MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gullywhumper | 2026-02-15 01:10:43+00:00
2.5 years in of regular PET scans. At this point, I’m almost humored by what gets flagged as suspicious by the radiologist - usually mosquito bites and stomach bugs (kids in daycare means I’m almost always sick). I have a scan Monday and two weeks ago had a re-excision so there’s a two inch gash healing on my back. This week I got three vaccines. And then tonight my toddler bit me hard enough to draw blood. I had asked the oncologist if it made sense to delay the scan because of the re-excision and he said not to worry because he’d know why there’s inflammation in that area. I’m thinking the bite and the shots will probably get flagged too. I just hope I don’t forget any other maladies or mishaps that might get flagged that I can’t explain.
by ipdashc | 2026-02-15 01:12:05+00:00
> Animated server logos, colorful /gradient and tonally-varied usernames & avatars

Fair, but all of these things are user controlled. If you're using Discord for work or something, presumably you don't have a bright flashing animated server icon and avatar, your server doesn't have gradient roles, etc.

The super emoji are spot on though, those are fun but were really dumb from the get-go, and waste space in the reaction UI.
by echelon | 2026-02-15 01:12:08+00:00
> I've been saying for years now that the next AI breakthrough could come from big tech but it also has just a likely chance of comming from a smart kid with a whiteboard.

It comes from the company best equipped with capital and infra.

If some university invents a new approach, one of the nimble hyperscalers / foundation model companies will gobble it up.

This is why capital is being spent. That is the only thing that matters: positioning to take advantage of the adoption curve.
by Izkata | 2026-02-15 01:12:28+00:00
> It had all the room it planned for and needed at the start.

Almost. Come S4 they got concerned the show would be canceled before finishing the story, so they dropped all the secondary plots from S4 and S5 and compressed the main plots from S4 and S5 into just S4. Then they got renewed and quickly wrote a new S4 finale using S5 budget, postponed the series finale a year to S5, and reworked all the dropped secondary plots into S5.

Personally I think this worked really well, made S4 much more fast-paced and S5 feels more like a "the world keeps turning" extended epilogue.
by constantius | 2026-02-15 01:13:40+00:00
> I simply reject the premise that anti-immigration policies and the people who support them do anything to help curb the housing crisis or improve working conditions.

I think you're again fighting a right-wing anti-immigration stance. I'm talking about the opposite of that.

> Immigration can be a net positive [...] if it goes hand-in-hand with worker and tenant protections

I'm certain you can see that this is a huge if. In practice, limiting immigration can indeed avoid worsening the housing crisis or decreasing wages, which can indeed help the relevant unions/charities campaign more effectively.

Reasoning by extreme: would you agree that importing 2M people per year to the UK would make the housing market and wages worse, independent of any ifs? Then you agree that there is a threshold where there is too much immigration, even with perfect conditions.

> right is very much anti-immigration

The Tories were very much anti-immigration, if you looked at their talking points. They were very much pro-working class, and Labour is very-much pro-human rights and pro-democracy. What they do is different.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-15 01:14:20+00:00
x86 has (not counting the system-management mode stuff) 4 major modes: real mode, protected mode, virtual 8086 mode, and IA-32e mode. Protected mode and IA-32e mode rely on the bits within the code segment's descriptor to figure out whether or not it is 16-bit, 32-bit, or 64-bit. (For extra fun, you can also have "wrong-size" stack segments, e.g., 32-bit code + 16-bit stack segment!)

16-bit and 32-bit code segments work almost exactly in IA-32e mode (what Intel calls "compatibility mode") as they do in protected mode; I think the only real difference is that the task management stuff doesn't work in IA-32e mode (and consequently features that rely on task management--e.g., virtual-8086 mode--don't work either). It's worth pointing out that if you're running a 64-bit kernel, then all of your 32-bit applications are running in IA-32e mode and not in protected mode. This also means that it's possible to have a 32-bit application that runs 64-bit code!

But I can run the BCD instructions, the crazy segment stuff, etc. all within a 16-bit or 32-bit code segment of a 64-bit executable. I have the programs to prove it.
by flyingkiwi44 | 2026-02-15 01:16:37+00:00
The repository is listed as offgrid-mobile everywhere on that page but is off-grid-mobile.

So the lastest releases is at https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile/releases/l...

And the clone would be:
git clone https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile.git
by panick21 | 2026-02-15 01:16:49+00:00
Its simply impossible for most people to go to university, only enter the job market by 25 retiring by 65 and then live 20 years on retirement when you have an increasingly aging population at the same time.

> I don't see the millenials in old age receiving any better healthcare as boomers are receiving right now.

Questionable, the medical field is progressing. Also we have many things like smoking that are much less common in millennials and even less after that. That should lead to longer health.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-15 01:17:21+00:00
Yeah I assume what the news publishers actually care about is the thing where, when someone posts a paywalled news article on hacker news, one of the first comments is invariably a link to an archive site that bypasses the paywall so people can read it without paying for it.

> just like how the agricultural sector is hell-bent on scapegoating AI (and lawns, and golf courses, and long showers, and free water at restaurants) for excess water consumption when even the worst-offending datacenters consume infinitesimally-tiny fractions of the water farms in their areas consume.

When I learned about how much water agriculture and industry uses in the state of California where I live, I basically entirely stopped caring about household water conservation in my daily life (I might not go this far if I had a yard or garden that I watered, but I don't where I currently live). If water is so scarce in an urban area that an individual human taking a long shower or running the dishwasher a lot is at all meaningful, then either the municipal water supply has been badly mismanaged, or that area is too dry to support human settlement; and in either case it would be wise to live somewhere else.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-02-15 01:17:31+00:00
Someone hurt this person, I suspect. And it has left them bitter, resentful, and angry at anything that gets in their path.

They probably don't like that someone is challenging their ability to be neighborly, follow the golden rule, etc. because it conflicts with their mental model of themself.

I hope someday they will introspect and realize that we are all humans, and all humans deserve wellbeing, even those whose choices, opinions, or situation we disagree with or find unpleasant.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-15 01:17:31+00:00
You don't need to rewrite anything, unless, I guess, you already have. The text that's up there now is just fine. Long, yes, but then it's a long story, and it makes for an enjoyable read.

There's a crowd of ludds around here who (paraphrasing another Churchill besides the one you wrote about) won't change their minds about AI and can't change the subject. One thing you can be certain of is that even if you rewrite the text to sound more human, they still aren't going to buy the game. Ignore them, and keep doing what you've been doing!
by pron | 2026-02-15 01:18:02+00:00
> C came out in 1972 and didn't gain its current dominance until approximately the release of the ANSI C spec in 1989/1990

While it kept growing in popularity later, by 1983-5 C was already one of the top programming langugages in the world.

> C++ came out in 1985 and didn't become the dominant language for gamedev until the late 90s

Major parts of Windows and Office were being written in C++ in the early-mid 90s, before C++ turned 10. Visual C++, one of Microsoft's flagship development products, came out in 1993. Huge mission-critical, long-term, industrial and defence projects were being written in C++ during or before 1995 (I was working on such a project).

> Python came out in 1991 and labored as an obscure Perl alternative until the mid-late 2000s

Even in 2002 Python was widespread as a scripting language. But it is, indeed, the best and possibly only example of a late bloomer language.

> Javascript came out in 1995 and was treated as a joke and/or afterthought in the broader programming discourse until Node.js came out in 2009

AJAX (popularised by Gmail) pretty much revolutionised the web in 2004. When jQuery came out in 2006, JS was all over the place.
by bluGill | 2026-02-15 01:18:22+00:00
Time could be very expensive as mistakes on taxes can be fraud resulting in prison time. Mostly they understand people make mistakes - but they need to look like honest mistakes and llm may not. remember you sign your taxes as correct to the best of your knowledge - your CPA is admitting you outsourced understanding to an expert, something they accept. However if you sign alone you are saying you understand it all even if you don't.
by Uptrenda | 2026-02-15 01:18:50+00:00
yeah, they seem to have had an absurd involvement with online culture. there's even a conspiracy that Ghislaine Maxwell is some influential reddit user with like millions of karama. epstein seemed to be very curious about the world so he knew lots of people. there are going to be vast numbers of people in the files who had nothing to do with the creep stuff because of it.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-15 01:19:34+00:00
Maybe think about what it was like before they were everywhere.

Peoples' recollections might not be that accurate, and watching old TV shows may not help much, but think what it means to you and how you would thrive like so many people did and many still can.

Now with the smartest of phones you can put your communication on steroids and do more other things by far, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I never even got a cellphone until I had been in business for over a year, then it was only because I wanted clients to be able to reach me 24/7. Decades ago they were already popular but not really common yet.

When I got my first smartphone they were still monochrome and just got you on the internet as a wireless dial-up modem, connecting by the built-in IR sensors to your laptop's little port before there was USB which became available in later years.

And it was pretty good because it was usually way faster than 56K, which most people didn't even get when they had a premium land-line modem.

But it was also pretty expensive by the minute so only useful when there was just no landline available.

So it's quite easy for me to refrain because I'm old enough to remember how it was before these were even here.

Eventually I had a Sony smartphone in the flip-phone format which was way more capable than the iPhone was, but it was decades and calls and text were still enough to keep me busy so I never had time for any apps on the small screen, especially when I was long used to having the full internet on my x86 laptop whenever I want.

I kept my final Sony-Ericsson as long as could, and one of the nicest features was it was not Android nor iOS, but eventually all its frequencies were discontinued.

So got a run-of-the-mill touchphone not that many years ago for the first time, and Android is worse than I thought.

The experience is so "rewarding" that it's even easier reverting to how it was before there were even cellphones at all, which I also remember well.

So most of the time it doesn't even come with me, just leave it sitting there on the desk at home or office and mainly carry it in between, or in a vehicle if I'm going to be gone a long time.

Touchphones are so bulky (and delicate) compared to everything I was accustomed to, that it's a drag to carry around anyway, and ends up more so than ever, without planning, back to serving more like a good old land line stuck to the desk than anything else.

So that's the switch I made and it was no effort at all, just let nature take its course :)
by rayiner | 2026-02-15 01:21:01+00:00
That’s the same as the subpoena I could send you if you had information relevant to a litigation. And you have to give it to me or else go to court to quash the subpoena. But the key difference with judicial warrants is that judicial warrants can be enforced immediately while subpoenas and administrative warrants require the cooperation of the target or else going to court to enforce the subpoena.

It’s weird but the legal system has an extremely broad view of when third parties can be forced to provide information relevant to litigation. Subpoenas date back to ancient Rome: https://commerciallore.com/2015/06/04/a-brief-history-of-sub...
by bradlys | 2026-02-15 01:21:24+00:00
This exists outside NL now too. However, it’s possibly the most shallow app possible. You know literally nothing about the individual except what they look like. For a country like NL where there’s high homogeneity, probably works out. For the US, this is a disaster.

In the US, you’d only get matched if you were a hot guy. It was more brutal than tinder, hinge, etc. Women in the US aren’t gonna spend a single cent on a guy unless he’s mega hot.
by rchaud | 2026-02-15 01:22:45+00:00
Maybe in 2020. Teams is the defacto IM app for enterprise now. It may not be to your liking, but most workplaces don't need apps to constantly be adding new features. They need videoconferencing, chat, meeting recording and AI transcription and note-taking. All synced with everyone's Outlook calendars and authenticated by the same SSO used org-wide. Teams has had all of those for years.
by ctmnt | 2026-02-15 01:23:22+00:00
There’s a bunch of versions of this out there. This one’s mine, but it’s based on other ones. It works really well. It assesses the validity and importance of each comment, then handles it appropriately, creating issues, fixing the code, adding comments, updating the GH Copilot instructions file, etc.

https://github.com/cboone/cboone-cc-plugins/blob/main/plugin...
by Rochus | 2026-02-15 01:23:59+00:00
The book version is a subset of Minix version 3.1.0 (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Minix3/tree/3.1.0).

The sursprise comes when you try to compile the minimal book version and find out that it is not as lean as presented in the book but actually depends on hundereds of assembler files (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Minix3/tree/Minix3_Book_TCC).
by bb88 | 2026-02-15 01:24:01+00:00
This strikes me as cool to see someone build another language with python using lark, it's also possible to override the ">>" or "|" characters in python to achieve the same thing, and also you don't have to worry about the "lark" grammar.

I had a custom lark grammar I thought was cool to do something similar, but after a while I just discarded it and went back to straight python, and found it was faster my an order of magnitude.
by calmbonsai | 2026-02-15 01:24:58+00:00
Well, duh.

The chosen propagation media (wire substitute) wouldn't have significant frequency responses differences for those lengths for that level of power in the audio frequency range.

You'd need to have transmission-line effects kick-in which would occur at higher frequencies and/or if a cross-section of the signal propagation paths would have a significant difference in impedance. All three of the chosen medium act like simple power-sink resistors in this scenario--attenuating the signal consistently across the power frequency spectra.

Seriously, just do a frequency sweep and plot the log of the output responses! But no, that would be far too straightforward an experiment.

What really matters is the signal source, any amplified distortion in the signal, final sonic transducer (speaker), transmission medium (air density), transducer orientation (for higher frequencies), and the individual listener's ear.
by Izkata | 2026-02-15 01:25:27+00:00
Stargate SG-1: Absolutely.

Stargate Atlantis: Maybe better than average. On rewatch it's tended to feel bland somehow. Began with SG-1 S8 and ran concurrently with some crossovers (Atlantis premiere happens immediately after SG-1 S8 premiere and contains minor spoilers for it).

Stargate Universe: Nope. Had potential it very much did not live up to. Set years after the first two ended.

Stargate Infinity (cartoon): No way. Additionally was made before SG-1 got very far and has many incorrect guesses about how it would have developed, set decades into the future.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-15 01:26:14+00:00
“ SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine. SQLite is the most used database engine in the world. SQLite is built into all mobile phones and most computers and comes bundled inside countless other applications that people use every day.”

You don’t have to fully audit what you use, but you’d better do some basic vetting. If there’s no web site, no documentation, no activity on the issue tracker, then maybe when you put all your precious data into the thing and lose it, that’s your problem.
by K0balt | 2026-02-15 01:26:20+00:00
Tbh, getting good results from ai requires senior level intuition. You can be rusty as hell and not even middling in the language being used, but you have to understand data structures and architecture more than ever to get non-shit results. If you just vibe it, you’ll eventually end up with a mountain of crap that works sort of, and since you’re not doing the coding, you can’t really figure it out as you go along. Sometimes it can work to naively make a thing and then have it rewritten from scratch properly though, so that might be the path.
by OfficialTurkey | 2026-02-15 01:26:57+00:00
I haven't been following the vector db space closely for a couple years now, but I find it strange that they didn't compare their performance to the newest generation serverless vector dbs: Pinecone Serverless, turbopuffer, Chroma (distributed, not the original single-node implementation). I understand that those are (mostly) hosted products so there's not a true apples-to-apples comparison with the same hardware, but surely the most interesting numbers are cost vs performance.
by bityard | 2026-02-15 01:28:22+00:00
I'm 100% convinced that these 'show fewer' options are there for dark-pattern reasons. They are sprinkled throughout Facebook and LinkedIn as well. My hypothesis is that companies put them there to give consumers the idea that they have any control at all over their "feed." But if they actually try to use them, they discover the options don't actually do anything, and resign themselves to whatever the algorithm feeds them.
by plagiarist | 2026-02-15 01:28:29+00:00
They say, "actual medical doctors and experts," well, call me too skeptical, but claiming that demons inseminate people in the night really calls their other medical opinions into question.

Dr. Demon Semen (who agrees with them) is a medical expert we are dismissing unfairly. 99.9% of climate scientists (who disagree with them) are quacks. Just more regular doublethink in action.

It is so funny how they hypocritically whine about "the narrative." They somehow don't remember the whiplash switching from all-in on hydroxychloroquine to all-in on ivermectin. Happened nearly instantly when their far-right grifters figured out which of those two drug would turn a profit.
by mikewarot | 2026-02-15 01:28:47+00:00
Surprisingly, I think it really doesn't matter much to me if a person or a bot wrote most of this, the curiosity is the part I respond to.

I told it a bit about the experience of seeing the stars, focused wayyyy too much on the technical details, then tied it together in that none of us actually see the whole sky.

Yeah, a tiny bit unsettling, but it's honest enough that the uncanny valley isn't really a thing for me right now.

I'm not sure if I'll do the thing and run my own copy, or not. I've got to ponder it for a few days.
by lotharbot | 2026-02-15 01:28:58+00:00
Specifically, Overload was made by Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog, who were the original Descent developers. There were also major contributions from people like Dan Wentz (who worked on Descent 3) and from people who spent a lot of time playing the original game, like me and my wife (our 3 sons are all named for friends we know from Descent.)
by jml78 | 2026-02-15 01:31:25+00:00
I wouldn't argue we should roll this out to everyone. But I am glad it exists. I commented earlier in this topic about how it caught cancer in my wife at the age of 44. She didn't have to go through chemo or radiation treatment because it was caught so early. Surgery removed the whole cancer.

Additionally for me, I have a scan that shows what my body currently has. I had something show up that I did get a scope to check out that was a pancreatic rest. No big deal. Now, if I ever have another MRI and somethings is somewhere else, we have a baseline to compare against. Everything is a risk calculation. When I did my MRI, I also had other procedures done like a heart calcium score.

I will get a little more personal. We didn't do it out of the blue. My wife and I decided we want to live on a sailboat. That was a big purchase for us and boats take a long time to sell. We didn't want to commit to such a purchase then 1 year later find out either of us had cancer then we have the stress of cancer and the stress of trying to sell a boat.

I would never suggest everyone do it, but I am happy we did.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-15 01:32:43+00:00
...but claiming that demons inseminate people in the night really calls their other medical opinions into question.

Very true. And for those who have no idea who you're talking about, this is who you're talking about: https://www.yahoo.com/news/stella-immanuel-theories-relation...

When someone like the OP refers to the "established narrative" or "accepted narrative", it should be recognized as a shibboleth of stupidity, indicating exactly where they're coming from.
by teendifferent | 2026-02-15 01:32:50+00:00
OP here. I wanted to test whether the vision encoder's pre-training strategy matters when you stitch it into an LLM. So I froze three encoders (CLIP, I-JEPA, supervised ViT), stitched each into Qwen2.5 with a small trainable projector + LoRA (~3M params), and compared.

Key findings:
- CLIP dominates on average (language-aligned embeddings make the projector's job trivial).
- But I-JEPA — which has never seen text during pre-training — ties CLIP on compositional reasoning (CLEVR). And scaling the LLM from 0.5B to 1.5B helped more than swapping any encoder.

Code, trained weights, and eval scripts are all open: https://github.com/REDDITARUN/CLIP-ViT-IJEPA-VLM/tree/main

Blog: https://teendifferent.substack.com/p/stitching-vision-into-l...

Curious what others think about I-JEPA-style representations for VLMs — the spatial reasoning results surprised me.
by asveikau | 2026-02-15 01:32:54+00:00
This depends a lot on what manpage you're looking at.

When I learned C more than 20 years ago, I found libc manpages a pretty good way to learn. For many functions in section 3, you can read the manpage and make an intelligent guess on how it's implemented, and write your own implementation. I did this as an exercise back in the day.
by K0balt | 2026-02-15 01:32:56+00:00
I guess if you limit “violence” to violence against humans only? I’ve always thought that violence was applicable to animals and plants as well, so I guess we differ there.

Intentional harm that causes death is firmly in the violence category, imho.

the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy is pretty much the accepted definition, afaik

I’m not thinking of violence as some kind of universal bad thing though, it’s part of the natural world.