing going on. LLMs are clearly impressive, and nobody wants to be like the guy in 90's who said "ah, internet's just a fad," so everyone is overcorrecting and trying to pretend they're like the guy in the 80's who said "trust me bro this internet thing is gonna be big! Get in quick!"

But the internet took decades for people to get onboarded and figure out how to use. We're still figuring out how to use it in some ways. That's not to say the people should sleep on LLMs, but let's chill with the "Group 2 will not fare well in the coming months" nonsense. If anything group 1 is at a higher risk because they rely on others to set the trends they tell everyone else to catch up to.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-03 19:43:04+00:00
You're absolutely right. Homophobia didn't increase. What changed was the social arenas that allowed men to form friendships in spite of it has dissolved. Loneliness is up because the institutions that used to make male connection safe: churches, fraternal orgs, bowling leagues, union halls, VFWs, softball teams, barbershops have all been gutted, turned into business ideas, or dissolved.

Think about your grandfather's era:

Yes, the culture was deeply homophobic. But a man could spend every Wednesday at the lodge, every Sunday at church, fish with his friends, hunt, drink, play cards—all in male spaces, no questions asked, no suspicions raised. There were scripted ways to be close to other men without risking masculinity. Did it solve everything? Hell no. Was it emotionally mature? Not really. But it worked as scaffolding for adult male friendship.

Now? The institutions that provided that cover are gone or crumbling. The internet replaced the Elks Club. Church is out, especially for millennials and Gen Z. So even as homophobia has declined in the culture, the absence of those shared spaces means men don't have anywhere to go be together without suspicion.

To clarify, I'm not saying that homophobia is up. I'm saying that the antidotes, the social architectures that let men be friends anyway, are gone. Residual effects of over a century of homophobia stand exposed with no institutions around to act as a counter.

Maybe you think that re-establishing or creating new institutions that serve as arenas for male friendship is the way forward. That's respectable, but every attempt adds to the graveyard of failed loneliness cures. Why? Because the factors that caused the decline of the past institutions are still in effect.

To me at least, it seems much more possible to teach folks how to build connection - the new institutions will follow.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-08-03 19:43:27+00:00
I suppose you have a point?

Though this seems like a bit of a problem now that it's 2025.

Seems like (it should be) basic civic knowledge that things you publish in public can be read by everyone.

These days, publishing to web is the biggest "in public of all"... you can get potentially get more eyeballs than the front page of the New York Times, or if you put it up in lights on times square.

Despite not being the biggest fan, I'm not sure that this is an OpenAI problem per-se. They offer the option of sharing your stuff in public, people use the option. The consequences should be common sense.

You'd hope, at least.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-08-03 19:43:36+00:00
It's a good one with some history and growing public knowledge now. I'd encourage a deep dive, it goes all the way back to at least CPP and small talk.

While I can see some arguments for "we need good tools like Node so that we can more easily write actual applications that solve actual business problems", this seems to me to be the opposite.

All I should ever have to do to import a bunch of functions from a file is

"import * from './path'"

anything more than that is a solution in search of a problem
by grishka | 2025-08-03 19:44:08+00:00
IIRC in that case you can exit the station and re-enter through the correct entrance for free.

> In all the other subway systems I used, you pay your fare and you are free to roam the whole station and reach any track

I've also seen such stations in Paris. I was later told that the ticket works for 30 minutes after first use, so again, you can exit and re-enter just fine.

And St Petersburg has a few of these as terminal stations. Not a problem if you went there intentionally, but it is a problem if you ended up there accidentally, because they are rather strict about not letting people ride the train as it turns around.

edit: I googled it, http://metro.spb.ru/information.html#opl1 explicitly says, with too much legalese, that you have to pay again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-03 19:45:02+00:00
> For instance, the unified CPU and GPU memory

Was already common and widespread with iGPUs in CPUs on x86, and was standard on all ARM mobile SoCs for a solid decade.

AMD in particular had already done a bunch here with their APUs including OpenCL support in 2012 and fully coherent shared address spaces with 2014's Kaveri
by lr4444lr | 2025-08-03 19:45:13+00:00
Change it to what?

Economies today are incredibly complex, because products and services are complex, laws are complex, and trade is international.

There is a need for people who specialize in risk assessment for loans and investment to separate the wheat from the chaff for new business ideas. It would be very hard I think to recreate some alternative institution that does not by in large recreate the same structure and incentives of modern banking.

Cryptocurrency advocates have multiple times had to learn the same hard lessons as fiat currency users.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-03 19:47:29+00:00
That could be retitled “How I lost two days trying to configure shpool to land on something inferior to what I used before because a random interview on the internet convinced mr I needed to change something which worked perfectly and I have a lot of time to waste.”

Honestly, there is absolutely no point in removing tmux from your workflow if you already use it. Multiplexers work. Sure they add complexity to the stack but so what? It works. It’s light. It adds virtually no security risk.

The need to remove them comes from a purely ideological point of view. There is absolutely no practical advantage.
by phamilton | 2025-08-03 19:47:35+00:00
That's a different problem. To quickly sort a nearly sorted list, we can use insertion sort. However the goal is to make progress with as little as one iteration.

One iteration of insertion sort will place one additional element in its correct place, but it leaves the unsorted portion basically untouched.

One iteration of bubble sort will place one additional element into the sorted section and along the way do small swaps/corrections. The % of data in the correct location is the same, but the overall "sortedness" of the data is much better.
by Neshanth | 2025-08-03 19:47:58+00:00
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by duskwuff | 2025-08-03 19:48:04+00:00
No. The problems involved are fundamental:

1) Load/store latency is unpredictable - whenever you get a cache miss (which is unpredictable*), you have to wait for the value to come back from main memory (which is getting longer and longer as CPUs get faster and memory latency roughly stays the same). Statically scheduling around this sort of unpredictable latency is extremely difficult; you're better off doing it on the fly.

2) Modern algorithms for branch prediction and speculative execution are dynamic. They can make observations like "this branch has been taken 15/16 of the last times we've hit it, we'll predict it's taken the next time" which are potentially workload-dependent. Compile-time optimization can't do that.

*: if you could reliably predict when the cache would miss, you'd use that to make a better cache replacement algorithm
by spencerflem | 2025-08-03 19:48:13+00:00
The one that gave up the game for me most re: mainstream liberal media was how often NYT ran the Claudine Gay story (front page ten consecutive days). The entire controversy was completely manufactured as a right wing cancel culture operation and the New York Times laundered it under their ‘liberal’ reputation.

NPR is better than most as their are not owned privately by a billionaire or collectively by billionaire shareholders. But they play the “both sides are reasonable” game annoyingly often with every issue, as if there is some sort of sensible middle ground to be reached somewhere between Obama and Hitler.

Seeing Gaza in particular covered this way - one the most appalling human rights catastrophes of my lifetime aided and funded by my own government - was too much for me to stomach.
by ifwinterco | 2025-08-03 19:48:18+00:00
The LLM will never admit it doesn't have a clue what's going on, but over time you develop a sense of when it's onto something and when it's trapped in a loop of plausible sounding nonsense

Edit: Also, it's funny how often you can get it to improve its output by just saying "this looks kind of bad for x reason, there must be a way to make it better"
by Bender | 2025-08-03 19:49:20+00:00
A long time ago I used to use tapes. I had an old LTO drive but I stopped buying tapes because I got tired of taking apart the drive to clean the heads and guides. Tapes are only good for so many passes a reason to not buy used tapes by the way and the more passes they have the more oxide that comes off in the drive and the more often it has to be cleaned or backups can be useless. I can only speak for myself but I have grown even lazier in my elder years and do not enjoy cleaning drives any more and I do not like the risk that tapes will be good when I write to them and bad when I need to restore them.

Now I just get one SSD and one NVME every quarter as to not get multiple drives from a single batch and I initially copy my archive directory to the dm-crypt plain volume with 'cp -aR' then subsequent backups use 'rsync -aqhH' also adding --checksum once per quarter and I do this to every one of the SSD's and NVME's. Each set or snapshot in time are locked in their own metal box and one set goes in the truck. If I need a single file there is no need to read far into a tape. That's just my own nutty method, I'm sure others here have much better methods but no more tapes for me.
by CharlesW | 2025-08-03 19:49:38+00:00
It was nice while it lasted, but the "shining city upon a hill" era is dead and gone. There's a Project 2025 effort to lift protections for nearly 60 million acres, and that's surely just the beginning unless the U.S. un-loses its mind. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/white-house-set-to-roll-ba...
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-03 19:49:46+00:00
Restaurants, cafes, bars and night clubs, courses, all styles of workout places to name a few.

Personalized and interesting is the name of the name of the game. Big chains have been stagnant or even reducing for a while now here.

There’s also an endless list of non profit organizations where a good cause and the social interactions are the goal.

But I can very much see that the old school genderized social clubs are dying. That niche is dead with our less segregated modern generations, and it is good that it is.
by devmor | 2025-08-03 19:49:57+00:00
I am not referring to taste. I am referring to its function. It had to be revised almost immediately upon entering beta because if you pulled down a menu over text, both became unreadable.

Something as stupid as low opacity text UI over text should not have made it out to consumers to start with. It's the kind of thing that Jobs would have burst a blood vessel over.
by simple10 | 2025-08-03 19:50:16+00:00
DuckDuckGo still has a lot of the share links indexed.

The file upload ones are particularly interesting. Lots of financial and market analysis stuff like this one: https://chatgpt.com/share/68805b2d-0bf0-8007-b325-b06160356c... (no PII in the chat)

Looks like Google and Archive.org removed the share URLs.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-03 19:50:47+00:00
From the article.

Labor numbers showed a rapidly slowing economy. And it was presumably especially disturbing for the Whitehouse, who have been boasting about how hot the economy is and sneering at critics who pointed to the harm being done by chaotic policy. For this report seems to validate the critics. So there was only one thing to do ... fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her without evidence of manipulating the numbers for political purposes.

To be clear, every Whitehouse and Cabinet takes action and makes policy based on claims that are presented without worthwhile (or any) evidence (eg:CyberPearlHarbor)

It is my long and unbroken experience that voters who share a party with the WH are generally happy to accept claims without evidence.

And (before this PotUS) generations of news orgs reliably gave evidence-free PR a pass too. They dutifully re-printed agency statements without vetting it or considering the agency's history.

To that last, I will append that news orgs sometimes did their job if a Republican was in office. Usually not tho.

So I guess it's awesome that agency facts matter enough to check now. But why did we have to get to this point before the US Press would honor it's 1A protections in a meaningful and ongoing way?
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 19:50:53+00:00
This is true, but it doesn't matter if people don't do it.

The danger of hyper-optimization is people just giving up altogether. That's why a lot of those intense diets don't work.

Does Keto work? Yes. But does it actually? No. Because being on Keto is very, very hard and people just give up. The vast majority of people who start Keto will not stick to it.

But switching out soda for diet soda is easy. So, if I'm inclined to give suggestions, I'd rather suggest that.
by scoofy | 2025-08-03 19:50:57+00:00
My degrees all were in philosophy, focused on philosophy of language.

Descriptive language is how language evolves, and the internet is the first real regional conflict area that Americans have really ever encountered without traveling.

History, you would have just been in your linguistic local, with your own rules, and differences could easily been attributed to outsiders being outsiders. The internet flattens physical distance.

Thus we have a real parallel to the different regions of Italy, where no one came understand each other, or at least the UK, where different cities have extreme pronunciation differences.

The same exists for written language, and it will continue to diverge culturally. The way I look at it is that language isn’t a thing, trapped in amber, but a river we are all wading through. Different people enter at different times, and we all subtly affect the flow.

I distinctly remember thinking “email” was the dumbest sounding word ever. Now I don’t even hear it.

It’s still fine to nitpick, we’re all battling in the descriptive war for correctness. My own personal hobbyhorse is how stupid American quotations syntax is, when learning at graduate school in the UK that you use single quotes and leave the punctuation outside of the quoted sections, which is entirely sensible!
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-03 19:52:01+00:00
Keep in mind that tapes usually advertise double their capacity, assuming that your data is very compressible. Considering that, it's less likely that tapes are cost effective.

Also, tapes, and especially the drives, don't last as long as you'd expect. If you're regularly backing up so you can restore a backup after a failure, it'll work fine until the drive errors out on one of the backups, immediately alerting you that something's wrong. If you're archiving data, you may find that when you try to read it, even just a decade from now, that you have to replace belts on the tape drive or use a data recovery tool on the tape, because something failed while it was in storage.
by tacostakohashi | 2025-08-03 19:52:37+00:00
I am yet to quit / still grinding it out, but this is kind of me, the industry is not really what I signed up for, or even really recognizable. I have no interest in 90% of the jobs out there, and all the AI, agile, etc. nonsense. Very possible that this is my last job in this area, for better or worse.
by jowea | 2025-08-03 19:52:52+00:00
The UN is many things. I guess most reports are a product of the secretariat/bureaucracy and the independent agencies more than the UNGA and the UNSC which is where the diplomacy happens. Although as usual the journalists failed to cite the @#*&#@(! report so I could read it myself.

Honest question, is the UN bureaucracy that different from the big international NGOs? They're both large well-meaning bureaucratic organizations staffed by a wide variety of people, a lot of funding by governments, a decent amount of authority to do these reports but not a lot of authority to actually do things.
by bix6 | 2025-08-03 19:53:19+00:00
It seems like concessionaires and operators are increasingly abdicating their responsibility. I was at another site in CA that was so poorly managed the employee was trash talking management (for verbally and even physically assaulting the employees among other failures). The company got a fixed amount of money from the government for things like upkeep so they seemed to think it was in their best interest to spend as little as possible on upkeep to maximize profit. Unfortunately this was to the detriment of everyone staying at the site as the host burdens were so onerous for so little pay that the hosts kept bailing. And maintenance and janitorial was severely understaffed.
by devmor | 2025-08-03 19:54:35+00:00
> I've started to think of LLM's as a form lossy compression of available knowledge which when prompted produces "facts".

That is almost exactly what they are and what you should treat them as.

A lossy compressed corpus of publicly available information with a weight of randomness. The most fervent skeptics like to call LLMs "autocorrect on steroids" and they are not really wrong.
by ronsor | 2025-08-03 19:56:52+00:00
I agree with catering to your target audience in theory; however, at that scale, you're going to have people screw up anyway, no matter how many explanations, warnings, or prompts you add.

I've shipped software which could be installed by clicking "Yes" twice, and somehow a non-negligible amount of people are still puzzled by the setup process. It's tiring.
by tstactplsignore | 2025-08-03 19:57:02+00:00
I agree that the balance here is not entirely clear. But I think it's important to not let our perceptions of that balance be influenced by our personal social circles. If you encounter a lot of "online atheist" skeptics in your life, then I think it's important to just note that like, statistically, you're in a bubble. This kind of intense scientific skepticism isn't very common in a world where all sorts of clearly scientifically illiterate ideas poll at very high numbers.

I think there's a third way between "hear them out" and "online atheist", and that's basically a kind and gentle dialogue questioning pseudoscientific ideas while still focusing on trying to make clear the cognitive errors they are likely making.

LLMs are actually pretty good at this [1], which is remarkable, because LLMs are pretty stupid, and rarely knowledgeable about the details or nuances of any particular debate, especially on niche scientific topics. Like Ken Ham would "win" a debate about creationism with chatGPT because he's familiar with all of the tricky creationist arguments about radioisotype dating that ChatGPT isn't. But if we look at why AI typically succeeds in debunking conspiracy theorists when "online atheists" fail, I think it is because AI has infinite patience and respect for the user, where-as any online human debater eventually loses their patience, whether with an individual or over time. Being able to share new information with people while also being patient and respectful is basically this secret but it's just incredibly difficult to a person to do it.

Figuring out how to teach a generation of skeptics that aren't burnt out, jaded, and angry, is probably the secret sauce here to fighting misinformation.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq1814
by dogmatism | 2025-08-03 19:57:20+00:00
I guess you're smarter than I am

I can't remember all the details to a sufficient level that I feel comfortable that I'm not forgetting something

and how do you know the current vitals and medication list? When the pt tells you they saw Dr X for Y (that you didn't know about) do you not want to look at that in case it impacts your plan? I guess you go out and come back? If you rx a med that needs lab monitoring, did you memorize that too? What about trends in labs?

IDK, I need info while I'm seeing the pt
by rightbyte | 2025-08-03 19:57:38+00:00
Doesn't a room filled with those wobble head avatars spawning never ending NPC dialogue sound intriguing?

I though LLMs would be awesome to like hide main quests and stuff with long dialogues everywhere, but the more I think about it the more annoying I think that would be.

And I mean, when people rearrange some chairs to a phallus they want to know someone is watching. If anything Second Life Metaverse experiences probably wont work very well with rooms filled of bots.