MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jaredsohn | 2025-10-19 03:57:34+00:00
I don't think there is anything wrong with using AI to help make life decisions like this. You just need to know how to use AI, although people on average will misuse it in various ways.

But those people will probably make similar mistakes making decisions in other ways anyway.

I think there might be issues, though, as a lot of people initially trust AI as some oracle instead of using it to help organize their thoughts. And some people will likely never be able to use AI properly.
by HippyTed | 2025-10-19 03:58:02+00:00
To friendship and love of others I say, you cannot sell what you don't have.

You can do it for a while but, the long lasting stuff, you need that personal foundation.

Easily said but difficult to do for many.

It requires a level of self awareness and an acknowledgement of your strengths and weaknesses and how they impact yourself and others. But like a doctor, the first step to a cure is a correct diagnosis.

Something something Jungian shadow work or something.
by alganet | 2025-10-19 04:00:10+00:00
But it is, kind of, a Terminator situation. A cultural one, not a technological one.

You see, this idea did travelled to the past. Maybe not with a time machine, but by means of us humans imagining it before it existed.

Now we're laying the public discourse of a real technology on top of a landing strip made on the popular culture by movies and sci-fi authors.

The plane: the actual technology we're just developing.

The landing strip: the decades of imagining and popular culture.

If anyone truly believes LLMs are a monster, they're mistaken. The monster is within this brahmanian representation of it. That is the dangerous stuff. And it's the stuff media outlets are also playing with a lot.

We're kind of dumb, technical people. We can't see that stuff very clearly. Culture and metaphor and ideas. I mean, we can, but we're naive, idealistic and shallow. What if we weren't?
by dingnuts | 2025-10-19 04:01:11+00:00
there wouldn't be any way to compete with tax pre-paid $0 point of sale health care, so there would be no option. the term "public option" is a weasel word. there would be no private option because nobody is going to choose to pay out of pocket in addition to their taxes that already pay for care.

advocate for whatever but use honest terms. you're advocating for a single payer system and there's no evading that.
by fsckboy | 2025-10-19 04:01:36+00:00
the context here doesn't actually specify whether we are talking about companies using llvm sources to create proprietary compilers (or maybe integrated with a proprietary IDE) or using llvm to quickly bootstrap and craft a compiler for a new processor, new language, etc., where they will distribute the source to the compiler anyway

but such a compiler or IDE would not GPLv3 infect it's users' target sources and binaries.
by jmathai | 2025-10-19 04:01:39+00:00
Introspection and self awareness are prerequisites to love yourself. Or, at least, to become someone you can love.

Loving yourself means you have acknowledged your weaknesses. Whether or not you strengthen them, it enables you to empathize with others as their own weaknesses manifest.

The world becomes much more cozy once you realize others are not much different than you.
by rramadass | 2025-10-19 04:02:12+00:00
> No, they are alarmist.

Absolutely not. If a leading researcher goes so far as to refuse grants and shuts down her research into mirror life, we better take her seriously and look at the subject matter carefully.

You are making some definitive statements which cannot be accepted unless you have the necessary background and knowledge. That is why i linked to the Stanford technical report itself. I am still going through it and trying to get the overall picture and concerns. The report is 200 pages (most of which are about the risks involved to plants/animals/humans and environmental spread) + another 100 for references!

I highly encourage others to study it too in order to have a good idea of this frontier of biological science.
by astrange | 2025-10-19 04:03:24+00:00
> Encrypted filesystems typically encrypt contents of each file separately - that way you don't need to read / write the whole disk to read it write any individual file contents.

Ah, that's not true of "full disk encryption". It usually encrypts the disk blocks.

File-based encryption is stronger; you can use different protection classes on different files, you can use authenticated encryption, etc. iOS does it this way and I assume other systems have caught up, but don't know any in particular.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-10-19 04:04:58+00:00
So if you encounter an unknown intelligence, like I dunno some kind of extra dimensional pen pal with a wildly different biology and environment than our own... Would you be open to the possibilities:

- despite our difference we have the same kind of intelligence

- our intelligences intersect, but there are capacities that each has that the other doesn't

?

It seems like for either to be true there would have to be some place of common ground into which we could both generalize independently of our circumstance. Mathematics is often thought to be such a place for instance, there's plenty of sci fi about beaming prime numbers into space as an attempt to leverage that common ground. Are you saying there aren't such places? That SETI is hopeless?
by alexpetros | 2025-10-19 04:10:10+00:00
I have typically understood the "Sufficiently Smart Compiler" to be one that can arrive at the platonic performance ideal of some procedure, regardless of how the steps in that procedure are actually expressed (as long as they are technically correct). This is probably impossible.

What I'm proposing is quite a bit more reasonable—so reasonable that versions of it exist in various ecosystems. I just think they can be better and am essentially thinking out loud about how I'd like that to work.
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by HippyTed | 2025-10-19 04:19:51+00:00
"Australia seems to consume more cocaine per person than any other country."

Yep, when ever I meantion cocaine as a joke half the office lights up like I was about to offer it to them. It is wild to see how prevelant under the surface it is.

All I think about is that in a few hundred year there will be the myths/stories of the excessive fools that were so blitzed that they boiled the planet. Incorrect but partially based on fact.
by brianpan | 2025-10-19 04:22:49+00:00
The answer to pretty much every biological "why" question is: because it reproduced. It seems simplistic, but really, a thing is here and alive because its ancestors reproduced.

Your version of the question has surprising perspective- I think you are asking what the "it" of the plant is. That's an interesting personification of a plant. I think it points to the fact that plants may be safer underground- for anchoring, for not being eaten, for getting shielded from harsh elements.
by a-dub | 2025-10-19 04:26:00+00:00
my floaters showed up when i was 14- it was kinda shocking and scary at the time to be a freshman in high school and suddenly there were massive sensory disturbances in my eyes. ophthalmologists would just say to ignore them. apparently there's a pretty crazy surgery where they remove all the vitreous fluid from your eyeballs, but instead i decided to follow the ophthalmologist advice and they pretty much stopped bothering me.

tinnitus seems similar. maybe in the future there could be some kind of functionally guided high intensity focused ultrasound ablation procedure that could dull out some of the malfunctioning percept, but for now probably the best bet is to ignore it.

on a related note in interesting auditory neurotechnology, vestibular implants seem pretty cool!
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-19 04:26:31+00:00
Ask a lawyer to send a hand-delivered letter to the AWS legal department demanding compensation or face court for damages. Mention of potential criminal proceedings for actively supporting ongoing cyber attacks might not hurt.

Instant results, I guarantee it.

Look up key AWS staff names in Singapore (blogs, talks, etc…) and mention them as plaintiffs.

Nobody cares about these things until they are directly impacted themselves.

Nothing has to actually happen! A letter is cheap.

But it’s the implication that matters. Just discovery can cost them more than the profit from some scummy web scraper.
by nativeit | 2025-10-19 04:28:25+00:00
I had a teacher in high school, Mr. Miller, he taught the history half of World Humanities. On the first day of school, he passed out a Far Side comic he'd printed off to everyone, and said confidently that if we did not find that cartoon funny, we would almost certainly fail his class. He proceeded to teach the entire recorded history of human civilization over the course of a year with highly animated, almost shouted lectures, where he would get so enthused about what he was talking about that he'd frequently explode the chalk on the board trying to write as fast as he spoke. Not once through the entire year did he even glance at the textbook or his own notes.

I didn't do well in high school, generally speaking, I skipped a lot and had little appetite for doing homework. But I did really well in his class. The Far Side is fucking funny.
by AngryData | 2025-10-19 04:29:08+00:00
What do you think happens when people refuse to pay fines, jail fees, and court costs? Or child support, wage garnishments, or back taxes? They certainly don't just send you on your merry way. In some jurisdictions they have to have a court or judge look at someones ability to pay instead of automatically jailing them for failure to pay fines, but whether they are arrested or not as a result of that is completely at the judge's personal discretion, and many judges are selected specifically because they are hardasses that earns the local court system/county money.
by tgma | 2025-10-19 04:29:33+00:00
Why would it matter in this context; the GP was asking a theoretical question akin to "how is it physically possible for the sky to be blue?" and I am just pointing at the sky saying "look!"

It is Free Software whether it is BSD or GPL3. By all measures, Free Software as originally envisaged has been a massive success. It's just the goalposts have expanded over the years.
by tzs | 2025-10-19 04:30:51+00:00
I too have a solver, but it is the dumb kind, with the only real optimization being the one you described:

> An easy optimization is to check the constraints after each domino is added. For instance, as soon as the "less than 5" constraint is violated, you can backtrack and skip that entire section of the tree. In this way, only a subset of the tree needs to be searched; the number of branches will be large, but hopefully manageable

The solve function simply finds the first unoccupied square, then for each unoccupied neighbor of that square and each unused tile it places that tile on those two squares, checks the constraint groups those squares belong to to see if this placement violates them, and if not calls itself recursively. When that call returns if the tile is not symmetric it flips the orientation, checks constraints, and recurses.

If when called it cannot find an unoccupied square that means the level above actually solved the puzzle so it records the solution.

So far there has only been one puzzle where this was really slow, 2025-10-17 hard, which had 16 tiles. On my M2 Max Mac Studio it took 37 minutes. Every other puzzle I've given it has taken at most a few seconds, including hard 2025-10-09 which was also a 16 tile puzzle. That one was 7 seconds.

My guess is that if I changed the way the solve functions picks the square to start with it could greatly change the time. Right now it just takes the first open square found scanning right to left and top to bottom. Maybe something like giving priority to squares in small constraint groups would be more effective.

I'm not fully sure mine is correct. The code is simple enough that I can't see how it could be missing solutions...but on that one you said has 384 solutions mine only finds 344.
by nativeit | 2025-10-19 04:32:17+00:00
Thanks for this! I have moved 90%+ of my daily media consumption to FreshRSS, and despite the up-front effort, it's been well worth it. I find that a very simple, chronological, purely opt-in approach has improved my mental health, and left me fulfilled without the need for endless algorithmically generated content feeds, which frequently left me anxious and procrastinating.
by HippyTed | 2025-10-19 04:33:25+00:00
The very end paragraph is something I have said for a long time

"Because healthy people want to be healthy, they adopt certain habits, making those habits appear healthier than they actually are."

Like people trying to act like Olympians to be like them. Yes, it can help but it isn't thevonly thing. We tend to put the cart in front of the horse.
by hakunin | 2025-10-19 04:33:47+00:00
I think I feel you. However, I think you have conceptually loaded "method" with more meaning. I think a less loaded way to think of the object/method is that the object is the first argument to the method that is called on it. So

5.times { puts 'hi' }

is equivalent to

times(5) { puts 'hi' }

which you could expand to

my_function = -> { puts 'hi' } repeat_times(5, &my_function)

And here is another reason for the disconnect: in a purely functional language repeating a function five times is useless, you're doing something for side effects only. Looping in itself is kind of a wrong (i.e. incomplete) abstraction for functional dev, because you're usually thinking in higher level concepts, such as `reduce`-based transformations. Maybe that's another part of the reason why `5.times { … }` feels off.

After my foray into functional programming, I actually ended up appreciating Ruby more, because it lets you have it both ways: program your computer directly, and harness functional concepts. Since computer hardware is not functional I don't want the extra ceremony and abstraction over it for the sake of purity.

All that said, going back and forth between Ruby and Elixir really conceptually crystallized for me that the method call receiver is basically just the first argument to the method, accessible with the keyword `self` (which in Python is made explicit for example).
by 000ooo000 | 2025-10-19 04:34:20+00:00
A very pro-AI individual I know alerted me to ChatGPT's #1 use - Astrology - and was quite miffed that such an amazing technology would be wasted like this. All I could think instead was that Astrology being #1 gives us a pretty good idea of the kind of person who finds these LLMs useful.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-10-19 04:35:04+00:00
Building a game engine is a titanic effort.

Bevy has the best developer experience of any game framework I've ever tried (I have worked with mainstream engines - which warmed up to ECS over time - and engines that started with ECS like ECSY and playcanvas) but it's too low level for most studios.

I get your point about actix and actors but I think the difference there was that the author wanted to build Elixir in Rust, while the community wanted an Express (from node.js). The vast majority of web services I see don't need an explicit actor model.

ECS instead has a significant impact on developer experience, so I appreciate their focus on data structures.
by tehjoker | 2025-10-19 04:37:11+00:00
The US state uses drug money to fund covert operations, so we're never "winning" the war. See reporting by Gary Webb in the 1980s (Dark Alliance, later admitted by the CIA years after his suicide) or the amazing conversion of Afghanistan into the #1 opium hub under U.S. occupation (with pretty photos of U.S. soldiers guarding poppy fields).
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-19 04:38:04+00:00
Usually (not always), something like a Teensy or a Pi Pico or an Arduino is treated like a development board for prototyping.

A person builds out their circuit using hardware they can solder/wire-up by hand on a workbench, maybe even with relatively-giant solderless breadboards, to prove the concept and the general design.

And a dev board can be great for spinning a few prototypes. It's quick to get started (code can begin being tested on-chip after just plugging in a USB cable), and to try different things and to make (and correct!) mistakes. (Blow up a Teensy? No worries; just grab another from the drawer, try not to make that same mistake again, and keep moving -- no esoteric soldering required)

But when the design is finished-enough and it becomes time to spin up custom-built PCBs for a final product that will be sold, a separate dev board like a Teensy tends to lose much of its initial charm.

Instead, it's more-typical just put the microcontroller IC plus whatever supporting hardware is necessary for the overall device's actual functions on the main board. Don't need USB, or an Ethernet PHY, an LED, a button, or a separate voltage regulator? Want more or less flash? When including the MCU on a board of one's own design instead of a kitchen-sink dev board, one is empowered to use exactly the parts that are required.

This can save a substantial amount of space and greatly improve the flexibility of the layout, while also improving mechanical and electrical robustness by having fewer connections between the MCU and the world around it. Plus, fewer parts tend to be less costly than more parts are.

(But again, it's not always done this way. This camera from the submarine is an example of one instance where the whole dev board was put inside of a finished product. Sometimes that's a good idea, and sometimes it isn't. I'm not attempting to suggest that it was or was not a good move in this instance.)
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-19 04:39:36+00:00
The purpose of a system is what it does: in 50-plus years, the war on drugs has never decreased the supply of drugs, but it has locked up lots of dark-skinned people and given police forces money and excuses to arm themselves like warlords. I doubt anyone even really wants to win the war on drugs— winning it would be completely counterproductive to its actual goal— so it should come as no surprise that we’re not.
by businessmate | 2025-10-19 04:41:45+00:00
As AI transitions from reactive tools to autonomous agents, the traditional query-response model underpinning search and marketing is dissolving. Visibility, once determined by keyword alignment and ranking, is giving way to eligibility— a brand’s ability to remain embedded within an agent’s decision model.

This article introduces PSOS-E (Eligibility), an evolution of the AIVO Standard’s Prompt-Space Occupancy Score (PSOS), which measures inclusion, persistence, and action frequency in agentic systems. It argues that algorithmic eligibility is now the determinant of market access, fairness, and financial exposure in autonomous commerce.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-19 04:41:46+00:00
> Their aside is also false though.

You are drawing a conclusion that was not proven by your comment.

OP was talking about folks delaying treatment due to not being able to afford it, whereas you were focusing on survival rates.

Both of you could be correct: OP could be correct that many income-constrained folks delay treatment until they age into qualifying for Medicare, and you could be correct that on the whole, folks in the USA have better cancer treatment outcomes.

If you reread OP, they were speaking to there being more advanced cases of later stage cancers in the US, which you didn’t really speak to or refute, so to my reading, you are jumping to conclusions when you say that their aside is false per se.
by inejge | 2025-10-19 04:43:44+00:00
I noticed that too, but I suspect that people's GPT-meters may be a bit too hair-trigger these days.

Idea for a study: take a bunch of GPT-sounding snippets from a verified pre-LLM corpus, along with an equal number of typical LLM generated ones. Randomize and ask test subjects to tell them apart. I suspect it would be a bloodbath. (Random chance at best, or heavily biased toward false positives.)
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-19 04:45:08+00:00
Sensor Watch. Open source replacement movement PCB for the Casio F‑91W and other similar watches. Open source firmware. ARM Cortex M0+ microcontroller that you can develop for using standard GNU toolchains. Battery lasts years. Temperature sensor makes it a temperature compensated quartz watch. They're even making custom LCDs now.

https://www.sensorwatch.net/

Wear mine every day. Contributed some improvements to the pulsometer and TOTP faces. Was even maintainer for a while. Really nice community. If you want something awesome to hack on, this is it.
by noufalibrahim | 2025-10-19 04:48:19+00:00
True. Some of their positions come across as "extreme" and rms' personality can be quite abrasive especially these days when even much smaller incidents are amplified by social media.

However, I quite value their stand. It's principled and they are, more or less, sincere about it. Many of their concerns about "open source" (as contrasted to free software) being locked up inside proprietary software etc. have come true.
by defrost | 2025-10-19 04:49:00+00:00
Boomers with seven or more rental houses:

Despite a cost-of-living crisis, Dr Hurley said there are enough people with plenty of disposable cash to ensure the demand remains high. "We generally have a good standard of living, therefore we can afford the price of cocaine."

~ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-20/why-cocaine-keeps-was...

It might relate to amateurs dealing with sharks and the ocean increasing the risk - Australian airports are pretty tight for bulk smuggling, transit shipping through the ports is looser, but the preferred method for tonnes of drugs is to transfer from a container ship to a small boat - which often goes wrong (not enough to stem the tide, enough to see a tonne of coke on the beach every year).

eg: Mexico to WA: Couriers sentenced for massive 1.2 tonne cocaine conspiracy (2025)

Six men have been sentenced over the attempted importation of 1.2 tonnes of cocaine that was shipped from Mexico to WA shores in 2022, with their bungled and “comical” attempts to retrieve it played out in front of a Perth court. ... At the time it was the largest drug bust in Australian history and was part of an even bigger interception of around a billion dollars worth of cocaine that was destined for our shores.

~ https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/mexico...
by nativeit | 2025-10-19 04:49:07+00:00
> Divers weld “parasite” pods of cocaine onto the hulls of ships so often that in Cartagena port watchmen are paid to sit in a tiny boat about 50 metres offshore all day and night to look for telltale bubbles. (To keep this lonely job they must pass a polygraph test every six months.)

Good to know only the really good liars keep their jobs.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-19 04:52:56+00:00
The most annoying instance, to me, of Stigler's Law is De Morgan's Laws, which say the following:

1. If two things are not both true, then one or both of them must be false. (And the reverse.)

2. If neither of two things is true, then both of them are false. (And the reverse.)

You might notice that both statements are blindingly obvious, but we've named them after Augustus de Morgan anyway.