MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chithanh | 2025-10-10 21:04:50+00:00
> Me and anyone else reading this.

In that case, no "we" don't, because I am reading this and I do not agree with this "standard" nor your characterization of what I wrote.

> Mechanisms are inferred from empirical evidence, I don't see how you can treat them as two separate categories. For example, in your crash test dummy analogy, verification through crash tests (with dummies) is empirical evidence.

This is not how it works. Crash tests are used for validation, but the data from crash tests is generally not used to infer mechanism. Physicists don't come up with a new theory of mechanics every time a crash test has an unexpected outcome.

> If you name proxy experiments that support your views (crash tests) as mechanisms and ones that don't (SSB replacement with NNS RCTs) as "empirical evidence is valid only for the situation in which it was obtained" then sure, everything you want to believe is supported by sound science and everything you don't isn't.

I don't think you understand. If you want to support a public health intervention you either have the empirical data with a relevant endpoint,

or you can point to mechanism which bridges the part between the data that you have and the outcome which you want to achieve.

When it comes to pharmaceutics and food additives, our mechanistic understanding is insufficient so we often have to resort to empirical studies on humans, including RCTs (Pfizer's Covid vaccine trial had tens of thousands of participants) and also observational studies at population level. And it is the last part where artificial sweeteners fail to show benefit so far.

When it comes to seat belts, our mechanistic understanding is sufficient so we don't need to resort to empirism. Yes we perform validation but only to check if there are no design oversights in the vehicle nor shortcomings with the simulation software, typically in a low triple-digit number of crash tests. But no humans involved and especially no control arm with humans.

(Well if you ignore the one study on the efficacy of parachutes which was done as RCT https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5094 )

> So it doesn't meet your own goalpost

It does, because again, mechanism is provided. You could say that the study has weak evidence for the mechanism and it works like that perhaps only for sugar. Because that some mechanism is found in mice does not mean it is also found in humans, and it would be a fair point. This is why many species are tested and so far the results held up (testing humans takes too long for obvious reasons).
by RajT88 | 2025-10-10 21:05:17+00:00
If I (like my wife) was going to use a TV as a monitor at her desk, I would definitely want a 4k monitor. Up close, that is a video wall, with no need of window scaling.

Such as it is, I use 3x 1080p displays. It's fine for me, and approximates a larger curved super-wide display (while also being cheap). She does just fine with 1080p resolution however - rarely has more than 2-3 windows on screen at a time.
by rco8786 | 2025-10-10 21:05:33+00:00
Those numbers still fall way short of $1T and the $4.3b in rev is only the first half of 2025 - they're projecting $12-13b for the year.

I have my own reservations about the company, but there's a pretty real path toward huge revenues and profitability for them that seems pretty obvious to me.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-10 21:05:35+00:00
Not that I think it's a good idea, but ...

You go to Google, type "refrigerator" and you get two buttons

* Please show me only adds, sorted by how much they paid to Larry and Sergey

* Please show me only somewhat organic results, sorted by relevance or whatever, and discount me $1 to pay for the servers and crawers.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-10 21:06:14+00:00
Thanks for the coherent response jayw_lead! I too dislike the term but I'm coming from the Noam Chomsky, "language models are a nothingburger in terms of applied linguistics" angle. As far as I can see this still seems like , "secular post-Enlightenment science culture dreams up the Millennium" and given Peter Thiel's recent commentary about the, "anti-christ" I'm terrified to the point of thinking it would be wise to buy an assault rifle.

https://wiki.evageeks.org/S%C2%B2_Engine
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2025-10-10 21:06:52+00:00
Mu-MIMO would help. The real problem is that energy between a unit and an AP is not in a pencil-thin RF laser-beam --- it is spread out. Other nodes hear that energy, and back off. If we had better control of point-to-point links, then you could have plenty of bandwidth. It's not as if the photon field cannot hold them all. When we broadcast in all directions, we waste energy, and we cause unnecessary interference to other receivers.
by IT4MD | 2025-10-10 21:07:06+00:00
Apple and Tim Apple are here for profits. <---period.

They could not care less if you, the customer lived or died, as long as your check clears.

Source: Tim Apple sucking up to Trump like he's the antidote. This is even more ironic considering Tim's sexual orientation and Mango Jabba's take on "the gays".
by nomel | 2025-10-10 21:07:22+00:00
> Asking candidates if they have an additional experience to share isn't an invitation for discrimination lawsuits.

It's the fact that you decided not to hire them, because you found out that protected information. It was unrelated? Prove it in court. That's the reality of discrimination lawsuits.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree.

If you're confident in this, maybe in your next couple of interviews try "That last question is something new that I'm trying. Do you think it's good, or do you think it's too personal?". You'll have to read their body language, since the power dynamics will prevent a direct answer, for many. If you're not comfortable asking that, then that's evidence enough.
"Show HN: Dormant news aggregator with zero idle costs using x402 protocol"
by Must_be_Ash | 2025-10-10 21:08:48+00:00
Traditional news sites cost $$$/m even with zero visitors.

This aggregator only activates based on audience. It detects location, fetches news via Firecrawl's x402 endpoint & caches results.

x402 micropayments = zero idle costs & sustainable SaaS.
by dcre | 2025-10-10 21:08:54+00:00
I use :reflow (mapped to =) decently well for wrapping comments, but it doesn't do well at splitting a long single line into multiple lines. My workaround is to add a second empty comment underneath and include it in the selection before hitting =.

Likely fix here, coming soon according to the last comment: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/11738
by YesBox | 2025-10-10 21:09:00+00:00
Every person has their own body. For me:

I've never smoked cigarettes, but decided to try Nicorette gum as an alternative to a second cup of coffee (if I drink after 12:00, I wont go to sleep on time).

I've been using it for 8+ years now and have found a sustainable dosage that doesn't give me withdrawal/depenency. I've never had an issue with tolerance.

I buy a big box of 4mg gum and go through around half to one piece a day. I discovered consuming 2+ pieces (+8mg) led to withdrawal symptoms (empathetic lightbulb moment for me for smokers who want to quit!)

Regarding dependency, I don't take any when Im traveling/on vacation, and have never felt the need to use it then.

Any desire comes from wanting to continue the alertness once the caffeine starts to wear off.
by arvind_k | 2025-10-10 21:09:20+00:00
At Zipphy, I worked on solving similar problems in on-prem environments — building an OCR + NLP + CV pipeline to generate spatial layouts and classify documents at scale.

One persistent challenge was generalizing across “wild” PDFs, especially multi-page tables.

Your mention of agentic OCR correction and semantic chunking really caught my attention. I’m curious — how did you architect those to stay consistent across diverse layouts without relying on massive rule sets?
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2025-10-10 21:09:24+00:00
yes, and... convenience says 'use WiFi'. No wires! I've said, if it moves - wireless. If it doesn't -- wired. Counterexamples that 'work': AM / FM / TV / Paging big transmitters to simple/cheap receivers. For the 1-way case, that works. But for 2-way....
by kjksf | 2025-10-10 21:09:27+00:00
That is obviously the case that federal money comes with strings and strings curtail independence.

What you seem to imply that there should be no strings. Which is a position you can have but it has never been the case.

To wit, one of the things this compact wants is an enforcement of civil rights act and Biden admin did the same thing:

> The most important stipulation during the Biden administration attached to federal funding for universities was compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance, including discrimination against Jewish students through antisemitic harassment or hostility on campus. Universities that fail to adequately address such issues risk federal investigations by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and potential loss of funding.

> Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and subsequent campus protests, the administration opened over 100 Title VI investigations into universities for alleged antisemitic discrimination—more than in the entire previous four years combined. This included guidance like a May 2024 "Dear Colleague" letter to colleges outlining examples of prohibited conduct, such as denying Jewish students equal access to education or tolerating harassment.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-10 21:09:53+00:00
> It's the fact that you decided not to hire them, because you found out that protected information.

Again, you don't understand how this works.

If a candidate runs into your interview room and declares that they are a member of 5 protected classes, that doesn't automatically open you up to discrimination lawsuits.

How is this any different than asking someone about a past job and then they answer with "I didn't finish that project because I had kids and left for parental leave". It should be obvious that a candidate can reveal information about having kids for virtually any question.

> It was unrelated? Prove it in court.

Once again, that's not how it works. The onus is on the applicant to prove that the information was used for discrimination.

A candidate can't claim that a company discriminated against them for information they volunteered during an interview and then the company loses. They have to provide reasonable evidence to proceed to discovery, which would have to reveal something substantial that showed the information was used to discriminate, such as e-mails or chat logs.

> I don't believe you asked your legal department.

Legal was involved. Why do you only believe that your HR department wants to be involved in hiring processes, but mine obviously would not?

If you're not interested in discussing in good faith or you only want to ignore what I wrote and inject alternate facts, I can't help you.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-10 21:09:55+00:00
It’s difficult to do better than Sony for an Android TV. Their Android build is one of the most junk-free out there. The newer ones can also use their internal speakers as a center channel when external stereo speakers are hooked up (giving dialogue a boost) which is pretty cool.

I use mine as a dumb TV but the built-in smarts are serviceable.
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-10 21:10:10+00:00
That feels oversimplified. A lot of people would think people that oppose Nazis are the ones with the ideological problems. Who defines what a problem is in our society? The majority or some skewing of it. This is the problem that politics is supposed to solve, and then the problem that the electoral college was supposed to safeguard against. How do we avoid the tyranny of a demented majority? Aligning to a specific moral code? … like a theocracy? I can’t think of any way that doesn’t immediately instill the tyranny of a minority in its place.

We in the US have been very arrogant in assuming we’ve found the solution to all this when all it took was a few decades — a flash-in-the-pan, really — of consistent, strategic bad faith by the political rulers to undermine the whole thing.
by black3r | 2025-10-10 21:11:23+00:00
While I agree with the premise that "vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell", they are very much not the same. To expand on that, let's start with the fact, that a good coder needs both "skill" and "knowledge".

Tutorials (at least the good ones) give you some knowledge - the tutorial often explains why they do what they do and how they do it, but don't give you any skill, you just follow what other people do, you don't learn how to build stuff on your own.

Vibe coding on the other hand gives you some skill - how to build stuff with AI, but don't give you necessary coding knowledge - the AI does all the decisions for you and doesn't explain why it did what it did, or how it did it, it just does it for you.

"I can't do anything without Cursor's help" is not really the problem. The problem is that vibe coders create some stuff and they don't understand how that stuff works. And I believe this is much bigger problem than knowing how stuff works but not knowing how to use it.

Learning doesn't need to be "uncomfortable". Learning needs to be "challenging". There is a difference. The suggested approach here vaguely reminds me of the "you must first learn how to code in a notepad before using an IDE" approach.

While the real takeaway should be "you must first learn how to learn, before properly learning something". To learn something properly, you need 2 things: To know what to learn, and to know when you've learned it. To know what to learn you need a curriculum - this obviously depends on your specialization for coders, and can be more crude or more detailed, but you still need something to follow so that you can track your progress. "When you've learned it" for coders is when you can explain what some code does to a colleague and answer questions about said code. It doesn't matter if you wrote it, or someone else wrote it, or an AI wrote it. Understanding code you didn't write is even more important than understanding your own code.
by pastel8739 | 2025-10-10 21:11:37+00:00
I really find it surprising how often people bring up endowments as if they are a resource that can be spent. The purpose of an endowment is to produce revenue via investment income; that investment income is already reflected in the operating revenue under "Investment return to operations". MIT cannot and should not spend their endowment beyond this investment income; doing so would jeopardize the long-term viability of MIT.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-10 21:12:11+00:00
Doesn't seem unreasonable. Look at your router. I have 17 and I would say we're a totally normal household - the kids don't even have phones yet.

We have 2 phones, a tablet for the kids, a couple of Google homes, a Chromecast, 2 yoto players, a printer, a smart TV, 2 laptops, a raspberry pi, a solar power Inverter, an Oculus Quest, and a couple of things that have random hostnames.

It adds up.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-10 21:12:14+00:00
Interesting. I first heard about this from Newsom's statement that any university that signed it would lose California education funds instantly, but the only California university on it is the private USC. Thought for sure that at least UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford would be on it, but I guess not. Maybe they chose USC because it seems to have a bit more of a conservative bent than most California schools.
by skydhash | 2025-10-10 21:12:31+00:00
I use a plugin[0] for LSP in vim and it's pretty easy to setup there too. Installing and configuring the lsp software itself take more time as I'm constantly moving between OS.

Also, Emacs and Vim is very much about making the tool your own. I don't mind shaving the yak every now and then, because once an inconvenience is solved, it stay solved.

[0]: https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp
by moomoo11 | 2025-10-10 21:12:44+00:00
I think their moat is ironically the platform.

Like Apple vs every other computer maker.

Their platform mostly just works. Their api playground and docs are like 100x better than whatever garbage Anthropic has.

I think their UX is way better, and I can have long AF conversations without lagging. I can even change models in the same conversation. Basic shit Anthropic can’t figure out (they can fleece their 20x max subscribers tho)

I think if they get the AI human interface right, they will have their iPhone moment and 10x.
by beala | 2025-10-10 21:12:55+00:00
I have an HDHomeRun box and use it through Plex. I've never installed the HDHomeRun software. Plex immediately recognized it as soon as I plugged it in. There is a noticeable amount of latency between selecting a channel and starting the stream, so channel surfing is pretty cumbersome, but I almost never do that. With the paid version of Plex (Plex Pass), you also get DVR support which automatically removes commercials from the recording, so that's pretty much the only way I use it.
by majormajor | 2025-10-10 21:13:01+00:00
>I paid a fair price for my forks and plates and shoes, I don't need to be grateful for that. Using a platform for free and then complaining that now they focus on making money is not the same.

They were focused on making money back then too. Nobody's complaining that they were trying to make money!

If someone is grateful that the old product existed at the time, because it helped them, it's completely understandable and valid that they'd be sad that it no longer exists to help other people. What there is now has a hundred almost-the-same alternatives[0]; it sounds like what they used to be was unique.

[0] the article quotes a claim about “the first agent-based coding experience in the world” "last fall" but that seems to ignore not-as-successful earlier things like AutoGPT that had code agent projects by early 2024 if not before, with initial "agent" behavior in 2023.
by jdeibele | 2025-10-10 21:13:35+00:00
We downsized from a house built in 1914 with phone jacks everywhere to a house built in 2007 with coax and ethernet ports in every room, some rooms with two.

At the 1914 house, I used ethernet-over-powerline adapters so I could have a second router running in access point mode. The alternative was punching holes in the outside walls since there was no way to feasibly run cabling inside lath-and-plaster walls.

I don't know how 2025 houses are built but I would be surprised if they didn't have an ethernet jack in every room to a wiring closet of some sort. Not sure about coax.

My son has ethernet in his dorm with an ethernet switch so he can connect his video game consoles and TV. I think that's pretty common.
by deaddodo | 2025-10-10 21:13:48+00:00
I'm confused why this would be a problem. UTF-8 and UTF-16 (the only two common unicode subsets) are a maximum of 4 bytes wide (and, most commonly, 2 in English text). The ASCII representation you gave is 6-bytes wide. I don't know of many ASCII unicode representations that have less bytewidth than their native Unicode representation.

Same goes for other characters such as \n, \0, \t, \r, etc. All half in native byte representation.
by isaacdl | 2025-10-10 21:13:56+00:00
I live alone, and just counted, I have 10 in regular use. A few more that can connect to WiFi but aren’t (why would I want my tower fans on the internet, anyway?)

I had probably 20 prior to swapping out some smart light bulbs and switches for Zigbee.

21 for an average household isn’t nuts.
Show HN: Fantasy Timeline and Calendar Editor
by braden-lk | 2025-10-10 21:13:57+00:00
As a result of the industry I work in (TTRPGs), sometimes I get to do really fun things. Fun things like: Lock myself in a room with a copy of Calendrical Calculations and make a custom timeline maker for fantasy turbo-nerds like myself.

Events are represented as integer minutes since the epoch (0, in this case). Then we use a calendar definition to parse those minutes into readable dates, based on the calendar. This allows us to plot events on a big zoomy Gantt timeline, as well as a standard list and calendar view.

There's still a few things I want to add: Moon tracking for the calendar view, recurring events, maybe some other view modes, etc.

This was a really fun project! It started as a core feature of my product, LegendKeeper. I designed in such a way that it was easy to host as a standalone page, so I did that, too.
by olyjohn | 2025-10-10 21:13:59+00:00
Tram lines are far cheaper than having miles and miles of tunnels in a vacuum.

Actual trains can be loaded and unloaded faster, and don't need one driver for every 4 people. In fact, trains have been automated with no drivers for well over 50 years in many parts of the world.

These cars, despite being on an extremely limited access roadway, still can't be trusted to drive themselves. They are literally in the most ideal environment for self-driving. This should be the first place they have self-driving cars.

You need to free yourself from being such a fanboy.
by ratrocket | 2025-10-10 21:14:01+00:00
To each their own. I quit using syntax highlighting about 10 years ago and won't ever go back (been programming for 25 years, vim/neovim user for 24 years). I just like it better, it works for me. It definitely does not make things "difficult for the sake of it" (for me). There are dozens of us! :)

(As to the rest: I use a pretty minimal set of plugins and I use the built in nvim C-o/C-p or C-x C-o/p "dumb" autocomplete. At least I think it's built in...)
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-10 21:14:25+00:00
Lots of good examples in the replies, but also quoted range tends to be best-case scenarios. Ideal temperature, not running the cabin heat, etc. In the real world, I want to be comfortable that on a -5F winter morning that I can defrost the windows and heat up the cabin and with cold-soaked batteries still get through my day of driving.
by runako | 2025-10-10 21:14:43+00:00
Can you imagine the conservatives at MIT (they are there!) being happy that MIT outsourced price-setting and hiring decisions to the White House?

This Compact aims to radically reshape the management of higher education. In that, it is anything but conservative. Conservatives should reject it for that reason alone.

> "if you want federal funding, you'll do this stuff"

There's another piece that keeps getting lost. That is: the US government has a set of policy goals it is trying to accomplish. Outsourcing to third parties some parts of the work of getting there is a cash-light approach. As an American, I think this is better than e.g. the DoD building duplicate capacity (and competing for researchers) at multiples of the cost.

In one sense, MIT gets federal funding in the same way that Raytheon gets federal funding (and there are DoD asset tags at MIT to prove it).

This isn't just MIT getting funding, it's also the US buying some capacity from MIT. It's a mutually beneficial transaction.