MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akoculu | 2025-11-03 20:28:32+00:00
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by mikkupikku | 2025-11-03 20:28:37+00:00
> So then is that leftist to point out the fact that it shouldn't be surprising

I don't think so, no.

> just an accurate description of party members as a whole?

It wouldn't be. While enough republicans have gotten caught being gay to remove the element of surprise and plausibly be the basis of LLM hallucinations, most of them haven't been, so such an LLM hallucination wouldn't actually be accurate, merely unsurprising.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-03 20:28:37+00:00
I have been unable to find the article since—I think it must have been Scientific American. Perhaps in the 1980s.

In any event, it described training a neural network, perhaps it was number recognition. The author said that when they "destroyed" the network it began to have "flashbacks" that resembled early training sessions.

That always stuck with me.
by ActivePattern | 2025-11-03 20:28:41+00:00
I don't think it's "unserious" to recognize that >85% of the world's population eats meat.

If you're quibbling about wording, all I meant was: farmed fish and chicken are among the most sustainable meat sources.

I'm not making a statement that people should eat meat, but many people do eat meat, so it's worth comparing which meat sources are better than others. I think it would be great if more people knew that beef produces 10x the greenhouse gases than chicken/fish do.
by chrishill89 | 2025-11-03 20:28:47+00:00
> Do I want every PR to be a long ugly list of trivial half-done commits with messages like “fix typo” or “partial checkpoint of encabulator functionality”? No. Does everything need to be hammered down into a single wad? Also no. There is a middle ground and people should be trusted to find it, and even to have their own opinion on where it is.

IMO `git merge --squash` was perhaps a cultural mistake. Few people use that command but the apparent cultural impact seems to have been great (if that was where it came from).

GitHub squash is a bullet list of all the commit messages. That’s just inviting a ball of mud changelist[1]. But because of the all too convenient "squash" shorthand we now have to explain every time: Yes, there is a middle ground between having one monolithic commit and keeping every little trivial checkpoint and correction.

[1]: The change: the diff. The list: try to correlate each bullet point with something in the diff. (In cases where that applies, some things will have been done and undone and won’t show up in the diff.)
by like_any_other | 2025-11-03 20:28:54+00:00
> required

Source? Keep in mind factory farms are subsidized by corn subsidies (used for feed) and by not paying for externalities, namely the antibiotic-resistance they breed due to their overuse of medication to keep animals alive in such oppressive environments. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a far greater threat to that world of 8 billion people than slightly higher meat prices.

> counterfactual fantasy

20-40% of India is vegetarian, and factory farms barely existed before the 1950s, and become widespread even later. Far from a fantasy, it did and does work.

There's nothing lazier than looking at a system, and declaring, without evidence, that no other way could work. Especially when there are counterexamples in living memory.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-03 20:29:10+00:00
A lot of people wildly exaggerate on HN. It's become a trope whenever the discussions drift into salary: Everyone on HN works in FAANG, makes $400K, drives a Maserati, has a supermodel girlfriend, and has two vacation homes in Tahoe. I wouldn't work myself up over it if I were you.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-11-03 20:29:45+00:00
In my experience, a language switch rewrite can be a benefit only when switching from a dead ecosystem to a living one.

For example, migrating a web app from a language that predates Unicode to something that won't require a bunch of scaffolding around every user input sometimes is worth it. Moving from LABVIEW to a real programming language that integrated with remotely modern development tooling was worth it. Switching from C++ to Rust? Probably not.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-03 20:29:49+00:00
Fair enough. In case you didn't know, if you want to have any chance of impacting what's on Wikipedia, create an account and make your point clear in the talk page. Protip before you do that: Don't randomly use ALL CAPS, don't engage in bad faith arguments, and honestly listen to what others say before replying. It isn't impossible to convince people if you can remain neutral about it. Good luck and more importantly, have fun!
by logifail | 2025-11-03 20:30:23+00:00
> Yet we can ignore our biology, or act in ways that are the opposite of what our biology tells us.

I have Coeliac disease, in that specific case I'd really love to be able to ignore what "my biology" tells my body to do. I'd go eat all the things I know wouldn't be good for me to eat.

Yet I fear "my biology" has the upper hand :/
by phantasmish | 2025-11-03 20:30:37+00:00
A new rise of political violence was clearly coming in when Trump told his supporters, on camera, in front of a crowd, that they ought to shoot Hillary if she won—and then he not only still had an active campaign a week later, but went on to win the election.

That was a huge "oh shit" moment. The rest of this isn't exactly a consequence of specifically what he said, but is something that one could predict from that and other things he said and did in the first election and his first term. The fact that he said what he said and that was no longer regarded as abhorrent by enough people to keep him from even getting close to the Presidency, was the sign.
by lesuorac | 2025-11-03 20:30:39+00:00
IIUC, they ignore it because they're supposed to.

If the market collapses I think Meta can technically just walk away and they lose access to those data centers (which they no longer want anyways) and the SPV is stuck holding $X of assets with $>X liabilities and the issues of the credit are on the hook but not Meta.

And investors are fine being on the hook because they get a higher return from the SPV bonds than Meta bonds. (risk adjusted it's probably the same return).
by creata | 2025-11-03 20:30:39+00:00
> That's argument from authority, but then: Strang is an authority.

Yes, it's an argument from authority.

> The typical push-pull on a message board is between Strang and Axler

We're not playing Pokemon with linear algebra textbooks here...

> the centrality of the angular interpretation

It's not central. It's one of the ways to think of it. I think 3B1B actually did a good job emphasizing this in his video series: there are many ways to look at vectors, and all of them are sometimes useful. They can be arrows in space, or sequences of numbers, or black boxes that obey the vector space axioms, or polynomials, and so on.

> if your primary purpose for learning linear algebra is to program video games.

What an odd guess. Seriously, I would be surprised if most math teachers didn't mention angles and norms, scalar projections, etc. An important part of math is being able to see things from multiple angles (no pun intended), and this is a useful angle to view the dot product from.

> Linear algebra isn't "about" geometry

Sort of. Linear algebra proper, the study of vector spaces and linear maps between them, is not about geometry, but geometry comes in almost precisely once you equip the vector space with an inner product, such as the dot product. A bare vector space has almost no geometric content, but the inner product gives you lengths, angles, isometries, orthogonality, and all that jazz.

> Strang's teaching goal centers vector spaces and the relationship between spaces.

That's a good goal.

> You need inner products to apply linear transformations with matrices.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of linear algebra here. You do not need an inner product to "apply linear transformations with matrices".

> You basically don't need the angular interpretation... at all? if your goal is to teach linear algebra as a tool for data manipulation

Off the top of my head, cosine similarity? It's not uncommonly used.

But if you're teaching linear algebra for data manipulation, you rarely need the dot product, either. Most "dot products" in data manipulation, like the ones in this article, would be better expressed as row-vector-column-vector matrix products.

> (You need orthogonality, but you didn't say `a⟂b=0`, you said `|a||b|cosθ`).

I said "||a||·||b||·cos(θ) or at least talks about how the dot product relates to parallel and orthogonal vectors". Anyway, it's hard for a person not to interpret orthogonality as a statement about angles, so I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to draw here.

> I'm not rating this blog post "higher" than 3B1B

I guess I misinterpreted "its sauce is stronger", then.

Sorry for any mistakes; this took way too long to type.
by amauboussin | 2025-11-03 20:31:20+00:00
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by hunterpayne | 2025-11-03 20:31:26+00:00
Dunning-Kruger applies to people who don't know a specific domain. If you spend all day writing code, you probably understand at least one language fairly well. Maybe you are not an expert in how compilers work but at least you understand programming to some degree. So this topic is probably one of the least appropriate ones to apply DK. If you want to make this argument, perhaps best to base it on identity, not DK.
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by theshackleford | 2025-11-03 20:32:00+00:00
It’s generally very quick, but I suppose not perfect as on one occasion, they had to give me some additional kind of injection because for some reason, I was still awake. The guy doing it seemed confused.

With whatever he did additionally, as he did it he goes:

“Let’s try this again, start counting back from 10”

I might have made it to 9 the second time around.

Does this mean they messed up the dosage or something? I’ve had the same guy since and it’s never happened again.
by MisterTea | 2025-11-03 20:32:19+00:00
> Nothing in between, nothing like that thing you feel when before you fall asleep at night or wake up in the morning.

Same. I was put under twice and both times it was like someone flipping a switch from conscious to unconscious. When I woke up it was like nothing happened save for a slight groggy feeling. It was not like sleep where you feel rested, as if you lost time.

edit: to add when going under the first time I was laying down on the operating table as the anesthesiologist made small talk with a nurse I suddenly felt super high while the room started to spin - POOF out.
by almosthere | 2025-11-03 20:32:39+00:00
We used to say "if you put a million monkeys on typewriters you would eventually get shakespear" and no one would ever say that anymore, because now we can literally write shakespear with an LLM.

And the monkey strategy has been 100% dismissed as shit..

We know how to deploy monkeys on typewriters, but we don't know what they'll type.

We know how to deploy transformers to train and inference a model, but we don't know what they'll type.

We DON'T know how a thinking human (or animal) brain works..

Do you see the difference.
by lightamulet | 2025-11-03 20:33:43+00:00
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by ryandrake | 2025-11-03 20:34:02+00:00
> People are constantly talking about their lives, and everyone's doing well but me.

I wouldn't trust any of it. A huge amount of Social Media is phony "lifestyle porn." A lot of these things you think your "friends" are doing is totally fabricated, photoshopped, and/or exaggerated. Did you know it's fairly inexpensive to rent an hour with a private jet, parked on the ground, so you can take pictures in it and pretend to be rich for social media?
by m-a-r-c-e-l | 2025-11-03 20:34:17+00:00
That's incorrect. PHP has concurrency included.

On the other hand, in 99.99% of web applications you do not need self baked concurrency. Instead use a queue system which handles this. I've used this with 20 million background jobs per day without hassles, it scales very well horizontally und vertically.
by robocat | 2025-11-03 20:34:19+00:00
A good explanation is both correct and tactful. I'm not sure your comment is either of those things.

I think the root cause is that you are trying to use the one word "profit" to mean different things. Admittedly the word profit is poorly defined (good financial reporting doesn't use it). For example:

> business pays tax on profit left

No. A company's profit is what is left after expenses and taxes (if you disagree with that then I'm unsure what to say). I am not an accountant so I'm not going to try and define earnings for you (gross, net, etcetera). Your sentence is just incorrect: maybe incorrect for the same underlying reason as why I wrote my original comment?

I could dissect many of your other points for being oversimplified or country specific (different juisdictions do things wildly differently). For example VAT/GST systems and US sales taxes have very little commonality (think where the money goes and what can be claimed).

> Who pays the worker? The business by making a profit.

Obviously incorrect, since a company can pay their workers and make a loss. Losses can go on for a long time (some people have different incentives than company dividends).

I think overall you are trying to say that businesses need profits (that's almost a tautology) and that governments need businesses. That makes sense.

Rationally you might think that people should therefore want profitable businesses. Unfortunately, voters and governments don't actually have to make economic sense over periods of many years.