MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theboywho | 2025-08-05 20:58:33+00:00
This is an example of when Daniel Kahneman said that people don’t believe in something because there are arguments but believe the arguments because they believe in something. Here’s why I think so:

> syncing plans and priorities for the current day

Most of the work developers do require syncing multiple times a day, either by slack messages, GitHub comments or pair programming, etc. Waiting for the daily to sync is not realistic and would waste tons of time.

> signaling blockers early so the team can help

If you have a blocker and you wait until the daily to mention it, you have a bigger problem. Blockers should be notified right away and most teams do this over slack or other messaging platforms they use.

> encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing

Teams are usually small, and if you don’t already know what someone is doing, you wouldn’t care what they have to say during the daily, and if you care what they have to say, you already know what they are doing.

> building a sense of team ownership and support.

Just go for a coffee break.

If you believe daily standups are useful, chances are you’re actually part of the problem.
by 77pt77 | 2025-08-05 20:58:51+00:00
> Then there's the quasi-feudal approach of putting the lab head in the authors

Changes from field to field but yes, very common.

And many times, like you wrote, they have no idea about what was even done.

Then you have the gigantic collaborations, where everyone gets a citation and it counts as much as a paper with one or two authors.

And of course, everyone will cite it because there's no real alternative.
by magicalist | 2025-08-05 20:59:07+00:00
> No, they didn’t. They decided not to raise the definition of broadband from 100×20 Mbps up to 1Gps.

No, the 100/20Mbps definition was only adopted last year and is being kept for now (though you'll never guess who voted against adopting it and wanted to keep 25/3Mbps!).

The 1000/500Mbps definition that Carr's FCC is trying to eliminate was a long term goal, something that the US should strive for eventually, and therefore federal funding should preferentially go to solutions that can or could eventually provide those speeds.

Carr's proposed rules[1] go well beyond just the definition of high speed broadband, though:

- He wants a stricter reading of the statute that requires a report on the deployment of broadband, reading "whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion" as strictly referring to anyone making "incremental progress" on deployment, so the reports will shift from reporting coverage where broadband has actually been deployed to calling areas covered if anywhere in an area is working on deploying broadband there

- He also doesn't think "reasonable" access to broadband should include a consideration of the price of using that broadband, so wants to stop collecting pricing information. So long as someone is making incremental progress in an area that would make 100/20Mbps internet available to you at some price, you will now count as covered

- Other proposed changes around mobile speeds and school broadband I haven't been following.

Incidentally, even the 100/20Mbps definition seems at least potentially in danger, as the proposal is requesting comment on whether that's actually the definition they should be using in the future.

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-413059A1.pdf
by tptacek | 2025-08-05 20:59:14+00:00
People share this stuff all the time. Kenton Varda published a whole walkthrough[1], prompts and all. Stories about people's personal LLM workflows have been on the front page here repeatedly over the last few months.

What people aren't doing is proving to you that their workflows work as well as they say they do. You want proof, you can DM people for their rate card and see what that costs.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166
by altairprime | 2025-08-05 21:00:21+00:00
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by scott_w | 2025-08-05 21:00:37+00:00
I like the suggestion to look at the system status.

One thing I’d suggest you try is to switch from people-centric to work-centric standup. Instead of going person by person, pick your rightmost “in progress” column and get an update on that issue. What’s needed? Who needs to help? That sort of stuff.

I find this moves through the standup fairly quickly and puts the focus on how to get things done. It also highlights when something isn’t clear for the team and you can follow up after.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-05 21:00:52+00:00
I helped my dad lose 50 lbs by finally, after 10 years, getting him to give up bread, sugar, potatoes. It took buying him 2 months of a bluetooth glucose monitor. Once he saw what certain foods do, he believed me finally. At 65 years old, healthier than I remember since he was 40 and I was a teen. It doesn't require some weird injection.
by bananalychee | 2025-08-05 21:00:54+00:00
The incentive structure in academia exacerbates that by encouraging authors to hype up their findings and obfuscate any deficiency in their models. Withholding information and making results difficult to reproduce is a symptom of that, as are academic jargon disconnected from terminology used in the private sector, and obtuse presentation. Those practices make it easier for bad data, bad methodologies, and misrepresentations of findings to slip past reviewers and readers and harder for other researchers to dispute, and undermine the scientific process itself as we get flooded with junk.
by getpost | 2025-08-05 21:01:43+00:00
In a recent podcast[0], Ben Bikman explained some of background and pitfalls of GLP-1 drugs. When the drugs were first prescribed, dosages were much smaller than the dosages now prescribed for weight loss. Microdosing might be a better and safer strategy.

The podcast is only 3 hours long! The GLP-1 discussion starts at 2:09:53.

[0] https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/ben-bikman

EDIT: ycopilotFYT version https://www.cofyt.app/search/dr-ben-bikman-how-to-reverse-in...
by highfrequency | 2025-08-05 21:01:56+00:00
I would guess the “secret sauce” here is distillation: pretraining on an extremely high quality synthetic dataset from the prompted output of their state of the art models like o3 rather than generic internet text. A number of research results have shown that highly curated technical problem solving data is unreasonably effective at boosting smaller models’ performance.

This would be much more efficient than relying purely on RL post-training on a small model; with low baseline capabilities the insights would be very sparse and the training very inefficient.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-05 21:02:06+00:00
The left is almost completely unanimous in their support for lowering interest rates, and have been screaming about it for years, since the first moment they started being raised again. And for the same reasons that Trump wants it, except without the negative connotations for some reason.

Recently, I've heard many left wingers, as a response to Trump's tariffs, start 1) railing about taxes being too high, and that tariffs are taxes so they're bad, and 2) saying that the US trade deficit is actually wonderful because it gives us all this free money for nothing.

I know all of these are opposite positions to every one of the central views of the left of 30 years ago, but politics is a video game now. Lefties are going out of their way to repeat the old progressive refrain:

> "The way that Trump is doing it is all wrong, is a sign of mental instability, is cunning psychopathic genius and will resurrect Russia's Third Reich, but in a twisted way he has blundered into something resembling a point..."

"...the Fed shouldn't be independent and they should lower interest rates now."
by tlaverdure | 2025-08-05 21:02:24+00:00
I'm not anti-AI, but I strongly believe the human element of music can be imitated but not fully replicated. Listening back to that song I can hear the attempt to stylistically play slightly off-beat to get the feel of a band playing without a metronome. The auditory illusion is there, but it still sounds off. Playing behind the beat is a feeling; it's not a calculation.

As a drummer keeps time, the band reacts by looking at the drummer’s hands and the sway in their posture. A drummer intensifies their playing as they respond to the feeling of air being pushed from guitar cabinets. A lead guitarist looks back at their friends and smiles when they are about to play that sweet lick that the bass player likes to play along with.

These are just simple examples that make all the difference when you listen back. I also can't imagine paying hundreds of dollars to go see an AI "perform" this solo at a concert. When I listen to music, I'm remembering the moment, the feeling, what the artist was doing to create their art. So still... no thanks!
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-05 21:02:38+00:00
> Even under an ideal situation where Trump authoritarianism is conquered and some sort of sensible alternative takes office, restoring oversight of companies like Comcast and AT&T — both bone-grafted to our domestic surveillance networks — is never going to be a priority in a Congress that’s now too corrupt to function, under a broken court system that treats corporate power as an unimpeachable deity.

Well, that's not the ideal situation. The ideal situation is a wholesale countervailing takeover of power that destroys the broken congress and courts, replaces them with a genuinely responsive government, conducts a large-scale seizure of the assets of the entities and individuals who have profited from this debacle, throws many of them in jail for decades if not life, and then begins to use those assets to rebuild things on a more equitable footing. Now that's less likely than the scenario described in the quote, but the scenario described in the quote is far from "ideal".
by lilyball | 2025-08-05 21:02:47+00:00
Good! Wipr was very cheap, so was Wipr 2, if paying a tiny fee every few years for a well-made app that does its job well keeps the developer in business and able to keep maintaining it, then I'm happy to do it.

That said, I'm not actually convinced there will be a Wipr 3, at least not without some significant change to the ecosystem first. Wipr 2 was a complete rewrite of Wipr, there's no reason to expect it will need yet another complete rewrite.
by infecto | 2025-08-05 21:03:08+00:00
You’ve really taken a mild disagreement and spun it into some moral crusade against user inclusivity. No one is “alienating” users or acting out of “contempt”… I made a simple point that, for a niche technical project like Frigate, it’s reasonable to assume some baseline domain knowledge.

If someone doesn’t know what an NVR is, they’re likely not ready to deploy a self-hosted AI-powered video surveillance system. That’s not exclusionary and it’s just reality. Let’s not pretend a missing acronym definition is the same as slamming a door in someone’s face.

I am sorry expressing an opinion offended you.
by robluxus | 2025-08-05 21:03:10+00:00
> I just want to putz around with something in VSCode for a few hours!

I just googled "using claude from vscode" and the first page had a link that brought me to anthropic's step by step guide on how to set this up exactly.

Why care about pricing and product names and UI until it's a problem?

> Someone on HN told me Copilot sucks, use Claude.

I concur, but I'm also just a dude saying some stuff on HN :)
by jjk166 | 2025-08-05 21:03:10+00:00
Carbon fiber is actually a pretty good material for submarine type loads. Submarines have to balance their need for an extremely strong hull with the need for buoyancy. For a given size, to make your hull stronger, you must make your walls thicker, which makes you heavier. The only options are to make the sub bigger, increasing the internal volume, or making the hull out of something with a better strength to weight ratio, or more accurately a better strength to specific gravity ratio.

In carbon fiber composite, it's actually the epoxy which provides the compressive strength, and while it has very good compressive strength, the real advantage is its very low density. It is only just barely denser than water, so you can make your hull extremely thick with essentially no loss in buoyancy. Carbon fiber does fail catastrophically, but they could have just made the hull so thick that they were never getting anywhere near the failure point. Further, since carbon fiber is built up in plied layers, you don't have the same sorts of processing limits as with thick metal plates.

The basic concept of Titan was sound, it was just horribly horribly executed. With their flagrant violation of basic engineering and safety practices, they would have killed people no matter what they made their sub out of.
by codingdave | 2025-08-05 21:03:29+00:00
What you may be missing from the history of email is that when it started, it was never about universal communication. It was internal communication within your own organization or between connected orgs. Frankly, it was a bit of a revolution when it started to be able to route outside your own network. And it wasn't always across the internet - while certainly IP-based email existed on the early networks, there were also modem-based email networks which were used by local communities and even for cross-organization email systems.

So unless you consider the entire population of a country to be a single organization, it makes little sense for them to have looked into running an email service.
by db48x | 2025-08-05 21:03:32+00:00
That used to be the case, but it isn’t any more. Check out the new broadband map: <https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home>; it goes by exact addresses rather than census districts or whatever it used to be.

The definition was changed to 100×20 Mbps last year: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401205A1.pdf. 10 years before that it was set to 25×3Mbps.
by scott_w | 2025-08-05 21:03:44+00:00
> If you have a blocker and you wait until the daily to say it, you have a bigger problem. Blockers should be notified right away and most team do this over slack or other messaging platforms they use.

They should but it doesn’t always happen. Having a stand up makes sure you can get that information into the open.

This holds for literally everything. You shouldn’t hold back conversations for your 1-on-1 but, if you don’t have them, you’ll find there’s a load of conversations you miss out on that you needed to have.
by thepryz | 2025-08-05 21:04:17+00:00
You’ll always have naysayers, but I think there’s a difference between someone who doesn’t understand or share the appeal of rock or jazz or an artist like Philip Glass where music is made by someone choosing what notes to play, what rhythms, what words and the music that comes out of a statistical model.

You can’t tell me that Philip Glass didn’t understand or agonize over the music when creating it. The creative process is vastly different and that’s my point.

Oh course, there will be artists who use AI in new and creative ways, someone like Brian Transeau who routinely codes tools for creating electronic music. but for most artists, I fear it will just lead to mindless button clicking and prompt manipulation until it’s formulaic because the base model is the same. Or it will result in fewer people learning instruments or music theory and truly experimenting with things that haven’t been done before.

I see AI as having great potential in both art and productivity but maybe it’s just that I don’t trust people to use it responsibly. We’re inherently lazy and easily distracted by anything that will give us that dopamine fix.
by n8cpdx | 2025-08-05 21:04:20+00:00
I would like to try it, but I don’t think it is available from shady internet doctors and insurance won’t cover it because I’m not diabetic. Shady internet ozempic passes the cost-benefit test (barely, considering I can successfully lose weight without it it’s just hard). Full cost out of pocket it does not. Maybe in a few years.

I would worry that the side effects I care about are not the side effects that others report being improved on zepbound.
by teamweightloss | 2025-08-05 21:04:23+00:00
Europe is not going to trade more with China, if anything, they want to trade less with China, if you look at the recent events.

- Europe signing trade deal with US

- China: We can’t afford for Russia to lose Ukraine war https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-cannot-lose-war-ukraine-09.... In other words, China is attacking Europe via Russia.

- China is in a great depression. Their only economic engine is export, and Europe is steadily putting up tariff walls.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-05 21:04:37+00:00
You can be gluttonous and still thin. I eat 2 lbs of ground beef a day, with tons of cheese on it. For breakfast I have 6-8 eggs, with cheese. I have my morning coffee with heavy whipping cream. For desert, I whip up some of the heaving whipping cream and have it with frozen berries thawed out. It drives gfs nuts but they're too anti fat to try it.
by pjcodes | 2025-08-05 21:04:38+00:00
I’d genuinely love to hear the feedbacks. For those of you who’ve tried the app how’s the experience been so far? Has it helped you pause, reflect, or rethink any of your impulse buys?

Any feedback, big or small, would mean a lot. I’m building this to be truly useful, and your input helps shape what comes next
by galaxyLogic | 2025-08-05 21:05:03+00:00
> They don’t require formal models or diagrams.

Nor do they produce those (do they?). That is what I would like to see. Formal models and diagrams are not needed to produce code. Their point is that they allow us to understand code and to formalize what we want it to do. That's what I'm hoping AI could do for me.
by calibas | 2025-08-05 21:05:07+00:00
The encoded JSON string is going to start with "ey", unless there's whitespace in the first couple characters.

Also, it seem like the really important point is kind of glossed over. Base64 is not a kind of encryption, it's an encoding that anybody can easily decode. Using it to hide secrets in a GitHub repo is a really really dumb thing to do.
by godelski | 2025-08-05 21:05:12+00:00
> without telling me about the specific results that your argument rests on

We've been discussing it the whole time. You even repeated it in the last comment.

A model that is accurate does not need to be causal

By causal I mean that the elements involved are directly related. We've seen several examples. The most complex one I've mentioned is the geocentric model. People made very accurate predictions with their model despite their model being wrong. I also linked two papers on the topic giving explicit examples where a LLM's world model was extracted and found to be inaccurate (and actually impossible) despite extremely high accuracy.

If you're asking where in the books to find these results, pick up Hacking's book, he gets into it right from the get go.

> is not because it fails on data, but because it fails a heuristic of elegance or maybe naturalness.

With your example it is very easy to create examples where it fails on data.

A physicist isn't rejecting the model because of lack of "naturalness" or "elegance", they are rejecting it because it is incorrect.

> You make a distinction between experiment and observation

Correct. Because while an observation is part of an experiment an experiment has much more than an observation. Here's a page that goes through interventional statistics (and then moves into counterfactuals)[0]. Notice that to do this you can't just be an observer. You can't just watch (what people often call "natural experiments"), you have to be an active participant. There's a lot of different types of experiments though.

> This implies that the meta-model itself is ultimately trained on physical predictions

While yes, physical predictions are part of how humans created physics, it wasn't the only part.

That's the whole thing here. THERE'S MORE. I'm not saying "you don't need observation" I'm saying "you need more than observations". Don't confuse this. Just because you got one part right doesn't mean all of it is right.

[0] https://www.inference.vc/causal-inference-2-illustrating-int...
by tw04 | 2025-08-05 21:05:21+00:00
> Huh? People used satellites as an excuse to not wire rural America for electricity?

Obviously that’s what I meant. And I didn’t mean people used the excuse of “we shouldn’t be pulling cable to all these houses when X is good enough”.

There were endless excuses to not electrify rural America including “they don’t need it”. It was eventually solved through co-ops.

That’s exactly how most rural areas are trying to solve fiber, but of course they get to fight the combination of folks like you that think “satellite is good enough” (it isn’t), and legacy ISPs suing them to slow or stop deployment.
by death_eternal | 2025-08-05 21:05:24+00:00
The goal is to not need to write C just to get performant code, especially for things like concurrency and numerics. While Nim can be fast without `ref object`, and you can guide the compiler to autovectorize in some cases, it often requires deep knowledge of both the compiler and backend behaviour. That’s not a good developer experience for many users.

Multithreading in Nim is bad to say the least and has been for a while. The standard library option for multithreading is deprecated, and most alternatives like weave are either unmaintained or insanely limited (taskpools, malebolgia, etc.). There's no straightforward, idiomatic way to write data-parallel or task-parallel code in Nim today.

The idea of the project is to make shared-memory parallelism as simple as writing a `parallel:` block, without macros or unsafe hacks, and with synchronization handled automatically by the compiler.

Course, performance can be dragged out of Nim with effort, but there's a need for a language where fast, concurrent, GC-optional code is the default, not something one has to wrestle into existence.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-05 21:06:11+00:00
In Japan it was competition that fixed this. The government did something (not sure what) but it was not "funding municipal broadband".

I'd say one thing to do is outlaw the contracts that let governments only approve a single provider.

It was Softbank that brought the competition. In 2001 they started offering 1meg connections for $20 a month. The competition cost 10x. Softbank had aggressive marketing too, putting up booths at neighborhood train stations where they could sign you up and hand you a device on your way home.

The competition lowered their prices to match within a couple of months. Softbank doubled the speed to 2meg, same price. The same pattern. The competition matched price within a few weeks. Softbank raised their speed to 8meg. repeat.

AFAICT it all finally settled (25 years later). Currently $40 for 1gig fiber or $60 for 10gig fiber or $50 for https://www.softbank.jp/internet/sbhikari/

And NTT is competitive https://flets.com/