MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hurubaw | 2025-11-21 22:22:29+00:00
What he means, is that if the deal includes actual and firm article 5 style security guarantees, Putin will not accept it. Even if it looks like a good deal to Russia.

And "his approval is done deal"... yeah Putin will try to set the stage to demoralize Ukraine and by making them sign a humiliating deal, and then find problems with it, not sign it and make more demands about the root causes of the war not being addressed etc. The deal was that Ukraine would have to sign it first, not that they sign it at the same time with Russia. Putin will never agree to that. Nothing is a done deal with him.

And also, if Ukraine does not accept such a humiliating deal, Trumpt might pull US support to Ukraine, which means Russia can effectively continue this on the battlefield.

This is a good play from Putin, he basicly cannot lose either way. Classic.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-21 22:22:31+00:00
Eh, the coordinate frame can really be anything. It's important to disambiguate what is really meant. The convention in images is that images are +X-Y, but for certain applications, the PNG may represent data that is +X+Y, or mirrored -X+Y, landscape, or portrait. Is the coordinate system the camera coordinates or the world coordinates?

It's true that automatic handling of all input images is difficult, but imo it's important to document.

An example I recently encountered is that in neurological imaging, the axes are patient's right, anterior, superior whereas in radiology they are patient's left, anterior superior. Tricky to get right...

http://www.grahamwideman.com/gw/brain/orientation/orientterm...
by geekzone | 2025-11-21 22:22:52+00:00
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by sixothree | 2025-11-21 22:23:17+00:00
What's odd about this is I believe there does exist a winner takes all technology. And that it's AR.

The more I dream about the possibilities of AR, the more I believe people are going to find it incredibly useful. It's just the hardware isn't nearly ready. Maybe I'm wrong but I believe these companies are making some of the largest strategic blunders possible at this point in time.
by tempestn | 2025-11-21 22:23:18+00:00
I've always used value-tilted indexes, and am hoping that they will suffer less when the bubble pops. With that and a healthy dose of fixed income (which I chose years ago based on an assumption that the equity portion of the portfolio could drop 50% in a downturn at any time) I'm trying to stick to the plan and not try to time the market. Even though it very much feels like the bubble is near its peak (if not just past it!) I do still believe on some level that market timing is a fool's game, so I'm trying to stay convinced that the steps I've already taken are all one can rationally do.
by ckw | 2025-11-21 22:23:21+00:00
Here’s a paper from last year: The nature and impact of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms and proposal of the Discriminatory Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Scale (DAWSS) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2024.100765

‘Highlights

• Antidepressant withdrawal can be severe and protracted.

• It produces characteristic physical and emotional symptoms.

• All symptoms were more severe after stopping than before starting antidepressants.

• We identified the 15 most discriminatory withdrawal symptoms in our sample.

• Withdrawal did not differ between people with physical or mental health diagnoses.’
by tetha | 2025-11-21 22:23:59+00:00
I really dislike that approach. We're by now evaluating high-severity CVEs ASAP in a group to figure out if we are affected, and if mitigations apply. Then there is the choice of crash-patching and/or mitigating in parallel, updating fast, or just prioritizing that update more.

We had like 1 or 2 crash-patches in the past - Log4Shell was one of them, and blocking an API no matter what in a component was another one.

In a lot of other cases, you could easily wait a week or two for directly customer facing things.
by andix | 2025-11-21 22:24:27+00:00
One reason for cooldowns is not mentioned: maintainers often notice by themselves they got compromised.

The attacker will try to figure out when they are the least available: during national holidays, when they sleep, during conferences they attend, when they are on sick leave, personal time off, ...

Many projects have only a few or even only a single person, that's going to notice. They are often from the same country (time zone) or even work in the same company (they might all attend the same conference or company retreat weekend).
by akomtu | 2025-11-21 22:24:36+00:00
It can bind to anything. Human consciousness can temporarily bind to a shovel, and to a gopher who can only perceive things at its level, under the ground, the shovel will appear conscious. Similarly, our body is the outer layer that's temporarily bound to our brain, which in turn is bound to activity within neurons, which in turn is driven by something else. As for the fundamental origin of consciousness, it's at different levels in different people. In some rare examples, the highest level is the electrochemical activity within neurons, so that's their origin of consciousness. Those with the higher level will perceive those below as somewhat mechanical, I guess, as the workings of their consciousness will look observable. On the other hand, consciousness from a higher origin will seem mysteriously unpredictable to those below. Then I think there is a possibility of an infinitely high origin: no matter at which level you inspect it, it will always appear to be just a shell for a consciousness residing one level higher. Some humans may be like that. Things are complicated by the fact that different levels have different laws and time flows: at the level of mechanical gears things can be modeled with simple mechanics, at the level of chemical reactions things become more complicated, then at the level of electrons the laws are completely different, and if electrons are driven by something else then we are lost completely. For example, a watch may be purely mechanical, or it can be driven by a quartz oscillator that also takes input from an accelerometer. I understand that this idea may seem uncomfortable, but the workings of the universe doesn't have to fit the narrow confines of the Turing machines that we know of.
by kergonath | 2025-11-21 22:24:50+00:00
> In my opinion it is not a good use of your supervisory time to be babysitting an LLM versus mentoring actual juniors

Right. Because at least juniors are supposed to learn and at some point become senior and stop needing this kind of supervision. Also, interacting with people can be more rewarding (or not, depending on the people)…
by BobaFloutist | 2025-11-21 22:25:08+00:00
No, I'm saying if when using said data to charge people with crimes, if cops/feds had to put in the work of parallel construction to have their evidence be admissible in court or risk their entire case vanish in a puff of tainted evidence, it would at the very least dramatically slow down the abuse and would also reduce the incentive for said abuse.

Basically, target demand as much as supply.
by kazinator | 2025-11-21 22:25:28+00:00
Cooldowns won't do anything if it takes wide deployment in order for the problem to be discovered.

If the code just sits there for a week without anyone looking at it, and is then considered cooled down just due to the passage of time, then the cool down hasn't done anything beneficial.

A form of cooldown that could would in terms of mitigating problems would be a gradual rollout. The idea is that the published change is somehow not visible to all downstreams at the same time.

Every downstream consumer declares a delay factor. If your delay factor is 15 days, then you see all new change publications 15 days later. If your delay factor is 0 days, you see everything as it is published, immediately. Risk-averse organizations configure longer delay factors.

This works because the risk-takers get hit with the problem, which then becomes known, protecting the risk-averse from being affected. Bad updates are scrubbed from the queue so those who have not yet received them due to their delay factor wlll not see those updates.
by lordnacho | 2025-11-21 22:25:42+00:00
> But early friendship bonds played an even bigger part than maternal relationships in the ways people navigated adult friendships and romantic partnerships, accounting for 4 percent of the variance in adults’ romantic partner- and best friend-specific attachment anxiety, and 10 to 11 percent in their partner- and best friend-specific avoidance.

Are those numbers r-squared figures? Seems like there's a lot more variance to be explained?
by jedberg | 2025-11-21 22:26:23+00:00
I went to college with a few homeschooled kids. They were by far the least capable of "normal" social interaction. Some were quite book smart, but they had trouble communicating with others, so they couldn't demonstrate it.

Also a fun side effect, they mispronounced a lot of words that they had only ever seen in books but never heard out loud. One of them was self-aware enough to ask us to correct him.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-21 22:26:36+00:00
I'm big on medications for brain stuff but uh yes, in the US, doctors get lots of kickbacks for prescribing drugs.

Usually this takes the form of "I'm prescribing you with <Brand> instead of generic" or "I'm prescribing you this specific drug from this class of drug"

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
by aeturnum | 2025-11-21 22:27:03+00:00
> Your kids are a bad influence for whatever reason? Not my problem to fix.

Not your problem to fix for sure - but it is your problem to equip your child to comfortably weather. There are bad influences out in the world and they generally have outsized effects on their social and professional scenes. In fact, the kind of curated, limited community you're advocating for is one where bad influences thrive.

> So much time and resources, to produce what exactly? A piece of paper and fancy picture to stare at?

I certainly agree the degree is whatever - but I think you're really under-valuing the social-gauntlet aspect of school. You will have classmates who kind of (or really) suck. You will need to do your work anyway. You will be incentivized to learn perseverance and a self-centered locus of control. These are valuable skills that only come from actual exposure to bad influences.

Someone who's perfect in perfect conditions is going to struggle because the world is not perfect. The aims you highlight here make me think less of homeschooling than I did before.
by mancerayder | 2025-11-21 22:28:10+00:00
I have been 'raising cash' by selling stuff in my portfolio that seems high risk and is up. I've learned from the past that I end up feeling physically unwell when the portfolio sinks and stays low for a year, some days 1-5% which make me stop looking. Now I'm reducing my risk exposure - yes, that means not literally 'cash' but either a money market fund and a tax-free bond fund. For years I had a lot of gold miners and a gold mining index which only recently popped, I thought that was a 'hedge' but now I am convinced the only hedge is cash or if you know what you are doing, options. Everything is prone to pops and crashes, from big giant index funds, to gold, to bitcoin, to large caps, all the stuff people said was supposed to be a hedge.

For this round I've bought (well, bought and sold, and now waiting to buy via an order) puts on a semiconductor ETF. Since I own some of the stocks, if it goes sky high still I win, if it crashes I win, and if nothing happens I'll have to sell it 30 days before it expires to avoid the theta decay, which starts to really bite in that last month.

No one knows anything - which is the environment I'm learning to operate it.

A very conservative investor, say a boglehead or a 'value investor' would tell you to buy in an index fund and not look, unless you know for sure what you are doing and have done insane research on a company and it's priced low. They would say, buy VTI or VOO if you don't need the money within 5 years, and stop looking at it. Oh, and DCA into it versus all at once.
by ben_w | 2025-11-21 22:28:14+00:00
> In this scenario your starting out as an gardener, would you rather having LLM "plant me five bulbs and two tulips in ideal soil conditions" or would you rather grow them yourself? If the latter you wouldn't gain skills as if you had the previous year made the compost, double dug the soil and sowed the seeds. All this knowledge learnt, skills gained and achievement that lost in the process. You may be novice and it may not bring all your flowers to bloom but if you succeed in one, that's the accomplishment, the feel good energy.

I am a novice in the garden. I do it because I want to, because it's fun to do.

I don't know what does and doesn't work, and therefore I am asking LLMs (VLMs) lots of questions. I am learning from it.

But I know it is not as smart as it acts, that it will tell me untrue things. I upload a photo of a mystery weed, ChatGPT tells me it's a tomato, I can tell it's not a tomato because of the tiny black berries, I ask around on Telegram and it's a self-seeding solanum nigrum.

Other times, the AI is helpful:

Me: [upload a picture of the root ball of my freshly purchased Thuja Brabant] ChatGPT: That root ball is severely root-bound—classic “pot-shape memory”. If planted as-is, the roots will continue circling, restricting growth and potentially strangling the plant over time. You must correct this before planting. Here’s how: …

My mum was a gardener. It would be nice if I could ask her. Sadly, she's spent the last few years fertilising some wild flowers from underneath, which makes it difficult to get answers.
by arcfour | 2025-11-21 22:28:43+00:00
A 747 with 2 engines out that's already got some altitude and speed is much more "survivable" (still extraordinarily difficult) than a trijet trying to take off on 1 engine, which is impossible.

Planes can safely land with 0 engines, though this is obviously "not ideal." See: Gimli Glider.

(Mostly putting that out there for others.)
by forgetfulness | 2025-11-21 22:29:13+00:00
Many of those things were already at a “good enough” level since GPT-3.5.

There’s probably a good business usecase there for companies wanting to have smoother communication with offshore teams.

Could that be a game-changer? I wouldn’t discount it, but it does sound like something that has to operate at a very low margin and that doesn’t merit a lot more investment.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-21 22:29:18+00:00
For similar systems I've worked on, I'll use a process id, try/tries and time started as part of the process plucking an item of a db queue table... this way I can have something that resets anything started over N minutes prior that didn't finish, for whatever reason (handling abandoned, broken tasks that are in an unknown state.

One reason to do this for emails, IE a database queue is to keep a log/history of all sent emails, as well as a render for "view in browser" links in the email itself. Not to mention those rare instances where an email platform goes down and everything starts blowing up.
by severak_cz | 2025-11-21 22:29:44+00:00
> There’s an old electronics joke that if you want to build an oscillator, you should try building an amplifier

This can be easily demonstrated using so called no-input technique[0] which basically means that you patch audio mixer output to it's input and it starts feedbacking and you can create some tones from this. Note that this needs to be done carefully.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-7kQmpjBds&t=2s
by bronco21016 | 2025-11-21 22:29:52+00:00
Ad in the bottom left covers the UI when expanding the menu out.

I'm sure it depends on screen resolution etc but I'd love to be able to click links to the data sources.

Overall an interesting idea. I'd love to know the data source for the cost of the operation of the aircraft. Would be really interesting to connect a database of all aircraft types then present the ability to watch the cost of like "all American Airlines flights currently flying" or "all US military aircraft".
by kachapopopow | 2025-11-21 22:30:14+00:00
home schooling is a very very priviledged concept to begin with so it's not surprising that there is quite a lot of hate for it.

as a former child I think home schooling is better in every way if there is a supporting environment built around it, but I also think public schooling introduces a lot of variety that is not seen in private or home schooling be it for better or worse, although my time in public school was rough and failed me in many ways I still wouldn't have it any other way.
by afavour | 2025-11-21 22:30:22+00:00
> I can not conceive of a worse way to teach a kid how to behave in Adult social settings than to throw them into a group of other kids who have just as little experience as they do and then expect the group to "figure it out".

You are aware of teachers, yes?

> Probably because well run homeschooling groups tend to have high parental involvement

Everything I've read shows that putting absolutely all else aside, parental involvement is key to a child's success. So perhaps the reason your by the numbers evidence shows home schooling to be better is simply because it's a self-selecting group of involved parents.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-21 22:30:29+00:00
> windows has become terrible for developers and this AI focus makes it worse

Except it's not totally terrible. What makes it terrible is the privacy invasions and the consent issues Microsoft has with its users, along with long standing bugs in W11.

The other hand of Microsoft is actually putting a lot of convenient stuff in for developers. WSL w/ graphics support, Windows Terminal is nice (and is getting some nice features they just showed off at ignite), native git integration is coming to file explorer, PowerToys has some really great utilities, and making your own extensions for command palette is dead easy.

There's even a macOS preview-like utility for file explorer now, sudo, native SSH, winget (which can be automated with a simple yaml file to automate a new box setup using DSC), etc.

It's the classic Microsoft org chart problem where each is in their own bubble pointing guns at each other.

Windows could objectively be the best OS for developers, easily, if Microsoft cared enough to make it so. Their surface hardware isn't bad either, and the surface laptop is the only windows laptop on the market with a trackpad that's anywhere close to Apple's.

That's what makes Microsoft so frustrating lately. I used to like Windows, I want to like it and use it again, but Microsoft keeps shooting themselves in the foot over and over again, screwing everyone over in the process.
by jdietrich | 2025-11-21 22:30:56+00:00
As someone who has been seriously depressed from an early age, I can tell you that it looks exactly like the DSM/ICD criteria - a lack of energy, loss of appetite, loss of interest in all activities, insomnia, feelings of worthlessness, suicidal thoughts and pervasive sadness and hopelessness.

Some people would rather believe that pediatric depression isn't real, rather than confront the reality of a loved and cared-for child who is constantly tearful, severely underweight, sleeps for three or four hours a night, spends most of their time staring into space and frequently talks about wanting to die.

Depression is an utterly dreadful illness and should not be confused with normal sadness or unhappiness.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-21 22:31:39+00:00
> Define the values. Cite sources that this is "indoctrination" and not simply exposing viewpoints. Then maybe we can have a productive discussion.

They're never going to do this, because it's not actually happening, at least not to a significant degree. They will keep their wording vague, not show examples, and basically just repeat variations of "Trust me, bro.. this indoctrination is happening. It's clear as day. You need to see the real world, bro."
by andix | 2025-11-21 22:31:51+00:00
Even if less consumers will notice a compromise and report it, it still gives additional time for security researchers to analyze the packages, and for maintainers to notice themselves they got compromised

There are a lot of companies out there, that's scan packages and analyze them. Maintainers might notice a compromise, because a new release was published they didn't authorize. Or just during development, by getting all their bitcoin stolen ;)
by hackable_sand | 2025-11-21 22:32:33+00:00
This thread is awesome.

I had a miniature war with some wasps staking a claim on my porch

Let me say, wasps are incredibly endurant creatures. I have much respect for them.

Their architecture though... I have the remnants of their enclave. It is so stable and uniform and cozy.

I wish wasps were friends.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-21 22:32:39+00:00
Gotta love this:

> Despite the constraints of the Xbox’s single-threaded 733MHz CPU, XBMC 4.0 includes improvements to task scheduling that allow multiple activities to run concurrently.

As if the Pentium 3 wasn’t regularly used to run fully multi-tasking operating systems for years.

My old 400mhz P2 was able to play videos, catalog my music collection, download files, and let me edit code simultaneously just fine.
by tjohns | 2025-11-21 22:32:40+00:00
I think it's good to read papers and be curious.

It's also good to work with your doctors (as you seem to have done), have a discussion, and mutually agree on a plan of treatment.

Experts don't know everything. But they probably know some things you don't, and can think of questions you might not to have even thought to ask. As the saying goes, "you don't know what you don't know". Experience matters.

There's also a lot of people out there without an academic background that don't know how to properly read journal papers. It's common to see folks do a quick search on PubMed, cherry-pick a single paper they agree with, and treat it as gospel - even if there's no evidence of repeatability. These skills are not something that many people outside STEM are exposed to.
by MBCook | 2025-11-21 22:33:22+00:00
I agree they won’t do a Steam Deck 2 that’s ARM. Maybe in the future?

BUT, what about a “Steam Deck Mini”? Something at/above the current Steam Deck, maybe a little closer to Switch 2, but smaller/thinner/maybe a little cheaper?

Yeah you’re not going to run Cyberpunk 2087: Johnny’s Rent Is Due. But older games, less demanding indie games, and many emulators would still work great. Plus remote play of your big desktop if you have one.

I’m not saying they will, but I could see it as a possibility.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-21 22:33:28+00:00
It's a shame that this didn't end up going anywhere. When Qualcomm was doing their press stuff prior to the Snapdragon X launch, they said that they'd be putting equal effort into supporting both Windows and Linux. If anyone here is running Linux on a Snapdragon X laptop, I'd be curious to know what the experience is like today.

I will say that Intel has kind of made the original X Elite chips irrelevant with their Lunar Lake chips. They have similar performance/battery life, and run cool (so you can use the laptop on your lap or in bed without it overheating), but have full Linux support today and you don't have to deal with x86 emulation. If anyone needs a thin & light Linux laptop today, they're probably your best option. Personally, I get 10-14 hours of real usage (not manufacturer "offline video playback with the brightness turned all the way down" numbers) on my Vivobook S14 running Fedora KDE. In the future, it'll be interesting to see how Intel's upcoming Panther Lake chips compare to Snapdragon X2.