skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious how to map the calculation onto a human impact number. 0.28% chance to hit the entire planet, most of which would have limited impact on humanity. What are the odds for example that this kills 1000 people?
Because a PhD should be thought of a job, not pure education. PhD students are already underpaid, go over a lot of stress, and now some wants them to pay for these? Doesn’t add up at all.
The odds are changing like a crypto coin price
> Federal loans are currently 6.5% for undergraduate, 8-something% for graduate

And the current prime rate is 7.5%.

https://www.wsj.com/market-data/bonds/moneyrates
This is a nice idea!

I ended up doing something similar, but statically, and searching for discussions dynamically rather than using a single hardcoded thread. Essentially it's a script that searches for recent posts linking to my domain name on Reddit, HN, etc, and then updates a file with the URL of that post and some information about when it was made and how many posts there are. Then there's a Hugo template that converts the data in this file to HTML.

The script runs every few hours using free GitHub runner time, and if it makes a change, it commits it and creates a pull request with the contents so that I can review it. (I could automatically commit straight to the main branch but I like having the manual review just in case.)

I couldn't get it to work for Mastodon because there's not really a public search for Mastodon (for all sorts of reasons), although at some point I want to get it working for Bluesky. I did try hooking it up with Twitter for a while, but that required all sorts of API keys and things that I didn't want to deal with so I gave up. You also need API keys for Reddit, but that was easier to get hold of and manage.

I wrote a post about how I implemented it here: https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/adding-discussions/
> I think there are a lot of people who feel like they were locked out of funding opportunities because of the focus on amyloid-beta. Maybe this is true, I don’t know.

...

You completely excluded the last sentence of the quote by the GP. That sentence at least partially addresses your concern:

> The lab I’m in has worked on tau for decades.

The lab the GP is working in has been, for decades, funded and working to study ameloid tau -- one of the very alternative hypotheses that are under study. Most of the entire post was about all the other hypotheses that are active and regularly funded.

No one is omniscient, no one can know exactly the right set of funding to get the optimal scientific outcome with the least amount of money. That omniscience isn't going to happen no matter how awesome AI is.

The best course for medical breakthroughs is to fund multiple hypotheses at once which is exactly what NIH does. The more funding to allow research into various hypotheses the better. Whatever it is doge is doing straight shutting shit down is the incompetent fools course plotted by megalomaniacal and ignorant billionaires.
Sure. I like pledge --- though I think OpenBSD should just do eBPF too.
This reviewer's criticism of Half Life's pacing, difficulty and gameplay is painfully plebian.
Show HN: P*Nis Guesser – Obtaining BDE Consensus
Hi HN!

The actual length and girth of famous people's erect penises isn't something we encounter very often in daily life.

This leads me to posit that there exists a hypothetical, imaginary set of measurements for all penis-owners in our collective imagination - measurements that bear no relation to reality.

Some use terms like 'Big Dick Energy' to express the hypothetical dimensionality of all these Schrödinger's Cocks that fill (or do not fill) our universe.

While these attempts to speculate about things that are none of our business are noble, they're ultimately vague, abstract, and ungrounded.

This presents a genuine problem: as a society, we are doing something funny (imagining penises) but not grounding that in real, earned, democratic consensus.

I introduce to you the solution: Penis Guesser - an attempt to obtain the collective imaginary consensus on the imaginary dimensions of famous people's penises.

How it works:

Users are presented with a series of penis owners and asked to guess each penis's length and width.

After guessing, users see the current average length and girth consensus.

After 10 guesses, users can access the leaderboard, sorted by length.

No actual penises are visible at any point - they remain entirely imaginary.

Some notes:

1 - This is a joke - definitely in bad taste, possibly funny, maybe illegal? YMMV! :-)

1.5 - The internet definitely used to be funnier! That was the inspiration - websites that were really stupid, like this. I admire when people put lots of effort into utterly pointless things.

2 - I've never made a website before; this is 'vibe-coded'. It's fun! I enjoyed making it. It's cool that a totally non-technical person can do this in an evening now. My job is writing books, not making websites, and I'm excited to find out all the mistakes I've made.

3 - I have bought penis-guesser.com but it seems like the internet takes a couple of days to understand that.

4 - As a non-coder, I love HN! I learn so much cool stuff on it. Thank you for it :-)
I have a spinal injury and have experienced both catheters (both Foley, which have a balloon in the bladder, and isc ones, which don't) and modern absorbent underwear.

Catheters are evil pain sticks. Modern pants are wonderful and have dramatically improved my quality of life.
> known as “llvm” to remove dead code paths

Large Language Vulture Model?
> Its massive adoption proves you wrong

No!

* Window NT in 1991. Displaced much better systems, on mass

* Node.js (my job) is simply dreadful. Mass adoption there too

* It took until 2015 to get half way to a replacement for C for real time systems. C is incredibly prone to failure - and it still has mass adoption. (Very tricky that one)

Popularity is a very bad metric for choosing computer systems.

(Unless you are looking for a job - see above for Node.js)
Funnily enough you can learn lots of things when you read books.
Can you imagine yourself or your women friends buying one if it was affordable?
As a graduate from and former professor at small private liberal arts colleges, #3 is spot-on. Don't even consider it.

The rest of the advice is excellent, as well. Unless the world is very, very different ~15 years from now (and God, I hope it is), this is what I'll be telling my kid.
That is how it works. PhD programs charge tuition. Tuition is typically reimbursed through some working arrangement, but you're welcome to pay out of pocket.
Yes see what you mean now. Sorry - I was imprecise with my wording. As a fellow Australian I feel the pain too by the way :)

> do absolutely nothing for three full seconds and make me refresh the page with the network tab open

This is what I was talking about. A pattern I see is papering over this deficiency with a massive “spinner”. Barely noticeable for the devs accessing the app on 127.0.0.1 on fancy machines - so frustrating for everyone else.

Absolutely agree indication of activity is important. Especially so considering how buggy many of these web apps are.
It would become super amusing if you ask Grok how to do something like this and the recommendation becomes 'Ask ChatGPT'. :) But I'm sure people working on training datasets are filtering out such responses.
I suspect a whole lot of numbers are going to get encoded in base 9 or 10 as mostly repetitions of digit + * digit + * or equivalent.
What is the privacy of the documents for the cloud service? There’s nothing in the privacy policy about data sent over the api.
So I bring that up from the perspective of IT, not Product. RabbitMQ isn't something I've seen directly deployed much in the enterprise IT world (not saying it doesn't exist, just that I've not seen it in any prior org myself as a separate component like the Docker Compose cites), but I will say that many Managers/Leaders will just see "Broadcom" on that page and run away screaming like they do from Oracle's stuff.

With documentation on why it was chosen and the function it serves, I (the IT Engineer) am better able to communicate this back to leaders pitching a fit over Broadcom's name on there as well as brief on alternatives. Not saying it's right, just a frustrating reality.
How Dirty Money from Fentanyl Sales Is Flowing Through China
This is what most homeowners do.
https://archive.ph/RAltI
Would these not exist due to taxonomic reasons (trees are just big plants, fish are too many things to be one thing) or for other reasons?
> I strongly dislike when people say AI when they actually mean optimizer.

It probably uses a relatively simple hill climbing algorithm, but I would agree that it could still be classified as machine learning. AI is just the new, hip term for ML.
Hi — author here. Yes, but that still requires manually defining structure upfront. With dynamic method generation, I could introspect a database and generate named methods at runtime, whereas Swift’s static approach is more boilerplate-heavy and less expressive. Not saying Swift’s approach is wrong — metaprogramming like this is antithetical to its goals as a language — just that I like having this ability when it’s available.
Performance Goals Can Harm Students
Probably for the same reason people use ORMs.
What was really revolutionary, IMO, about Half-Life was how moddable it was, and how Valve supported the modding community and often acquihired good modders.

Oh, and when they purchased the Counter-Strike IP, and started selling it shrinkwrapped, if you owned Half-Life, you just kept using the mod as you already were

In these modern times, I suspect that would be monetised somehow now. Upgrade to a premium user to get golden lootboxes, likely.

But yeah, I knew people who bought Half-Life just to play CS when it was early beta.

Likewise, less famous, but still being played today, Day of Defeat - I was hooked as the experience of "Yeah the rifles can kill you in one shot, and grenades will kill you, it's not CS dude. Oh and press B if that icon comes up, it means you're bleeding"

(Still unsure how I feel about them taking bleeding out.)
> Two hours at the Autobahn is just 200-250km

Much closer to 300km, unless you’re driving in high traffic. You’ll be able to keep around 140 km/h.
This is awesome. I will check it out. Does your code include scripts for fine-tuning new Piper voices?
There are things in the core language that are still kind of bullshit. The thing that gives me the most headaches is how annoying it is to use Java libraries that have the lambda syntax.

You can't just pass in a Clojure `fn` into a Java lambda function. You have to `reify` the interface and implement the single method. It's annoying and verbose and frustratingly the equivalent code is considerably cleaner in Java as a result.

I know that this is a product of how Java implemented lambdas by having interfaces with a single method, and I'm not saying that it would be trivial to add into Clojure, but I don't think it's impossible and I think people have been complaining about this for more than a decade now.

So while I love Clojure, it's probably my favorite language, I do get a little annoyed when people act like it's "stable" because there's nothing to fix.
I have been building my (money-earning SaaS) app with leiningen for 10 years now. There is no "du jour", unless you choose to be "du jour".

If you care about startup time (I don't, my app starts only once), you can use babashka for scripting.
That's a defensible perspective, I guess, but the fact remains that you don't fall through your chair, and that's all we really want from a description of "solid" matter. Turns out your chair behaves weirdly when you shoot alpha particles through it, but your bottom isn't made of alpha particles, so what does that prove as far as solidity goes? I suppose it proves that solidity is a non-fundamental property of matter, and that is profound, but that doesn't mean we need to change the name. It just seems like a semantic cul-de-sac to me.
And there are others, but not ultra young ones actually.
But why would it be bad if the goal of a country is to raise a little the wealth of everyone instead of a lot the wealth of very few ? A country is succesful not by the number of billionaires but by quite a lot of other criterias.
I've also found that light themes have issues with syntax color "pop". I always make my own!
> Of course you start the trip off at 100%

Thats… not obvious at all. Unless you’re within the super small part of society that can charge at home, you might be as well starting with 20 or 30% - exactly the same as with a regular car.
Oh waw, that's a trip straight to nostalgia lane. CS surf was so fun, good times.
IRIS²: Connecting Europe, Connecting the World. Securely
There are absolutely buddhist and daoist lineages that deal with internal energy.
being unlawful is a vital tool for people to keep tyranny in check, I would hope that most people are incredibly strong supporters of lawlessness when the laws are wrong. To give an extreme example, I imagine you supported the hiding of jewish people during nazi germanys reign, which means you support unlawful activity as long as it's against laws that are against the people.
Just beware of the lock-in with Authy because they make it impossible to export your TOTP secrets for "security" reasons. There was a method to do it by running some code but they patched up those API endpoints recently.
Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry
Huh, the example "she runs" is not correct in Polish. Currently translates to "ona działa" = "she functions."

She runs, as in the form of locomotion, is "ona biega/biegnie."
> Two hours on autobahn driving 90-120km/h

So 240 km took only 30% of your battery? What model of car is that?
By not changing the behavior? What makes you think every mutant must change the behavior?

Here's a paper on these so-called equivalent mutants "in the wild", in Java programs, and their detection: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3650212.3680310
Given that the content described in the partnership here is part of a DLC, I wonder if the Tribe is party to any profit sharing agreement with the game company.
Really? Then why do they charge students athletic fees? Why do stadiums and athletic centers receive government grants and subsidies?

Here is a huge list of donations from various groups to an athletic endowment at the University of Alabama. Much of this money could have and would have been donated to schools directly for research and academic purposes instead the athletic foundations.

Alabama is one of the most successful Division 1 football programs in the nation. If these programs are so profitable, why do they need so much money for these endowments? And why all the money from governments and grants? Doesn’t add up.

https://crimsontidefoundation.org/ways-to-support/Endowments...
I changed my home office to my “luminarium” where I’m using about 700W of LED bulbs to get my lux to around 10,000. It’s a necessity that I use light mode, it’s impossible to see dark mode.

Also it effectively cured my SAD.
It depends on the context. My boss is so busy that he rarely answers to my emails, he is available to talk very rarely (once every few months) so I write him what I plan to do then I do it. He never answered "no". Even for vacations, I just let him know when I go and for how long, if it is up to a week. I am responsible of my own work and he is just around.

My former manager used to do the same. He is a 40 year veteran, retiring in the next few months and for the past 6 years since I met him he wrote many emails telling people what he plans to do and just did it. It works for us very well.
That's nice in theory, but leaves you with significant risk of getting completely locked out of your account should you lose the device containing the OTP secret.
For an example take a look at this map of the different words used in German for "meatballs":

https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-7/f01f/
I was wondering which Mike this was - Mike Harrington I see!

Thanks - Half-Life is a great legacy.
I am not sure what are the proper words to explain this in a polite company, but women have been policing sexuality since ever. Men are typically jealous of their own partners, but they don't care much about what strangers are doing. Women pay attention to each other, and call out "sluts", because they do not want sex to get too cheap, as that would threaten their own negotiating power at the dating market place. Robots could be the ultimate "sluts".

How much sexual power each woman has, that is highly individual. Some women are more attractive than others. Some women have many other qualities, but for some this is the greatest leverage they have. Therefore, if that power suddenly dropped to zero, because of abundance of cheap robotic sex, different women would be impacted differently. Some of them might be even happy about it, as you suggest.

But it seems that many women are concerned, because when similar topics are discussed in the news, there if often women who insist on policing male sexuality. Sometimes, like when discussing prostitution, porn, or just too much free sex, this is done under the pretext of protecting the exploited women. And yes, there is also that aspect. But when the debate moves to e.g. computer-generated porn, where there are absolutely no real women involved... still, some women are concerned about that, too. This article was about robots, and - quite predictably - some woman was publicly concerned about that, too. So it seems like worrying about the exploited women is not the full story here, because the problem remains even if there are no real women involved.

As a contrast, imagine the discussion instead being about slavery (in a parallel reality when Confederation won the war). Someone would ask "what if in future the robotic slaves will replace the labor of black slaves?". Probably everyone who opposes slavery would say: "great, the sooner that happens, the better!" If we care about humans, then the same thing happening to robots instead of humans is an improvement. But when we talk about how male sexuality is somehow inconvenient for women, when someone says "what about robotic sex instead", the response is always "nope, that would be problematic, too." Which suggests that the problematic part is not about what happens to women, but about what men are allowed to do (even to objects).
for years i’ve stuck with Chicago95 and I refuse to use windows 95
These articles are necessary to counteract armchair critics who are afraid of unfamiliar things and feel insecure. This crowd is loud: you can hear the choir of "but no one is using it, I tried it once and there were parentheses, I tried it and it was too hard, I hate the JVM" — there needs to be a voice that says it works (and works well!) for some people.

FWIW, it works for me — I would not have been able to build and run my business without Clojure. The long-term stability is an especially important trait, under-appreciated by people who do not have a business to run.
You have as much sovereignty over a foreign-run cloud as you do over a Tesla or an Iphone. AWS or Google isn't going to give you the source to their software, and even if it did you don't have the engineering resources to review even a snapshot much less review it at the velocity it changes (and even if you wanted to try you'd need to hire the engineers away from the US tech companies).
Bruce: Predatory ESP32 Firmware
Our latest home has a confusing array of light switches. I picked up a Brother P-touch CUBE label maker (apparently a hit among all sorts of hobbies), and ended up deciding that the best way to go was text labels + color coding to indicate zones/functions (e.g., hot pink for garbage disposals). Works fantastic.
That’s probably not possible anymore given China’s increasingly large and advanced military.
Increasing government efficiency is not difficult. It just takes time, and there are no quick victories. And in most cases, you need to spend more money in the short term.

The key actor is the legislative branch. It can set goals and priorities. It can reform regulations and put an end to unnecessary activities.

Situations where people commonly employ lawyers or other professionals to deal with government bureaucracy are a key indicator of inefficiency. When such situations can be identified, the government needs to consider if the professionals are truly necessary. Or can the processes be simplified enough that professional help is no longer necessary in most cases.
Doesn't appear to have any way of exporting 2FA tokens?

I _very narrowly_ dodged being locked in to authy by having tokens in there that couldn't be exported, and authy is a steaming pile of... Never again will I be foolish enough to not maintain ownership of the actual 2fa tokens my codes are generated from.
You'd need to start with GIS population data for the planet, a first order answer would look at the surface area of the planet divided out by the principal destructive area size of (say) the Tunguska event, each area weighted by population.

Complications over that, once sorted out, include:

* are whether impact sites are evenly distributed across the planet or, perhaps, weight to more common near equatorial regions .. this would relate to the expected incoming trajectories of chuncky rocks which are maybe more likely in the solar plane.

* chance of impacts in non populated (or low populated) areas having a disproportionate secondary effect that kills people.

eg: Will hitting shallow ocean cause a wave that travels and kills?

Will hitting and destroying the massive water pipes that bring drinking water to New York City kill very few directly but indirectly cause the death and suffering of a million+ ?
I think you're extrapolating a lot from a single datapoint.
Perhaps of interest, the translation guesses things like age relations and genders. This is accurate when the word has that same meaning in English, like nun and monk have a gender, but e.g. the word hairdresser in English is translated to a specific gender in German and Dutch even though the original didn't have one. Similarly for diminutives: "brother" (broer) usually means "big brother" in Dutch because for a younger brother you'd add a diminutive suffix. It's hard to define, but maybe: words that are not synonyms, yet all translate back to your input. (The reverse also exists, of course: insulation and isolation isn't differentiated in Dutch)

The map would be more complete with this information because it may be very similar or completely different and can be interesting to compare, for example:

- EN: receptionist for both, NL: receptionist and receptioniste, DE: rezeptionist and empfangsdame. The map currently just shows the female version for German, without indication that they also use a transliteration of the English.

- EN: little brother, NL: broertje (the submission shows a doubled up version of kleine broertje), DE: kleiner Bruder. Although German has the diminutive suffix to make Brüderchen, they don't use it the way that we do, which I find interesting to see.

Google Translate's API can output multiple options, <https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/reference/rest/v3bet...>, and Google's own website seems to indeed provide these different variants, but there is no label to say what the different array entries mean the way that Google's own website shows

I got curious which gender it guesses that you might mean. It seems to assume a male unless it's also very heavily female-connotated in English. In Dutch and German, it outputs male for hairdresser and doctor, female for nurse and receptionist (German translations mean "sick-sister" and "reception lady", respectively), and mixed for secretary (female in Dutch, male in German) because Dutch doesn't have a male word for it anymore (only workarounds)
Very clever, but using an arbitrary number of square roots seems almost cheating since it’s practically another symbol for a “2” (exponent of 1/2)