MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breppp | 2025-08-31 06:41:31+00:00
That's pretty much what happens when you attack your stronger neighbor, go on a rape/execution/beheading/burning spree, then run away to embed in your civilian population who cannot enter your 400 miles of tunnels, which could have defended them

The Palestinians through years of Israeli reinforcements have chosen Hamas, an organization that thinks that sacrificing them all is beneficial, and it is actually partially working for them on international opinion.

Unfortunately both sides now needs to pay for their choices
by throw310822 | 2025-08-31 06:41:33+00:00
The statistics of 150 births/day in Gaza are from 2023- is it clear to you that the population now is undernourished, forced to flee from place to place, their homes demolished and their relatives dead or injured? Life expectancy in Gaza plummeted from 75 years to around 40.

And how do you even know that there have been 60k deaths in Gaza? That number is likely a vast underestimate.
by astrobe_ | 2025-08-31 06:41:46+00:00
> It's not achievable in the USA because a very large chunk of our population is literally retarded. 70 mil voted for Trump for some reason.

I am not an American citizen so I cannot feel offended by this sentence, but I think it doesn't help to call people stupid.

What you describe looks like a failure of the education system, which have been defective for decades in the US, from what I've heard. This may very well take 100 years (4 generations is even slightly optimistic) to escape this downward spiral.

Meanwhile, a possible strategy is to do like the others: get a popular politician who makes empty promises, while doing the opposite, or whatever they want actually, when in charge. They can inject massive amounts of money in the public school system even though they promised to make private schools more accessible in their programme, and distract people's from this obvious lie with a wrestling showmatch against Putin.

Certainly, if you are smarter than them, you can trick them.
by sneak | 2025-08-31 06:41:50+00:00
It would be very simple to build such a thing if you could analyze everyone's payments. With total surveillance, you can have total safety! Why would you want privacy when you could have safety instead?

The ironic part is that the government already tracks all payments everywhere in realtime and ingests them into a huge database. They could provide such a threat intelligence feed but that would tip their hand and remind the public that they have precisely zero financial privacy even if they're not suspected of a crime.
by ksec | 2025-08-31 06:42:59+00:00
And I forgot to include this. We have 1U of Server that could replace 1 Rack. That is 40x density increase. I wouldn't be surprised if we could increase this to 80x to 100x within another 10 years.

If that is the case, why do we need more DataCentre? Wouldn't it be easier to retrofit existing DC. Sometimes these sort of hyper scale is just so big they are beyond my imagination.
by sneak | 2025-08-31 06:44:31+00:00
I'm not taking it up with you and I'm not shooting the messenger. The only issue I have is takes like this:

> Be of good cheer, it collapses under its own weight in this neighborhood of dysfunction. Its almost over.

There's nothing remotely cheerful about how bad it's going to have to get first before it gets better. The fact that a genocide eventually ends is not a reason to be happy about being in the beginning of a huge one.
by godelski | 2025-08-31 06:45:45+00:00
> You can get aides so I’m not worried about their ages. >> The vast majority of Congressmen don't even have an aid who specializes in tech.

The problem is aids cost money. I happen to have a senator with one, and actually had a long conversation with them. The main difference with my senator? They have way more aids than most other senators. I'll admit, I'm mostly going off of his word, but it doesn't seem all that trivial to check who the aids are or even how many. All I can seem to find is that the average number of staff members is around 30 and that's definitely not all domain expert aids.

What they also told me is that most of the expert advice tends to come through lobbying. Or "industry relationships" as he put it while using air quotes. It's a budgeting problem, not just that it is hard to get a competent tech aid at such a low salary but even just a handful of domain expert aids in the first place.
by jalapenos | 2025-08-31 06:45:56+00:00
This is absolute genius. The idea that, biologically, if you're in the process of being displaced out into eventual oblivion, Australian Aborigines or American Indians style, plainly evidenced by the same understanding of maths and quality of eyesight of an eight year old, you might actually put up any even faint form of resistance, as they did? Truly shocking concepts, worst even than the hypothesis the earth revolves around the sun.
by N_Lens | 2025-08-31 06:46:07+00:00
Picking anecdotal exceptions doesn't indicate broad genetic differences that allow people to "thrive on junk".

Everyone has heard of someone who smoked and drank and lived to a hundred. That doesn't mean smoking and drinking aren't harmful for health; Infact overwhelming evidence clearly shows their harm. Same goes for unhealthy food, and we broadly see the impact statistically as well as viscerally.
by jongjong | 2025-08-31 06:46:58+00:00
I don't care about software craftsmanship anymore in my day job. 2 years ago I would have been deeply upset about this sort of thing but now I'm intentionally apathetic.

Once I changed my goal from maximizing code quality to maximizing billable hours, I feel a lot more optimistic about the future and these AI tools are going to create so many opportunities for me.

I found it hard to compete with junior developers in my last job (before AI was mainstream) in terms of volume of code because some of them would write 1000 lines of low quality code per day... Now I can also do this. It gives me a lot of surplus energy to figure out how to play politics and shift blame... It gives me an actual competitive upper hand over the juniors. I can out-compete them both in meeting/debate and code/feature volume. I talk wisely and code foolishly. Win win. I couldn't do this before because I was writing the code myself and I had essentially lost the ability to write high volumes of dirty code. I had a kind of analysis paralysis due to trying to solve problems in an optimal, minimalist, most reliable way. No longer a problem. Bugs are a problem for someone else.

I have so much more time to think about career strategy now. I managed to avoid being assigned to any difficult projects... I feel bad for the other people who try to go above and beyond and end up wedging themselves into a difficult situation where the software is down all the time and they have to take the blame... The AI never gets the blame.

I hated playing politics before but AI has made playing politics a necessity. It's like the more apathetic you are about your output, the better off you are.

The ironic thing is that I know it's possible to produce high quality code with AI. I've had some really positive experiences with Claude Code on side projects... But that doesn't align with the reality of 99% of software projects. The foundation is not set up right to get these kinds of results. I could set up the foundation correctly but I'd have to be present in the project since the beginning and I'd have to be given a lot of decision power; but I never get such opportunities. Bad foundations beget bad code, especially with AI because the AI never gets the idea to refactor... If your codebase is unmaintainable, it will hallucinate dirty code which doesn't work. It keeps coming up with more and more hacks... Then it delivers hacks on top of its own hacks.
by Too | 2025-08-31 06:47:51+00:00
The article misses that http status code is not a custom mapping, it’s a standard mapping. Using this standard, most http libraries will already be equipped with features to handle them, for example automated retries and backoffs on a 429 with Retry-After.

Replacing this standard with custom strings in the response body is terrible advice. Even if we all could have wished that http status codes should have been human readable strings rather than numbers. Augmenting the standard response with additional custom information is still something you can and should do as cherry on the top, or if you have many conditions falling under the same standard code. Like, don’t shoehorn something custom into 418 I’m a teapot just because it happened to be unused.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-31 06:48:07+00:00
I include poor vetting and integration as unchecked immigration if that wasn’t obvious. And do note that I wrote

> people who do not share the majority of the destination’s cultural values

No culture should nor can stay stagnant. But if we allow in people who do not share or wish to share a majority of our cultural values, which vary a lot between European countries as well, then we deteriorate what made our countries lucrative destinations for these people faster than we can maintain it.

It’s not complicated. Why are all those people coming here if all cultures are equal?
by jalapenos | 2025-08-31 06:48:32+00:00
Adding an over-under on this one, since I think readership is disproportionately US coastal - I bet with absolutely certainly that this post ends up with a negative total. I further bet that, with slightly less certainty, it does so without comment.

Always remember to take a big sniff after you poop, US coastals. It certainly is the best thing a human can smell for sure!
by WA | 2025-08-31 06:48:34+00:00
- But you won’t know what works for you before you had your first heart attack.

- If your claim was true, shouldn’t the data be more flat and not show an increase in mortality? Or do you suggest that only few people have these genes? Survivorship bias probably has the greater effect here.

- Buffet and Trump are probably closely monitored by doctors and get way better treatments (although my grand dad wasn’t closely monitored and survived to 91 on 2 liters of coke, too, but had quite a few ailments)
by ggm | 2025-08-31 06:49:43+00:00
There's a second effect: nobody likes a whiner. This truism to the limit it applies, disfavours negative emotion content being posted by individuals because we're acculturated to it. (Disliking whiners)

My mental health professional says the rosy tinted spectacle view of the human psyche is a wonderful thing and why unlike Arthur Koestler and Primo Levi we stand a better chance of a long and happy life than a long and sad one. Arthur and Primo aside, unhappy people aren't all stoical and long lived.
by rednafi | 2025-08-31 06:50:07+00:00
Yes. My workplace soft-enforced it as well. I like using LLMs, but sparingly. I consider myself a better writer and find their tone bland and lifeless. Other than some minor proofreading, I almost never use them to generate text.

For coding, unless I’m writing trivial RPC endpoints, editing docs, or writing tests for an already hardened API, I find agents a complete waste of time. So my usage is mostly limited to chat sessions.

To use up the quota, I apply the provided tokens to a few personal projects here and there, but no one can make me push an actual production CL with them unless I find it useful myself.
by diebeforei485 | 2025-08-31 06:50:36+00:00
I think sideloading should be allowed only if you actually connect your phone to a computer. This barrier will prevent a lot of vulnerable people from being scammed.

Alternatively, sideloading could require you to delete all App Store apps. In other words, disabling Google Play Protect should require you to wipe your phone. This is another barrier that will prevent a lot of people from getting scammed.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-31 06:52:08+00:00
It’s not. We never fix anything in medicine: We treat and prevent. Removing the appendix prevents or treats acute appendicitis, but it also has a tradeoff in terms of removing a gut biome reservoir.

This isn’t me dismissing the incredible improvements to our way of life modern medicine has brought. In essence it’s given everyone access to the same potential standard of living as was reserved for kings and nobility in the past — and then some.

But you can’t fully fix aging. You can’t infinitely improve standard of living.
by christoph | 2025-08-31 06:52:32+00:00
Same! I’m firmly starting to believe these studies are being conducted to confuse the public even further with regard to eating. The media have been focussed on eating/public health for a couple of decades now and during that period all I’ve witnessed is a rapid and sharp decline in general health and eating habits and increasing pointless discussion about it all.

All the time, energy and confusion just starts to enrage me now. Does the time of day you eat really matter? Maybe… but is there really any major difference in poisoning yourself before noon or after? If there is, is it worth discussing? Is it worth studying?

It’s really super simple - you are what you eat. If you aren’t, what are you?

If you put stuff into you that’s one step away from poison or toxic waste, don’t be surprised when the body reacts the way it does and eventually dies early. I’m talking about anything processed/manufactured (99+%) that comes from a factory.

If you want to live a long and healthy life, it’s no more difficult than just eating as much fresh and varied, un-poisoned fruits & vegetables as you like. That’s it. This advice can’t prop up billion dollar food, advertising, media & pharma industries though.

People think this is hard to follow as well because they are addicted to everything in processed food, lack time and their body is already in a constant high state of stress.

As soon as the diet changes to one of health & life, stress rapidly reduces, health improves, taste buds alter and suddenly within a short time, all that stuff you used to eat, tastes like the actual crap it really is.
by necovek | 2025-08-31 06:52:45+00:00
It's one message I struggle to convey to people I do code reviews for: don't make me understand it, make it more self explanatory so every reader does. (And, yes, I ask for it explicitly too)

(I sometimes "ask" questions for something it took me a few back and forths through code to get so they'd think about how it could be made clearer)

Unfortunately, most people focus on explaining their frame of mind (insecurity?) instead of thinking how can they be the best "teacher".
by 9dev | 2025-08-31 06:53:01+00:00
Im with you on that. But strategically retargeting the economy towards manual labor when you're big on services and digital innovation? That makes no sense. Being entirely self-sufficient is just not a good strategy in a highly competitive world connected by trade relations. Instead, tending to alliances and partnerships, assuring mutual interests and interlinked dependencies would be a lot smarter.

It all comes down to a lot of people in other parts of the world being willing to work for far less, for far longer hours, under far worse conditions, than Americans. Anything you can make in the USA will thus be more expensive, and until you’ve re-acquired all the domain knowledge lost to other nations, these quality will also be worse. As most people don’t want to buy something worse for more, you’ll need to force them to by making it unreasonable to import foreign goods (which is already happening), but that also means you limit the market to domestic. I fail to see how that is a viable strategy, unless you aim to wage war on the rest of the world and can’t trust anyone.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-08-31 06:53:28+00:00
OK well you obviously seem to be having some bad time about something in your life right now so I won't continue, other than to note the comment that started this said

>There’s a significant difference between predicting what it will specifically look like, and predicting sets of possibilities it won’t look like

which I took to mean there are probability distributions around what things will happen, and it seemed to be your assertion that there wasn't, that a number of things only one of which seemed especially probable, were equally probable. I'm glad to learn you don't think this as it seems totally crazy, especially for someone praising LLMs which after all spend their time making millions of little choices based on probability.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-31 06:54:40+00:00
They're interpretable in a similar way to how interpretable CNNs are. Not by a coincidence.

For CNNs, we know very well how the early layers work - edge detectors, curve detectors, etc. This understanding decays further into the model. In the brain, V1/V2 are similarly well studied, but it breaks down deeper into the visual cortex - and the sheer architectural complexity there sure doesn't help.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-08-31 06:54:48+00:00
> If you listen to any oil and gas experts and ask them which president was the best for the oil and gas industry, do you know who they'll say? Trump? Absolutely not. Bush? No. It's Obama.

Hmm, it's not that I couldn't believe it was Obama, but this is like a 2nd-hand appeal to authority. I would be interested in a bit more data to see why this is.

> Why? Because policy was stable during Obama.

Now of course we can see there was a record period of near all-time high high oil prices from 2011 to 2014 which corresponds to US employment boom in the sector. Was that the Obama good times that oil and gas experts would refer to? That started to crash in 2015 though, and petroleum industry employment with it. Was that crash due to Obama policy or just global drop in oil prices behind taht?

Some might argue the high oil prices of 2011-2014 years are related to Obama's presidency, but it would probably be less about stable trade policy and more like references to the Arab Spring, peak of ISIS, capitulation to Russia's annexation of Crimea.
by xscott | 2025-08-31 06:55:52+00:00
You don't know if those 9s repeat forever in this problem. It's output from a program, and the program could switch to 3s in 1000 more digits. The "adding" program is reading text digits from two other programs and can't see how they work. It can't assume a bunch of 9s mean there will be more 9s.
by glp1guide | 2025-08-31 06:57:40+00:00
Do yourself a favor, and just take GLP1s instead (after talking to your health care professional). The research on the effects is plentiful, they're incredibly effective, and next year by next year you'll have very effective FDA approved (for weight loss) oral GLP1s to take.

Losing weight is almost solved at this point, I'd post links but at this point the substack I run is heavily paywalled -- the research is out there and not hard to find with a quick search.
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-31 06:57:56+00:00
What about her do you find fake or uncaring for the people?

She's a bit too left on some things for my personal taste, but I find her reasonable and still un-jaded/un-corrupted by her time in politics -- so far, time will tell if she caves like so many other who refuse to get out when they stop caring about the people they represent and only care to kiss the ring that stuffs their pockets. I would see her a vote worthy for that alone, compromise is all but forgotten these days. She reached out to Ted Cruz (of all people on the other side of the isle!) to work on banning the use of former congressional member from lobbying or becoming "shadow lobbyists" and reduce the effects of lobbying's influence on politics. Ofc, few others would get behind it. But if that is not an example of some one willing to not only do something for the people (at the cost of a very lucrative future career prospect after her own political career) but also having a willingness to work together with political rivals, I don't know what you are looking for in a representative.

Ted Cruz is one of my direct representatives and too far right for my support, I can respect times like the above where he shows a care for politics by the people. That was before he did a full 180 from vocally calling Trump out to securing his seat in the senate by kissing the ring. If our crazy corrupt AG Ken Paxton wins Cornyn's senate seat -- and it looks like he will -- it will make Cruz look like a political saint.
by richardfeynman | 2025-08-31 06:58:11+00:00
Presumably, up to a few minutes ago you were unfamiliar with the accurate statistic I quoted. Noting your reaction to this new information: to double down and cast shade. Sorry you dont like it. And yes, with roughly 6.6 percent of gazans population traveling abroad each year, it's the exceptional gazans that travels abroad, much like it's the exceptional rural alabaman that travels abroad each year.

(The statistic I quoted also doesn't include the hundreds of thousands of exits from Gaza to Israel each year, or the undocumented exits through tunnels under rafah, so the exits were indeed much higher, not lower, than the official ocha figures.)

What I mean when I say that Israel persecution wasn't really a thing is that the men with guns in Gaza were Hamas, not the idf. If you were shot in the knee or thrown off a building for being queer, it was Hamas that was persecuting you, not the idf.
by nirava | 2025-08-31 06:58:38+00:00
> The adult thing is to do best by the users

Best by users in the long term is predictable processes. "RC = pure bug fixes" is a battle tested, dependable rule, absence of which causes chaos.

> Critical file system bugs are worth blocking the release

"Experimental" label EXACTLY to prevent this stuff from blocking release. Do you not know that bcachefs is experimental? This is an example of another rule which helps predictability.
by hunglee2 | 2025-08-31 07:00:12+00:00
Clutching at straws but one silver lining from the accelerationist perspective is that the global economic damage of US Tariff War 2.0. will speed up the adoption of AI / automation. Payroll is one of the most expensive, high risk and illiquid commitments to the organisational budget, so the idea of replacing it with dial up / dial down Saas subscriptions will move from 'good idea' to 'business critical'

The effect will probably be similar to Covid / Remote Work - marginal idea until an externality made it essential. Does mean sh1t tons more unemployment though, so like I said, straws being clutched
by card_zero | 2025-08-31 07:00:33+00:00
Not at all, no. Here's a few historical examples:

1903 edition of The Wizard of Oz — https://archive.org/details/newwizardofoz00baum/page/2/mode/...

A page from Life magazine, 1894 — https://archive.org/details/sim_life_1894-08-23_24_608/page/...

The Illustrated London News, 1843 — https://archive.org/details/illustrated-london-news-v002-184...

The em dash pretty much just joins the two glyphs together. It's supposed to look that way.
by Nekorosu | 2025-08-31 07:00:51+00:00
Impossible to run on macOS. The provided "binary" is a complete mess. It's actually a zip archive with an app inside of it with a binary that doesn't match a modern Appple Silicon architecture.

I don't understand why the download link is even there. In practice, macOS is not supported. I hope it works better on Linux. Can't care less about Windows.
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-08-31 07:02:24+00:00
My dad is 81 years old and if you see his diet and sleeping habits, you’d think this man would be morbidly obese and unhealthy. He eats deep fried foods almost every second day, has a massive sweet tooth, sleeps at 2-3AM, almost never works out

And yet he is the healthiest 81 year old I’ve ever seen. Amazing blood work, no blood pressure or cardiovascular issues, and is mentally 100% the same as he was 20 years ago.

I really don’t think conventional medical science can explain it
by cma | 2025-08-31 07:02:29+00:00
People had kids earlier. A one week beach vacation with parents of other kids in a shared house over spring break would be 25% of that figure. Add some selection of little league/soccer/ballet/gymnastics/church/children's theater and kid stuff might be a majority. Dinner parties, their own adult sports, rotary club, charity ball, fishing, hunting. Church and breakfast or lunch before/after with church friends alone might be a consistent 4-5 hours with friends a week. A weekly game of golf could add 3-5 hours.