MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slowmovintarget | 2025-11-11 17:33:31+00:00
Many cases of ADHD are allergic reactions. When I get a dose of something I'm allergic to (molds, perfumes...) I'll end up being scatter-brained for the day.

My child was the same way due to a wheat allergy (U.S. wheat is heavier than European wheat, and the flour comes out differently. It's actually tougher to digest for many).

As for letting the doctor tell you... The last few decades, I find I've been making the diagnosis first. Chronic fatigue, adult chicken pox, whooping cough... In each case, the medical history I gave was a reasonable path for ordering tests to get the correct diagnosis, but in each case the doctors missed it.

The whooping cough one was particularly annoying. I had traveled to Amsterdam, which had an outbreak a couple of years ago. I told the doctors this, and they still diagnosed me as having an ordinary sinus infection and gave me the wrong antibiotics. My wife looked up the medical alerts in Amsterdam, I messaged the doctor asking for the correct antibiotics (just in time).

Doctors in the U.S. follow protocols. When they don't they have to file extra paperwork. The entire system is designed to punish deviation from protocol, and the protocols don't get adjusted based on evidence or circumstance. They're handed down from a committee that the insurance companies take as law. Insurance companies in particular are geared to denying payment for deviation from protocol without prior approval. So doctors adjust their behavior to go with the flow... unless you find a great doctor, who knows better.

These days, you really do need to take your health in your own hands. Doctors become a path to confirmation and treatment, at least on the illness side of things. Injury tends to be a little more cut-and-dried, but even there you have to find the right experts. For example for sports injuries, you likely want doctors that see many patients that play that particular sport because they have experience with how things can go wrong.

Sorry for the rant. I've just seen the need for shopping a lot more in recent years.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 17:33:52+00:00
High twist wool, unlined, adds basically zero heat (“summer weight wool” is a term that may include all these qualities). Doesn’t even do much to block wind (but does block the sun, a bit!). Totally fine in that range. That’s before resorting to something like an unstructured linen jacket (ever seen Lawrence of Arabia? Those guys are wearing plenty of clothing in the heat, a linen jacket is nothing) or warm-weather cottons like a seersucker (I’ve not bothered with any of that for jackets, myself, as light wool does fine for me, though I have several other pieces in linen).

Hell I own sweaters that are totally comfortable up to about that point, and higher if there’s a breeze. It’s all about construction and fabric.
by rh-app-dev | 2025-11-11 17:33:52+00:00
The timestamp is based on the device. However, some of the security data comes from the Witness validation server and others from the platform (Google Play Integrity/Apple App Attest). Altering the date/time on the device would conflict with that information, and possibly fail the device validation. One of the key criteria for using the app is it will only run on a device that passes validation from the platform. So rooted devices can't run the app, as they can't pass validation.
by henning | 2025-11-11 17:33:58+00:00
One quad per glyph is very scalable, especially if you use instanced rendering. Each quad is just reading from a single texture atlas. GPUs are beastly blitting machines.

Runs at ~1500 FPS with a 6K screen of full text on my machine even when text is being updated at about the pace of a 150 WPM typist but you only update quads that strictly need to change and store font metrics on the GPU in a buffer. A full screen refresh where you send quad data for 750 Lorem ipsum paragraphs every frame runs at 300 FPS on my hardware.
by toast0 | 2025-11-11 17:34:35+00:00
> a) Ubiquity — everything understands HTTP. Erlang nodes only talk to Erlang (or a compatible runtime)

OTP includes an http client and server. And ERTS includes an http mode for sockets. You may prefer 3rd party http servers (yaws and Cowboy are popular) or clients, but you have options that come with Erlang.

[No comment on b; I'm not sure I aprechiate the concept of standardized middleware]

> c) Giving up infrastructure (reverse proxies, load balancers, CDNs), You handle distribution yourself or through OTP design

You can put all this stuff between the users and you Erlang cluster. Within your Erlang cluster, I don't think it makes sense to leave the cluster and go back in... If you had a large server process in [language of choice], you probably wouldn't send request out to a load balancer to come back into the same process. If you have an n-tier system you may use a load balancer for requests to the other tier... In Erlang, the simplest analog is processes that serve the same request queue would join a pg group, and processes that want to send a request send to one of the members of the group.

> d) Interoperability with browsers and APIs, requiring bridging via something like Cowboy or gRPC gateway

If you want to talk http, you need something that talks http; there's at least 3 reasonable options, plus an http parser for sockets so you can do it yourself without as much fiddly bits. I guess I don't understand what you're looking for here.
by 9rx | 2025-11-11 17:34:42+00:00
> Is that the topic?

Yes. "=" doesn't mean anything in the void of space. Conventional mathematical notation is what established "=" as meaning "equal to", as referenced by the original comment. But the same notation also uses it for assignment when in instruction mode, so imperative languages that use x = x + 1 syntax are quite consistent with it.

> but your "conventional notation" sucks

Maybe, but it's all anyone really knows nowadays. It's what you are going to learn in math class in school. It's what you are going to find used in mathematical papers. It is how you are going to express mathematical concepts to your friends and colleagues. Worse is better, I suppose, but it is what has set the standard. It is the de facto language of math. For whatever shortcomings it does have, virtually everyone on earth recognizes it, which is very powerful.

> so very different from how the thing is overwhelmingly used for most people.

I'm not sure how to grok this. let x = 1 is something anyone who has taken high school math will have encountered. Assignment is perfectly in line with the understandings of most people.

Do you mean that expression entirely using imperative constructs is unfamiliar to those who grew up with a primarily declarative view of math? That might be fair, but I'm not sure x = x + 1 is a specific stumbling block in that case. One has to understand imperative logic in its entirety to use these languages anyway, at which point nobody is going to think that x = x + 1 is intended to be declarative equality.
by alienbaby | 2025-11-11 17:34:58+00:00
This was my exact first experience trying to build anything of significant size.

Several projects later, I can work with the AI now to produce several thousand lines of code, I understand it, it is what I asked for, has the architecture I wanted, is not bloated and is not buggy.

Spend time planning, figuring out the architecture you want, refining, breaking things down into smaller implementable features with implementation plans for each feature. Review these things aggressively. Make sure they align with your expectations.

Then get it to start writing code. Writing tests for everything. Include detailed runtime logging. Read what it produces, understand it and redo it if it wasn't what you expected. Your experience will be vastly superior to that first attempt.
by echelon | 2025-11-11 17:35:19+00:00
Everyone has a personal ideal view of what life should be. Some people are content to chill and have creature comforts, no stress. I've no problem with that view, but it's not my disposition. I want to push boundaries.

It just so happens that competition pushes technology further. It puts a sharp edge on investment dollars and intellectual capital. A lot of money gets spent, but it gets spent smartly.

WWI and WWII - horrible and tragic - pushed us so hard that people alive as teenagers during the invention of flight lived to see a man walk on the moon.

The cold war created the PC, internet, and planted the seeds for the smartphone and AI.

We had a whole lot of incrementalism in the 00's - 20's. Ad tech, emojis on smartphones, so many social networks. I want to see all of that turned on its head, everything pushed forward 10x. By the time I die, I want to see robots, whole body transplants, autonomous everything, brain uploads, VR indistinguishable from life, cures to every cancer, decelerated aging, widespread access to middle class standard of living. I have so much desire for this and it's all I want for.

That's going to require pushing through an economic and technological salient. Competition accelerates that.

It's time for America to stop being weak and naive. Lazily greedy. To stop spending on ad tech upgrades and instead sow the seeds of a scientific and industrial powerhouse.

When we focus on protecting rather than optimizing eyeball engagement and becoming pilfering middle men, we make the greatest strides.
by layer8 | 2025-11-11 17:35:24+00:00
That’s not completely correct. In particular, the mini resolution corresponds to the Display Zoom options on current iPhones, so applications are still expected to support them, not to mention that iOS will support the mini models for 2-3 more years to come.

In addition, the outer screen of next year’s iPhone Fold will be shorter than the mini, so applications really need to be flexible here.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-11 17:36:20+00:00
This is what I recommend to all my friends. Go cheap ("bangernomics" is what we used to call it in the UK, from "an old banger" car), or go newer (<5 years & <60k miles & full history, or leased from new) because the middle ground is too risky.

It's incredibly hard to convince them though.
by hylaride | 2025-11-11 17:36:28+00:00
I still am trying to decide what's a better balance.

If you're too tech/engineering oriented you have a higher chance of not becoming/continuing as a viable business (DEC was a perfect example of this).

Swing too far the other way and the tech suffers and in theory you open yourself up to better alternatives or it becomes too burdensome to innovate as tech debt builds and the PMs refuse to deal with it until it becomes so acute that it drives away your better talent. Worse is that by this time the original PMs have moved on under the impression they did amazing and somebody else is cleaning up the mess.

In theory with scrum/agile, it's the engineers who pick up the backlog and work on what they feel is important to move forward (be it features, security, tech debt, etc), but in practice the PMs usually have the control.
by cyphar | 2025-11-11 17:37:15+00:00
> I would need to spend hours of time to articulate exactly how uncomfortable this would make me if I was working along side you.

I think this came out a little wrong -- my point was that if we are going to go with a middle-ground approach then we need to have a much lower tolerance for people who try to abuse the trust we gave in providing a middle-ground. (Also, there is little purpose in having a policy if you don't enforce it.)

For instance, someone knowing that I will deprioritise LLM PRs, and instead of deciding to write the code themselves or accept that that what I work on is my own personal decision to make, they instead decide to try to mask their LLM PR and lie about it -- I would consider this to be completely unacceptable behaviour in any kind of professional relationship.

(For what it's worth, I also consider it bad form to submit any patches or bug reports generated by any tool -- LLM or not -- without explaining what the tool was and what you did with it. The default assumption I have when talking to a human is that they personally did or saw something, but if a tool did it then not mentioning it feels dishonest in more ways than one.)

I did see that lobste.rs did a fairly cute trick to try to block agentic LLMs[1].

[1]: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/1733
by wyre | 2025-11-11 17:37:18+00:00
My understanding with Common Projects, is that if you are looking to spend $400 on a blank sneaker, they set the standard and have the most brand awareness, but now there are plenty of smaller brands making virtually identical sneakers with better materials and/or construction for the same price or less.

Like with anything else, buying Common Projects you are paying for the brand (the subtle gold lettering on the side of their shoes).
by pessimizer | 2025-11-11 17:37:34+00:00
When authorities continually lie, eventually there will be an erosion in trust. It is both unsurprising, and likely irreversible. MBA thinking, where the value of institutions and brands are their good names, and spending that value lies in how long you can be dishonest and still have loyal customers and defenders destroys institutions and brands.

The Lancet started it with that stupid Wakefield "study" that it refused to retract for a decade, which launched something that was associated with crystal healing into the mainstream; the destruction of the reputation of the integrity of medical research through bribery of scientists and doctors continued it; and covid lies made it permanent. It's over. Not vaccines, but any trust in medicine. We've gone from trusting the "consensus" far too much, to realizing how the "consensus" is constructed and not trusting anything any more. Just drifting with no moorings.

It's no different than when the US used fake vaccination programs in order to find Osama bin Laden, which led to local vaccination volunteers being murdered, and many people in the Middle East deciding that vaccination was a Western plot. You may not know about this because people in the West don't care when other people die unless it is socially useful for them; don't care unless it affects us and our lifestyles. Even during covid, the US launched a multimillion dollar antivax propaganda program in the Philippines in order to convince people that Sinovax would kill them just to get one up on China. Harris explained in a speech (and she wasn't alone) how she would be wary to take any vaccine from any Trump administration-directed program.

This fanatical chauvinism is only important in the West in order to get one up on other people. To display that you're more supportive of institutions than your stupid, evil populist neighbor. To show that there's nothing that they can do to kill your loyalty, because you understand subtlety. You're pragmatic, you know that the dummies need to be lied to to be herded into the right direction.

But if you're loyal no matter what and avoid talking about public failures when they are most relevant, even beatifying the architects of those failures, who has been herded? Take your vaccines and ask people if they're vaccinated before you let them around your infants. Don't pretend that your lording it over others is out of concern for them, though. It's just snotty, ultra-partisan ego inflation.

Medical science has lost the trust of the Western public because it has become completely overwhelmed by bribery and cronyism just like every other Western institution. Complete recycling of those institutions is the only way to get that trust back, and it's what the institutionalists spend all their time fighting against. Generally this is because they draw their middle-class salaries from these institutions and were active participants in these frauds - at the least dutifully shunning their families, friends and strangers for questioning them.
by japhib | 2025-11-11 17:37:34+00:00
That seems very far away. My understanding is that these PETases digest plastic VERY slowly and need human engineering efforts to digest it in any appreciable amount of time (hours to days rather than years). And human bioengineering of these enzymes is still not to the point where it's actually usable at industrial scale. The paper just says they've discovered the variants, not "oh no all animal life on earth is now dependent on microplastics" :D

> What happens to the plastic economy when plastics are no longer useful because they'll be decomposed too quickly?

We already use lots of biodegradable things for crucial applications, such as the wood used in framing houses. Just because wood can rot in a damp forest doesn't mean that the wood inside your walls will rot away just because. There are conditions where it can start rotting, and we're aware of those conditions and how to prevent them, at least enough for a house to last for decades.
by mceachen | 2025-11-11 17:37:55+00:00
Not hard only when you know exactly what you need to do already on both sides.

There is zero chance I could convince any of my in-laws to switch away from iOS. Data isn't what they care about. It's all about blue bubbles and a decade of familiarity with iOS (and it's irrelevant that the UX between Android and iOS have drifted to be so similar).
by autoexec | 2025-11-11 17:37:57+00:00
While only 20% of workers (a very very small number) use AI at their job fewer than half of those say it actually helps them work faster and fewer than 30% said it improved the quality of their work (https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2025/02/25/u-s-wor...). I'm not seeing a lot of people "finding value" there
by itsoktocry | 2025-11-11 17:39:22+00:00
What a pathetic reply.

You made the claim: >Nobody lied about vaccines.

I posted a link from a left-leaning source, fact-checking the PRESIDENT literally lying about vaccine efficacy. Then you move on to something else.

Well, that's in there too, but you didn't read, did you?

"You’re not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations.”"

I posted one resource, I'm not doing your research for you. The fact that you deny this indicates you are completely brain-rotted. Enjoy.
by nalekberov | 2025-11-11 17:39:42+00:00
Fingerprinting is nearly impossible to resist these days anyways, no matter which technics Firefox uses to reduce it, and sometimes it actually makes the browser appear more unique.

Last time I tried everything I could to prevent Firefox from calling home, it was still requesting Mozilla servers. Though I haven’t given up, my plan is disabling it at source code level and build my own release.
by AaronAPU | 2025-11-11 17:41:41+00:00
I’m mid 40s and took the other route. I was self-taught and decide long ago that I never wanted to manage other people. So instead now I run a small solo audio company. Never have to deal with anyone but my own customers. I consider it a craft not a startup.

It isn’t for everyone but whatever LLMs end up being for us all, in this position they seem more likely to be an asset than a liability. If they are good enough to replace me then they can be my army.
by pengaru | 2025-11-11 17:42:29+00:00
As long as people keep finding ways to regress the kernel, there will be opportunities created to fix those regressions.

AFAICT the performance win is coming from undoing a performance loss stemming from relatively recently added CONFIG_SCHED_MM_CID mechanism[0] (2022).

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
by Retric | 2025-11-11 17:43:16+00:00
We don’t have the iPhone 17e, so for now there’s no way to tell if they will do this every year or what.

Similarly people have called the 16e as a replacement for the SE line, but that’s a cost assessment not one based of form factor. It could be most people bought the SE because it was cheap, but without two different form factors at identical prices there’s no way to tell.
by zassy | 2025-11-11 17:43:48+00:00
People on HN thinking Apple should get into some kind of dick waving contest with an authoritarian government that rules over 1/6th of the global population and that supplies the labor to build their products and the materials in those products by implementing your guy’s pet issues is the height of fucking delusion.

At least try to pretend like you guys are thinking about situations in the real world.
Show HN: Data Formulator – interactive AI agents for data analysis (Microsoft)
by chenglong-hn | 2025-11-11 17:44:21+00:00
Hi everyone, we are excited to share with you our new release of Data Formulator. Starting from a dataset, you can communicate with AI agents with UI + natural language to explore data and create visualizations to discover new insights. Here's a demo video of the experience: https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator/releases/tag/0.....

This is a build-up from our release a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907719). We spent a year exploring how to blend agent mode with interactions to allow you more easily "vibe" with your data but still keeping in control. We don't think the future of data analysis is just "agent to do all for you from a high-level prompt" --- you should still be able to drive the open-ended exploration; but we also don't want you to do everything step-by-step. Thus we worked on this "interactive agent mode" for data analysis with some UI innovations.

Our new demo features:

* We want to let you import (almost) any data easily to get started exploration — either it's a screenshot of a web table, an unnormalized excel table, table in a chunk of text, a csv file, or a table in database, you should be able to load into the tool easily with a little bit of AI assistance.

* We want you to easily choose between agent mode (more automation) vs interactive mode (more fine-grained control) yourself as you explore data. We designed an interface of "data threads": both your and agents' explorations are organized as threads so you can jump into any point to decide how you want to follow-up or revise using UI + NL instruction to provide fine-grained control.

* The results should be easily interpretable. Data Formulator now presents "concept" behind the code generated by AI agents alongside code/explanation/data. Plus, you can compose a report easily based on your visualizations to share insights.

We are sharing the online demo at https://data-formulator.ai/ for you to try! If you want more involvement and customization, checkout our source code https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator and let's build something together as a community!
by stevenjgarner | 2025-11-11 17:44:41+00:00
Unfortunately very little is trivial for me. Personally I have found the real value of Erlang to be internally between trusted nodes of my own physical infrastructure as a high-level distributed "brain" or control plane for health monitoring, config distribution (env vars, static config files, etc), smart failover decisions etc. Keep the “outside view” (HTTP, SMTP, DNS) all standards-based OSI, internally mapped to daemons each of which is individually robust (HAProxy, MySQL Cluster, Apache/Node.js, Postfix, PowerDNS etc.). Then use an Erlang/Elixir service as a live config and state authority, replicating state across infrastructure, pushing updates in real time, and having my legacy PHP/Python/JavaScript/etc code query this config via a simple HTTP/JSON API into the Erlang service. I'm not all the way there yet, but what works is most encouraging.
by aaroninsf | 2025-11-11 17:44:48+00:00
PSA the appeal is the only perplexing part,

and ITT many of us agree, it's not perplexing, it's just humans engaging in the same magical thinking and coping strategies we always to.

The "telepathy" is 100% a fabrication of parents desperate to believe their situation and kids are something other than they are.