MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brailsafe | 2025-11-03 21:48:59+00:00
> I need Instagram to keep up with my friends

Wdym? I think this idea should be included in your top-level comment about things Instagram wants you to do. I can believe it's likely that other people have very different relationships with people that are dependent on a particular platform, but I do my best not to accept that and make it clear that I probably won't check anything other than a DM whenever I feel like it, which consequently categorizes Insta as an unimportant means of connection.

Put another way, my relationships are defined by the communication and connection we have in real life or DMs regardless of the platform. Seeing posts does not count as friendship to me, and if I don't hear from someone or think about them because I disabled my insta, then it wasn't meant to be.

A sibling replyer said they use group chats, which is fine for some, but I find has personally just become another passive comms dump that I actively refuse to participate in; there's too much noise.

All that said, a real friendship formed in person after a real time investment can survive with very little or zero fake interaction from social media. It's ok that I see my bros from my home town maybe once a year. If I fear not receiving any direct communication from anyone should I decide to dip out of social media, then it's possible I have no friends and I should sit with that feeling until I can take action on that. People get too complacent imo thinking their posts count as friendship.
by thechao | 2025-11-03 21:49:04+00:00
I'm not really onboard with the whole LLM's-are-conscious thing. OTOH, I am totally onboard with the whole "homo sapiens exterminated every other intelligent hominid and maybe — just maybe — we're not very nice to other intelligences". So, I try not to let my inborn genetic predisposition to exterminate other intelligence pseudo-hominids color my opinions too much.
by d--b | 2025-11-03 21:49:19+00:00
Alternatively, you can give him critical hyper risky tasks, that he will necessarily fail at with catastrophic consequences, and get him fired for that.

I realize that these sound like scheming, but this kind of shit actually works.

The other alternative is to go to your manager's manager. A risky move, but I have done it and survived to tell the tale.
by ttcbj | 2025-11-03 21:49:21+00:00
I agree. I read an article a few months ago about how frequent MAID (medical assistance in dying) is in Canada. I am surprised that that has not led to larger scale studies about the dying process.

In this particular case, the press release notes "Scientifically, it's very difficult to interpret the data because the brain had suffered bleeding, seizures, swelling...". That does seem to limit how much can be generalized from this one case. A larger study of MAID patients would be more useful.

Edit: Maybe the issue is that the MAID itself would alter the brain state. That actually seems pretty plausible.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-03 21:49:26+00:00
The main advantage of hexagonal spherical tiling systems is that they are roughly equal area at a given resolution. This makes them particularly suitable for generating visualizable aggregates when you primarily care about spatial distribution rather than specific boundaries (like borders).

The main disadvantage of non-congruent tiling systems like H3 is poor scalability and performance when running analytical computations. In most cases you wouldn't want to shard your underlying data this way even if this is how you want to visualize it.

It is easy to get the best of both worlds. You can shard data models as 3-space spherical embeddings (efficient for large-scale analytic computation) and convert query results to an H3 tiling at wire speed on demand.
by DangitBobby | 2025-11-03 21:49:34+00:00
I'm having a hard time imagining a case where you'd be worse off with Django (compared to whatever alternative you may have chosen) in the case where the happy path for the thing you're trying to do doesn't exist natively in Django. Either way you're still farming out that capability to custom code or a 3rd party library.

I guess if you write a lot of custom code into specific hooks that Django offers or use inheritance heavily it can start to hurt. But at the end of the day, it's just python code and you don't have to use abstractions that hurt you.
by jedberg | 2025-11-03 21:50:00+00:00
My dad worked on the Space Shuttle main engine program in the 80s. One of the things they built was the turbopump [0], which generated 23,000HP (and could drain your average home swimming pool in one minute).

Seeing the test firings of the pump was pretty amazing, draining one "swimming pool" and filling another in a minute.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25#Turbopumps
by renjieliu | 2025-11-03 21:50:05+00:00
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by ubercow13 | 2025-11-03 21:50:10+00:00
Seems quite hard to avoid

- file management such as running "ls" where any filename has any non-ascii character such as a CJK or accented letter

- editing any text file in a terminal editor that isn't 100% ascii

- viewing/printing any data from any source, such as a log file/the web/'curl'ing something, where any language other than English or non-ascii character is used

- using various modern command line tools that insist on printing emojis in their output
by KoolKat23 | 2025-11-03 21:50:51+00:00
Correct. Under IFRS, the definition in IAS 24 / Section 33 of the IFRS for SMEs explicitly includes associates and their investors as related parties. So if Microsoft reports under IFRS, OpenAI would indeed be a related party.

Under U.S. GAAP (ASC 850), however, the definition is narrower. “Related parties” include affiliates, principal owners, management, and members of their immediate families—but associates accounted for under the equity method are not automatically treated as related parties unless reciprocal influence or common control exists.

So:

IFRS → associates are always related parties (disclosure under IAS 24.9(b)).

U.S. GAAP → equity-method investees are not necessarily related parties unless additional factors apply.

Microsoft reports under U.S. GAAP, not IFRS, so OpenAI is not a related party in Microsoft’s filings. Disclosures still occur in “Investments” or “Strategic Partnerships,” not under “Related Party Transactions.”
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-03 21:50:53+00:00
From a terminology point of view, I absolutely agree. Human-likeness is what most people mean when they talk about AGI. Calling it what it is would clarify a lot of the discussions around it.

However I am clear that I do not believe that this will ever happen, and I see no evidence to convince that that there is even a possibility that it will.

I think that Wittgenstein had it right when he said: "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."
by observationist | 2025-11-03 21:50:56+00:00
Traumatic events, like NDEs, tend to come with lots of adrenaline, stress hormones, and a cocktail of neurotransmitters that could have the secondary consequence of slowing overall monoamine oxidation, similar to MAOIs, resulting in longer effective exposure to any chemicals like DMT that would normally be transient.

You at most have around 250 μg in your system, you need at least 40 times that to get to the lower threshold of a psychedelic effect. If other factors are in play, and it doesn't get immediately metabolized because of everything else consuming the MAO supply, then it's plausible that there could be an effect.

If that were the case, then you're looking at a potential last-ditch survival mechanism, reinforcing the experience and "fuzzing" the memory for maximum impact.
by tocs3 | 2025-11-03 21:52:15+00:00
As far as the "non-" you might look at

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinylidene_fluoride#Safety...

"PVDF is widely considered safe and ubiquitous used for water treatment,[24] the food industry, and biocompatible devices like hernia meshes or internal devices.">
by echelon | 2025-11-03 21:52:15+00:00
You can make art with literally anything.

I once hooked up lasers, galvos, and a web cam with some band pass filters to make an interactive art demo where people could draw onto the side of tall buildings using a laser pointer. The web cam tracked the laser pointer and the projector I built traced your work and displayed it with persistence.

None of those ingredients would scream art at face value. It takes an artist to assemble them into something that captivates others.

AI is simply one more tool in the tool belt for an artist.

You might be talking about "prompting". Such as someone typing something lazily into ChatGPT and calling the output "art". I'll give you that. Without sufficient intention, taste, or curation, it's not going to hold attention.

I'm talking about tools for artists like these:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQaorWJETXe/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQakfG2D3tN/

https://x.com/get_artcraft/status/1972723816087392450 (something I made)

Or tools for musicians like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2CQLZIlbI

Or even interactive art that leverages AI and involves the viewer, like these:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fW9LI6dwCX8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hnIPdVZK1A

I'm a filmmaker and I've made countless "photons on glass" films. AI tools are incredible at getting ideas out of my head and into yours on both a time and monetary budget.

I'm elated that Disney- and Pixar-level VFX are now within scope and that I don't have to be born as a nepo baby in order to direct a film with "Disney-caliber" visuals.

One last analogy using pre-AI tech: not all cameras produce art. We have them in our cell phones and can use them to snap selfies and food pics. But in the hands of the right person or under the right conditions, we might call the outputs of the process of photography "art".
by mistachkin | 2025-11-03 21:52:37+00:00
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by jacquesm | 2025-11-03 21:53:26+00:00
For extremely small values of 'sometimes' where sometimes is constrained by the following expressions evaluating to 'true':

- you have no interest in maintaining your code

- your code will never be maintained by someone else

- you know your C preprocessor better than you know your C compiler

- your favorite language isn't available for this particular target

- you don't mind object level debugging

- your idea of a fun time is to spend a few hours per day memorizing code

- you really are smarter than everybody else
by 1cph | 2025-11-03 21:53:33+00:00
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by Novosell | 2025-11-03 21:54:05+00:00
Hmmmm, sure. I'm not sure if I'd label them "obscure", they've all got a couple 1000 reviews on Steam. But they're certainly not mainstream to the level of my previously listed games(, with Disco Elysium not really being mainstream either tbh, but people know of it to some degree).

In no particular order and in no way an exhaustive list:

Lies of P.

Baba Is You.

Ender Lilies/Magnolia.

Rain World.

Pillars of Eternity 1/2.

Return of the Obra Dinn.

What Remains of Edith Finch.

the "We Were Here" series.

1000xResist (played this one just a month ago, what a game).

Katana Zero.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Sayonara Wild hearts.

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark.

AER Memories of Old.
by gruez | 2025-11-03 21:54:06+00:00
>He’s more akin to a black pilled 4chan troll

Because... why?

>“illiberal-left” (never heard that before so I think I know what you mean…?)

"Left wing" but rejects classical liberal values like free speech (eg. favoring speech restrictions) or meritocracy (eg. favoring affirmative action or quotas).

>with this but my experience has been people are basically trying to boil this down to “your team did it, not my team.”

All of which makes the attempt by the left to insist that he wasn't left wing all the more the stranger. 45 and 43 percent of americans identify as "republican/lean republican" and "democrat/lean democrat" respectively. From those statistics you'd expect 88% of shooters to belong to one side or the other. Of course, just because a shooter belongs to one side, doesn't automatically delegitimize that side's political position, but the correct response to that would be something like "yes, he was left leaning, but his beliefs are not reflective of the left/democrats as a whole", not trying to insist "Any attempt to slot him neatly as “left” or “right” is pointless".

https://news.gallup.com/poll/548459/independent-party-tied-h...
by duxup | 2025-11-03 21:55:04+00:00
>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoed his defence minister's words on Sunday, saying that the incident at Sde Teiman was "perhaps the most severe public relations attack that the State of Israel has experienced since its establishment".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0kpd97qqko

This is all very inconvenient that people know the truth I guess ...
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-11-03 21:55:25+00:00
"It’s the spookiest thing I’ve ever seen. Hey, when you build a building on the ocean, what do you expect? You expect fog. They should blame themselves for building it on the ocean."

- Oil Can Boyd on May 27 1986, after a game at Cleveland Stadium, located on the shore of Lake Erie, is postponed due to fog in the 6th inning.
by Novosell | 2025-11-03 21:55:35+00:00
Heh, sorry. Someone else asked for a list so I made a short one, figured I'll send it here as well :) They range in obscurity, but I'd not rate any of them as "mainstream".

In no particular order and in no way an exhaustive list:

Lies of P.

Baba Is You.

Ender Lilies/Magnolia.

Rain World.

Pillars of Eternity 1/2.

Return of the Obra Dinn.

What Remains of Edith Finch.

the "We Were Here" series.

1000xResist (played this one just a month ago, what a game).

Katana Zero.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Sayonara Wild hearts.

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark.

AER Memories of Old.
by phatskat | 2025-11-03 21:55:50+00:00
You can start with turning on eg switch controls on your OS, or the built in OS screen reader.

Also, a lot of professional accessibility devices by makers like Dynavox are expensive, so your best bet is seeing what documentation you can dig up.

This like WCAG guide accessibility standards, and coding to be in line with those is probably your best bet at achieving the goals of your website being accessible by assistive technology.

Everyone can guess what screen readers can do, everyone can also get a _basic_ idea of how they’ll actually work, but more often than not the people who will have the most experience are those with the least ability to affect change. Using elements for their intended purposes and coding to accessible standards is probably the most impactful way any of us as engineers can help ensure a smooth experience for the target audience.
by cmdtab | 2025-11-03 21:55:53+00:00
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by tkcranny | 2025-11-03 21:57:05+00:00
I’ve spent a lot of time with both, and hands down the wired one is far more flakey. Granted I think that’s more a Mazda software issue, but a solid 10% of the time I get “CarPlay failed” and the only way to fix it is to turn the car on and off. Never once had an issue with wireless in a Hyundai.
by datameta | 2025-11-03 21:57:12+00:00
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by dragonwriter | 2025-11-03 21:57:16+00:00
> Apparently, the president can shut down half of the government departments via executive order. How? Because they were created by executive order.

Please list the departments and cite the executive orders creating each, because I think you will find that this is far less than half (and, unless you are using a non-standard definition of what constitutes a department in the US federal government, that the proportion is actually 0%.)

(A sibling commenter has demonstrated that the single example you provided is wrong, but its not just a poorly-chosen example.)
by NeroVanbierv | 2025-11-03 21:57:36+00:00
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by Marshferm | 2025-11-03 21:57:44+00:00
ARGs which are a hack of storytelling, rendering the format either mute or too diffuse to cohere, became the backbone format of Russian news, Brexit, QAnon, and MAGA.

Addl citation

https://mssv.net/2020/08/02/what-args-can-teach-us-about-qan...
by vessenes | 2025-11-03 21:57:52+00:00
okay digging in to my vague memories - it was claimed as 25 hours, and posted by a charismatic-ish internet gadfly in the early 2000s, Philip Greenspun: here's a slashdot link about the story: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/00/11/06/1448235/green... but I didn't dig up the original. I have no idea if Philg referenced data in his essay, but I kind of bet he did, it was his style. Not that his style was to fairly reference data mind you.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-03 21:58:21+00:00
Part of your point is right, part is wrong.

Yes heating impacts range in an EV, but it's not really an efficiency thing, it's because you can't get it "free". If an ICE didn't let you harness the heat, you'd see a similar percent drop in range.

And for extra weight, it's just not true. Making a motor work 10% harder at 90% efficiency, compared to making an engine work 10% harder at 20% efficiency, both of these are going to reduce your range by 9%.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-03 21:58:28+00:00
"Next token prediction" is not an answer. It's mental shortcut. An excuse not to think about the implications. An excuse a lot of people are eager to take.

First, autoregressive next token prediction can be Turing complete. This alone should give you a big old pause before you say "can't do X".

Second, "next token prediction" is what happens at an exposed top of an entire iceberg worth of incredibly poorly understood computation. An LLM is made not by humans, but by an inhuman optimization process. No one truly "understands" how an LLM actually works, but many delude themselves into thinking that they do.

And third, the task a base model LLM is trained for - what the optimization process was optimizing for? Text completion. Now, what is text? A product of human thinking expressed in natural language. And the LLM is forced to conform to the shape.

How close does it get in practice to the original?

Not close enough to a full copy, clearly. But close enough that even the flaws of human thinking are often reproduced faithfully.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-11-03 21:58:28+00:00
In some cases. My first experience with my wife in an ER (there have been many!), the doc came up to us and said exactly this. They needed to reposition a broken bone so it could be put in a cast before surgery to rebuild the wrist could be scheduled. Since it would only take a few seconds, instead of anesthesia they would use a medication that would let her be aware of the process, but she would forget it almost immediately after.

That was about 20 years ago. To this day, the last thing she remembers is lying on the table and saying "OK, let's git-er-done" and the next 5-10 minutes are missing.
by 3pt14159 | 2025-11-03 21:58:32+00:00
I’ve had a wild life. I was a Protestant for over thirty years and I became a Catholic around two years ago. I’ve had more than a few demons attack me and two confirmed good spirits, probably angels. The test for spirits is to get them to agree that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. It’s sometimes difficult to understand them, but anyway I really believe the Bible and supernatural stuff. If anyone on here wants to reach out my email is in my profile.