MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-04 17:40:32+00:00
You couldn't in practical terms. The vast majority of premodern people were peasant farmers who owned no capital other than (possibly!) the land & livestock they farmed and the tools used to farm them. All this having almost no liquid value in the market such as it existed at the time. It was essentially impossible to pick up and start over somewhere else. That's aside from if you even had the right to do that; depending on time and place peasants were sometimes legally bound to their landlord.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-09-04 17:41:14+00:00
In this scenario, what happens when there’s a run on a stablecoin?

The bonds are sold en masse, and the value of those bonds will be hit, driving up gov borrowing costs (plus they just lost a source of demand), meaning the stablecoin “bank” could be bankrupt, right?

With stable coins you’re really trusting a private company to invest your money in a way that is robust to a drop in confidence. Isn’t this high risk? If a coin gets large enough, is it a threat to government solvency?
by joshdavham | 2025-09-04 17:41:36+00:00
Out of curiosity, did you use an existing package for sm-2 or did you implement it from scratch?

I only ask because I've implemented various sm-2 packsges in Python, Typescript and Rust and have made them available under the MIT if anyone's interested: https://github.com/orgs/open-spaced-repetition/repositories?...

(Also, nerdy aside, but the original sm-2 technically had 6 possible ratings)
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-04 17:41:56+00:00
> [0] It has to be specified that a) Monty knows what's behind which door, and b) he will on purpose always open a door such that there's a goat behind it.

You don't need condition (a) here. It's enough to just stipulate that a door with a goat behind it will be opened, however that comes about
by mullingitover | 2025-09-04 17:42:41+00:00
The argument for tariffs on China's panels is that they're dumping.

However, really the answer to dumping is to exploit the dumper viciously, buy as much below market rate product of theirs as you can while they bleed money (especially a capital good like solar panels).

The US could be driving down the cost of energy nationwide with the dumped power generation equipment. Lower cost energy could then be turbocharging (nearly) every other industry in the country.

The only industry this harms is fossil fuels, and solar is being hamstrung to protect this legacy industry at the cost of all potential future industries.
by nadeem55 | 2025-09-04 17:43:13+00:00
We discovered that async/await was secretly slowing down our production dashboard — not because the code was “bad,” but because async carries hidden costs: microtasks, serialized loops, UI thread churn.

I wrote up a breakdown with examples + fixes: The Dark Side of Async: Why Your Promises Are Slower Than You Think

Would love to hear if others have seen async/await cause unexpected lag at scale.
by vikingerik | 2025-09-04 17:43:19+00:00
Exactly the opposite for me. I would never tolerate contacts and hated wearing glasses too. I had Lasik, 18 years ago now, and absolutely glad I did.

For me the only significant downside is dry eyes (it damages the nerves that sense dryness so you don't produce as many tears), but that's manageable with eyedrops. I do notice my night vision getting slightly worse now in my late forties, but hard to tell if that actually had anything to do with Lasik or if it's just normal aging. No problems with driving at night yet, and eye exams tell me everything is normal.
by bflesch | 2025-09-04 17:43:25+00:00
Yes, of course I use it a lot. It is a great hobby. But only use it because it is kind of forced upon us. It's just so inefficient nowadays. Cooking used to be for the whole homestead or for the large family. Now it is mostly only for the immediate family. All the machines are not utilized properly. When people discussed car sharing it was exactly the same argument and I feel it also applies to kitchens.

With the "tableware" argument I meant something like a standardized (magnetic?) adapter for grabbing plates, forks and knives so they can easily be moved by machines/robots.

I feel a company like Ikea is perfectly set up to make this idea a reality, but they'll never do so because they make much more money when every single household buys all these appliances and items for their own kitchen.

Just from the perspective of a single household in a densely populated city I think it'd be nice to have freshly cooked, reproducibly prepared meals with high-quality ingredients available to me. Like an automated soup kitchen with cleanup. Without all the layers of plastic wrapping needed to move produce from large-scale distributors into single-household fridges and so on.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-04 17:44:56+00:00
You are kidding, right?

Trying to throw people under the bus as "You are wrong and factually inaccurate" for comments made over the last few days by...

... by linking to a news article TODAY about how Tesla is STARTING to WAITLIST users of its app?

I'm sure you could be more disingenuous. But you'd have to make an effort to do so.

Also, I am completely unimpressed with a "Robotaxi" service that has someone literally sitting in the driver's seat, let alone trying to claim some form of superiority over the competition.
by brunohaid | 2025-09-04 17:45:13+00:00
I’m sure the current administration will put prudent oversight in place for that not to happen.

But I guess we will find out in a 2027 Bessent presser announcing the Fed stepping in.

More serious answer: the bigger risk is trusting SV types to be content with a couple of percent in spread, and not starting to pull all kind of shenanigans to juice returns to a point where it becomes much harder to bail them out vs just taking back the treasuries.

US government solvency seems, as crazy as it sounds, less of an issue, as evidenced by the brief tantrums with absolutely no real effects beyond a couple of protesting headlines in the recent months. Where else are people around the world going to put their money? But as gifted as the current gov crew is at turning privilege into disaster, we're probably going to find out soon enough if there are any actual limits to that.
by greedo | 2025-09-04 17:45:34+00:00
Being a generational running back with a huge NFL contract makes it much easier to invest like this than the average back who only lasts a couple of years in the NFL. Plus Barkley is also the beneficiary of plenty of endorsements. When the average player is out of the league in 3 years, often due to injury, it's not unexpected that they may have financial difficulties. Most of the degrees they get aren't worth much, and while the minimum salary looks enticing, the taxes eat it up quickly, as do all the people clamoring for a cut.
by westurner | 2025-09-04 17:45:47+00:00
Paraphrasing the model's reply to force myself to learn:

The brain is observed to be cyclical with feedback cycles. (Biological neural networks thus cannot be sufficiently modeled with DAGs. RNN Recurrent Neural Networks do model cycles.)

The brain is actually its own generator.

The oscillations of the brain are measurable with e.g. EEG; and are distinct from the heart, which is measurable or imaged with ECG, for example.

Long term memory depends upon synaptic plasticity, which does not require continued electrical charge, though short term memory does depend upon neuronal oscillations which depend upon continued electrical charge.

The DMN Default Mode Network in the brain is observed to be less active in so-called flow states; and more active during daydreaming, ear worm, rumination, and self-reflection. The DMN is probably feed-forward too.
by paulorlando | 2025-09-04 17:46:17+00:00
You're thinking of Clubhouse? Raised around $200M. Fast up and down. The behavior our old startup had noticed 10 years earlier was that while people were happy to engage with audio only, retention was tough unless there was something more. For us that meant focusing on the health-related talks. Patients and their doctors and support group leaders took the talks as part of the recovery process. Very different retention came from that.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-04 17:46:33+00:00
> The incentive to do is partially based on tariffs, but the incentive hasn't spurred the private sector and supply chain maintainers into action, and a more comprehensive strategy would need to be done. There is no consensus for further subsidies from the national government to spur this production either.

Tariffs leading to expanded US solar panel production might be one of the few things that would lead Trump to cancel tariffs. Solar is somehow offensive to him.
by garciasn | 2025-09-04 17:47:24+00:00
I work from home and honestly might use a tank of gas a month; I also only own one vehicle. However, I do have a vacation home where I drive to/from every week from June to September and it does not have currently have the level of electric service, nor availability of charging infrastructure nearby, to allow for me to charge an EV w/o driving 25+ miles each way.

So; to answer your question: how often do I drive 300+ miles in a day? 2x a week for 1/4 of the year.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-04 17:48:13+00:00
There are none. But I don't want the economic system to be judged by its ability to do resource allocation. I want my economic system to be judged by its ability to improve metrics of human well being - and not even the median well-being, but the well-being of say the 10% percentile person in society.

Sure, resource allocation can be a instrumental to those goals of human well being, but not the directly optimized metric. So, for example, I care very little gdp/capita when you can just as easily measure life expectancy or food stress levels.

On such counts, capitalism has a mixed record. Today, for example, a lot of countries that are "more capitalistic" than others have poorer metrics of human development than those that are "less capitalistic".
by transpute | 2025-09-04 17:48:30+00:00
> we (as a society) have got a bunch of poorly patched or corporate controlled WiFi routers

Mobile phone spyware can attack poorly patched or corporate controlled WiFi radio basebands, for 3D imaging of human user behavior.

> heart rate

Laptop demo (2022), https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/respiration... | https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/...

Intel Labs introduces.. respiration sensing via Wi-Fi.
by scott_w | 2025-09-04 17:48:33+00:00
> Did I, or did I not, have the option to fast, or not to fast?

It looks like you had an option but it’s not possible to truly know whether you had an option. I’m not in your head so I can’t know. If, under the same circumstances and same state of mind, you perform the same action 100% of the time, did you really make a choice? Or did you just follow your programming?
by cloudtrucks | 2025-09-04 17:48:38+00:00
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by contingencies | 2025-09-04 17:49:56+00:00
All of the above are also deeply vulnerable to any pervasive, government-supported payment systems. For example Pix (Brazil), Bre-B (Colombia; this year), WeChat/AliPay (close-to-gov duopoly in China).

In this day and age, countries need not be beholden to the pile of duct tape that is the credit card system and its innumerate middle-men and inefficiencies.

This is a good thing.
by Wikipedianon | 2025-09-04 17:49:58+00:00
The article criticizes doxxing but well-known Wikipedia editors doxx each other all the time... There's a site called Wikipediocracy that's been around for 20 years and an Arbitrator (Wiki's Supreme Court) was suspended for leaking secret deliberations to the "private" section of the forum—just make an account and you can see it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

According to that Arbitrator, Wikimedia gave a legal opinion that he violated the law in doing so:

"Well, I got a result today: the ombuds commisssion found that I did indeed violate the access to nonpublic data policy, and has issued a final warning to me. Apparently mailing list comments are, "under a contemporary understanding of privacy law and the policies in question," nonpublic data on the same level as CU data or supressed libel."

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=350266#p350...

Wasn't the first time he did it either... Officially, community guidelines only apply on the site itself. Once you get into the Discords or forums, doxxing is common and tolerated. Admins and arbitrators are happy to participate on those forums under their Wikipedia usernames because they feel like they need doxx to take action against those trying to harm Wikipedia. And because it (usually) isn't them doing the doxxing, it's ok. There's even an "alt-right identification thread" where established editors can request doxxing from people who don't link their accounts onwiki.

Generally this targets newer editors who aren't in a clique yet. e.g. The person who made "Wikipedia and Antisemitism" got doxxed. Once you get to a certain level, you are expected to participate in these "offwiki" forums to get anything done.

Some people try to complain about it but it doesn't end well. Generally you don't want to fuck with them because by the time you find out about Wikipediocracy, you've already revealed too much and are doxxable. & unlike nation-state actors they have inside information and understand the site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...

If you do choose to edit Wikipedia, use a burner email and only edit during the same one or two hours of the day so they can't track timezones. & don't post any photos or information on where you live nor attend meetups.

There are some good people but once you get deeply involved it is a toxic community. Sorry for the rant but it pisses me off whenever people talk about how great the Wikipedia community is as someone who's into the internal shit. it's the worst place to get involved in "free culture".
by leecoursey | 2025-09-04 17:50:11+00:00
Mice were trained to indicate the location of a visual grating stimulus, which appeared on the left or right with a prior probability alternating between 0.2 and 0.8 in blocks of variable length. We found that mice estimate this prior probability and thereby improve their decision accuracy. Furthermore, we report that this subjective prior is encoded in at least 20% to 30% of brain regions that, notably, span all levels of processing, from early sensory areas (the lateral geniculate nucleus and primary visual cortex) to motor regions (secondary and primary motor cortex and gigantocellular reticular nucleus) and high-level cortical regions (the dorsal anterior cingulate area and ventrolateral orbitofrontal cortex). This widespread representation of the prior is consistent with a neural model of Bayesian inference involving loops between areas, as opposed to a model in which the prior is incorporated only in decision-making areas. This study offers a brain-wide perspective on prior encoding at cellular resolution, underscoring the importance of using large-scale recordings on a single standardized task.
by xorvoid | 2025-09-04 17:50:11+00:00
I would say this is all we really should reasonably expect from our knowledge consensus systems. In fact it’s the same values that “science” stands on: do our best everyday and continue to try improving.

It’s a bit hard for me to imagine something better (in practice). It’s easy to want more or feel like reality doesn’t live up to one’s idealism.

But we live here and now in the messiness of the present.

Viva la Wikipedia!
by fragmede | 2025-09-04 17:51:03+00:00
You're in a meeting. A task comes up. Do you volunteer to do it? Taking on the task is additional work. It is also "sucking up". If you don't want to do something, and then make fun of the people that actually want to get things done and call them names, instead of, y'know, choosing to take on additional work, it's easy to believe that hard work doesn't get you anywhere, because you've chosen to divide things to do at work into "real" work, and "sucking up". There's not really a difference, but in one scenario you think you're better than the other person.

People like it when you do things for them. If you suck up all the work you can do at your job, in my version of corporate America I've experienced, you get promoted.
by nh23423fefe | 2025-09-04 17:51:05+00:00
i don't agree because this seems circular. You cant even define a matrix as something that acts on vectors meaningfully until you have some machinery.

if you start with a set S and then make it vector space V over field K. Then by definition, linear combinations (and its not an algebra so nonlinear isn't even defined) are closed in V.

You can then define spanning sets and linear independence to get bases. From bases you can define coordinate vectors over K^n as isomorphic to V. Then given some linear function f : V->W by definition f(v) = f(v^i * b_i) = v^i * f(b_i)

Only here is when you can even define a matrix meaningfully as a tuple of coordinate vectors which are the image of some basis vectors.

Then you need to prove that what was function application of linear functions on vectors is the same as a new operation of multiplication of matrices with coordinate vectors.

And then to prove the multiplication rule (which is inherently coordinate based) you are going make the same argument I made in sibling comment. But I could prove the rule directly by substitution using only systems of linear equations as the starting point.
by NickC25 | 2025-09-04 17:51:37+00:00
Easier to do when you're an extremely relevant person in your sport.

Not all NFL athletes have a shot at getting any endorsements at all. In fact, most don't.

Be a star player or famous role player on a very successful team, that's way different than some backup lineman who is out of the league by the time their rookie contract ends.

American football is by and far the worst culprit - in all the other big or semi-relevant american sports - baseball, basketball, hockey, etc, you can make a decent living playing overseas. Not huge, but decent enough. Can't do that with football.
by jrm4 | 2025-09-04 17:52:17+00:00
Once again, I'll both big-up and ask what's up with Tinc.

As in, I've been using it for years and still do, it's sort of an integral part of my whole deal, but it also seems kind of unmaintained, I haven't checked on that.

And it's not the easiest to set up, but it feels miles ahead of whatever the Wireguard equivalent is or isn't these days.
by drewbitt | 2025-09-04 17:52:42+00:00
They're only the second agent on Terminal Bench to try GPT-5. I am suspicious of the value of Terminal Bench based on how long it takes for it to see updates and the lack of major agents - Warp has coasted off being #1 in all their advertising and promos since June with not much competition. Possibly Warp was just that much better than everyone else so they didn't bother, but after trialing it, I don't think so. Not for Typescript for sure - it doesn't even have LSP support.
by woah | 2025-09-04 17:52:59+00:00
How can an invoice "not be legal" if it records a transaction? Sounds like your jurisdiction is requiring superfluous formatting rules, but I don't see how that's anyone's problem except for yours.

You're trying to get Stripe to force merchants to conform to some arbitrary document format for an invoice that isn't even part of Stripe's transaction flow, based on a regex on emails for certain TLDs?? Is Stripe the world's paperwork policeman?

Maybe just don't order from merchants who won't supply you documents in the format you like, instead of trying to get Stripe to act as judge, jury, and executioner in the court of Stripe. Or talk to your government representatives and get them to lift these rules so you can do business like everyone else in the world.
by egeres | 2025-09-04 17:53:14+00:00
That's because the studio's ethics are against pre-orders (and of course any type of lootboxes, microtransactions etc). I'm also happy they settled on a relatively low price tag of 19.50€, other studios would have marked it around 60€ to milk their user's wallets taking advantage of all the anticipation built up these years, kudos to team cherry
by alchemical_piss | 2025-09-04 17:53:26+00:00
Agreed, it’s a very hot take on this website, where everyone’s egos have been inflated to near popping, but I’ve long held that most software jobs are pretty easy.

But the cool thing about software is that it has paid so well despite its relative ease, it’s a well paying field that still secures a middle class life that’s resilient to inflation.

Once that’s gone, a whole lot of people are going to find themselves condemned to dropping an economic class or two.
by mordechai9000 | 2025-09-04 17:53:46+00:00
I think people (myself included) have a mental model of the other driver that seems to default to the worst possible interpretation of their motives.

If I was in a grocery store and someone "cut me off" and forced me to slow down because they misjudged the timing, I would think nothing of it. I certainly wouldn't make an obscene gesture and shout at them.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-04 17:53:50+00:00
I'd say that making such determinations based on fragmentary information, such as decontextualised headlines, is a better characterisation. Arguments like these (where some people say "it's abuse!" and others say "it's not abuse!", and nobody focuses on how they're not using the same "it") make the lines seem blurred when actually, it's pretty clear-cut most of the time.

Even if you know the lines aren't blurred, if you perceive others acting as though it's up for debate, you're more likely to consider bad-faith appeals to the subjectivity of abuse as perhaps being in good faith. Few among us are philosophers capable of reasoning everything through from first principles, all the time, so these things matter.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-04 17:54:04+00:00
I think that I am using something which is essentially https://zapps.app where I can just give it a glibc app and it would give me a folder structure with all the dependencies which I feel like might be similar to nix in only that sense (and not reproducibility or language)

I recently tried to run it in alpine after seeing this blog post and here's what I can say. If you lets say have debian or something or any system where any binary might work, run the script and then it would output a folder/tar and then you can move it anywhere and run it including alpine.

I am thinking of creating an article. But in the meanwhile I have created an asciinema gif to show you guys what I mean. Open to feedback as always.

https://asciinema.org/a/qHGHlU0o4V7VgyyWxtHY2PG5Y
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-04 17:55:06+00:00
One of the major determining factors of if CG blends well with 2D animation is if the 3D was farmed out to another studio or done in-house. All of the biggest 2D-3D hybrid success stories in anime (such a ufotable, the studio behind Demon Slayer) have an in-house CG team that works in tandem with the 2D and compositing teams.