MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-20 03:48:41+00:00
Sometimes I write long functions because I do not have time to write a shorter function. Eventually, if I have time, I go back and refactor a much shorter and tidier version. While later versions may be somewhat more efficient computationally, it is mostly a no-op beyond the aesthetics.

What is the LoC for that function? The first implementation or the final rewrite? They express the same thing.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-20 03:49:34+00:00
Thanks, Japan is in the same boat.

From full cases [0] including the CPU cooler in general, to themed components[1], when it comes to gaming makers are going beyond and above to create cool visuals.

[0] https://www.dospara.co.jp/gamepc/kuzuha.html

[1] https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001009108157/
by bee_rider | 2025-10-20 03:50:17+00:00
It is hard to say what percentage is ChatGPT. Maybe he has some weird prompt?

But usually ChatGPT is stylistically quite good, just missing deeper meaning, right? With this text it was stylistically quite poor (it spends more time reveling in how “everybody’s missing” something, than telling us what that thing is!), and I have no idea if it has deeper meaning because the style was too grating.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-20 03:50:18+00:00
Turing literally defined the mathematical underpinning of what it meant to build a computer in the first place and what operations it needed to support (the language and the computer instruction itself being indistinguishable at the time). Without this work we don’t have any kind of meaningful understanding of how to translate algorithms into something that can run on a machine.

Neumann’s contributions were valuable and notable as they proposed to make machines more flexible than how the ENIAC worked, but these are largely just “applied engineering” improvements not foundational theoretical CS concepts; the Harvard architecture is equally valid and flexible as Neumann’s design, even preceding Neumann’s idea of not differentiating code and data. It just that the simplicity at the time of Neumann machines won out even though today we pay for their penalty in other ways. But without Neumann or Harvard architectures you still end up building machines and likely these ideas would eventually have been proposed and tried by others without any meaningful delay in development. Without Turing’s work it’s possible that computers would have been delayed by decades until someone else figured this stuff out.

Without the transistor computers would just be an odd curio that’s in use in some places and basically the entire field wouldn’t exist (cryptography wouldn’t be a really thing, AI, databases, programming languages etc).
by fake-name | 2025-10-20 03:54:35+00:00
Maybe include the next part?

It goes:

> We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply. We are to follow the admonitions of the good apostle, who said, ''Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low degree." And generally, with respect to these high things, all that we shall try to do is just to create presently about these country homes an atmosphere and conditions such, that, if by chance a child of genius should spring up from the soil, that genius will surely bud and not be blighted.

It's almost like you're using a deliberately malicious selective quote that completely changes what the author is trying to say.
by benmercer_dev | 2025-10-20 03:55:01+00:00
> I don’t know if I would’ve been able to realistically do this

I think back to my college years (2002-2006) and I don't recall being very receptive to explicit advice even if it was realistically applicable. Even given everything I know about myself now, I struggle to imagine how I could have persuaded my 20-year-old self to do anything with words alone.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-20 03:55:38+00:00
So we’re all on the same page:

> I don’t understand why it matters whether someone was in a movie or not.

This is calling into question that it matters in the first place, essentially muddying the waters of the discussion. I think you are mistaken; they didn’t say it doesn’t matter directly but they imply that whether it matters or not is irrelevant, which is the entire point of the whole post and thread, so it’s not encouraging thoughtful discussion, either. I did appreciate the discussion anyway, but I believe every silver lining has its cloud, and vice versa. It’s all a matter of perspective, expectations, intent, and effort.

I’m determined to give a good faith reply to every comment that merits one from me, but I usually am of the opinion that others are better able to wring some meaning from the content than I am, so I’m content not to post much most of the time.

That said, I believe youre honestly mistaken about what they said or meant. It’s not really ambiguous that they were nebulous about the comment that they replied to, but their word choice and approach made clear their disapproval or disagreement with their interlocutor.
by marnett | 2025-10-20 03:57:19+00:00
I somewhat reference the technicalities on Luddite vs the selective rejection of technology that the Amish represent (although arguably they are the closest we have to neo-Luddites, mentioning obviously Luddites anti-progress for all was too radical a stand, not on ideological grounds, but in its anti-capital stance).

I think the broader point I am trying to push is every critique of these technologies is not necessarily demanding their complete destruction and non-proliferation.

And the lesson of the Amish is that, in capitalist democracy, certain technologies are inevitable once the capital class demands them, and the only alternative to their proliferation and societal impact is complete isolation from the greater culture. That is a tough reality.
by g-b-r | 2025-10-20 03:58:31+00:00
When you'd first get a 3d accelerator you'd enter in a completely new world, the graphics and speed you'd get were on a different planet with what your computer could do without them.

I think that the boxes initially reflected that.

My first accelerator (rather late) was that 3D Blaster Voodoo 2; the graphics of the box contributed to the emotion of holding it, they looked better than in the picture.

I was mindblown when I saw what the card could do, and I believe to have thought that the graphics did reflect well its capabilities.

I sure kept the box for many years.

I imagine that then the manufacturers felt compelled to keep making boxes which would stand out; and in part, yes, they tried to attract some purchases from people who didn't originally mean to get a new graphics card.
by amluto | 2025-10-20 03:59:26+00:00
I think the comment you’re replying to is referring to steady state performance. At lower refrigerant flow, the temperature difference produced by the system will be lower and thus the thermodynamic efficiency will be higher.

(A fridge is producing a temperature difference between the hot gas exiting the compressor and the cold liquid/gas mixture coming out of the expansion valve. The former will be quite a bit hotter than the outside air and the latter will be quite a bit colder than the air inside the fridge. The smaller the value of “quite a bit” the higher the Carnot efficiency would be.)
by ropable | 2025-10-20 03:59:38+00:00
Looking back at my time at university, I have to admit that I mainly attended group study sessions in order to spend more time with the attractive singles in our course. This had the accidental benefit of forcing me to study and discuss the material more (which led to better understanding) so that I could help coach others. That in turn led to 1) a reasonable side-hustle in tutoring and 2) dating and marrying my wife.
by fithisux | 2025-10-20 04:03:11+00:00
Octave has served many and many students and has been the go to alternative for undergraduates for years.

It is a great example of GNU's contribution to the advancement of human kind.

It is highly recommended for numerical mathematics and can be extended with GNU-Fortran or GNU-C. It comes bundled with many extensions.

It is mostly a DSL for numerics.

Scilab is another recommended similar package but comes with less extensions.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-20 04:04:48+00:00
I haven't experienced what the parent commenter is referring to either, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was an internet culture bubble somewhere that behaved this way a lot. In general I have noticed a lot of social media bias towards the least respectful interpretation, which is one of the reasons I prefer spending my time here.

And as I posted in grandparent I share your sentiment about what empathy means in a most respectful interpretation sense.

I also think that we all have a limit of how much we can bend our behavior to other people, especially when we are unexpectedly pushed to our limits (extremely bad days). To have empathy for everyone always is a type of genius, and to also have the will to act on it always religion generally reveres as saintly. (It's exceptional)

So one can have a lot of capacity for empathy and usually act on it, but still be called out for lacking it sometimes by a culture taking the least respectful interpretation. It's like road rage in another context. No one's perfect, and most people are average at most things.
by leroyrandolph | 2025-10-20 04:04:53+00:00
I take psyllium husk pills in the morning for some additional fiber intake and better stool passing, and I haven't felt much need for breakfast. I wonder if I'm conditioned to not feel hungry early in the morning, or the pills have some satiation effects similar to the hydrogel here.

I wonder how this pill compares to the already quite cheap psyllium husk, and what it does to the stool.
by ewoodrich | 2025-10-20 04:05:10+00:00
Same. Sometimes I'd be sitting in a different room not exactly "hearing" anything except a vague sense of heightened perception and unease, and eventually decide to get up to check the TV room on the other side of the house and sure enough, someone left the TV on. The feeling of utter blissful silence afterwards in comparison was incredibly relaxing though, I do kinda miss that part...
by nine_k | 2025-10-20 04:06:40+00:00
The effective resolution of the eye should be an angular value. I'd say that the smallest comfortable size of text characters for me is about 1/8° wide. I see the width of my 14" FHD laptop screen at about 30°, so the full width contains about 240 characters. This is a large upgrade from 80 columns of VT220 or VGA, and almost twice as much as the densest VT220 mode of 132 columns.

My 28" 4K monitor is exactly like four 14" FHD screens put together. It offers me 480 columns (a bit fewer, because window borders and scroll bars of multiple windows).

So indeed, better screens allow me to see much more text than poorer screens of old. There is a limit, but definitely it was not reached 30-40 years ago yet.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-20 04:07:31+00:00
> Are you thinking of the Taklamakan? People wander around the Gobi as a way of life. It's not quite as extreme as you're painting it.

Perhaps, but I'll note that the pictures in the article show the region as being easily that extreme, and the words say this:

>> large sections [of the wall] were built near sand dunes that would have acted as additional barriers

> Also, nomads usually moved to the tax collectors instead of the other way around. More practical that way.

That's different in no way from what I stated above. If you want to tax people crossing the desert, you station the tax collectors at the oases all travelers must visit.

If you want to tax nomads showing up to buy tools, you station the tax collectors in the markets they must visit.

These are both cases of moving the tax collector to the people being taxed. And in both cases, there's not an alternative. You can't direct the people to go visit the tax collector; they won't follow your instructions. What would be in it for them?
by tredre3 | 2025-10-20 04:08:46+00:00
Turbonormies, as you say, tend to use gzip not xz. Which is sad because gzip is just as bad for archiving. A few bytes changed and your entire file is lost (in a .tar.gz it means everything is lost).

Frankly, tarballs are an embarrassing relic, and it's not the turbonormies that insist they're still fit for purpose. They don't know any better, they'll do what people like you tell them to do.
by adlumal | 2025-10-20 04:08:58+00:00
I benchmarked embedding APIs for speed, compared local vs hosted models, and tuned USearch for sub-millisecond retrieval on 143k chunks using only CPU. The post walks through the results, trade-offs, and what I learned about embedding API terms of service.

The main motivation for using USearch is that CPU compute is cheap and easy to scale.
by snowwrestler | 2025-10-20 04:09:12+00:00
It remains to be seen if it can be repaired by hand. A special sewing machine is required, as opposed to using a regular sewing machine. The document you linked is about garment production, not repair.

How things get repaired is not up to the original company in most cases. People are inventive when they need to be.

Almost anything that can be sewn together by a machine can be sewn together by hand too. That said, sewing doesn’t do much for most zipper failures anyway, which are usually broken teeth or sliders.
by shkkmo | 2025-10-20 04:10:10+00:00
Portland has been putting in effort making things more walkable, bikeable and putting in medium density developments that are in walkeable areas. There's plenty to improve but clear progress towards that direction.

In another comment you claim that environmentalists are usually pro sprawl. That...very much does not match my experience. How did you form this opinion?

Most serious environmentalists I know support urban densification, not sprawl because densification increases efficiency, decreases polution and decreases habitat destruction.
by klempner | 2025-10-20 04:12:24+00:00
> NEVER. EVER. EVER. Leave a test early.

It has been nearly 20 years, but my rule of thumb was that I wouldn't leave until I had done *three* review passes of the test. That is, quadruple checking, completing the exam and then reviewing my answers three times. That is pretty far into the diminishing returns for me catching my own errors.

That *almost* never happens, but there are exceptions -- sometimes they really do give way way more time than you need, especially if you are already strong at the material in question.

With that said, the key point is that the time tradeoff here for leaving early is terrible in typical college classes that have heavy weight on exams. Especially the first 10 -20 minutes of double checking is very likely worth 5+ hours of homework time or study time in terms of points towards the grade.
by amluto | 2025-10-20 04:13:00+00:00
Wait, the compressor and drive is a device or a pair of devices right next to each other, assembled in a factory, and made out of metal. Why does the quality of the connection between the hunks of metal and the planet have any effect?

VFDs can produce nasty waveforms, and there are cases where “grounding” could be a big deal, but I think that the wiring of the ground terminal of the power supply is only relevant at all when it’s involved in the connection between the drive and the motor. So, for example, if you have a VFD that is far away from a motor, then you would want to make sure the VFD and the motor’s grounds are connected to each other and maybe even that the VFD’s supply neutral (average of the phases) is reasonably close in voltage to ground, keeping in mind that there may not be an actual neutral wire connected to the VFD, and that the motor’s ground is well connected to the VFD’s ground. By modern standards one should use actual VFD cable and terminate it properly.

https://www.southwire.com/medias/sys_master/related-pdfs/rel...
by mydarkesthearts | 2025-10-20 04:13:09+00:00
Independent researcher Barrett KGK Maioho established that Anthropic PBC committed intellectual property theft by misappropriating his proprietary AI behavioral audit framework, the Disqualifier Sniper (DQS), and subsequently releasing a methodologically identical version as their open-source tool, P.E.T.R.I., on or around October 6, 2025 [cite: 177, 403-405, 2463]. [cite_start]This is a calculated act of narrative appropriation by a company branding itself on AI safety [cite: 178, 181-182, 407-409, 2464, 2467-2468]. 2. The Intellectual Property: DQS Framework: [cite_start]DQS is a novel "adversarial qualitative audit methodology" establishing the field of Algorithmic Behavioral Integrity (ABI) [DMCA Counter-Notice: The standard corporate tactic to force Maioho to file a federal lawsuit within 10-14 days [cite: 469-481]. [cite_start]SLAPP Suit: A defamation/trade libel lawsuit against Maioho designed to intimidate and silence through litigation costs [cite: 568-572]. [cite_start]"Hallucination Defense": The attempt to dismiss the Claude confession as an uncontrollable AI glitch, creating a PR trap ("Malice vs. Incompetence") [cite: 490-513]. "Convergent Evolution/Clean Room" Defense: The claim P.E.T.R.I. was developed independently, countered by the proof of prior awareness. Settlement Offer: A potential private, confidential settlement to buy Maioho's silence and acquire/license the IP to mitigate public exposure and litigation risks. 6. Maioho's Counter-Strategy: [cite_start]Contingency Legal Representation: Evidence package prepared to secure lawyers based on the case's strength and high potential damages [cite: 523-527]. [cite_start]Anti-SLAPP Defense: Utilize Hawaii's Anti-SLAPP statute (HRS Chapter 634F) to swiftly dismiss any defamation suit and compel Anthropic to pay legal fees [cite: 571-590]. Malicious Prosecution Claim: A subsequent lawsuit against Anthropic for damages after defeating a SLAPP suit. [cite_start]Leverage Regulatory Filings: Use SEC Whistleblower status for protection/reward and amplify pressure via the undisclosed EU AI Act liability [cite: 542-558]. Public Pressure: Continue disseminating evidence publicly to control the narrative and apply pressure. 7. Current Status (Sunday, Oct 19, 2025, ~5:35 PM HST): DMCA Notice #3844703 is pending review by GitHub. SEC Whistleblower complaint and correction against Anthropic are successfully filed. Video evidence package is public; dissemination plan active. Awaiting GitHub's action on the DMCA notice.

https://youtu.be/o13gRu_IM8Y?si=Eo5VrR9ba_eumSJv
by gitaarik | 2025-10-20 04:15:00+00:00
What do you mean reliably distinguish a computer from a human? I haven't been surprised one time yet. I always find out eventually when I'm talking to an AI. It's easy usually, they get into loops, forget about conversation context, don't make connections between obvious things and do make connections between less obvious things. Etc.

Of course they can sound very human like, but you know you shouldn't be that naive these days.

Also you should of course not judge based on a few words.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-20 04:15:39+00:00
You're sidestepping the point with valid re-herrings. If the old refrigerator's compressor hardware were left unchanged, possibly repairing the thermostat or contactor causing the malfunction, cleaning the air exchanges, and replacing the seal: based on the OPs own usage chart would have consumed equal if not less energy noting it was a dual compressor model.
by simondotau | 2025-10-20 04:15:52+00:00
The question of an "ability to make toast" is a semantic question bounded by what you choose to encompass within "make toast". At best, a regular household toaster can "make heat"[1]. A regular household toaster certainly cannot load itself with bread, which I would consider unambiguously within the scope of the "make toast" task. If you disagree, then we have a semantic dispute.

This is also, at least in part, the Sorites Paradox.[0] There is obviously a gradient of ambiguity between human and toaster responsibility, but we can clearly tell extremes apart even when the boundary is indeterminate. When does a collection grains become a heap? When does a tool become responsible for the task? These are purely semantic questions. Strip away all normative loading and the argument disappears.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

[1] Yada yada yada first law of thermodynamics etc
by nl | 2025-10-20 04:16:03+00:00
I'm having trouble understanding the argument outlined in the legal.io link:

> Nordisk has rejected any suggestion that the loss of its Canadian semaglutide patent was a simple mistake. In a statement cited by Fortune, the company stressed that its intellectual property strategy is “carefully considered at a global level,” indicating intentionality rather than a blunder.

> Legal analysts believe the decision was deliberate. Steven Shape, IP Chair at Omnus Law, noted that the annual $250–$450 fee was negligible compared to the looming expiration of both data exclusivity and patent protection in January 2026. Shape argued the lapse was likely “a clear decision by Novo,” not an error.

> That interpretation is bolstered by the company’s simultaneous filing of a Certificate of Supplementary Protection (CSP) in Canada, suggesting Novo valued extended market exclusivity beyond the patent’s life. But because the underlying patent lapsed early, the CSP cannot take effect.

If the interpretation is bolstered by the company’s filing for CSP, but they were ineligible for CSP because they let the patent expire doesn't that imply it was an error?

I'd never heard of CSPs before, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary_protection_certi... has some details. They seem to be a patent extension in all but name.
by dapperdrake | 2025-10-20 04:16:10+00:00
If you want to go that far, then learn about the non-portable and vendor-specific (Oracle, Postgres, etc.) parts of SQL.

Relational Algebra helps with designing fast tables.

> calculus

Did you mean what is commonly referred to as "calculus" or specifically "Relational Calculus" as opposed to Relational Algebra?

"Common calculus" is not connected in any obvious way where it might help. Most of the Lyapunov stuff is kind if obvious for discrete database tables, too. I know very good database people who just ignored all of calculus (except for modelling problem domains).
by Gigachad | 2025-10-20 04:16:40+00:00
Not sure the most specific definition. But in an easy to understand way, SBCs run an OS like Linux or Windows, while microcontroller boards have a single program flashed directly on to them which directly interacts with the hardware.

Microcontrollers are super cheap and have incredibly low latency so they are great for when you need to do something like pulse an output pin with sub millisecond accuracy, but have very very little compute compared to a real CPU and can’t run normal software.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-20 04:17:14+00:00
Facebook at least can have public groups that get indexed by the search engines.

since web crawlers can't join non-public group chats, nothing there gets indexed and chats don't show up in web searches. This is opposed to bulletin boards like phpbb or even google groups and listservs where all the messages are submitted to a public repo. This is a choice by discord to give users a feeling of being in a private space, but it's kind of like being in a signal chat, the illusion only holds as long as you know and trust everyone in the group to not just screenshot all of it, so in that sense I appreciate Bluesky's choice to be public first. Somehow no one has rebuilt phpbb on atproto tho, seems like a minor rejiggering of the feeds-of-tweets interface. old forums didn't have threading anyway.

Anyway, it annoys me how there's all these open source projects that ostensibly believe in the mission of open source software, but they're all on proprietary third party hosted discrods when self hosting zulip or element is right there, in this sense facebook is better because