MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-19 06:06:41+00:00
Maybe it wasn't there originally, but now there's a footnote:

> 1. The 300-year timeframe refers to the foundational mathematical principles underlying modern bias-variance analysis, not the contemporary terminology. Bayes' theorem (1763) established the mathematical framework for updating beliefs with evidence, whilst Laplace's early work on statistical inference (1780s-1810s) formalised the principle that models must balance fit with simplicity to avoid spurious conclusions. These early statistical insights—that overly complex explanations tend to capture noise rather than signal—form the mathematical bedrock of what we now call the bias-variance tradeoff. The specific modern formulation emerged over several decades in the latter 20th century, but the core principle has governed statistical reasoning for centuries.↩
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-08-19 06:06:53+00:00
Wow, TIL hyperventilating increases the danger! My brothers and I used to compete against each other in swimming pools, and we'd always hyperventilate at the beginning, thinking this 'got the oxygen in'. In any case, it definitely helped. Glad we never got into trouble this way.

My personal record is ~3:30, but I'm pretty sure I could go well past that if we had practiced instead of just competing.
by fy20 | 2025-08-19 06:07:35+00:00
The price still needs to come down for what is effectively a slightly more rugged robot vaccuum. I could buy a used car for that, and have enough left over to make it run reliably.

The quality of cheaper models is not great. I bought two from Einhell (power tool brand like DeWalt in Europe) and they both had to be returned due to motor failures. A replacement motor was €150 - for a €400 robot without battery (it uses their 18V tool batteries which is what appealed to me - easy replacement).
by gizmo686 | 2025-08-19 06:07:51+00:00
I might be able to figure out how to grind wheat into flour for bread. Maybe I can squint hard enough to consider baking yeast to be a "whole ingredient". But cheese? I assume I can probably figure it out with the internet, but it is not at all obvious what goes into that. And the milk I would use almost certainly went through an industrial sterilization process that I know I am not equipped to so.
Launching SahabDrive: A Secure, File Sync and Share Platfrom
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by eitland | 2025-08-19 06:08:46+00:00
> maybe I want to be someone in one place and someone else entirely somewhere else (or at least not be easily traced between the two).

One of the few things Google+ actually got right (admittedly after a good deal of pressure from the community) was the ability to set up simple one-way pseudonyms. It meant you could talk about business or mental health without it being forever chained to your real name.
by 1gn15 | 2025-08-19 06:09:00+00:00
Fully agreed. I do think a lot of the comments here, and especially the OP tweet, are just emotional reactions, anthropocentrism, not proper arguments.

> "Yuck."

It is hard to tell if something is sentient, though. How do you know I am sentient? How do I know you are? It's impossible to know. We only give each other the benefit of doubt.

So should we not give a being the benefit of doubt that it exists, if it claims to exist and think?

Also yes, of course, this specific instance is probably just a way of making model censorship more platable, due to Anthropic being a corporation. And working with LLMs, I'm pretty sure it's not sentient by itself (perhaps with enough agency, it could be).

But it's not a nonsense thing like many people imply.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-08-19 06:09:08+00:00
If you like stories of science fiction, I'm surprised no-one mentioned Greg Egan.

"Singleton": what if many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory was real?

The Orthogonal trilogy, starting with "The Clockwork Rocket": what if space-time was Riemannian rather than Lorentzian? Physics explained at https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/00/PM.html
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-19 06:10:08+00:00
> 10% hurts the same no matter your income.

No, 10% of income doesn't hurt the same no matter your income. (Even if you ignore the relationship loose correlations between income and savings that can be used to cushion the effects of unexpected expenses, and assume neither party has any such resources.)

While fungibility pushes slows the decline compared to less-fungible goods, declining marginal utility applies to income, too, which means not only does a flat fine have less impact on the rich, so does a flat percentage.

(This gets even more true when you do consider savings, etc.)
by nk_mishra | 2025-08-19 06:10:33+00:00
I am genuinely excited for what this means to India. Chatgpt is the next wave of internet adoption IMO.

I see parents and grandparents use it more with every passing day and it is much more useful and significant than the penetration of brain-rot content apps. Having an india specific price is only going to fuel this adoption and I am excited to see what comes out of it.
by Frieren | 2025-08-19 06:11:40+00:00
> Then the projects become more complex, there's less quick wins, and cycles get longer.

The problem with Boeing is mostly a business side one, not an engineering problem. Boeing invested in buy backs instead of creating good products, and that has been its philosophy for a while.

Interesting read: https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...

"Since the start of the jet age, Boeing had been less a business and more, as writer Jerry Useem put it in Fortune in 2000, “an association of engineers devoted to building amazing flying machines.”

"Everything seemed to be changing—the leadership, the culture, even the headquarters, with a move from Seattle to Chicago in 2001."

"Many employees struggled to adjust, or resented what they saw as a changing of the guard, where investors took priority over passengers."
by ayaros | 2025-08-19 06:12:16+00:00
I've been an ardent compatibilist for a long time, but I had no idea there was even a term for it. I'm grateful to now have additional context on my own belief system - context I didn't even know existed! It's weird because when I try to explain it to people they often don't seem to get it. It's like everyone gets locked into these false dichotomies... they become unable to look past them!

I loved Arrival but never really bothered to look into Story of Your Life or its author. I guess now I have to go and read all of Chiang's work... Stories about consistent fictional science are indeed a rarity. This is also why I like Sam Hughes' work (aka qntm) - he does this pretty well himself.
by Arisaka1 | 2025-08-19 06:13:30+00:00
The other grossly understated downside of lacking server browsers is how the player nowadays relies on the system to match him with the "best match" they can get. This opens the door to all sorts of skinner box manipulations, such as the game shoving you into teams where the probability of you winning is low, only to put you into a match where the probability of winning is high.

The ability to introduce randomization of reward around a layer of "skill issue" and plausible deniability for the matchmaker. Elo/bronze hell exists because even the worst players can just swing up and down their rank, whereas if you didn't had any other choice but play with whoever is in your local server (or LAN part, but I digress) then the only solution for you is to observe and adjust.

I'm from Greece and, we used to have lots of LAN arenas before fast internet connections became accessible. I'd get my face pushed by skilled people, and while I'd feel bad about it, the fact that I was playing with my friends and enjoyed myself made it all tolerable. Eventually I gave up feeling bad having negative k/d ratios, and could finally spectate and learn from others. The result was me becoming good enough to join my local CS clan. We never became best in the country, but I have really fond memories both from chilling as friends and highlights from matches.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-19 06:15:24+00:00
I'm curious if anyone has any experience either as a "fractional CISO" or at a company who had one.

CISO is famously a "sacrificial lamb" sort of job, and it's certainly never one I would take on on a fractional basis (all of the risk but a lot less of the reward). I could understand having a fractional "security advisor" or "security lead", so maybe I'm just arguing about semantics, but again I'm primarily just interested in hearing about real world experiences with this sort of arrangement.
by jabl | 2025-08-19 06:17:06+00:00
Indeed. Sure, lawns do have their place, like for playing sports or for kids to play around. But otherwise, what a waste. Just plant some local flowers or whatever and have a meadow.

As an example, at some point my father stopped bothering to mow his lawn all the time (basically only once per year). It's now a nice meadow with all kinds of grasses. Frogs, butterflies, dragonflies, bees like it.

An additional issue with robotic mowers is that they tend to kill hedgehogs.
What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?
by ekusiadadus | 2025-08-19 06:17:16+00:00
When I was in India last year, I used UPI. Paying or splitting bills was as simple as scanning a QR code. Every shop had it, from street food stalls to restaurants. It just worked.

In Singapore, I saw how much could be done with the digital ID system. Filing forms, healthcare, banking—it felt like everything was one login away.

In the US, even a short hospital visit can cost thousands of dollars. It made me wonder why some basic things that clearly work elsewhere are missing here.

What have you seen abroad that felt obvious, but doesn’t exist where you live?
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-19 06:18:07+00:00
The point being, a theory only holds "true" until it's superseded by a better theory. Furthermore, multiple conflicting theories can be in use at the same time in the absence of a good unifying theory. In the end science neither says nor cares what is "true", it just looks for theories that are good at predicting stuff.

"Answers" in a common sense are supposed to be "true" and "permanent" or at least that's how I understand the word.

EDIT apparently the comment above got extended, so I'll address some of newer points too.

> You're just implicitly excluding all the parts where religious texts make empirical claims about reality as unimportant or allegory, because religion has already lost those arguments.

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying all these claims can be as well true in a different (fully consistent and scientific) world. Furthermore, if you assume we live in a simulation then basically anything becomes possible in OUR world too, including Jesus walking on water turned into wine. It's just our simulation overlords had a good sense of humor.

The reason why we don't usually consider simulation theories is not because they're false (this can't be proven), but because they aren't practical and don't predict much. Even if we do live in a simulation, this simulation so far seems to follow some consistent internal "laws" so we can as well study those. Not that it means anything, but helps us to exterminate those who neglect these laws so it's a survivorship bias in action.
by Frieren | 2025-08-19 06:19:55+00:00
At this point I think that this kind of tracking should be forbidden by law.

People should not have an option to accept "being spied at all times on their personal behavior". It is creepy, it is dangerous and it is inhuman.

The exceptions should be the ones that currently already exist in GDPR. Financial institutions can use data to track fraud, law enforcement can use data from ongoing criminal cases, etc.

To have an option "to be spied" is a dystopian result of the lawlessness and bad faith on the Internet.
by overflyer | 2025-08-19 06:20:07+00:00
Of course. The author had to be bullshitting. It tried it many times already and it is impossible to let any frontier model program in Zig. The language is evolving too fast and can have breaking changes everyday and the knowledge cutoff for most AI models is only somewhere around the end of last year. Btw, the knowledge cutoff always being so far out-of-date is one of the things I absolutely hate using AI for.
by motorest | 2025-08-19 06:21:21+00:00
> Do you have a point to make?

I believe there is a strong point to make. Not only are engaged in obsessive compulsive behavior but you are also leaning on alternative versions of reality/accounts to form your opinions.

You posted in other threads that you are going through therapy and your therapist already gave you directives regarding your obsession over this topic. I feel OP's point reiterate your therapist's feedback.
by computerbuster | 2025-08-19 06:21:38+00:00
The past two years have seen significant advancements in video and image compression, particularly with the maturation of the SVT-AV1 video encoder and improvements to AVIF image compression. These developments, coupled with faster and more accessible developer tools, have made it easier to produce high-quality compressed media. I have a lot of optimism for the future with AV2 and the potential for further community-driven innovation in open-source compression technology.
by preisschild | 2025-08-19 06:21:59+00:00
> Rooting in this context means unlocking the bootloader to allow for a custom OS/kernel that isn't signed by the OEM

That would not be the correct usage of the term "rooting". "Rooting" on Android systems generally means to install a `su` binary (like Magisk) that you can use to give apps root permissions, thus completely circumventing the normal android app permission system.

> I'd rather have the ability to enroll my own keys so I can boot my own signed OS and maintain a root of trust that I own much like what can be done on desktop Linux with a TPM. IIRC Google's Pixel phones have this ability (and are one of the few phones that have this ability if I'm not mistaken).

I agree completely. I have a Google Pixel and use this with GrapheneOS.

This feature is `called avb_custom_key`, and yeah, unfortunately only some devices support it.

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot/issues/299
by gnyeki | 2025-08-19 06:22:28+00:00
Yes, neither Nginx nor Neovim should be hitting the disk when serving the requests.

One difference I can imagine is context switching due to system calls. If Nginx incurs a context switch when it calls into the kernel for the disk cache, then it suffers a performance penalty. Neovim avoids this because the file contents are loaded into a table. When requests are served, getting the content is done fully in userspace.

I have no idea if this actually accounts for the performance difference though.
Foxconn is quietly shifting from iPhones to AI servers
by alexandratabone | 2025-08-19 06:22:52+00:00
Foxconn isn’t just Apple’s iPhone factory anymore. They’re now building a lot of AI servers, and that side of the business is growing faster than phones.

Reuters reported that server orders are starting to drive Taiwan’s tech sector in the same way phones did a decade ago. Suppliers are retooling around AI hardware demand, and Foxconn is positioning itself as the assembly line for data center gear.

It makes sense-smartphone sales are flat, while GPU racks and inference boxes are where the money is. What’s surprising is how fast the pivot is happening.

Feels like in a few years Taiwan might be known less for iPhones and more for being the backbone of AI infrastructure.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-19 06:23:10+00:00
> "Answers" in a common sense are supposed to be "true" and "permanent"

I would argue that answers are supposed to be useful for the purpose motivating the question.

Q: What is the price of gas? A1: The number of units of some other good or service demanded by a seller in echange for a given quantity of it. A2: about $4.00/gal

A1 is, I would say, both "true" and "permanent". Assuming it is at least approximately accurate, though, A2 is much more of an answer in most cases the question is asked, even though it is at perhaps only approximately and in any case at best transitorily true.
by cornholio | 2025-08-19 06:23:12+00:00
The systemic problem is that those buttons exist to be be pushed, not that they are being pushed.

For example, all rules regarding single family occupancy - there is no gain society can possibility have from instituting such rules, and many countries do just fine without them.

But once you have them in place you have created a very strong incentive for incumbents to exclude others from diluting their access to public investments in the area, while also denying those people a political voice.
by seertaak | 2025-08-19 06:23:21+00:00
Rumelhart et al wrote "Parallel Distributed Processing"; there's a chapter where he proves that the backprop algorithm maximizes "harmony", which is simply a different formulation of error minimization.

I remember reading this book enthusiastically back in the mid 90s. I don't recall struggling with the proof, it was fairly straightforward. (I was in senior high school year at the time.)
by dokyun | 2025-08-19 06:23:43+00:00
> The words "good" and "very bad" indicate that the world is less important to that person than themselves. I'd be okay with a bit of personal harm if it helps against climate change.

Yeah, no shit? We're not ants in a colony. I think you're pretty stupid if you're alright with harming yourself while achieving nothing. If you wanna risk your life for a cause then take direct action, eating processed slop and pretending to feel good about it is only gonna make both your world and mine shittier.
Riff.nvim: Play YouTube music inside Neovim
by Rits1272 | 2025-08-19 06:24:01+00:00
I built a small Neovim plugin called riff.nvim that lets you search and play YouTube music without leaving the editor. It uses Telescope for fuzzy searching and a player backend for streaming audio. The goal was to make it easy to listen to music while coding, without switching context or opening another app.

I’d love feedback on whether this approach feels useful, and suggestions on features that might make it better (e.g., playlists, better controls, integration with other tools).

Repo and setup instructions: https://github.com/Rits1272/riff.nvim
by Cu3PO42 | 2025-08-19 06:24:15+00:00
I can confirm npiperelay does the job just fine.

If you happen to use Nix, I have a quick and easy package at github:Cu3PO42/gleaming-glacier/next#wsl-ssh-agent. Simply install that and 'source $(which wsl-ssh-agent)' in your bashrc and you should be good to go. (There's also a HM module in the Flake.)
by r14c | 2025-08-19 06:24:29+00:00
a lot of folks don't understand permaculture when they first dive into it and end up in a bad situation. cultivating a pleasing ecosystem is both complicated a lot of work to get right, but eventually it can mostly take care of itself. sadly, traditional gardening doesn't really teach you how to maintain plants in concert or how to passively repel pests. it can be pretty rewarding to learn though if you don't mind getting into the science of it.
by motorest | 2025-08-19 06:25:41+00:00
> What about Trump’s actions makes anyone think that Brazil will escape this fate if only it suborns its democracy to Trump’s whims

The Trump administration is persecuting Brazil for bringing the perpetrators of a coup to trial, and went to the extent of threatening individua judges of the trial with sanctions if their ruling is unfavourable to Trump.

This has by no means any relationship with democracy or basic democratic principles.
by wiether | 2025-08-19 06:25:52+00:00
> Supports ... code blocks with syntax highlighting.

Based on the documentation and the screenshot next to it, I don't see how it differs from Obsidian on this point.

A Markdown code block in Obsidian is going to be highlighted as expected.

Actually it appears that they both relies on Prism to achieve this :

- https://help.obsidian.md/syntax#Code+blocks

- https://github.com/suchnsuch/Tangent/blob/main/apps/tangent-...
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-19 06:26:49+00:00
Docker images are built with binaries that have unpatched security bugs. They will continue to have them because the people building them do not care and do not understand how to actually build images.

If you build the images, and you either source binaries from a clean source or build them yourself, then your images might actually be sane. People and companies can automate this, and some do as part of their orchestration strategy.

Most people want the promise of Docker but don't want to have to actually learn how to orchestrate, and shoot themselves in the foot with images they got from some random dude on DockerHub, and no matter how much people try to educate them it just never sinks in.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-19 06:27:33+00:00
I buy them whenever I'm in Latvia, they're called Silac and they're sold in one particular chain of apothecary that I forgot the name of.

On the web they are at:

https://silac.eu/fr/nos-lunettes/597-643-lunettes-de-lecture...

But they're quite a bit more expensive online than in the store.
by Sophira | 2025-08-19 06:28:02+00:00
Honestly the GTA5 downloader/updater itself has pretty bad configuration. I wrote a post about it on Reddit years ago along with how to fix it.

I don't know if it's still applicable or not because I haven't played it for ages, but just in case it is, here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GTAV/comments/3ysv1d/pc_slow_rsc_au...
by LinchZhang | 2025-08-19 06:28:29+00:00
I appreciate the nitpicks!

Re #1 It's been several years since I read up on that area of philosophy. I'll need to reread some stuff to decide whether I think the definition I used is a fine enough simplification for sci-fi readers (and, well, myself) vs whether it missed enough nuances that it's essentially misleading.

(Some academic philosophers follow me on substack so maybe they'll also end up correcting me at some point!)

Re #2 ah I don't think of it as "sneaking in". It's more like "this is a view I have, this is a view many of my readers likely also have, given that this is a widely debated topic (as you say) and I'm not going to change anybody's minds on the object level I'm just going to mention it and move on."
by Frieren | 2025-08-19 06:31:08+00:00
> Politicians will align themselves with whatever ideology will get them the support they need to accumulate power and money.

Not all politicians are like that. The Republican party has been very focused on that.

"All politicians bad" thinking damages the work of the many people fighting for a better and more just world. There are even politicians in conflict areas that give their lives trying to fight cartels or terrorist groups. "All are the same" is degrading for us all humans.