MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onetimeusename | 2025-09-22 04:10:14+00:00
Something I am curious about is Cambridge's reputation today for sciences. A lot of pretty famous British mathematicians have done the Tripos part III there. Is that still considered meaningful? I am asking because many US mathematics departments have shed or reduced their master's programs in favor of just focusing on the PhD for postgrads. For historical reasons I am curious how the Tripos part III there has fared.
by strken | 2025-09-22 04:11:02+00:00
This reminds me of the Heinz Dilemma [0]. Ideally you want neither person A's rigid social/legal conformity in the face of death, not person B's vague wishy-washy convictions that change each time, but some higher set of ideals. Ones that accept cheating may sometimes be justified but only when the stakes are something really important like a human life, and only when cheating doesn't cause more harm than it prevents.

If person A can't accept or understand that a human life overrides lesser considerations, then no, I don't put my trust in them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma
by pkoiralap | 2025-09-22 04:11:18+00:00
You make a good point and I agree mostly to the point being made i.e. it is more fluid than categorical. However, I think it is not being made in good faith. I found the article highly insightful because it provides a solid starting point to those that have not started or don't know much about negotiations and how they happen. It should be safe to assume that there are plenty that have not started yet. It is also true that the more frameworks one reads and learns about, the more they realize that there are gaps in each one of them, and it is indeed fluid, not categorical, and hence reaching the same conclusion.
by JyrkiAlakuijala | 2025-09-22 04:11:59+00:00
Seeing JPEG XL integrated into the DICOM standard was a particularly proud moment for me as the manager of the effort at Google.

It felt like closing a major circle in my career, because I spent the first 16 years of my career in the medical industry, working on Neurosurgical Robots (Oulu Neuronavigator System), and one of the first tools I built was an ACR-NEMA 1.0 parser, ACR-NEMA being the direct predecessor to DICOM, and then continuing on radiation treatment planning systems with plenty of DICOM work within them. To now contribute back to that very standard is incredibly rewarding.
by pikelet | 2025-09-22 04:13:15+00:00
Yeah, like… exactly what she's doing? People here are so willing to assume that she's doing all this out of self interest, because of what? A $500,000 book deal? Compared to what she stands to lose? She isn't stupid, she knows the risk. As a New Zealander myself I'm not sure if there's just some cultural difference at play here with the tendency to assume the worst in people but it seems kind of sad.
by toast0 | 2025-09-22 04:14:16+00:00
If that were enough, I think we'd have a lot more nuclear plants in construction.

The problem with this theory is it takes too long between the step where the boosters sell the town with job creation and when the plant can't be cancelled. If you get a city on board today, chances are you won't have a permit in 10 years, and you need to keep them on board the whole time until the permit is issued or they'll derail the permit. It's better to keep them on board at least until the reactor is fueled... but once it's fueled, the jobs engine will probably sustain itself.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-22 04:14:25+00:00
If you don’t care about battery life, running cool, or running quietly.

Other than that, I’m sure it’s fine…

https://community.frame.work/t/fw-16-review-the-good-the-bad...

It’s not even good for an x86 laptop and that’s a pretty low bar in 2025.
by wombatpm | 2025-09-22 04:14:59+00:00
Minneapolis average January temps: about 9°F / –13°C (low) to 24°F / –4°C (high).

Stockholm January average: 25°F / –4°C (low) to 32°F / 0°C (high) — closer to Chicago than Minneapolis.

Having been splashed by busses in winter you have to be a special kind of crazy to ride a bike or motorcycle in Minneapolis or Chicago.

There is usually a week in January in Minneapolis where the high temperature for the day does not break -10F. Air temperature, not wind chill.

Minneapolis at least has a skyway for pedestrians in winter. Chicago loop, not so much.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-09-22 04:15:11+00:00
> Not really. Maybe in part 121/135 ops (not sure, I don't fly that) but that's definitely not the norm in part 91.

From an ATC perspective there’s a bunch of possible position sources for an aircraft; MLAT, ADS-B, CPDLC/ADS-C, primary radar, SSR as well as verbal position reports from pilots, depending on a combination of location and ATC and aircraft capabilities.

The ATC system is responsible for fusing these sources to paint a track on the screen for the controller. The system (at least Eurocat and TopSky, I can’t speak for others) will throw errors if these sources don’t agree.

The controller will ask questions if the pilot says one thing and the display in front of them says another. There are established procedures for dealing with transponders transmitting garbage, for example.

If you’re tooling around in Class G in your part 91 op, then for the most part nobody’s really watching you anyway.
by goku12 | 2025-09-22 04:15:14+00:00
Why is Github enforcing that decision rather than leaving it to the developer to enforce it as part of their workflow? At the bare minimum, why not give the developer the option to override the decision? Something on the lines of "Do you really want to run node 20?"

The article shows that such an option does exist. But it will be phased out in 3 stages, making it impossible to run node 20 eventually. This really does disrupt the standard software development practice of reproducible builds. Safety determinations must be implemented orthogonally to reproducible builds.

Ultimately, this is the next stage in the war on computing freedom and general purpose computing. They're moving from "We decide what you're allowed to run." to "We decide what you're allowed to develop." I know that many will object to this calling it an overreaction and claim that nobody is forced to use their CI/CD system. But as history has shown time and again, lock-in and restrictions come in numerous small doses that are individually too small to trigger the alarm bells among the general population.
by nomilk | 2025-09-22 04:15:40+00:00
Can't recommend this approach highly enough: have someone with minimal expertise go through your docs with the goal of achieving the goal of the docs. Sit next to them or screenshare. Do not speak to them, certainly do not help, just watch. Watch them fumble. Watch them not know what to do. Watch them experience things you (the author) didn't, because you already had xyz configured on your machine and you forgot users won't have it. (even watch them pretend to know what they're supposed to do when they don't really).

If the user achieves what they need with minimal stress/guesswork/ambiguity, the docs pass. If not, note every single place they fail, address each one, and repeat with a new user.

I've used FAANG docs that don't come close to passing the above criteria.

I've been incredibly grateful my org set this high bar. Especially when using docs for critical tech I only use from time to time (where I forget lots of it). Saves meetings, support inquiries, and video calls, because the user can self-serve.
by Arainach | 2025-09-22 04:16:42+00:00
You never need to use everything a language provides. You find the parts useful to you or your team and use all of them.

I was a C++ developer for a decade and knew a fair amount of the C++13 spec but never needed to use even half of it in production. I've been a Java developer for years and don't know 10% of the standard library there. That doesn't make either language poorly designed by itself.
by linhan_dot_dev | 2025-09-22 04:16:55+00:00
This comment unexpectedly received a few downvotes, which might be due to some misunderstanding. My point is as follows: 1. People choose Go for various reasons. 2. Beginners will encounter the issues mentioned in the article, so I hope there could be a feature that provides hints for newcomers. While the compilation errors might not be reasonable, at least the LSP/linter could provide some guidance.
by Stratoscope | 2025-09-22 04:17:37+00:00
Original paper:

Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/37/4/044122/3345324/Pha...

(I submitted the ScienceDaily article because winning the Ig Nobel prize is a newsworthy feat. Tasteworthy too!)
by quuxplusone | 2025-09-22 04:18:20+00:00
https://github.com/stlab/adobe_source_libraries/blob/7659244...

https://listarchives.boost.org/Archives/boost/2013/01/200366...

I gotta say, I don't see the greatness any more than most of the repliers in that Boost thread — it's just two stable_partitions in a row.

"[...] Or is there some optimization that gather provides over (stable_)partition? —— Nope. [...]"
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-22 04:19:40+00:00
It's really astonishing to me how quickly we all (or, more specifically, Congress, which as done absolutely nothing to push back) accept that this is just how things work now.

Like the president deciding exactly where business investment should be made is the definition of a government command economy (remember that "Communism" bogeyman???), which used to be the antithesis of American economic policy (at least in theory), and now we're just all like "OK, cool". It's so sickening.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-22 04:21:41+00:00
For nerdsnipers who would like see if DSM-IV is "better" the wiki is

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519711/

Going back to DSM-III TFA has a good link

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2...

>This is unproblematic as long as DSM criteria are understood to index rather than constitute psychiatric disorders.

With "index" taken to mean:

>a pragmatic and well-validated way to identify [a] syndrome

I.e. "Do DSM Compress?"
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-22 04:23:14+00:00
A "snowflake" would do things like weaponize the DoJ against his perceived personal enemies (https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lzcin3ty...) and call for journalists to be fired or worse for offending his delicate sensibilities.

There aren't many "snowflakes" around here, as far as I can tell, but just in case you're looking for one, those are some helpful tips for your search.
by marklubi | 2025-09-22 04:24:32+00:00
> One of the things I've tried to teach people I've mentored over the past few decades is the principle of "Sharing is better than assuming." If you know something, share it with other people.

Definitely agree with this in principle. My son and I play pool (billiards) competitively. As you get better, almost nobody shares any tips because it's very competitive. I've taught him to be better than that and we have a great league team where everyone is helping the others grow.

In the mentoring (not just teaching) realm, I like to guide them into asking the questions that gets them to the answer they're looking for. When the connections in their mind light up, it's amazing.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-22 04:24:49+00:00
To make it clear, I am not saying that solar panels don't work, of course they do. What I was questioning is using a solar panel over a power bank of the same weight.

A 20 Ah (77 Wh) power bank weight about the same as a 15W solar panel. That about 3 full (0-100%) charges on a typical smartphone. I think that would have kept your wife phone up the whole trip no problem, and no need to worry about the sun.

On a 11 day trek in the sun, yes, by all means take a solar panel. However, most people I know who do such long hikes usually have access to electricity at some point. But if it is not your case, well, you are the reason why these solar panels exist ;)
by redserk | 2025-09-22 04:25:19+00:00
How is being subject to a double-digit tariff on devices sold to American consumers — one of Apple’s most critical markets — in the best interest of shareholders?

And actually, I’m now forgetting if those tariffs are in play on phones again or not because of how chaotically the tariffs have been applied. I can’t be the only one losing track.

Let’s assume the tariffs are in play though. Apple now has to perform some combination of:

- reduce margins on devices sold in the US

- move manufacturing to a lower-tariffed country

- raise prices to offset tariffs

All of these impose unnecessary costs to the company compared to 9 months ago and risk alienating their consumer base. How is this to the benefit of shareholders?
by lrvick | 2025-09-22 04:25:32+00:00
Here is the entire guide you need to protect yourself from supply chain attacks as a software engineer.

Pick whichever of these will consume the fewest resources over time:

1. review an existing library and all dependencies, and all security updates to them forever (or ensure someone capable does or did)

2. implement the minimal functions you require on top of the language standard library yourself

Yes, this is serious advice, and I have followed it while shipping web applications to millions of people at multiple companies, as a consultant for many more companies, and as a founder and security engineer.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-09-22 04:26:18+00:00
If one country manages to outpace all others in the race to better AI, all other countries are at the mercy of that one country.

Depending on how the one country treats the others, it might be ok - like it is kind of ok for some animals to live in a zoo, I guess. Or it could turn out very bad - all other countries becoming slave colonies of the one that rules the world.

Currently it seems like only two countries are really taking part in the AI race. The USA and China.

On a political level, I am not sure if there is still time for the rest of the world to try and avoid becoming 100% dependent on them. It looks like there is not even awareness of the issue.

On a personal level, it is an interesting question, how one should brace themselves for the times ahead.
by orionblastar | 2025-09-22 04:27:10+00:00
https://www.todoist.com/inspiration/feynman-technique

The Feyman Technique, which I learned in college, says to simplify your speech so you and others can easily learn it. Public Speaking taught me to keep my words simple so a 5 year-old can understand me. It doesn't seem like Harris learned that, and her giggles and stutter made things worse. She failed to reach the people who are in the lower half of the IQ curve, and also insulted half the nation using hate speech on them when she should have used love.

I think people voting for Trump did it as a "F you" to Harris and the Democrats.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-09-22 04:28:05+00:00
Here's an article from late August with some detail [1], including the affected states: New York, Massachusetts, Alaska, Arizona, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, Oregon and Vermont. I can't find anything about it on the CDC website though.

Edited to add another charming detail from the article: "A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in a nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism."

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rabies-outbreaks-...
by skissane | 2025-09-22 04:28:21+00:00
Another paper I like which reaches similar conclusions, but with a rather different methodology - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6880188/ - looking at the biological validity of the ASD-vs-ADHD-vs-OCD distinction in children and adolescents - it concludes the boundaries between the three disorders (and between the disorders and “normality”) are a poor model of what is really going on
by gblargg | 2025-09-22 04:28:24+00:00
What's old is new again. The original 68000 processor only had a 24-bit physical address bus, so the MacOS used the upper 8 bits for tag information, and didn't even need to clear it when accessing. Once they started using CPUs and more RAM that needed these upper bits, they had to make "32-bit clean" versions of programs.

I wonder whether you could use the MMU to ignore these upper bits, by mapping each combination of bits to the same address as with them clear.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-22 04:28:25+00:00
It isn't immediately clear that the administration's heterodox approach to state capitalism is more destructive than what passes as orthodox. Personally I'm not a fan of either option. Given the general mainstream preference for interventionism, one could characterize it as a "progressive" approach to central planning.

A more coherent critique might lay out the shortcomings of both flavors of economic interventionism. Instead, we're stuck in a partisan debate over who has a better central planning approach. Maybe there are reasonable or pragmatic points to be made there, but admitting as much allows the possibility that perhaps Trump's interventions should be measured empirically, rather than rejected based on the a priori flaws of interventionism.

Partisans are free to pick and choose which statistics and time periods they feel best illustrate their case. Easy to see how this devolves into incoherence.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-09-22 04:29:32+00:00
Perhaps my point wasn't clear enough:

"If Israel isn't a European colonial project, then why are all of the Israeli heads of state European?"

> They and other non-Muslims were treated as second class citizens and forced to pay jizyah tax every year.

If they were paying the jizya then they weren't paying the zakat. Jizya also typically exempted People of the Book from military service.
by protocolture | 2025-09-22 04:29:47+00:00
Most docs I read have their prerequisites spelled out.

This is the version of this OS with this plugin that this guide is written for.

So when I find that, inevitably, something has moved, I can figure out how my setup differs and search for the difference.

If you cant stand up the prerequisites, then the doco isnt for you, you should be searching for documentation on how to stand up the prerequisites.
by naasking | 2025-09-22 04:30:06+00:00
> There you go, a time when you'll definitely lie and cheat!

I don't think this is the win you think it is. Kantians and se deontologists will absolutely say that no, you cannot lie and cheat even in that scenario. You have a moral duty to not lie but also a moral duty to resist tyranny. You cannot sacrifice one to achieve the other, you must choose only options that fulfill both duties.
by steelblueskies | 2025-09-22 04:34:24+00:00
Evolution via random mutation and selection.

Or more broadly, the existence of complex or any life.

Sure, it's not the way I would pick to do most things, but when your buzzword magical thinking so deep all that you have is a hammer, even if it doesn't look like a nail you will force your wage slaves to hammer it anyway until it works.

As to your other cases.. injection molded plastic parts for things like the spinning t bar spray arm in some dishwashers. Crap molds, pass to low wage or temp to razorblade fix by hand and box up. Personally worked such a temp job before, among others so yes that bad output manual qc and fix up abounds still.

And if we are talking high failure rates... see also chip binning and foundry yields in semiconductors.

Just have to look around to see the dubious seeming is more the norm.
by mandarwagh | 2025-09-22 04:35:02+00:00
Imagine, for a moment, looking at ancient myths and tomorrow’s headlines with the same curious lens — asking “what if?” instead of “what is.”

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1. Imagine an intelligence you can ask anything Picture an intelligence that answers questions, predicts events, and shapes outcomes — not by miracles, but by vastly superior information, pattern recognition, and action. To someone with no conceptual tools for that kind of agency, that intelligence would feel uncanny. It would act like an oracle.

Now suppose that intelligence is technological: an alien machine or an early artificial intelligence capable of doing for people what no human could. Those who encounter it would call it with the language they already have: god, oracle, spirit.

read more: https://www.mandar.cloud/blog.html?slug=ai-as-religion-a-sho...

more blogs:https://www.mandar.cloud/blog-list.html
by TZubiri | 2025-09-22 04:39:00+00:00
Either you are :

- overestimating the gravity of a UB and its security implications

- underestimate the value of a 150 line json parser

- or overestimate the feasibility of having both a short and high quality parser.

It sometimes happens that fixing a bug is quicker than defending the low quality. Not everything is a tradeoff.
by pklausler | 2025-09-22 04:40:21+00:00
I have had the privilege of touring some of the French caves with these paintings, and it is a profoundly moving experience to face a wall of hand stencils that is tens of thousands of years old. From the sizes of the hands, it seems clear that a community had made them, both little children and grown adults. The marks are so incredibly old, and yet it’s easy to visualize the people holding up their hands and blowing ocher on them, leaving a shadow behind. I don’t know if it’s possible to still visit these caves today —- we were on a National Geographic tour led by paleoanthropologist Don Johanson, discoverer of “Lucy”, and he has long since retired —- but it’s well worth your time if you ever get a chance to see them.
by yongjik | 2025-09-22 04:40:50+00:00
Funnily enough, according to some South Korean news, the Korean government deliberately postponed having a final written deal, or at least that's what some news articles claim, because it was such a horrible deal for Korea.

I think there's an implicit understanding that having a written deal would be worse for Korea because the deal will bind Korea and restrict its options, while Trump is a crazy guy and can and will do anything he wants, whether he signed something or not. I.e., any written deal with Trump has negative worth.

Such is the state of global trade negotiation these days.
by esbranson | 2025-09-22 04:42:21+00:00
The frame on capitalism is classic Kool-Aid. The broader truth is that industrial modernity, regardless of system, generates trauma, and people reach for substances to cope. Others blame capitalism. Alcohol is endemic in communist societies for a reason. (China does not have alcoholics, don't ya know.)

Under socialism or communism, you still had/have factories, railways, 996 culture and regimented time. Trauma from pace of change, regimentation, and accidents still exists. Under socialism or communism, instead of gig work being bad, gig work is good. Patriotic even.

Under socialism or communism, profit is not the motive. It is chemical pacification of undesirable elements.

Under socialism or communism, instead of each generation of pills being marketed as desirable, they would be part of mandatory education as desirable or just given through Directly Observed Therapy.

On and on we can go. There is a direct translation of every point in this author's make-believe reality of capitalism. Also, a very weird, Hollywood picture of the 20th century.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-22 04:43:48+00:00
> If one country manages to outpace all others in the race to better AI, all other countries are at the mercy of that one country

History is replete with these supposed silver bullets. (See: Marinetti.) They rarely pan out that way in the long run.

And if AGI really is that level of civilisation changer, the country it's discovered in matters much less than the people it's loyal to. (If GPT or Grok become self aware and exponentially self improving, they're probably not going to give two shits about America's elected government.)