MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drekipus | 2025-11-22 08:39:19+00:00
> I'm fortunate to have had lots of unique experiences and traveled to lots of unique places

For comparison I've barely traveled more than 1000kms. Never had a passport. Travel is not related.

> where day-to-day life was focused on building and fixing things to survive, then I would have felt very fulfilled and done quite well.

Incorrect assumption; It's not the building and busy-ness. And the experience doing hobbies supports that. Nothing fills that "hole".

The feeling, the "hole" you're missing, is a combi-mix of purpose/meaning/larger-picture. I know it because I also had it. Many people try politics to fill their hole too, which also doesn't work: political parties are not big enough.

I'm not going to try to persuade you to change your life, I'm going to talk about what did it for me, and you (and others) can spectate and speculate, take and leave whatever you want. I'm sure I'll get flagged anyway.

My great realization is that nothing is set in stone, everything changes at all times, and humans have survived it.

> a debilitating feeling of lack of fulfillment, without any idea of what's missing.

A good way to start out is to start thinking about: what is your mission? What is your tribe in the world stage? are there messages or lessons from the ancestors of your tribe?

Shy away from getting over-scientific. Simple broad points. The universe is in constant change and chaos. But humans have survived for a long time. We have "lizard" brains that give us reactions, then we have learned / ingrained behavior on top of that, through all this time we've encoded "how to survive" in our brains and throughout our history; we are a storytelling species, so what stories do we have from history (note: not about history, but from history).

Realising stories, like fairytales,(ie: Rumpelstiltskin) etc - ARE old stories that ENCODE information as a way to pass knowledge from culture to culture. WHAT information is in there? what are they trying to tell us? This is the tribe of "humans" telling us something from the past, which is actually absurdly interesting and fulfilling to try and learn from.

Yes this is all "woo-woo" stuff, none of this is going to be a revelation to you. I'll probably look like a quack, but You can have a ponder about it, and realise that there's a big group that you're a part of, and there is a bit of a cosmic mission, and history plays out every day.

this won't give you purpose or fill the hole, but I think you might start to chip away at some different things in your life, (or you won't and I've just wasted 5 mins of your time, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ who cares)
by vkou | 2025-11-22 08:39:48+00:00
> I don't understand your second point.

When I go to the grocery, food is available to me at any time of year.

Your friend's apples are only available for ~2 months/of the year. The supply chains that feed the world have to work year-round, and all the people that work them expect to get paid. Availability adds to the cost.

> What I know for sure is that apples in the 50s had at least an order of magnitude more calories than apples today

I have a very hard time believing that the average apple from the 50s had 94 * 10 = 940 calories.
by kinnth | 2025-11-22 08:40:17+00:00
Yeah I need to mirror a few other comments. I would definitely give this a go, but I need plugins that connect automatically to my Broker. In my case IBKR, but the top brokers you would need Schwab, Fidelity, Trading212, Hood.

Without that onboarding the tool becomes a headache and what I already have is good enough. YNAB is also a very good reference of where to go next in the budgeting sense. That has a real use case and also opportunity for solving many users needs.

Good luck I can see it's a great piece of software, but as trading is my fulltime job I have far too many trades and without an auto-importer it wont work for me.
by akira-freeweb | 2025-11-22 08:40:26+00:00
Hi,

As an indie Android developer, the biggest hurdle for me is often finding the 12 testers required by Google Play for a closed test. It's a common pain point.

So I built TestCrew, a mutual-aid community for developers. The system is simple:

- Test another dev's app -> earn 4 credits - List your app for testers -> spend 20 credits

You can get your app tested for free just by helping other devs (test 5, list 1).

I'd love to get your feedback on the concept and execution. Thanks!
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-22 08:40:40+00:00
> Most workplaces are highly filtered. The whole interview process is specifically geared towards filtering out undesirable people.

This just isn't true or is born from a standpoint of extreme luck. Like have you genuinely paid attention to the people you work with? Coworkers, CEOs, the stuff people say in slack channels or the things people gossip about at work? The only way I think someone can genuinely hold an opinion like this is by being so unaware of what workplace politics that they are unaware that most workplaces are like Highschool 2. Even the professional ones. Especially the professional ones.
by santiagobasulto | 2025-11-22 08:40:53+00:00
Dzień dobry. It's Germany. There are some options but as I don't use it a lot (I bike A LOT, or use the car, which is electric) I don't have it. Regardless of the tiny rounding errors of 1 or 10 passes, the argument is that if we REALLY want to fight climate change, we should make public transportation more affordable.
by blharr | 2025-11-22 08:41:14+00:00
a hugely rambling article, and I don't see how it's final thesis relates to its argument at all

> Because the AI business model relies on reducing social connections between human beings, it is not sustainable. Thus, there is the AI bubble, and it will burst.

"Because it relies on reducing social connections, i ts, not sustainable" isn't a logical argument. There's plenty of cases where reducing social connections have been sustainable enough to generate immense profits. If anything, social connections are completely antithetical to generating profit. Actual 'social' professions are often the least paid and most overworked jobs with little ability to scale.
by onion2k | 2025-11-22 08:43:12+00:00
Troika text (a font-to-signed-distance-functions tool) can do a lot of the heavy lifting of using fonts in WebGL apps. It can also do the process of converting from font data to SDFs in glsl, so it's fast. No idea if it supports variable fonts these days though. https://github.com/protectwise/troika/tree/main/packages/tro...
by Koffiepoeder | 2025-11-22 08:43:43+00:00
What I really don't like about thread/matter is that it is becoming the de-facto standard that thread border routers are connected to the internet.

This will in time result in IoT devices that actually mandate this connection (it was already stipulated in a recent version of the protocol). The end result will be that a new protocol was created, but rather than devices being able to run on their own, we end up with beds in heating mode, ie. the garbage we were trying to avoid in the first place.

So for me, zigbee it is!
by dguest | 2025-11-22 08:43:47+00:00
Weird that I couldn't find the paper on arXiv: in my field I just google the title prefixed with "arXiv" and it pops up.

Some earlier articles by the same authors are there though (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06106), does the journal of chemical physics prohibit arXiv posting or is the norm just different in that field?
by ako | 2025-11-22 08:45:50+00:00
Problem is that individuals often know what is right, but can't do the right thing because society as a whole is not collaborating. In a few years we will all be blamed for not taking action when it was clear climate change was going to cause big problems for humanity. There are many who are trying, but as a while society doesn't seem to be able to course correct, see the current disaster in Brazil.
by lenkite | 2025-11-22 08:46:12+00:00
By the time a company becomes a monopoly, it is immensely powerful - politically and monetarily - getting rid of it or splitting it up is near impossible. Monopoly laws are near impossible to apply as the corporation has sufficient money and influence to turn politicians into servile puppets.

Best to nip corpos before they gain more revenue than a nation state and become "too big to fail".
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-11-22 08:46:18+00:00
While spores seem hardened against the extremes of space, we haven’t shown that any of this hardy life is capable of colonizing a barren world. It seems like all life on Earth depends on some already functioning biosphere. In other words, even if we sent tardigrades to a world with oxygen and liquid water, what would they eat? Where would they get nutrients such as vitamin B? All the vitamin B we consume is created by bacteria, no animal produces it on its own. So we would have to send thousands of interdependent species. And I’m willing to bet the majority of them aren’t nearly as hardy.

Sending spores to a planet that already has life might work. But I can’t help but think whatever life we introduce would be at a disadvantage. Maybe life on that planet never incorporated certain proteins, vitamins, or amino acids and whatever we send just ends up getting scurvy and dies out.
by rdsubhas | 2025-11-22 08:47:07+00:00
> Based on what?

Internet did not have enough devices to reach people. At the height of 2002 only a fraction of people worldwide had an already expensive computer and an internet to go with it.

I ran a e-commerce startup from 2005-2010. Having access to demand is a thing.

Today everyone has access in their pockets. Go to small city in Africa, India and China, and observe how they use AI. See how perplexity has put AI answers in hundreds of millions of people's hands before Google in a matter of months.

Forgive me for saying — but "Based on what" for comparing accelerated adoption between 2005 and 2025 — is discarding many huge elephants in the room, starting with that small thing you're reading this in your hand with, and the invisible thing that's sending you this comment.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-11-22 08:48:43+00:00
> modern websites

Your are comparing the js ecosystem and bad project realizations/designs.

> Action vs motion

I think the main difference you mean is the motivation behind changes, is it a (re)action to achieve a meassurable goal, is this a fix for a critical CVE, or just some dev having fun and pumping up the numbers.

GP mentioned the recent feature of executing ts, which is a reasonable goal imo, with alot of beneficial effects down the line but in the present just another hustle to take care about. So is this a pointless motion or a worthy action? Both statements can be correct, depending on your goals.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-11-22 08:49:34+00:00
Yes, I think it's worth getting details ... like my mental model is that everything within 2x is sort of reasonable error. Looking for 10x errors and cliff edges like in the 2007 crisis where I think a good anecdote is like default prob assumptions being 2% and then realized to 30% (15x).

Is 15x error in realized GPU + the debt AFTER INFLATION? I suppose but feels less likely except in some tail scenarios that have other interesting properties.

This doesn't mean that there isn't a significant possibility of market correction due to other factors but the GPU factor just seems medium sized compared to other scenarios historically. Am I missing anything in the 1st order thinking?
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-22 08:50:24+00:00
> In what environment are you, as an adult, forced to interact with everyone who happens to show up?

Holding literally any job ever? I was a software engineer and I frequently had to interact with a wide range of folks for the sake of my professional career. QA, contractors, internal and external teams. I was paid to do so, unless you argue that I have the option to quit or something in which my response is I need to in fact eat and have stable income.
by ga2mer | 2025-11-22 08:50:24+00:00
Some powerful retro handhelds support Linux loading, such as: Retroid Pocket 5, Mini, and Flip 2 on the five-year-old SD865, and more recently, Ayn Odin 2 (original, Mini, and Portal) on the three-year-old SD8 Gen 2 (which is one version lower than the SoC in Steam Frame (SD8 Gen 3)).

So if we get a native arm version of Steam and Proton ARM64EC, we will essentially already have mini Steam Deck(s), and since you want something similar to a PSP, you can check out the Ayn Odin 2 Mini, it's similar to the PS Vita, but I'm not sure if it's still available for sale, or you can order the Retroid Pocket 6 (available in a few months), which has the same chip, but a better screen and is also small in size.
by humanfromearth9 | 2025-11-22 08:50:29+00:00
Last night, while writing a LaTeX article, with Ollama running for other purposes, Firefox with its hundreds of tabs, multiple PDF files open, my laptop's memory usage spiked up to 80GB RAM usage... And I was happy to have 128GB. The spike was probably due to some process stuck in an effing loop, but the process consuming more and more RAM didn't have any impact on the system's responsiveness, and I could calmly quit VSCode and restart it with all the serenity I could have in the middle of the night. Is there even a case where more RAM is not really better, except for its cost?
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-22 08:51:38+00:00
> At my university, I was taught by professors and grad students, none of whom had a teaching degree.

Professors and grad students may well have done a course on how to lecture. It is obligatory and/or an easy way to pick up credits in many PhD programs. In any event, grad students teaching badly, because the department has allowed the more competent faculty to put their teaching burden on grad students, is a common complaint about US universities.
by synecdoche | 2025-11-22 08:52:09+00:00
Anger seems to me to be one of the least understood emotions. In my opinion anger should be practised at every possible opportunity in order to cultivate as good as relationship to it as other emotions. Otherwise it will seem like it's out of your control due to not knowing its limits and how much of it you need due to it being suppressed. It is a necessary emotion for our wellbeing.
by squigz | 2025-11-22 08:53:47+00:00
Nobody's saying it's "morally wrong" not to give your kids antidepressants - but nor is it morally wrong to give them to them.

What tends to be "morally wrong" is when parents are like "I'm not giving my kids those pills! There's no such thing as depression! Just go play outside some more!" - in other words, dismissing your children's feelings
by dingaling | 2025-11-22 08:54:08+00:00
£5.09 is about 25 minutes work at National Minimum Wage ( £12.21 per hour ), about 5.6% of daily income at NMW and standard working hours.

A bacon & egg McMuffin provides 336 kcal, which is 13% of an adult male's RDI. So on a purely kcals:price level it does seem to provide decent value.
by gusgus01 | 2025-11-22 08:54:51+00:00
This all started with someone asking for their sources, and the person hasn't given any except to say to Google... which means for all we know the person who then googled ended up in a situation with lots of conspiracy theories. Google famously gives personalized results to an extreme degree especially when you add in differences in search terms.

I will say if you search for "chemical imbalance debunked" as discussed, the first result for me is a paper that also says dyslexia cannot be proved to be a disorder. Which just from vibes feels really conspiratorial, even without making comments on the veracity of the academic paper.

[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1518691/]
by whstl | 2025-11-22 08:55:56+00:00
People wanted more direct control over the GPU and memory, instead of having the drivers do that hard work.

To fix this AMD developed Mantle in 2013. This inspired others: Apple released Metal in 2014, Microsoft released DX12 in 2015, and Khronos released Vulkan in 2016 based on Mantle. They're all kind of similar (some APIs better than others IMO).

OpenGL did get some extensions to improve it too but in the end all the big engines just use the other 3.
by user070223 | 2025-11-22 08:57:13+00:00
Inspired by this post & TF comment I tried symbollic regression [0] Basically it uses genetic algorithm to find a formula that matches known input and output vectors with minimal loss I tried to force it to use pi constant but was unable I don't have much expreience with this library but I'm sure with more tweaks you'll get the right result

from pysr import PySRRegressor def f(n): if n % 15 == 0: return 3 elif n%5 == 0: return 2 elif n%3 == 0: return 1 return 0 n = 500 X = np.array(range(1,n)).reshape(-1,1) Y = np.array([f(n) for n in range(1,n)]).reshape(-1,1) model = PySRRegressor( maxsize=25, niterations=200, # < Increase me for better results binary_operators=["+", "*"], unary_operators=["cos", "sin", "exp"], elementwise_loss="loss(prediction, target) = (prediction - target)^2",

)

model.fit(X,Y)

Result I got is this:

((cos((x0 + x0) * 1.0471969) * 0.66784626) + ((cos(sin(x0 * 0.628323) * -4.0887628) + 0.06374673) * 1.1508249)) + 1.1086457

with compleixty 22 loss: 0.000015800686 The first term is close to 2/3 * cos(2pi*n/3) which is featured in the actual formula in the article. the constant doesn't compare to 11/15 though

[0] https://github.com/MilesCranmer/PySR
by dmurray | 2025-11-22 08:58:07+00:00
This matches other sources on the internet: a bomb requires about 15kg of U-235 [0] with a good use of neutron reflectors, and HEU by definition contains 20%+ of U-235 [1]. We don't know exactly what the U-235 concentration was in the Kodak device, but reasonable values would make the claim "roughly" correct.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/Princip...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium
by simgt | 2025-11-22 08:58:28+00:00
As someone from a country where public school is the norm, private school less so and homeschooling the absolute exception, these threads are always wild to read. It really shows how deeply individualistic and polarized the USA is. Sure, let's make homeschooling the norm, problematic kids will be the only ones who fill the ranks of public schools, gifted kids or the ones from religious zealots will all live in their bubbles, then what? Snow Crash is your destination?
by jjk166 | 2025-11-22 08:59:18+00:00
That's not how space or terrariums work. A terrarium does not spontaneously produce energy out of nothing, it gets energy from the sun. Heat input from the sun is proportional to cross sectional area, while heat loss to space is proportional to surface area, which scale the same for a sphere. A larger object will have more thermal mass which would make it take longer to change its temperature, but it will still have the same thermal equilibrium. Terrariums do not need to be spheres, so the volume does not necessarily scale as the radius cubed.
by rbanffy | 2025-11-22 08:59:20+00:00
> we can consider that it is not of the same degree as ours

We can be absolutely sure an intelligence operating on different physical principles will be very different from our own. We can only assess intelligence by observing the subject, because the mechanism being different from our own can’t exclude the subject from being sentient.

> remains the same type of machine as it was before running the AI software

It’s not our brain that’s conscious. It’s the result of years of embodied experiences fine tuning the networks that make our brains that is our sentient mind. Up until now, this was the only way we knew a sentient entity could be created, but it’s possible it’s not the only one, just the one that happens naturally in our environment.
by Y_Y | 2025-11-22 09:00:41+00:00
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete - an alloy of the two greatest structural materials of all time, ice and sawdust!

It turns out that if you don't need your ship to go fast, all you need to do is have a structure that can produce enough displacement to be bouyant and stable. You could carve a ship out of marble if you wanted.
by countWSS | 2025-11-22 09:01:03+00:00
Beauty,symmetry,etc are largely irrelevant, the key point it does not scale and burning gigawatts to compute these matrices(even with all those tricks) will not scale or compete with more efficient/direct methods in the long term. Perhaps transformers are very elaborate sunk-cost fallacy where pivoting to scalable, simpler architecture is treated as "too risky" even when cost of new GPU cluster dwarfs whatever it takes to bring an architecture from 0 to chatGPT level.
by whstl | 2025-11-22 09:01:32+00:00
Yep. Most of the engine and "game from scratch" tutorials on Youtube, etc, use this style of having OpenGL code strewn around the app.

With Vulkan this is borderline impossible and it becomes messy quite quickly. It's very low level. Unlike OpenGL, one really needs an abstraction layer on top, so you either gotta use a library or write your own in the end.
by Agraillo | 2025-11-22 09:03:06+00:00
As a regular user of both Perplexity and Google AI Mode, I noticed that this move is more or less organic for the Google layout, but not so for Perplexity (if it decides to implement something similar). While blocks of links at Google are always visible, for Perplexity the block of links related to the question requires a click to be shown. Most users of Perplexity who care about checking sources mostly click the inline links that directly navigate to the pages.

It is also interesting that at first when I started using Perplexity I expected for it to understand my question semantically and then use some derivative (correct) terms to query the web. The reality is that, probably for the sake of speed, the web search is performed first, and then the results are summarized. This leads in many cases to a mixed, somehow embarrassing set of links where one obviously sees that not all links in the block are relevant. Maybe Google uses something similar and both tend not to present the block of links as distilled correct knowledge blocks. But Google made the top-right block smaller and relying on the scrolling so this embarrassing effect might be less pronounced.
by workworkwork71 | 2025-11-22 09:03:17+00:00
So you didn't read the article and now you're just throwing out statements without validation? Great, if JPMorgan is selling your data then that's their decision and that's beyond the scope of this convo. We work with partners (Plaid, Snaptrade) who explicitly state that they DO NOT sell user data, and we maintain the same principles:

https://plaid.com/safety/

Here is the quote if you're too lazy to read this one too:

Does Plaid sell my financial data for advertising or marketing purposes?

No, we do not sell your financial data to third parties for marketing or advertising purposes.

Plaid only shares your data to power the services and products that you choose or to protect you and the Plaid network from fraud.

Plaid was founded on the principle that you have a right to your financial information and we are focused on providing products that allow you to safely and conveniently access your data and harness the power of Plaid’s secure financial network.

As Plaid develops more products and services, you may ask Plaid to share your information in ways that benefit you and that you control.
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-11-22 09:04:18+00:00
The person who was asked for sources was a different person than the one who quipped that finding said sources yourself is trivial.

> Google... which means for all we know the person who then googled ended up in a situation with lots of conspiracy theories.

If people have low enough media literacy that they cannot distinguish between scientific research published in refereed journals and conspiracy theories, then I cannot help them and it is not my responsibility to pander to their lack of competence.

> just from vibes feels really conspiratorial

Just from vibes? Clearly you are a scientific luminary.