skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in the process of recovering from CFS (currently back to working 100%, though still not being where I want to be with everything else) and at no point my doctor has done anything but take it seriously. Of course, a doctor can only do so much with a disease as nebulous as this, but he (as well as work, family and other people around me) giving me breathing space and adapting to my situation has been crucial for my improvement, I'm pretty sure.
Years ago, one of my friends who was really into fitness offered a free service to help people with meal planning and setting up their diets.

A lot of people would come to him and say they wanted to lose weight, but when he started discussing their diet and shopping lists they would get defensive. They didn’t like the implication that something they did or a choice they made was a factor in their weight gain.

Instead, they wanted to blame everything but themselves. It wasn’t their fault they picked the packaged, ultra-processed thing at the store. It was the food industry’s fault for making it unhealthy. It wasn’t their fault they didn’t buy vegetables at the store, it was their parents’ fault for not teaching them how to cook as a kid. It was common to hear people claim that they were doing calorie restriction but it didn’t work because of microplastics, toxic chemicals in the soil, pesticides, or other environmental factors.

This mentality even swept through the “rationalist” community online recently. A blogger wrote a long series with over a dozen long posts trying to find any other explanation for weight gain. In the very first article he had a graph showing that caloric consumption was up and activity was down over the years where obesity was on the rise, but he concluded that couldn’t be it. It must be chemicals in the water! The blog series was very popular in rationalist communities and IIRC even Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex gave the author a financial grant.

The story with phones is the same: People don’t want to hear that it’s their fault for using phones so much. They want to blame the algorithm or their job for “making” them spend hours on the phone.

Resistance to any concept of self accountability is stronger than ever on the internet. Social media delivers convenient excuses, which can be seen throughout this thread.
It has been getting worse and worse in EU, even under Biden, since nobody dares to jump into technical level regulation at EU.

For instance, most critical/utility/dominant(shooping with amazon)/state web sites should interop with noscript/basic (x)html browsers... like they were a few years ago...
You probably have gut dysbiosis causing inflamation of your gut and inflamation leads to depression like symptoms. This doesn’t mean you have to eat keto all the time, but rather that you should take probiotics to restore your gut flora. This way, you can continue eating a balanced diet without allowing that specific bacteria to become overpopulated. The best for me was using Lactobacyllus subtilis HU-58 alongside low-fodmap diet. The low fodmap diet is a shorter period of 1 month, then it needs to continue with the RENEW diet for 3-6months to 1 year. This whole period needs to be supplimented with hu58.
Why more and more journalists are launching worker-owned outlets
This is spot-on. In addition to the obvious risks (privacy, security), these devices represent a tremendous opportunity cost. Think of how that life-crushed-into-an-iPad commercial resonated in all the unintended ways.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42849798
You phrase it well. It's not the AI themselves. You can as easily get an AI to take something fundamentally banal and write it into something exciting, dynamic, exotic, or strange.

If you analyze these systems as a work of art, using the postmodern toolset, the people and systems taking one of the most potent technologies humanity has ever created and using it to craft a banality machine is just... very revealing. Like the great-uncle who can't even finish protesting how non-racist he is without using a racial slur in the process.

"We're innovative! We're hip! We're on the cutting edge! We're setting trends! Now here, let me help you turn your text into the grayest corporate sludge imaginable."

It's art. It's probably not art they intended to make, but it's art.
I got a couple of outright counterfeit 12TB Ironwolf drives from "AlamCh Trading Inc" on Amazon a couple of months ago. Slipped up and didn't notice that I was buying from an obviously suspicious seller. They did refund them... after being appropriately threatened.
Garmin's smartwatch line and SOS communicators now have a massive target on their back. Now that the satellite availability issues are going to be solved, they just need to push battery life further for the watches and they'll be golden.

There will be no point other than simplicity / physical buttons to get a Garmin watch over an Apple watch if you have an iPhone pretty soon.

Garmin w/ eink screen, not great app, bad Apple compatibility = $300, latest AW series 10 = $380
Right! Long-distance aviation seems like an obvious application, though companies like Joby might take over the short-distance market with battery-powered airplanes.

Presumably most of the cost of synfuel has been in the energy inputs, right? And solar will drive the cost of intermittent energy down by at least an order of magnitude and possibly two.

As Handmer's post says:

> (...) up until this point no-one has considered scaling these up as a fundamental source of hydrocarbons, because doing so would be cost prohibitive. Why? The machinery is not particularly complex, but the energy demands are astronomical.
I use Grammarly to check for errors I make during writing more serious stuff (English is not my native language), but any suggestion it sends in my way changes the tone of the text so much that it sounds like it's written by a PR agency with a fake, forced attitude; sounding bland and colorless.

So no, thank you. Correct my textbook punctuation mistakes, and leave my wordy and "not positive enough" sentences to me.
Joining the current century! Get an mRNA injection!

Great PR.
For those who are wondering:

Hypercane

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A hypercane is a hypothetical class of extreme tropical cyclone that could form if sea surface temperatures reached approximately 50 °C (122 °F), which is 12 °C (22 °F) warmer than the warmest ocean temperature ever recorded.[1] Such an increase could be caused by a large asteroid or comet impact, a large supervolcanic eruption, a large submarine flood basalt, or "incredible" global warming.[2] There is some speculation that a series of hypercanes resulting from the impact of a large asteroid or comet contributed to the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs.[3] The hypothesis was created by Kerry Emanuel of MIT, who also coined the term.[4][5][3]
I was a happy Disco user. A lot of the Mac apps from that era were fun and made me want to find excuses to use them, rather than look for excuses to avoid what might otherwise feel like work. In the case of Delicious Library that would be the unpleasantness that would most likely be using a spreadsheet to track similar data and a lot of manual data entry.

Going the opposite way with discs, to rip my DVD collection at the time, I used RitIt. While the UI was seemingly unnecessary, it is initially what led me to find the concept of ripping all my DVDs more tolerable. After the novelty wore off, it had a feature to automatically start ripping on a disc being inserted, and would auto-eject at the end. This let me keep a stack of DVDs next to the computer and simply feed in the next disc when I saw one sticking out. After a few days I was done. I probably would have put this off for years (or forever) with more utilitarian software. The same can be said for AppZapper. Is it silly to make a ray gun sound when uninstalling an app, sure, but it makes it fun to delete unused apps, which is something a lot of people never do.

Where I think some of this software really got a bad name was so much of it becoming abandonware. TheHitList todo app was really hyped, and I got it in a software bundle (MacHeist or something), which was popular at the time. However, it seemed like once the dev had their money, they disappeared. Once burned me a couple times, I became wary of investing in any app that looked too nice…

I do miss a lot of those apps, and the hardware, of that era. It has so much charm. Great third party software devs who seemed to really have passion for what they were building, were one of the big reasons I enjoyed using OS X so much in that era, and a big reason to pay the Apple tax. I still use Transmit from Panic from time to time, and find it much more enjoyable than something like FileZilla (which was what seemed to be the standard last time I looked at other FTP apps years ago).
I apologize, I misread your initial argument. I thought you were defending the canavore diet, the subject of the article went through (there are definitely comments in this comments section making that claim).

The research behind ultra processing has legs from what I've read. My none expert take is that it has more to do with the fact that portion sizes are larger and caloric density is higher.

It doesn't take long to find videos of people from all over the world visiting the US and commenting on how much food is served.

That also jives with why drugs like semaglutide work so well at reducing weight.
Honestly the only spot-on use case I can think of for an eternally calm, friendly, totally bland and generic customer service AI is for interacting with the Karens of the world and only because it would spare the nerves of human employees and because the logs would no doubt be hilarious to read.
The question is:

Are people (or companies) locked out of training LLMs due to price?

I don't know the immediate answer. I really expect it to be a resounding "yes" on the long term because different LLMs should be good for different things. But in any way, this is not about the people adding a cloud client to their software.
Understanding the origin is the most critical piece of information to avoid future pandemics. Current data is inconclusive even for the most basic questions, such as the origin being natural or not, which very much matters, but investigation efforts are actively suppressed. Or at least I would think it matters, you and everyone else do not seem to care.
Why would they do that?

It would harm their business, because paying customers don't gain anything from being profiled like that, and would move to one of the growing numbers of competent alternatives.

They'd be found out the moment someone GDPR/CCPA exported their data to see what had been recorded.
AI "polishing" tools are essentially a form of anti-compression. Lets take some information represented concisely and needlessly pad it with formalities and waffle so it appears more "professional" (whilst also throwing away useful "metadata" like message tone).

No doubt the recipient will also be using some form of AI summarization that strips away all that added "polish" - making the whole exercise entirely redundant!

It just feels absurd.
Troubles with multipart form data and fetch in Node.js
The “blame {some new technology} on the downfall of society” racket is getting old.

People aren’t _feeling sexy_ because of the smart phone. People aren’t feeling sexy because they _lack the time_ to invest in these relationships. Technology and automation innovation of the 80s and 90s promised us shorter work weeks, stable pay, more security, better prosperity.

Yet labor/workers have the opposite in this “modern” economy. A majority of people in the US are working multiple jobs just to support themselves and family. Healthcare is out of reach for many people due to the obscene price fixing scandal known as health insurance.

Wages for labor has stagnated since the 80-90s. While corporate profits have reached all time highs and US govt gets bent for the rich by giving them tax cuts. Subsequently, public programs and safety net programs get cut. An increasing number of _middle class workers_ are getting left behind and we have collectively done nothing about it.

I’ll re-iterate. The awful neoliberal economics this country’s policy is the reason why people don’t _feel sexy_ anymore. This is the true downfall of society and a once great country.
https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine, main website is out of date but the app is still getting releases.
Your thoughts will be replaced by <thoughts></thoughts>. For your convenience.
Canadian tech salaries compare to the U.S.
Reading the reddit thread is a better source of information. From the original source:

It has been taken and sent to the Netherlands for evaluation (I’m in Europe) but the immediately pointed me to a a paragraph in the Apple Cover + terms where they state: folded and crushed devices are not covered This is not advertised at all of course, but it’s there
I think it would be more successful if the tool was labeled "Make more persuasive" or "Manipulate"
DOT rips up US fuel efficiency regulations [pdf]
I get the frustration, but I think there’s a hidden assumption in this discussion: that everyone can write well in English.

Only about 5% of the world’s population are native English speakers, but more than twice that number use it daily. For many, AI rewriting isn’t about losing personal style—it’s about making sure they can communicate clearly in a language that isn’t their first.

It’s fair to dislike how AI flattens unique voices, but for a huge part of the world, it’s not erasing personality—it’s making participation possible.
Hydrocarbons are great for energy density, but gas turbines are brilliant for power density. That's why we need them (and syn fuels)
> Remember this the next time you fall asleep to a TikTok playing on an endless loop: one day your heart will stop beating.

Dogshit mental health advice of the week award goes to...

What a disaster of a read. The rape of the language one utterance of 'sexy' at a time. At least it reset my compass on what I consider bizarre after all the LLM stuff.

Really hope this was not written sober, otherwise I'm fresh out of hope again. I guess OP would find that very sexy somehow though.
Ask HN: Are there any articles/papers on fine tuning Virtual Memory BSD or Linux
I'm interested in fine tuning it for environments like multiuser (order of hundreds) servers handling independent databases (mostly MySQL) and server runing at the same time many nginx/Apache serving web pages.
I actually use LLMs to unpolish dictation results from MacWhisper[0] to match the way I write in chats. MacWhisper lets you set a prompt to automatically post-process your transcribed output. Here is my prompt:

'You are a professional proofreader and editor. Your task is to rewrite this dictation with more casual capitalization and punctuation so it can be used in a chat setting.

- Always capitalize "I" and derived words like "I'm"

- Sentences should start with lower case letters unless they start with “I”

- Replace explicit punctuation callouts with the actual punctuation

- No period at the end of the message, but leave periods between sentences

- Do not remove commas

- Do not change sophisticated words to more common ones

Return only the result. Do not add any explanations or comments about your edit.'

[0]: https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
There's an IBM Deathstar (sold to Hitachi, sold to WD) model that has its own section, at least:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...
I agree with all this. People make two big mistakes when evaluating fusion:

1. The fuel is free to cheap, depending on the fuel; and

2. Stars can do it so surely we can.

So let's consider a mythical plant that costs $30B to build, has a lifetime of 30 years, costs $3B/year in maintenance and produces 1000MW of power. And the fuel. is free. Is the electricty free? Not even close. That's ~8.8GWh per year. No plant runs at full capacity 24x7 so let's call it 4TWh. That's about $1/kWh. That's ludicrously uneconomical. Of course you can throw in vastly different numbers and vastly different results but the main point is that fuel cost is a non-issue.

And as the article points out, in a D-T reactor, you still need to produce tritium because it's basically not naturally occurring in a way that can be gathered. That means a fission breeder reactor. That fuel isn't free.

Second, "the Sun does it" misses the point. As the article correctly points out, damage from neutrons ("neutron embrittlement") is a huge problem. Beyond that, it's a huge problem because every high-speed electron that escapes the plasma is energy loss from the system.

Stars use gravity for containment.
As a tangent, the other day I read a post of a person who used to be close to Elon Musk and was giving their account of that relationship, and it was translated to Polish via DeepSeek.

It was not idiomatic Polish - very far from it really, so I guess depending on the model used here, the result could have been equally disappointing if it was really trying to Polish that email.
Consequences of a stolen car are directly obvious and noticeable, and we can't get some people to apply security there. How do you think that's going to work in a system with so many levels of abstraction and typically huge numbers of people involved?
AI does not want to do anything, whatsoever.

It's owners, however, definitely want you to fall into lockstep that cooking the Earth for their billion$ is perfectly fine and that waking up to a life of low-impact, serviceful compassion to the Earth and its peoples is just virtue-signalling when, in fact, it is simply virtuous in the face of demented psychosociopaths.

Note that this all started with all that digital coin-mining. Just more burning the Earth for fakeass money so callous bastards can get richer.
> It’s like my whole computer is a toddler screaming “LET ME DO IT!” every time I try to create something.

Every autocorrect or auto suggestion ever has felt like this to me, but the volume has been turned up to 11. The otherwise drab Adobe Reader is covered with colorful sparkly buttons and popups suggesting I need not even read the document because it can give me “insights.” First, no you may not ready my proprietary document, nor do I suspect most people using this particular software - I only have it for digital signatures - have permission to share IP with a third party. But mostly, it can sometimes be a useful tool, and the fact everyone is shoving it in my face reeks of desperation.

The tech industry is in real trouble.
> They listed 5 challenges but they forgot probably the biggest one-- Make it cheaper than the alternatives.

Does it really need to be cheaper if it's more promising?
We actually do have commercially available superconductors that support much stronger magnetic fields than what ITER is able to do.

I don't think it's 100x, but it doesn't have to be. Tokamak output scales with the fourth power of magnetic field strength. Double the field, 16X the energy output. CFS and Tokamak Energy are building tokamaks with these.

Tokamak output also scales with the square of reactor size, which is why ITER is so big. These new reactors can be much smaller for the same output, so they'll be much faster and cheaper to build. The CFS design is about the size of JET, which was built in four years, with three of those being just for the building.
Phoronix Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 benchmarks
I do like it
> This is a good time to mention that even though from a semantic perspective sets and dictionaries do not carry information about the ordering of their elements.

Except they do in Python. It is extremely useful, surprisingly often.
You have to look at it holistically.

This is the current modern Human:

1. Born into the beast, enters social media by 5-7 years old

2. All math and writing is done for you (becoming illiterate)

3. You don't have to spell ever again (becoming illiterate)

4. You cultivate a virtual persona since childhood (becoming vain)

5. Did your life really happen if it wasn't posted online (the digital existentialist crisis -- do you even exist if you aren't part of the hive?)

Then add more shit to this like, I dunno, no jobs, swipe left and right to find your soul mate ...

Yeah and then you finally get ... you and me, the whole fuck it, I don't care anymore.

Feeding apathy with AI will not end well, we have to care. Look at our kids today, we screwed them.
Does XFCE still code the window border grab area inside the theme, and then ship greybird as the default theme with only a 1 pixel.

Awful OOB user experience. Can be made to work great, but full of papercuts for new users.
Well, Starlink has been known to provide roaming services in countries they haven't reached a full agreement with yet, with the exception of the ones who legitimately might have the power to shoot down SpaceX satellites if they got angry enough (India, China, Russia).
My mother is a first-generation immigrant. Her writing isn’t ideal, but AI allows her to communicate articulately in a way, where before she might have been discriminated against
I truly appreciate the term Turboclippy and will be using it from now on
This Reddit thread says an m3 max 128GB gets 23 tokens/sec with deepseek r1 32B, and 4 tokens / sec with 70b:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1i69dhz/deepsee...
LOL

"Hellcat demanded that the French energy management giant pay $125,000 in baguettes."
I found the OP interesting and though-provoking, even though its title is too linkbait-ish for my taste, and the author completely ignores the harsh reality that most business decisions in Silicon Valley are driven by the fear that applications, platforms, and technologies can quickly become obsolete. Dominant companies like Intel and Research in Motion can get in serious financial trouble in the blink of an eye. Silicon Valley founders and CEOs are normally under so much crazy-intense pressure that outside calls for "nicer behavior" ring hollow and seem hopelessly naive to them.[a]

If someone asked whether the author has ever been responsible for growing revenues at any point in her life, my guess would be: probably not.

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[a] As Andy Grove used to say, "only the paranoid survive:" https://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Exploit-Challen...
The whole AI discussion reminds me of David Graeber's "bullshit jobs" book. If the content doesn't matter, why not have an AI generate something polite and meaningless? Why not save effort managing your inbox full of meaningless emails by having the AI summarize them? It might lose some of the details, but they didn't matter. And so more and more of the white collar world gets replaced by AI .. until it actually disrupts away all the bullshit jobs entirely.

Edit: comments describing exactly this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865225
Works: Yes

Maintained: Only for bugfixes, except by metux, who is working on starting a fork.
> American health system is a joke.

I don't disagree, but having some kind of medical situation isn't a prerequisite for gaming the Patreon system. I used to be a monthly patreon subscriber to someone years ago who put out weekly asmr videos. One day they just stopped cold turkey with no announcement, yet years later their Patreon is still up and still taking monthly donations.