MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Analemma_ | 2025-12-05 23:36:30+00:00
I toured at MIT when I was applying to colleges, and the student narrating the walking tour trash-talked the Stata Center pretty brutally as we went by it, mentioning the leaks, the lawsuit, how nobody liked it, etc.

I never knew if those were her actual feelings or if this was part of a script approved by the admissions office, or even which of those possibilities would be crazier.
by tptacek | 2025-12-05 23:36:37+00:00
We are obviously talking about the same thing, and nothing I said about the PP is novel.

I very specifically did not say that PP analyses were dead on arrival, or that problems with PP thinking were dispositive. I said rather that it is not enough to simply invoke the PP in policy debates; that rhetorical habit has bad outcomes. Again: the idea is not that "precaution" is bad. It's that you can't mechanically shift the burden of proof to anything "new" and assign a lower risk to the status quo by default --- you have to make that argument on the merits.

There's a good Cass Sunstein thing about the PP if you're interested in understanding critiques of it:

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
by matchee | 2025-12-05 23:36:55+00:00
Interesting.

I wonder how Nim 3/Nimony handles or will handle bindings in patterns regarding copy, move or reference. Rust can change it per binding, and Ada's experimental pattern matching might have some plans or properties regarding that.[1]

> By default, identifier patterns bind a variable to a copy of or move from the matched value depending on whether the matched value implements Copy.

> This can be changed to bind to a reference by using the ref keyword, or to a mutable reference using ref mut. For example:

match a { None => (), Some(value) => (), } match a { None => (), Some(ref value) => (), }

.

The Github issue had a strange discussion. I really disliked goteguru's equals-sign-based syntax, though I had difficulty judging the main design syntax.

I wonder what Araq thinks of Scala's Expression AST type. Tree, TermTree, and all the subtype case classes [2]. Tree has fields. Though I am not certain how the common variables are initialized.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/patterns.html#r-patterns...

[2] https://github.com/scala/scala3/blob/main/compiler/src/dotty...
by watwut | 2025-12-05 23:37:58+00:00
> This usually happens when the person's needs have been repeatedly ignored, either because the person isn't aware of their needs, and thus isn't able to communicate them; or because the person has tried to communicate their needs but not been understood; or because the person has tried to communicate their needs and had their needs disregarded.

This is not true. Low emotional control is one of symptoms and for many autistic this is just a default response. It is literally part of diagnosis. There is no space for needs or rights of others. This is response to someone putting a cut into drawer wrong way or disobeying one of thousands weird rules the autistic person have for themselves and the world.

This frequently happens as a first response to the situation, before any communication could possibly occur.

> Eventually communication fails and all that's left is violence.

Autistic person being violent is violence as any other. And there was no attempt at communication, because man autistic dont understand why the thing needs to be communicated in the first place. They dont understand other dont see the word the same way.

And even more importantly, it is an emotional meltdown having nothing to do with what went on with communication before or not.
by lossolo | 2025-12-05 23:38:11+00:00
> and complying with the rules would also cost them money and/or reputation. Maybe they should consider pulling out.

Like when they "pulled out" of Brazil? When Musk said they were fighting for freedom, democracy, and the rule of law? Then X got blocked in Brazil, and they silently complied with everything that was against "freedom, democracy, and the rule of law" and stopped talking about it.
by scandox | 2025-12-05 23:38:30+00:00
> From this vast pile of empirical data, Schopenhauer drew a simple maxim: “Do no harm; and help others to the extent you can.”

> This conviction led Schopenhauer to be an ardent abolitionist, a keen advocate of prison and asylum reform, and a fierce opponent of animal cruelty. It is curious to think that his beloved standard poodle, Atma, knew what men and women did not know: that his master believed in the care and concern for all living beings. At Schopenhauer’s funeral in 1860, his first biographer, Wilhelm Gwinner, suggested that “ordinary people saw the misanthrope in him,” but Schopenhauer “was full of compassion” for them. This may have been difficult for Schopenhauer’s contemporaries to perceive.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-05 23:39:28+00:00
The practicality of that may depend on the exact details of the modem. For example, I believe it's possible to get a fairphone in the US, but last I checked it was a poor choice because it had awful support for cell frequencies actually in use. This lists "global roaming modem configuration" which may mean that it has good coverage, but... it also might not.
by LoganDark | 2025-12-05 23:39:37+00:00
Weird, because Apple took down Fortnite for enabling a direct buy-button (bypassing IAP) after review completed. Just because an offending feature wasn't enabled at the time of review absolutely does not mean you're in the clear to turn it on after the review is complete. Whereas before you'd get the opportunity to fix anything like that during the review process, by sidestepping the review process you'd better be confident you don't ever ship anything that wouldn't pass.
by sgerenser | 2025-12-05 23:39:44+00:00
Yeah this is something people in favor of single payer healthcare in the U.S. don’t want to acknowledge. In most other countries, the middle 50% of taxpayers pay a much higher percentage of their income than in the U.S. Everyone somehow thinks we can make it work just by raising taxes on “the rich” (where that is usually defined as anyone making more money than them). But if it was that easy, then why does Canada and most European countries have so much higher taxes on the middle class?

Now I’m not inherently against increasing taxes (for all) if it gave us a much better healthcare system, but you have to be intellectually honest about who would have to pay those higher taxes. It’s not just Elon Musk.
by qnleigh | 2025-12-05 23:40:30+00:00
It's not obvious to me whether we should count these errors as failures of intelligence or failures of perception. There's at least a loose analogy to optical illusion, which can fool humans quite consistently. Now you might say that a human can usually figure out what's going on and correctly identify the illusion, but we have the luxury of moving our eyes around the image and taking it in over time, while the model's perception is limited to a fixed set of unchanging tokens. Maybe this is relevant.

(Note I'm not saying that you can't find examples of failures of intelligence. I'm just questioning whether this specific test is an example of one).
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by dmytroKh | 2025-12-05 23:41:47+00:00
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by dsmmcken | 2025-12-05 23:42:08+00:00
144, using css variables, with fallback and p instead of li

https://codepen.io/dsmmcken/pen/WbwYOEQ?editors=0100

p{counter-increment:n;--n:counter(n)}p:nth-child(3n){--f:"Fizz"}p:nth-child(5n){--b:"Buzz";--n:''}p::after{content:var(--f,var(--n))var(--b,'')}
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-05 23:42:15+00:00
The next sentence, which I read as the rest of the thought, was

> They make great pet projects but fail at what most mobile phones do great which is provide a computer I can reliably and safely take with me in life.

And I can't speak to the Librem 5, but the I'd say the pinephone did in fact fail to deliver a reliable daily driver, remaining merely a pet project full of rough edges.
by rambojohnson | 2025-12-05 23:42:30+00:00
during an internship in Vicenza years ago, right before a guy in a makeshift Mickey Mouse costume punched me in the back of the head and sprinted down an alley nearhy, I ended up sharing a courtyard bench with Frank Gehry without realizing who he was. he looked over the draft I was struggling with and said, in this almost offhand way, that sometimes a building needs a little room to misbehave if you want it to feel lived in. we talked for a few minutes about light, angles, and the stubbornness of materials before he drifted off to another studio. I only pieced it together later when someone mentioned he’d been visiting the site that week.

the news today brings that memory back with a kind of sideways clarity.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-05 23:42:42+00:00
That's caused by consolidation. Compare with music: a bunch of different companies make music, a bunch of different companies stream music, but they're not the same companies, so approximately everybody's music is available on every platform.

With video, many platforms are also creators, which leads to exclusivity, and fragmentation.

Combining everything into a monopoly would also fix this problem, but would have downsides.
by noname123 | 2025-12-05 23:43:05+00:00
>The basis trade, classically executed, is delta neutral: one isn’t exposed to the underlying itself. You don’t need any belief in Bitcoin’s future adoption story, fundamentals, market sentiment, halvings, none of that. You’re getting paid to provide the gambling environment, including a really important feature: the perp price needs to stay reasonably close to the spot price, close enough to continue attracting people who want to gamble. You are also renting access to your capital for leverage.

Patrick is largely correct on perp futures being mostly used as a leverage instrument to gamble on bitcoin or ether by retail. However I think he's missing one point which is that actually some institutional players also use CME futures to gain exposure to Bitcoin (e.g., BITO ETF or a pension fund that wants to gain exposure to crypto and have a fiduciary duty to hold assets with AAA custodians).

The thesis being that if you're an institution, you don't trust the relatively "fly-by" offshore crypto or even US-regulated custodians of crypto. When you trade CME bitcoin futures, your settlement is guaranteed by the clearing entities of Chicago Mercantile Exchange which are bulge bracket firms of TradFi. So why CME futures largely reflect a premium over the spot BTC price - and this premium is a function of the demand of bitcoin at anytime and the Fed fund rate. As the bitcoin futures market is highly efficient, the CME futures premium is arbitraged across the various DeFi and CeFi exchanges with basis points added relative to the default risk of each venue.

And the basis trade itself is not a "risk-free" arbitrage. The seller on the other side of gamblers are exposed to "right-tail" risk - your premium you get paid to "carry" the bitcoin is fixed while the collateral you must hold in theory to "hold" the coin on behalf of the buyer could be in theory infinite if bitcoin skyrockets to infinity. Sell too much and you might not have enough collateral before the futures settlement happens (for a fixed term futures, not perps) kind of like a reverse but still deadly scenario with Silicon Valley Bank (i.e., you incur "paper loss" that goes away if you can hold it to expiry; but you get force liquidated before then).
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-12-05 23:43:24+00:00
ignoring all "hate" against streaming services, you have to at least give Netflix credit where it's due.

They contribute a lot to the open source community, and their engineering blog is always a good read. Granted, not many people will benefit from their specific type of problems, but for those of us that work with large scale infrastructure, there's often inspiration to be had.

And no, it's usually not directly applicable in a financial setting. Most of the time it's actually the exact opposite, where Netflix thrives on distributed loads, eventual consistency, etc, finance is a lot more reliant on "real time" events.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-05 23:44:09+00:00
> Whenever I go to the US, I have a shopping list to restock our medicine cabinet

Ha, that's funny, I do something kind of like that when I go to the UK. Though it's just one medicine -- Kwells. Easily available OTC there, not available at all here in the US except as a prescription-only transdermal patch.
by vkou | 2025-12-05 23:44:42+00:00
Could you give the whole paragraph, and not just the last sentence in it?

Ah, heck, I'll do the work of pasting it in.

> But again, one last thing. I — we don’t talk enough to you about this, I don’t think. One last thing that’s really important is: We’re not in a position where we think that any virus — including the Delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of non — unvaccinated people — the vi- — the various shots that people are getting now cover that. They’re — you’re okay. You’re not going to — you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations. -Biden

I'm not sure why out of all that Trump-lite-contradictory rambling (and the massive amounts of other words and ink spilled by both the 2020[1] and the 2021 administrations on this subject), that sentence is the singular, unqualified, pinky-swear blood-pact promise that you think the medical community made to the public regarding the vaccine.

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As for Walensky:

> Three days later, on April 1, a CDC spokesperson seemingly walked back the director’s comments, telling The New York Times “Dr. Walensky spoke broadly during this interview” adding that “It’s possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get Covid-19. The evidence isn’t clear whether they can spread the virus to others. We are continuing to evaluate the evidence.”

If you're only going to listen to the first thing that's said on a subject, and ignore everything that follows, I don't think that sort of approach will serve you very well. For one thing, it'll probably mean that you'll think that people who correct themselves are idiots.

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[1] Which, if I may remind you, developed, recommended, and rolled out the vaccine and had nothing to do with Biden.
by watersb | 2025-12-05 23:46:34+00:00
I'm about to change the transmission fluid in my i3.

It's at 100k miles and there's no user-facing documentation for the procedure, as the oil lasts "for the lifetime of the vehicle".

Turns out, this particular procedure is simple.

(Other common wear items, like the suspension damper boots, or the engine mount, or the AC compressor, or a set of tires every 12000 miles ... it adds up.

The i3 was a cheap acquisition. Doesn't drive like a BMW, but apparently it wears like one.)
by yencabulator | 2025-12-05 23:46:42+00:00
If you want it put more concretely, you can travel to Northern Europe and go look at the exposed bedrock that has grooves all over in the same orientation, from when the glaciers last retreated from that area. They're at sea level. Mountain glaciers are not really what this discussion of glaciers is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_striation
by macNchz | 2025-12-05 23:46:43+00:00
An interesting test in this vein that I read about in a comment on here is generating a 13 hour clock—I tried just about every prompting trick and clever strategy I could come up with across many image models with no success. I think there's so much training data of 12 hour clocks that just clobbers the instructions entirely. It'll make a regular clock that skips from 11 to 13, or a regular clock with a plaque saying "13 hour clock" underneath, but I haven't gotten an actual 13 hour clock yet.
by machomaster | 2025-12-05 23:47:31+00:00
We miscommunicated past each other.

I did not mean that those 2 choices I mentioned are the only ones. I meant that the "deep legacy media"/"experts" are trying to convince you that only these two choices (listen to the "experts" or not to listen to anybody; "don't trust anybody else, trust me when I tell you that") exist. This leads to the 2 outcomes I painted: being not informed or being misinformed. Everything else that doesn't fit the current official narrative is branded with bad words.

Obviously, this is a false dichonomy and one should do the right thing (educating oneself with different sources, to form a full picture) despite the namecalling.

I don't have any study (I don't know if they exist) and was purely talking about the topic dear to my heart that I have following on for 25+ years: the Finnish expertise on Russia/Putin. It is horrendous. And I am not even talking about crazy expert opinions that one can disagree with, but core problems with logic and basic facts.

It is even sadder because Finland is trying to brand itself as The Russia expert in EU, is succeeding and this incompetence has real consequences.

The quality of expertise in this example is so terrible that we get the incredible situation when not informed people, using only their common sense, have a higher percentage of reasonable/truthful takes than people who are trying to be informed using "homegrown talent". This is an unbelievable consequence!

I am not saying that this is a general trend or that "experts bad". It's just in this particular case I know the topic and have the knowledge to access the correctness of people who are performing as experts on Russia. I have been having presentations on this topic.

Also, obviously, political "sciences" is different from actual sciences.

This reminds me of the Onion's expert panel on Nigeria, with the difference of journalists also being clueless (not their fault, they can't ask critical questions and challenge "experts", if their whole world view also comes from these "experts"). https://youtu.be/Pwom49awRKg
by torginus | 2025-12-05 23:47:43+00:00
I think CMake is cool when it works, but debugging it when it doesn't is hell. I've often spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out why doesn't it pick up library paths.

And although I know Microsoft is uncool, I still want to shill vckpkg as it seems they finally managed to create a usable cross platform package manager for C++
by stego-tech | 2025-12-05 23:48:36+00:00
I think the stay-at-home working parent idea is a good one as a transition stage, but ultimately this is a large problem that'll require years of reforms and fundamental changes to accomplish - a plurality of society must be on board and willing to sacrifice to make it happen, because employers never will be despite the research data showing the benefits of these approaches.

It's hard playing the long game, but we need more folks to do it. The big, important problems of life are never solved in a single fiscal year, after all.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-05 23:48:48+00:00
It does not work that way, though, because as a practical matter, the majority of routine medications in the US are generics now and quite cheap, maybe $25 out of pocket (and frequently zero) with even basic insurance. The crazy prices happen for the edge cases. Things that happen often enough that you may know someone affected by it, but are still a minority of most people's experience.
by energy123 | 2025-12-05 23:48:53+00:00
> I think the point of the paper is that RL "sharpens" the distribution of non-RL nets, but it does not uncover any new reasoning paths

This is an implication of the results that's intuitive and likely to be correct, but isn't guaranteed to be correct. The results do show worse answer correctness for large k. But answers and reasoning strategies to arrive at these answers are different things. It's impractical to inspect the CoTs in both the RL and Base to show that all the reasoning strategies used by the former are a subset of the latter. For all we know the venn diagram might not be fully overlapping. It could be that the RL did uncover some novel and subtle reasoning strategies not present in the Base, but it also introduced separate handicaps for some unknown reason, which nerfed answer correctness for large k. We need some theory to bridge that understanding which seems lacking in the paper? Not that I fault them for an absence of such a theory because it seems intractable. But then I am doubtful one could reach such a neat conclusion as they have tried to do, beyond the appeal to strong intuition (which I also share).
by benwills | 2025-12-05 23:49:08+00:00
In the photo of him on his last day [0], there's a cassette deck on his desk.

That could be something mundane, but I'd like to believe something crazy happens if you yell at it [1]...

[0] https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/images/2025/brendanoffice2...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
by daveguy | 2025-12-05 23:49:20+00:00
It's because health insurance companies need to pad their profits. Because we have a backward system in the US where profits are extracted by everyone without any competition from a not-for-profit. That's why the idea of a public option is so popular (it was originally a Republican idea until it was decided insurance company profits are more desirable). Personally, I don't think any health insurance company should be for-profit. But the for-profit companies sure as hell should have a non-profit competition with the same bargaining power they do.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-12-05 23:49:51+00:00
I'm curious what the actual number is. I have health insurance through my work and I pay over $1,500 a month for that (and still have out of pocket costs). That's $18,000 a year. That's a substantial percentage of my income which essentially is just a tax going to the insurance company instead of the government. Now if it cost a couple thousand more a year and I didn't have to worry about getting claims denied for random reasons, I'd take that deal. If it's $5,000-10,000 more a year? Then I'd have qualms.
by zbuttram | 2025-12-05 23:50:03+00:00
> Apple is actually the opposite of Ubiquiti -- they don't want you to be able to configure anything or have any visibility into anything.

True, however before I was running a UniFi household I did quite enjoy Apple's Airport equipment. Back in the day it felt like they were the first time I had consumer networking equipment that I wasn't forced to reboot regularly to resolve issues.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-05 23:50:49+00:00
This particular tip is basic. It just describes how to copy changes from one branch to another with one kind of rebase. But there's always someone who is learning git for the first time and may not even know how it's used.

Git is simple enough and has features and capabilities that jj does not have. Contrary to popular belief, git is not hard to use. I refuse to use any "simpler" system that is slower or less feature-rich than git. I don't even want to learn another commit graph model, because git's model is very good. About 95% of what people like yourself call "git nonsense" consists of useful features that many people would be annoyed to not have.

I believe that a large number of git or general VCS users have no idea about commit hygiene. They have not had to cherry-pick or edit commits, and have no idea what to do about conflicts. To people like that, git's features and methods will appear especially foreign.

I looked over jj specifically many moons ago and concluded it would annoy me and not function at my job. I forgot what the reasons were. One reason was most likely because I need submodules and worktrees to work. I just looked at its FAQ, and saw a bunch of nonsensical new terms as well. Nothing is more compatible with git than git itself, and I am very satisfied with how well git works for me.