MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stack_framer | 2025-11-22 02:31:31+00:00
The medical industry has not helped itself either. It seems to have jumped at every opportunity to erode public trust.

As just one example, my cardiologist recently scheduled a rigorous stress test for me. The day before the test, I got an unexpected call from some woman at the hospital, who told me that the test would cost $1,700 if I paid right then and there on the phone. If I waited and paid in the morning, it would cost $2,100.

It was like I was dealing with a used car salesman!

I canceled the test instead, deciding on the spot that I'd rather take my chances. I refuse to fund an industry that wants to use my wellbeing against me as ransom.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-11-22 02:32:03+00:00
>The fast Fourier transform viewed as a sparse matrix factorization of the DFT

Riffing further on the Fourier connection: are you planning to explore the link between matmul and differentiation?

Using the "Pauli-Z" matrix that you introduced without a straightforward motivation, eg.

(I took it that you intended it to be a "backyard instance" of "dual numbers")
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-22 02:32:04+00:00
You get completely different numbers if you go by overall cost / distance vs taxi pricing models. In the latter, you separate out the flag drop fee (~$10 for Waymo) from the mileage and time process. Here's an experimental Waymo price tracker trying to estimate these numbers:

https://waymo-pricing.streamlit.app/

$2 is a good target for the AV mileage rate. It's actually somewhat high if I put my industry hat on for a second. It's not a good estimate for the number you'll get from doing total_price/distance.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 02:33:31+00:00
To be clear, nobody ever insisted or strongly advocated that I take medication — suggested maybe, but it was entirely my decision. And I completely agree about the importance of hitting "rock bottom." That's something I struggle with as a parent: wanting to make sure my kids have plenty of opportunities to fail, yet fail in a way that isn't irreversibly damaging. If at rock bottom I had simply killed myself rather than starting Prozac I wouldn't be around to have benefited from it.

A large part of me dislikes being on any sort of medication long-term, and think most people have the same dislike. I have gone off of Prozac a few times and always found that I gradually became frustrated and depressed again, and as you said the reason for the dislike is ineffable, so I chose to go back on. I'm fortunate to have a life with no bad marriage, no bad job, and very little trauma at all, which is also unfortunate since it means despite years of therapy and introspection and travel and hobbies and other varied experiences I've never been able to find any cause for the depression and therefore no way to fix it, other than medication. It makes me think of Captain Picard: "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."
by qingcharles | 2025-11-22 02:34:10+00:00
I was contracting for Microsoft/MSN building "official" TV media player interfaces (Windows Media Player Extenders I think the hardware was called) at the time. There was definite inspiration in both directions: the XboxMediaPlayer/XBMC folks were looking at what we were putting out and we were looking for clever things they were doing to steal. All our Xboxen were modded. Obviously they won the battle in the end, though :)
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-11-22 02:34:33+00:00
The problem with "add another block" is, that you have to change everything everywhere to make it work... and if you're changing everything, why not expand it properly.

Only a tiny minority of people have to look at those addresses, the majority just types "facebook", enter, clicks on first google result and gets facebook (because ".com" is too hard to write).
by hirvi74 | 2025-11-22 02:34:47+00:00
> 4 kids who each have different learning challenges. I don’t think public education or their peers in those institutions would have been very merciful to them.

You are likely correct, if their experiences were to be anything like mine growing up. It was somewhat traumatic, honestly. I had learning and behavioral issues that I didn't know until I was an adult.

As a silver-lining, I suppose I also have to be somewhat thankful for what I learned. I feel somewhat well prepared to navigate the social and occupational issues that arise in workplaces because, despite my challenges, the working world is just as merciless if not worse.
by eucyclos | 2025-11-22 02:35:30+00:00
"In study after study, the homeschooled have scored, on average, at the 65th to 80th percentile on standardized academic achievement tests in the United States and Canada, compared to the public school average of the 50th percentile."[1]

"Descriptive analysis reveals homeschool students possess higher ACT scores, grade point averages (GPAs) and graduation rates when compared to traditionally-educated students."[2]

[1]https://www.educacaodomiciliar.fe.unicamp.br/sites/www.educa...

[2]https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ893891
by econ | 2025-11-22 02:35:40+00:00
One of the funniest aspects is that the memories are dynamic. If you read them out all kinds of things change. I love that reluctant feeling when tempted to change the size of the fish. Which is not at all my nature but I'm sure I do it without noticing it. I think if one was to tell their story often enough it will grow full of seemingly real fictional heroics.
by deadeye | 2025-11-22 02:37:11+00:00
The problem with public schools is that they are free and required (essentually). That is a bad combination.

There is really nothing intrinsically good about the average public school. Many are filled with kids that aren't there to learn. From the attitudes seen in this forum, that seems to be OK, because school is paradoxically about "socializing", while most here report being bullied.

As noticed here many home schoolers have religious reasons for their choice. The reason is simple, "Don't send your children to Ceasar and then be upset when they come home as Romans".
Show HN: 12K Reddit posts scraped and AI-scored for startup ideas
by shadowjones | 2025-11-22 02:37:38+00:00
I wanted to find a product idea to build. "Build things people want," right? So I thought, why not literally find people saying what they want?

I wrote a script to collect thousands of Reddit posts where people are looking for a solution or complaining about a problem. Then I used GPT to filter out the noise and score each one based on how viable the idea seemed. Threw together a simple search interface so anyone can explore them.

I was planning to build a more advanced paid version of this, but figured I'd share the raw version first to see if it's actually useful to anyone.
by lurking_swe | 2025-11-22 02:38:03+00:00
Great. What if the spouse dies? Or they just stop paying and move to a different country because they’re a jerk? Or they lose their job and can’t support you in the future?

There’s a dozen ways relying on the courts can go wrong. Something to consider in a pro and con list.

Unrelated, if during the marriage the primary breadwinner loses their job and struggles to get back on their feet, the stay at home mom won’t be able to help pay a mortgage with 10 year old skills, as an example.

I have zero problems with stay at home moms. My mom was one and i LOVED spending lots of time with her growing up. But i think many people don’t have an HONEST conversation here that considers the worst case. It’s worth talking about. That’s all i can say. And it might be different if you have a village to support you if needed. Not everyone is blessed with that.

In my immigrant mom’s tragic case, she never really got her foot into the workforce because she wanted to stay home. Because of that her english skills never truly developed. My father became somewhat abusive toward her when i was a young teen. Even threatened to withhold her “allowance” sometimes. Could she have left if she wanted to? No. Legally yes, but practically? Nope. Chained to the marriage basically.
by foxfired | 2025-11-22 02:39:22+00:00
I don't use the icon, but at the end of every article I have the "Follow me via RSS Feed" as a direct link to the RSS. As far as tracking the rss traffic, this graph is generated from my server logs. It is literally cat apache logs | grep my feed url | awk daily traffic | sort.

Note this shows me how many RSS readers have accessed my RSS daily. I can't actually track each person, although I have a report I'm working on for the end of the year.
by inetknght | 2025-11-22 02:40:20+00:00
> It feels like you're telling me that I'm holding my phone wrong.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Ultimately, it is your code and you can do with it whatever you like.

...until your code becomes company code or open sourced. Then your way becomes a hinder to other developers.

> I don't like sourcing things into my environment. I've worked this way for years. I think the idea of 'activating' and 'deactivating' an environment is an anti-pattern.

I completely agree with you. The whole concept of a venv is great! But the concept of needing to source an activation script is... just... completely foreign to me. It took me months to understand that's the way it was intended to work, and more years to stop fighting it.

> I sometimes will have to run multiple programs (that have their own venvs) and pipe data between them.

Me too! I pipe data around all the time because it's amazingly fast and amazingly awesome to just hook up a pipeline. It can be done with venvs, too. Consider this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail jq '.' < <(source venv1/bin/activate; ./script1) > >(source venv2/bin/activate; ./script2)

Here, script1 (which requires the first venv) might produce some JSON stuff to be processed by `jq`, then pipe that to script2 (which requires the second venv).

I'm curious how you do it though.
by symbolicAGI | 2025-11-22 02:41:02+00:00
Without revealing proprietary details, I can say that 2.9 million lines of Java code were generated and tested in 3 months via claude code with multiple max accounts. The technique is to decompose the specification, code generation, test generation, testing, documenting and other standard steps into minute prompts and responses within the task competency of claude code non-interactive. I also scoped tiny context by having a repo for each 3K module.

Much of the innovation was accomplished by asking the AI what was best practice.
by cellular | 2025-11-22 02:41:55+00:00
Pain.

I haven't publicly stated this before now: Consciousness requires the ability to perceive PAIN.

All human learning is based upon the single kernel of pain (vs pleasure).

A newborn is hungry or cold and cried. It learned to cry. It learned to smile. Eventually, delayed gratification lead to less pain (more pleasure).

The rest is human history.
by wingmanjd | 2025-11-22 02:42:14+00:00
At $DAYJOB, we have had confirmed and paid for orders be cancelled within the last week due to price hikes. One DDR5 server configuration went from ~$13k to near $25k USD in a matter of days.

We also were looking for DDR4 memory for some older machines and that has shot up 2x as well.

Hate this AI timeline.
by H8crilA | 2025-11-22 02:42:58+00:00
I suspect the biggest, but not the only, problem with these supposedly weak SSRI/SNRI numbers we routinely see in clinical trials has to do with the definition of depression, with the diagnosis itself. For example it has some of the worst inter-rater reliability across the entire DSM (meaning that two doctors are least likely to both reach the same diagnosis in the same patient independently). So if you start from a poorly defined set, which likely encompasses some genuine affective disorders, people going through difficult times, undiagnosed personality disorders, dysthymic ADHDers, burned out ASDs, and God knows who else - yeah, you'll get poor performance data. Every psychiatrist knows intuitively that SSRIs/SNRIs do work, even if you have to trial a few. Also, without arguing about the number, that 15% is not exactly the same 15% for each drug.

Also, since we're here: the secret knowledge about depression (and affective disorders in general) is that it is an episodic illness, where episodes are measured in weeks or in months. Most people experience just one episode which will end whether or not any medical intervention is undertaken, although the intervention can greatly shorten the course and avoid a potential suicide. But some will not stop at one episode, and can go on to have multiple episodes, perhaps develop melancholic features or even suffer from a lifelong recurrence. It is in the latter groups where medication is the most effective.
by dnr | 2025-11-22 02:44:22+00:00
The inelegance to me isn't in the definition of the operation, but that it's doing a huge amount of brute-force work to mix every part of the input with every other part, when the answer really only depends on a tiny fraction of the input. If we somehow "just knew" what parts to look at, we could get the answer much more efficiently.

Of course that doesn't really make any sense at the matrix level. And (from what I understand) techniques like MoE move in that direction. So the criticism doesn't really make sense anymore, except in that brains are still much much more efficient than LLMs so we know that we could do better.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-11-22 02:44:33+00:00
> Many are filled with kids that aren't there to learn.

That's on the kid, not contingent on whether school is public.

> most here report being bullied.

Anecdotes like this are not worth much. What do the stats say?

> There is really nothing intrinsically good about the average public school.

Schools don't just socialize, though that is also important. Whether they succeed at educating well depends on more than one factor, but policy & curriculum is clearly one. Kids are better prepared in some countries than others, still through public systems.

If people want to homeschool, let them. Public school should still be assessed accurately.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-11-22 02:45:32+00:00
100%

Homeschooling is growing and will continue to grow because it is a cheaper alternative to private school (for people whose incomes aren't so high that the loss of one income eclipses the savings of not paying for private school, e.g. most people). The growth of homeschooling is probably highly correlated with the disconnect and distrust people have with public school. Public school already has an advantage, it's literally free. So it has to have noticeable problems people feel like they can resolve at home, for people to want to leave it behind
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-22 02:46:12+00:00
> a bit outdated

"a bit"? like 2000 years outdated

> even if it's in the Bible

the Bible also says you get stoned to death for adultery; we bring that back, starting with Trump and all rich bozos who cheat on their wives, and then we can talk about women keeping silent in the church

(not to mention that stoning is a very slow and painful death)
by AndrewStephens | 2025-11-22 02:46:30+00:00
I haven’t noticed a huge upswing in traffic on my personal blog but efforts like mastodon have led to some nice interactions. I think there is more sense of community and people realizing that blogs need to be encouraged than there was a few years ago. Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

If you like this sort of thing, find a blog you like and contact the author to tell them you enjoy their work.
by PostOnce | 2025-11-22 02:47:57+00:00
Two parent comments suggested that a deep level of skill is required to:

1] drag a box around the text and press Delete 2] type some new text in there in a similar handwriting font

The implication is that we're all too stupid and everything is too hard to do even tasks so simple that they take double-digit seconds to accomplish for people with rudimentary computer skill.

We can do things. Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.
by genuser | 2025-11-22 02:48:33+00:00
Apple has entered the AI arena with Apple Intelligence, promising to integrate artificial intelligence seamlessly across its ecosystem. But does it deliver genuine smart assistance or merely offer gimmicky features? After extensive testing of every available function, the answer appears to be both. While some tools demonstrate practical utility, others feel underdeveloped, revealing a platform still in its early stages rather than a finished product.
by safety1st | 2025-11-22 02:49:16+00:00
No one is hiding anything. No one is pretending to be something they're not. Life is not a Saturday morning cartoon. There are no good guys vs bad guys. There are just businesses trying to earn more profits.

Valve is a business. When Microsoft introduced a Store they threatened Steam's market share. In theory Microsoft could one day update Windows so that it's hard to buy games through non Microsoft stores. Valve responded by investing in open source OS stuff. Their goal is to commoditize Windows, so that Microsoft doesn't wrest control of video game sales away from them. Commoditize your complement is a strategy as old as the software industry itself.

We've known all this for years, it's been discussed publicly and no one is hiding it. It always annoys me when people think we're in Lord of the Rings and one company is Sauron or another is Gandalf. It's all just business. To everyone who makes decisions, it all boils down to numbers on a spreadsheet. They want their number to go up.

What you SHOULD care about is competition. Valve would never have invested in all these OSS technologies if Microsoft hadn't tried to compete with them. They wouldn't be consumer friendly and they wouldn't make investments if they thought they could sit on their ass. They would just coast and enshittify (like Microsoft has in the OS space with its Windows monopoly).

We don't need good guy companies, we need strong pro-competition laws and strong enforcers of those laws. You can vote accordingly at the ballot box, and you can also vote accordingly with your wallet, buy stuff from the little guys.
by jMyles | 2025-11-22 02:49:24+00:00
> What you have done is no different than walking around with a camera and taking pictures of everything your eyes point at.

Exactly! So what is the distinction between capturing photons with your retinas vs. with a camera sensor that, in your mind, suddenly gives the state authority to intervene?

> If she sets foot in our jurisdiction, then she's toast.

I don't know what "our" jurisdiction means on the internet. If she sets up a streaming server and makes it available to all earthlings, then what?
by Loughla | 2025-11-22 02:49:37+00:00
Missing pets are because people don't spend enough time with their animals to form a pack attachment (for dogs) and cats just don't give a shit.

Or. . . The encroachment of suburbs in currently rural areas means coyotes and pets come in contact. . .

Also I still live on the farm. And animals here can be dumb as hell as well. Our neighbors miniature donkey regularly escapes, just to get his head stuck in the fence trying to get to his food trough from the outside.
by derangedHorse | 2025-11-22 02:49:39+00:00
> Remember that if someone Googles this person for a newer job, it might show up.

So you'd rather the company get incomplete information about a candidate with hopes the candidate gets hired from a place of ignorance? If it's something the company would avoid hiring him for, then I don't find a problem with giving them the agency to make that decision for themselves.
by jdub | 2025-11-22 02:50:13+00:00
Ha, Julie and Julia is an excellent riposte.

The previous poster might also consider all the high profile, independent, and influential publications across various subjects that grew out of blogging – e.g. HuffPo, Pitchfork, Jezebel, so many video gaming and entertainment sites... many of which were sadly bought up by rich idiots and/or existing media conglomerates.
by westurner | 2025-11-22 02:50:14+00:00
Here's a diagram of a solution for these applications to summarize a chat with Gemini 3 pro thinking; "Carbon Chips: Hurdles and a Future for Hypercomputing: A Blueprint for the Integrated Biorefinery, Lignin-Strained Carbon Logic, and the Post-Silicon 'Green Chip' Economy": https://gemini.google.com/share/5a192ff20a31
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 02:50:18+00:00
> I cured it by finding meaning and beauty in the world.

That's incredibly fortunate and I'm very jealous of you. How would you recommend one goes about finding meaning and beauty? I'm fortunate to have had lots of unique experiences and traveled to lots of unique places and still haven't found the fulfillment that you seem to. That's basically what depression is: a debilitating feeling of lack of fulfillment, without any idea of what's missing.

I'm happiest when busy building and fixing things. It could be that if I was born 200 years ago into an agrarian society 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. What were gainful full-time jobs back then have been reduced to hobbies now, though: blacksmithing, cobbling, weaving, hunting, making furniture, etc. Hobbies don't fill the hole for me. Sure, a few artisans are still able to turn those into a living, but a large part of the job is marketing and the clients are largely the wealthy elite. I've enjoyed working in food service and construction but it's hard to support a family of 4 doing those. So my career has been in software engineering since that involves building and fixing and pays well, but it still doesn't fill the hole.

If this sounds whiny I'm painfully aware. What right do I have to complain about feeling unfulfilled when there are real problems in the world? And that's the very essence of major depression.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-22 02:50:21+00:00
> I canceled the test instead, deciding on the spot that I'd rather take my chances. I refuse to fund an industry that wants to use my wellbeing against me as ransom.

I'd cancel because I don't have $1700. But then again, if I get a treatable ailment (that risks my life otherwise), I die. Me and millions of other Americans.
by econ | 2025-11-22 02:52:00+00:00
Made me envision this terrible idea.

arr = [];

y = 0;

setInterval(()=>{arr[y]=x},10)

setInterval(()=>{x=y++},1000)

setInterval(()=>{x="fizz"},3000)

setInterval(()=>{x="buzz"},5000)

setInterval(()=>{x="fizzbuzz"},15000)
by krater23 | 2025-11-22 02:52:18+00:00
It's just, no one will read it, beside of some machines. Blogging was fun because you knows that someone is reading it. You had some comments under your articles. When this isn't there, you can just write your stuff in a paper book and put it in your drawer. And today, there is absolutely no one who will read it, or react to it. Only AI inhales the information and shows it without giving credit to people that never will hear about you. You just fill their database with useful data for free. Thats all.
by rmunn | 2025-11-22 02:53:21+00:00
One guy I vaguely know (only know him online, never met him IRL) often says "If you're using NPM you deserve what's going to happen to you one of these days." (He means the package ecosystem, so he would say the same thing about PNPM). I don't agree with him — he goes way too far with his opinion — but I can't deny that he's at least partly right. Two major supply-chain attacks in the past month (Shai-Hulud, and that tea-farming attack earlier this month which AFAIK doesn't yet have a clever name) have served to demonstrate that he definitely has a point in there, even if he takes it too far. NPM has a long way to go in terms of hardening (they've started doing so, thankfully), and is a very popular target.