MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quuxplusone | 2025-11-08 17:03:57+00:00
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by simlevesque | 2025-11-08 17:04:00+00:00
Lots of quality of life changes. Maybe some of them can be done in htop but with btop it's right in your face:

- CPU usage graph (global and per cpu)

- CPU temp + graph

- GPU usage

- Memory graphs

- Disks space infos + real-time IO

- Network graph, one for each network device, upload/download stats since opening the app

- Per program cpu graph, memory graph

You should try it.
by bjackman | 2025-11-08 17:04:36+00:00
I have actually been thinking of hiring some training contractors to come in and teach people the basics of applied statistical inference. I think with a bit of internal selling, engineers would generally be interested enough to show up and pay attention. And I don't think we need very deep expertise, just a moderate bump in the ambient level of statistical awareness would probably go a long way.

It's not like there's a shortage of skills in this area, it seems like our one specific industry just has a weird blindspot.
by asa400 | 2025-11-08 17:05:36+00:00
Same! I had a job at a shop with a monolithic Rails app where I had so much trouble understanding the codebase I almost quit the industry entirely.

Maybe I am just stupid when it comes to reading Ruby/Rails or maybe that codebase was uniquely awful, but it was ~impossible to figure out where things were defined or how data moved through the system. A huge ball of mutable state that was defined at runtime.

When people say "I love writing Ruby" what I hear is "I love writing greenfield Ruby". Everybody loves writing greenfield code! The difference between greenfield and brownfield Ruby is stark, in my experience.

And to be clear I do not hate Ruby. It got me into the industry, it taught me a lot, it just optimizes for a set of values that I don't happen to share anymore, which is fine.
by churchill | 2025-11-08 17:05:42+00:00
Haha:)

Even if you want to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt by comparing it to other software primos, they're doing terribly. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, etc. were profitable almost immediately after their founding. In the cases where they accumulated losses it was a deliberate effort to capture as much of the market as possible. They could simple hit the brakes and become profitable at will.

In OpenAI's case, every week yet another little-known lab in China releases a 99% competitive LLM at a fraction of their costs.

It's not looking good at all now or in the long-term.
by noAnswer | 2025-11-08 17:06:13+00:00
When I visit Youtube in a privat tab from my German IP all I get is "be afraid of the other" alt right "vote for AFD", "chemtrails are here to get you" kind of videos. Not a singel "cute cat" or "interesting science fact" in sight. :-(

It's almost as if they like the population to be afraid.
by sayyadirfanali | 2025-11-08 17:08:10+00:00
thanks for the feedback. i think the em-dash is not very different in case of this font too. i made the (en-)dash so wide that there was no way to disambiguate within fixed-width constraints. i don't use em-dash at all, so there was no need to disambiguate too.

if you want to use it but em-dash is the only deal-breaker, please try it once and raise a feature request. i'd see what we can change to make it work.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-08 17:08:50+00:00
Because now we’re talking about putting deeply integrated equipment in every plane. It’s a certification and cost nightmare.

This is not a system where you get to do clean slate greenfield development. Whatever you do must work for the lowest common denominator. ATC is a fairly cheap societal expense compared to developing, certifying, installing, and maintaining systems with the level of integration you want in hundreds of thousands of diverse planes.
by AaronAPU | 2025-11-08 17:09:54+00:00
I was planning to start getting scans ordered for specific risks like aneurysm or heart attack but what holds me back is the idea the scans will harm me worse than those things.

It is very difficult to have any level of confidence with the medical industry so my current approach has been to eat as healthy as possible while staying as fit as I can without undue extreme stress.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-08 17:10:19+00:00
Yes. All of them are poisoned metrics, just in different ways.

GPT-4o's endless sycophancy was great for retention, GPT-5's style of ending every response in a question is great for engagement.

Are those desirable traits though? Doubt it. They look like simple tricks and reek of reward hacking - and A/B testing rewards them indeed. Direct optimization is even worse. Combining the two is ruinous.

Mind, I'm not saying that those metrics are useless. Radioactive materials aren't useless. You just got to keep their unpleasant properties in mind at all times - or suffer the consequences.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-08 17:11:00+00:00
> The key is to have the software running on all planes

Yeeeeah… we just went through the ADS-B mandate. It took a decade or more, cost pilots thousands and thousands of dollars, still doesn’t have 100% compliance, and does weird stuff sometimes. And this was orders of magnitude easier than any kind of two way system.

Respectfully, do you have any time in the front seat of an aircraft or a tower/TRACON position?
by bob1029 | 2025-11-08 17:11:03+00:00
> While playing around with this setup, I tried re-training the network with the activation function for the first layer replaced with sin(x) and it ends up working pretty much the same way.

There is some evidence that the activation functions and weights can be arbitrarily selected assuming you have a way to evolve the topology of the network.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
by halJordan | 2025-11-08 17:12:12+00:00
So the BBC's competitor ran a story to bludgeon the BBC. The White House addressed the story. And now the BBC's other competitor is running its own muckraking story to also bash the BBC.

The ironic part is that only the BBC has independent commission exposing these things to daylight. But both the Guardian and the Independent do the same thing (bc it's a standard industry practice).
by k310 | 2025-11-08 17:13:39+00:00
Alternative: Open Tax Solver [0]

Docs and links to videos at the site.

> OpenTaxSolver (OTS) is a free, safe + secure program for calculating Tax Form entries for Federal and State personal income taxes. It automatically fills-out and prints your forms for mailing.

> News: Updating has begun for the next tax-year, 2025, which will be due April 15, 2026.

> Generally the final versions of the Government's forms are not released until near the end of January. They could be delayed further if there are major changes - which we do expect this time. Some OTS updates have begun in October for the upcoming year. Then the initial release for OTS is usually posted within about a week after the final Government forms are posted. So we are expecting near the end of January 2026.

Hosted at Sourceforge [1]

There's a tutorial of sorts, may be a bit dated? (2020) [2]

[0] https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaxsolver/

[2] https://opensource.com/article/20/2/open-source-taxes
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-08 17:13:47+00:00
I agree, but both are heart disease and both can be prevented in similar ways. My dad and my father in law both died from heart disease. My fil was on the surface less healthy. He had an extreme high stress job with exposures to environmental factors that made it worse, was partially disabled with bad knees, etc. i believe he was on blood thinners for almost 20 years.

He got up to make a sandwich for my mother in law, who was very sick, and don’t come back. Massive heart attack and aortic rupture - he was dead before he hit the ground.

My dad had a lot of stress over his career and his share of health issues but found a happy medium and improved his health greatly stating about in his late 40s. He was basically walk/running 2-5 miles a day for several years after retirement. He had a major stroke, recovered somewhat, and then ended up almost dying from a kidney stone and resulting infection. (He could not communicate pain as part of his aphasia.) long story short, he suffered in a lot of ways (pain, disability, loss of dignity) for 4 years before finally succumbing.

In online discussions, we tend to boil everything down to death. Reality is that longer you can put off complications, the better you will be when something more severe happens or you get sick. As you age, each time something happens, your recovery is a little less robust. Go to the doctor, take your statins and take care of yourself.
by asa400 | 2025-11-08 17:14:07+00:00
> The Elixir equivalent, likely a series of pipes, would be just as easy to follow but substantially more to read, more symbols to parse etc.

Huh?

[major, minor, patch] = version_string |> String.split(".") |> Enum.map(&String.to_integer/1)

I don't know that I'd call this "substantially more" of anything.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-08 17:14:31+00:00
Getting a thing showing that you participated isn't such a weird concept. It's just a physical momento, like a t-shirt from a concert or a lanyard badge from a convention. Getting a medal for doing a race is fine. It's a thing I can hang on my wall that I can look at and remember I did that 10k that time. A trophy is a bit weird and overkill, but a simple momento is just that.
by sim7c00 | 2025-11-08 17:14:32+00:00
its now about how the game looks its about what features it uses to do its thing and how drivers on many platforms handle them.

this is also a reason why there are so many gfx driver patches which fix specific games...

its usually not the hardware but driver issues.

also, its infeasible for a solo dev to test on a plethora of platforms and device/driver combos, so any feedback from random internettians about performance can be really helpful to prevent breakage on platforms not available to the dev to test on.
by johnrob | 2025-11-08 17:14:40+00:00
If you start exercising in your 20s, and never stop, it will be so much easier to maintain fitness in 40s 50s etc. The challenge is that the benefits are not yet visible in your 20s (when you’ll probably be healthy and at a proper weight regardless). Gotta lay that foundation for older age though!

EDIT - I misread the comment. It’s never too late to start, just be careful for injuries as that will block your ability to exercise.
by leoc | 2025-11-08 17:16:09+00:00
Reposting my now very old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502434 :

> Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.infor... is probably worth reading if one is seriously interested. (I haven't read much of it myself yet.) McCarthy praised Stoyan's work as better than his own 1979 HOPL paper ( http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html ): "Stoyan's reading of the early LISP documents gives a more accurate picture than my own memories turned out to have given." http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/

> (As a side-note, I'm pretty sure that the broken, Wayback-beating link to "Lisp references according to Miller" on McCarthy's page is to this http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/Lisp-Hist... document by Kent Pitman and Brad Miller (see http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/history.h... ).)

From 2015-2018, "The Mysteries of Lisp -- I: The Way to S-expression Lisp" by Hong-Yi Dai https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07375 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31153702 )

> Despite its old age, Lisp remains mysterious to many of its admirers. The mysteries on one hand fascinate the language, on the other hand also obscure it. Following Stoyan but paying attention to what he has neglected or omitted, in this first essay of a series intended to unravel these mysteries, we trace the development of Lisp back to its origin, revealing how the language has evolved into its nowadays look and feel. The insights thus gained will not only enhance existent understanding of the language but also inspires further improvement of it.
by lbrito | 2025-11-08 17:16:59+00:00
I don't like this kind of content. The author might have a personal motivation for it, but for the general public, it's just more mental load.

We are all going to die one day.

When I was younger, I would fret over this kind of article. Great, one more thing I have to worry about. Now I just mostly ignore it. It's impossible otherwise. If I dedicate hours and days and months to all the heart best practices, what about when the liver, esophagus, kidney, bladder, brain articles come out?

We all know the good practices. Don't be a dumbass. Don't drink too much, exercise and so on. Besides that, I'm very much going to be reactive, as the article cautions against. I just don't have time or mental energy to do otherwise.
by sim7c00 | 2025-11-08 17:17:29+00:00
this guy is unlikely to have read the games source or reversed it far enough to make these claims..what you see on the screen, how a game represents it on memory and how the translation between them works , can vary greatly.

that all being said. it is very easy to write bad code for games or use old features etc., we're all guessing unless some of you put a profiler and debugger to it... if so , show the money.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-08 17:17:31+00:00
And even "long term performance" splits itself into "performance on multi-turn instruction following" and "performance on agentic tasks" down the line. And "performance on agentic tasks" is a hydra in itself.

Capturing LLM performance with a single metric is a hopeless task. But even a single flawed metric beats no metrics at all.
by pekim | 2025-11-08 17:17:42+00:00
Darts might not be considered a sport, but the British Darts Organisation [1] and the Professional Darts Corporation [2] co-existed (somewhat acrimoniously) for nearly 30 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Darts_Organisation (BDO)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Darts_Corporation (PDC)
by tyami94 | 2025-11-08 17:18:35+00:00
Here's a significantly more credible (stacksmashing) video that demonstrates how ineffective some TPM implementations are. If the TPM was integrated into the CPU die, this attack would likely not be possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTl4vEednkQ

Despite the TPM being a pretty good and useful idea as a secure enclave for storing secrets, I'm concerned that giving companies the ability to perform attestation of your system's "integrity" will make the PC platform less open. We may be headed towards the same hellscape that we are currently experiencing with mobile devices.

Average folks aren't typically trying to run Linux or anything, so most people wouldn't even notice if secure boot became mandatory over night and you could only run Microsoft-signed kernels w/ remote attestation. Nobody noticed/intervened when the same thing happened to Android, and now you can't root your device or run custom firmware without crippling it and preventing the use of software that people expect to be able to use (i.e. banking apps, streaming services, gov apps, etc.).

Regardless, this is more of a social issue than a technical issue. Regulatory changes (lol) or mass revolt (also somewhat lol) would be effective in putting an end to this. The most realistic way would be average people boycotting companies that do this, but I highly doubt anyone normal will do that, so this may just be the hell we are doomed for unless smaller manufacturers step up to the plate to continue making open devices.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-08 17:18:42+00:00
I hate QR code menus because the UX of a phone screen sucks compared to a large printed out menu. In cheap place with big laminated menus with pictures and I can scan the whole thing easily, to the high end restaurants with fine paper printed in fancy fonts secured by ribbon to hardbacked board. The experience of holding and reading these physical things is part of the enjoyment of going out to eat.
by graemep | 2025-11-08 17:18:57+00:00
Google have always had problems with people who do not fit - e.g. speaking multiple languages, not speaking the majority language in their country ec.

I remember back when i had a site with Google ads on it (about 15 or 20 years ago) I could not change some selection to do with what ads were shown on my .co.uk site to UK because I was not in the UK at the time.

There were other issues with default language assumptions, which were worse as they changed over time. They really should respect browser settings.

Its not just Google. A lot of websites use national flags for languages, which has practical problems in countries that speak many languages, and frequently has political overtones.
by macnetic | 2025-11-08 17:19:20+00:00
We use the Celestial Altium Library [1], it's really good for passive components, which make up ~80% of our schematics by count. For other parts we first try to get them through Altium Manufacturer Part Search, we vet the symbol and footprints before importing them into our internal library. Other model sources in order of preference is SnapMagic, UltraLibrarian, Samacsys. Be aware as the quality is often half-baked. Between components that meet my requirements, I will always pick the one with CAD models easily available.

With those prerequisites I only have to make 2-3 footprints from scratch per project as needed, and less so as our library grows.

[1] https://altiumlibrary.com/
by jfengel | 2025-11-08 17:19:31+00:00
Are you describing the Grauniad as a competitor? I see this as bludgeoning Trump rather than the BBC; its readers respect the latter and not the former.

What they're reporting on is in the Torygraph, which definitely does have it out for the BBC. They're not exactly in love with Trump but they much prefer him to, say, Starmer.
by amelius | 2025-11-08 17:19:39+00:00
This is total nonsense. Every reader will understand that Jobs was never photographed like that while saying "stop" to anyone crossing his red lines. Even if the photo exists, it would have been out of context.

The only question here is if using that image is tasteful or not.

Also, suggesting that Jobs did not have these red lines is not making the situation any better.
by wolttam | 2025-11-08 17:20:01+00:00
Do you mean that it wouldn't help with ingesting footage and then determining how to act?

I can imagine a robotics architecture where you have one model generating footage (next frames for what it is currently seeing) and another dumber model which takes in the generated footage and only knows how to generate the motor/servo control outputs needed to control whatever robot platform it is integrated with.

I think that kind of architecture decoupling would be nice. It allows the model with all the world and task-specific knowledge to be agnostic from its underlying robot platform.
by nemosaltat | 2025-11-08 17:21:07+00:00
That’s my biggest takeaway. I have almost completely de-googled my personal and business life, but do use ChatGPT for work occasionally, mostly boilerplate python but occasionally refining emails. I don’t know why it did not occur to me that the tool could just send my entire prompt, and a whole bunch of other identifiers and tags to an external source, but of course there’s nothing to prevent that, except possibly efficiency… but since Google and other external search engines are all doing AI summaries I wonder if this wasn’t a bit more intentional. ChatGPT makes the call out and offloads some “work” to someone else’s AI summary. Yuck.
by senko | 2025-11-08 17:21:12+00:00
How do rights/contract work in case of anthologies?

As I understand it, the "normal" workflow is, as the author you get an advance from a publisher, and when the book is published and revenue exceeds the advance, you get the royalties.

You mention you sign the contract with the authors and pay them, which sounds like a one-time deal.

If it's not confidential, how does this work, and how do original publishers (if any) figure into this?
by ndiddy | 2025-11-08 17:21:13+00:00
SIMH emulates the PDP-11 (along with a ton of other early mini/microcomputers). It should be possible to run whatever's extracted from the tapes on SIMH. For example, the members of the TUHS mailing list were able to get an even earlier set of UNIX sources from 1972 running again, see here for more info: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72
by tguvot | 2025-11-08 17:21:27+00:00
uk liberated middle east from ottomans who actually colonized it. in palestine there was mandate given to them by league of nations

jewish immigration to mandatory palestine was always severely restricted by british. british were capturing illegal new immigrants and were shipping them off to cyprus or something like this. on the other side arab immigration through syria/trans-jordan/sinai was unrestricted

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-immigrantion-to-...
by throwaway94275 | 2025-11-08 17:21:31+00:00
The Internet is transforming from an open global network into 4 things:

- a substrate for business VPN tunnels (like the leased lines of old),

- regulated, approved, monitored e-commerce walled gardens,

- regulated, approved, monitored streaming walled gardens (like the cable TV of old),

- regulated, approved, monitored social media walled-gardens including chat focused ones like Discord and video focused ones like YouTube (replacing most for-print media, forums, and websites)
by monospacegames | 2025-11-08 17:21:47+00:00
As much as these solutions sound good a true fix requires a drastic change in corporate culture at Microsoft and an attitude shift towards their users which seems ... extremely unlikely to happen in the mildest words. No "hardcore mode" or transparency about telemetry, or removing any other anti-user behavior will last as long as the people who made these decisions and the culture that led to them stay in place.
by 6510 | 2025-11-08 17:22:05+00:00
I don't claim to know anything but I thought tool usage was a major sign of intelligence. For example floats are a wonderful technology but people use them as if chainsaws are great for cutting bread and butter. We now have entire languages that cant do basic arithmetic. I thought it was alarming: People it cant compute like this! Now we have language models, those are still computers, why cant we just give them.. you know... calculators? Arguably the best thing their universe has to offer.

edit: I forgot my point: calculating big numbers is not a real world problem anyone has.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-08 17:22:15+00:00
Related (same people) 2024 Mother's lawsuit says AI chatbot led teen to kill himself (4 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932485

2025 A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son's suicide (6 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447196