skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the point of life if you're not able to control such basic things as what you ingest or how much you exercise

Perhaps they're just depressed and obesity is part of a vicious cycle of seeking comfort in food and feeling bad about themselves afterwards?

Every one of the BMI 40+ people that I've met had unresolved issues. Sometimes it makes them say things which are difficult to understand from a healthy person's point of view.
> First, you have to look at this in the context of the actual economic situation of the average American, which has been, more or less, getting steadily worse in a relative sense for roughly 40-50 years.

I don't have a good grasp of the broad economic trends, but the accessibility of ~free, high quality, valuable knowledge (as well as entertaining content) online has exploded in this time frame. That may be unrelated to wages but it certainly has to do with demand.

> Second, you can't actually say this with any degree of rigor because in the vast majority of cases, there isn't an option to pay money to reduce the ads.

Maybe, but this seems like a problem that could have been solved if it were actually profitable to do so, no? I mean, I guess it's possible that we're in some local minimum where it's really hard to set up a less terrible system. But the simpler explanation is people would rather "pay" with attention than money. I'm honestly not sure though.
Rust is very different from Python or C#, let alone NodeJS. I'm not sure what exactly is so difficult about Rust for you, but the basic feature-set of Rust as "your first programming language" (i.e. no prior experience with C/C++) is one where the main emphasis to begin with should be on passing stuff by value and explicit copying, almost like a functional language - avoiding both references and interior mutability. These latter features should be looked into after you've become familiar with the basics, so as to avoid any confusion.
I'm sorry but I don't follow what discussions you're saying haven't happened. But in case you (or anyone) are feeling like the current MOT (Major Ongoing Topic) hasn't received much attention on HN, here's a partial list of recent threads:

Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981756 - Feb 2025 (1544 comments) (<-- you are here)

Elon Musk's Demolition Crew - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968430 - Feb 2025 (353 comments)

DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966412 - Feb 2025 (107 comments)

DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42951458 - Feb 2025 (370 comments)

20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950790 - Feb 2025 (547 comments)

Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936421 - Feb 2025 (133 comments)

Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219 - Feb 2025 (654 comments)

The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910 - Feb 2025 (2977 comments)

Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed " - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902355 - Feb 2025 (214 comments)

The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42895331 - Feb 2025 (270 comments)

NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886661 - Jan 2025 (488 comments)

Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 - Jan 2025 (238 comments)

Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42863339 - Jan 2025 (89 comments)

Deferred resignation email to federal employees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859552 - Jan 2025 (151 comments)

NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798960 - Jan 2025 (440 comments)

United States Digital Service renamed to DOGE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775684 - Jan 2025 (98 comments)
idk this is all irrelevant due to the huge data used in training...

I mean, what you think is "something new" is most likely to be something already discussed somewhere in the internet.

also, humans (including postdocs and professors) don't use THAT much data + watts for "training" to get "intelligent reasoning"
I realized after my first increase from the starting dosage that the feeling I used to call "full" was what most people call "not too hungry", and I'd been genuinely satiated 4 or 5 times in the past decade at best.
(not an experienced AI person, just a software dev whose used it a bit. Don't know all the players, every term for every model, etc)

We have github copilot and augment available for making suggestions inside vscode. I don't think either are anthropic - but I'm sure they offer a similar feature. I wonder if they count EVERY suggestion offered as a "use"? Sometimes it really helps, but it makes plenty of suggestions I ignore. Does it essentially treat every keystroke as a use then, since it updates / re-suggests sometimes with every keystroke?
You are making absolutely huge unfounded assumptions that the human body plan cannot be altered if not completely redesigned to make it compatible with living on Mars.
Maybe spend and better models will help this (I’ve not used the deep research models so maybe we are there already). But even day to day coding, the LLMs are great helpers but giving them anything more than a slightly complicated prompts and it seems like these models become completely helpless. You just constantly need a human in the loop because these models are too dumb or lack the context to understand the big picture.

Maybe these models will get better as they’re given more context and can understand the full stack but for now they cannot.

And this is just with code where it already has billions of examples. Nevermind any less data-rich fields. The models still need to get smarter.
Well yes but it should be hard to get a tenure either way
Correlation is not automatically causation, but it does imply a link. That is why you have to have to look into the many, many studies which have given evidence for a causative link.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/weight-manageme...

Note that the list of diseases in that article includes every single one of the leading non-injury causes of death:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm

(partially excluding cancer, and excluding flu, which does have a higher mortality among obese patients)
GNU double-dash long options were devised only after POSIX disallowed using the plus sign in 1992: https://blog.djmnet.org/2019/08/02/why-do-long-options-start...

Java was already two years in development at that time.
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What if you can't use the mouse?
I think Rust opened up a ton of interest in languages that are as fast as C++ but safer... The fact that Ada was doing a lot of stuff that Rust is trying to do now but decades earlier is particularly interesting.
Thanks. I always assumed that Polly was a diminutive of Pauline.
so you want every time you scan something illegible, for it to return a different result.
It's just C/C++ syntax.
He is the president, the population elected him. You have a process to rectify it if you feel so inclined. He won and now your views aren't the views of power and it must suck, I sympathize with that but progress is going to continue regardless if it's your vision. Plenty would say the same is true about the prior president and the excessive heavy handed actions taken towards DEI and other programs that have been found to be unconstitutional, you know, within the courts as the system requires. There is a process. If you don't want to play the game, using the process, any outcomes you don't like are on you for failing to change it. You as in the collective of opinion.

Go outside, take a walk, breath, it's going to be ok.
No I can “prove” it — look at any number of cases where LLMs can’t even do basic value comparisons despite being claimed as super intelligent. You can try and say well that’s a limitation of the technology and then I would reply — yes and that’s why I would say it’s not reasoning according the original human definition. Also you have yet to produce any evidence of reasoning and claiming you can over and over again doesn’t add to your arguments substance. I would be interested in your proof that some answer can’t be pattern matched too — at this point I wonder if we could create an non conscious “intelligence” that if large enough would be mostly able to describe anything known to us along some line of probability we couldn’t compute with our brain architecture and it could be close to 99.99999% right. Even if we had this theoretical probability-based super intelligence it still wouldn’t be “reasoning” but could be more “intelligent” than us.

I’m also not entirely convinced we can’t arrive at a reasoning system via probability only (a really cool thought experiment) but these systems do not meet the consistency/intelligence bar for me to believe this currently.
I would also love to see this. I I'm very skeptic about this kinds of reconstructions based only on the remains.
With all due respect, I wouldn’t be surprised if Sam Altman uses his own software to help him write his blog.
I disagree, that's the beauty of it all.
> but rather in a unique process based on recycling the materials from discarded magnets.

Aka buying magnets from China, crushing them, then reforming them into "American made" magnets.

We've been doing the same with steel for over a decade now. It's a good way around tariffs and origin laws.
>At least for those two women, disambiguation is not necessary.

This seems unlikely. Taylor is a popular-enough millennial name that there must be many women (and more than a few men) named that. If we all ran around using only first/given names, we would certainly discover the need for disambiguation. Even Bjork is nowhere near unique. You didn't think they were the only people to have those names, did you? Disambiguation isn't about whether Google returns the most popular search for a given name, it's about what you need when you're not looking for the most popular target. This is plainly obvious, and a little disturbing that you could find cause to argue about it. The redditification of HN marches onward inevitably.
We (via French, I guess) have a mildly productive suffix "-ette" or "-et", as in cigar-ette, kitchen-ette (floret, bassinet, owlet). It doesn't imply animateness the way "-kin" does; e.g. "hotelette" or "showerette" seem like plausible coinages in a way "hotelkin" and "showerkin" don't (but I sense some cross-pollination from Japanese "-kun" messing with my interpretation of the latter). But "-ette" certainly connotes femininity: "little Ronniekins" says he's a baby, but "little Ronnette" says he's a girl.
Thanks, I'm going to add these to the article. I'll credit you as "Hacker News user `tibbar`" unless you'd prefer something else.
True, skin effect limits the conductor size (~22mm in Al @60Hz) but overhead transmission already uses bundled conductors to address that as well as to improve mechanical strength, cooling, and reactance. The advantage of HVDC is in the lower dielectric and reactive losses while skin effect is minimal.
> Practically nothing Rust does is new

That's my point in a nutshell. It's a cool language. But there's a growing number of converts for whom this is their first introduction to these concepts, and they don't seem to have the intellectual curiosity to dive deeper.

I also see this behavior with Typescript and "powerful type systems"
Since you own the "perma.link" domain name (I just looked it up) why don't you use that instead of .cc which has issues?
A 2009 honda civic can get an under-5 seconds 0-60 easily... however it does involve high a cliff.

Result Specs (as in measuring output/experimental results) need strict definitions to be useful and I think the current ones with have for LLMs are pretty weak. (mostly benchmarks that model one kind of interaction, and usually not any sort of useful interaction)
Missing out of this are the effects of serious mental illness, especially schizophrenia. People with these conditions are bottomless pits.
This sounds a bit like today's default chatgpt verbosity - you usually get an entire printout of context and side thoughts and blah, with the answer you're looking for buried somewhere in there.
I don’t think this is the watertight case you think it is, furthermore good luck proving with closed models that your question that’s never been asked in any form or derivation (supposedly) is not in the training data.
The big problem with using array languages for lower-level SIMD stuff is that that generally requires some amount of typedness, but tacking on types on an array language without ending up with having types be the majority of the syntax and code (or taking up a ton of mental capacity if utilizing very heavy type inference) would be rather non-trivial. And the operations you want for lower-level ops are quite different from the higher-level general-purpose ones too. (and, of course, some interpreters do make good use of SIMD and/or multithreading)

That said, some form of array language more suited for stuff like that is a somewhat common question; maybe one day someone will figure it out.

Vanessa McHale is doing some interesting work on a typed compilable array language, Apple[0].

[0]: https://github.com/vmchale/apple/?tab=readme-ov-file#apple-a...
IMO The language has merits regardless of a few (if not very few) bad apples in the community, and its technical merits should be the primary lense for evaluating it as a choice.
Just so we have them, the top links I got for PDF to JSON:

https://qpdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/json.html

https://www.jsonify.org

https://github.com/maximoguerrero/PDF-GPT4-JSON

PDF is such a curious format. It's not human-readable, it's not well-structured, it's not small. If it weren't for momentum and the political horse trading that Apple, Adobe and Microsoft were doing when the web went mainstream and freaked them out around 1995, I'm not sure that we'd be using it today. Postscript is better in countless ways, but since it's Turing-complete, it's not really ideal for storing static data, and to my knowledge was never extended to handle binary data well, like for embedded JPEGs. I remember trying to print a 10 MB ps file in the 1990s and it took maybe 20 minutes because the grayscale image was basically represented as a bunch of run-length encoded scan lines.

I would argue that frontend web development has reached a similar fate. It seems odd to use programming language (imperative, no less) to design media that we used to describe declaratively. If I had enjoyed success in my programming career, I would work on a declarative representation of HTML/CSS/Javascript that can represent the intersection of all existing markup across all mainstream browsers. Sort of like a mix between Markdown and CSS flexbox like Xcode's auto layout, but universal. It frankly would probably look like HTML, but with sane defaults/builtins/inheritance, as well as a way define and extend components from the beginning, similarly to how people try to use data attributes. For contrast, React and Vue come at this from the opposite direction. I'm talking about something more like htmx.

Then we could work with that format and transpile to HTML or even React Native and dump 90-99% of the boilerplate and build tooling that we use currently.
I like this very much.

Can it be run totally local to the disk?

Also, I am having trouble searching. I enter a term and hit enter and it just goes to a new line.

In terms of editors, find and replace functionality is very important, IMO.

Thanks for sharing!
From my view (in the US), it seems mostly generational.

My grandfather William went by Bill, but most of the Williams in my own generation go by Will. In particular if they're the son of a Bill, they use the different nickname. I wonder if their sons will go back to Bill.

I've seen this alternate nickname scheme in a family that reused women's names down the line, with "Katherine" and "Elizabeth" taking turns and wearing nicknames left and right. Grandma was Katherine, grand-aunt was Eliza, mom was Kate, aunt was Beth, daughters were Kitty and Libby...
But there are many, many things that suck about my game. When I asked it the question, I just assumed it would pick out some of the obvious things.

Anyway, your reasoning makes sense, and I'll accept it. But, my homo sapien brain is hardwired to see the 'magic'.
You do realize it is called a scandal _because of_ the lack of response?

> Failure to address the abuse has been linked to factors such as fear of racism allegations due to the perpetrators' ethnicity; sexist attitudes towards the mostly working-class victims; lack of a child-centred focus; a desire to protect the town's reputation; and lack of training and resources.[25][26][10]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_explo...

Pretty incredible mental gymnastics going on here.
Dictionary says that pumpkin came from French pompon (large melon) and was originally pumpion. English colonists named the orange melon they discovered in New World pumpkin.

Maybe it was joke pronunciation, calling large melon small. It could be a term of endearment for favorite melon. It could be they wanted to distinguish between all large melons and this large melon. Or it could be pronunciation drifting from use.
Epic mic drop there.
yeah whatever takes off wins.
Bypass Paywalls Clean on Gitflic. As always, do your own due diligence before installing.
Oddly enough this is pretty much the only time this still seems to be encountered
Related HN posts [1], [2].

Fun facts, the most common words of Indo-European Family are surprisingly very similar across Sanskrit (S) <--> English (E) <--> German (G) [3].

Pitara (S) <--> Father (E) <--> Vater (G)

Matara (S) <--> Mother (E) <--> Mutter (G)

Bhratara (S) <--> Brother (E) <--> Bruder (G)

Duhitar (S) <--> Daughter (E) <--> Tochter (G)

[1] New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages (147 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36930321

[2] Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins (16 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515584

[3] Turandot and the Deep Indo-European Roots of “Daughter” (15 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450507
Is it creative? If it's derived algorithmically from a collection of facts, it wouldn't be covered.

I think this stuff is art with a little bit of informing from science, so it probably is creative, but I wonder what the authors would claim.
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Ah, so no David vs Goliath here. Jamie might be busy with RTO mandate implementation nowadays.
Wow. Just… wow.

While I cannot speak to anything that was written (I am far from being a crypto boi, all I see is snake oil and fraud tools), the epic disparity between the sloppy request and the meticulously eviscerating response is an absolute wonder to behold. The bank CEO brought a rubber knife to someone wielding a nuclear bazooka
More discussion on "Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685534
I wish somehow the SimCity franchise would be released from EA's and someone could just put together a good Sim City with all the whimsy reasonable level performance.

Such a waste to have that brand just rotting at these big companies.
Personal opinion ahead, please don’t be offended:

> What about programs with such simple CLIs that they don’t have help?

It is crapware

> about non English speakers who might be inclined to type —ayuda or something?

Come on… really?! Most utilities use heavily english for option names. Even the names of the utilities. Should we have “buscar” instead of “find”, or “schneiden” for “cut”? What about iger instead of “grep”?

That is just ridiculous! Please stop!
Ambiguous referent, sorry. This is the part I think everyone does:

> "blindly support everything one of their own does".

And of course the same in the opposite direction, blindly opposing everything the other tribe does.
One time my Cub Scout den mother showed us how to make an electric motor with large nails, copper wire, tin cut from a tin can, wood, and fasteners. Hooking it up to a dry cell caused it to spin merrily.

I then wondered what would happen if I plugged it into the wall socket.

It buzzed violently for a few seconds and then burst into flames. I learned what AC current was that day.

I think I was 8 at the time.

Yes, I have been shocked by 110VAC many times. (It's the basis of my superpowers.)
Uhhh... I was referring to the number of people currently -- and now, no longer -- receiving life-saving HIV treatments via USAID/PEPFAR. These people will die.

It's frankly mind-boggling that we can be in the middle of conversation about USAID/PEPFAR, you say "yes I agree with this prioritization," I reply back with what that prioritization actually is, and then you... jump to thinking that I'm talking about half a million children transitioning genders?

Yeah, totally not a cult. Lol.

https://www.state.gov/pepfar-latest-global-results-factsheet...
"-let" is another one, which is sometimes used in non-childish contexts (eg in "tasklet" or "chiplet").
The examples that come to mind for me are Rodríguez, Martínez, González, Nunez, Hernández / Fernández, Sánchez.

Rodríguez, Martínez, and Hernández are the 9th, 10th, and 11th most-common surnames in the USA.
Simpson eh? I'll remember that name.
And they don't have to pay the margin on the API calls. So an equal UX on the same model API will be twice as profitable when operated by the first-party.
I guess a very shallow angle of impact was part of it:

> brushed by the mountain summits of Malapert and Mouton
This is indeed a possible variant of the system.

This variant could lead to a split of the set of existing family names into two disjoint subsets, one that is passed through females and one that is passed through males.

I do not think that this split could create problems, unless at the date when the system would be introduced there would happen to be a serious imbalance between the number of family names carried by females and the number of family names carried by males, which might be then preserved by the system.
I was hoping for something more specific.