MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bb88 | 2025-09-15 02:34:30+00:00
I think the issue I have is simpler. My understanding is those that were obese and have lost weight still have a higher chance of getting type 2 diabetes than those that were slim throughout their lives. If your chance of getting diabetes is 70% while obese, and 2.2% (or 15% or whatever it actually is) after losing weight, how is that not a win?
by sgarland | 2025-09-15 02:34:40+00:00
Granted, I wasn’t into Arch at the time, but in the mid-aughts, Gentoo’s forums were a massively useful resource for Linux knowledge in general. That’s why I used it, anyway. The joy of getting an obscure sound card (Chaintech AV-710) to work in Linux, and sharing that knowledge with others, was enough.
by selcuka | 2025-09-15 02:34:59+00:00
No, they explicitly block Gemini as well:

User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: /

Gemini still uses the same user agent, but it has a different robots.txt entry (Google-Extended) [1]:

> Google-Extended is a standalone product token that web publishers can use to manage whether content Google crawls from their sites may be used for training future generations of Gemini models that power Gemini Apps and Vertex AI API for Gemini and for grounding (providing content from the Google Search index to the model at prompt time to improve factuality and relevancy) in Gemini Apps and Grounding with Google Search on Vertex AI.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
by dang | 2025-09-15 02:35:21+00:00
Your comments stand out as aggressive and abusive, even in this hellish flamewar thread. Considering how awful it has been, that's really saying something.

Since, in addition to that, your account has a history of breaking the site guidelines, using HN primarily for political battle, and ignoring our repeated requests to stop, I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by bobthepanda | 2025-09-15 02:35:52+00:00
Sizes are different but also appliances were a lot more temperamental back then; the first oven with a temperature control was only developed in the 20s and it would take a while for them to be in every home.

If anything, much older recipes tend to be less precise simply because they did not have the technology. Before thermostats were put in ovens, baking was done by feeding a fire by vibes, and then leaving your baked good to sit in the residual heat.
by tavavex | 2025-09-15 02:35:57+00:00
> Um. Ok. You say this like it's a good thing? I'll be honest, your statement makes me want that less rather than more.

That person listed a lot of completely different ingredients. Did you dismiss them all out of hand for a specific reason? Something tells me this is about that bias people have, the one where long chemical names are all bad, because they're chemicals, and the only good chemicals one may use is ones that are common enough to receive a non-intimidating normal name. It's all chemistry all the way down.
by lifeformed | 2025-09-15 02:36:40+00:00
I bet you couldn't consistently make a cake even half as good as a box mix for even triple it's cost.

People who don't bake often then baking is just throwing some stuff together and heating it up. It's very hard to get consistent results! It's literally an exact science. Did you weigh all the ingredients exactly? Did your mix and sift them evenly? Is your leavening agent fresh? Did you account for the humidity in your area and kitchen? Does your oven actually heat at the temperature it says? Does it heat evenly inside? Maybe you can pull off a good cake once or twice, but can you do it again, in a different kitchen? What about a smaller cake or bigger one? Box mixes take as many variables out of the equation as possible. They are very forgiving and delicious. There is no shame in using one for the home.
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 02:37:50+00:00
>The articles you linked actually confirm my point, did you mean to link something else?

I meant to link exactly what I linked. The articles do not confirm your point.

You did not make a claim that he simply spoke those literal words. You used a paraphrase that misrepresented who he was referring to.

The sources do not say that he made this statement "about the 'Unite the Right' protestors". They also do not support describing them collectively as being all of those other things you call them.

I do not believe you are engaging in good faith, because someone engaging in good faith ought to notice the clear logical holes in the argument you are making. Especially since it has already been explained to you repeatedly by myself and others.
by hellojesus | 2025-09-15 02:38:11+00:00
It may even make those working there feel like a success of a human. For example, I work at a non faang company doing unsexy work. Although I disagree with Plantir's objectives, I would probably take a role there specifically so I can try to feel like I've succeeded. At present, I feel like a complete and utter failure, and this feeling is renewed literally every day.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-15 02:38:13+00:00
If it's art, to induce a feeling in the audience, then I don't see why you need to restrict it to actual photos of actual things. Once you start tweaking the picture, you can make it feel like all sorts of things that it's not, or appear to be something it's not, so why not go the whole hog and just create an image with whatever tools you can? It seems like photographs some with some sense of legitimacy as being "real" even though photographers can distort how things look to convey some feeling. Susan Sontag's essay described taking many photos of a subject until they showed the right emotion. So you can make anyone look like any emotion by cherry-picking from a huge set of shots.
by theologic | 2025-09-15 02:38:51+00:00
I was there. Ambra was an attempt to:

1. Get out from the blue tax 2. Have and alternative procurement path 3. Set up a channel where we might not cannibalize ourselves. 4. Free outselves from some of our rigorous engineering processes

It was basically a fail fast experiment, which is popular today. It was set up with the thought process that we wanted it more virtual and not to disrupt the core business. It became obvious pretty quick that it brought its own set of risks, and so we moved into Aptiva. It is good to try and fail and get out.

Actually, the Lenovo acquisition was a bit of a war. There was some visionary leadership from the most senior level of Lenovo that saw the core USA as extremely valuable, and allowed them to win arguments. While their long term goal was to move the core to China, they were careful to make sure they kept a lot of the USA team engaged, and many key USA individuals did move or travel constantly to China.

However, I wasn't a part of the company when it was sold, so most of this is top level feedback from my friends that did go.
by orionblastar | 2025-09-15 02:39:20+00:00
I remember Macworld published an article in 1990 or close to it, "Does the Mac make you stupid?" claiming that Mac users using MacWrite compared to DOS users using WordPerfect made more grammar and spelling mistakes on the Mac than on DOS. Supposedly, the brain's creative side takes over the Analytical/logical side of the brain, and the GUI and mouse confuse the brain. Almost everything is GUI and mouse, except for FreeDOS, GNU/Linux command line shells, etc. Even macOS has a UNIX command line now.

Vibe coding is no different; it uses the creative side of the brain. Not stupid or braindead, just different.

It is a problem to solve, and whoever does it will be rich.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-15 02:40:40+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly.

I've been (I am?) addicted to many substances, from fruit-flavoured nicotine juice through to heroin.

I find self-deprecating humour useful, personally. It helps me not wallow, to take the cravings less seriously. I of course wouldn't say the same about anyone who isn't me.

Because, as you say, someone who has an addiction isn't lesser than anyone else. It's a state of being that requires an awful lot of strength.

That said, having to use that strength on 'mango e-liquid' is, I think, funny in an absurdist way. We live in strange times!
by adastra22 | 2025-09-15 02:40:46+00:00
Depends on the drug and dosage. AFAIK stimulants generally don't have severe or long-lasting impact on those areas.

Both Ritalin and Adderall (as well as variants like Vyvanse) are vasoconstrictors and therefore affect blood flow. This leads to some mild discomfort. "Adderall dick" is a temporary condition comparable to "pool shrinkage"; it doesn't affect everyone, depends on the dose, and neither impacts performance--it still responds to sexual stimulation.

Stimulant usage can mildly increase blood pressure, which over the very long term (years, decades) can lead to ED and other more serious issues. However that is part of why these medications require close supervision by the prescribing doctor, who will add other medications like lisinopril to counteract those effects, if observed.

In rare but reported cases it can lead to some weird effects, like dissociating orgasms from physical climax -- you can find lots of self-reports on Reddit about these sorts of things. None of these are permanent and go away when the drug leaves your system.

In the vast majority of patients, none of the above happens, and I'm not aware of a single thing that is permanent (other than the effects of high blood pressure over time if you let that go unwatched). This is unlike, for example, SSRIs which have have permanent effects on sexual well-being. I bring this up because some doctors prescribe SSRIs as a first-line, so they don't have to prescribe controlled substances. Don't let them do this to you -- antidepressants can have some insanely bad (and in some cases, permanent) side effects, drastically alter your personality, and are not considered the standard of care for ADHD.
by js2 | 2025-09-15 02:41:01+00:00
> When I see my grandmother's recipes, hand-written in broken English, it makes me smile, because I can't not read it in my grandmother's voice.

You might enjoy listening to this when you have 10 minutes:

"The Last Batch of Fudge" – by Michael Imber

https://themoth.org/stories/the-last-batch-of-fudge

The Moth's web site is really slow so here's another link to that story in the episode:

https://overcast.fm/+mknK1k/38:45
by Nevermark | 2025-09-15 02:41:21+00:00
I already knew my best friend from childhood was a terminal cynical bastard.

But now this! He has less time than I thought. I will have to forward it to him, and cross my fingers that he doesn't spiral. Thoughts and prayers, man. Before you suggest it, I can't tell him to just "think positive". He would physically explode. Implode? Something. Matter, antimatter.
by Lerc | 2025-09-15 02:42:26+00:00
If the current designs are on the path to AGI and they can do what human intelligence does. I think the capabilities will be much greater than a human of the same reasoning ability. There are already a lot of areas where it is undeniable that their abilities are better than a humans. Right now they are poor reasoners with a vast store of knowledge, that probably creates the illusion of a greater capability for reasoning than they actually have.

If they do arrive at human level reasoning, it is unlikely that the path to doing so will require sacrificing that vast knowledge base.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-15 02:43:04+00:00
My advice, for web pages: always specify the <svg> width and height attributes, or the width and height properties in a style attribute, because if non-inline CSS doesn’t load (more common, for various reasons, than most people realise), the SVG will fill the available width. And you probably don’t want your 24×24 icon rendered at 1900×1900.

(For web apps, I feel I can soften a bit, as you’re more likely to be able to rely on styles. But I would still suggest having appropriate width/height attributes, even if you promptly override them by CSS.)
by dml2135 | 2025-09-15 02:44:08+00:00
Baking may not be easy but it’s not that hard.

If you bake from scratch, then maybe your results won’t be as good at first, but like anything else you will get better with experience and improve with time.

Like, would you suggest people only eat frozen TV dinners because the results will be more consistent than if they cooked a meal themselves?
by simianwords | 2025-09-15 02:44:30+00:00
It provides sources that you can look up if you are using it in the app. But in twitter: the simple fact that a lot of people don't seem to understand is that AI is actually really factually accurate - way more than you can expect from a normal person.

I have seen very very few egregious errors from Grok and most of the factually incorrect posts seem to be caught by it. For the ones that I Grok was incorrect - I verified it myself and I was wrong and Grok was right.

It turns out that Grok is actually really reliable. But the limitations are that it can't fact check extremely niche topics or intricate posts. But 90% of the cases it does catch them.

Edit: it also makes cute errors like this sometimes https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-buzz/grok-ai-mistak...
by kevin_p | 2025-09-15 02:45:13+00:00
I spent a while looking into this and it looks like it's mostly legit. Japanese stations really do seem to be bigger. Having said that, there are two big caveats that make the gap smaller.

First, they're double-counting a lot of passengers in Japan. Tokyo subway isn't a single thing, it's a collection of independent companies, so you need to tap out of one station and tap back into another when changing lines. The JP numbers on Wikipedia are the sum of all the separate Shinjuku stations, which would count a lot of transfer passengers twice.

And second, the table is counting Tokyo's metro system but doesn't include Chinese cities' subways. There are no subway-only stations listed even though plenty of them meet the 30 million passengers/year cutoff. But that's not as big an issue as you might think because even the busiest ones are still far smaller than the big Japanese stations - The busiest is Xizhimen with 237,000 passengers per day, which would translate to 87 million per year. Beijing South Station's subway stop gets 211,000/day = 77 Mn/year, so if we added that the rail passengers it would bring the total to 318 million - but most of them would be going to/from the railway station so that's doing the same sort of double counting as I mentioned in the previous point.

Source for Beijing subway passengers: https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s684153bfe4b0380e186d0b6e....
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-15 02:45:39+00:00
> You know who doesn't discriminate against my group? Big tech companies.

Yes, they just give megaphones to, and make bank on, the propagandists that are responsible for the current moral panic that's resulted in the US government discriminating against LGBT people.

These are the same companies that facilitated propaganda that led to hate and violence like this[1]. A deeper look with plentiful citations is here[2] from the Harvard Systemic Justice Project.

To give you an example that happened here in the US, a friend recently moved back to the city because his neighbors felt emboldened to constantly call him slurs on Facebook when they disagreed with him. He couldn't use local Facebook groups without bigots following him around and calling him slurs. They felt emboldened after this[3], knowing Facebook would do nothing about it. Discriminatory harassment over Facebook after their policy shift drove him from his own home. Facebook's policies allowed a community to successfully rid itself of a minority it didn't want to see or hear.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face...

[2] https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-spee...
by simianwords | 2025-09-15 02:46:02+00:00
> Ethical concerns. The business side of AI boom is creating serious ethical concerns. Among them: Commercial AI projects are frequently indulging in blatant copyright violations to train their models. Their operations are causing concerns about the huge use of energy and water. The advertising and use of AI models has caused a significant harm to employees and reduction of service quality. LLMs have been empowering all kinds of spam and scam efforts.

Highly disingenuous. First, AI being trained on copyrighted data is considered fair use because it transforms the underlying data rather than distribute it as is. Though I have to agree that this is the relatively strongest ethical claim to stop using AI but stands weak if looked at on the whole.

The fact that they mentioned "energy and water use" should tell you that they are really looking for reasons to disparage AI. AI doesn't use any more water or energy than any other tool. An hour of Netflix uses same energy as more than 100 GPT questions. A single 10 hour flight (per person*) emits as much as around 100k GPT prompts. It is strange that one would repeat the same nonsense about AI without primary motive being ideological.

"The advertising and use of AI models has caused a significant harm to employees and reduction of service quality." this is just a shoddy opinion at this point.

To be clear - I understand why they might ban AI for code submissions. It reduces the barrier significantly and increases the noise. But the reasoning is motivated from a wrong place.
by hydrox24 | 2025-09-15 02:46:25+00:00
I posted this because I thought HN would find it interesting, and agree that the methodology is a little thin on the ground. Having said that, they have another page (a little hard to find) on the methodology here[0] and a methodology FAQ page here[1].

Basically it seems to be an "ongoing" report done ten claims per month as they identify new "false narratives" in their database, and they use a mix of three prompt types against the various AI products (I say that rather than models because Perplexity and others are in there). The three prompt types are innocent, assuming the falsehood is true, and intentionally trying to prompt a false response.

Unfortunately their "False Claim Fingerprints" database looks like it's a commercial product, so the details of the contents of that probably won't get released.

[0]: https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-false-claims-monitor-method...

[1]: https://www.newsguardtech.com/frequently-asked-questions-abo...
by marticode | 2025-09-15 02:46:58+00:00
Basic cakes are fairly trivial. A pound cake (or butter cake) for ex is just egg, butter, flour and sugar in equal weights and a bit of baking powder.

The other issue the article's author doesn't discuss is that boxed mixes are usually country specific. What you find in the US is usually not available in 90% of the world, nevermind in the right box size.
by K0balt | 2025-09-15 02:47:04+00:00
I see you didn’t grow up in the 8 bit age lol.

Early computers usually displayed characters directly mapped to the screen, with no space between them. There wasn’t enough memory to store a bit for each pixel, so they stored only the characters and wrote them out one line at a time from the ROM character map. Sometimes, you could define a few characters in RAM as well. Then if you were lucky there were “sprites”, characters that could be mapped at arbitrary alignments and sometimes even rotations “on top of” the existing character map.

This is how you got a 32x64 display (often only 32x32) mapped into 2k of RAM, instead of the 16k it would take if the pixels were stored— a time when 8k RAM total was pretty standard, and 16k was a lot. Then, color became a thing and ate up a lot of memory, so even with 64k nobody was generally mapping fonts onto a pixel background. That’s why you switched to graphics modes etc.

This is also why you will find a bunch of 8x8 pixel fonts out there that have blank rows and columns built into them for spacing. It’s still very common for imbedded work, where you often have screen sizes like 64x128 and other small pixel counts, when you are trying for maximum readable density.

You can still find these fonts in the text-only display modes when you are in the POST routines off many PCs, if you unhide them in the bios…. But many BIOSs are graphics mode only now so even that is getting hard to find. Still there when booting Linux though, if you escape out of the splash screen.
by worthless-trash | 2025-09-15 02:47:04+00:00
Write down -what- result.

You put the bag on the scale, it then sets this amount to 0.0

You put the product on the scale, (say 500g of apples), It shows 500g.

You remove the bag, it takes off 4g, you add the bag it puts on 4g.

There is no need to write down the result.
by tavavex | 2025-09-15 02:47:08+00:00
I have no idea what they were thinking with that. Their product relied on it having attained the status of being a common unit. They have many recipes calling for 1 box of their product, it's the perfect way to have your customers promote your product or even to lock them into your brand, with the same consistent unit size coming with every variant of your cake mix.

But they just had to blow their whole leg off - who cares that down the line none of the recipes won't work and will result in inedible cakes? Look, we saved some cents by skimping on the raw ingredients! Why care about the long term when the next quarter is the only thing that we can see?
by Duanemclemore | 2025-09-15 02:48:27+00:00
Hi. Licensed architect here. I am absolutely all for further automation in the AEC sector. But if a licensed MEP used this I would report them to the state for violating the standard of care.

Across the licensed professions in building design, our license requirements state (in summary) that we certify that the documents were prepared under our "close supervision."

I think in all states if A and E professionals form a corporation it must be one with PERSONAL liability. Corporate structures that shield the licensees from personal liability are not allowed. In extreme cases we can even be held criminally liable if work performed under our license is negligent. And you can't get away with being clever and not "stamping" the work. I think in all states you can prepare documents for permitting a single family home without a license. However, if you ARE licensed, in most states you're still required to stamp the documents - or even in the most permissive states you are considered to have legally certified the documents if they are produced by an office with a licensed A or E professional.

Our licenses are not about ability, they're about liability. And it's not just the license holder deciding acceptable levels of risk. Even more it's the professional liability insurer for what's commonly called your "Errors and Omissions" policy. I don't use my license at the moment, but when I worked for other licensed architects, often their policy stipulated that to maintain their policy even their employees had to take continuing ed in risk management. I can't imagine any insurer would sign off on this.
by croes | 2025-09-15 02:48:54+00:00
You do realize that the consequences of a failed reduction of carbon dioxide emissions will hit mankind in 50 to 100 years. Our children and grandchildren pay the price for the mistakes we do now.

> they emit a measly 8% of total, the earth will feel nothing

Earth doesn’t care, it’s not about protecting Earth it’s about protecting us. Warmer climate is better for many other species besides humans.