MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-08-22 19:12:39+00:00
Yes. But still the paint burned first. And the hydrogen didn't explode, there was no "Knallgas". Even in all that chaos, the opportunity to mix in the right ratio with air to enable that, didn't arise. It just flared off.

One could even argue that all that flaring off generated some lift by updraft, making it crash softer, more slowly.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-22 19:12:57+00:00
The (lack of) latency is probably the most difficult part to reproduce not just emulation, but with a modern hardware+software stack period. It’s not necessary to go back as far as the Mac Classic to get that though, anything that can boot Mac OS 9 (including a few that can hacked to run it, like the G4 Mini) will get you that too. When I boot up my PowerBook G3 the sheer responsiveness when typing immediately stands out.
by zahlman | 2025-08-22 19:13:25+00:00
There's an awful lot of text in here but I'm not seeing a coherent argument that Python's approach is the worst, despite the author's assertion. It especially makes no sense to me that counting the characters the implementation actually uses should be worse than counting UTF-16 code units, for an implementation that doesn't use surrogate pairs (and in fact only uses those code units to store out-of-band data via the "surrogateescape" error handler, or explicitly requested characters. N.B.: Lone surrogates are still valid characters, even though a sequence containing them is not a valid string.) JavaScript is compelled to count UTF-16 code units because it actually does use UTF-16. Python's flexible string representation is a space optimization; it still fundamentally represents strings as a sequence of characters, without using the surrogate-pair system.
by palsecam | 2025-08-22 19:13:59+00:00
Exactly. The Atom feed of my website declares an XSLT stylesheet which transforms it to HTML. That way it can be served directly to, and renders prettily by, a web browser (see https://paul.fragara.com/feed.xml). For the curious, the XLST can be found here: https://gitlab.com/PaulCapron/paul.fragara.com/-/blob/master...

Btw, you can also apply an XSLT sheet to an XML document using standard JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XSLTProcess...
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-22 19:14:11+00:00
4chan is the edgy counterculture, yes. So when the mainstream was leaning towards christian and right, it was leaning anti-theist libertarian left.

When the mainstream swung to the left, 4chan shifted too and became more right-leaning, and took a stance of performative opposition to political correctness. A similar shift is happening now - away from right wing again as right wing is becoming more mainstream.
by w10-1 | 2025-08-22 19:14:12+00:00
Worth reading for all.

This article situates Dialectical Behavior Therapy relative to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, dialectical philosophy, Zen/Mindfulness, and social movements. It lays out the limits of DBT, and shows why it is an improvement over (the dominant) CBT (which commenters seem to confuse it with).

Even if you're not interested in any therapy at all, it helps to understand the distinctions and how this therapy works, because it's close to what nurturing kids or friends or colleagues requires - closer than the pretend worlds of CBT or the hand-waving of hope groups.

This article and DBT in particular highlight the key dynamic for nurturing: understanding and sympathizing with one's difficulty, while getting one to take personal responsibility by showing practical ways to actually do that.

A lot sounds like basic socialization that should come from culture, but traditional culture has been generally shredded, and online culture is toxic, so I'm glad some of the wisdom is being captured and conveyed.

STEM/technical people will find the dialectic aspect difficult, since it's embracing conflicting terms/concepts. Just think of it like differentiation and integration: using a delta to identify common features alongside the conflicting ones.

(If I had any criticism of DBT and this article, it's that DBT (and CBT) aim to heal and maintain health, but doesn't actually address or treat the wide variety of injuries; it's nursing, not doctoring.)
by dogleash | 2025-08-22 19:14:19+00:00
> If I can convince a junior engineer that when he gets a bug report to first write a test that shows the problem and then fix it, using the test to prove it’s fixed, it provides immense benefits.

That's just writing a regression test and making sure it catches the regression. What does that have to do with TDD? Does the philosophy of TDD lay claim to any test written before the bugfix, regardless of how much or little someone subscribes to TDD overall?
by hereme888 | 2025-08-22 19:14:38+00:00
The bill prioritizes use of agricultural land for food over renewables (using just 0.05% of acres vs. biofuels' 30-40% of corn/soy), curbs land cost inflation, and favors U.S. energy.

It also bans Chinese solar panels, ends wind/solar tax credits post-2027, and extends biofuel credits to 2029.

This is common-sense stuff to me. America chooses America and food-supply security. The article is horribly biased.
by creatonez | 2025-08-22 19:14:43+00:00
All these "constantly challenge your own assumptions" prompts really do in practice is make it second guess assumptions that actually are obvious and true, which pollutes the output further.

In a sense, it bikesheds[1] itself. It's been told it needs more discussion/debate to solve a problem, but it's only smart enough to tackle minor details that might not matter. And when it does try to tackle major details, it screws them up, causing a cascade of compounding bullshit. And it also tends to cause it to roleplay someone who constantly bungles things, which is bad because it takes it away from its default RLHF tuning for factually accurate outputs on first shot (not that it lives up to this goal, but that's how they've tried to train it).

Getting this right seems to be a very tricky problem.

1: https://bikeshed.com/
by samdoesnothing | 2025-08-22 19:15:38+00:00
Honestly, I hope they remove it. And I hope they remove more pointless/useless standards kept around for backward compatibility, it's the anthesis of progress. We cannot keep loading the browser with more and more standards forever, either we stop development or we begin to remove things.

"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?" - Alan Perlis
by doctorpangloss | 2025-08-22 19:15:42+00:00
> I don’t understand why adding a subcommand to uv is being considered bloat.

It's simple:

- Everything I use and I see: good

- Everything I don't use and I see: bloat

- Everything I use and I don't see: good

- Everything I think I don't use and I don't see: Java
by mothballed | 2025-08-22 19:15:46+00:00
They were rolled out but the mailed tickets are legally meaningless, someone has to actually hunt you down within a short timespan (I think 90 days) to create any binding requirement to address it.

A mailed citation from a photo radar camera is not an official ticket and does not need to be responded to unless it has been formally served to you.

https://rideoutlaw.com/photo-radar-tickets-in-arizona-a-comp...
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-22 19:15:48+00:00
I think there's immense value in being able to just press a button and jump into a game, without having to actually know people and build up a community.

However, I wonder if you could have that while still removing features that make cheating seem appealing. For example, as you said, you can have games with randoms without an automatic ranking of all players. (Or maybe you rank players so you can match people of similar skill levels, but you don't tell anyone what their rank is.)
by koreth1 | 2025-08-22 19:16:19+00:00
When I was living in China I got used to crossing large streets one lane at a time. Pedestrians stand on the lane markers with cars whizzing by on either side while they wait for a gap big enough to cross the next lane. It's not great for safety, to put it mildly, but the drivers expect it and it's the only way to get across the road in some places. I was freaked out by it but eventually it became habit.

Then I came back to the US and forgot to switch back to US-style street crossing behavior at first. No physical harm done, but I was very embarrassed when people slammed on their brakes at the sight of me in the middle of the road.
by dgfitz | 2025-08-22 19:16:21+00:00
> working in legacy parts of the codebase

This is why most of us get paid what we do, I’m sure you realize that. There is immense value in having engineers on a team/at a company that can do this.

> anything that requires boilerplate that can't be code genned

It is important to understand the boilerplate. It is also important to understand what is boilerplate and what isn’t. After these things are grasped, usually it’s a copypasta.

> actually writing the code of unit tests (the fun part is making code testable, and coming up with what to test)

If you don’t know how to write unit tests you don’t know how to write testable code. If you do know how to write unit tests you understand the value in maintaining them when you make code changes. Passing that off to a statistical next token predictor renders the tests largely useless

> fixing lint issues that can't be auto fixed yet

You should be thankful you didn’t write code in the 80s if this is a real stance. More thankful still that you rarely need to interact with code sans a linter or autocomplete. There are lots of technologies out there where this isn’t possible. Off the top of my head would be yocto recipes.

> removing old feature toggles

I’m not clear what this even means? You mean, doing your job?

> building a temporary test harness

Generate one, I don’t care. You’ll never know if it’s any good unless you go over the whole thing line by line. At which point, you didn’t save time and didn’t “level up” any skills
by Sakou | 2025-08-22 19:16:51+00:00
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by JeremyNT | 2025-08-22 19:17:05+00:00
> What I can say, this is an entirely new skill. It isn't like architecting large systems for human development. It isn't like programming. It is its own thing.

It's management!

I find myself asking very similar questions to you: how much detail is too much? How likely is this to succeed without my assistance? If it does succeed, will I need to refactor? Am I wasting my time delegating or should I just do it?

It's almost identical to when I delegate a task to a junior... only the feedback cycle of "did I guess correctly here" is a lot faster... and unlike a junior, the AI will never get better from the experience.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-22 19:17:14+00:00
So how am I supposed to play a game of PUBG if I don't have 99 friends who I trust not to cheat who also play it? How is any community going to establish and continuously monitor that their members don't cheat, while also allowing new members to join over time? I don't have a big group of friends who also like playing the same games I play at the same times I want to play, sounds like a total non-starter to me.
by xnx | 2025-08-22 19:17:26+00:00
> heavy electric vehicles have a lot more tire dust

It would be interesting to know the fleet-level statistics for this. Driven by humans, EV might wear tires faster because of fast starts and the extra weight during stops. It's possible that the Waymo Driver accelerates and decelerates more smoothly, resulting in less tire wear than a human-driven ICE vehicle.
by chriskanan | 2025-08-22 19:17:56+00:00
This is so shortsighted. The US needs a huge increase in its electricity generation capabilities, and nowadays, rewnewables, especially solar, are the cheapest option.

This video from a few days ago analyzes the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNp2vsxEzk

Regardless of climate change issues, the anti-renewable policy doesn't seem to make any sense from an economic, growth, or national security standpoint. It even is contrary to the anti-regulation and pro-capitalism _stated_ stance of the administration.
by bko | 2025-08-22 19:18:21+00:00
I don't think that's the same thing:

> The DHS statement says that Ms Kordia had overstayed her student visa, which had been terminated in 2022 "for lack of attendance". It did not say whether she had been attending Columbia or another institution.

I think it's entirely different arresting people who overstay their visas or people on student visas that disrupt academic life. The UK regularly arrests citizens for offensive memes. There have even been cases where someone got a harsher sentence based on a tweet about sexual assault than the person who actually committed a sexual assault.

You can feel any way you'd like about free speech in America, but let's not conflate the two as being equal.
by tucnak | 2025-08-22 19:18:27+00:00
It's just funny; philosophy YouTube is a simulacrum in its own right. On a different note, I don't think Baudrillard is worth reading in 2025. I would rather recommend Mark Fisher, but then again it's all gravy, baby. To call all this pop literature "philosophy," especially post-Wittgenstein is a bit silly after all.
by lysace | 2025-08-22 19:20:07+00:00
Sweden: Their locations are public. There is even an official API.

They are mostly located in sane places.

Apps like Waze consume this API and warn drivers if they’re at risk of getting caught. It’s the deterrence/slowdown at known risky spots they’re after, not the fine, I guess.

I heard that apps warning drivers this way are illegal in Germany?
by bgwalter | 2025-08-22 19:20:09+00:00
The author's 200 GitHub packages not withstanding, the startups he is involved in are both founded on machine learning, so I don't consider him unbiased.

It is always the founder type who is trying to peddle fantasies like this:

Vibe coding turns any individual into the CTO leading a team of 20, 30, 50, 60 interns.

How much does his new hobby cost?

On my $200/month Claude 20x Max subscription I used enough tokens for about $5,200 of compute in the first month. This is obviously not sustainable, but hey, it’s a startup world and VCs are paying for it right now.
by afcool83 | 2025-08-22 19:20:26+00:00
I live in one of the areas they are actively testing/training in. Their cars consistently behave better and more safely than most human drivers that I’m forced to share the road with.

As semi-autonomous and autonomous cars become the norm, I would adore to see obtaining a drivers license ratchet up in difficulty in order to remove dangerous human drivers from the road.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-22 19:20:45+00:00
Depending on the state, not enough to matter. Farmers are not a major voting block in most of the US anymore. Farmers are a bit over 1% of the US population. I'm trying to find better sources than listicle type things, but the best I can find is that in the states with the highest percentage of farmers, it's still only 5-6% of their state population.

That can be enough to swing things, but it's not enough to be the deciding block that many think they are. A century ago things were much different.
by Asooka | 2025-08-22 19:20:46+00:00
Not entirely. Valorant's anti-cheat tries hard to detect DMA cards, which eventually led to one of their largest banwaves. See:

https://playvalorant.com/en-gb/news/dev/vanguard-hits-new-ba...

Of course the cheat developers don't sit idle, so this is far from over.
by userbinator | 2025-08-22 19:22:28+00:00
Unless they're wildly different chemistries, they'll have an IR that's inversely proportional to SoC and capacity, so you won't get that situation of 1 cell supplying 90% of the current unless it also has 90% of the capacity of the pack. Any cell that discharges a little more will have its IR increase, reducing its share of the current.
by kragen | 2025-08-22 19:22:42+00:00
The approach you are advocating is the approach that was abandoned, for good reasons, in the Unix filesystem in the 70s and in Perl in the 80s.

One of the great advances of Unix was that you don't need separate handling for binary data and text data; they are stored in the same kind of file and can be contained in the same kinds of strings (except, sadly, in C). Occasionally you need to do some kind of text-specific processing where you care, but the rest of the time you can keep all your code 8-bit clean so that it can handle any data safely.

Languages that have adopted the approach you advocate, such as Python, frequently have bugs like exception tracebacks they can't print (because stdout is set to ASCII) or filenames they can't open when they're passed in on the command line (because they aren't valid UTF-8).
by westurner | 2025-08-22 19:23:09+00:00
The other day I paired an article on pyroptosis caused by marine spongiibacter exopolysaccharide and an mRNA Cancer vaccine article. I started to just forward the article on bacterially-induced pyroptosis to the cancer vaccine researchers but stopped to ask an LLM whether the approaches shared common pathways or mechanisms of action and - fish my wish - they are somehow similar and I had asked a very important question that broaches a very active area of research.

How would your AI solution help with finding natural analogs of or alternatives to or foils of mRNA procedures?
by moomoo11 | 2025-08-22 19:23:43+00:00
The post itself reads like AI especially the line about how it is magic.

I’m personally fine with AI gen code for fast MVP and subsequent iterations.

The comments in the code are helpful for AI. When human coding I was never for having comments in the code (code should follow standards we had set).

Anyway the point about single commit is valid. But maybe the OP is newish and maybe ESL.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-22 19:23:47+00:00
> I'm very sorry but advocating for not bombing hospitals in Gaza is not "supporting a terrorist group."

I don't think we disagree on this.

In practice, protests are a mix of people but onlookers take a binary stance. It is not going to be difficult to see at protest a poster or cameras capture someone shouting something like "globalize the infitada! or or death to America".

Complicating matters further, protest organizers and the protesters themselves have more of a fluid behavior and motivations - it is not a club where membership is controlled and patrolled, a protest's mission is usually a little vague and fluid, etc.

And that is, I think, where the real risk lies - you are at a protest and you can find yourself surrounded by others who ARE supporting Hamas even if you're not and you get lumped together.

This happens on "the right" as well. You'll have some Neo-Nazi's in a conservative protest against XYZ, and now all of a sudden they're all Nazi's.

It is deeply unfortunate.
by raiph | 2025-08-22 19:23:56+00:00
Right. The choice is presumably between:

Bad: A site being usable for a significant amount of time per day, but also unusable for a significant amount of time per day, and the ratio between usable and unusable time per day significantly deteriorating.

Worse: A site being usable for a significant amount of time per day, but also unusable for a significant amount of time per day, and the ratio between usable and unusable time per day significantly deteriorating _significantly faster_.

Clearly, Anubis is at best an interim measure. The interim period might not be significant.

But it might be. That is presumably the point of Anubis.

That said, the only time I've heard of Anubis being tried was when Perl's MetaCPAN became ever more unusable over the summer. [0]

Unfortunately Anubis and Fastly fought, and Fastly won. [1]

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[0] https://www.perl.com/article/metacpan-traffic-crisis/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mbzrjo/metacpans_tra...
by tracker1 | 2025-08-22 19:24:05+00:00
Lag is the biggest issue... even a local wifi connection vs wired can make a massive difference in terms of what's acceptable lag.

Of course, to TFA's point on network code... a lot of the issues in question could come down to checking for movements that exceed human... moving faster than the speed in game, or even twitch aiming movements faster than a mouse, or a consistent level of X accuracy in shooting over time. On the last part, I'm not sure if there might be some way to mask a user's hit zone, rendering and such so that an aim-bot thinks the foot is center-mass, etc. Or if it could be randomly shifted in a test scenario.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-22 19:24:20+00:00
Solar and wind + storage is a viable path forward. Solar panels are getting cheaper, and batteries are getting better capacity and charge cycle stats each year. It may not be the path forward, we may never eliminate the need for a baseline system like nuclear plants or some gas or coal plants. But we can get ourselves off of them, other countries are, it's not like the US is special here. Same physics.
by Jach | 2025-08-22 19:24:30+00:00
The dirty secret of a huge amount of "production code", i.e. code that is in production right now servicing enterprise needs, is that it's written with the care and understanding of typical throwaway code. It's not a new problem. Ball of mud architectures are everywhere, prototypes becoming permanent are common, understanding is low (especially if the original author has left or switched teams), but teams muddle through with the super powers of being able to ship ongoing patch fixes, code review, automated testing, and sometimes even writing code with professional care and forming little oases of quality.

I'm mildly optimistic that vibe coding won't make the problems that much worse and can actually lift the standards of quality in some cases. In my own personal careless / throwaway bash scripts, I've been using AI for them more and more, but I also notice that it puts more care into them than I otherwise would have with respect to things like error checking, friendlier help and other options, progress echos, and comments. AI tools still have a ways to go on larger projects though, and hallucinations seem particularly bad when it comes to foreign library bindings...
by westurner | 2025-08-22 19:24:38+00:00
Can EPS3.9 cause pyroptosis cause IFN-I cause epitope spreading for cancer treatment?

Re: "Sensitization of tumours to immunotherapy by boosting early type-I interferon responses enables epitope spreading" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01380-1

How is this relevant to mRNA vaccines?:

"Ocean Sugar Makes Cancer Cells Explode" (2025) https://scitechdaily.com/ocean-sugar-makes-cancer-cells-expl... ... “A Novel Exopolysaccharide, Highly Prevalent in Marine Spongiibacter, Triggers Pyroptosis to Exhibit Potent Anticancer Effects” (2025) DOI: 10.1096/fj.202500412R https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj.2025004...
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-22 19:25:01+00:00
Literally first Asrock motherboard I happened to click on has it listed as a feature:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X870%20Taichi%20Creator/index....

Asus has options as well such as https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/pr...

I think it was more rare when AM5 first came out, there were a bunch of ECC supported consumer boards for AM4 and threadripper.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-22 19:25:26+00:00
Sounds like we're in agreement then.

Right now, Tesla skirts legal liability by saying that the driver needs to watch the road and be ready to take control, and then uses measures like detecting your hand on the wheel and tracking your gaze to make sure you're watching the road. If a car driving on FSD crashes, Tesla will say it's the driver's fault for not monitoring the drive.