MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-14 21:38:45+00:00
"Good choice" for what? If you're not naturally curious about math, engineering, software and/or hardware, then probably not, otherwise maybe. Tech carpetbaggers out for a steady paycheck detracted from the industry more than AI ever has or will.. these people don't like mastery, learning, or excellence. Self taught but I had my doubts after transferring from CS to EE/CS, but I also took the 10 year route to minimize debt and maximize business work.

Ideally, I'd first try out or explore the intended field of work one wants to be a part of before fully committing time, money, and energy on credentials for it. This might take the form of one or more internships, reverse interviews of people in that field, and/or finding interviews about a particular person in that role or company. For anyone already enrolled, I'd still check out internships and such but only change majors if multiple internships were decidedly terrible.

Follow fun for you that others find tedious or uninteresting where there is great value requiring human-in-the-loop expertise or effort, e.g., find a defensible niche not exposed to 100% automation. That might be a STEM or financial specialty or sub-specialty that you find more interesting like biomedical informatics, data science, statistics, accounting, or actuary because becoming a generic software engineer is as risky now as becoming a generic systems administrator.

Ultimately, it's a personal decision that cannot be offloaded to others requiring some experimental research/trial and error in the real world™. Plus, it needs some luck and finding a mostly positive working environment which tend to be in short supply.

Good luck.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 21:40:15+00:00
> Here is how we'd do that combination therapy. We'd mix a standard antibiotic with oral para-Aminosalicylic acid (PAS).

I responded to your comment above with this same claim. I cannot find any sources that say reducing manganese was the mechanism of PAS in TB.

A recent research paper on PAS in TB doesn't even mention manganese once. It identifies Dihydrofolate Reductase related actions as the mechanism against TB: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5395024/

> orally delivered PAS is the the standard treatment for treating excess manganese in humans.

EDTA has been the standard treatment. PAS has been explored and trialed. It can be used, but I don't know if I'd call it the "standard" treatment.

> (Sorry, but you're dead wrong about needing a completely synthetic diet for months.)

I was talking about a low-manganese diet, which the comment above me suggested. I don't know why you're so set on calling me "dead wrong" so much when you can't provide sources and aren't even reading what I'm writing.

> While PAS does harm a few kinds of stomach bacteria, it is far better than a broad spectrum antibiotic. And if the target disease is under stress already, then you need less antibiotic to finish them off.

You're really going to have to provide sources for PAS reducing manganese as a mechanism for fighting TB.

As I pointed out in my other comment, manganese is an essential cofactor for one of the other anti-TB drugs in the triple combination that was used in the past.
by underlipton | 2025-11-14 21:40:23+00:00
It's a little stunning how well this also describes dynamics of racism in the US. Very Baldwin-esque observations. Something to consider any time you hear criticism, on the basis of "bias", of the assessment of someone from a group who have themselves been subjected to "more conspicuous varieties" of bigotry than the average American.

Might also be applied to class consciousness. An acquaintance (liberal, Southern, white) once described the voting patterns of less-affluent white Southerners as, essentially, trying to front-run the greed and cruelty of the elite class. Give them what they think they want, even if it hurts, so that they don't linger on the subject and come up with something worse. A dynamic where you really would have to know your oppressor better than they know themselves, or you.
by richardw | 2025-11-14 21:40:43+00:00
They probably used Claude because that way they don’t get blocked as fast. Websites trust Claude more. And why not use the foreign tools against themselves at presumably discounted rates (see AI losses) rather than burn your own GPU’s and IP’s.

1000’s of calls per second? That’s a lot of traffic. Hide it in Claude which is already doing that kind of thing 24/7. Wait until someone uses all models at the same time to hide the overall traffic patterns and security implications. Or have AI’s driving botnets. Or steal a few hundred enterprise logins and hide the traffic that is presumably not being logged because privacy and compliance.
by palata | 2025-11-14 21:41:45+00:00
I agree that I would love to be able to do without PGP, and I regularly see posts of cryptographers saying "it's easy, there are plenty of solutions, use sigstore, age, etc etc".

The reality is that PGP has become a de facto standard, and moving away from it is hard. I am really trying, but here are a few examples:

- Linux distributions typically use PGP to sign packages. I don't think they all agreed to switch to a new, perfect solution, so there is nothing I can do there.

- If I publish packages to Maven, I have to sign them with PGP. I could add sigstore, which I believe is supported (or in beta), but PGP will still be mandatory for the years to come, because... well sigstore is not ubiquitous. Until all the tools related to this support sigstore, there is no reason to use it. And why sigstore? If we're going for a new standard, why not another one? What if the community gets divided between sigstore and 2 alternatives?

- I use Yubikeys, and they support PGP. It works really well for signing with git, relatively well with jj. Now if I start signing my commits with the SSH key on my Yubikeys, it becomes more complicated (it's just a tooling issue of course, but that's still the case): it doesn't "just work", I need to make sure the ssh-agent works with the key, etc. I used that for 2 years and went back to PGP.

- Age is cool, but really the only use-case I have is for my password manager (currently password-store, and passage is a fork using Age instead). It's cool to use Age of course, but now with my Yubikey I need to use PIV, which I'm less comfortable with. With PGP, it really just works with my Yubikey. There is infrastructure to share PGP public keys, I don't know for Age, etc.

- Let's talk about email. Cryptographers will happily say that it makes absolutely no sense to send sensitive data over email. Yet here we are, companies use emails in practice, and having PGP encryption between colleagues because the company uses a service like Infomaniak or Proton is better than nothing. And with PGP, it means that I can use existing tooling (though last time I checked, ProtonMail was super annoying to use and required a weird bridge trick, but that's Proton's mistake IMHO).

Don't get me wrong: it is really nice that we are getting newer tools that slowly replace PGP. And because a big criticism of PGP is that it's complicated because it does everything, it means that we need many newer tools that each do one thing and do it well.

Yes, use the alternatives when possible! Use Signal, use Age, use magic-wormhole! But don't tell me I can just "do without PGP", it's totally not true.
by hereme888 | 2025-11-14 21:41:50+00:00
Amazing to read in a site full of devs and cybersecurity experts how willing they are to use Huawei's tech despite all the international theft and security issues, some exposed, and but most of it kept under wraps until investigations are complete.

And some even shill the conspiracy that the NSA will install backdoors in US equipment... I would like to think it's Chinese agents at work, but most likely it's regular people.

For this reason I'm glad politicians are taking the initiative, despite the population's awareness of what Huawei really is. And sry but I don't have time to "prove it with irrefutable evidence" as some may demand. Plz spend your own time researching the facts.
by pokot0 | 2025-11-14 21:42:03+00:00
Privacy for me is not that important. I have nothing to hide, nothing I am ashamed of. For me it's more of a way of protecting from abuse that a need of its own. I realize it's just me and I do advocate for privacy, but if you look around: we lost. Our data is everywhere and there are no consequences whatsoever. PS: I did mention in my original comment that Google and many others already send drones with cameras to spy on your backyard and that is considered "fine". I am not inviting them to come to your house; they are already doing it. Just check Google Maps.
by fallingfrog | 2025-11-14 21:42:14+00:00
Well it kind of sucks honestly because im never going to get any sort of recognition, but that's partly by choice and partly because I don't have the right personal connections. I 100% understand why all of you think I'm a significant fool. Thats ok. Like i said, im burying the idea. But its obvious enough that someone else will discover it soon enough.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 21:42:24+00:00
I wrote more above, but I cannot find anything to support this claim about PAS being used because it reduces manganese either.

The mechanism of action of PAS against TB is in the Dihydrofolate Reductase pathway: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5395024/

I can only guess that this commenter saw that PAS can also be used for manganese chelation and jumped to conclusions?
by EMM_386 | 2025-11-14 21:42:52+00:00
You can absolutely do this. In fact, with Claude Anthropic encourages you to send it screenshots. It works very well if you aren't expecting pixel-perfection.

YMMV with other models but Sonnet 4.5 is good with things like this - writing the code, "seeing" the output and then iterating on it.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 21:43:06+00:00
> I don't have a specific reference for manganese levels in people undergoing the old TB treatment. But I'm sure that it should exist somewhere.

You've spread this claim throughout the comment section and called others "dead wrong", yet even you can't find a reference to support it?

The mechanism of PAS in TB is not manganese reduction: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5395024/
by mcswell | 2025-11-14 21:43:30+00:00
"...there are more English words than the other language" There might be more words in some English dictionaries than in some dictionaries of other languages, but that may just be due to a lot more effort having gone into English lexicography than X language lexicography. I doubt that most native speakers of English know more English words than equally educated native speakers of some other language know words of their language.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-14 21:45:29+00:00
I am not sure about your source. It looks like it is biased and promotes falsehoods:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ngo-monitor-bias/

> Overall, we rate the NGO Monitor Right biased based on support for the right-wing Israeli government. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting based on the consistent promotion of pro-Israeli propaganda.
by 9rx | 2025-11-14 21:46:12+00:00
> One guy can totally make butter, lard, and harvest fatty meat by themselves.

Theoretically it is possible that one person could, on their own, produce enough calories with cattle to feed around two people. So in a vacuum it is true that you could gain excessive weight.

But it still isn't actually possible in reality. The time commitment to produce that much is expansive. There isn't enough time in the day for you and you alone to both produce it and also eat it to excess. If you cut down on your time commitment to the animals so that you can focus on eating, then your caloric production plummets.

That is, of course, much easier to pull off with the modern tools we have, but then you're back to requiring the help of many people. Those tools don't magically appear out of nowhere.
by mcswell | 2025-11-14 21:46:34+00:00
"English also has no word for "television" Oh goodness sake. OF COURSE English has a word "television". The fact that you can trace its etymology back to Greek and Latin doesn't mean it's not an English word. If you confronted a native speaker of Latin who also spoke Greek (a common situation back then, also vice versa), they would have no clue what "television" meant any more than most people would know what a "Fernseher" is.
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 21:46:40+00:00
There are solutions to poverty and the majority of people do follow them successfully. However there are always people getting into poverty and so there is always poverty. Worse there are people who cannot follow the solutions we have to poverty - this is a small minority, but it is the ones that are hardest to deal with.

There are also a tiny number (less than 1 in 1000) who have a lot of wealth but choose to live in poverty because that is freedom. If you look close you see they are the ones who have a warm coat and working heat in their tent. This is not poverty, but they try to be counted in your poverty numbers because it helps them. When you have wealth living in poverty is not that bad. (the above is a story a homeless man told me this week while I was helping out at our local food shelf. The homeless man is in poverty and I get the impression his divorce settlement is the problem and as soon as his kids are out of school he plans on getting a real job)
by canttestthis | 2025-11-14 21:47:11+00:00
The tweet is a response to https://x.com/ronawang/status/1986874105472426188

(disclaimer: I'm a software engineer with minimal compiler theory experience outside classes in college) I wonder whether its possible to trust an LLM to "compile" your code to an executable and trust that the compiled code is faithful to the input without writing a static validator that is pretty much a compiler itself.
by LightBug1 | 2025-11-14 21:47:15+00:00
Irrational? That's like saying the Allies response to the Nazi's was irrational.

Come to think of it, maybe that's the solution. After WW2 the Allies "DeNazified" Germany by dismantling Nazi organizations, removing Nazis from public life, and trying prominent war criminals.

It also included symbolic actions like changing street names, as well as re-educating the German population in democratic values.

I'm keenly aware that there are significant sections of Israel and non-Israeli Jews who stand shoulder to shoulder fighting against what is happening in Israel.

But it's not enough. Israel should go through a process similar to DeNazification.
by bwblabs | 2025-11-14 21:47:31+00:00
Not sure why you misquoted, I said "the main contributors stayed with Gitea", also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929247#45931139

When deciding which software fork to pick, it is about the development power. Also note my point about security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929247#45930310
by rafterydj | 2025-11-14 21:48:53+00:00
I 100% see the Framework Desktop and Steam Machine less as competitors and more as separate flavors of the same form factor: Steam Machine for the lower priced, casual plug-n-play gaming use case, and Framework Desktop for the higher priced, professional use case.

Seeing as the Steam Machine feels like a way to get traction for SteamOS just as much as it is a venture for selling hardware, a partnership between them selling Framework laptops/desktops verified for SteamOS seems like exactly the type of thing Valve would want.
by KraftyOne | 2025-11-14 21:49:14+00:00
> versioning

Yes, something like that is needed, we're working on building a good interface for it.

> transactional enqueueing

But it is safe as long as it's done inside a DBOS workflow. If the connection is lost (process crashes, etc.) after the transaction but before the child is enqueued, the workflow will recover from the last completed step (the transaction) and then proceed to enqueue the child. That's part of the power of workflows--they provide atomicity across transactions.
by cpursley | 2025-11-14 21:49:16+00:00
Having a school lunch in a "poor" former eastern block country as a guest was really eye opening. It was actually good, fresh made borscht, veg dishes that tasted good (wasn't steamed)! Like, I would order and enjoy it at a restaurant level no-bad. Who knew that was even possible? From what I can tell, a non-crappy school lunch is the norm all over Europe. Why can't America have that?
by phailhaus | 2025-11-14 21:49:18+00:00
Oh man being able to pick the time range is awesome. I hate hate hate standard financial data tables and how they just show you "today's performance". Absolutely useless, nobody in retail cares outside of gambling day traders. How is it that even giants like Fidelity can't get this right? I need to be able to see my portfolio's performance over the last month, year, 5 years!
by fleeting900 | 2025-11-14 21:49:24+00:00
Yes! Occasionally I try to get it to do something labor-saving for me in a doc or sheet, and every single time “I’m sorry, I can’t do that”

As far as I can tell Gemini in gsuite can do nothing other than summarise text and regular LLM q&a (but with Gemini’s perennially sad, apologetic persona)
by corimaith | 2025-11-14 21:50:03+00:00
I feel that the majority in this thread are acting less in Europe's interests than effectively saying "fuck you" to Germany here for acting against China's interests. Or perhaps they're reaching as quickly as possible to blame everything on USA. But that's the consequence of letting outsiders into the conversation, everything has really turned into a "water armies", as defined by the Chinese themselves.

In any case, I do hope that outsiders in this thread realize this isn't indicative of what Westerners think, so as far much as what their enemies are thinking. Do you really think people like these who are so quick to mock Europe are really your friends?
by scotty79 | 2025-11-14 21:50:06+00:00
> you are not a victim of the world’s artists

I will be if they manage to slow down development of AI even by a smidgen.

> Most artists also don’t care about online art communities or what you think about them. Not even a little bit.

Fully agree. They care about whether there's going to be anyone willing to buy their stuff from them. And not-toddler art is a real competition for them. So they are super against everybody making it.
by bombcar | 2025-11-14 21:51:15+00:00
Poor people shouldn't be buying shit on Amazon, nor should they be spending money on Prime.

They'd be better off with DVDs from the library.

The problem is the same as with dieting; we do know what we need to do but the willpower required is quite high.

And the world is engineered to make it hard, because they want to separate us from what money we do have.
by mcswell | 2025-11-14 21:51:28+00:00
It's the same structure in both languages. Just because it's written as if it were a single unbreakable word doesn't mean it is--or contrariwise, the fact that it's written as two things with a space in between doesn't mean that it's two "words" in English. The problem lies in the meaning of "word." Is 'doghouse' one word in English, while 'dog house' is two? No.
by nyeah | 2025-11-14 21:51:30+00:00
I don't know about that. For many practical purposes probably not?

I'm just on the thread following this idea: "The article seems to think that a word is untranslateable if there is no single word in the target language"

So we're talking about "translatability" of single words. Mapping multiple words of language X to one word of language Y is going to have some effect on translation.
by DonsDiscountGas | 2025-11-14 21:51:58+00:00
I feel like the target audience is this is people who have zero sympathy for the poor, but the thing is that's generally not an opinion they reasoned themselves into. They don't want to spend the money helping anybody so they rationalize that a decide nobody deserves help. So don't expect any minds to change based on facts and logic.

(For the record I give no money to charity because I'm completely selfish; I make no assumptions about the people I don't help)
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 21:52:11+00:00
If I was in poverty a phone would be early on my list of things to get. First is enough food to eat, followed closely be enough shelter to live (sleeping outside in the snow is fine so long as you have a warm bed in the tend). There might be a few other things as well (I'm not in this condition), but a phone would be high on my list if I could afford it (including the monthly bill) just because of all the things you can do once you have one. For the price they are a great investment.

I can tell you the homeless man I met this week didn't have a phone, but he didn't go anywhere without the kitten he rescued from a fire. I'm not sure what I'd do in his place, but that is an important data point.
by ares623 | 2025-11-14 21:52:19+00:00
In this case though, banning X takes away a lot of the financials of X being possible or improving further. Sure, X-1 will continue to exist in perpetuity, but it will be frozen and allows society to catch up to mitigate Y more effectively.

EDIT: nevermind the fact that being able to do Z is not at all a fair trade for getting X. But that’s just me.
by shwaj | 2025-11-14 21:52:28+00:00
Not sure, probably depends on the content too. When you read text, the eye definitely isn’t jumping “arbitrarily”, it’s clustered around what you’re focusing on. Might be different for a FPS game where you’re looking out for ambushes.

I’m not sure what you mean by “look through the entire image to reacquire the iris”? You’re talking about the image from the eye tracking camera?
by evanelias | 2025-11-14 21:52:41+00:00
Absolutely this. The differences between Aurora Postgres and Aurora MySQL are quite significant. A failover bug affecting one doesn't imply the same bug exists in the other.

A lot of people seem to have the misconception that "Aurora" is its own unique database system, with different front-ends "pretending" to be Postgres or MySQL, but that isn't the case at all.
by pcrh | 2025-11-14 21:53:01+00:00
Do EU treaties per se contain any language that might be relevant to privacy?

It seems axiomatic that legal systems contain provisions that prevent their violation. However, democracy requires that laws are voted on by elected representatives or plebiscites, which can of course mean repealing prior laws.

However the EU institutions are not sovereign, which might be the loophole here?

Edit: I'm aware that the EU is only afforded "competences" given to it by treaties, so perhaps human rights don't fall into any of these...?

However, I also wonder if legislation such as Chat Control, etc, might fall outside its competences.

In the end, the question is whether there is a legal mechanism by which the introduction of laws such as those in question here can be prohibited?
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-14 21:53:06+00:00
It’s funny because lately I’ve been playing Arknights which is a gatcha game which is unusually good for free players. It has a few icons that light up with one of those dots when you have something to attend to (say you got a token to upgrade a character) but there is the dark pattern that that dot is always set on the cash store which means it is always set on the “stores” section which has substores for in-game currencies some of which you have to attend to periodically. So I see the dark pattern there.

Really my complaint is anything that covers up content; if instead of popping up a popover Firefox just took 75px above or below the page to show me something I’d complain about lot less — but if I had my way anything unwanted that covers unwanted content should bust down the whole c-suite to working in an Amazon warehouse. (I could trust those folks to deliver stuff with an e-bike but don’t want anybody with bad judgement like that driving a car or truck!)