skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tool doesn't succeed at a reasonable task that humans can do. That's not PEBKAC, and warning people about it is a good thing.

This type of analysis is not outside the purpose of the tool. You're making excuses at this point. Do you really think it would be wrong to add that capability in the future?

It's a technical limitation, one that is far from obvious.
> There is no respectable statistician who would ever draw a conclusion from data.

This is outright pedantry, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Scientific research is literally the process of drawing conclusions from data, after repeated measurement and control of independent variables.
A woman who built a business around music for pets
Precisely right. The corporate takeover of medicine is dangerous. Private equity firms are buying up hospitals and then illegally shutting them down to cash out. (Yes, I’ve seen this happen first hand. I’ve also read about other cases.) Another example of small local governments getting railroaded by corporations that have more money and lawyers.
The benchmarks game's half-dozen tiny tiny examples have nothing to say about "C# as a whole".
Discussion (613 points, 5 days ago, 550 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938125
Agreed. There was a lot of stuff I thought was cool when I was 20 which I shudder to think about now, 20 years on. It took me a long time to grow up past those phases of my life.
> The HN response to all this has actually been very strange to me.

Are you surprised that folks are generally dismayed that disruption-for-its-own-sake, particularly for governmental institutions that were never intended to either (a) run a profit, and (b) were generally intended for the public good, is seen more as chaos-mongering rather than a "good thing"?

Real lives are being impacted drastically, and overwhelmingly negatively, by this cult of optimization.

So, no, not surprising that, when the rubber meets the pavement, and real people lose their jobs, their education, their savings, their future... that perhaps, maybe the cult-of-optimization isn't all it's cracked up to be?

No?

I guess I just need more kool-aid, bottoms up.
you beat me to it :)
Speaking of catchment, lakes behave in a strange way to me. Is this an artifact of them somehow being divided up into river catchment zones? This sliver of Lake Michigan shows only the Chicago River (and it's wrong anyway, since the Chicago river flows the wrong way :) ) . https://topography.jessekv.com/?lat=41.8869&lng=-87.5356&mod...
I would naively expect clicking on a lake would show the sum of all watersheds going into it.

Ok, Lake Michigan is weird due to the canals (and strangely the Des Plaines river is shown there, maybe it's confused by that) but even very straightforward endorheic lakes seem divided up https://topography.jessekv.com/?lat=40.0780&lng=-119.5641&mo...
Can someone smarter than me explain how it's even possible to use DNA to identify the origin of a language, given that e.g. if this were tried with a language like German (or maybe any Western European language) the puzzle would look very confusing and is not DNA based.
It's Mary -> Molly-> Polly, which makes slightly more sense
In Farsi / Persian we have "-zadeh" which means child of (born from). Last names were not instituted in Persia / Iran until early 1900s and everyone got to pick their own, so there are a lot of *zadehs as it was an easy choice. So eg Hassanzadeh is child of Hassan
I didn’t start hearing your take, including the bit about “leaking to china,” in the mainstream zeitgeist until many years later.

He leaked an illegal program to the American people after the Supreme Court denied the ACLU a ruling on the classified program.

His leak resulted in a successful lawsuit against the government by the American people where the judges cited Orwell in their ruling.

Snowden was not the first Snowden, there are a handful of people who attempted to use official channels to blow the whistle on the program. Their careers were ruined and their lives destroyed. If Snowden had followed the official protocols to blow the whistle, we wouldn’t know his name today. He’d have lost everything for nothing and ended up working retail to make ends meet like his predecessors.

These are articles from the time referencing promises made and promises broken

https://www.whistleblowers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/8....

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/05/obama-...
You don't need an unbounded integer to get the algorithm to work though. All you need is to test and set the value to 1.
That's how it was (is) on IRC 25+ years ago. The Com sounds like the equivalent of idling on #2600 general.
50% precision, 100% recall

For something like diagnosis where you can type things out with specific tests I think this isn't bad.
i think they're especially likely to hallucinate when asked to cite sources, as in they're mostly prone to making up sources, and a lot of the work my lawyer friend have asked of chatgpt or claude requires it to cite stuff, and my friend has said it has just made up case law that isn't real. so while it's useful as a launching point and can in fact be helpful and find real case law, you still have to double check every single thing it says with a fine tooth comb, so its productivity impact is much lower than code where you can clearly see whether the output works immediately
Part of me wonders if I should be on ozempic since I have a family history of several of the issues it's reported to help with.

Another part of me wonders if all the ozempic headlines I've seen over the past few months are just an incredibly effective and well orchestrated ad campaign.
True, though there of course have been many different waves of Scandinavian migrants to the British Isles over the past ~2000 years or so.

In an American context, many -son surnames likely are from modern Scandinavian migrants (within the past 200 years), particularly for anyone from the Great Lakes/Midwest regions.

The site seems to have succumbed to HN traffic so I can't read it to see if it's specifically about surnames in the British Isles.
Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea but can one live forever online?
If curly braces are not visible enough, you can also use <% %>. Still less of an eyesore than BEGIN and END.
the hero we need :) There should be an extension for this.
The amount of disguised ads I've seen for Ozempic is disturbing. Fake reddit posts with fake comments and fake upvotes.
At least in astrophysics Berkeley had a reputation for grad students taking a very long time to finish. At most schools grad students would get a PhD within 5--6 years. At Berkeley it was regularly taking students 10+ years to finish, which is pretty unheard of at most other institutions.

My knowledge is about a decade out of date now, though, so things could have improved. I'm also not sure if that was also happening in other fields of physics or if it was just limited to astro. But it would be worth looking at the average time to graduation for the departments and schools you're interested in.
I don't see the difference from an average user's perspective. Either will ban you arbitrarily on a whim and then ignore you. Knowing who's to blame by name isn't that big an improvement if there's no chance they unban you.
Not a specific C-like language, but that family of languages in general and the design decisions from them:

A number is just a number even if two numbers represent completely incompatible things. If one integer represents a chmod value and one represents a number of files then you can add them together and the compiler will do nothing to stop you even though adding the two is always nonsensical. There's ways around this by creating your own types, but it's not a trivial process. In Ada I can just declare two different numeric types with identical ranges (type A is range 1..200) and the two will be incompatible.

Somewhat related to the above, all array indexes are just numbers. In Ada we can define a type and then use that type as an index of an array type, so if a value is the index type then it must be a valid array index. In Rust if I declare an array as having 5 elements then pass it to a function where I try to access element 6 then nothing will try raise an error at compile time.

Continuing on from the last point, arrays are only indexed by numbers rather than any discrete type. In Ada and enumeration is a valid type to use as an array index, or a range from 5 to 15, or -123 to 7. I'm sure this is something you can do with a generic in Rust, but it's going to be more clunky than having native language support.

Structs are just basic collections of fields. In Ada we have discriminated records that allow for some struct fields which can only be set at instantiation to control things like the number of elements in an another field which is an array. An example of where this could be used is in a ring buffer which is fully contained within a simple struct without the need for extra memory allocation. (I'm aware this conflicts with the other examples about arrays, in short there's a second type of array declaration with a variable subrange as an index). Maybe you can do this with generics in Rust, but it's not as clean, especially if you want to, for example, add a procedure to the ring buffer that takes another ring buffer as a parameter.

These are just off the top of my head as someone who's only briefly looked at Rust, I'm sure there's many more examples. The exact syntax might not match C, but many of the concepts come directly for C and derivatives.

The Ada examples I've given exist in other languages too in various forms, I just happen to be an Ada dev so I know exactly how they work there.
I think part of this is that you can't trust the "thinking" output of the LLM to accurately convey what is going on internally to the LLM. The "thought" stream is just more statistically derived tokens based on the corpus. If you take the question "Is A a member of the set {A, B}?", the LLM doesn't internally develop a discrete representation of "A" as an object that belongs to a two-object set and then come to a distinct and absolute answer. The generated token "yes" is just the statistically most-likely next token that comes after those tokens in its corpus. And logical reasoning is definitionally not a process of "gaining confidence", which is all an LLM can really do so far.
Personally, I started building tooling around Data URIs to provide permanent archives to external resources. You can only really store text or single images like this, and you have to get the size below 16KB [1] (64kB at a push) to be reliable. You can do some form of compression, but it would be nicer to have support for longer Data URIs.

I've literally embedded these into PDFs and all sorts, all of which still open today. It doesn't really increase the document size notably, but does make them more robust.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/695167
I suppose the word "profitable" is open to some interpretation, but I stand by what I said above. I will not bother to cite the numerous financial reports about many of the companies you've mentioned, losing significant amounts of money on each EV sold. In some cases, the losses have been staggering.

One example: In 2024, the Ford Lightning was produced at a loss of $132,000 per vehicle.

https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/ford-lost-1...
Safety and the hype reels you in and the qol hooks and keeps you.
> (more money to build things!),

Just avoid imported steel, aluminium, or ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Trump_tariffs
I'm not surprised. Unless some really drastic long-term negative effects come up, I think these drugs are going to end up as popular as caffeine or acetaminophen.
Indeed, it’s tiring to have to keep correcting uneducated AI bros. Such is the consequences of unchecked capitalism finding a new shiny toy that it wants to suck the value out of.
Put your career into the right hands.
I’m replying to yet another poster with nothing technical in their comment history, just political crap.

When did HN become infested by brain rot. Post probably should have been flagged after all.
There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone
HubCity
I would very much like to agree: I am often angry about politics in the US and think the governments here are basically "three war crimes and a real estate scam in a trench coat".

You might consider why almost everyone, including those of us on the far left who despise these institutions, are worried.

Unfortunately the folks running the show have been so uniformly nasty to me, people I care about, and the world in general that it's super hard to trust them. I and a lot of queer folks feel directly attacked by this admin, and I've seen a whole lot of folks happily embrace positions that I find actively racist and revanchist.

If we compare the rhetoric of, say, FDR to the current admin there is now a complete absence of "we are in this trying time together". Instead it feels very much like folks are thinking "the storm has come" and all their political grievances towards anyone to the left of Reagan will finally come to fruition, and all us blue haired xis and xirs will probably get sent to a black site.

And if the bad guys really were going to get their comeuppance, then maybe the nasty cultural connotations involved could be overlooked (they can't be, but let's pretend).

Because at the same time, the folks who are making these changes seem incredibly incompetent.

It very much looks like they are mashing buttons without any understanding of what they do.

I have learned how to operate enough complex tools to know what it looks like when someone with no understanding is just pushing buttons and seeing what happens. That's fine when it's some nerd like me plugging stuff into a modular synth... it seems incredibly worrisome when it's the levers on how much my food will cost or how long I will have to wait until I retire.

You can tell me that I'm ignorant and can't see what's going on (that's not a new thought even to myself), but I feel the same way about watching these folks "Hello World" their way through a rewrite of the US Gov as I feel about watching Musk "Sieg Heil": when you make me choose between you and my lying eyes, I am gonna have to go with my eye balls.

I'd be stoked to see the whole CIA disbanded. I have no confidence that the folks in power now have either the skills to make that happen, and worry that if they do they will replace it with something even more criminal and vicious. The Storm isn't coming (to be clear, I think that idea is a naval-gazing fantasy). They are just putting their own swamp and whatever they might replace the current systems with is probably just going to screw us all harder.

And even if they weren't actively hostile to folks who don't already make mid-6-figures, they likely don't have the chops to implement workable, long-standing institutions.
It happens to everyone, but we have data showing that it happens to women more. OP is objectively correct.
English has a few diminutive suffixes. Which one is used depends a lot on the shape of the word and the era, but the most common one today is -y.

So a child's toy might be Beary, and the kid might go by Johnny. We also have -ling, as in duckling, and a whole bunch of less common ones [0].

You're right, though, that we don't use our diminutives nearly as often as the Iberian languages do. If you tried to use them as much as you would in Portuguese you would definitely not sound like a native speaker, but they do exist.

Mostly they're used in the register of speech that we use when speaking to very young children (i.e. "baby talk"), in nicknames, or in older words that acquired a diminutive a long time ago and now register as just a word on their own.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_diminutive...
The only example I can think of is "munchkin" which was apparently coined by Frank Baum for The Wizard of Oz.
They have more to say than a single cherry picked benchmark from the half dozen.

I had asked the other person for additional benchmarks that supported their cause. They refused to point at a single shred of evidence. I agree the Benchmarks Game isn’t definitive. But it is substantially more useful than people making completely unsupported claims.

I find most discussions of programming language performance to be pointless, but some discussions are even more pointless than others.
To be fair being able to understand which facts matter in which situation and which are irrelevant can be a very important aspect of some jobs.

I mean before replying “I need the money" etc. one should consider if that’s not obvious and why would the interviewer care about the information. It’s not particularly subjective.

> who's making no effort

Having to always be very literal and explicit is not very efficient though. That person might prefer spending their time doing something else.
I hope these people will come to the realisation that being skinny doesn't necessary mean being healthy, and that they basically traded a life long addiction to food for a life long dependance to a drug.

ps: feel free to explain your downvotes
> You are conflating "JavaScript" with something else (possibly some popular packages written in JS, for example—by people who have no control or say over the standard, usually, and with dubious taste to begin with).

Those are functionally part of the language
Yes, except the bit about the upgraded charge. It was perfectly valid, and a serious crime, just very poorly explained. Which gets to the real problem: the combination of people in charge of enforcing consequences don't have the proper incentives to do so; and a criminal willing to resort to violence.
Hank and Hal are also short for Henry.
> I wish there was a way to select multiple catchments at once

Me too.

> October Revolution Island

Unfortunately my land cover data does not reach there either :(
Yes, but it's archaic

Some places sell munchkins (little donuts)

and we send our 4-5 yr old children to Kindergarden

but we dont stick it to the end of words like inho/inha in portuguese or ito/ita in spanish
I agree with you. And I have also been having health issues for years and doctors cannot really find what's going on. You know what's worse? They don't even care to find what's going on, they pay very little attention to me and just send me out with the same medication they give to everybody because they get 5 dollars for each patient that buys it. I cannot wait for many of them to be replaced by AI, it will be an improvement over the status quo.

Do you know how many times I've got prescribed a drug that would harm me more than do good? Do you know how many times I've got prescribed an antibiotic I'm allergic to, even after telling them I'm allergic to it, even after three different people wrote that down in many different places? Most modern doctors are criminals and I will never be ashamed to say that, because it's true.

Please keep doing what you're doing and ignore the naysayers, they're usually on some pharma's company payroll, sad.
Writings on artifacts and burial practices associated with DNA fragments found at the burial sites.
Same happened to me. After visiting many doctors, the last one told me he still has no idea what could cause my symptoms. After that, I uploaded all my test results to ChatGPT. Got the diagnosis right away. Asked it what test I could do to confirm it. Went back to the doctor. Did the test. Confirmed the diagnosis and started treatment.
Are there any good Epistemology resources online? Seems like we could all benefit from this these days.
Phone autocorrect usually is the culprit for those types of typos for me. I imagine this crowd would be more likely than many to have that common abbreviation for Active Domains trained into their input methods.
These are statistically derived facts. They are a pattern. If you find an individual example that bucks the trend, that doesn’t invalidate the pattern.
Even without the fallout you're still looking at a nuclear winter just from blowing all of that rock dust into the atmosphere.
> My feeling is that most such diagrams are used for purely aesthetic purposes. They break up dense text and add some color and variety to a document.

Not true. Many folks are visual learners. And if you're experienced enough, you can pick up the gist of the text from a quick glance at a good diagram, figure out the "shady" areas, and then dive into the text for details.
This kind of gatekeeping behavior has been around for as long as forums have. It's a power game the more experienced users play in order to lord their knowledge and power over the less experienced.

They'll always have somewhat plausible reasons for why they shouldn't just give the information, but in reality they're just being assholes in order to watch the new guy squirm. How they add the fig leaf depends on the forum.
> why there is wide academic achievement difference between his children despite growing in the same environment

Why are there wide academic achievement differences between children who have the same "race" who grow up in the same environment? According to you, this should not be the case.

> how Japanese people could instantly guess I'm a foreigner while not uttering a single words

Do you think they can do so for any given person? I guarantee you there are foreign people who Japanese people don't guess are foreign, and non-foreign people who Japanese people guess are foreign. How can this be?

I can sympathize with your father getting angry. Considering how trivial it is to come up with counter arguments, it must be frustrating to have this brought up more than once.
There's this thing autistic people do where they try to reduce everything down to very simple systems that they can wrap their heads around. Sometimes this can be very powerful, but it oftentimes is an incorrect model of reality. Looking at the United States like a company is exactly this, and it's deeply misguided.
I still laugh occasionally when I remember an army career video I saw in school which featured (among other officers) a "Major Richard Head".
I'm fine with a build step, but I just want it to be essentially a lightweight compiler.
Speaking as a European entrepreneur, the current administration’s dismantling of the government has made things extremely unstable and made certain I do not choose the US for where to do business in the coming months/years.

A Delaware c corp was on the table for our latest incorporation. Instead, it’ll be in Paris.

You’ve given free rein to some people to do wildly unstable shit and remove basically all accountability.

What’s happening right now is a bit like giving a young cto/ceo full root access to all of Google and he starts fucking around everywhere, promising to shut down all the unprofitable parts, he starts refactoring everything solo and rushing everything into production while removing all protections from everything else.

Sure, it’ll run leaner. It’ll make things cheaper as well. I’m also gonna not store my data on Google anymore and I’ll migrate out.

This is basically what happened to Twitter and now everybody’s left except the nazis. What exactly do you think that same strategy will do to the US?
The English form of daughter was also -dottir, but it was not common.