MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timschmidt | 2025-10-01 13:13:00+00:00
> I checked wikipedia. It says there are more than 120 known cannabanoids

Don't look up the number of sugars or proteins.

> Imagine you went to a doctor with a headache and he handed you 120 pills then said "None of these are labelled, but 15 of these will help with your headache, 60 will do random things to other parts of your body, 20 will cause negative side effects, 3 will make your headache worse, and 13 will get you a little high."

This is a lovely straw man, but not representative of the situation under discussion. Humans have cultivated cannabis for greater than 5,000 years, longer than many domesticated foods, which are similarly chemically complex. Do you trust the farmer that that carrot is going to have the desired effect if you eat it? Cannabis cultivars carry a similar level of confidence in suitability for purpose.

> selectivity breeding it to have a little more or a little less of each

Oh sweet summer child, selective breeding is so much more complicated than you seem to understand.

> Most have pretty specific mechanisms of action that are understood before we prescribe them.

Throughout most of human history, most drugs have been discovered empirically without any understanding of how they function at all. Having worked with molecular biologists, I'd say it's an enormous stretch to say we understand much about how we work. No comprehensive model exists, outside of testing on real humans, for evaluating the effects of a drug.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-10-01 13:13:02+00:00
> A new cybersecurity and ­resilience bill will make it mandatory to report more incidents. The bill’s slow progress is frustrating security experts, according to Jamie MacColl, a senior research fellow at Rusi. However, ministers have been reluctant to impose more regulation on businesses, but having “major cybersecurity incidents is not good for economic growth,” he said.

A minister's bill is less effective than a Ukrainian soldier's bullet.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-01 13:13:38+00:00
I’m equally baffled by all of these calls for extensive regulation and enforcement of Internet rules on HN. Someone in the comment section is unironically calling for imprisoning parents who let their kids use the internet. There are suggestions throughout the comment section calling for ID checks on websites.

Is nobody thinking about what this actually means? Do you really want the entire internet to require ID validation every time you use it? Do you want your government deciding if your content is okay to view, or okay to post? Do you welcome the level of tracking of privacy violations that inherently come with this much government intervention?

It seems people on HN have a sudden wake up call whenever these rules get too close to reality, like when access to websites gets cut off or ID verification is added to websites that they use. My theory is that they’re imagining a world where only the services they dislike get regulated: The TikToks and Facebooks of the internet. None of these people calling for extensive regulation are thinking that sites they use would ever end up on the regulated sites list, but if you enjoy any site with user submitted content (Hacker News included) then you’re calling for additional regulation and tracking of yourself when you demand these things.
by btilly | 2025-10-01 13:13:47+00:00
We each find different things delightful. What I like, you may not. And vice versa.

But it is easy to present deep ideas from constructivism, without mentioning the word constructivism. Or even acknowledging that the philosophy exists.

For example the second half of https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5074503/can-pa-prov... is an important constructivist thing. It shows why everything that a constructivist could ever be interested in mathematically, can be embedded in the natural numbers. With all of the constructions needing nothing more than the Peano Axioms. (Proving the results may need stronger axioms though...)

From my point of view, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach does something similar. That book got a lot of people interested in basic concepts around recursion, computation, and what it means to think. Absolutely everything in it works constructively. And yet that philosophy is not mentioned. Not even once.

The only point where a constructivist need discuss all of the philosophical back and forth on constructivism, is in explaining why a constructivist need not accept various claims coming out of classical mathematics. And even that discussion would not be so painful if people who have learned classical mathematics were more aware of the philosophical assumptions that they are making.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 13:14:02+00:00
>Why sell shit that you don't want yourself/ aren't passionate about??

Best interpreation: you need to pay bills and this startup is your last hope after sending out 500 apps and getting 3 interviews back (2 interviews ghosted you after the first round and the 3rd said "overqualified" despite it being a senior role)

Worst interpretation: we're in a gold rush, and a lot of people will sell fool's gold if they can.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-10-01 13:15:21+00:00
I really struggle to understand why these companies think they need to function like governments when it comes to removing content from their platforms. Does it really all boil down to protecting any engagement at all costs?

The men running these company live like wannabe kings but have absolutely no backbone when it comes to having a stance about moderating for basic decency and are profiting greatly off of festering trash heaps. Additionally, they're complete cowards in the face of their nihilistic shareholders.
by objcts | 2025-10-01 13:15:25+00:00
i use obsidian with the daily notes plugin and write stream of consciousness for about 15 minutes. sometimes i type, other times i use a dictation app.

lately i have been taking my daily notes and running them through a local LLM. i prompt it to “think like a therapist” and ask me follow up questions. this can dig up some interesting insights from time to time.
by mort96 | 2025-10-01 13:15:31+00:00
100%. A huge issue with the ARM ecosystem is that there's no widely adopted UEFI-like standard, so there's no runtime discovery of hardware configuration and things like the booting process and partitioning are extremely different between different machines. You pretty much need a Linux image built specifically for the particular hardware, unlike in the x86 world where you just need a Linux image which can boot using UEFI and discover all relevant hardware through either UEFI, ACPI and PCI.
by j5r5myk | 2025-10-01 13:15:49+00:00
There is a common phenomenon where people claim proverbial quotes were originally longer. One I often hear is “Jack of all trades master of none” originally including the follow up “often better than a master of none.”

If you research this, as well as the customer as always right as you claim, you will find no evidence of their longer ‘original’ forms [1].

[1] https://www.snopes.com/articles/468815/customer-is-always-ri...
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by adamthehorse | 2025-10-01 13:16:06+00:00
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by dzink | 2025-10-01 13:16:25+00:00
We are a cerebellum. Our brain summarizes one layer of data into insights for the layer above that and programming is one layer. AI is now forcing us to think not how things should be built but what should we built - everyone is a promoted to product manager. What should be built now can be answered by what is needed by humans, or companies, or AI, or government. All of the above should be serving humans. So what do people want or need? How can we harness AI to solve more needs.

I think of it from another angle. AI is reaching an energy limit. Companies are way overvalued and in a race to spend most of their gains on AI and that may end badly. Governments are on edge and conflict is brewing. All of that and unknown unknowns can put a stop on the amazing stream of affordable AI we have now. I am using the models as fast as possible to build things I find meaningful and to learn as much as possible. Having unlimited help with any idea that I come up with is incredible. It’s akin to infinite VC funding, but you don’t owe equity or a cent back. The world is now what your cerebellum can come up with. And what you know about the needs of people.
by wiether | 2025-10-01 13:16:43+00:00
Through my kDrive subscription, I get access to their own instance of OnlyOffice

It looks a bit dated like MS Office, but it does the job and since it used MS Office formats, I can edit the documents with Libre Office or other sofwares. And using the API, I can programatically access those files.

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite/kdrive

https://www.onlyoffice.com/
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-10-01 13:17:24+00:00
The Republicans only require 50 votes to get rid of the 60 vote rule. They can do it any time they want, but then the jig would be up, and they wouldn't be able to blame Democrats any more.

They think it's better for them politically to keep blaming the Democrats than to take responsibility for their own choices. I really can't blame them, they have made some pretty bad choices recently.

Back in normal times, the Democrats and Republicans would have been able to negotiate something, because everybody assumed the president would obey whatever budget they passed. But now even if they negotiate something, the president just cuts whatever he doesn't like, and the Republicans in Congress won't hold him to account.
by Twey | 2025-10-01 13:18:03+00:00
Category theory is actually a ‘simplified’ graph theory, i.e. you can see categories as a restricted class of graphs. E.G. ‘Category Theory for Computing Science’ introduces categories this way (a category is a directed graph with associative composition and identity; the free category on a graph is the graph with all identities and compositions filled in). But the restrictions (associative composition and identity) are harmless and natural for programming applications where there's always a notion of ‘do nothing’ or ‘do one thing after another’, and unlock a lot of higher structure.
by vintermann | 2025-10-01 13:18:22+00:00
> That's... a bit out there.

It certainly is. And he'd maybe use more classy words for it, if he ever could be convinced to talk about his sincere beliefs. But as I said, I'm fully convinced that powerful people believe all the out there things that regular people believe. We've seen so many examples of it over the decades, and it's otherwise very hard to explain why Starmer would keep doing things which are neither a popular thing to do or the right thing to do.

The simpler take you propose doesn't work for me, because "throwing things at the wall" suggest unpredictability to me, and Starmer has been very predictable if you assume what I have been assuming for a few years now. His actions are not the actions of someone who would try anything, quite the opposite.
by altrego99 | 2025-10-01 13:19:02+00:00
You misunderstand the objective this is not to make a right-wing wiki. But a neutral wiki.

If Wikipedia was called "liberalopedia", not many people would use it either.

And to their credit it didn't start out with any bias. I'll be downvoted for this I know, but it has a bias which developed over time.

For example it blacklists Fox News but allows CNN or MSNBC as valid citable sources.

To verify, and not just take my statement as truth, search for yourself "perennial source list Wikipedia".

There a whole host of other problems, including anonymity and partiality of the high level bureaucrats or admins. It started out as a good system but morphed into one with a lot of bias, because if the bias in high ranking volunteers, which is very hard to get rid of.

I do not know how Elon will plan to avoid similar bias, it is indeed a difficult human engineering problem - not necessity software engineering problem.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-01 13:19:05+00:00
It should be lightning fast for what you're describing.

All I can guess is you have some browser extension interfering? Maybe one that is blocking certain calls Google uses and the sheet doesn't load until they time out?

If you're running an adblocker or blocking trackers or anything like that, try disabling those to see if that makes a difference. Otherwise check the network tab of the dev console to see what seems to be slow.
by Majromax | 2025-10-01 13:19:12+00:00
> And also, dont count on the government, like FEMA, to help. Now with phrases like "climate change", and "green" now banned from federal discourse, we're not permitted to say the obvious.

It's a cold calculus, but a government that is ideologically opposed to the science of climate change is more rather than less likely to help bail out flooded properties. With such a… fixed opinion, the hidebound government agencies can't allow themselves to think that the overall risk profile has increased, so they'll be surprised by a hundred-year flood every 10 years.

The confounding factor is that the current US political mix combines ideological opposition to climate change science with opposition to well-functioning assistance programs, so on balance there may be nobody left to write the bailout cheque.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-01 13:20:13+00:00
>If our efforts, in part, define us, then our efforts have intrinsic value. What happens when something we enjoy doing that took effort becomes effortless? And what happens if that original effort was a foundation on which we saw value in ourselves?

I found the flaw.

Effort is the process of converting energy into value (the state of something being effortless in the future). It's not the efforts themselves that have intrinsic value, but the work ethic that drove the effort in the first place.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 13:20:23+00:00
That's the stupid part. Nothing is actually automated yet. AI is just a smokescreen for the recession we're clearly in but no one wants to say out loud.

And I sense a reckoning on the horizon. There's a reason the 10's were filled with billionaire (now trillionaire) tech companies poaching any potential talent that can rise against them. That knowledge is still there and rife to disrupt.

>mention the word union here and you'll still get beat with a stick.

I'm in the games industry. It's slow but people are starting to wake up here. Only took decades of abuse, instability, and rampant layoffs in an industry alreaady known for regular layoffs. But you know the quote about Churchill and Americans.
by mym1990 | 2025-10-01 13:20:37+00:00
I would probably agree! I came off sounding as if there is no human in the loop. What I meant is that input is still the programming language that is produced and output is the result. Not that the LLM is the initial input. A human in the loop can clean the code produced or create tests that check for an end result(or intermediate results as well).

I understand that an input to an LLM will create a different result in many cases, making the output not deterministic, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use probability to arrive to results eventually.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-01 13:21:29+00:00
This is the frustrating part of software engineering too; the coding itself is the "boring" part, but for me and many others it's also the most fun and gratifying part, the thing you really want to be doing. Something to grow out of I suppose, but still.

The AI vendors want to sell to upper management that that part is what's slowing their company down or costing a lot of money, but I don't think it's that. And in a few years (or now already), AI tooling will probably be an accepted part of the toolchain, but software engineers will always be necessary.

Cobol said you won't need coders anymore because it's basically English. Dreamweaver and Frontpage said you won't need to know HTML because you can just build a website by clicking and typing. No-code platforms said you won't need coders anymore because you can just click and drag. AI evangelists say you don't need coders anymore because you just type in a prompt and working software comes out.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-01 13:22:04+00:00
I wonder if people who have all this smoke for Floridians living in flood zones that they do for people living in wildfire zones, including Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

In both cases, taxpayers are subsidizing their existence and their insurance is way below fair market value for the risks involved.

So let's say it (many years ago) cost $100,000 to build a house and there was a 1% chance in any given year that the house would be a total loss due to [fire,flood]. Insurance for that event should cost a baseline of $1000. It should actually be more due to variance and how these events aren't isolated (ie years of no losses followed by thousands of homes in a single year). But you get the idea.

Now because of inflation it now costs $800,000 to build that same house. Well the risks haven't changed so now insurance should have a baseline cost of $8000. In California they don't because of Prop 108. In Florida, flood insurance is acting as a subsidy. Without it, many homes wouldn't be built and existing houses would have a much lower value because of the insurance issue.

But let's take it further. Now because of climate change let's say the annual risk was 4% of [fire,flood]. Well, insurance should cost $32,000 per year but doesn't.

But do you see what the issue driving all of this is? You might say it's government policy. Wrong. You might say it's capping insurance costs. Wrong. It's housing cost. Housing is too expensive.

What nobody wants to face is the system we've built of treating housing as an investment is broken. It is nothing more than stealing from the next generation and a wealth transfer from the government to already wealthy.

But nobody wants to have that conversation.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-01 13:22:19+00:00
Cryptpad comes to my mind although I suppose it might lack some features of google sheets but it has a web interface.

For a non web interface, things like libreoffice can be good too but I think that you are asking for a web version..

I am not sure if libreoffice has a web version, it seems that they do but I can't find much information and I might recommend crytpad personally so.
by torginus | 2025-10-01 13:23:03+00:00
I think this criticism can applied to most SV products/companies. What they care about is:

- Being seen as a new and hip way to do a thing

- Making sure their approach scales to lots of users

- Making the first user experience and onboarding seamless

What they are willing to give up:

- Long positive term user outcomes

- Sustainability and supporting complex user needs

It seems their goal is to extract value from the users by promising them a better/easier to use/cheaper product then hooking them and stringing them along until the users grow frustrated enough. I'd list some examples of this exact business model, but there's too many to count, and I'm sure most people here won't have any trouble coming up with some of their own.
by zrobotics | 2025-10-01 13:23:17+00:00
The term for these types of microscopes, at least in the industries I've worked in, is an inspection microscope. They're normally lower power than a typical binocular scope like you would see in a biology lab, but work on opaque materials. Inspection scope probably isn't the technical name, but even the vendors have them listed as such.

The cheap USB ones work pretty well for home use, just get one that either has a monitor or can hook up to a monitor, the eyepieces tend to suck. For top of the line professional ones, Mantis makes the best ones I've ever used. I think they are in the 2k+USD range though, I definitely don't have one at home.
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-01 13:23:24+00:00
Perhaps it is no longer necessary because CIRCIA is superseding it [0]? The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) was meant to go into effect this year, however, CISA has delayed the implementation to May 2026 according to a recent report [1].

[0] https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/inf...

[1] https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-pushes-final-cyber-incident-repo...
by tiahura | 2025-10-01 13:23:28+00:00
Two takeaways: 1. As per headline, rejection of state censorship. 2. Platforms should be responsible for user posts.

"Q17D. In your opinion, should each of the following platforms be held responsible or not responsible for showing potentially false information that users post? Base: Total sample in each country ≈ 2000."

Around the world, appx. 70% said yes. The rub, of course, is coming up with a framework. The poll suggests that the DMCA approach of no duty is widely unpopular. However, strict liability would ensure that that these industries go away, and even a reasonableness standard seems like a headache.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-01 13:23:44+00:00
Basically this could be something like this, D based example:

void process_list(List aList) in(aList.isSorted, "List must be sorted!") do { // do something }

However the O() cost of calling isSorted() has an impact on overall cost for process_list() on every call, hence why the way contracts are executed is usually configurable in languages that have them available.
by ljosifov | 2025-10-01 13:24:22+00:00
Eh - for the world's audiences: EU is not Europe. I geddit how/why why people equate eu == europe - it would simplify things for all, one niggle less to consider. But - it ain't so, for better or worse. There are countries in Europe, that can't be members of the European Union, or could be, but don't want to be members. (e.g. UK, probably Island, Switzerland, some of the Nordics) There are no countries in the European Union, that are not part of Europe. So EU <= Europe. (unsurprisingly)
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-01 13:24:27+00:00
> I keep telling people to make backups of "cloud" services

The usual rule when making backups is that you need 3 copies, one of them offsite. A cloud storage service counts as an offsite copy, but you still need two more, typically one on your computer and one in cold storage (ex: external hard drive).

Treat cloud storage like you treat your hard drive, it can fail at any time. The failure modes are different: mechanical failure vs losing access to your account, but the end result is the same: the system is unreliable and you have to engineer around it.