MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dash2 | 2025-09-14 08:14:47+00:00
I've never read his non-fiction. I like the Father Brown stories, they're fun, but they are also full of plot holes and retrofitted explanations, and the characters are pretty thin. I feel a bit the same about C. S. Lewis. His non-fiction is brilliant, I love The Inner Ring [1], but his stories don't really have depth. I think it's not surprising that 2 out of the 3 I mentioned had their greatest success with children's books.

[1] https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
by lukan | 2025-09-14 08:15:35+00:00
"And its a different recharge compared to some beach holiday, much more active and I dare to say a more effective one"

That depends on the type of person I think. Plenty of stuff to do at the beach or in the water as well. Surfers (with ambitions) are pretty active people for instance. But sure, on average most people are way more active in the mountains than on the beach and personally I do prefer the mountains.

(And I tried hard moved moving also into the alps, but it did not work out so far, I will rather now move from semi mountain area to a flat area, but not for too long I hope)
by akshitgaur2005 | 2025-09-14 08:15:42+00:00
I am originally from the Himalayas (Garhwal specifically), although not quite as high as in the article, my village is at 5000 ft and damn did I have a shock when I took my desi friends up there (desi means people from the Indo-Gangetic plains, I unfortunately had to come to New Delhi for college and you can imagine the contrast!). While in Delhi, I am one of the more unathletic nerds, but as soon as we were in the mountains, these guys were no match for me! Roads are still very few and far in between in my region so you have to walk a lot, and these guys were getting tired on paths even small children and 80 year olds have no problem completing!
by sshine | 2025-09-14 08:18:44+00:00
That’s a good comparison.

But at another scale.

I tell my CS students who ask if there will be any junior positions for them when they graduate:

There will be an entire new industry of people who vibed 1000 lines of MVP and now are stuck with something they can’t debug. It’s not called a junior developer, but it’s called someone who actually knows programming.

Also, they will continue to deliver code that is full of security holes, because programming teachers are often not competent to teach those aspects, and IT security professionals who teach tend to be poor programmers or paper pushers.
by hackrmn | 2025-09-14 08:20:28+00:00
It's been a while I've had to sit down applying or writing a parser or a parser generator, but it being/offering a "simple recursive descent" parser, does that mean left-recursion is a no-go?

In my opinion, parser libraries/frameworks indeed are all mired by the usual suspects which make adoption painful:

* Must learn another grammar language which for some strange reason I suspect has to do with "tradition", must reside in _a file_ -- as opposed to just be expressed with code (i.e. `bin_expr = Concatenation(Ref('expr'), bin_op, Ref('expr'))`); if a BNF language _is_ used for grammar, it almost always is used with some non-standard syntax for helping resolve shift/reduce errors, etc -- which for me puts it into the same "this is not needed" category

* Defined by the kind of parser that is generated, so implying you have to know parser theory in order to know what languages you will never be able to parse with said library/framework; made even worse when some kludge is added with extensive documentation on how to get out of the predicament because "the parser cannot theoretically handle the grammar/language but it otherwise is really great because it uses ABC kind of parsing which is why we chose it" -- the impression it gives a person who knows parsing enough to know they need to construct a grammar and that the grammar may feature ambiguities, is that they have to learn more parser theory; when you learn more parser theory, you usually just implement your own parser unless you need to parse e.g. C++, admittedly; for case in point, see my remark on the "recursive descent parser" being used with Lexy

To be frank, I like the addition of yet another parser generator -- the more the merrier, because contrary to that one earlier statement, that "parsing is a solved problem", I think it is not -- the theory has substantial headway on the practice, meaning that in theory it is [a solved problem], but in practice it is not, in my experience.
by leobg | 2025-09-14 08:21:16+00:00
Interesting. WhisperMemos user here.

I used audio journaling before Whisper came out, and I did have a pipeline that would run a transcription through Google Cloud and save the transcript to Evernote. I didn’t actually review the transcripts most of the time, but the very fact of developing my thoughts—without being constrained by typing speed—was very helpful.

What I also liked about this system was that it gave me independence of place: I didn’t have to sit down at a computer. Instead, I could be thinking aloud while driving a car, or while taking a walk in the countryside. Usually, after finishing such a conversation with myself, I would automatically feel much more clarity about the upcoming day, or about whatever issue that had been on my mind.

If I were to add AI to this process, I would perhaps only have the AI extract some bullet point summaries for the topics that were covered, and anything that could be considered a potential to-do item—so that as output you would get these high-level summaries, along with the raw transcript.

If you wanted to, you could also color-code for each summary item the parts of the raw transcript in which these are covered. So, if you ever do look at the summary-slash-transcript, you can always quickly look up what your thoughts were on the subject—though I would guess this would not happen often.

And the most value from that would probably be that your future self, say 10 or 20 or 50 years from now, will be able to dive into what went through your head at this point in time. For the immediate present, the most value probably just comes from taking the mess that is in your head of unfinished thoughts and serializing it into coherent speech—until you feel everything that’s on your mind has been said.
by ksec | 2025-09-14 08:21:24+00:00
Model/Battery Life Battery Capacity (mAh)

iPhone 17 Pro Max: 5088 mAh (100%)

iPhone 16 Plus: 4,674 mAh

iPhone 15 Plus: 4,383 mAh

iPhone 17 Pro: 4252 mAh (84%)

iPhone 17: 3692 mAh (73%)

iPhone 16e: 4,005 mAh

iPhone 16 Pro: 3,582 mAh

iPhone 16: 3,561 mAh

iPhone 15 Pro: 3,274 mAh

iPhone 15: 3,349 mAh

iPhone 14 Pro: 3,200 mAh

iPhone Air: 3149 mAh (62%)
by thot_experiment | 2025-09-14 08:21:50+00:00
The heart rate is calculated manually by counting 20 heartbeats and using the timer.

Here are a couple (and I recall one other project but I can't remember the name of it right now) open source alternatives for those who aren't trying to fw a proprietary app/closed source system.

https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch https://github.com/PegorK/F91_Kepler
by somenameforme | 2025-09-14 08:22:32+00:00
Don't you see that one could see you're the one not arguing in good faith? What he's saying is that taking out of context clips do not represent anything. You need to understand the context of what is being said, and why.

For instance earlier in this thread numerous people were claiming he said he disliked the word empathy, completely leaving out the part of the discussion where he said that is because it had been politically weaponized and abused, much preferring the term sympathy which is less susceptible to exploitation.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-09-14 08:23:07+00:00
It's been known for many years that the flu vaccine reduces heart attack incidence. The flu either causes lasting damage to the cardiovascular system or directly causes heart attacks.

This is perfectly well known and absolutely nothing new.

This study merely expands research on the topic (focus on bacteria+biofilm instead of flu).

So "Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease" is a weird clickbait title. We know. We knew for a long time.

We also have quite a few of anti biofilm agents in IV formulations that could have an effect inside of the cardiovascular system if used in high dosages, but the molecules are old, cheap and unsexy, so no one will try. (ambroxol and NAC come to mind)
by Luker88 | 2025-09-14 08:24:02+00:00
Some people appreciate leaving the pc open for light tasks even at night, and wasting too much power doing nothing is... well, wasteful. Imagine a home server that has the GPU for AI or multimedia stuff.

The same architecture will also be used in mobile, so depending on where this comes from (architecturally) it could mean more power savings there, too.

Besides, lower power also means lower cooling/noise on idle, and shorter cooldown times after a burst of work.

And since AMD is slowly going to the (ever next-time) unified architecture, any gains there will also mean less idle power draw in other environments, like servers.

Nothing groundbreaking, sure, but I won't say no to all of that.
by kaoD | 2025-09-14 08:24:22+00:00
This is not about "future" or "past" dates but (to use Temporal as a common language) whether the date is an Instant or a ZonedDateTime conceptually.

I think that's essentially what you mean, but it's an important distinction. It's use-case based. Making a data type time-based will not simplify, but only complicate things.

[0] https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/
by hyperman1 | 2025-09-14 08:24:32+00:00
gcc itself is a great example. Before that, we had every processor developer creating their own specific compiler. They were all expensive buggy, user unfriendly. Once a standard was implemented, there was no chance they 'd ever upgrade to the next one. Gcc was so much better than all of them. We're now at the point that a new c++ standard is available for users in a few months after being released. A big change from the not yet c89 compilers still in use in 2005

But gcc got a push themselves: from intels compiler and egcs demonstrating optimization can be better. From llvm, demonstrating sanitizers and nicer user experience. From msvc showing a less nasal demon traps.

Gcc was a great pooling of effort, and they now can do more than smaller vendors because of it. But they also aren't a monopoly, and that meand we always are able to see the alternatives for it.
by silisili | 2025-09-14 08:24:47+00:00
Um... where do your suggestions come from?

I was trying to be edgy by typing something illogical, like 'sandpaper (sextoy)', and the search box added 'for babies.'

I'm more impressed than outraged I think, and curious if this is based on other searches or some engine. Though I'm not sure which would be worse.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-14 08:26:02+00:00
As long as they're done faithfully; there's reproductions of old ships too for museum purposes, since the old ships just rotted away over time (I assume). Rebuilding them with modern knowledge of e.g. wood / rope / sail preservation will be valuable.

It also makes me think of a reddit question the other day - why did people cover up their beautiful wooden flooring with carpets? The answer is that they didn't have epoxy sealants and the like back then so it was maintenance heavy.
by cyphax | 2025-09-14 08:26:29+00:00
I used an Indy with X11 forwarding for a while, I could run a modern Firefox from my Linux machine, which worked nicely. As much as it looked like it was running natively, it really wasn't, so downloads would end up on the other computer, and sound would also play remotely. Because I never throw anything away I still have a small bunch of these machines in the attic (apart from the Indigo they are all teal though) waiting for this kind of treatment, which have been super high on my to-do list.
by pembrook | 2025-09-14 08:27:14+00:00
You’re strengthening OP’s point instead of undermining it.

The “some governments banned it for kids” argument is an appeal to authority, a logical fallacy.

The actions of tech-reactionist leftist governments absolutely do not constitute sound science or evidence in this matter.

And if you’re claiming the French government only makes government policy based on sound data, I will point you to their currently unraveling government over the mathematically impossible social pension scheme they’ve created.
by ipnon | 2025-09-14 08:28:57+00:00
I disagree with your conclusion, but my argument is rather about why a strong censorship and surveillance apparatus exists in UK and PRC and why USA merely has mass surveillance apparatus without concomitant mass censorship. Another feature of American memetic ecosystem is some immunization against manipulation, in that memes such as “Russia is manipulating elections” or “university professors are indoctrinating students” are widespread if not universal. You will note that in nature the most effective rate of immunity in a population is never 100%.

I am a humble HN poster, and this is simply food for thought, and I appreciate your attention.
by rickydroll | 2025-09-14 08:30:21+00:00
Interesting perspective on meditation. I was fortunate enough to have had good teachers through the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center and the Insight Meditation Society. As you would expect, my experience differs from what you described.

In my opinion, breath-focused meditation is not thinking. It is being aware of the physical sensations of breathing and being aware of emotions and thoughts that arrive, but not engaging with them. Breath awareness and letting thoughts and emotions come into your mind is the easy part. Not engaging with them is the tricky part.

You are right to point out that suggestions like meditation are not one-size-fits-all. Some people aren't ready to commit to the changes meditation brings about, just as others are not ready to undertake weight loss or personal improvement. No blame. When you're ready, the practice will be there.

RE: Running on autopilot. Yes, there are parts of the body that need to function on autopilot, such as breathing and heartbeat. I appreciate that my stomach and intestines run on autopilot. At the same time, I think running on autopilot is dangerous because that is what gets hijacked by social media and misled by advertising. It's why you miss a turn and drive the way you always drove and why you write down the wrong date when the year changes. I consider running an automatic as a possible reason why using AI "makes people stupider."

Meditation (walking, breath, flame) taps into a semi-universal part of the brain, below the level of consciousness, and provides a mechanism for reducing brain chaos, also known as the monkey mind. In my experience, developing the skill of reducing monkey mind-generated chaos becomes a semi-automatic process reinforced through daily meditation practice.

Most mindfulness practices focus on being aware of your body and mind at a low level all the time. It's not an active engagement; it's simply being aware. The monkey mind burns a lot of cycles, and I would rather spend those cycles being aware of the monkey mind triggers and not engaging with them.
by maxglute | 2025-09-14 08:30:31+00:00
People wank about "stability and convertibility" for reserve currency, but the real story is USD strong because USD profitable. US can internationalize domestic crisis, blow up countries, stir foreign instability "paradoxically" global investors pile into the dollar safe haven. The foundation of that is investors trust FED will ensure USD more profitable on stabilized basis than alternatives, regardless of problems, foreign or domestic, and overtime this accumulates into uncontestably deep liquidity that sustains reserve currency. But that's also mechanism of baseline Triffin bind: the U.S. runs deficits to supply dollars abroad to maintain reserve status, if Trump (because that's what he's signalling) deliberately abandons USD ROI credibility and sustains it, like weak-dollar policy (for muh exports, how how investors lose 30c on the dollar), reserve demand unravels or debt servicing increases even more. AKA USD can survive almost any external crises, but internal sabotage i.e. sustained deliberate devaluation will erode profitability (safety) / liquidity premium -> feedback loop of weaker demand, higher yields, both bad. Reserve demand only works when the FED isn't captured for policy that undermines USD premium / mercantilist FX gaming and US eats Triffin that may or may not be good for Americans.

At end of the day PRC doesn't want RMB as reserve - they don't want Triffin either. They just want insulation from USD weaponization while the U.S. is sanction-happy and forced into erratic policy trying to "solve" its structural bind by making foreigners eat the cost. The real Chinese play is to build RMB strength at home while the U.S. either burns the dollar to dig out of the debt hole, imposing losses on global investors, or keeps digging until debt service alone paralyzes U.S. policy capacity, already visible in constraints on defense procurement, i.e. airforce / naval capitalization. That paralysis is the bigger strategic win than simply ending USD reserve status.
by balamatom | 2025-09-14 08:33:16+00:00
Nice bloody try, guv, I mean "blitz_skull".

Tell me now will ya, who will effect "the real weight of social consequence" over anonymous 1-to-1M connections, other than other humans, the same kind that by your premise are not "capable of responsibly wielding [...] power" over such things?

(Or are there multiple kinds? Eh?)

Would "the real weight of social consequence" work the way you want it to when embodied by a commission? When codified by law? In the form a bot? As crowd? A corp? Me? Nah, you of course.

It's ever telling how the legitimacy of millions of strangers being able to decide the fate of any one individual is hardly ever called into question - only ever the ability of one to talk back.
by rwyinuse | 2025-09-14 08:33:32+00:00
I guess I just don't feel like it's really my self-expression, if I just told a generative AI model to create it. I do sometimes create AI art, but I rarely feel like it's worth keeping, since I didn't really put any effort into creating it. There's no emotional connection to the output. In fact I have a wall display which shows a changing painting generated by stable diffusion, but the fun in that is mainly the novelty, not knowing what will be there next time.

Still, I do think you're probably right. Most new music one hears in the radio isn't that great. If you can just create fresh songs of your own liking for every day, then that could be a real threat to that kind of music. But I highly doubt people will stop listening to the great hits of Queen, Bob Marley etc because you can generate similar music with AI.
by graycat | 2025-09-14 08:33:40+00:00
Apparently a lot of money is flowing into AI.

Looking around, can find curious things current AI can't do but likely can find important things it can do. Uh, there's "a lot of money", can't be sure AI won't make big progress, and even on a national scale no one wants to fall behind. Looking around, it's scary about the growth -- Page and Brin in a garage, Bezos in a garage, Zuckerberg in school and "Hot or Not", Huang and graphics cards, .... One or two guys, ... and in a few years change the world and $trillions in company value??? Smoking funny stuff?

Yes, AI can be better than a library card catalog subject index and/or a dictionary/encyclopedia. But a step or two forward and, remembering 100s of soldiers going "over the top" in WWI, asking why some AI robots won't be able to do the same?

Within 10 years, what work can we be sure AI won't be able to do?

So people will keep trying with ASML, TSMC, AMD, Intel, etc. -- for a yacht bigger than the one Bezos got or for national security, etc.

While waiting for AI to do everything, starting now it can do SOME things and is improving.

Hmm, a SciFi movie about Junior fooling around with electronics in the basement, first doing his little sister Mary's 4th grade homework, then in the 10th grade a published Web site book on the rise and fall of the Eastern Empire, Valedictorian, new frontiers in mRNA vaccines, ...?

And what do people want? How 'bout food, clothing, shelter, transportation, health, accomplishment, belonging, security, love, home, family? So, with a capable robot (funded by a16z?), it builds two more like itself, each of those ..., and presto-bingo everyone gets what they want?

"Robby, does P = NP?"

"Is Schrödinger's equation correct?"

"How and when can we travel faster than the speed of light?"

"Where is everybody?"
by lemonberry | 2025-09-14 08:34:18+00:00
I can see AI helping some businesses do really well. I can also see it becoming akin to mass manufacturing. Take furniture for example, there's a lot of mass produced furniture of varying quality. But there are still people out there making furniture by hand. A lot of the hand built furniture is commanding higher prices due to the time and skill required. And people buy it!

I think we'll see a ton of games produced by AI or aided heavily by AI but there will still be people "hand crafting" games: the story, the graphics, etc. A subset of these games will have mass appeal and do well. Others will have smaller groups of fans.

It's been some time since I've read it, but these conversation remind me of Walter Benjamin's essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".
by somenameforme | 2025-09-14 08:34:39+00:00
So would your opinions be inciting violence by your own definitions? You mentioned above wanting to send weapons to Ukraine. Those weapons will be used to kill people, and have frequently been used to intentionally target victims with no military connection whatsoever. They will also be used to prolong a conflict that's not only increasingly obviously hopeless, but at this only being sustained exclusively by locking people inside of a country, making it impossible for them to leave, and then replenishing mass deaths on the front line by dragging random people in off the streets, often through violence.

The overwhelming majority of Ukrainians want the war to end immediately by settlement, which obviously will include large scale territorial concessions. [1] The headline for that article is "Ukrainian support for war effort collapses", while you're here claiming we should perpetuate the war as much as possible, implicitly suggesting you're taking the Ukrainian side. This, by the way, is way free and open debate is so important. You obviously have not really thought to imagine how things might look from somebody else's perspective because you probably simply have not been exposed to that much, if at all.

And it seems it's literally dangerous to expose certain groups contrary view points at this time in society, as they respond to words with bullets.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/693203/ukrainian-support-war-ef...
by bitwize | 2025-09-14 08:35:27+00:00
> we would have been better off had Wayland just been a X11 extension.

That would have never happened. From a functionality standpoint, Wayland is "the parts of X11 modern toolkits actually use". Give clients a buffer, have them locally render into that buffer, then composite the buffers together into a final display. Xorg can do all this. It's just a question of, do we want the maintenance burden of all the other stuff that Xorg has, like obsolete graphics primitives, obsolete visuals, etc.? And do we want the architectural decisions of X11, which seemed sensible in the 80s, but make far less sense in light of modern GPUs and modern applications with modern display needs?

The point of Wayland always was to start from scratch.
by krrishd | 2025-09-14 08:35:41+00:00
I see, I misread: that’s interesting. I would assume the issuer would still be liable to resolve the backing, but yeah I could see how that poses systemic risk.

I also don’t think such a risk could realistically remain hidden - this is still going to be heavily regulated and audited, and industry will wise up to the sorts of risk that emerge.