MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tombert | 2025-10-09 22:47:09+00:00
I've never really done anything with the kernel, and at this point it feels kind of overwhelming to start contributing.

I'm sure if I went to the source tree and asked people for a low-hanging-fruit task someone would be kind enough to guide me to get started, but it's still kind of overwhelming to a point where I've just avoided it.

I should probably should stop coming up with excuses and just do it, as I would like to do a lot more with filesystems and having an understanding of the kernel would probably help with that.
by chubot | 2025-10-09 22:47:15+00:00
Yeah I fasted for the first time last year, and it pretty much immediately turned off a pain response due to an overactive immune response

I got the idea from a book, and it worked

When I ate again, it came back, but I was definitely relieved of pain for awhile. Thankfully the whole episode subsided after about 6 weeks, but it was comforting to know that I could turn it off by fasting.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-09 22:48:32+00:00
Yes although this runs the risk of what you commonly see at daycares and schools.

There'll be a sign that says "Peanut free zone" and everyone will read it and respect it.

Then there'll be a sign that says "Please be sure to pick your kid up by x o'clock." And everyone will read it and respect it and silently stop looking at it cause they know.

And then there will be a sign that says "Please keep your child at home if you suspect they might be sick." And everyone will read it and be a little offended because why would they do that knowingly?

After a while the entrance will be plastered with notices and warnings that get put up and not taken down. And nobody reads them because they probably already know and it's not worth spending 20 minutes reading the entire wall.

I get the external/partner emails. And a notice that outlook removed extra line breaks from the message (whew). And a notice that if there are problems reading the email I can view it in a web browser. And a helpful suggestion that Copilot can give me the tldr.

Outlook is beginning to feel like daycare.
by radiator | 2025-10-09 22:49:52+00:00
> TXT "google-site-verification=TTrl7IWxuGQBEqbNAz17GKZzS-utrW7SCZbgdo5tkk0" just to clarify, this part is not evil, it is just a compromise one makes to prevent Gmail from classifying outgoing email as spam (I think).
by mrinterweb | 2025-10-09 22:50:39+00:00
One training source for LLMs is opensource repos. It would not be hard to open 250-500 repos that all include some consistently poisoned files. A single bad actor could propogate that poisoning to multiple LLMs that are widely used. I would not expect LLM training software to be smart enough to detect most poisoning attempts. It seems this could be catastrophic for LLMs. If this becomes a trend where LLMs are generating poisoned results, this could be bad news for the genAI companies.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-09 22:50:45+00:00
I have nothing to add so I'll go on a tangent.

Urban sprawl is an effective defense against protests. You tax buildings and convince everyone that single-family living is the best, and do some rent controls that won't actually help rent, so that people think dense housing and rentals are inherently bad. Then they'll spread out thin across acres of land in single-story detached houses.

Even though this costs more in infrastructure and requires everyone to maintain a car, and car insurance, people seem to be okay with it.

But then, with everyone spread out, public spaces hostile to any kind of sitting, and no public toilets (America doesn't pay to piss! Because we have no public toilets at all!), it's difficult to find parking for a big protest, it's difficult to carpool with the strangers you live miles away from.

In any city that's too small to be walkable, it's hard to consistently show up to protests even when you want to, because the car dependency adds a lot of friction.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-09 22:52:11+00:00
Sort of, but not to this degree. I think there's 4 levels of "control" a sub can have.

0. "Soft" power from votes, which determines what topics are de facto allowed to be talked about. Mods don't have as much influence here (hence why it's not really "#1"), but they can still influence it by removing certain comments. The psychology of down votes and how it affects communities has been studied for well over a decade so this isn't too crazy

1. "Petty mod abuse", which is probably what many comments remember reddit comments for. You make a tame comment, some lawful evil mod removes your comment, and any discussion over that ruling is met with mutes or bans. This is usually backed by "some" rule, so most of the time they have some point (no matter how stupid)

2. "Soft rules abuse", which is where "off-site" behavior kicks in. Where there's unlisted rules that are enforced, often from behavior not even directly performed in that community. It can also be personal grudges from some sort of supermod, which bans you from multiple subs they moderate over behavior in one of their subs.

3. Then there's "sentiment abuse", where people are moderated less for their behavior and more for whatever the mod feels like that day. Either to forge their own narrative, or from being paid off and following some external party's sentiment. These are almost never listed as rules because they are either too blatantly biased ("do not insult Google" on r/Google wouldn't work out well, even if it is run by Google employees), or simply because the rules change too frequently.

I'd say r/conservative is solidly in tier 3, and even there is a very extreme example. It was interesting seeing how the sub quickly changed on topics like the Epstien files based on whatever spin occurred IRL.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-10-09 22:52:19+00:00
The robot (BigDog) in that video shows numerous capabilities that Spot still can't do (climbing over terrain like that, being able to respond to a kick like that, the part on the ice, etc.). Even 16 years later.

This only highlights the fact that making a cool prototype do a few cool things on video is far, far easier than making a commercial product that can consistently do these things reliably. It often takes decades to move from the former to the latter. And Figure hasn't even shown us particularly impressive things from its prototypes yet.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-09 22:52:29+00:00
I mean the python-socketio is from a few days ago and likely doesn't affect this package (it's not using message queues, right?)

Eventlet .33 is ancient, no idea why they would use that.

With this said, most people should have some kind of SCA to ensure they're not using ancient packages. Conversely picking up a package the day it's released has bit a lot of people when the repository in question gets pwned.
by remus | 2025-10-09 22:52:57+00:00
It's a huge system with a lot of people involved so no doubt there is abuse, but there is also natural and expected levels of variation in the complexity of patients that doctors doing notionally the same job will actually encounter. If you're doing an honest job and happened to have seen more complex patients than average I think you'd rightly be pretty angry if you were then forced to do more paperwork to justify yourself to an insurance company who starts downcoding your patients.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-09 22:53:01+00:00
I read “Prolonged Meat Diets with a Study of Kidney Function and Ketosis” by Walter S. McClellan and Eugene F. Du Bois, Journal of Biological Chemistry (1930). The original paper that kicked off all the Atkins diet ideas. It made quite a point of the fact that the two men participating started off thinking that they'd like eating all meat, and quickly realizing that they began craving fat and organ meat to an extent that it ended up making up the majority of their diet.
by reactordev | 2025-10-09 22:53:10+00:00
We still race the beam, only on separate command chains. Across threads. With 100x the vertices. It’s still fun. Light, shadows, volumes, SDRs, HDRIs, PBR, so much has been thoroughly researched and standardized. We even have realistic clouds with volume.

This is why I got into programming to begin with. Fun first, visual second, technical challenges third, money fourth, company last.
by AndriyKunitsyn | 2025-10-09 22:53:11+00:00
Which begs the question - if all of these projects got it "wrong", what's the chance that the "right" thing isn't right at all?

All animation is inherently discrete. No matter how many threads you have, there always has to be the last rendering thread, the thing that actually prepares the calls to the rendering backend. It always has to have frames, and in every frame, in the timestamp T, it will be interested in getting the world state in the timestamp T. So, the things that work on the world state - they have to prepare it as it was in T, not earlier, not later. You cannot completely decouple it.

In one of game projects that I worked on, a physics thread and a game thread actually were pretty decoupled, and what the game thread did was extrapolating the world state from the information provided by physics, because it knew not only the positions of physics objects, but also their velocities. Can we make every web developer to set velocities to the HTML elements explicitly? Probably not.
by angarg12 | 2025-10-09 22:53:44+00:00
I'm hispanic and my two last names are Garcia Garcia. That is two last names that just happen to be the same.

When I moved to the US I could have dropped one or hyphenate them. I decided to keep it as-is, and use "Garcia Garcia" as my last name (space and all).

Besides confusing amongs americans and people always confusing one Garcia for middle name and one for last name, I had almost no problems. One time an airline messed up my plane ticket (again by dropping one of the Garcias) but that's it.

I appreciate other people have different experiences, I definitely met folks who have changed their names to conform to american customs and make things easier.
by handfuloflight | 2025-10-09 22:55:04+00:00
I actually found in my case that is just self inertia in not wanting to break through cognitive plateaus. The AI helped you with a breakthrough hence the magic, but you also did something right in your constructing of the context in the conversation with the AI; ie. you did thought and biomechanical[1] work. Now the dazzle of the AI's output makes you forget the work you still need to do, and the next time you prompt you get lazy, or you want much more, for much less.

[1] (moving your eyes, hands, hearing with your ears. etc)
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 22:55:25+00:00
> Again you are speaking from ignorance, and the inability to differentiate online bubble talk, shit talking by politicians, and reality. The Candian PM was sitting in the White House laughing with the president two days ago, are you seriously saying there is some sort of invasion threat? I don't like that twitter shit talking has bled into people's actual mouths, but I am capable of understanding that it is just talk.

The rest of the world - so outside of your bubble - hears that talk and is getting seriously worries. Not just about the leadership of the USA, but about the USA as a whole.

> George HW Bush deployed national guard to cities to deal with unrest,

But not on a pretext, though, arguably, he did start a major war on a pretext, so there's that.

> Lyndon Johnson deployed the national guard multiple times to deal with unrest, Eisenhower didn't just deploy the National Guard, he sent in the 101st Airborne - the real army. The current deployments are small and peaceful in comparison.

But they are on a pretext and that is what should worry you. The commander-in-chief has gone nuts to the point that he is inventing reasons to send the military into cities that do not want them.

But if you want to choose to ignore all that and pretend that everything is just a-ok, be my guest. We'll see how your comment ages.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 22:55:50+00:00
> you are “safe” paying in an industry average range, but if outside that range you need legal and accounting support to back up your own assessment

What? The IRS doesn’t regulate wages. They just care about getting their money. If I pay you $10bn a year to yell at my cat, the IRS is fine so long as I pay payroll and you income taxes.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-09 22:56:57+00:00
Uhh, there is no used to (past tense). Its important to have a faith-based belief system you can fall back on when you are subjected to torture.

I'm with the greeks on this, which is what they try to communicate in and through their stories.

TL;DR

The gods exist, they walk among us, they are powerful, they look just like humans, they are intelligent cruel deceptive and capricious. They are not there for your benefit.

You survive your encounters with them by being observant and measured, and follow a framework based in objective reality which could be intelligence and a fair bit of luck; or you don't.

Not all religions have all powerful protective father figures that will shield you from everything stunting and coddling you. Most in fact don't if you pay attention.

This gem is littered throughout greek mythology especially heavily in the Odyssey.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-09 22:57:23+00:00
> Why do you need exceptions at all? They’re just a different return types in disguise…

You don’t need exceptions, and they can be replaced by more intricate return types.

OTOH, for the intended use case for signalling conditions that most code directly calling a function does not expect and cannot do anything about, unchecked exceptions reduce code clutter (checked exceptions are isomorphic to "more intricate return types"), at the expense of making the potential error cases less visible.

Whether this tradeoff is a net benefit is somewhat subjective and, IMO, highly situational. but if (unchecked) exceptions are available, you can always convert any encountered in your code into return values by way of handlers (and conversely you can also do the opposite), whereas if they aren’t available, you have no choice.
by jancsika | 2025-10-09 22:57:25+00:00
> Almost all copies of the critical biography of John MacArthur, "The Stockholder", have disappeared.

After an intense 30 second investigation into this mystery, I have discovered a physical copy on campus at UCLA. Do I dare check it out?

> Now that's a successful cover-up.

You seem to have only sent one small piece of evidence for your claim.

Is it possible that you are keeping the rest of the pieces of evidence together so you can send them all at once, for the sake of efficiency?

If so, please send them now that I've acknowledged receipt of the first small piece of evidence. :)
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-09 22:57:25+00:00
The bigger problem and the one that is more damaging to public trust in science is actually politicians (and bureaucrats and other government and non-government institutions) who spread disinformation that policy is science. Their policy is "based on the science" they will claim, and therefore to disagree with their policy is to be a "science denier" they assert, without evidence. These dishonest interests essentially hijack the good name of science by fooling low information voters.

There is a lot of science around epidemiology, virology, vaccines, and medicine. There is no evidence based scientific consensus that it was the "correct" policy to shut down large parts of the economy, subsidize mothballed businesses, admit COVID positive patients to nursing homes, impose emergency policies impinging on human rights like restricting travel and association and medical autonomy, or fast-track vaccines for COVID.

You could argue for those policies, but it should have been completely reasonable to argue against them. That does not make you "anti-science". People can and should question the efficacy of the vaccines, and the lies that were repeated by certain "news" corporations and politicians who had interests in and donations from pharmaceutical companies, with fantastical claims about them that turned out to be false. That does not make you "anti-science" either.

Similar thing with the science of greenhouse gasses and global warming. There is a lot of science around the fundamentals of those mechanisms, there is a lot of science showing that warming can gravely damage ecosystems and human societies and therefore limiting human CO2 emissions would be a benefit. That's great, that is science. What is not science is any particular government policy purported to help this. Proposing to reduce or tax GHG emissions in one country and thereby incentivize production in another country (with far higher emissions intensity of production) is not "science". It's not "anti-science" or "climate denier" to question or disagree with a policy like that, for example.
by sciencejerk | 2025-10-09 22:58:36+00:00
Is this poison pill working at all? I saw one (ai written?) Blog post at "https://app.daily.dev/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas-yejikh..." but I wouldn't call that gaining critical mass. ChatGPT didn't seem to know anything about the piece until I shared a URL. Also, I'm can't tell if this if "Clankers Die on Christmas" is satire, or blackhat, or both
by jltsiren | 2025-10-09 23:00:35+00:00
It's simpler than that. The Koine Greek transliteration became established long before that particular Jesus was born. It was a common name in a region that belonged to various Greek-speaking empires for centuries, at least nominally. The transliteration was based on the pronunciation used at the time, with a masculine suffix to make the name less awkward in Greek.

And then people wrote the texts that would become the New Testament in Greek, because it was the dominant language around the Eastern Mediterranean.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-10-09 23:01:28+00:00
True, though very few (this says "over 1,500"[1]). And from everything I've seen, Spot appears to be a very expensive solution in search of a problem.

They also have Handle, a slow moving robot on wheels with an arm for moving boxes. No idea how many have been sold, but it seems to be even less than Spot.

[1] https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/
by mikeckennedy | 2025-10-09 23:01:41+00:00
Those "reader's briefs" are definitely AI. But they are discussed here a tad out of context. If you actually had the book and pull them down, the first track is me telling about them. It clearly says these are AI and just for fun, enjoy or skip. Here's the intro if you're interested:

https://blobs.talkpython.fm/00-readers-brief-intro.mp3?cache...
by rudnevr | 2025-10-09 23:03:19+00:00
having moved to us after 30 yrs of European experiences I would walk a lot in small and big East Cost cities. In the first year I was barely hit at least 3 times - once on the right turn with no lights (the driver only checked the left), once on the right turn red light (lack of my information so it's allowed in US), and once just when somebody went out of underground parking while talking to their phone. After that I learned never cross a road without making the eye contact with the upcoming driver.

Nevertheless, there had been a few episodes in the following years.
by mikeckennedy | 2025-10-09 23:04:25+00:00
Hey, you just run whatever backup command you would regularly do via compose.

For example, if you run `sqldump --db umami ...` in regular postgres (which is what they are using IIRC), then you run:

docker exec umami "sqldump --db umami ..."

Or something almost exactly like this (just from memory here and I wrote that script a year ago).
by testing22321 | 2025-10-09 23:05:34+00:00
> Kaiser should be selling me an annual plan where everything at Kaiser is covered, maybe up to a point, and then they have insurance-like network relationships with e.g. other ERs in the area, if you need them, plus out-of-area addons for when I'm traveling.

If you’re trying to solve them problem, why on earth do you propose such an expensive, convoluted and strange solution?

Two dozen countTies have solved this. It works very, very well. People pay less and get better outcomes. What more do you want?
by pella | 2025-10-09 23:05:43+00:00
- https://github.com/InferenceMAX/InferenceMAX

- "NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, AMD MI355X, Throughput Token per GPU, Latency Tok/s/user, Perf per Dollar, Cost per Million Tokes, Tokens per Provisioned Megawatt, DeepSeek R1 670B, GPTOSS 120B, Llama3 70B"
by fatbird | 2025-10-09 23:06:24+00:00
After Arko's direct access was revoked, Arko retained access via possession of the root password (which RC should have rotated at the same time). Arko then changed the root password, locking RC out of their AWS account, waited a couple weeks, and then Joel Drapper blogged about the situation with proof that the now-fired Arko controlled the account, in order to make RC look bad.
by pandaman | 2025-10-09 23:08:07+00:00
Pedestrians are the same people: I often see a person nonchalantly crossing a six lane street in the middle of a block to get into a parked car on the other side. If someone decides to post on Instagram while driving at that time then it's another innocent pedestrian taken out by evil drivers but a few minutes later the same person could be posting on the Instagram while running over another.

I don't think it's a culture though, it's just people genuinely not being punished/rewarded for putting themselves in danger and avoiding danger when growing up.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-09 23:08:26+00:00
More than likely that conjectured capability is the yesteryear Predator.

Seems tech may have received some upgrades:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/27/238884/the-penta...

There was also a hot-air balloon program that would persist at stationary at high altitude and track all moving targets over a metropolitan area for up to a month without maintenance.

The news article which said the project was called "Basilisk Stare", seems to have vanished now though from all search results. Edit: Maybe I'm misremembering and its actually Gorgon Stare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
by mikeckennedy | 2025-10-09 23:08:30+00:00
Nice. I used uwsgi -> gunicorn -> gunicorn with uvworkers -> granian. Granian is great. While not crazy popular along, it's really based on Rust's Hyper, see https://crates.io/crates/hyper Hyper has 400M downloads so safe to say it's pretty battle tested.

I interviewed the creator of Granian on Talk Python BTW.
by standardUser | 2025-10-09 23:08:50+00:00
I'd argue the problem is that doctors and insurance companies are two for-profit entities fighting it out for every penny, whereas the people who ultimately pay for the services aren't part of that conversation. If making me an afterthought makes you (the doctor) more money, I become an afterthought (assuming I don't have other options, which most people don't). I can't imagine it working any other way, aside from magical altruism.

The dental industry gets no defense from me as I've been subject to attempts at swindling and coercion more times than I can remember, as if it's standard practice.
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-09 23:09:43+00:00
The issue with pointers is that CS gets taught in a VERY bad way. The way it should be taught is starting with basic assembly on a microprocessor. This trains your brain to think of memory locations and data in memory.

Then when you start using pointers, it makes sense. If variable is a pointer, that means its a memory location. *variable is a way to get that data. Then arrays is just a wrapper around pointer arithmetic.

Whereas with CS, you learn about variables first, which is an abstraction on top of memory, and pointers don't make sense in this regard.

This is why any EE/ECE grads are much better developers than CS grads, because once you understand fundamentals
by mikeckennedy | 2025-10-09 23:10:03+00:00
Yes, they are being ripped off.

A 8 CPU / 16 GB Ram server at Hetzner is $30 or so per month. It's $200+ at AWS / Azure.

Bandwidth is 4TB included from free at Hetzner, it's $92.16 / TB or $368.64 additional at AWS / Azure.

That is where the 6x comes from. It's described in detail with that math in the book BTW.