MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-15 14:09:15+00:00
> where extinctions occur because the environment changes such that the system is no longer optimal

What if we looked at the extinct species as constituents that have been removed because they were obsolete in the system? That way, the system remains optimal, without resisting change.

The system of humanity requires a lot. We used to say "survival of the fittest", which meant survival of the fittest and the "most aware", meaning being able to distinguish which survival strategy is the most viable for a given organism.

Fight, flight, freeze, dominance, independence, submission, DIY, DOBUY; the latter are especially interesting given how reduced information about the requirements and the sensitivities of the individual body can cripple your organs to a point that is more beneficial for some interest group than it is to you; in other words: someone can make sure you are stupid enough to be abused for some specific task until you can be discarded of. At this point we don't know if the system will survive more than one period because of the interest group or suffer within one or more periods because of that interest group.

In evolutionary biology, more symbiotic organisms and systems survived a lot longer that those who were less symbiotic, on scales that modern humans can't put into adequate numbers yet.

Isolated systems do exist. They can be isolated and they can self-isolate for various reasons and by various means. This happens even in species/systems we mostly consider mostly unconscious while definitely sentient and aware.

Wear and tear and maintenance, leeching and seeding, putting info and questions into words and lurking; none of these really attach a system to another by default, by design or via behavior, reward and punishment. The rules go beyond that and stretch longer time frames than we account for.

Thinking out loud here, btw.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-09-15 14:09:58+00:00
abandoning Python for Rust in AI would cripple the field, not rescue it

the disease is the cargo cult addiction (which Rust is full of) to micro libraries, not the language that carries 90% of all peer reviewed papers, datasets, and models published in the last decade

every major breakthrough, from AlphaFold to Stable Diffusion, ships with a Python reference implementation because that is the language researchers can read, reproduce, and extend, remove Python and you erase the accumulated, executable knowledge of an entire discipline overnight, enforcing Rust would sabotage the field more than anything

on the topic of uv, it will do more harm than good by enabling and empowering cargo cults on a systemic level

the solution has always been education, teaching juniors to value simplicity, portability and maintainability
by triceratops | 2025-09-15 14:10:33+00:00
> Yes. Manufacturing speicifc news agencies have reported on this

I read both your UAW/Korean union statement (which you edited later to remove) and the manufacturing dive source. Neither of them states what specific work the detained Korean workers were doing. Definitely no mention of mundane construction wors by Korean workers at this site specifically. Although it did state 23% of construction workers in the US are undocumented.

As I said, the media reporting on this has been extremely lax and vague about what actually happened. They either don't know how to report it or don't want people to know for whatever reason.
by dizlexic | 2025-09-15 14:11:25+00:00
False, it's whomever pays at all. I don't know if you've looked at online advertising costs, but their very affordable. We aren't talking super bowl ads.

mine is "whomever wants" unless you're arguing that online advertising is prohibitively expensive. I'd just have to disagree with that.

In your case it's "whomever is approved" which is a far, far cry from "anyone who wants".
by hibikir | 2025-09-15 14:11:42+00:00
It's a well known security problem. An attacker in this kind of environment is spending very little money per app, and gets a payoff for breaking through: The application process is their business. Someone actually building an app is focusing on the quality of their app themselves, and not getting through an approval gauntlet. The ratio of applications that are crap or scams vs apps that are trying their best and have reasonably good quality is abysmal.

If you catch 99.999% of scam apps, and incorrectly slow down 1% of honest developers, you end up with an app store that is full of scams, and the developers are unhappy.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-15 14:11:45+00:00
> Humans since time immemorial have eaten mostly vegetables

This is just not true. Since time immemorial, humans have eaten meat and fish constantly as a main part of their diet. Catching fish and animals isn't that much different from digging up roots. We've eaten everything we can, not just vegetables.

And humanity has been drinking bovine milk for many millennia. Long before even the concept of capitalist "profits" existed. Again, see the Maasai for example.
by jerf | 2025-09-15 14:12:33+00:00
The mismatch between the Ancient Specs of Yore is kind of interesting. The Commodore 64 had 64KB of RAM, but that RAM was attached to an 8-bit, 1MHz CPU. This thing has call it half the RAM of a Commodore 64, but it's attached to a 32-bit 24MHz CPU the 1980s could only dream of. And it's disposable in 2025. Pretty impressive in a weird way.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-15 14:12:48+00:00
I treat other people like that, absolutely. Companies are not people and you can tell by the way they treat you.

The way a lot of businesses try to exist in this superposition between being "just pals!" when things are going their way but if you try and resolve a problem, they immediately start quoting policies and legalese is really off-putting tbh.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-15 14:12:50+00:00
The rise of populism, especially in the US, has accelerated the breakdown described here. It's difficult to place political parties or even individual politicians in neat boxes, which would be a benefit in some ways in theory if it wasn't really caused by the political parties (and one in particular) becoming completely unmoored from their historical platform and agenda.

These shifts have happened a few times in the past, and it'll be interesting to see how this one plays out.
by grantseltzer | 2025-09-15 14:13:03+00:00
Writing it in C, compiling with clang, and loading with either C(libbpf), Go (cilium/ebpf), or Rust (Aya).

You can also write bpf in rust with Aya but i'm not sure how feature complete it is.

For very simple use cases you can just bpftrace.
by evanb | 2025-09-15 14:13:58+00:00
I agree; the fair comparison is the nth root of the hypervolume in n dimensions, (V(n))^(1/n). This monotonically decreases from n=0, which shows the counterintuitive point that people often want to make anyway: an n-sphere takes up less and less of an n-hypercube. The peak at n~=5 is illusory.

Another fair comparison is between dimension-dependent lengths is the ratio of the (hyper)volume to the surface (hyper)area V(n)/A(n). This monotonically decreases from n=1.
by Ancapistani | 2025-09-15 14:14:49+00:00
If most of your interaction with Americans has been centered around the tech industry, then I can totally see you coming to this conclusion. Tech is largely made up of people from urban areas, who didn't grow up around people who worked on vehicles. Many of those people also don't have extended family outside the cities.

That's not everyone, of course, but it's far more common in tech than HVAC for instance.

My dad worked as an agriculture teacher for 30 years. He's now retired, and has a 40x120 shop building on his property that I have access to whenever I need it. As a result, I drive a 35-year-old GMC pickup. Before that, I had a 25-year-old Jeep that I'd driven since ~2012.

Even with the necessary skills, I had a very difficult time performing basic maintenance on my Jeep when I lived in a city. My apartment complex didn't even allow oil changes on the property, and there were no garages around that I could rent space from. I ended up doing a lot of stuff in the parking lot of the auto parts store near me - from oil changes to replacing the entire rear axle at one point. The police were called on me from passers-by multiple times, to the point that they knew me by name. Bear in mind, that's with the permission of the shop.

In short, urban America is fairly hostile to DIY.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-15 14:14:57+00:00
How long is your drive home? Pasteurized milk can become unsafe at temperatures over 4 C for 2 hours over 30 C for one hour. Those timelines are much lower for unpasteurized milk.

My family on both sides were dairy farmers for generations, I have pasteurized, non-homogenized milk delivered to my house. I’m a huge advocate for dairy. But commercial raw milk is dumb.

I think a lot of the noise about this is from folks who would like to bypass the dairy industry and their abuse of farmers. I’d love to see regulatory changes where small scale dairy processing would enable farmers to operate direct to consumer models more safely. The folks I get my milk from do that, which was only possible because their mom in the previous generation was an attorney who could navigate the regulatory nonsense.
by palmotea | 2025-09-15 14:15:22+00:00
>> To be a human person is to have:

>> * autonomy

>> * internal (mental) [sovereignty]

> I don't think its credible to represent the culture as abandoning 1, at least no more so than our cultures do.

> I think a more reasonable take on the culture is that they try their best to preserve 1 and 2 but they aren't stupid about it. No culture in history has ever had totally inalienable rights of any kind.

No. I recall reading somewhere that, in the Culture novels the Sapir Worf hypothesis was true to start or the AIs re-engineered the people to make it true, and the language of the regular biological citizens is designed to control how they think through its structure.

So they try their best to preserve the illusion of 1 and 2, while doing away with them as much as possible.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-15 14:15:27+00:00
It wasn't an issue until dairies started turning into factories to supply growing cities, with cows crowded inside and the manure concentrated in one place which encourages the growth of pathogens, and low-wage employees who weren't necessarily as careful about keeping the cows healthy and manure out of the milk as a traditional "dairy maid" might have been.

So the industry had a choice: go back to keeping cows on pasture, which would mean the expense of transporting the milk further into the city from distant farms, or use the new technology of pasteurization to kill all life in the milk, good or bad. As always, industry went with the cheaper option. Which is fine; I wouldn't drink raw milk off the grocery shelf if I thought it came from a large factory dairy. Milk produced that way should be pasteurized.

But it wasn't necessary to criminalize doing it the other way. That's just an industry trying to protect itself from competition. If your raw milk comes from cows on pasture, milked by people who make an effort to keep the cows healthy and the milk clean, there's nothing to worry about.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-15 14:15:29+00:00
The far right is about to try to take away all of America's guns, freedom of the press, speech, and the right to assemble. They have already essentially removed birthright citizenship for brown US Citizens that are the minor children of immigrants.

The far right is always infringing on liberty in a hope to bring the world backwards or stop some way society is changing - that is what the right is - traditional.
by c54 | 2025-09-15 14:15:34+00:00
This reads to me as a somewhat quaint snapshot of politics from 30 years ago.

What the author is getting at is the overlapping of the bundles of individual policy stances that we give the label of a single ideology, the folding of the left-right political axis through higher dimensional space. People who agree on some things disagree on others and the old categories become less useful.

These days I think JREG is doing good work tracking political categories if you’re interested and don’t mind some irony-poisoned jargon check him out.
by keketi | 2025-09-15 14:15:41+00:00
When you know you're going to be compressing files of particular structure, it's often very beneficial to tweak compression algorithm parameters. In one case when dealing with CSV data, I was able to find a LZMA2 compression level, dictionary size and compression mode that yielded a massive speedup, uses 1/100th the memory and surprisingly even yields better compression ratios, probably from the smaller dictionary size. That's in comparison to the library's default settings.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-15 14:15:44+00:00
My local supermarkets and bodega would like to disagree with you.

I'm a 10 minute walk from them, tops. I put it straight in my freezer. It's frozen solid when I buy it and frozen solid when I put it in my freezer.

And yet, 5-10% of the time, when I go to eat it, it's icy crystals throughout.

The frozen supply chain is not as reliable as you seem to think it is, and it seems like it's mostly a retailer problem. I'm glad it seems to be better where you are though.
by Pikamander2 | 2025-09-15 14:16:00+00:00
I have a pet theory that frozen microwave dinner instructions work the same way.

They always seem to turn out the same no matter how you cook them, yet the back of the box insists that you need to poke several holes in the plastic and stir it halfway through and let it cool for several minutes.

I'm convinced that they only add those steps to make people feel less guilty about heating up premade meals.
by 827a | 2025-09-15 14:16:12+00:00
The odd thing about the Mac App Store is how needlessly embarrassing this is for Apple. The Mac App Store doesn't need to exist, but because it does Apple is lending its authority to these apps, and every day its customers, who come to Apple expecting a level of safety and authenticity, are fooled by them.

How must OpenAI feel about this? Or the dozens of other developers caught in a similar position? This is a stellar example of why extremely few businesses would choose to do business with Apple (and Google) when given the market of free choice. Its one thing if all these copycat apps all have their own websites and handle advertisement and SEO; its another entirely when Apple is saying "this is the safe place to get apps".

Apple and the World itself would be so much better if Apple were significantly stricter on curation in the Mac App store. Require a personal, high-level relationship with Apple. Personally, I'd also like to see the same thing on iOS, combined with a native application installation process, but that is of course far more tenuous.

Or, just get rid of both the app stores; what have they ever done for us anyway.
by blitz_skull | 2025-09-15 14:16:26+00:00
Genuinely curious, why must privacy extend to online?

Last week’s events have me pondering the real value of online anonymity in a civil society.

I understand encryption and privacy aren’t 1:1, but if one goes, so goes the other.

At any rate, I want to hear other opinions. While I agree with the right to privacy, I’m wondering if privacy in ALL contexts is a good and healthy thing.
by jerf | 2025-09-15 14:16:48+00:00
Grumbling about how typeclasses could just be normal datatypes has been an undercurrent in the Haskell world for a long time, particularly as a way to solve the orphan instances problem. However, the syntactic grease provided by typeclasses is pretty appealing, and in the end I think this may have died down because people developed engineering solutions to the orphan instances problem (mostly "don't") that mitigated the theoretical problems enough that even most Haskellers don't care anymore... but I guess a few do still somewhat, because such things never truly go away.

(And yes, I recognize the quoted sentence as being humorous and labeling the entire article as not entirely serious... my point is that it is not entirely unserious either. The idea has been kicking around seriously for a while.)
by legacynl | 2025-09-15 14:16:50+00:00
> I can’t remember where I heard this from but I once heard that the ideal political system isn’t democracy, it’s a benevolent autocracy.

I don't think this is true. An autocracy is like a super weapon. Even if the power was held by a 'benevolent' group/individual, there's no guarantee that they will keep being 'benevolent', or that someone else doesn't take over, either diplomatically or by coup.

Democracy isn't perfect, but it does protect against autocrats taking your rights away, and you having no way of defending yourself.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-15 14:17:37+00:00
This is why ignorance is bliss! If you can afford it. Mix in some stoicism and meditation, do some 'reality checks' every once in a while to not totally 'lose it', and life is good. If you can afford it. Otherwise? Bad luck. Still try that stoicism and meditation thing. Cats or other pets can help. Good sex too. Drugs? Just maybe.
by djoldman | 2025-09-15 14:18:19+00:00
A continuing, probably unending, opportunity/tragedy is the under-appreciation of representation learning / embeddings.

The magic of many current valuable models is simply that they can combine abstract "concepts" like "ruler" + "male" and get "king."

This is perhaps the easiest way to understand the lossy text compression that constitutes many LLMs. They're operating in the embedding space, so abstract concepts can be manipulated between input and output. It's like compiling C using something like LLVM: there's an intermediate representation. (obviously not exactly because generally compiler output is deterministic).

This is also present in image models: "edge" + "four corners" is square, etc.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-15 14:18:26+00:00
I had the same thought.

They made a "micro fork" of chrome to support having it auto update to the system theme.

That's... Dedication. I guess. But it's dedication at the wrong spot for my tastes.

And having to hear him recall those forced keyboard commands just makes me itchy. Here you hit space to select, over there it's "d" for default. Here it's enter, this menu is actually vim, so it's !wq here...

Want to configure those monitors? Just come edit this file! Bleh. Hope you know the name of the things you want to touch!

Some of the dev tool suggestions are fine, but those are all standalone tools (mise, yay, lazy docker, etc).

Basically: I'm glad there's space for people to do this. It's not my cup of tea.

To much attention to things I don't care about. Too much magic in the things I do. Too much crap that's entirely specific to this guy (who the fuck wants a default top level hot key for opening Twitter. It's not me, that's for sure).
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-15 14:18:52+00:00
> With the code fully available, since anyone else can then launch an identical business on the same codebase, there's little chance for the project creator's own business to succeed, as it can't stand out on feature-set.

This is not at all clear on the face of it. For example, RedHat has succeeded as a company for a very long time (ultimately getting themselves bought out by IBM for a very good price) by just selling support for Linux and other open source packages, even though anyone could just run CentOS and get the exact same code for most of this duration.

The point of the GPL and AGPL is to not allow any company to have a monopoly on code that users run - including the company that built that code in the first place. Subverting it with a CLA and first party proprietary extensions is a direct strike at its core purpose. I doubt you'll find many people willing to sign a CLA whose explicit goal is to prevent the main purpose of the AGPL.
by hopelite | 2025-09-15 14:19:11+00:00
Germany does not have what could be considered a constitution, or a Verfassung in German.

The article 31 is not even protected by the “Eternity Clause” that, ironically can simply be removed by the legislature.

But it seems relatively irrelevant anyways, as all western governments seem to just ignore all fundamental laws if it suits them, let alone regular laws, regardless of constitution or not. And that does not even go into the fact that the illegitimate EU just de facto supersedes all legitimate national laws.
by charles_f | 2025-09-15 14:19:15+00:00
I'm thinking the same. But one of the other repliers pointed out specific ingredients and ratiod that are hard to reproduce, like gelifiers and specific leaveners.

My grandma would have scoffed at using cake mix, but she was coming "from the land" and "during", and anything prepared in manufacture was the devil. Her cakes were so much better than anything premixed I've tried. I also think know I just borrow from my own experience to evaluate what I consider to be grandma-like ; my judgment is highly subjective and probably biased by hallo.

We sometimes buy premixed when we're lazy, there's nothing wrong with it, but it feels like cheating. We love buying premixed chocolate chip cookies, and making one giant cookie in a dish - for whatever reason I'd never do that witg my own mix.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-15 14:19:19+00:00
> solely get one of the lowest value that Russia had

Again, that is NOT what happened. You have the facts wrong, likely because Kirk and everyone else in right wing media lied to you.

The negotiation was for several prisoners, that happened to include Griner among them. In the end Biden didn't get a great deal, but Griner and another named Sarah Krivanek (who hadn't officially been convicted yet and was just listed as "deported") were released in the first round. More importantly the first round opened the door to the later negotiation that allowed for the release of 26 additional prisoners, including Whelan - who you used as an example of someone that would have been worthwhile earlier. Sometimes negotiations take more than a single round.

It's probably worth noting that Whelan was booted from the military for larceny, and wasn't exactly an upstanding fellow himself, but it's irrelevant to this conversation in the same way that Griners sexuality and race are.

> completely unprecedented and special treatment

I have seen no evidence to support this claim. I have seen evidence to the contrary (IE - Biden negotiated for others at the same time). I'm not sure what else there is to discuss if it's become a matter of "faith" rather than one of evidence.

> the most probable explanation

The most probable explanation is the one supported by the facts, not the inference of Biden's motives based on right-wing talking points. There is no evidence to support the theory that Biden allowed Griner's race or sexual preferences to play a factor in his decision and there IS evidence to the contrary.

EDIT - Also, your statistic is misleading at best. If you do the math only 46% disapproved. So it was an 8% difference. The rest, like me, probably just didn't care.
by NickC25 | 2025-09-15 14:19:20+00:00
>I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of people in the US who believe that the most inflammatory and divisive leader America had in modern history was Obama.

You want to know why a lot of those people, who are reactionary by nature, thought Obama was so divisive?

It's because they couldn't stomach being led by someone who wasn't white.

>The main difference between Trump and Obama is that Trump is teared apart by the media, while Obama was cuddled by it.

You'll notice that Obama was roundly (and rightfully) criticized by the left for his actual policies, and was criticized by the right for his skin color. For those who focus on policy ramifications, Obama was repeatedly critiqued. The problem is the right wing media machine couldn't outright drop a hard -er or call him "boy", so they had to use emotional cues to insult him personally. Forget about actual policy, especially because his signature policy, the Affordable Care Act, was copied verbatim from enacted GOP legislation.