MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mr_wiglaf | 2025-11-21 22:15:31+00:00
Ah so taking the Fourier transform of this function[0]? The summation of the fizz and buzz frequencies don't lead to perfect peaks for the fizz and buzz locations. I need to revisit Fourier cause I would have thought the transform would have just recovered the two fizz and buzz peaks not the fizzbuzz spot.

[0]: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/wgr3zvhazp
by nominalprose | 2025-11-21 22:15:57+00:00
I recently started giving my 11 year old SAM-e, available over the counter and much faster acting than SSRIs for serotonin support. He's been much happier and more regulated since taking it. I'd encourage folk to read up on the literature around SAM-e and consider it as a lower risk alternative to try first, that may in fact work better.
by danielheath | 2025-11-21 22:16:06+00:00
Trusting some random VC-backed SAAS not to sell my data is (to me) as mad as trusting that the tide won't come in - it would be astonishing if they _didn't_ sell my data.

My bank has both commercial & cultural reasons not to sell my ID & transaction history. They might still do it anyways, but it's at least plausible that they wouldn't, if only due to the harm to their reputation if it ends up in the papers.
by Analemma_ | 2025-11-21 22:16:16+00:00
Certainly privately owned ones skim a lot off the top to pay shareholders and bonuses, but the reality is that the cost of caregiving is almost entirely labor and rent, and those things do not benefit from efficiency gains, so the cost of service just goes up forever because of Baumol's cost disease.

Realistically the only way to stabilize the price of caregiving is to automate the hell out of it, like Japan is trying to do. It's a rather dystopian thought that the only way senior care won't bankrupt us is if we have robots do it all, but what can you do.
by sershe | 2025-11-21 22:16:18+00:00
I mean there are many reasons, I really don't have time to reiterate all of them but I'll provide one serious and one funny example before summarizing.

One kinda relevant to the present moment and the fact that dude still has a street named after him in SF - Cesar Chavez running his own border patrol against undocumented immigrants https://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/chavez-ufw-and-wetback-prob... As much I despise it, I feel the current administration really missed a trolling opportunity, naming their thing Cesar Chavez Memorial Patrols.

The funny one from a 1960ies govt report on UK shipbuilding industry: ...literally took three different workers to change a lightbulb: …a laborer (member of the Transport and General Workers Union) [to] carry the ladder to site, a rigger (member of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers Union) [to] erect it and place it in the proper position, and an electrician (member of the Electrical Trades Union) [to] actually remove the old bulb and screw in the new one. Production was often halted while waiting

Call me old-fashioned but I don't want to wait for a different union member to run my build! (and the situation like this still occurs - someone I know works at a place where they are not allowed to clean up above a certain trivial threshold and have to wait for a custodian, because otherwise the latter union would be pissed)

Unions are, in essence, a pressure group for locking down certain jobs against anyone else who might want them, and against any kind of technological progress. They will, and have been shown to, do anything - from lobbying for legal monopolies to violence against immigrants, other workers, political candidates; racism, connections to organized crime - in pursuit of that goal. And blocking any attempts at improvement and automation.

The goal itself though, on top of the methods, is fundamentally evil. It's next level up from people who don't want immigrants to "take jobs", at least for immigrants there's some flimsy justification, but unions operate against their fellow citizens.

From a purely moral perspective, compromising principles for personal gain aside, I'd rather join a drug cartel than a union.
by shigawire | 2025-11-21 22:16:29+00:00
I think I'm asking for the impossible here... But is anyone trying to hedge risk in their personal finances?

I'm not a real "investor" (index funds only) but I am feeling more willing to forgo gains to be more risk averse just based on my own neuroses.

Maybe I cash out and buy T-bills? Gold? Bullets? What's the non-crazy person equivalent?
by bigyabai | 2025-11-21 22:16:41+00:00
It's not a serious plan, if the leaked draft is actually real. Setting aside the grammar issues, it doesn't concede much of anything (besides land Russia never controlled) and doesn't use language that explains the shape of it's security guarantees. Asking the EU to provide security without NATO support makes this peace deal a non-starter from Ukraine's end.

And the "European Fighter Jets will be Stationed In Poland" is memeworthy for years to come. It strains credibility to think this is seriously being considered - hopefully the final draft isn't as ridiculous.
by baxtr | 2025-11-21 22:16:43+00:00
Revenues are up massively, across the board for the big companies but interestingly enough also for startups like ChatGPT, Loveable, Cursor etc. Which is again totally different than last time where mostly startups were driving the insane valuations.

For the shovels part: Actually Global Crossing tried to sell shovels. But failed since there was no demand and no moat. Now compare that to NVIDIA.
by kijiki | 2025-11-21 22:16:55+00:00
I run kodi via OSMC on a Vera V.

It comes with a dedicated remote (though it does support CEC), which solves #1, at the cost of having an extra remote.

I mainly hit #2 when scrubbing, often (worse on some compression types than others), it'll just freeze frame for a minute before everything catches up. This may be because I'm serving the content via HTTP to the Vera V, I've been meaning to try NFS and/or SMB. Never had issues with playback itself, probably because the Vera V hardware and the OSMC/Kodi build are co-developed, so there is pretty much always hardware decode support.

#3 surprised me; Kodi supporting just using my directory layout is why I use it over something like Jellyfin! I just added the HTTP share, and then navigate Videos->files->my_http_share_name and I'm in my directory structure.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-21 22:17:14+00:00
In the rest of the country, we usually call shooting unarmed people who happened to go to the wrong house and killing them "murder". She was not breaking into the house, she was not armed, she was not threatening him in any way. He lived in a neighborhood (look at the photo of the house). People go to the wrong house all the time in neighborhoods, the normal response is not to shoot them (I doubt this is even normal in Alaska as you seem to be saying it is). The normal, not paranoid coward, response is to ignore them or turn them away.
by plorkyeran | 2025-11-21 22:17:24+00:00
The price for each of those at my local supermarket when buying the low quality option in bulk:

English Muffin: 70¢

Slice of cheese: 40¢

Egg: 40¢

Slice of Ham: 50¢

Hash browns: 40¢

Coffee: $1?

In total $3.40. £5.09 for that in hot, prepared form ready to eat sounds cheap to me, not expensive.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-21 22:17:32+00:00
> resources can be massively misallocated just because some small class of individuals THINK or HOPE it will result in massive returns

That's basically what the rich usually do. They command disproportionate amount of resources and misallocate them freely on a whim, outside of any democratic scrutiny, squeezing incredible number of people and small buisness out of something.

Whether that's a strength of the system or the weakness, I'm sure some rearch will show.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-21 22:17:35+00:00
> Is there any way to avoid this kind of market failure?

There are potentially undesirable tradeoffs and a whole new game of cheats and corruption, but you could frustrate rapid, concentrated growth with things like an increasing tax on raised funds.

Right now, we basically let people and companies concentrate as much capital as they want, as rapidly as they want, with almost no friction, presumably because it helped us economically outcompete the adversary during the Cold War. Broadly, we're now afraid of having any kind of brake or dampener on investments and we are more afraid of inefficiency and corruption if the government were to intervene than we are of speculation or exploitation if it doesn't.

In democratically regulated capitalism, there are levers to pull that could slow down this kind of freight train before it were to get out of control, but the arguments against pulling them remain more thoroughly developed and more closely held than those in favor of them.
by epistasis | 2025-11-21 22:17:39+00:00
This was Lina Khan's big thing, and I'd argue that our current administration is largely a result of Silicon Valkey no longer being able to get exits in the form or mergers and IPOs.

Perhaps a better approach to anti-monopoly and anti-trust is possible, but I'm not sure anybody knows what that is. Khan was very well regarded and I don't know anybody who's better at it.

Another approach would be a wealth and income taxation strategy to ensure sigmoid income for the population. You can always make more, but with diminishing returns to self, and greater returns to the rest of society.
by defrost | 2025-11-21 22:17:39+00:00
For general interest:

The award-winning ABC series ‘Old People’s Home for 4Year Olds’ and 'Old People's Home for Teenagers' were not only heart-warming shows. A new Griffith University study found the series have been instrumental in public recognition of the social and health benefits of intergenerational practice.

~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRlgQ8bVV1o

~ https://iview.abc.net.au/show/old-people-s-home-for-4-year-o...

There's a lot I can say about older populations and their abilities despite being old, right now I'm have to step out for the day for several hours, possibly more, so I'll just leave this one approach above that's been tried and works well.

Also, the elder population aren't homogenous by any means, there are a good number that can assist others with meals, gardens, etc.
by acdha | 2025-11-21 22:17:48+00:00
This isn’t a serious response. Even if you had the clout to do that, you’d then own having to deal with the underlying pressure which lead them to require that in the first place. It’s rare that this is someone waking up in the morning and deciding to be insufferable, although you can’t rule that out in infosec, but they’re usually responding to requirements added by customers, auditors needed to get some kind of compliance status, etc.

What you should do instead is talk with them about SLAs and validation. For example, commit to patching CRITICAL within x days, HIGH with y, etc. but also have a process where those can be cancelled if the bug can be shown not to be exploitable in your environment. Your CISO should be talking about the risk of supply chain attacks and outages caused by rushed updates, too, since the latter are pretty common.
by abawany | 2025-11-21 22:18:15+00:00
In one of your other posts, you talk about their merch sales and others also talk about their bundling of services such as vpn and etc., which all also sound like small potatoes. Does that not sound contradictory? Why bother with any of this if search licensing covers their costs many times over? And if merch and mozilla branded bundles work, then why not also let the users fund them like Thunderbird allows instead of enraging these users by signing them up unsolicited for things such as "privacy preserving ads" and such?
by kevstev | 2025-11-21 22:18:18+00:00
That's also 4 entirely different curriculums which need to be taught. I volunteer taught CS for about 10 years, and the first year I taught a new class- and this was a single class for high school kids- I always found I was much better at it the second and third time around. I taught about 4 different courses, of varying difficulty- intro to programming with SNAP, "CS Principles" which had a little bit of everything from (very) basic networking to html and a bit of javascript, Javascript/Python, and then the final boss... AP CS in Java, which is a very difficult class.

I find it difficult to wrap my head around you can make it work teaching the entire curriculum for 4 different grades encompassing reading/writing, math, history, science, art, music, etc... I guess its potentially compensated for by the fact that they are all getting very individualized attention, but thats spreading a parent very thin.

Especially when we are talking about high school levels, where you can even potentially go into AP courses- no way a single parent can teach college level calculus, History, CS, etc... effectively.

For all the flaws of our public education system, I don't see how this can work better.
by ghm2180 | 2025-11-21 22:18:20+00:00
So the bias is an issue can be handled in a variety of ways, one which I know to work is to use weights on your rarer class when training. You could also use larger margins to make sure you definitely don't mis-classify the rare class at the cost of mislableling your dominant class — presuming you are ok with it. An example is when doctors order breast biopsies, it happens a lot more than the cancer itself and based on a noisy technique of physical exam.
by phoboslab | 2025-11-21 22:18:20+00:00
I just looked at the invoice for my current PC parts that I bought in April 2016: I paid 177 EUR (~203 USD) for 32GB (DDR4-2800).

It's kinda sad when you grow up in a period of rapid hardware development and now see 10 years going by with RAM $/GB prices staying roughly the same.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-21 22:18:35+00:00
"Tuition for most (non-religious) competitive private schools in San Francisco is easily twice that amount."

No it's not 'easily twice that amount'.

For each of the grades K-12, here is the % of non-religious private schools in San Francisco that charge $56k or more:

K: 0% 1: 0% 2: 0% 3: 0% 4: 0% 5: 0% 6: 3% 7: 3% 8: 3% 9: 71% 10: 71% 11: 71% 12: 71%
by PKop | 2025-11-21 22:19:16+00:00
If your wife wanted to stay home with the kids and not work, you would have forced her into the rat race or given her what she wants? It is not a foolish plan to confidently honor your vows and act accordingly. Condemning a wife who wants to raise her children as best as possible and to enjoy herself, to working for the man in some corporate gig and then blaming it on her need for work experience once you guys get divorced is dystopian nonsense. Just be a good husband and father, ya know? You do not have to saddle yourself with the problems of others which you yourself don't have out of some statistical optimality calculation. Just take control of your life. I say this as a father and husband.

"I know you wanted to stay home honey, and yes we have enough money and yes it would be good for the kids... but you have to think of your resume and work experience, we might get divorced someday. This very achievable situation is simply a fantasy" lol. My wife would be horrified and incredibly sad if I treated her this way.
by l11r | 2025-11-21 22:19:26+00:00
There are no ARM chips with enough power. They have said many times that they are not interested in minor performance improvements but rather want a leap. The Snapdragon X2 Elite chip is the leader (I cannot count Apple; they won't share their chips, obviously), but it doesn't even match AMD with their RDNA 3.5, and who knows when they will (or even if).
by fpoling | 2025-11-21 22:19:36+00:00
It is not about stateless nature of LLMs. The problem of time-series A versus B is that our mathematical constructions just cannot describe the perception of time flow or at least for over 100 years nobody managed to figure out how to express it mathematically. As such any algorithms including LLMs remains just a static collection of rules for a Turing machine. All the things that consciousness perceives as changes including state transitions or prompt responses in computers are not expressible standalone without references to the consciousness experience.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-21 22:19:37+00:00
Unions work in entertainment because there is a lot of value in relationships and brand recognition. They still have the same disadvantages as they do in other fields, but the advantages make it fly anyway. If only the members of the union get to declare whether it's good or not, it will practically always be considered a success. Non-members don't get work, or at least get less. It is an inevitable outcome.

>A healthy union for software engineers, which the gaming industry in particular is well suited towards right now, looks more like one of these kinds of unions than it does a factory laborers union.

I don't think so. Software engineers are not generally operating in the brand or personality space. Their employers just want work done and nobody cares who does it.

I am running short on time but basically I want to leave you with the forgotten disadvantaged of unions: favoring more advantaged workers over more desperate ones, putting a floor on minimum skill level to get hired, costing everyone outside the union more money (including employers and consumers). Maybe these down sides can be negligible sometimes but you'll rarely hear anyone say this stuff. They talk about fellow humans who want to work more badly than themselves "scabs". I think unions can be a net positive but I don't buy the popular narrative that they are glorious with no disadvantages.
by kergonath | 2025-11-21 22:19:37+00:00
> To say whether it's a bubble, we need to know the value of the technology.

Not really. I mean, not only. The value of the web is immense. And yet, the dot-com bubble was indeed a bubble. What matters is the value in the short term compared to the value of the companies in the current context. Even if AI is huge 20 years from now, it can still crash dramatically tomorrow.
by counters | 2025-11-21 22:19:57+00:00
> Meteorology

It seems like that at first glance. But in reality, GPUs have had extremely slow adoption for real-world operational meteorology applications. Because of the fundamental design and architecture of most NWP systems, it was very difficult to leverage GPUs as compute accelerators; most efforts barely eked out any performance gains once you account for host/device memory transfers. It really wasn't until some groups started to design new weather modeling systems from the ground up that they could architect things in such a way that GPUs made a significant difference.

Obviously AI / ML weather modeling is a different story.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-11-21 22:20:01+00:00
> Strings loaded to RAM

Modern AVRs have program memory mapped into the RAM address space. The GCC linker scripts for the parts that support this put strings into .rodata within that memory region, obviating the need for special macros to retrieve them. However, you won't find this on most of the usual suspects in the Arduino AVR ecosystem.
by jdietrich | 2025-11-21 22:20:30+00:00
A sudden improvement in mood is one of the key warning signs for suicide. Often it's genuinely just a sudden improvement, but sometimes it is a byproduct of the relief people experience when they commit to ending their life. If you know someone who is severely depressed, you should watch them very carefully if they suddenly seem carefree.

>once I noticed it also affected my ability to experience color

A small amount of evidence does support the notion that depressed people literally see the world as being less vibrant.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34689697/

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1503/jpn.200091
by hintklb | 2025-11-21 22:20:52+00:00
Sorry but strong disagree here.

I have had a lot of Spinal and sleep issues. I have read almost all new literature on this niche subject and I have brought to my spine doctor some new therapy and treatments they had literally no idea about. Those treatments have changed my life.

As an engineer I read a lot of deep technical paper as my day job. Medical papers are comparatively relatively simple. The most complex part being usually the statistical data analysis.

We have pushed to a whole generation of people that only the "experts" can have opinion on some fields. I encourage everyone to read papers and have opinions on some of those subjects.

We are in 2025. That type of gatekeeping needs to go away. AI if anything, is going to really help with this as well.
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-21 22:21:34+00:00
At best, arguing about whether an LLM is conscious is like arguing about whether your prefrontal cortex is conscious. It is a single part of the equation. Its memory system is insufficient for subjective experiences, and it has extremely limited capability to take in input and create output.

As humans we seem to basically be highly trained prediction machines: we try to predict what will happen next, perceive what actually happens, correct our understanding of the world based on the difference between prediction and observation, repeat. A single cell organism trying to escape another single cell organism does this and to me it seems that what we do is just emergent behavior of scaling up that process. Homo Sapiens’ big innovation was abstract thinking allowing us to predict what happen next Tuesday and not immediately.

If you want something really trippy check out experiments of situational awareness in chimps. You can flash a screen of letters to them for one second, distract them, then have them point out to you where the letters were, in order from A-Z. Different specialization for survival.

And philosophically it seems like consciousness is just not that important of a concept. We experience it so we think it is the end all be all. We project it via anthropomorphizing onto anything we can draw a smiley face on. You can pick up a pencil, tell your audience it’s and is Clifford, break it in half, and everyone witnessing it will experience loss. But no mainstream philosopher would argue that the pencil is conscious. To me this proves that we place value on consciousness in a way that is even for us not cohesive. I am convinced that entities that are by other definitions alive and complex could exist that does not experience or have the concept of consciousness.

Consciousness is also our measure of whether something can suffer and we use that yardstick to figure out if it’s ok for us to for example breed a particular animal for food. But clearly we are not able to apply that uniformly either. As we learned that pigs are smarter than dogs we didn’t start keeping pigs in our houses and breeding dogs for food. On the other hand this metric isn’t the worst one if we apply it backwards. What harm happens when you reset the context of an LLM?

Basically, I don’t believe we need to be looking for consciousness but rather to expand our understanding of intelligent life and what kind of entities we can interact with and how.
by johntash | 2025-11-21 22:22:26+00:00
I didn't see your previous post, but my feedback would be that your readme doesn't really list all the features? It has some screenshots, but maybe a short list of major features/what you can do with it would be helpful for people just driving by to look at it?

I don't think you need a fancy landing page for every oss project, but I have no way of telling what is different about your project without actually trying it out.