skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there anywhere truly safe to go? Now that Trump has openly shown his true colors and, in my view, sold us out to Putin, is Europe even a viable option anymore? I would have left the country years ago if I didn’t have a child. Now, I feel my only choice is to dig in and endure.

I live in Alabama, which has been experiencing a brain drain for years. I have one of the few software engineering jobs in my area, and we struggle to hire local talent. We haven't been able to hire anyone local to fill our tech roles because no one with any sense would want to move to Alabama.

It feels as though the entire nation is turning into one big Alabama, where our scientific and technological minds will naturally look elsewhere for both safety and stability—neither of which Trump seems able to provide.
I got to see where architects build bridges over weekends as an hobby.
I know how to do it. The sheer audacity that I am being asked to do it rubs me the wrong way. Once I am on my phone, then I am on my work pc with no rights. Then by the time I got home i have lost my interest
Who are you interviewing? Do these people who can't do this have any experience at all?
"fixing the government" in this case seems to mean "destroy the government" for somewhat hidden purposes.
Hugging Face is an American start-up, by French people. It resides in Brooklyn, New York. Saying they sit right in Europe is dishonest.

Although, as a Dutch person, I'd like to point out Brooklyn technically is Dutch. ;)
I can imagine Chinese and Russian hackers laughing at the DOGE l33t hackers.

And if I was advising the Ukranians I'd tell them to try to exploit it too, hey, if you're fighting 2 superpowers with another 1 quietly backing the fight against you, you need all the help you can get.
But how defensible is that in the market?
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I haven't tested many search engines but duckduckgo is very usable in lynx, it redirects you to a subdomain made for browsers that don't use js etc.
The micro threshold is $10k, as I said earlier.
Not everyone who's pro-choice is able to make their peace with this fact or willing to say it aloud, but yeah, abortion often is basically murder (not in the common law sense) and that's OK.
The Oxford study is big and I am sure well done, but it boils down to what I hope we all knew—human health and healthspan are both mainly about non-genetic factors. Avoid pestilence, famines, wars, and crazy leaders; eat right, exercise, do not smoke. Have a good social network at all ages. Stay active.

The estimate of the magnitude of genetics effects in this study is “silly low”, roughly by an order of magnitude. (Notice the hedging in the PR piece.)

The heritability of a trait is a function of environmental stability and quality. In a stable environment—Sweden or Iceland from 1900 to 2000—-heritability of lifespan is still low; about 15 to 25%. But that is way different than 2%. Claiming 2% is more of a socio-political statement: to focus on what we can influence ourselves.

Re telomere length. I wish it were that simple. Telomere length is not the main cause of aging in mammals. Read the title if the paper that you cite: “correlates with”! My presbyopia correlates beautifully with my age but did not cause me to age.

I would not even rank telomere length among the top ten (the putative “Hallmarks of Aging”). But it is a great story which makes good headline fodder.

I think the comment about dogs is really just highlighting the wide range of differences in maximum lifespan among species.

This indicates that DNA variants indirectly or directly modulate the baseline tempo of aging between a short lived mammal (less than a year) to species like us that live 100 years. There is really no doubt about this.

And of course DNA variants do the same thing but over a much more modest range within a sexually reproducing species.
Some mice make it to 500 days, some make it to 1000 days in exactly the same environment. Reduce environmental variance sufficiently and heritability begins to get up to 40%. Out in the wild here almost no mouse dies of natural cause heritability should approach zero.

Aging is highly polygenic. There will be 100s of DNA variants and de novo mutations contributing to aging per se and to disease risks. And many processes.
"Clanky"? That is a word I would use when comparing Julia and Python, but I would reverse the roles. I mean, python works well, and has almost everything, but it really feels, well, clanky.
The AMA really is the gift that keeps on giving. They're right up there with police unions.
Dang, I was really excited to read about the $55 billion in fraud after you claimed that it has been "posted everywhere". :(

Please let me know when you find the evidence!

Also, I never said I dislike the audit. I do, however, dislike dishonest framing.
Tips for structuring your Go projects
I prefer to code in Julia almost always. It really is such a wonderful experience. Now if only I could land an industry job with my Julia skills...
> when you hire you search for someone who has 100% coverage of the tech you're using and also already works for your direct competitor?

Ideally, yes. It's a common occurrence among large organisations. Google and Apple used to even have an anti-poaching agreement.

> How do you hire people that would not only know Rust, be willing to move to Palermo, or at least visit occasionally, but also know the airfare business?

Rust isn't Boring, which is why you don't do that and hire one of many Java developers and do Java, unless the tradeoff is really worth it.
Figure.ai's Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115079
As I said - every single of my chat-app-militant contacts has migrated from XMPP (which they pushed early and aggressively) to Matrix, which includes groups like hacker spaces etc. (at least the ones that didn't just give up and migrate to closed solutions).

I literally have no single person to talk to on XMPP. The software names you mention all trigger flashbacks of horrible experiences, with my last experience even worse than my recent experience with Element, and unless they have been rewritten from scratch, I wouldn't be willing to install them again. At least I can run Element in a browser tab where it can't pwn my system...

There seem to be three incompatible standards for e2ee on XMPP, the latest being https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html which is marked "experimental". I've never seen OpenPGP used, OTR was a compatibility nightmare, and I think by the time OMEMO started to be a thing XMPP started to stop being a thing.
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Hey, this is really impressive stuff, talk about a dream job! Two quick questions if you find the time+interest:

1. What does "safe" imply? Type safety, maybe? Or just a general synonym for "few bugs/well tested"?

2. What kind of industry is this primarily envisioned for use in...? I have experience in the satellite industry (GRE and TT&C) but I was surprised to not see the usual buzzwords on this page, namely "TLEs". I get that it clearly does way more than terrestrial orbital work, but AFAIK that's, say, 99.9% of the current space industry.

In other words: is this library for ESA missions??? That would be rad as hell, if so.

also P.S. I love AI art compared to most, but I would def recommend carving out that cool crab and putting on a background of real stars. As you may or not be aware, many scientists have been a tad radicalized about AI, and AI art in particular -- would be a shame if that slowed adoption of a cool project!
> the abandonment of Ukraine, while carving it up with Russia for land and mineral rights, and lying about the causes for the conflict.

It just has that Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact vibe to it, you know?
So we should just a narcissistic baby affect public policy whenever his feefees are hurt?
It’s truly absurd the ways some people here twist logic. “Government did it” means it MUST be bad, of course. It takes a willful ignorance, pretending that all government efforts are bad and all corporate efforts are therefore good.

As if ARPAnet just sprang from a group of MBAs sitting around unemployed.

When I read 1984 in high school, I didn’t really get the scariest bit: a lot of people are PROUD to shout that 2 + 2 = 5 as long as it makes a poor person somewhere else sad.
We are ready to donate. Unfortunately, none of the options work: Only credit card or bank wire transfer are accepted.

Arathorn, neiljohnson, thibaultmartin: Could you please provide an option for private and anonymous donations? Throw up a BTC address at least. (For even better exposure while keeping volatility, risk, and overhead at bay, I guess also USDT on SOL+ETH alongside XMR as stretch would be fancy. That USDT would get you access to memecoin gains without having to touch them even with a stick)

Or if you're really feeling prevented from accepting anonymous donations: add a fourth payment integration with a provider who can accept and convert it for you without requiring non-zk KYC on the donor side?
I'm currently working on a re-write of a small model from JAX to Julia and finding the Julia code so much easier to write, it's more concise, and find the debugging tools easier to work with in Julia.
wow, 60 to 90 days. I have a chicken and I was occasionally worried when an egg was on the table (inside is max mid 20s C), for a few weeks and thinking of putting them in the fridge. I also find they seem to cook better when in the room and not the fridge.
yeah... people keeping chickens would be humanity committing suicide.. seems legit :) the last few thousand years of prior art might beg to differ
XMPP in its current state is a mess. The bare protocol is minimal, the things which actually make the thing usable are just a bunch of extensions, barely glued onto the thing, which means that there are clients that implement different features, and you never know if whatever you send will be supported by the receiver (including encryption).

There are a gazillion clients for Android, mostly forks of Conversations implementing slightly different extensions, but like the upstream they fail at being enjoyable to use. I have not found a decent desktop client as of my last attempt.

I seriously think that XMPP is one of the best examples of why the "write protocols, not apps" approach has failed. Without an actual, complete and cohesive reference implementation, that others follow with theirs, there will always be a fragmentation like this, which will always ruin any attempt at mainstream adoption.
I assume you had a cut-n-paste failure with that link. I think you meant https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3..., which I assume you picked because the title. It is an interesting article, should you ever decide to read it beyond cherry picking the caption from 'Figure 2'. But TL;DR: It doesn't say what you apparently think it says. The author is questioning the therapeutic value of low power infrared light therapy, and demonstrating what is required for medical effect. He is not questioning whether or not infrared light can penetrate skin and bone, because it does. For example:

We have demonstrated that our multi-watt NIR data delivers an estimated 1.65–3.7 J/cm2 to a depth of 30 mm. As shown above, this is within the biologically meaningful fluence range (1, 2, 4, 6, 47) and is more than 100-fold greater than the fluence delivered by an LED system or by a low-power infrared light system according to the findings of the authors cited above (7, 18, 21, 37, 38, 48).

and

Patients receiving 10–20 treatments of multi-watt infrared light, each lasting approximately 20–30 min, have experienced significant, and often, dramatic improvements (47, 48). The fluence of combined 810 and 980 nm light delivered during each of these treatments was, on average, 81 J/cm2/treatment. Correcting for forehead skin, skull, and 1 cm of brain tissue, this delivered a fluence of fluence of 0.41 J/cm2 to the neurons 1 cm below the cortical surface.

The authors paper listed as citation #4 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2147/NDT.S78182#medi...) has more detail on his methods, and the abstract sums it up pretty well:

NIR in the power range of 10–15 W at 810 and 980 nm can provide fluence within the range shown to be biologically beneficial at 3 cm depth. You can't ELI5 more than that.

Understanding does take work, and given your posting history of mostly low effort negative snark, I probably spent more time than I should have. But it was an interesting diversion into something I otherwise wouldn't have known.
Forgot that comments like these lose their meaning over text. Answer: No. Do not raise chickens because you think you're going save a few nickels eggs.
> Often with reasons about fear of failure.

If that were it, I would agree.

But I don't agree. I think people who discourage going against the grain are more fearful of the loss of economic input. It's unproductive to do something you know will fail; it's very expensive to encourage that failure.
I meant RF impact on the internal functioning of the chip, not the other way around. EMI has always been a thing, it's not specific to state of the art CPUs.
I can't find the easter egg. Clues appreciated. :)
He and his father are trying to improve things for other people.
It's inevitable I suppose that if we allow large numbers of banks to exist then some of them will have poor management and poor controls. It's better when tiny banks get scammed by crypto brokers than when large banks start trading CDOs with poorly understood correlation risks.
I'm not American, but it seems this has been going for weeks now. Are these changes/this access to various things actually impacting normal Americans at all? I understand the impact on government workers, but I'm curious if this is actually changing peoples lives in any way.

We were barraged for 6 months about how Twitter would fall over the next day when Elon took over there and took a radical stance, and it just didn't. I'm curious if this will be similar.
right, I use a base to neutralize the acid in my throat because i never remember to buy hcl tablets at the pharmacy when i am there quarterly. If i had issues more commonly i would have probably already tried HCl. My reflux went from twice a month to a few times a year after i completely stopped drinking any alcohol. I reckon my few times a year now is from eating spicy food and then drinking too much liquid.

i should note that the HCl tablets thing is something i picked up on in my 20s, apparently everyone had reflux back then, and most people just ate a tums or whatever, but a couple of folks had their doctors tell them it was because of weak stomach acid, so food was taking too long to digest, then you're laying down or whatever.

My little anecdotes are flavor, they're not relevant to HCl tablet efficacy (for example.) It's just an OTC thing that either works or doesn't. Ask your doctor today.
The biggest lie "conservatives" have spread is that the media is liberal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Second that. I do see the difference at work where it's impossible to install Firefox and/or extensions; it's god awful to browse the web without it.

I even installed it on my parents laptop and they never complained that ads suddenly started appearing.
Which is my point.

You need a ton of specialized knowledge to use compute effectively.

If we had infinite memory and infinite compute we'd just throw every problem of length n to a tensor of size R^(n^n).

The issue is that we don't have enough memory in the world to store that tensor for something as trivial as mnist (and won't until the 2100s). And as you can imagine the exponentiated exponential grows a bit faster than the exponential so we never will.
Well done Thailand. They need to free the slaves in the rest of Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia now. (guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/myanmar-scam-c...).

The others are trickier as the government officials get paid off but it Thailand, China and Vietnam said free them or we close the border it would put a fair bit of pressure.
Kuo: Another new Apple chip is coming to iPhone 17 lineup, following C1 debut
I have the same experience. But I'm running it on a NUC not a RasPi, which probably helps a lot.

Having said that, I have a Pi running HomeBridge to make a Pi camera and some non Apple Homekit capable IoT shit work with my phones/iPad, and I'm pretty sure the last few times it's rebooted were due to power outages, and I can't remember the last time I needed to even hit the HomeBridge web interface, never mind ssh into it. I'm a little surprised unscheduled power outages haven't borked the sd card, it's not even configured to do the ramfs overlay thing.
https://docs.stripe.com/keys#limit-api-secret-keys-ip-addres...
Financial economist and Julia aficionado here looking to transition to academia to industry if you're ever hiring. If you have any feedback /tips it would be much appreciated. Email and website in bio.
To be fair I figure it was only because I applied for a Clojure job, which is a pretty niche thing, and so perhaps that attracts people who are actually interested in you as a human being and not just a number in a spreadsheet. Since then I've gone back to mainstream and it has not happened again.
This is probably because we literally just deleted everything but Matrix-related rooms on the matrix.org room directory to deal
with abuse: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/curated-room-directories/
I agree that abortion is evil, but in my perception, once someone gets to a situation where they're willing to murder their own child, it won't be a law that'll stop them.

This problem should be considered moral, not legal.
Sometimes it's the first mover to a critical threshold of user value-add
It is extremely hard to design a modem like this. Just the ADCs and DACs you need are like 2-3 year development and 1-2 year testing before going into production.
The same reason you don't use your desk calculator to run Python scripts on huge datasets. It's the wrong tool.

Running an LLM and parsing and computing mathematical expressions are entirely disjoint operations. You need highly specialized code for each, it makes just as much sense to put a calculator in your LLM as it does to stuff a Python interpreter in a calculator. Could you? Of course, software is infinitely flexible. Does it make sense to do it? No, it makes more sense to connect two different specialized applications than to try shoehorning one into the other.
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DeepSeek-R1 without CCP censorship
I just need a son who's blood I can siphon
It's pretty obvious that it only applies to the same specie. If you live 100m from a highway, breath brake pad and tire particules all day, smoke 2 packs of cigs a day and drink 1L of vodka every morning you will statistically live a shorter life than your genetic twin who lives in an unpolluted rural area who eat pesticide free food and don't smoke/drink

That's all there is to it, some people smoke and live long, some people don't smoke and die young, but statistically no one smokes a lot and live longer as a result.

Just look at the leading causes of mortality, they're mostly behavior or environment related
Typst is cool, but sadly (I checked with experts on the discord), there is still no way to simplify legal citations to create a table of authorities; you'd have to mark each one manually somehow, just like in Word. (Every single citation to a case or source in a legal brief might be a different string: the "canonical" citation might appear once in the actual text, or not at all.)
The article is talking about genetic variation within humans. The title omits this, making it an incorrect summary of the article (and it’s unclear what it even means)
Not sure how true this all is, but it's a centralized discussion of different systems of thinking I've seen associated with the current administration's tack https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-w...
YouTube Plans Lower-Priced, Ad-Free Version of Paid Video Tier
I just let my chicken run about on the whole estate. She only goes back to the coop at dark. It hardly smells any different to the rest of the yard
Americans are emigrating in record numbers due to the perceived chaos and instability under the leadership of Trump and Musk. The lack of effective intervention from Congress has left many feeling hopeless about the immediate future. With the next election still two years away, there's growing concern that the situation will not improve, and doubts about the fairness of future elections are increasing.

If America was once the shining beacon on the hill, it now feels like the lights have gone out.
That 10000% tracks. Welcome to HN.
Why do you keep posting this in every discussion?
I'm getting the same error on Firefox.
ARPANET and its successor TCP/IP already provided the fundamental networking infrastructure. Various hypertext systems were also being developed independently in and before the 1980s, like Ted Nelson's Xanadu project and Bill Atkinson's HyperCard. The key ideas of linked documents and markup languages were "in the air" so to speak. However, CERN provided some unique conditions that helped the WWW succeed where other systems didn't. It had an immediate practical need - helping physicists share information across institutions. It was developed in an open, non-commercial environment that encouraged sharing. CERN made the WWW technology freely available without royalties. The international nature of CERN helped drive early adoption across countries.

Without CERN, I think we would have eventually seen some form of hyperlinked document system emerge from either academia or industry, but it might have been more proprietary or fragmented.
And Trump can launch the nukes to blow up the world too... but building a system where he can just click a button to do so would be idiotic. Same idea with giving godmode to the guy who thinks carrying a sink and saying "Let that sink in" is hilariously clever.
Network effect, as in TikTok's case, is a big moat!
> In 4 years of working cases I would estimate 1 in 6 jurors are above the 85-115 IQ range of average intelligence, and maybe half are at or below the 100 line.

Maybe I'm missing the joke, but isn't IQ meant to follow a normal distribution with a mean/median of 100 with a standard deviation of 15, in which case you'd expect half of jurors to be below 100 and ~15% to be above 115, which is pretty close to what you've seen?
Wouldn't it be prudent to do that before rolling out such a change?
Last decades? Work in ad tech. Now? Work on LLMs.
Fair point, and correct (just one class). Myself, I'm fine with a field being important because well it's a mystery of the universe and well we just couldn't not scratch the itch. But I know that not all askers want answers like that, so I was attempting to dust off the "it's also useful" neurons :)
> I’m tired of the FAANG mentality personally.

As someone that never had a desire nor ever made an attempt to work at any of those companies, do you mind elaborating on the mentality of such places?

I'm just your boring below-average to average dev, so I know I'm not cut for those types of places, but it never truly bothered me anyway. Any reason that I can personally think as to why I would work for such a company would either be due to my own egotistical desires or for monetary reasons, but those were never strong enough to actually compel me.

I am just mainly curious about two things:

1. Is working at those places all it's cracked up to be?

2. Assuming one had to work hard to get into such companies, was the juice worth the squeeze?

I've often wondered if one's experiences for these companies is often something akin to the old advice of, "Don't meet your heroes." In other words, was the conflicting dyad of expectations vs. reality present?