MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheRealBadDev | 2025-10-01 01:29:55+00:00
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by bcrl | 2025-10-01 01:29:59+00:00
Because distributions don't ship Kent's kernel tree, and they're not going to. Distributions like Fedora ship as close to mainline as possible these days because of the pain experienced from shipping a heavily patched kernel in the past. Release cycles are upwards of 3 months for Linus' tree. With that kind of lengthy release cycle, for an experimental codebase which is undergoing rapid stabilization it was the right call: you don't want old code to linger around longer than necessary when they're predominantly bug fixes that successfully pass regression tests. The choice should be with the maintainer.
by vunderba | 2025-10-01 01:30:11+00:00
The real question is... what is the advantage of written sign language versus... normal writing? I think a lot of people are confused and think that there is only one universal form of sign language used worldwide [1].

Second problem is that sign language is heavily influenced with corresponding facial expressions, body language, the motion of the hands, even how emphatic the motions are. Trying to approximate what is effectively a SPATIAL language into written glyphs feels like a complete waste of time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages
by danpalmer | 2025-10-01 01:30:48+00:00
This feels like a case of both parties getting caught up in their own bullshit.

It seems unlikely that the founder was intentionally fabricating data in order to commit fraud. Far more likely is that the founder was caught up in Silicon Valley startup culture, told they were disrupting industries and changing the world, and didn't put enough into actually doing the work, and ended up thinking their company was much more important than it was. Throw in some of the toxicity of #girlboss culture (this is a criticism of the negative aspects, we do need more female founders), and you get a Dunning-Kruger situation. I can see how someone would then keep digging rather than pull out if things started to turn.

On the other side, JPMorgan obviously didn't do any real due diligence. They were too caught up in the industry hype, and want to continue their cosplay as a tech disruptor. Finding this would have taken almost no effort, there wasn't much attempt to hide it. Promoting what the company wants to be true rather than what is actually true is a clear sign of a rotten culture – people won't speak up even when there is literally no good outcome that can come from staying silent. JPMorgan got exactly what they deserved with this deal.

I feel sorry for the founder getting caught up in the cultural currents that led to this, and while they need some accountability, a prison sentence probably isn't right.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-10-01 01:30:56+00:00
Lower cholesterol helps but lowering inflammation helps everyone. As I’ve said in another comment over 75% of people who have heart attacks have normal LDL levels.

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/most-heart-attack-pa...

And lower cholesterol is not without its own risks. You need cholesterol to make hormones and things like CoQ10, which are important for our health. So what’s better? Lowering oxidative stress and inflammation or lowering cholesterol?
by griffzhowl | 2025-10-01 01:31:00+00:00
I don't think we can say the Greeks were exploring complex numbers. There's something about Diophantus finding a way to combine two right-angled triangles to produce a third triangle whose hypotenuse is the product of the hypotenuses of the first two triangles. He finds an identity that's equivalent to complex multiplication, but this is because complex multiplication has a straighforward geometric interpretation in the plane that corresponds to this way of combining triangles.

There's a nice (brief) discussion in section 20.2 of Stillwell's Mathematics and its History
by duxup | 2025-10-01 01:31:04+00:00
How much depth does due diligence really involve?

I'm involved with a company taking some investment from the outside. We're really just sending them copies of our documents and data.

IF someone chose to blatantly lie on that paperwork (we're not), I'm not sure how much they could spot.

In the meantime this outside group isn't querying out DB that's for sure, but even then in the example of this case, they actually generated fake user data and records.

I'm not saying you're wrong generally, but I think a lot of due diligence really does trust that someone wouldn't blatantly fake ... everything.
by d4mi3n | 2025-10-01 01:31:47+00:00
Former Shopifolk here. As of 2022 - 2023 they had some private packages in their SCM and an internal Artifactory deployment that was a caching proxy of Rubygems and other upstream dependencies. This may be changed since, but as far as I’m aware many Shopify devs occasionally volunteer time and fixes to Rubygems and related projects from time to time.

They certainly have the capacity to run their own full on mirror service, but I doubt they have serious incentive to do so given exciting controls and culture re: Ruby and OSS contributions.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-01 01:32:24+00:00
> IMHO, this policy is a transparent effort to forcefully alter the content policy of US companies.

To be clear, you think the UKs data regulator, going after Imgur for not properly handling data collected from minors, which is a pretty big GDPR violation (a 7 year old law) is secretly about influencing US content policies?

I mean, maybe, but that one very convoluted approach. I’m not sure why the UK would be trying to use fines for the mishandling of data collected from minors, notably, nothing related to content on Imgur, to get Imgur to change its content policies.
by ipython | 2025-10-01 01:32:47+00:00
OK great, how much do you think is necessary to spend? In the 1990s the billionaire Ed Bass spent $150 million to operate Biosphere 2 with an expected mission time of two years. Even after spending $150 million in 1993 dollars, the experiment shut down after only 6 months. [0]

So let's say we spend a little more money ($150 million would be approx $335 million today, so maybe $0.5 - 1 billion). That's a lot of money but still a LOT less than establishing a moon base. And by doing it on Earth we can solve for more closed-loop system problems here without also coping at the exact same time with an environment actively trying to kill the participants and a multi-month lead time for any resupplies/"oops"es.

Then we can take those lessons learned and apply them to the much harsher environment of the moon. In other words, it's a lot cheaper and faster to learn some lessons here on Earth first before having to tackle all that plus things like keeping yourself alive.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5442529/biosphere-2-ear...
by paulcole | 2025-10-01 01:33:28+00:00
> This, however, isn't the first AI capable of doing that correct? Didn't Sora 1, Veo, and others come out before this making videos from sentences?

It seems like there was a 90% chance you weren’t impressed by these either…

> doesn't convince or impress me or anyone else that's a skeptic

Yes, this is why I asked what % of comments you’ve made have been skeptical about AI. There’s nothing that will impress you.

I didn’t want to convince you I wanted to find out if I should have any interest in what you had to say.
by tzs | 2025-10-01 01:33:38+00:00
It's not as odd when you look at employment length. One of the stats I've seen is that Democrats who go into the civil service are more likely to stay long term. Republicans are more likely to leave for the private sector.

I'd expect employees who have been there longer, and so are likely making more money, to be both more likely than shorter term employees to make political donations and to be likely to make bigger donations than those shorter term ones that do donate.
by ellieh | 2025-10-01 01:34:39+00:00
The runbook files are just YAML (for now). They're more verbose than I'd like, but do convey a lot of information - both rich text and executable.

There's an example here: https://github.com/atuinsh/desktop/blob/8ebed35d7efe68a92363...

I'm aware this isn't ideal, and longer term we want something that looks much more like markdown. A key requirement for us here is that it's easy + convenient to type - just like normal markdown - so putting everything as a code block annotation isn't ideal.

The current sketch of what that could be looks like this: https://forum.atuin.sh/t/desktop-devlog-markdown-vim-local-f...

Would love to know if you have any thoughts!
by satellitemx | 2025-10-01 01:35:01+00:00
Cinebench 2024 takes considerably longer to finish and would saturate the whatever possible heat headroom the device has. It can be treated as an accurate reading.

Chart below is the aggregated result from CPU-monkey, Geekerwan's chip analysis, devices of my own and various other reports.

Apple M1 series 3.2GHz 5W: ~115 Apple M2 series 3.5GHz 5W: ~120 Apple M3 series 4GHz 7.5W: ~140 Apple M4 series 4.4GHz 7.5W: ~170

Snapdragon X1E 4.3GHz 10-20W: ~140 Snapdragon X2E 5GHz >20W: ~160

AMD 9950X 5.7GHz (Desktop Best): ~140 AMD AI 9 HX 375 5.1GHz (Laptop Best): ~125

Intel Ultra 9 285K 5.7GHz (Desktop Best): ~145 Intel Ultra 9 285HX 5.4GHz (Laptop Best): ~135 Intel Ultra 9 288V 5.1GHz (Low Power Laptop Best): ~125

Apple M5 may be the first ever CPU to near ~200pts on Cinebench single-core while still maintaining less than 10W of core power draw. Competitors lose on all fronts by about 2 or even 3 generations at their respective device class.
by digi59404 | 2025-10-01 01:35:23+00:00
Commenting to add - Insurance negotiated rate may actually be 1500$. If it is and they charge insurance 1500$. They legally cannot charge an individual a different or lower rate. Even if that person doesn’t have insurance and offers to pay cash.

This is one of those weird horrible traps health insurance puts you into. OP may charge insurance 1500$, insurance may only pay 20%. But that now means they have to charge individuals the full 1500$ price.

So honestly, Cudos to the OP for identifying this trap and then moving to just charging a reasonable flat rate.
by paradox460 | 2025-10-01 01:36:29+00:00
LIGO has to filter out loads of noise to look for signals. The interferometers are sensitive enough to pick up human activity, like cars, the trains that run over and around Lake Pontchartrain and the Livingston area, and even river flow fluctuations in the Yakima River. Daylight savings transitions basically shift a lot of human activity around by an hour, which can muck with the filtering
by dboreham | 2025-10-01 01:37:37+00:00
If I hadn't seen something like this myself I would never believe it. In the late 90s I worked at a very large tech company, for the CTO. The company was considering investing in a startup that claimed to be able to transmit fiber-like data rates on high voltage transmission lines, somehow by using microwave. I was asked to comment on this. Within a few seconds I said it had to be a scam per Shannon, and at any rate said high voltage lines typically already have fiber on the ground wire at the top of the towers. The company went ahead with the investment.
by wastle | 2025-10-01 01:37:37+00:00
> > The actual divisive issue is whether people who say they are the opposite sex to what they really are should be granted access to spaces that are designated for the sole use of the opposite sex.

> And of course that shouldn't matter for an online virtual space.

Depends on the space. It will matter sometimes. For instance: pregnancy forums, prostate cancer support groups.

But I agree this shouldn't be relevant for online spaces used to organise work on software development projects. These, almost always, are not intended as single-sex spaces, nor as venues for discussing people's differing views on this topic.

> It's not a "political stance" to say that people should call others by their preferred name and pronouns. It's just basic human decency to do that

I think that's more a philosophical stance. Appealing to "basic human decency" seems too subjective, both culturally and personally. There are many perspectives on what this might mean in practice.

Unfortunately the pronouns issue is difficult to avoid when communicating in English, because we have separate words to refer to female and male, and for most English speakers it's natural to use these to describe a person's sex. Overriding it because someone prefers (or demands) an opposite sex pronoun, or even some esoteric pronoun outside of the usual closed set, can be difficult even if that's something you've chosen to accede to. It's like a variation of the Stroop test but in everyday speech.

There are some reasonable arguments to be made for choosing otherwise too, though I expect you probably would not agree.
by int_19h | 2025-10-01 01:38:40+00:00
Good catch! That takes care of the unsafe pointer case, but not the safe ref case.

There's no reason for this to be unsafe - you're asking for a 1-element slice, and the compiler knows that the variable is always going to be there as long as the reference exists.

In C#, `Span<T>` has a (safe) constructor from `ref T`.
by Fnoord | 2025-10-01 01:38:44+00:00
A shell history has no knowledge about what the commands do.

You could also make a mistake by executing command #101 instead of #102.

1) This is why you never type rm -rf * but the absolute path.

2) Furthermore, the command flag -f implies never prompt (taken from a recent GNU coreutils man page):

"-f, --force ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt"

3) This is merely unlinking; the data is still there, not overwritten.

4) You should have backups of your homedir. A filesystem with versioning like ZFS could be of help here, too.

5) Agree with you and add a blacklist to the history, with rm being a primary contender.

6) Instead of rm, use a system where you move files into a trash bin (ie. abstract the unlinking in a user-friendly interface such as the trash bin or recycle bin concept). Examples: https://github.com/imnyang/tsh https://github.com/Byron/trash-rs

Now, I think you could do #5 or #6 (and add `mv` and `dd` as well, but where does the list end?), but I think #1 (using the absolute path) is the easiest to avoid the worst PEBCAK.
by rs186 | 2025-10-01 01:39:01+00:00
Great work. I was just recently dealing with creating diff in Go and faced the same problem of finding a good library. Some diffmatchpatch APIs expect/return escaped texts, and I was screaming why would you do that??? Why doesn't the library just return raw strings? I ended up using diffmatchpatch to get patch objects and then produced unified diffs with some vibecoding. I'll definitely try this out when I revisit this.

PS regarding readability, I think VSCode put a lot of effort into creating nice-to-read diffs (e.g. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_81#_diff-editor), some of which is done in the algorithm itself (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_78#_diff-algorithm-...). But apparently that's in TypeScript, and not all heuristics done there for an editor is suitable to be in a generic diff algorithm. Still, there might be something worth exploring.
by ghaff | 2025-10-01 01:39:03+00:00
I accept that some people are doubtless much more talented in acquiring languages than I am. But I did take 4 years of high school French and was considered "good." And, traveling with a friend in Paris, I clearly knew a lot more of the language than they did. But I'm a very very far way from being fluent.

Maybe the people who claim to spend a few weeks with Duolingo and get the language are uniquely talented. Or maybe they're BSing.
by ipdashc | 2025-10-01 01:39:16+00:00
> Colonizing Antarctica is a few orders of magnitude easier than Mars and we've barely progressed with that

I hear this somewhat often, and I find it a bit disingenuous since it's not like we're trying that hard to colonize Antarctica, we're mostly preserving it as well as we can, no? And the existing Antarctic bases aren't total hellholes or anything, AFAIK the larger ones are relatively normal spaces with power and normal food and heated water.

I do agree with the overall point though for sure.
by vunderba | 2025-10-01 01:40:34+00:00
I don't have to imagine it because it's probably the most COMMON fantasy that people who work in advertisement and marketing have every day.

Now... take it a STEP further. Remember the scene in Futurama where Fry tries on the Lightspeed Briefs and looks in the mirror to see a rather aspirational version of himself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by0KQRJVFuk

Yeah.
by astrange | 2025-10-01 01:40:47+00:00
I live in the most expensive housing market in the world.

That's because the value of the land under the houses is so high; the house itself is nothing special. But even then, it's mostly because of Prop 13, and it only works out if you live in the house yourself. There's still noone cornering the market in California houses. Almost all landlords only own 1-2 properties.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-01 01:40:55+00:00
This is some stupid straw man for haters to attack. That first 10 day version of the language was super defective and never released. Contrary to what the article says the first public release of the language was 3 months later after massive refactors.

The biggest things the language got wrong, besides the corrected defects, were intentional design decisions to make the language friendly and forgiving to non-programmers. The biggest defect to persist past Netscape 2 was that functions could not be nested until version 1.3.

https://santoahinijena.hashnode.dev/history-of-javascript-js...
by zdragnar | 2025-10-01 01:41:13+00:00
To me there's a certain appeal to not putting (too much) logic in tests. A test with a false positive because there's a bug in the test logic is a false confidence signal that I've seen enough times to resent. I shouldn't feel the need to have tests for my tests.

To be fair, it doesn't happen often, though what I'm seeing more of is just blatantly bad tests written by LLMs. It's hard to blame a philosophy when dealing with humans that have fully delegated their brains over to a random number generator.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-01 01:41:39+00:00
Imagine an industry almost identical to gambling where the only difference is how payouts are calculated. Instead, all gambles return exactly the expected value rather than a payout based on random chance. Any of the "other" purposes of gambling like entertainment are just as well fulfilled by this as what we have today.

I suspect most people aren't interested in gambling this way though. Banning winners allows you to turn our gambling into something much closer to this alternate form, while keeping all the marketing benefits of a game people actually want to play. That certainly feels deceptive in ways that a transactional purchase is not.
by Nition | 2025-10-01 01:42:45+00:00
A similar one for Kagi: All other popular search engines have an alternative URL that enforces safesearch, allowing IT admins/parents to prevent safesearch being turned off at a DNS level (e.g. forcesafesearch.google.com, strict.bing.com). Kagi's had an open request for one for 3½ years[1] and it was recently downgraded in status away from Planned.

[1] https://kagifeedback.org/d/3285-safe-search-dns-locking-for-...
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-01 01:42:50+00:00
And they certainly do have monetary transactions, just not with the people whose data is handled unlawfully. A sharper-toothed law might also prevent UK companies from using data sets fed by Imgur… but I doubt that will ever happen. I’m honestly pretty sick of surveillance capitalism entities just doing whatever they hell they want and pretending like the privacy policy is actual consent.
by NL807 | 2025-10-01 01:43:05+00:00
>They’re saying that a crime was committed in their country by the person and they’re asking the foreign country for cooperation in prosecuting that person.

Seems like a loophole for arbitrary criminal accusations of a people living abroad who are not affiliated with the country making the accusations. With this kind of logic, adult website operators should be extradited to some middle-eastern country for violating their sharia law online. It's wrong. Site operators living abroad should not be held accountable for not adhering to arbitrary local laws, unless they are conducting business directly in that country.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-01 01:43:16+00:00
I think that's a bit of a scope creep. The study of dynamical systems is obviously important and is sometimes rolled into chaos theory, but it predates it - and tellingly, it almost never concerns itself with chaotic behavior, because you can't do a whole lot with that.

So it's sort of like saying that the physics of black holes are very useful to us day-to-day because we want to make sure we don't fall into any black holes.

I'm not saying that chaos theory isn't interesting. It's just that it's pretty hard to find any concrete application of it, beyond hand-wavy stuff like "oh, it somehow helped us understand weather".
by egypturnash | 2025-10-01 01:43:30+00:00
This is some beautifully horrible spaghetti, well done. It's like I'm eleven years old and barely understand what's going on in the computer again.

I just fired up VICE and my virtual c64 happily ran both of those, if throwing an "out of memory" error after about five runs through the first one counts as "happily".
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-01 01:44:08+00:00
Honestly, I don't care about most of those things. What I care about is that it just looks like crap. There are a lot of things that don't look transparent. They just look kinda sorta half grayed out in a half baked way. I mean now in my iphone it looks like the numbers on the clock were run through some kind of anti anti aliasing system. It just looks like it was done by a bunch of amateurs.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-01 01:44:09+00:00
Yeah I use different methods for that. I considered using zfs send/receive for backups, however there's one big issue with that: every time you need one or two files from the backup you need to restore the whole filesystem. There's no official way to retrieve a single file from a zfs send stream.

For backup purposes I also greatly prefer file by file encryption because one corruption will only break one file and not the whole backup.

What I do now is encrypt with encfs and store on a S3 glacier-style service.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-01 01:44:44+00:00
> It seems like there was a 90% chance you weren’t impressed by these either…

And you'd be wrong in that assumption. When these first came out, particularly veo, I was quiet impressed with the photo realistic scenes it produced. Just like I was pretty impressed by "this is not a real human" website when it first launched.

> Yes, this is why I asked what % of comments you’ve made have been skeptical about AI. There’s nothing that will impress you.

New and novel things impress me. What's new and novel about this?

> I didn’t want to convince you I wanted to find out if I should have any interest in what you had to say.

Ah, so my opinion about stuff is only worth something if I said "I believe AI is the best thing that has ever been invented and I will kill myself to further it!!"

Go find a church if you can only talk with zealots.