MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmos62 | 2025-10-28 06:06:43+00:00
I was curious so I researched a bit (read their landing page). I don't understand what you mean. It doesn't use cryptocurrencies, except as a way to tip others' content. Or, did you mean that you find the use of cryptography unattractive? That would be such a strange statement. Cryptocurrencies pioneered some awesome technology: I would think it a shame to avoid it just because of some cryptobros.

> Nostr uses the same cryptographic principles of Bitcoin and was kickstarted mostly by a community of Bitcoiners, so it has disproportionately attracted the attention of Bitcoiners at the start, but aside from that it doesn't have any relationship with Bitcoin. It doesn't depend on Bitcoin for anything and you don't have to know or have or care about any Bitcoin in order to use Nostr.

>

> What about "zaps"? Zaps are a standard for tipping Nostr content using Bitcoin that is implemented by some Nostr clients, but it's fully and completely optional and if you don't care about Bitcoin you don't have to bother about it.
by com2kid | 2025-10-28 06:07:36+00:00
Imagine the teacher lines up all the kids, gives them cookies, notices all the kids are boys, so the teacher puts up a sign outside the girls restroom advertising free cookies for anyone who attends math class.

Now the boys have cookies and the girls have cookies.

Except the cookies are not actually cookies, they just represent what you'll learn by attending the class.

That is out reach.

I don't see jocks complaining about fitness outreach programs to geeks. That'd be absurd.

But guys famously will complain about:

1. Women reading science fiction

2. Women watching science fiction on TV.

3. Women playing d&d

4. Women playing online games

5. Women writing code.

To be fair, many women are judgemental about male nurses or even male teachers.

That type of idiocy has to stop both ways. Let people do what they want to do.
by trvz | 2025-10-28 06:08:32+00:00
Manipulate the URL for a higher resolution:

https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-1.jpg

You don't need to depend on others to create a torrent, as bestowed upon you was the power of wget!

wget https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-{1..1119}.jpg wget https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-{1..1119}.jpg
by skissane | 2025-10-28 06:08:44+00:00
> Mild/high-functional autism, as far as I understand it, is not even an illness but a variant of normalcy. Just different.

As someone who actually has an ASD diagnosis, and also has kids with that diagnosis too, this kind of talk irritates me…

If someone has a clinical diagnosis of ASD, they have a psychiatric diagnosis per the DSM/ICD. If you meet the criteria of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”, surely by that definition you have a “mental disorder”… if you meet the criteria of the “International Classification of Diseases”, surely by that definition you have a “disease”

Is that an “illness”? Well, I live in the state of NSW, Australia, and our jurisdiction has a legal definition of “mental illness” (Mental Health Act 2007 section 4):

"mental illness" means a condition that seriously impairs, either temporarily or permanently, the mental functioning of a person and is characterised by the presence in the person of any one or more of the following symptoms-- (a) delusions, (b) hallucinations, (c) serious disorder of thought form, (d) a severe disturbance of mood, (e) sustained or repeated irrational behaviour indicating the presence of any one or more of the symptoms referred to in paragraphs (a)-(d).

So by that definition most people with a mild or moderate “mental illness” don’t actually have a “mental illness” at all. But I guess this is my point-this isn’t a question of facts, just of how you choose to define words.
by klipt | 2025-10-28 06:09:26+00:00
https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/3/337/6412759

> Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By utilizing data from the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic, and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the United States. However, in the pooled data the gender gradient hardly differs across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33513171/

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...

> both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-28 06:09:51+00:00
The irony is that I tried this with a project I've been meaning to bang out for years, and I think the OP's idea a natural thought to have when working with LLMs: "what if TTD but with LLMs"

When I tried it, it "worked", I admittedly felt really good about it, but I stepped away for a few weeks because of life and now I can't tell you how it works beyond the high level concepts I fed into the LLM.

When there's bugs, I basically have to derive from first principles where/how/why the bug happens instead of having good intuition on where the problem lies because I read/wrote/reviewed/integrated with the code myself.

I've tried this method of development with various levels of involvement in implementation itself and the conclusion I came to is if I didn't write the code, it isn't "mine" in every sense of the term, not just in terms of legal or moral ownership, but also in the sense of having a full mental model of the code in a way I can intellectually and intuitively own it.

Really digging into the tests and code, there are fundamental misunderstandings that are very, very hard to discern when doing the whole agent interfacing loop. I believe they're the types of errors you'd only pick up on if you wrote the code yourself, you have to be in that headspace to see the problem.

Also, I'd be embarrassed to put my name on the project, given my lack of implementation, understanding and the overall quality of the code, tests, architecture, etc. It isn't honest and it's clearly AI slop.

It did make me feel really productive and clever while doing it, though.
by klipt | 2025-10-28 06:09:53+00:00
https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/3/337/6412759

> Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By utilizing data from the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic, and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the United States. However, in the pooled data the gender gradient hardly differs across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33513171/

> Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959782...

> both scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates. Instead, selection bias in favor of male over female candidates was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed in sign starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-stereotypical jobs in our sample. Forecasters further failed to anticipate that discrimination against male candidates for stereotypically female jobs would remain stable across the decades.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-10-28 06:11:18+00:00
I don't remember the specific video but it was pretty elementary and got across the point that I had missed, you're not looking for a global optimum through some fancy operations on function spaces, you're just doing the old fashioned calculus thing of finding a maximum by setting a derivative to zero. Except you are doing that only at one endpoint of the mystery function, and its value (the boundary value) and derivative at that point (zero) are known, and you can work out the ODE that continues the solution. That's the Euler-Lagrange equation and suddenly everything makes sense.
by prmoustache | 2025-10-28 06:11:39+00:00
That's funny because you sent me comment a few hours after I struggled at work with a webcam constantly freezing on windows/teams.

Webcam that has always worked flawlessly on Fedora on my other laptops.

Also Teams was much more reliable for the last 5-6 years or so I used it with ungoogled chromium on Linux than it did for the last 6 months using the official app on windows. I have had to kill it an awful number of times after struggling with unrecognized audio device, freezing video, or eveb freezing everything except sound.
by slau | 2025-10-28 06:12:00+00:00
I’m not certain I agree with the premise that mileage is a good indicator of road wear.

I do about 30k km in a typical year. My families live far, so a return trip is around 4000 km.

If we visit our family 3x/year, we’ve effectively exhausted this “10k mile” thing (I don’t live in the UK, but the point still stands), however very little of our actual mileage would be in our home country. To be precise, only 300km out of 2000.

If I go in other directions, the math gets even worse. I can leave the country in 30km and add 800-3000km of mileage for a scuba trip.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-10-28 06:12:46+00:00
I’m not sure this article is especially helpful. It’s addressed to the attendees of COP, but the attendees of COP already believe (almost unanimously) that adaptation has equal importance to mitigation. And it’s one of the only forums where poorer & disaffected nations are given a real opportunity.

I’m also not sure that anyone anywhere earnestly believes that climate change is an extinction level event that’ll render the entire planet unliveable. Certainly not the people at COP.

The piece seems unnecessarily broadly combative and contrarian.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-28 06:14:13+00:00
And the privacy agreement isn’t required anyway. If you’re a doctor, and you treat your neighbor, you’re bound by HIPAA laws that cover the arrangement. All a privacy agreement really does is give the clinic a hope of being found not liable in a lawsuit or government action: “see, we have it in writing that the nurse knew this was illegal! Blame them, not us.” Even without the agreement, the practioner is still legally obligated to obey HIPAA.

And as a side note: sue the hell out of the hypothetical nurse spilling the beans on a hypothetical AIDE patient. Why? Because if you don’t, then other people who suspect they might have HIV are going to avoid going to the doctor, resulting in more deaths for them and their lovers.
by thesz | 2025-10-28 06:14:31+00:00
> You give the AI a set of requirements, ie. tests that need to pass, and then let it code whatever way it needs to in order to fulfill those requirements.

SQLite has tests-lines-to-code-lines ratio above 1000 (yes, 1000 lines of tests for single line of code) and still has bugs.

AMD, at the time it decided to apply ACL2 to its FPU, had 29 million tests (not lines of code, but test inputs and outputs). ACL2 verification found several bugs in the FPU.

Just to make a couple of points for someone to draw a line.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-28 06:15:37+00:00
Plenty of blame lies with the German Greens, but I'd also blame the German economy's stagnation from 1991-2004.

People forget now because of the 2010s, but Germany was the sick man of Europe before the recession because the reunification of West and East Germany was extremely expensive - West Germany was averaging 3-4% GDP growth rates in the 1980s, and reunification led growth rates to collapse to the 1% range. It was in this macroeconomic climate that German firms like Siemens AG were unable to sustain nuclear energy operations and began either shutting down or selling off entire product lines and business units in order to weather the storm.

Heck, much of Germany Inc's growth in the 2010s could be attributed to Germany's openness to export deals and JVs in countries like Russia (eg. Germany becoming one of the largest FDI sources in Russia both before [0] and after [1] the annexation of Crimea), China (eg. VW Group and SAIC since the 1980s [2]), and India (eg. Siemens Energy AG ToTing their entire renewables, gas turbine, battery energy storage system, and Hydrogen Electrolyzer IP to an Indian subsidiary that was then de-merged from Siemens Energy into it's own business that IPOed in India a couple months ago [3]).

Essentially, Germany's nuclear industry collapsed for the same reasons why the German renewables industry collapsed in the 2010s, and why German automotive industry is in such dire straights today - Germany Inc basically sold out and transferred their IP to such a degree in the 1990s to 2010s that entire competitors were spawned within a generation using that know-how. Owning shares or generating revenue on IP licensing deals doesn't matter when you don't own the actual means of production, leaving you open to either nationalization (Germany Inc and Russia), JV partners building competitors to undercut the JV (VW and SAIC), or entire operations being directly regulated with IP access under their purview (Siemens Energy and India).

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/business/international/as...

[1] - https://www.economist.com/business/2021/03/27/deutschland-ag...

[2] - https://www.ft.com/content/05db03d8-85c5-11e2-bed4-00144feab...

[3] - https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/press-releases...
by fragmede | 2025-10-28 06:15:37+00:00
https://chatgpt.com/share/69005eec-6ee0-8009-a8d3-ebb1c30e72...

took me four prompts to do generate a waterfall chart using d3 js because it didn't want to run it. obviously with real numbers and not generated data, you'd need to check the results thoroughly.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-28 06:15:38+00:00
It's the right move.

DEI has always been a weird thing because half the people supposedly doing it were always just trying to curry favor with people in positions of power who supported it, and now that the winds have shifted they're equally happy to curry favor by getting rid of it. They signal virtue or vice depending on how virtuous or vicious the leader.

I think the PSF actually wants to do the right thing, which in the current perverse environment makes them more likely to be targeted. The wisest move is not to play.
by CjHuber | 2025-10-28 06:15:48+00:00
In my opinion the author of this article makes the same error as Nietzsche did. Seeing it as a book about psychology that revolves around theological themes, when it is a book about theology that revolves around psychological themes.

What I find quite problematic is how it fully inverts what the Grand Inquisitor is about through its oversimplification. Its not an indictment of Christ, it’s about an indictment of Christ, but in fact it‘s Christ who is exposing the institutional church , how Ivan views it, with the only thing it ironically doesnt ‘t expect of him: a deeply Christian act

Alyosha is quite literally introduced as the hero of the novel, so saying his presence pales in comparison to Dimitry and Ivan is kind of weak. I‘d agree that his spectacle pales in comparison to his brothers, but his presence not at all.
by hinkley | 2025-10-28 06:18:08+00:00
And I remain confused by your confusion.

If A then B()

Versus

B()

Somewhere there’s a B without the associated query. Call it what you want, at the bottom of the tree two roads diverge. Otherwise there is no Separation in your CQS.

ETA: once you get down to the mutation point you aren’t just dealing with immutable data. You’re moving things around, often plural.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-28 06:20:39+00:00
> Randomized studies show that men now face more hiring discrimination than women do

This is an odd phrasing. These are exclusive categories that cover the possibility space†; it makes sense to say that "women are favored over men", but it doesn't make sense to say "men face more discrimination than women". Any number you come up with for "discrimination against men" is necessarily defined relative to the outcomes for women; you can't assign cardinal numbers to both groups.

† Not quite. The possibility space also includes children. They face far, far more discrimination than either men or women do. For example, hiring them is a serious crime.
by jgord | 2025-10-28 06:20:55+00:00
Before I read the article, Ill summarize the facts that seem to be hard and true about climate :

- we are nearing or at +1.5C above pre-industrial baseline

- human carbon burning CO2 emissions are at a max and likely long plateau

- mean temp is rising by around +0.3C per decade

- we will be nearing +2.0C in around 15 years, 2040 give or take

- warming is mainly caused by us humans burning carbon, emitting CO2 and some CH4

- if we reach net-zero, we will be at peak CO2 and thus peak heat, for a long while

In addition, the only economically viable way to bring down the temp seems to be deliberate pollution by emitting sulphur or other particles aka Solar Radiation Management to brighten clouds, reduce heat absorption by the ocean. Volcanoes and shipping fuels have essentially proven that this brings down the temperature, in the short term.

We geo-engineered our way into this hot mess, and we will need to geo-engineer our way out of it.

If the temp reaches +2.5 or +3C .. I think that means quite a lot of crop failure, forced migration, geopolitical tension, lack of stable food supply.. and death to a large number of humans seems to follow logically from that.

So, now Ill look at the article to see if any of these tough truths were mentioned .. sorta-kinda no-so-much, it seems like he thinks things are not that urgent. ?!?
by weatherlite | 2025-10-28 06:21:16+00:00
I partly agree and partly disagree. Yes, we're more individual and more isolated. But ChatGPT/Gemini can really provide mental relief for people - not everyone can afford or have the time/energy to find a good human therapist close to their home. And this thing lives in your computer or phone and you can talk to it to get mental relief 24 / 7. I don't see it as bleak as you see it, mental help should be accessible and free for everyone. I know, we've had a bad decade with platforms like Meta/TikTok but I'm not convinced as you are the current LLMs will have an adverse effect.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-28 06:21:53+00:00
> I’m also not sure that anyone anywhere earnestly believes that climate change is an extinction level event that’ll render the entire planet unliveable. Certainly not the people at COP.

A lot of people do believe that, unfortunately. Decades worth of the most alarmist coverage possible sure didn't help the public awareness.

Now, people at COP? Hopefully not. But COP doesn't end with the people at COP. And there are a lot of people in this very thread whose reaction to "climate change cannot cause extinction of humankind" is shock and disbelief.
by skort | 2025-10-28 06:22:48+00:00
Stop giving money to the ghouls who run these companies (I'm talking about all of silicon valley) and start investing in entities and services to help real people. The human cost of this mass accumulation of wealth is already too damn high, and no we're just turbo throwing people into the meat grinder so clowns like Sam Altman can claim to be creating god.
by belZaah | 2025-10-28 06:24:37+00:00
Yeah, no. Had Claude 4.5 generate a mock implementation of an OpenAPI spec. Trivial interaction, just a post of a json object. And Claude invented new fields to check for and failed to check for required ones.

It is helpful in reducing the number of keys I have to press and the amount of documentation-diving I need to do. But saying that’s writing code is like saying StackOverflow is writing code along with autocomplete.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-28 06:25:17+00:00
I like Dostoyevsky and enjoyed many of his books but the Brothers in my opinion is just badly written: long and self-repetitive. It has moments of clarity and beauty like the The Grand Inquisitor novel or the discussion in the monastery, and ideas in the book are compelling but boy it's an ordeal to get to them. So my advice: if you want try Dostoyevsky please don't start with "the masterpiece", pick any other book of his. Crime and Punishment, the Idiot or short novels like The Gambler are a good start. You can get to the Brothers later if you chose to.

Another thought I had been having when reading the book was that Dostoyevsky uses insanity and especially insanity caused by stress way too often, it's a major plot device in his books while it's so rare in real life. However now I observe many of my friends (especially single ones) slowly going insane in various ways and I don't anymore think that it's rare. I guess mental health becomes scarce as you get older just like the physical health, just didn't expect this to manifest itself around the age of 35.
by superultra | 2025-10-28 06:26:39+00:00
This feels like someone in a marathon deciding to quit because they just ran really well for the last 10 minutes, with the assumption that since they were running really fast there’s no reason to think they won’t keep running fast. It’s deeply flawed logic.

The other issue is that while he might be right, the worst and biggest consequences of being wrong will not affect Bill. Or, frankly, anyone reading this comment.

It’s such a complicated problem for us humans because we often struggle to conceptualize beyond our own tribes, let alone humans who won’t exist for decades.

But the problem is that IF climate scientists are right - and other than a few cheery cherry picked stats, Bill has no evidence saying otherwise - then the longer we do nothing the bigger the impact.

Will humanity die? Probably not. But will it drastically affect QoL for nearly all humans on the planet save the 1%? Probably.