MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-10-19 06:10:31+00:00
They exploit the fact that so much of our DNA is the same. They basically have the book with no typos, or rather with only the typos they've decided to call canonical.

So given a short sentence excerpt, even with a few errors thrown in, partial string matching is usually able to figure out where in the book it was likely from. Sometimes there may be more possibilities, but then you can look at overlaps and count how many times a particular variant appears in one context vs. another.

One problem is, DNA contains a lot of copies and repetitive stretches, as if the book had "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" repeated end to end for a couple of pages. Then it can hard to place where the variant actually is. Longer reads helps with this.
by kiwih | 2025-10-19 06:11:13+00:00
Strange question - has the "submitted at" times been edited on this post and all the comments here? I swear I read everything on this submission, including the comments, several days ago, but nothing here is longer than a few hours.

Actually, google search agrees with me - if you search for the title here + hackernews, it says that it saw this post and several of the comments 6 days ago (apologies that I can't link to the cache as this is no longer a feature of Google).

Why are all the post and comment times here saying less than a few hours ago?
by muzani | 2025-10-19 06:12:37+00:00
1. Yes, but it's hard to prove. There are active lawsuits. Some of it has been under "fair use" but at the billion dollar scale, you have to really ask whether it's fair. Also anecdotally, an author friend lamented that her publisher sold the legal rights to use it... it was all perfectly legal but many authors do not agree to this.

2. This is harder as a lot of them don't disclose training sets.
by eesmith | 2025-10-19 06:14:19+00:00
If it is fake, why do the data centers do all they can do hide their water consumption, including NDAs (https://virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/data-centers-non-disc... ) and lobbying against forced disclosure?

Otherwise, we have only guesswork.

доверяй, но проверяй - trust, but verify.
by HaZeust | 2025-10-19 06:15:41+00:00
Malta - which is an EU member.

"Individual investors must make a minimum contribution of €600,000 to the national development fund set up by the government and prove 36 months of residency. Alternatively, there is an expedited route which requires a contribution of €750,000 and evidence of 12 months residency" [1]

1 - http://goldenvisas.com/malta
by vintermann | 2025-10-19 06:15:59+00:00
Can you trust it though? It'd be trivially easy to do a 1x read, maybe 2x, and then fake the other 28 reads. And it'd be hard to catch someone doing this without doing another 30x read from someone you trust. There's famously a lot of cheating in medical research, it would be odd if everyone stopped the moment they left academia (there have been scandals with forensic labs cheating too, now that I think about it).
by bestham | 2025-10-19 06:16:00+00:00
Like everything else in engineering it is a matter of trade offs. The setup you chose to run really hampers the usefulness of having a checksuming file system, since it cannot simply get the correct data from another drive. As a peer pointed out: ZFS does support adding additional drives to expand a RaidZ (with some trade offs). What you cannot do is change the raid topology at the fly.
by dohyun1m | 2025-10-19 06:18:03+00:00
Hi I'm David, Co-founder of FastApps! Yes we did benchmark Next.js support for ChatGPT apps. We figured out there was nothing like it for python.

Apps in ChatGPT is based on MCP servers, and as you know many people develop mcp servers in python. So we believe that FastApps would be the best choice for people who are building ChatGPT apps in python.
by defrost | 2025-10-19 06:18:47+00:00
It's been second chanced and "shadow time altered" (probably).

This post number is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45557970 A post from 7 hours past is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630962

You can see from the ID number that this post really is much older than seven hours.

( bonus l33tc0d3 qu3est: knock up something to probe and plot posts per unit time, etc. ( I'm taking my dad to the shop instead ) )

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 * https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
by prox | 2025-10-19 06:19:11+00:00
I don’t agree if I understand your reply correctly, it’s possible to become aware of your bias. People are able to self-reflect and engage in self-enquiry. From engaging in philosophy to rigorous self examination of what things you hold true. Everything you hold true is your bias (I wonder if thats what you meant with your reply)

And I wouldn’t be surprised if there are also tests out there.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-19 06:20:02+00:00
I suspect you're right about the quantities. In support of that notion, when looking closer at the (linked in another user's comment) PDF of the report, I can see that a lot of this camera's internal structure quite clearly appears to be the product of an FDM 3D printer. This suggests that quantities are low.

And I don't know when that camera was manufactured or designed.

But these days, it's possible to get even hobbyist-quantities of custom PCBs delivered with difficult-to-solder ICs installed from sources like JLCPCB.

(Depending on the features and functions wanted, it doesn't take a whole lot of extra parts to get an MCU to do its thing: There's not a ton of parts on a Teensy to begin with.)
by vasco | 2025-10-19 06:20:58+00:00
How? You read it the same way in your brain? Like when you read you think of the words, so they are all there in the same way, with the only added extra parsing on top (ie an extra half second spent on the word you want to avoid). If you want to be careful to avoid this, avoid the subject or use different framing that doesn't require to use the word. Censoring it in text makes zero sense for the reader for your intended purpose.

This feels like a weird combo of "I know talking about this subject will put the thought in people's minds, but I still want to talk about it and say the same thing exactly while at the same time showing that I think it's problematic". But then why do it?
by GistNoesis | 2025-10-19 06:21:35+00:00
Thanks, that the same approach I was suggesting in my other comment in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628245 . But couldn't find literature specific to the Bezier curves to help break the communication gap, and my specific knowledge of Bezier Curve isn't deep enough.

I am happy to see other people use the approach I consider more natural.

It's a generic global optimization approach and geometry is always full of pathological edge cases, so it's hard to tell if you miss any. Getting to work in the average case is usually easy, but to be sure it always work is much harder.
by pjerem | 2025-10-19 06:22:39+00:00
> A lot of us are drinking less, but I’m not sure we’ve really come up with a suitable replacement yet - socially speaking.

I have had interesting experiences with low (but not micro) doses of LSD. It felt way more interesting than alcohol and way more safe and you can be much more functional than with alcohol while having a great time.

But the effects are way too long (~8 to 10 hours at low doses) to be a good alcohol replacement at social settings.
by chuliomartinez | 2025-10-19 06:23:11+00:00
SQL makes it very hard to express real world requirements.

1. No easy way to limit child records count in joins - find all orders with orderproduct.amount is greater than X. Obviously this will genereate duplicates for orders that have more than one such orderproduct. So you slap a distinct on it… but what if you need an aggregation?

The possible fixes are highly non-trivial: subqueries, window functions, or vendor specific: outer apply.

2. Or queries, that is when you group where conditions with OR are very hard (impossible) to optimize.

Apart from the trivial case where the conditions are all on the same column, you are better of leaving the declarative world and imperatively tell sql to do a union.

I wrote a bit about it here: https://www.inuko.net/blog/platform_sql_or_conditions_on_joi...
by hn-ifs | 2025-10-19 06:27:07+00:00
> But you're posting here, in socisl media, no? So you sought out something here that a group chat wouldn't give.

This is true, of course. I'm here interacting with strangers. But, for me, HN is about discovery not community like what the article talks about. I'd be just as content not posting if the ability wasn't there. I just don't agree that social media is that important.

I personally think what the article talks about is already available in the form of group chats on platforms like signal. My impression, from the article, is the author is extremely politically motivated and seems to believe social media is somehow a good thing, as long as the people they don't like can't control it , and likely can't use it? That last point might not be true.
by hakunin | 2025-10-19 06:29:14+00:00
Everything has a cost. If you had to pick between "write 99% correct code in 1 week" vs "write 100% correct code in 1 year", you probably would pick the former, and just solve the 1% as you go. It's an absurd hypothetical, but illustrates that it's not just about correctness. Cost matters.

What often annoys me about proponents of static typing is that they sound like it doesn't have a cost. But it does.

1. It makes syntax more verbose, harder to see the "story" among the "metadata".

2. It makes code less composable, meaning that everything requires complex interfaces to support everything else.

3. It encourages reuse of fewer general types across the codebase, vs narrow scoped situational ones.

4. It optimizes for "everything must be protected from everything" mentality, when in reality you only have like 2-5 possible data entries into your system.

5. It makes tests more complex to write.

6. Compiled languages are less likely to give you a powerful/practical REPL in a live environment.

For some, this loses more than it gains.

Also, albeit I haven't seen this studied, human factor probably plays bigger role here than we realize. Too many road signs ironically make roads less safe due to distraction. When my code looks simple and small, my brain gets to focus better on "what can go wrong specifically here". When the language demands I spend my attention constructing types, and add more and more noise, it leaves me less energy and perspective on just taking a step back and thinking "what's actually happening here".
by yohannesk | 2025-10-19 06:29:36+00:00
But is that even true? If you get enjoyment out of a drink in moderation, that affects your mental health which in turn affects your physiological health no? So maybe it's not healthy for all individuals to abstain completely. I don't drink except on holidays/events with friends or family where I can get the effects in 1 or 2 beers haha
by bitwize | 2025-10-19 06:31:41+00:00
When I saw the OP's headline I thought "because mathematicians think with chalk the way I think with code". One of the reasons why I Loathe and Detest LLM-based development is because I've developed the (potentially very bad) habit of working through my ideas with (sometimes heavily commented or literate-programmed) code—and LLMs basically take that workflow away from me almost entirely.
by bradgessler | 2025-10-19 06:33:32+00:00
I recently finished shooting a video course for Phlex and I found that naming the Turbo Stream section at https://beautifulruby.com/phlex#unit-5 was the most challenging because of Turbo Streams and Turbo Broadcasts.

My recommendation: Turbo Drive & Pagemorphs are what most people should use for most problems. Drive reduces flickering between page loads and Pagemorphs list to channels on the server to reload the page if something changed.

I think Turbo would benefit from positioning itself more closely to Rails and simplifying the terminology. If you look at the https://hotwired.dev website, you won’t find Rails and you’ll find a bunch of words like Stimulus, Drive, Streams, Broadcast, etc. The docs aren’t entirely coherent either.
by benrutter | 2025-10-19 06:34:37+00:00
It's 2 days later, but the effects found in studies are:

- Increased weight gain contain to the same calories in non-UPF - Consumption of UPF linked with obesity - Consumption of UPF linked with early death

As always, I'm sure you could argue with experimental set up, but.those are the main claims.

Source is ultra-processed people, which I mentioned earlier and someone kindly linked to.
by theturtlemoves | 2025-10-19 06:35:04+00:00
Not the op but to me personally: yes. Facial structure, lips, eyes.. The configuration tilts towards an expression that I interpret differently. A friend of mine is Asian, I've learned to be better at it, but to me he at first looked like having flatter affect than average.. People of color look more naive than average to me, across the board, probably due to their facial features. I perceive them as having less tension in the face I think (which is interesting now that I think about it)
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-19 06:35:10+00:00
A surprising number of my colleagues over the years have been know to dabble in all sorts of things to "enhance performance".

Adderall: at one point in time I think half the engineers in the bay were popping these. They were practically free and available everywhere during the dot com bubble recovery.

Weed: A good number of JS engineers I know are just miserable people to work with till they smoke a joint.

Drinking: From casual to alcoholics, drinking culture used to be huge in many bay area offices. This has died down... still there but more discrete.

LSD: there is a shocking amount of this, your average dev team likely has someone who micro-doses if not more...

Cocaine and MDMA have gone the way of the dodo: fent made them mostly non starters.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-19 06:35:11+00:00
I had a HD fail on me while using Windows 98 as main OS, yet thanks to ext, I think it was ext2 at the time this happened, I still managed to repurpose it for Linux, for several months.

It was ok from possible data failures point of view, I didn't had much data other than the distro and the stuff I also needed to compile under Linux.

Somehow it managed to still work with the disk, with the sectors that were not damaged.
by gigatexal | 2025-10-19 06:35:29+00:00
General rule of thumb is OLAP (DuckDB, BigQuery, redshift, etc) db’s are better at reads (think analytics) and OLTP (Postgres and MySQL and salute) ones are better for writes (think order systems, point of sale).

Things get muddied when things like the HTAP stuff are bandied about where they promise the best of both worlds.
by hinkley | 2025-10-19 06:36:09+00:00
There was that confusing moment in grade school history class where they casually stated that the pilgrims found a translator among the Indians. Moving on.

Umm... How tf did the Indians have someone who already spoke English? Jamestown isn't exactly a short walk, even if it has been a dozen years.

Yeah because fisherman had already been trading with them. But that's 1620, not 1491. It's reasonable to think fisherman had been leveraging this information a century after it was known.
by Krasnol | 2025-10-19 06:39:53+00:00
I never said "no subscription".

There is also obviously a HUGE difference between advertising and advertising.

Somehow they could run the page with far less intrusive ads before. It is now a problem and not enough because you have to generate more and more revenue every year.

This is however neither a problem of the visitor nor is it required to "pay it's costs". It is pure greed. Not more and not less.

So please, do us a favour and stop using this meme. YT is not going to stop working with less greed and less mind/attention rape.
by babblingfish | 2025-10-19 06:40:12+00:00
I found free public versions for some of the essays in the compilation.

Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number—[1]

The Crack-Up[2]

[1] https://fitzgerald.narod.ru/zelda/shownumber.html

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/f-scott-fitzgerald-...
by firecall | 2025-10-19 06:40:26+00:00
Can you imagine how awful open plan offices would be if everyone was talking to their computer!

Similarly how odd it would be to be in a closed office talking to a computer… at least until we got to startrek levels of AI.

Finally, in my experience, I cannot talk and perform complex thinking at the same time.

I can type and mouse around and stay on a flow state, where I can hold a conceptual model of something in my head and write code for it. But as soon as I begin talking that flow state begins to decay. The longer I talk the harder it is to get back into that state.

I’m happy to ask my phone questions in other circumstances, but I don’t feel it’s something I need on my computer.

Happy for history to prove me wrong!
by zkmon | 2025-10-19 06:40:58+00:00
Let's say we got someone to be accountable for something. And that something has failed horribly. Now what?

Infact, the first problem would be to identify whether something is a success or failure. This is tough, as anything can be dressed up as success, attributing any negatives to the external factors. Any determination (success or not) would mostly go by perceptions people have on other people, but not really by what happened on the ground, unless it is so glaring or media made a fuss about it.

Assuming it was somehow classified as a failure, the next bigger issue to identify whom to blame. At this point, it would fizzle out with a circular to everyone stating a new policy or general guidance, without naming anyone.

Let's say we have a rare instance where a person was named as accountable for the failure. Mostly likely it will be shown as team decisions and team work that resulted in failure. Can the entire team be fired? No way. Infact the team would be rewarded for going through such crisis situation that got high visibility.

Most preachings about accountability and responsibility do not go into how to actually use them in the aftermath of a failure or success.
by mmooss | 2025-10-19 06:41:14+00:00
> In general people should care about themselves and understand their impact on others. But that doesn't need to be "love"

I agree that anything can become overused cliche. Still, I think the parent comment is like saying, 'people need sustenance but that doesn't need to be water'. There is nothing more essential.

People need love like we need water. We are social organisms, living in groups; we are not like bears who live alone. The lack of love makes us ill and drives us to madness. We've seek, with everything we have, to love and be loved; you can see it in love between parent and child, between family, friends, and romantic partners. These things are universal to humanity - you can find them in every culture, and every culture's stories. Evolution, survival of the fittest, etc. has resulted in that.

And it starts with love of self; how could you love someone else, or be comfortable with them loving you, if you didn't think you were worth love. I've never heard of anyone who seriously studies such things say otherwise; I'd be interested in any references to such people.
by bschwindHN | 2025-10-19 06:41:35+00:00
What kind of hardware projects do you work on?

I'm mostly in the software space but in the past few years I've been doing a lot more embedded stuff, and the trend I notice is that companies are making great hardware, and then completely ruining its usefulness with bad software and firmware. It's kind of mind blowing to me because I always considered software to be the easy part of making a product, compared to, you know, etching microscopic patterns onto sand to make magical transistors appear in just the right way to do the task you want.
by jagrsw | 2025-10-19 06:42:49+00:00
Skilled essay, but not an argument. Opens with "As Jung notes" as an appeal to authority, then more name-drops.

Misses clear definitions (what counts as "friendship with self"?) and the mechanism (how X->Y). Anecdotes/quotes != proofs.

IOW, prestige != proof. Two quick checks 1) strip the names - does the reasoning still stand? 2) Flip to counterexamples - does the thesis survive? We all know people who are hard on themselves but deeply loving to others.

Nice essay but treat it as a opinion to test, not a truth to inherit. The thread reads as if the case were already proven.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-19 06:43:45+00:00
Historical context is not merely important, it is indispensable.

The statement in question was issued during a period in which software vendors routinely demanded several hundred — and in some cases, thousands — of dollars[0] for access to a mere compiler. More often than not, the product thus acquired was of appalling quality — a shambolic assembly marred by defects, instability, and a conspicuous lack of professional rigour.

If one examines the design of GNU autoconf, particularly the myriad of checks it performs beyond those mandated by operating system idiosyncrasies, one observes a telling pattern — it does not merely assess environmental compatibility; it actively contends with compiler-specific bugs. This is not a testament to ingenuity, but rather an indictment of the abysmal standards that once prevailed amongst so-called commercial tool vendors.

In our present epoch, the notion that development tools should be both gratis and open source has become an expectation so deeply ingrained as to pass without remark. The viability and success of any emergent hardware platform now rests heavily — if not entirely — upon the availability of a free and competent development toolchain. In the absence of such, it shall not merely struggle — it shall perish, forgotten before it ever drew breath. Whilst a sparse handful of minor commercial entities yet peddle proprietary development environments, their strategy has adapted — they proffer these tools as components of a broader, ostensibly cohesive suite: an embedded operating system here, a bundled compiler there.

And yet — if you listen carefully — one still hears the unmistakable sounds of malcontent: curses uttered under breath and shouted aloud by those condemned to use these so-called «integrated» toolchains, frustrated by their inability to support contemporary language features, by their paltry libraries, or by some other failure born of commercial indifference.

GNU, by contrast, is not merely a project — it is a declaration of philosophy. One need not accept its ideological underpinnings to acknowledge its practical contributions. It is precisely due to this dichotomy that alternatives such as LLVM have emerged — and thrived.

[0] Throw in another several hundreds for a debugger, another several hundreds for a profiler and pray that they are even compatible with each other.
by canucker2016 | 2025-10-19 06:44:04+00:00
Where can you buy a $600 mac with an M4 Pro?

The M4 mac mini at $599 comes with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD - see https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini/apple-m4-chip-wi...

The M4 Pro mac mini starts at $1399 with 24GB RAM and 512GB SSD - see https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini/apple-m4-pro-chi...
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-19 06:44:43+00:00
> depression

I see depression as specific states that requires different handling. The analogy is limited, but if you break your arm you'll heal it in different ways than if you're just tired.

For people not reaching critical states, creating a positive image of one self doesn't need to come from within. As the article points out, one can start by interacting with others, and getting enough positivity from it to also change self-perception or at least self management.

To borrow another meme, "believe in me that believes in you" effectively works as well.
by mantas | 2025-10-19 06:45:22+00:00
That may be true for people seeing the censored for the first time. But then it just becomes a double speak theater.

Sort of like illegal vs undocumented migrants. First time you hear, it may pass in different ways. But once you realize what’s the topic, people on both sides will read both words the same way. And both in their own ways. It just becomes a kind of virtue signaling after few uses.