MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timschmidt | 2025-10-16 08:33:04+00:00
>> And don't say "because it's misuse" - that would be circular.

> Well that's the meaning of misuse

> I do think homosexuality is bad and unnatural. (No don't tell me it occurs in animals, any behaviour occurs in animals.)

Well, friend, that's the meaning of natural. "Found in nature"

Playing word games with one will get you called out in the same way on the other, regardless of your cognitive dissonance on the subject.
by RobotToaster | 2025-10-16 08:34:16+00:00
The answer is an awkward "yes"

They are "designed" for circulation, but only ever get sold as collectors items. Banks won't stock them but you can order rolls or bags of them from the US mint for a little over face value (I ordered a roll of the space shuttle ones to the UK)

I'm not sure what stops the USA using dollar coins in circulation, I assume there's no legal requirement for banks to stock them?

(The fact that's there's currently at least three different sizes of US dollar coin that is legal tender probably doesn't help either)
by d357r0y3r | 2025-10-16 08:34:33+00:00
The reason it's faster is largely because it doesn't have all those little quality of life features and extension ecosystem. It's easyish to make software perform well if it doesn't do all that much. If you take base vscode, no extensions, and just do raw text editing, it's hard for me to tell the difference between vscode, zed, or any other editor.

When vscode was released, Sublime was faster - and it stayed faster. But that wasn't enough to stop the rise of vscode.
by lmm | 2025-10-16 08:34:51+00:00
> Can we use raw oil 100% without burning/wasting it?

Burning it isn't wasting it, we get a lot of value out of that.

> How much percent recyclable plastic could we extract out of raw oil? Like real recyclable plastic, where it is worth money to do so.

0. There's no such thing as real recyclable plastic, unless you count burning it for heat/power generation.

> Maybe making more bitumen/asphalt for roads/roofs, or graphite for batteries?

Every fraction of oil has some use. But you're unlikely to get perfectly balanced demand for every single thing you can pull out of it.
by oliwarner | 2025-10-16 08:35:06+00:00
> better access to antibiotics is probably the best solution

This is an incredibly poor read. New antibiotics are a necessity of greater resistance but this magic conveyor belt of novel antibiotics isn't the best solution; preserving the efficacy of our existing drugs is.

Honestly not sure how to reply to the rest of this. Antibiotics being over-the-counter does not create higher resistance. Bacteria can't pass in urine as they are [far] too big. Inappropriate farm antibiotics are a real problem but it's the same problem with the same solution. And bacteria only lose resistance if the resistance causes a disadvantage in low-antibiotic environments. Many resistances do not, and so persist.

Your doctors aren't making this up. Take full courses, don't use antibiotics when they're not needed. Yes, it's just kicking the ball down the field, but it's essential.
by esperent | 2025-10-16 08:36:13+00:00
And when people do talk about politics it's exactly the kind of hot takes you'd expect from people who think they're very smart (and probably are when it comes to choosing a database) but are completely uninformed about the current topic and only capable of parroting referred opinions, or making statements they expect the group to agree with. Nobody comes out of the conversation smarter than they went in.

Honestly, I think it's better that we do keep conversation here to shiny technology. If you want to talk politics, go and find a group of people who know what they're talking about. That way you might learn something.
by tennysont | 2025-10-16 08:36:17+00:00
Out of curiosity, why don't/didn't you start a new version of nixpkgs with hardened source? You could forgo the build server, forcing users to build from scratch (at least to start). You could leverage the plentiful, albeit, less secure, packaging code in the nixpkgs to quickly build out your hardened versions.

Effectively, you're building out an audited copy of nixpkgs on the same build engine, but with hardened configs. Write wrappers to validate git signatures when users update, and you got yourself a chain of trust on the source code distribution for your hardened nixpkg.

I'm sure you had reasons, I'm just interested to know your thought process.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-16 08:36:38+00:00
weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame

> His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection

i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of things i associate with him.

I then made myself laugh by trying to imagine a depiction of Bill Gates in the same pose
by yard2010 | 2025-10-16 08:37:33+00:00
> Vicente Sotelo Alardín, then an employee of the medical center, dismantled the unit on December 6, 1983, to sell it as scrap metal at the Fénix junkyard at the request of the hospital's maintenance manager. Sotelo had disassembled the head of the radioactive unit and extracted a cylinder containing the cobalt-60 source. He then loaded the material into his truck, where he drilled into the cylinder, causing some cobalt-60 granules to spill into the bed of the vehicle. The truck, now contaminated by the cobalt-60, subsequently suffered a mechanical failure upon Sotelo's return from the junkyard and remained immobile near his home in Ciudad Juárez for 40 days.

Oh my god, what an idiot.
by aa-jv | 2025-10-16 08:37:48+00:00
The American people need to start prosecuting their war criminals, plain and simple - and this has to begin with a willingness to comply with the mandates of the International Criminal Court.

The notion that American exceptionalism inoculates America's war criminals from facing justice at the hand of International bodies set up specifically for that purpose, is incorrect and anti-human.

It is time for justice.

You can't maintain this culture of warrior narcissism, Americans.

It will end in tragedy - as it has already brought chaos and calamity to millions of innocent people across the globe, this century. The USA and its allies are, by a huge margin, the #1 cause of terror and war on the planet at this time. Nobody even comes close to the level of criminal war-mongering that occurs at the behest of the US' political establishment. No, not Russia. Not China. The USA and Five/Nine Eyes states are #1 at illegal war and murder of innocent human beings, bar none.

Come to grips with the crimes of your state. It is the #1 most important thing for Americans to do, for the rest of the world.

The American people are the only force on the planet which can reign in their monsters. It has to be done by the people, for the people.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-16 08:37:56+00:00
> Should Emacs and Vim both be called "Editor" then?

I've used some distributions in which they were. Tooltips and icons were provided to disambiguate. Worked for me.

Other distributions name applications explicitly, some place them in a folder together named "Editors".

None of the distributions I've used place either in a corporate branded subfolder as is typical on Windows and Mac.

Freedom of choice is wonderful.
by PoignardAzur | 2025-10-16 08:37:58+00:00
> Since the talks described in this article, the work on field projection has received an update. Lossin wrote in to inform LWN that all fields of all structures are now considered structurally pinned, so projecting a Pin will now always produce a Pin<&mut Field> or similar value.

Huh, I missed that part. It's a pretty technical point, but I'm happy they made the decision, it held up a lot of discussions.
by raphui | 2025-10-16 08:39:44+00:00
I’ve been working on a custom RTOS for Cortex-M for the past 10 years: https://github.com/raphui/rnk It started as a way to learn RTOS internals, and over time it has grown into something with lots of nice features. I’m even using it in a dirtbike anti-theft tracker I am building.

Also, this month I did a weekend challenge to build an embedded software parameter DSL and compiler. Its goal is to let firmware developers define configuration values, thresholds, constants, and other application-level parameters in a structured, human-readable format, and compile them into binary data that the firmware can directly use.

https://github.com/raphui/epc

Happy to get any feedback :)
by PoignardAzur | 2025-10-16 08:39:56+00:00
> The final design, taking inspiration from C++, would be a form of guaranteed optimization, where constructing a new value and then immediately moving it to the heap causes it to be constructed on the heap in the first place.

Note that there's some discussion about the name of that proposal, because "optimization" gives the wrong idea (that it's optional or could depend on the backend).
by pjmlp | 2025-10-16 08:40:09+00:00
Go I agree, .NET is on par with JVM, even if they don't have the pleothora of choice regarding JVM implementations, and the ability to do C++ like coding means there isn't that much of a pressure for pauseless GC as in Java.

Looking forward to Project Valhalla updates, I had some fun with the first EA.
by 0xEF | 2025-10-16 08:41:06+00:00
The thing is, for the surveillance state to be completely obliterated, what the previous commenter said is only a sliver of what has to happen. Yes, consumers would have to put all their devices in the trash, disconnect everything from the Internet and never use it again, etc, but also start tearing out telephone poles, police vehicles, anything with a camera or microphone, etc. That is daunting, so it's understandable why so many either just give up the fight or satisfy themselves with some limp-wristed attempt like just running an ad blocker or VPN or something and calling it good.

The diligence required to stay either low or off (if you are lucky) the radar, as it were, is so exhausting as to be impossible for the common tech consumer. I tried it, for a long time and it came to be known as a War of Attrition in my head because it is one that I no longer believe we can win, having passed the point of no return by trading our privacy for safety and convenience over the course of three decades; a victory by inches for the tech companies, to be sure.

The funny part is, my problem was never with hackers, so the way the rhetoric spewed over the years claimed that this is all for my own safety never clicked with me. "Your data is safe with us!" Okay, who are you, who are you connected to or funded by and what cause do I have to trust you? I learned at a pretty young age that if someone is telling you "this is for your own good" they're the ones exploiting you. So now we have copious amounts of categorized data in the hands of entities that not only make massive profit from it, but will (if they have not already) turn it over to the increasingly conservative world governments who enjoy making lists of people they don't like.

And we all know where that leads.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-16 08:41:15+00:00
Don't worry governments worldwide (except perhaps China, who knows) are defunding medical research. And they're defunding nothing faster than research into new antibiotics.

This last bit is partially indirect, since it has the problem that while new antibiotics might very well exist, governments will not approve them unless they have no other choice. Yes, nationalized health insurance providers are the majority of the worldwide market. Second a number of markets (notably India, but certainly not just them) will rip off the medication and not pay a dime for it. This all combines to make it really hard to get people to invest in widely applicable antibiotics. Unfortunately that does include direct subsidies as well (governments do ask big pharma what to subsidize).

So the money is in medicines that fix one particular fatal illness, medications for which no alternatives exist, that are very difficult to produce. This makes getting approval very easy, and allows for high prices.

At least that was the situation ~2016. Since then governments have been "tightening the belt" or whatever they call it and the situation has gotten worse to the point that a number of (especially European) labs now don't exist anymore. Which means even if the defunding is undone they will take a decade to get back up to speed. This is affecting a lot of other things as well. Like the ever-worsening doctor shortage predicted to worsen to the point that even just actual life-saving operations (now ~40% of the total, which is already way too much) won't be able to happen anymore ... by 2035, in the UK. This is not when you get ill, and need a treatment in 6 months, this is about someone closing up internal bleeding when you get hit by a car. Needless to say, the government is defunding education of new surgeons further, worsening the situation. I mean, everything is getting worse, on purpose, in the UK. From roads, public transport, and indeed the NHS. "Doing less with less" seems to be the government motto.
by afistfullof | 2025-10-16 08:41:21+00:00
"We note, however, that there is, unfortunately, a serious risk that Voyage’s models were trained on some of the evaluation sets in MLEB, particularly SCALR and Consumer Contracts QA, which are both also part of MTEB, due to the fact that Voyage trains on their customers’ private data by default (which would invariably include benchmarks). This is also a risk for Cohere and Jina models."

Wow.
by ruszki | 2025-10-16 08:41:36+00:00
They couldn’t do anything else. The power grab happens even when they would have succumbed. At least they quit with a spine.

If they don’t go back in a week, which can be seen from several examples, like Hungary, that it doesn’t work. I think compared to the Hungarian government, this was a misstep of Trump (which I hope they make it more). In Hungary, when something like this happened, you always lost when you didn’t succumb to authoritarianism. You lost your previous privileges no matter what, but you lost more if you protested. They tried to keep up a facade that nothing changed, while everything changed. In this case it seems to me as an outside observer, that nothing value was lost by quitting compared to signing up.

Or Trump and co don’t want to keep a facade at all. But then they need to bet on that most people in America are really fascists.
by dumb1224 | 2025-10-16 08:41:53+00:00
Cellular level computational simulation existed a very long time and it's more impressive by the day because of large collections of experimental datasets available.

However to infer or predict celular acitivities you need a ton of domain knowledge and experties about particular cell types, biological processes and specific environments. Typically the successful ones are human curated and validated (e.g large interaction networks based on literature).

In cancer it's even more unpredictable because of the lack of good (experimental) models, in-vivo or in-vitro, representing what actually happens the clinically and biologically underneath. Given the single cell resolution, its uncertainty will also amplify because of how heterogeneous inter- and intra- tumours are.

Having said that, a foundation model is definitely the future for futher development. But with all of these things, the bigger the model, the harder the validation process.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-16 08:42:08+00:00
What's crazy is that I only realised this after my Fiancée pointed it out. Up to that point I thought it was just meandering way too much, I just skipped through most of it.

I've not been using much LLM output recently, and generally I ask it to STFU and just give me what I asked as concisely as possible. Apparently this means I've seriously gotten out of practice on spotting this stuff. This must be what it looks like to a lot of average people ... very scary.

Advice for bloggers:

Write too much, write whatever comes out of your fingers until you ran out of things to write. It shouldn't be too hard to just write whatever comes out, if you save your self-criticism for later.

If you're trying to explain something and you run out of things to write before you manage to succeed at your goal. Do a bit more research. Not being able to write too much about a topic is a good indication that you don't understand it well enough to explain it.

Once you have a mess which somehow gets to the point, cut it way down, think critically about any dead meat. Get rid of anything which isn't actually explaining the topic you want.

Then give it to an LLM, not to re-write, but to provide some editorial suggestions, fix the spelling mistakes, the clunky writing. Be very critical of any major suggestions! Be very critical of anything which no longer feels like it was written by _you_.

At this point, edit it again, scrutinise it. Maybe repeat a subset of the process a couple of times.

This is _enough_ you can post it.

If you want to write a book, get a real editor.

Do not get ChatGPT to write your post.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-10-16 08:42:09+00:00
The rules were updated on Oct6 to allow media outlets to report using any information even if classified and unapproved for release, as long as they didn't solicit it or were given it with the premise that it won't be released.

So if they were to be approached by a whistleblower or happened to hear the right conversation or find the right documents, it'd be fair game.
by 4ggr0 | 2025-10-16 08:42:42+00:00
+1, switched to Bazzite about three weeks ago. I did have to dualboot a Windows after a couple of days, unfortunately. Mostly related to Anti-Cheat and other shitty measures. Dark Souls II did not want to recognize my Controller, even though it works fine in every other game. Skate can't be played on Linux because of Anti-Cheat, but fuck EA anyways. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Dishonored 2 and Death to the Outsider and Bioshock worked fine. Did have to tinker with the graphics settings a bit and the experience is definitely buggier than on Windows, but the huge upside is that I don't have to use Windows anymore, or at least just as a fallback-option. I know care 0 about the Windows, it's on a separate SSD, haven't even set a Wallpaper or other things, which is rare for me.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-10-16 08:43:30+00:00
I think it's important that people know this. Despite what the other AI companies claim or put out as occasional PR, they have absolutely no real interest (through internal work or funding external researchers) in using AI to benefit science and humanity as a whole. They just want their digital god. As such, there is simply not enough funding for AI research with scientific applications. Consequently, many people in machine learning are not working in scientific applications, even though they really want to.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-10-16 08:43:50+00:00
It's exactly because I know what our dishonest state-owned press reports about Trump and what they did report about Biden, and I also know what is happening in the US.

If Trump sneezes we find out that sneezing is something Hitler did, if Trump stops a war in Gaza we hear how one time Hitler talked about ending wars.

Our dishonest state-owned press is against wars except when Hamas loses, then they think that war may not have been that bad and want to tell us all the good things about war and the bad things about peace.

Biden was senile for years and the press were telling us it's a right-wing conspiracy theory, until the point the Democrat party dropped him because he was senile.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-16 08:43:55+00:00
I built Ben Eater's 8 bit computer on breadboards a few years ago. It's a challenging but super rewarding project. I felt like after years of doing computer stuff I could finally say I get how it all works right down to the level of electronics, plus I learnt some new skills and got really good at cutting little wires to exactly the right length. It takes some dedication, especially when you're building the same register module 3+ times, but I found it quite relaxing in the evenings, similar to knitting in many ways.

I'm glad to see there are more projects in case I want to do it again some day...
by heeton | 2025-10-16 08:43:56+00:00
Member of Golgafrinchian Ark Fleet Ship C here.

I like to make stuff, hack on projects. I code, I woodwork, I solder, I build. I love AI in the same way I love a router and dovetail jig in the workshop.

My son and I were playing minecraft, and we wanted to build a massive egg, just for fun. (My son is 5).

We try, we fail, we try again. We start learning about spheres and how to draw circles, this is peak project-based-learning. But we still can't build an egg that looks good, and now it's becoming less fun and there's no drive to keep trying.

So I spin up claude after hours and in ~30 mins I have an parametric egg-generator in 3d space, mapped to voxels. There is no universe in which my child would be interested in the many years of training to get to the point of building this himself. I also don't have 20 hours free to learn and implement my own 3d voxel rendering systems, just to build an egg in minecraft as a silly teaching exercise.

That weekend we try to use this tool, and we see it's really hard to just see an egg model and build it, so 15 minutes later it can now show us a sliced layer-by-layer view.

The weekend, my son built a massive fucking egg in Minecraft and he's been talking about circles and radiuses and eggs and coding software ever since. He was SO excited to see that we could take a running program, something "real" in the world, and then directly change it. (And now he's trying to learn about code and graphics and stuff. Again, he's 5 - this is the passing interest of curiosity in a child, he's not studying 50-hour courses to learn low level skills)

Are you saying that's not a massive win for everyone involved?
by roenxi | 2025-10-16 08:44:05+00:00
Well... maybe. If a company brings in new anti-sexual-assault training and a bunch of people quit around the same time that doesn't necessarily suggest the problem is the outrageous training.

I'd quite like to actually see what the rules are, but this is just a complex one. On the one hand, obviously the US military would probably have an easier time securing classified info if unreliable people aren't wandering through the building. On the other hand, the US people do benefit from random people wandering the building and would get more out of looser requirements on who can get in. Making it easy to keep information classified has always been a strategic error that has probably done a lot of damage to the US.
by neobrain | 2025-10-16 08:45:07+00:00
> And it's a PITA to install

Curiously I found it a breeze since it didn't require digging out a flashable boot medium and pointing your BIOS to it. Calling a script from your normal desktop environment and having it automatically boot into the installer was really nice.

> with the partitions already in a good state)

What's this about? The script takes care of resizing the macOS partitions and creating new ones for Linux.
by oersted | 2025-10-16 08:46:06+00:00
As I understand it systems programming is the priority application area for Rust, and there are plenty of projects working on OSs, embedded or other bare-metal cases, as well as interoperability with complex C codebases.

At first glance, these features look quite general to me and not particularly tied to the kernel, they are important utilities for doing this kind of programming in the real world.