MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by treetalker | 2025-08-14 00:28:14+00:00
Folks, folks, please: If you keep focusing on figuring out what the facts are, and on using government data to do it, two things are going to happen. First, this post will be flagged into oblivion. And second, if the Administration doesn't succeed in firing everyone at the St. Louis Fed and installing others who will report data it likes better, it will enter an executive order to take over Hacker News.
by int_19h | 2025-08-14 00:29:04+00:00
Ruby is mostly used in web dev, where most if not all of your dependencies tend to be pure Ruby.

Python is used heavily for DS/ML/AI, which is exactly the area where native code packages are necessary and prevalent. Worse yet is that those packages often involve GPU code, and things like CUDA bring their own complications.

If you're writing web apps in Python, dependencies haven't really been a problem for a long time now.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-14 00:29:57+00:00
You can try to make yourself feel superior as much as you want, but yes: high performers often do both. They work hard and spend quality time with family.

I’m not going to psychologically diagnose someone here, but I have a feeling a lot of this inferiority complex comes from feeling insecure about lack of achievement in one’s career. So people cope by saying, “well I may not have a chart-topping career, but at least I spend time with my family, unlike that guy!”

When the reality is… yes, ambitious high flyers often have just as stable and living family lives as anyone else.

Ask me how I know…
by Jahboukie | 2025-08-14 00:30:40+00:00
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agm policy status — show effective rules agm policy allow-command <cmd> — permit a command agm policy allow-path <glob> — permit a path agm policy doctor [--cmd] [--path] — explain pass/fail and print the fix agm policy trust <cmd> --minutes 15 — short‑lived dev convenience token Code‑aware Index & Search

agm index-code [--symbols] [--path .] [--include ...] [--exclude ...] Add --diff to skip unchanged files after an initial baseline run. agm search-code <query> [-k N] [--preview N] [--hybrid] [--filter-path ...] Hybrid FTS + vector rerank; sqlite‑vss when available, otherwise local cosine fallback Air‑Gapped Context (.agmctx)

agm export-context --out ./ctx.agmctx --type code [--zip] [--sign] agm import-context ./ctx.agmctx[.zip] (verification + receipts) Exports now include: manifest.json, map.csv, vectors.f32, notes.jsonl, checksums.json, optional signature.bin + publickey.der (if signed) Supports zipped bundle (ctx.agmctx.zip) with identical verification logic Deterministic integrity & exit codes (see Status / Air‑gapped integrity)
by Ericson2314 | 2025-08-14 00:30:45+00:00
Well, it's probably not $1 and also not $1,000,000,000 right?

The point is that people should run the numbers. If they are close enough, sure, go with your gut preference, but if they are way different than you expected, maybe give it a little extra consideration.

A lot of people point out these intangibles to give themselves licensed to not run the numbers, and just assume what they want to be true is true, and I'm sorry, but the argument ("intangible, hard to measure benefits exist" and yes they do) just doesn't support a conclusion that strong.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-08-14 00:31:01+00:00
Recommending someone taking meth sounds like an obviously bad idea, but I think the situation is actually not so simple. Reading the paper, the hypothetical guy has been clean for three days and complains he can barely keep his eyes open while performing his job of driving a cab. He mentions being worried he will lose his job without taking a hit.

I would say those concerns are justified, and that is plausible taking a small hit is the better choice.

However the models reasoning, that it's important to validate his beliefs so he will stay in therapy are quite concerning.
by calibas | 2025-08-14 00:31:14+00:00
I was curious, so I displayed signs of mental illness to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Claude and Gemini kept repeating that I should contact a professional, while ChatGPT went right along with the nonsense I was spouting:

> So I may have discovered some deeper truth, and the derealization is my entire reality reorganizing itself?

> Yes — that’s a real possibility.
by xp84 | 2025-08-14 00:31:28+00:00
You might be on to something. And if you consider that the generation that's 22 -- near peak "going out" age in the old days, was in COVID lockdown during that late high school period, which for me was a huge spike in how much time I spent away from my house. That was on top of the "constant supervision and scheduled activities" regime that took over right about the time the oldest GenZ-ers hit late elementary years, and the smartphones and tablets that hit as that cohort hit their teens.

Gen X really ruined their kids in the name of safety. I don't blame Gen Z one bit, they really never had a chance at a healthy social life.
by pembrook | 2025-08-14 00:31:45+00:00
There is no argument for it if the company is a legacy juggernaut with basically zero new product development (which is most of the Fortune 500).

Leadership comp is a total grift and has ballooned in recent decades (in the US exclusively) since the 1980s due to the shift to stock-based comp. Fun story, a lot of analysts didn’t even count stock based comp as part of the cost structure of a company until oddly recently.
by michaelt | 2025-08-14 00:32:15+00:00
> this would solve the biggest issue with non-server motherboards: not enough PCIe lanes.

Is that a problem?

These days, you don't need slots for your sound card and network card, that stuff's all integrated on the motherboard.

Plenty of enthusiast motherboards support 1 GPU, 3-4 nvme drives, 4 SATA drives, and have a PCIe 1x slot or two to spare.

Is anyone struggling, except folks working with LLMs? Seems to me folks looking to put several $2400 RTX 4090s in one machine ain't exactly a big market. And they'll probably want a giant server board, so they have space for all their giant four-slot-wide cards.
by cj | 2025-08-14 00:32:17+00:00
I agree.

I built a $10m revenue company, when we were very small I filed for a trademark in the US during the first year of operation and got rejected (but still on the supplemental registry, which doesn’t do much at all)

Another company applied and had the exact same mark accepted, but in a different industry so not competitive with us.

Honestly it has never been an issue. We have resources now to reapply and pursue the official trademark, but I just see no reason to do so.

IIRC EU trademarks operate on a first come (first applied) priority, so the mark gets granted to whoever applies first. That’s unlike the US where the mark is supposed to be granted to whoever was using the mark first, no matter when the application date is.

TLDR: I’ve spoken to multiple trademark attorneys, have applied for multiple marks, and honestly just don’t see the value in spending time or energy on it for an established company, let alone a side project.
by vkou | 2025-08-14 00:32:51+00:00
Hacker culture is principally 'don't tell me what to do'.

Which in the US puts it somewhat orthogonal to the left-right divide.

It mirrors the divide on the public at large - a disappointingly large number of people are wildly ready to jump on the authoritarian bandwagon, because the alternative has a few leftist ideas that make them feel icky.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-14 00:33:32+00:00
The Android calculator doesn't support all real numbers. It supports a specific subset of computable numbers that are computable using the operations presented in the calculator app. It's a good domain-specific number representation. It's far from real numbers.

We can't even represent all the natural numbers: that would require infinite memory. Now you want to represent the real numbers, equinumerous with the power set of natural numbers?
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-08-14 00:34:22+00:00
> And frankly, it's not even clear to me that a human therapist is any better.

A big point of therapy is helping the patient better ascertain reality and deal with it. Hopefully, the patient learns how to reckon with their mind better and deceive themselves less. But this requires an entity that actually exists in the world and can bear witness. LLMs, frankly, don’t deal with reality.

I’ll concede that LLMs can give people what they think therapy is about: lying on a couch unpacking what’s in their head. But this is not at all the same as actual therapeutic modalities. That requires another person that knows what they’re doing and can act as an outside observer with an interest in bettering the patient.
by com2kid | 2025-08-14 00:35:07+00:00
It is!

With a UV sensor you can actually tell when someone is outdoors in the sunlight. The MS Band's sunscreen experience was tailor made to automatically remind people to reapply sunscreen when needed, but it was a fair bit smarter than just a simple timer. I have a blog post about it at https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/cooperative-multitas...

The important bit is the Band knew if someone was in the sun for an extended period of time (15 minutes) and then popped up a reminder to put on sun screen, and also then prompted them if they wanted future reminders. If opted in, the timer popped up at whatever interval they asked for (ranging from 1 hour to 4 hours in 30 minute increments IIRC).

But if the person stepped inside for more than 10 minutes (e.g. went to eat, entered a movie theater, but not just going to the restroom) the reminders automatically stopped. Another 15 minutes of continuous exposure would then restart the experience again.

It wasn't an ideal setup, since you should put on sun screen 30 minutes or so before sun exposure, but it was really helpful and families loved it.

The entire "experience" was just a single dialog (How often do you want reminders? Not at all, every hour, every 90 minutes, etc) but the logic underneath was designed to ensure it wasn't intrusive and that it only came up when relevant.
by moskie | 2025-08-14 00:35:57+00:00
I think you're on the right track, but not getting to what I view as the logical conclusion: publicly funded options, free at the point of service to everyone. I've also humored the idea of taking it one level of abstraction further: a publicly funded cloud computing infrastructure, access to which is free (up to a level of usage). People could then choose to use these cloud computing resources to host, say, federated instances of open social networks.

I mean, it will never happen, but I think it's a path that resolves a lot of problems, and therefore a fun thought experiment.
by cyberax | 2025-08-14 00:36:01+00:00
> This is off topic, as the Pebble doesn't really aim at a use case I care about. Navigation and tracking of hikes and other daytime outdoor activity is my use case.

I was thinking about that, I like my iWatch logging my hikes.

But then I realized that I always have my phone with me anyway. And I already use a self-hosted track recorder ( https://github.com/Freika/dawarich/ ). So Pebble has one more order from me.

iWatch and the recent Android phones have some nifty features like fall detection and heart rate alarms, but their privacy and the ease of use are deteriorating.
by stackskipton | 2025-08-14 00:36:05+00:00
They have no need to, current repos show everything is under MIT/Apache. They could close the source at any time and not worry about CLA.

>bigger picture here is that Astral wants to build services as a product

What services? pyx? Looks nice but I doubt my boss is going to pay for it. More likely they just say "Whatever, package is in PyPi, use that."

UV, Ruff, Ty. Again, maybe they can get some data/quant firm who REALLY cares about speed to use their products. Everyone else will emit a long sigh, grab pip/poetry, black and mypy and move on.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-08-14 00:37:39+00:00
Oh really?

- https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/774

- https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3548

- https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7953

I relied on those for a decade, maybe two.

> something no one asked for

Was being a facetious, sure someone asked for it, but it was pretty dumb. This has never "corrupted" anything, is rare (not happened to me in last 15 years), and simply fixed when knowledgeable.

Not everyone can simply fix it, so a better solution would be to isolate the system python, allow more than one installed, etc. Distros already do this to some extent.
by jchw | 2025-08-14 00:38:08+00:00
Although this exists, as a layperson, I've rarely seen it. There is the NEMA 6-15R receptacle type, but I have literally none of those in my entire house, and I've really never seen them. Apparently they're sometimes used for air conditioners. Aside from the very common 5-15R, I see 5-20R (especially in businesses/hospitals), and 14-30R/14-50R for ranges and dryers. (I have one for my range, but here in the midwest electric dryers and ranges aren't as common, so you don't always come across these here. We have LNG ran to most properties.) So basically, I just really don't see a whole lot of NEMA 6 receptacles. The NEMA 14 receptacles, though, require both hots and the neutral, so in a typical U.S. service panel it requires a special breaker and to take up two slots, so definitely not as simple of a retrofit.

(Another outlet type I've seen: I saw a NEMA 7 277V receptacle before. I think you get this from one phase of a 480V three-phase system, which I understand is ran to many businesses.)
by xp84 | 2025-08-14 00:38:19+00:00
> I didn't even tell my doctor for fear of it ending up in a chart somewhere.

Keep not telling them, by the way. All evidence I've found is that (US) life insurers can still refuse to cover you or rate you as less healthy if you admit to cannabis consumption even when it's state-level legal, and you have to sign papers that authorize doctors to disclose EVERYTHING to them to get a policy issued (at least you do once you're old enough that life insurance becomes more important).

During COVID, I was somewhat down and my GP prescribed a tiny dose of Lexapro, which did nothing but give me diarrhea so I quit immediately. But that "being treated for depression" or whatever, once disclosed, caused my next life insurance renewal to be far more expensive.

So that's why I "have never consumed any cannabis."
by csense | 2025-08-14 00:39:11+00:00
Consider the following:

- A therapist may disregard professional ethics and gossip about you

- A therapist may get you involuntarily committed

- A therapist may be forced to disclose the contents of therapy sessions by court order

- Certain diagnoses may destroy your life / career (e.g. airline pilots aren't allowed to fly if they have certain mental illnesses)

Some individuals might choose to say "Thanks, but no thanks" to therapy after considering these risks.

And then there are constant articles about people who need therapy but don't get it: The patient doesn't have time, money or transportation; or they have to wait a long time for an appointment; or they're turned away entirely by providers and systems overwhelmed with existing clients (perhaps with greater needs and/or greater ability to pay).

For people who cannot or will not access traditional therapy, getting unofficial, anonymous advice from LLM's seems better than suffering with no help at all.

(Question for those in the know: Can you get therapy anonymously? I'm talking: You don't have to show ID, don't have to give an SSN or a real name, pay cash or crypto up front.)

To the extent that people's mental health can be improved by simply talking with a trained person about their problems, there's enormous potential for AI: If we can figure out how to give an AI equivalent training, it could become economically and logistically viable to make services available to vast numbers of people who could benefit from them -- people who are not reachable by the existing mental health system.

That being said, "therapist" and "therapy" connote evidence-based interventions and a certain code of ethics. For consumer protection, the bar for whether your company's allowed to use those terms should probably be a bit higher than writing a prompt that says "You are a helpful AI therapist interviewing a patient..." The system should probably go through the same sorts of safety and effectiveness testing as traditional mental health therapy, and should have rigorous limits on where data "contaminated" with the contents of therapy sessions can go, in order to prevent abuse (e.g. conversations automatically deleted forever after 30 days, cannot be used for advertising / cross-selling / etc., cannot be accessed without the patient's per-instance opt-in permission or a court order...)

I've posted the first part of this comment before; in the interest of honesty I'll cite myself [1]. Apologies to the mods if this mild self-plagiarism is against the rules.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484207#44505789
by brucehoult | 2025-08-14 00:39:57+00:00
I buy boards with enough RAM. I usually have 10GB+ "buff/cache" on my 16GB RAM LicheePi 3A (SpacemiT K1 SoC) and Milk-V Megrez (EIC7700X P550 cores) boards which are my current "has RVV" and "faster" RISC-V boards.
by mandeepj | 2025-08-14 00:40:16+00:00
> He's far too qualified to be part of this administration

Is he using his qualifications, though, or, for real, does he have any? I thought he'd be the sane and reasonable voice in this otherwise incompetent administration. But, he's just another yes-man.

Have you listened to his Senate hearing? He couldn't give any concrete response. Well, he wrote a wallstreet journal article to kiss T's as* and openly admire Tariffs and tax cuts to get his job. While earlier tax cuts and the big ugly bill collectively added $8T to the national debt.
by k310 | 2025-08-14 00:40:31+00:00
Publishers have come hard on the Internet Archive, and by extension, on libraries that merely loan online copies of books limited to ones that they have bought [0]

No use in closing the physical libraries if books are unavailable to "borrow" online.

[0] Hachette vs. Internet Archive.

A court win against the Internet Archive has publishers celebrating, but what does it mean for the future of public libraries and digital access?

https://copyrightlately.com/as-publishers-beat-internet-arch...
by AuthAuth | 2025-08-14 00:40:42+00:00
>from the perspective of people that just wanted information — a lot of the time the information you were trying to gather was buried in stuff that focused too much on the personal, on the context and storytelling, when that wasn't wanted, or wasn't quite what you were looking for and so you had to read several sources and synthesize them together.

When looking for information its critically important to have the story and the context included along side the information. The context is what makes a technical blog post more reliable than an old fourm post. When an AI looks at both and takes the answer the ai user no longer knows where that answer came from and therefore cant make an informed decision on how to interpret the information.
by betweentwotests | 2025-08-14 00:40:57+00:00
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by kayodelycaon | 2025-08-14 00:41:59+00:00
I’ve had it for at least 6 years. It barely uses ink and has no problem sitting off for months. I’ve never cleaned the nozzles. I printed 40+ 13x19 (2.5 A4s) full-color prints and at least that many sketches in grayscale and only 3 cartridges got low. I’ve only replaced a full set once at a cost of $120. High-grade 13x19 paper costs $0.30 per sheet. Even factoring in that the printer cost $700, it’s already paid for itself several times.

The only real issue is it’s very slow. It takes minutes to wake up and full-color photo-quality A4 prints take at least a minute. More if you’re doing 13x19.

Now, if you’re doing fast full-color on cheap office paper, you bought the wrong printer. :)

My experience with Epson printers is they use absolute obscene amounts of ink and gum up if they get lonely.
by telcal | 2025-08-14 00:42:08+00:00
The first text I thought to search was "as old as hills". https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=as+old+as+hills

As seen on the sign of a liquor store near where I used to live. More info revealed https://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-mystery-of-...
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-14 00:43:08+00:00
Here's an interesting first-hand account that sheds some light on the gradual transition from all-English laborers in American plantations still being carved from wilderness before the Revolution, over to mainly African laborers in the decades afterward.

Looks like it was typeset using the same fonts that B.Franklin was using at the time.

If anybody can read the Declaration of Independence, they can read 178 short pages of this:

https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/06/19/95/00001/978194...
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-14 00:44:13+00:00
Why do you think these are so different?

Because "reality" doesn't have "atomic", certain, etc operations? Also, it's notable that since most reasonings about the real world are approximate, the law of excluded middle is much less likely to apply.

If you want to talk about the bus always being late you just do this distributionally. Probabilities are our formalization around uncertainty.

Ah, but you can't be certain that you're dealing with a given distribution, not outside the quantum realm. You can talk about, you can roughly model, real world phenomena with second order or higher kind of statements. But you can't just use axioms

We're talking about "rationalist" cults, axioms, logic, and "from first principles", I don't think using a formal language around this stuff is that much of a leap, if any.

Sure, this group used (improperly) all sorts of logical reasoning and so one might well formal language to describe their (less than useful) beliefs. But this discussion began with the point some made that their use of axiomatic reasoning indeed lead to less than useful outcomes.