MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evasar | 2025-09-01 18:10:54+00:00
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by the_duke | 2025-09-01 18:11:04+00:00
We are also entering the age of "hey AI, take this repo, reimplement the same functionality".

Now, no LLM is currently anywhere near doing that for ElasticSearch.

But for a project with 4845 lines of Python code? (as per tokei)

Definitely doable, with a bit of handholding and manual fixing.

Would that be a derivative work? Maybe, but that would be a hard legal battle.
by sOwl_ | 2025-09-01 18:12:15+00:00
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by bitwize | 2025-09-01 18:12:50+00:00
I remember some sort of OLPC/Raspberry Pi-like initiative in India to build a "teach the kids how to program" type computer based on a Famiclone. The idea was that "famicoms on a chip" were readily available in a way that would make it cheap enough even for the dirt-poorest of Indian families to afford, and the software could theoretically be ported to the more bootleggy famiclones already out there on the market.
by herczegzsolt | 2025-09-01 18:12:52+00:00
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by dolni | 2025-09-01 18:13:03+00:00
I ran into one thing with jj that I would say is pretty bad. I love it other than the way it bit me in this one case.

I have a repo with some code that generates a credential and writes the credential to a location specified in .gitignore so it isn't picked up by version control.

I used `jj edit` to roll back to a change before the credential path was added to the ignore file to make an unrelated change.

The result? jj instantly started tracking the credential and I didn't notice it before pushing to GitHub.

Fortunately I did figure it out pretty quickly, but that could have gone very poorly.

See also https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/7237.
by missedthecue | 2025-09-01 18:13:11+00:00
You have to get pretty lucky to invent something and get it though all trials and approval, but then you only get to earn money on it for a short period before it goes generic. There is literally no way to build a durable competitive moat in biotech. You just have to keep getting lucky. Eli Lilly has had a streak of luck lately, Pfizer and Biogen have been swinging and missing a lot.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-09-01 18:13:13+00:00
> What always amazes me is how there’s absolutely no sense of time having passed once I wake up. For me, general anesthesia is probably the closest thing to experiencing death, except with the difference that you get the chance to resume your existence again.

I have been under general anesthesia three times, and this is the thing that sticks with me too: it’s a dress-rehearsal for death. The conclusions you come to by going through it are obvious in retrospect but nonetheless interesting:

You have no conscious experience or memory of the moment when you go under and your consciousness is severed. There is only the lead-up, usually the anesthesiologist saying they’re about to start putting the drugs into your arm, or asking you to count down. The next conscious event in your life is waking up in the recovery room. It’s obvious to say, but you could die while under anesthesia and you would never know. Your conscious life up to the moment you went under would be the same. I think it was Wittgenstein who said that Death is not an event in life, and after experiencing anesthesia I suppose I get what he meant.

> I've never felt as much peace as I do right before going under anesthesia.

Same, but I don’t place a lot of stock in it - like you say, it’s the drugs. I asked my anesthesiologist what he’d be giving me to relax me before I went under and he said fentanyl.
by drdaeman | 2025-09-01 18:13:36+00:00
No offense meant, but what's wrong with y'all today, people? Why so many folks in the comments use words in a way that doesn't match their dictionary-intended meanings and even insist that doing otherwise is something... weird, in a bad way? Am I taking crazy pills?

Save for The Church of Emacs and St. IGNUcius (obvious jokes), FSF is a political and social activism organization - not a religious one. They have foundational principles and manifestos, sure, but those aren't religious dogmas, but rather the views/desires how the society should work.

Labeling FSF as religious implies that it's a cult and thus there's no talking reason to them. But they're no more religious than any other civil rights movement - the beliefs about software freedoms are no different than beliefs in any other social rights.
by wildredkraut | 2025-09-01 18:14:00+00:00
Seems like >=2026 will be the year I'll start buying stuff again that has been replaced by mobile phones during all the years (Camera, Mp3Player, etc.) With this coming, buying a flagship mobile phone simply doesn't worth for me anymore. Currently i own a S24Ultra, my next mobile phone will probably be the cheapest Chinese crap I can get, just for the mobile things i "have" to use it.
by aidenwhite27 | 2025-09-01 18:14:06+00:00
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by playforclaude | 2025-09-01 18:14:20+00:00
Honestly, I rate "open" less and less as time goes on. It's a fine principle, but there are other valuable principles (like minimal advertising and tracking, and quality of finish and performance).

I think that the ethics and ill-effects of Meta, Google and the like are significantly worse than locked software ecosystems. Once you've decided that, then you don't want a smartphone at all.

If I had to get a smartphone, I would get an Apple.

Given how many people go to all this hassle for "openness" in their mobile software ecosystem and then install Whatsapp/Gmail/Instagram etc - what is the point?
by metalman | 2025-09-01 18:14:38+00:00
Unlikely.

Givens: more heat

more water vapor more CO² more humans* with more machines**

* it's not like people are goung to give up

* agricultural machinery and technology is entering a new era of productivity and resiliance.

currently a huge number of people are farming useing primitive methods all over the world, slash and burn farming, and areas in europe still useing horses and oxen for motive power.

hunger is man made
by const_cast | 2025-09-01 18:15:34+00:00
> Now argue in the real world. We're not in 2020 anymore.

Disease actually kills people.

I know that makes you uncomfortable and you'd like to live in an alternative reality where you can do whatever and cause no harm, but come back down to Earth.

1 million Americans died from Covid. Our policies caused some of that. Selfish people caused some of that. Everyone, including you, is partially responsible for those deaths.

That's uncomfortable, and it's hard to hear, but it is also indisputable. The sooner you come to terms with the reality we live in, the sooner your mind can heal.
by p_ing | 2025-09-01 18:15:54+00:00
You'd be correct on both accounts. There was a small general store which supported a few hundred people just fine (along with farms and fishing) and a gold mine which employed most people -- of course a small general store doesn't support 5K individuals and the gold mine is closed.

It's a bedroom community, there are approximately 1000 jobs in total most of which reside within the school district. The purpose of the town as it stands is to raise kids and retire. Commuting to work is a requirement.

Times change, requirements change, and needs change. This isn't the 1880s, but the physical layout of the town is largely the same with the same roads. There was no "planning" for the Model T [cars] as you're attempting to argue -- it was already laid out like it is for the horse, cart, and carriage.
by mceoin | 2025-09-01 18:15:55+00:00
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by SubiculumCode | 2025-09-01 18:15:59+00:00
When I iterate code through LLM's, it add copious amounts of comments to the code, and iteratively, the comments can become quite excessive and lead to false beliefs by the evaluating LLM....to the point where the comments convincing the LLM that the code is right, even when it is not. Too often, LLM will regurgitate the over the top claims in a source document when asked to evaluate the source document. That is a serious problem for peer review. We shouldn't set ourselves up for rewarding unfounded boasting in grant applications.
by elcritch | 2025-09-01 18:16:41+00:00
No need to migrate dependency with Atlas. Should "Just Work". If not file a GH issue.

Note, I fixed up Atlas a few months ago for Araq (Nim's BDFL). It uses a simpler design where pkgs are put in a local `deps` folder. It works fantastic and has replaced Nimble and it's magic for me. Plus the local deps folder is easy for LLM cli tools to grep.

Just make sure to install the latest version!

P.S. @netbioserror I'm working on a sensors project. Shoot me an email if you want to talk sensors/iot/nim! Emails on my GH
by sasham | 2025-09-01 18:16:45+00:00
I'm one of the founders of https://diversion.dev. It's a version control used mainly by game developers, but also by some audio and video artists. Its advantages over git for music production - 1) it works with large binary files out of the box, and 2) it's easy to use for non-technical people. This also solves the issue of backing up and sharing the project complete with large media files that the author mentions.
by orbisvicis | 2025-09-01 18:17:38+00:00
It has occured to me that rather than the complex instructable linked below, it might be easier to purchase an off-the-shelf BTL (high voltage => greater power) amplifier to drive 2W over a small (0.3m dia) air-loop antenna. The AC input signal from the phone's USB DAC is about 0.77V RMS. Let's power the amp with two consumer off-the-shelf 9V batteries in series (18V). Assuming ~1-2 (1.5 here) ohms of internal resistance, the total current draw should not exceed 250mA or the voltage will drop below 8.6V. The loop antenna therefore needs 10 ohms of impedence, and a tuning capacitor to make it resonant (fully resistive). The AC signal needs a coupling capacitor to remove any DC component, followed by a bias resistor to tie the amps signal input to ground. Each amp signal output needs a coupling capacitor because no way will I be able to correctly calculate the tuning capacitance correctly, and also because the antenna won't be a fixed loop. The most efficient use of those 10 ohms is with litz wire, which at 20 awg comes to 300 meters with a 450nF tuning capacitor... which is not happening. Let's shoot for 30m of 20-awg non-litz wire and make up the difference with a 8.8 ohm resistor. 2w across 32 coils @ 10 ohms corresponds to 0.45 A, which at a meter's distance comes to about 0.6 uT... ridiculously tiny. Will it work to activate the circuit? I don't know. However this antenna is simply wasteful - it would be better to switch to a ferrite core design. The magnetic moment of a ferrite core increases more with coil diameter than coil length... but to target 10 ohms resistance at resonance might require a coil length greater than diameter. I haven't really looked into it.

To conserve battery you need an amplifier with a shutoff pin. These are always logic pins (DC on/off), which entails a diode/capacitor/resistor combination tuned to detect and convert AC input to on/off with a configured decay time, i.e. keep the amp powered on for X seconds without signal. Unfortunately the logic pins require high voltage relative to the power source (battery) and 0.77 Vrms just won't cut it. This then entails adding a transistor to shunt power to the shutdown pin from the battery. Then I had a look at a sample schematic of the TPA3116 amplifier, and there are so many pins to wire. At this point the project isn't any simpler than the linked instructable.

Then I found this:

https://www.rockvilleaudio.com/headrock/

According to the website it requires a minimum load of 16ohms, but that might be ideal for ferrite-core antennas. Perhaps I'll give it a try!
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-01 18:17:51+00:00
I actually had Iran in mind. Russia at least ostensibly behaved in a way that's worth sanctioning by destabilizing the world. Iran just held some hostages 50 years ago, as best I can tell, and it's hard to be angry at that. Israel has harmed many times more Americans than Iran has, but Israel also seems to be the reason we continue to sanction Iran. It makes no sense on the face of it.
by bccdee | 2025-09-01 18:17:52+00:00
> there are good reasons to hide people's private details

They do, and they do grant anonymity sometimes. But it's their call, and they made the call. They're not a PR firm; they have no obligation to be kind or gentle in their coverage. If they wanted, they'd be fully within their rights to publish a noxious hitpiece on the man. They were much milder than I'd have been. Siskind's said some awful stuff.

> everyone agrees that names are private information that shouldn't be published without good reason

The NYT doesn't. They use the real identities of the people they cover by default (that's generally how news works), and consider anonymity a privilege granted under special circumstances.

> where's the argument that that means you need to publish his name specifically

Because I would not want to give my business to a man who's recorded as thinking that Black people are genetically stupid. I'm not really interested in litigating Siskind's political views—I don't think this is the place for it—but I won't gloss over them. They're pretty foul.
by maiven | 2025-09-01 18:18:42+00:00
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by layer8 | 2025-09-01 18:18:45+00:00
I wish that at least the minutes/seconds were short lists, so you can quickly go to 00 instead of always overshooting and having to go back.

On PalmOS there was the app BigClock [0][1], where tapping on the upper part of a digit would increment it and tapping on the lower part would decrement it. That way you could quickly and predictably select any time with a few precise taps, without needing to rely on visual feedback like you have to with bouncy scroll wheels.

[0] https://palmdb.net/app/bigclock

[1] http://www.gacel.de/bigclock/bigclock.htm
by BeetleB | 2025-09-01 18:18:46+00:00
> Sounds very difficult to do this in jj.

Pretty easy. While inaccurate, it's useful to think of jj as two separate repositories. One is the "clean" one that has everything nice and neat. The other is a repository of all your (very) incremental changes.

You have to actively decide what goes in the "clean" one. jj automatically puts stuff in the messy one. Any time you actively commit something, you're committing to the clean one. So you decide what goes in there.

When you do a push, only the "clean" commits are pushed.
by pcrh | 2025-09-01 18:18:57+00:00
This sounds like it used an approach similar to meta-analyses (similar to Cochrane Reviews in clinical research), which were then manually reviewed.

Meta-analysis one of the areas I would expect machine learning to become competent.

Pro-actively approaching researchers, rather than hoping they will submit a grant application to your own organization, is also a very innovative approach that I would like to see happen more often.
by stedman | 2025-09-01 18:19:08+00:00
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by kgwgk | 2025-09-01 18:19:11+00:00
So if you meet someone and you are told that they have at least one girl the probability that they have a girl and a boy is 2/3, because the question has one straightforward and obvious interpretation.

And if you meet someone and you are told that they have at least one boy the probability that they have a girl and a boy is 2/3, because the question has one straightforward and obvious interpretation.

And if you meet several people and you are told that they have at least one girl the probability that they have a girl and a boy is always 2/3, because each time the question has one straightforward and obvious interpretation.

And if you meet several people and you are told that they have at least one boy the probability that they have a girl and a boy is always 2/3, because each time the question has one straightforward and obvious interpretation.

And if you meet several people and sometimes you are told that they have at least one boy and sometimes you are told that they have at least one girl the probability that they have a girl and a boy is always 2/3, because each time the question has one straightforward and obvious interpretation.

It's fine to make whatever assumption you need to get the answer you want but that doesn't make it the "straightforward and obvious interpretation". Assume your assumptions!
by p_ing | 2025-09-01 18:19:19+00:00
No parking mandates here. It's rural. Zoning restrictions are everywhere (except Huston where you have oil refineries next to housing), it's almost all residential. No real public transportation to speak of around that time frame. In-town speed limit is 25Mph and there is about 90-95% coverage for sidewalks. I walk daily anywhere from 3 - 5 miles around this town, I don't feel unsafe.

etc. etc.

You and others in this thread are arguing about _where I live_. Don't you find that a tad silly? I haven't even named the town, you have no ability to research it, and the historical docs are all located at the local library and history museum.

This is a great place to be a ped and driving is a requirement. Maybe this is the golden holy land of mixed-use roads, or something.
by RA2lover | 2025-09-01 18:19:25+00:00
Eco: Global Survival (https://play.eco/) bypassed the distortion problem entirely by using an undistorted flat voxel grid, but rendering the globe view as a torisphere.

It still has the tradeoff of making travel close to the center take longer than it should on a sphere (worked around by limiting diggable height), but i find it a more elegant solution.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-01 18:19:30+00:00
> the stance of the 'Open Source' crowd

The original stance of the open source crowd was more along the lines of the GPL -> GPLv3 -> AGPL, which expressly prevents this kind of thing.

The proliferation of "give everything away for free" MIT/BSD/Apache licenses seems to me to have been an intentional campaign by corporate interests to undermine free software ideals