skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Clinical psychologists Kenneth Zucker's work in getting the majority of his patients over their dysphoria is "evidence" that reparative therapy works

You are conflating social trends among young people to identify as gender non-confirming for social clout, with adults who have intractable gender dysphoria. It is disingenuous to point to children who were likely not genuinely gender dysphoric to begin with, claim that they were 'cured' and conclude that this solution is then viable for all people with gender dysphoria. There is an incredible amount of nuance to the situation that you are simply ignoring.

One of two things is true:

1) You genuinely do not understand the 'separation of concerns' when it comes to these issues surround gender, biological sex and gender dysphoria, current social trends, and sensational political headlines.

2) You are being intentionally misleading.

I'm going to assume you are arguing in good faith and that #1 is true. In that case, I recommend you take a step back and try to recalibrate your understanding of the issue. I don't know the best way to accomplish that - maybe do some research and read some stories of transgender people published prior to 2015 before it became the political fight du jour.

>Every random comment on Reddit that "I suffered from dysphoria and then started lifting and doing masculine things and got completely over it" is evidence that reparative therapy works.

You've gone from demanding randomized controlled trials to referring to random comments from anonymous users on Reddit about how lifting weights cures gender dysphoria?

I think it's safe to say that the conversation has gone off the rails, although maybe that happened a few replies ago.
I just built a library on jReleaser!

https://github.com/NJAldwin/maven-central-test

I wanted to release a jvm lib on Maven Central -- which no longer requires opening a jira ticket for a new package! Instead, simple DNS TXT verification is all that's needed. However, the caveat is that it's the new Maven Central service, which doesn't have as much support in build tools as the older sonatype one. jReleaser is one of the few tools which supports it.

So I hacked together a fully self-contained minimally reproducible example of a Gradle library, built and published in GitHub using jReleaser.

There were several things that had me scratching my head with jReleaser, and the docs are strangely organized IMO (it comes from supporting so many facets, I believe), but it ended up working well enough!

I ended up adding a doc build and some other stuff to the repo too. Now I have a full example that I can use to trivially publish new libraries (such as in-progress https://github.com/NJAldwin/ambient-consumer ).

(Why Maven Central? Since the demise of jFrog/jCenter/BinTray, there's not been an easy way to widely publish jvm libraries. At work I've used GH packages, but that requires a GitHub login even for public packages, which is a significant barrier IME. JitPack is one option, but it does on-demand builds linked closely to the origin repo, whereas I wanted the classic immutable build published on release.)
I believe this comes from our verbiage.

If I asked you, "hey. How many Rs in strawberry?". You're going to tell me 2, because the likelihood is I am asking about the ending Rs. That's at least how I'd interpret the question without the "llm test" clouding my vision.

Same for if I asked how many gullible. I'd say "it's a double L after the u".

It's my guess this has muddled the training data.
IMO managing revisions makes more sense than managing patches. Yes yes, I know about commutative patches and all that, and no I don't need that. I do reorder patches sometimes, and when they yield the same tree that's interesting, but not that interesting.
Awesome need to make one for naming variables too haha
Problems with Iconv on macOS
> Do you think this will make coding more approachable to beginners

Yes, a little

> will [it] create confusion later on when they will have to remove the "training wheels"?

Yes, a lot
The company is owned by Bytedance
Can you share more about your first point? A brief search shows the 1915 Burdick supreme court case said that accepting a pardon can imply guilt. However, it doesn't seem to say that acknowledgement or acceptance of guilt is a requirement by the recipient of the pardon.
Civil asset forfeiture connected to an actual crime should be. You should not own the guns you used to murder someone else, e.g.

Otherwise it's "your $100,000 in dollars in cash looks guilty to me."
NVM, Ross was just freed

https://x.com/Free_Ross/status/1881851923005165704
One-time capital costs that unlock a range of possibilities also tend to be good bets.

The Flood Control Act [0], TVA, Heavy Press, etc.

They all created generally useful infrastructure, that would be used for a variety of purposes over the subsequent decades.

The federal government creating data center capacity, at scale, with electrical, water, and network hookups, feels very similar. Or semiconductor manufacture. Or recapitalizing US shipyards.

It might be AI today, something else tomorrow. But there will always be a something else.

Honestly, the biggest missed opportunity was supporting the Blount Island nuclear reactor mass production facility [1]. That was a perfect opportunity for government investment to smooth out market demand spikes. Mass deployed US nuclear in 1980 would have been a game changer.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_Control_Act_of_1928

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_Power_Systems#Const...
It's not murky, I just picked the most official source. There's no real enforcement of selective service, except that if you don't sign up for it likely bars from subsequent employment by the Federal government unless you can get a waiver.

In practice, immigrants aren't conscripted during a draft.

We haven't had a draft since the 1970s. It's unclear how many draftees were immigrants back then (and the legal definitions around immigration have changed in the meantime) but historically conscription of immigrants has been the norm, not the exception.

Voting, Jury Service, Employment Authorization, and Driver's licenses.

These seem like things from which undocumented immigrants are excluded (by law!), not immunized. Why you think this is an argument in favor of your legal theory is beyond me.
Feel free to use the search bar to see what's been written (including by me) in the zillion discussions we've had on this case in the past. Again: primary source documentation of what happened in that trial is right there for you to read; you're just a Google search away from it.
It should be possible using native messaging [1] which can call out to an external binary. The 1password extensions use that to communicate with the password manager binary.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069523/sam-altm...

Wouldn't surprise me Sam Altman convinced Trump/Son/Ellison that this AI can reverse their aging. And Ellison does have a ton of money - $208bn.
ARM and VectorChord: Affordable, Fast Vector Search
I've been working on a self-hosted, low-latency service for small LLM's. It's basically exactly what I would have wanted when I started my previous startup. The goal is for real time applications, where even the network time to access a fast LLM like groq is an issue.

I haven't benchmarked it yet but I'd be happy to hear opinions on it. It's written in C++ (specifically not python), and is designed to be a self-contained microservice based around llama.cpp.

https://github.com/thansen0/fastllm.cpp
I also get the feeling that modern frontend is a massive money pit but this seems to be a leadership problem. I wouldn't go so far as to blame the IC. There are developers over-engineering in every ecosystem.
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
> But given that no-one seems to seriously dispute that he did try to pay to have the guy killed

If there was enough evidence to demonstrate that he attempted to murder someone, why wasn't he charged and convicted of it?

Also, 2 of the DEA agents involved in his investigation were convicted of fraud in relation to the case.

I do believe he probably did attempt to have someone killed, but I'm far from certain of it, and think it should have no bearing on the case if there's not enough evidence to convict him.
All I can think about after reading this is "Rest In Power Aaron Swartz"
God forbid anyone would invest $500,000,000,000 to create jobs. No no no. 500 billion to destroy them for "more efficiency" so the owner class can get richer.
Yeah. That's absolutely true. I think people under-appreciate their effectiveness as a negotiating tactic.
More interesting is to compare languages. Other than native English, I only know Hindi (plural zero) and French (singular zero).

I wonder what and why the divide is, perhaps especially when among these three at least I believe zero has a common conceptual origin in al-Khvārizmī (post Roman).
> we can find untold examples

"All birds have eyes" != "All things that have eyes are birds."

My hypothesis is that wherever we speak about "zero" and some quantity, it seems like we can substitute "no", and the pluralization rules we'd use for "no" are being inherited.

In contrast, it sounds like you're going the opposite direction, starting with sentences that contain "no" where we cannot drop-in "zero". For example, "No star in the sky is green" cannot become "Zero star in the sky is green."
If the cases start with: "US v $200,000", that probably needs to go away.

I doubt I would be able to get away with "bb88 v $2B". It should so belong to me.
I don't think I got anything from this article over and above what has already been written about AI elsewhere and in greater depth and detail.
This is cool. what LLM are you using?
Would love to see this applied to a FPS bot in unreal engine.
And Kennedy is a Catholic, so you're just voting in the Pope. And van Buren is a Dutchman. This isn't new.
What 2025 Holds for Tokenized Real World Assets
Love it, I'd prefer a more popular language, but this is really cool.

Docs aren't great yet, but that's probably not a priority yet.
Can’t get promoted pumping out 10 great pages. But a library that you can claim will enhance the productivity of 100 other engineers? Now that’s IMPACT!!

Except you’re at a company where everyone has figured this out so now you have 4 competing libraries with their own teams which are all 1/2 done making every engineer less productive cause they all have bugs and slightly different priorities.
Ask HN: What reason would you have to chase wealth beyond $50M?
I can’t actually figure this out. I thought I always knew. There’s no way a sound heart would pursue that unless … unsound.

It’s a feeling I can’t really shake right now with the images on the news.
Old people actually leaned bluer this year relative to past elections.
So I'd prefer to give a good person the power to do good things by pardoning those worthy of liberty, and a bad person the power to make their corruption evident for the world to see.
Yeah Rongta brands are the ones that come up frequently when I search on Amazon. Will check them out. Thanks.
Maybe you don't want to give yourself away!
You...want to know how zero is divided?
Device could be a tablet without cellular.

Anyway, my son has a phone (hand down from me 5 years ago) without cellular.
Inflation?

For your grandchildren, and your grandchildren's 2.3 children.
Winning by 1.6% is not a massive victory. It's actually a smaller margin than Hillary won the popular vote by in 2016 (despite losing the electoral vote).
I hate how paper titles are worded like seo techniques.
I remember that episode well, and had cause recently (size of Greenland in the news) to show someone else the same thing.

In the Peter's projection the size of the US and especially Europe, become "smaller" relative to say the size of Africa.

It can be quite disconcerting to a person when their "place in the world" is challenged at such a fundamental level.
Alt tip: dont use any fat on the pan when cooking pancakes. Gives the surface that restaurant quaility, smooth evenness.
How is the original source available? Wouldn’t Activision still hold the copyright ?
> Even the people who actually sold drugs on his site got out in 2 years.

And Ross made millions from those people selling drugs on his site. Quite possibly more than any person selling drugs on his site.

And attempted to hire hitmen to prevent anyone stopping it. Not even as a potential "crime of passion", but solely to protect his money train.

And there's this whole false narrative of "youthful indiscretions". He didn't start building the site til he was 28 and was mostly running it in his early 30s.
Thank you! I'm using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5
Apropos of which I learned today that some languages have not merely a plural, but a whole complex of representations for cardinality, including rather more of the counting values than I expected, and variations for uncertainty and optionality (some might say, superposition).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_number#Types_of_nu...
There's an Ask HN thread going[1] asking about what people have done with small LLMs. This seems like a possible application. I asked Granite 3.1 MOE 3B to generate a title based on the abstract and it came up with:

Tensor Product Attention: A Memory-Efficient Solution for Longer Input Sequences in Language Models

Maybe a Greasemonkey script to pass arXiv abstracts to a local Ollama could be something...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42784365
Great answer. Thanks!

I think the power of fat clients comes when you have different consumers of the same APIs/logic. Like a browser app or two, maybe backend services, a few task queues, etc. Then having a clean separation between client code and business logic becomes super valuable.

In my experience with SPA we got to a point where my team could go weeks, even months, without having to make changes in server code. Whole new features that were fully supported by our existing APIs because they were written as reusable APIs. If you’re having to write a bunch of Rails to support the growing client code, you probably didn’t need a separate client yet.

But when your codebase gets to that point even Rails is just a frontend really. So it’s mostly about which tradeoffs you prefer. Unfortunately I left Rails right around the time Turbo was becoming a proper thing you could use so I don’t have the best feel for what it’s like.
> 1) should institutions that have female only spaces or events be allowed to exclude pre-op transwomen? Post-op? For example, the women's only nude spa in Seattle that got in trouble for excluding a transwoman

I'm not sure how such a thing is strictly enforceable. Even in states that have banned trans people from using the bathroom that they prefer, it seems to operate mostly on the honor system.

> If a coworker of mine who I know to be a biological male (he has sired children, etc.) socially transitions (no surgery), should I be forced to call him "she"

What does "forced" mean? The reality is that if you cannot make this basic accommodation that most people consider to be a matter of social etiquette in 2025, other people may not perceive you in a positive way and that can have unintended consequences.

You mentioned in another reply that you feel its important to respect cultural norms and expectations when it comes to things like what you are expected to wear. Well, basic respect of pronouns and not antagonizing transgender people are increasingly a 'cultural norm'.

> Should I be able to make an argument on social media (Reddit etc.) such as "Men cannot get pregant" or "trans women are not real women" without getting banned for hateful conduct?

People seem to make comments like this on reddit without getting banned now? A search of reddit for that term brings up many results.

There seems to be a resurgence and re-normalization of plain LGBTQ+ hate and antagonization these days. Twitter/X is full of people thrilled that "gay" and "retarded" are acceptable adjectives for them to use again.

So, in January 2025 I am not really buying any arguments about "I'm not allowed to even discuss basic issues around gender" because those discussions are absolutely happening and the rules seem less restrictive than they have in a long time.

Exhibit A: Mark Zuckerberg's latest announcement that you are allowed to post vile garbage about LGBTQ people without restriction.
xkcd "Work": https://xkcd.com/1741/

"Sometimes I get overwhelmed thinking about the amount of work that went into the ordinary objects around me."
he lost be like 68 that much to grandpa Biden
People have died from things bought on Amazon, too

Also, Ross wasn't selling those things. He was just operating a market where other people sold things.
It is wildly harmful and an escalation of monstrous practices to look at one or several unjust actions and/or sentences and declare that those who do worse than the person who was dealt out such a retribution should receive an even longer sentence.

If someone gets 10 years for smoking weed, the solution is not to put someone in prison for 20 years for punching someone.
Chesterton as Seen by His Contemporaries (1939)
I don't have a reason for switching away from Ruby at this point in my career. Things can always change down the line. Maintaining multiple languages at the same layer sounds like a personal nightmare to me. I'd rather learn to write PHP and have that be the only language, than to write Ruby+another language on the server-side.

We're building our company on Rails because we think it's the best choice for a young company, since it allows us to respond to customer feedback more quickly. That's what we're optimizing for right now!
Trump came to the Libertarian Party convention and specifically promised to free Ross if he got their support. He actually promised a commutation; I wonder why he upgraded to pardon. He also promised a libertarian in his cabinet; oh well.

The LP chairwoman has made very interesting political moves this election.
This thread is about people whose well being and ability to enjoy life is ruined by politics (Enemy centered mindset).

It’s normal to feel bad for someone you know impacted by bad a policy. Ruining your life on their behalf is not empathetic.
you say lawful convictions, but yet have not provided any evidence of all convictions being lawful. we absolutely know that people have been wrongly imprisoned. but at this point i feel like i'm talking to a 3month old bot
There’s this commercial lot nearby, abandoned scrapyard, selling for around $150M. It would be such a cool piece of property for hosting robot fights and drone swarm training arena. Lots of random junk and equipment from being an operational recycling facility for decades. Enough space to imagine building community maker shops.
I’m skeptical of anything that assumes a single branch/workspace per feature.

My career never has worked that way. I’m always juggling a series of changes that will be reviewed and merged in close succession but separately.

I keep everything in a single branch and have scripts to cherry pick revisions for merge requests.
> they (and MS) are recouping inference costs from user subscription and API revenue with a healthy operating margin.

I tried to Google for more information. I tried this search: <<is openai inference profitable?>>

I didn't find any reliable sources about OpenAI. All sources that I could find state this is not true -- inference costs are far higher than subscription fees.

I hate to ask this on HN... but, can you provide a source? Or tell us how do you know?
To nitpick, French uses both

https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/guide/accord-du-nom-apres-...

On the more general point, as I understand it comes down to what the speakers expect for the quantity. If it is generally expected to be plural, zero will probably be plural as well, if singular is more usual zero will follow.
The CUTE benchmark is interesting, but doesn't have enough examples of the actual prompts used and model outputs to be able to evaluate the results. Obviously transformers internally manipulate their input at token level granularity, so to be successful at character level manipulation they first need to generate the character level token sequence, THEN do the manipulation. Prompting them to directly output a result without allowing them to first generate the character sequence would therefore guarantee bad performance, so it'd be important to see the details.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.15452
This feels like coding via telegram STOP What's wrong with learning to use punctuation QUESTION MARK
French, which treats zero as a singular I believe has a weird way of saying "no one"

Personne on its own means ''no one'', but une personne means a person.
Once a company hires and trains a junior, then they have a senior.. and they don't want to pay them a senior salary, but apparently other companies do.

The math remains simple: if you already have an employee on your payroll, how in the world are you not willing to pay them what they can get by switching at that point? That's literally just starving one's own investment.

The real issue is that the companies who were "training" the juniors were doing so only because they saw the juniors as a bargain given that they were initially willing to work for the lower wage. They just don't stay that way as they grow into the craft.
He upgraded from commutation to pardon, I wonder about what happened there.
In life sciences, it's common to see postdocs as trainees. That kind of makes sense, as MDs are also trainees in the same career phase.

You also sometimes hear people talking about "postdoctoral students", which is less reasonable.
People regularly die from drinking alcohol. Should liquor store owners be doing life in prison? (And why are Australians special?)
> A few hours later he received an email explaining that the app company had “taken the decision to revoke access” to his account because he had been elongating his journey to the pickup point, taking longer than reasonable. It didn’t add up, but there was no straightforward way to find out more.

>It wasn’t until weeks later, when he exercised his legal right to request data held about himself, that he was told something completely different: the app company believed he had tried to manipulate the system to undeservedly earn extra fees for waiting at restaurants to pick up orders.

>This had been spotted by team members, the app company claimed. An apparent algorithmic intervention was now being described as a human one. But when Myron looked back at his pay records, he could see none of the fees he was accused of taking. It was discombobulating.

On top of putting the risk of demand for the business changing onto employees… it seems these companies can pass on the risk of even being accurate or honest with those employees.
>I can't easily rearrange pages, rearrange my notes on the page

okay. so don't do those things.

for me, that's what "calm tech" is all about - it's not just notifications and distractions, it's all the desire for more features, and for software to solve all problems. sometimes we can just not have features, and keep some problems, instead of trading our problems for the problems that more features bring.
I was happy with the result of “just make it Pong” :)
Great tip. Exactly what I've needed. I'm heavily vim-based and can't stand editing elisp. I don't mind if it's heavy on dependencies since I'm already overburdened with dependencies, what's a few more.
> Millions of people die every year from fossil fuel emissions

Citation needed. “Millions a year” is undoubtedly using some flimsy justification for the figure.
Money dulls your senses.
It felt like public infrastructure. I don’t think anyone mistook it as such but its openness probably made many of us forget, at times, that it was private and things could change in an instant.
Those are all public projects except for one..