skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s more like a continuous eye roll since 2002 when he released _A New Kind of Science_.

I spent around 15 years working on stochastic lattice models. They can be amazing. They can also fail to capture the essence of the problem. Same with cellular automata.

They’re definitely not _new_. They weren’t new in 2002. I’ve always viewed Conway’s game of life as an interesting deterministic variant of an Ising model, and Ising models date back to the 1920s.

Most physicists I knew at the time looked at the book, shrugged, and kept working on what they were doing. I love lattice models, cellular automata, lattice fluid models, and the like. But they’re just one class of useful model.

And yet because Wolfram has a perpetual money machine called Mathematica, he’s got a huge megaphone to advocate for himself.

I’ll keep rolling my eyes. I don’t hate the guy, but he is just a little too into self-promotion for my taste.
Collective lobbying and PR has plenty of power, which is why companies do it so much.
Google is a huge organisation, so both claims could certainly be true.
Right, but there are common use cases (audit, log, analytics tables) where you can tolerate a small risk of loss and get some hefty speedups.
Turning WAT into BAT: a review on regulators controlling the browning of white adipocytes
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3764508/ | https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20130046
Octopodes don't actually have a very long lifespan, as adults die shortly after mating. Which is only to say that the decision to consume is more complicated for this creature than others, because if the goal is to minimize suffering, an ethically aquaculture-farmed octopus harvested after mating will not live much longer anyways.

And I've always found the argument that "more intelligent/sentient creatures deserve more protection and rights" to be basically a post hoc defense against cannibalism. We can't know what "suffering" feels like to less intelligent and "simpler" animals so why make our sentience a criterion for the morality of eating? Just from a safety concern we shouldn't be eating humans, but not because we "suffer uniquely more" than other species.
Accurately, post a set of cultural changes. Some variant of that virus will be going around until, maybe, there is a severe lockdown because of another virus but that won’t happen for another half-generation at least even if the new virus is The Andromeda Strain.

There is a population of people today though who have internalized the threat of COVID as a core part of their identity such as one of those Ithaca hypochondriacs that doesn’t get invited to parties because the only thing she’s wanted to talk about since 2021 is face masks.
You travelled to the US every once a month for 10 years? 10 years ago? and now you’re considering not going back buddy you already stopped coming
I remember growing up everyone told me that I should be using margarine instead of the butter I preferred.

Years later everyone went crazy banning trans fat.

I'll stick with butter and live with the health consequences (if any).

> It's unfortunate but now I have little faith in health studies related to food.

As someone who was taught the "food pyramid" in school, I'm firmly on the side of trust body builders and 'bro science' not the government.
Much like you I too have just woken up from under my rock to find this out. On the bright side it seems we didn't miss anything so as you were.
It's a trial for 14 days but if you need more time just send us a message and we'll figure something out
Phishing resistance isn't a binary property, it's a spectrum, and even with this vulnerability, that of passkeys is orders of magnitude higher than that of most other alternatives (including passwords, SMS OTP, TOTP etc.)
> It’s the more modern processed oils (of which many seed oils you’ll find are) that you can’t create without modern tech.

Such as?

The conclusion of the study mentions a few specific oils for what it's worth.

> ...replace animal fats like butter with nonhydrogenated vegetable oils that are high in unsaturated fats, especially olive, soy, and canola oil.
lotta astroturfing here too, mon ami.

great money to be made getting the HN tech bro demographic on to something.
Yeah the live stream prices are absurd.

And just to complete myself sounding like a grumpy old man - just open ReListen App or Phish.in and choose any show from 1993-1997 and you'll get something 10x better.
Oh, no, I definitely agree with you on that, was just pointing out that specific premise is factually incorrect.
> Elon's individual reputation doesn't seem to have much effect on the company's value either. It's not like people only just started hating him recently.

Unless the company fucked up something majorly in recent times, what is the reason for the stock price to fall so fast right now?

Large swaths of people who would have been perfect customer for Tesla, have committed to never buying anything Tesla, especially because of his very public nazi-salute and supporting far-right parties in Europe, and sales are already down across the world.

Did people stop buying Tesla because some new software update, or could it possibly be because of Musk's behavior as of late?
They generally aren't. See the ecological fallacy.
I do think that’s a massive factor. I hate to generalise as is a massively complex issue but I do feel most young men online are angry that they aren’t getting more interactions with women. Technology hasn’t helped that at all. I’m wondering if there’s a way to try reverse that. Education is obviously key but it popular and accepted is super hard
I can think of plausible[1] motives for the NIH and Novo Nordisk that would make it a conflict.

[1] emphasis on "plausible," as opposed to confirmed
Am I wrong, or do we already know a good diet for the majority of people is? Get a mix of fruits, vegetables, lean meats, grains, and fats in reasonable distribution. That distributions seems to have a pretty flexible range and each person can shift it around a bit. Maybe you skip out of meat and dairy - that works too. Same with taking out a piece of these in any way you want. Oh, and go ahead and break that once and a while and don't think it's a big deal - a day of state fair food won't kill you.

Except for specific cases that are not common (dietary restrictions of all kinds), it seems like you should mostly consume the things you traditionally associate with being "healthy", but also give yourself some wiggle room.

Get your blood work done and see a doctor regularly - if there are no issues, you're probably fine. If you're not, I doubt the reduction of seed oils in your diet would've remedied that.
Show HN: Hown – Message Any Homeowner and Buy and Sell Off-Market
Hi HN! A few years ago, I had a tough time buying a home in a competitive market where listings were scarce. I kept wondering—why isn’t there a simple way to contact a homeowner directly to ask if they’re interested in selling?

So a friend and I built Hown, an app that lets buyers message any homeowner, creating a way to buy and sell houses outside the real estate market (sorry, US only for now). The app is for:

-Homeowners who might be open to selling but aren’t ready to list.

-Buyers who want to express interest in homes before they hit the market.

-House enthusiasts who just enjoy browsing and tracking the popularity of their home.

We built it in SwiftUI (which has been interesting…) and we launched recently. We’re still iterating, but curious to hear what the HN community thinks—Does this seem useful? What would make it better? Really any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks!
Yes because more cases are happening everyday: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etat...
> There should be a single binary, self-updating, single-user instance.

This sounds like a suicide mission. You can already set this up in the current system, why does it need to be more popular?

I'm a monthly active user of Mastodon. It's boring, and if it was anything else then I'd quit using it. I don't want monitization, IPOs or Zuckerberg taunting. I want my peace and quiet so you can go dogfood the media du-jour.
This is a very tough announcement for any customers relying on the Fauna service. The announcement itself hides the all key details, clicking into the FAQ reveals the date is not several months away but in fact 2 months 11 days away, and there is no FaunaDB open source release to start saving your own ass today.

> we have made the hard decision to sunset the Fauna service over the next several months. clicks into the FAQ
vs
> Fauna service will be ending on May 30, 2025.
I still have subpixel antialiasing on when using a 28" 4K display. It's the same DPI as a FHD 14" display, typical on laptops. Subpixel AA makes small fonts look significantly more readable.

But it only applies to Linux, where the small fonts can be made look crisp this way. Windows AA is worse, small fonts are a bit more blurred on the same screen, and amcOS is the worst: connecting a 24" FHD screen to an MBP ives really horrible font rendering, unless you make fonts really large. I suppose it's because macOS does not do subpxel AA at all, and assumes high DPI screens only.
Seed oils seem to be a tiny, edge portion of their advocacy. It's probably a conflict, but a relatively weak one.
The standard lib is not "bad" it just is modular to avoid C++ like pitfalls.

People doing web dev in python could use pythons native json but rarely do because there are other far more performant options for example.
This sort of numerical deception is endemic in nuclear advocacy dicsussions. I don't know if it's intentional, the best explanation I have is that somebody proposes an (unrealistic) number as a goal, and then it's accepted by advocates as the reality. But if reality was known, the person probably would not be an advocate.

I have not yet met an advocate that will talk about the real, existing, challenges to nuclear the same way that renewable energy advocates talk about the challenges. Go and listen to a podcast on renewables, and it's all about what's not working, what's working, where the opportunities are, and what needs to be changed with the tech. Go listen to a nuclear energy podcast and all you get is wishful thinking, rose-colored glasses, and papering over the real problems that face the real projects.

Edit: for example of the podcasts, here's Jigar Shah on Decouple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwN1MCtBkVk giving the hosts a dose of reality. And Shah is far more optimistic than nearly any realistic person on nuclear, the Liftoff plan (https://liftoff.energy.gov/advanced-nuclear-2/) that his department produced starts from an unrealistic current position and then assumes massive gains somehow to get to a competitive position. It's rose-colored glasses in itself, but at least it shows a plan of how to make nuclear realistic.
I wonder why browsers even allow cross-origin access to localhost in that way, given all the risks involved.
One thing I will note is that both of these can be true. Google is a huge company run by a lot of people and unless the specific claims are contradictory there's nothing stopping Google from doing both. It's not like we can expect it to be run with any consistent ideology
no idea. However the above comment is easily verifiable. Here is a link saying that the return would be around February 2025 [1]. There seems no reason to believe either trump or Elon forced some sort of rush, or Biden and his administration ignored or caused some sort of slowdown. It looks like a schedule was planned and followed.

1. https://nitter.net/NASA/status/1827393397939634503
"One 4-year presidency does not have to mold the history or legacy of a country." What actually happens after 4 years though? Isn't the concern, the supreme court ruling that the president is above the law? So laws like, you can't run for more than 2 terms, you must have a democratic election where everyone gets a vote, basically all laws around elections, no longer need be followed. Or for that matter any other laws. A president could seemingly behave like Hitler and face no justice. Trump won't live forever, but what's to stop him handing over to someone similar? (BTW to your main point, I agree indeed Europe has its major issues too)
Kiln just opened in St George, I have a dedicated desk, but they have non dedicated desks for I think $150 or so, and has more amenities (and free snacks/coffee to save a little on food costs)
Pays for one month of rent.
> so in winter when the sun doesn't shine, the only reliable energy comes from fossil fuels.

Sure but we also don't have to care. The production capacity is already there, the CO2 to build it has already been spend. It's only running it, that's adding to the badness. And if we do that for 5% of the year. Then we have gotten 95% of the way there.

But what it does is: 1) it makes fossil fuel based electricity extremely expensive (about 20x except for the fuel) and 2) it endangers secondary uses of those plants. We currently use a significant fraction of the coal-fired power plants (at least 5GW) mainly for their heat. And _those_ needs will need to be covered before we can really turn coal off. Nevertheless: Reducing fossil's capacity factor is a good thing and buys time for other bridges (e.g. power-to-heat and storage) to arrive.
There's a great video of a longshoreman union rep bragging about crushing America so 'his guys' could get by, all the while with totaly lost irony he said this on TV while wearing a gold chain, Rolex, and living in an absolutely lavish mansion.

https://youtu.be/hr-isyMV1y8?si=6cHZ9Ey8hzJtSoFQ
lemmy is pretty sparse outside of tech-ish instances. hard to get excited about it sometimes.

double edged sword of platform adoption -- no one is there so you dont go, but if you don't go no one is there.
Wire guided is still the primary means of guiding torpedos from submarines, because it gives you an unjammable, un-interceptible, consistent communication interface, and in torpedoes the wire spools out for tens of kilometers.

If you want something really cool, look up old fashioned TV guidance. We built weapons that guided based a TV signal, and edge detection in that signal. In 1958.
Probably. But, buyer beware. There have been studies in the US that it is not "uncommon" (whatever quantity that entails) to find ghee sold that contains as much as half vegetable oil, so it's just the usual unchecked food fraud that's rampant in this country. Ghee is trivial to make yourself from butter sourced from a local dairy or from a trusted source. I use it, along with Zero Acres oil made from fermented sugar cane, which is better if seeking a neutral flavor.
If you are going to say that anyone who ever takes public health money -or- private industry money is conflicted, then everyone who ever does -any- research for a living is conflicted.
> The question 'what are we going to do then?' visits me more often lately.

We will develop a new layer of profitable apps. Social apps will not stop to be a thing but it will be easy to create engaging ones.
Hey HN!

I'm an active sports player, and I've always struggled with the same problem: finding the right people and places to play my favorite sports. Whether it's a casual badminton match or a competitive basketball game, it usually ends up being frustrating and time-consuming. I kept noticing similar frustrations popping up online, too—people tweeting things like:

"Someone create an app that shows all public basketball courts and whether or not people are there. This would save me so much time lol."[1]

"I have wanted pickup hoops forever."[1]

So instead of waiting around, my team and I built NockOut. It's a platform that makes it super easy to:

Discover games based on your skill, location, and schedule.

Match with players who share your interests and skill level.

Join an active community of sports enthusiasts.

(Coming soon!) Book venues and courts with real-time availability.

We're in beta right now, and I'd love to get feedback from you all here on HN. Check it out at nockout.co or download the beta from the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/nockout/id6477323254).

Thanks so much for any feedback or suggestions—I'm excited to hear your thoughts and keep improving the platform!

[1] https://subramanya.ai/2024/01/11/the-nockout-story/
the day that old.reddit stops working is the day I never use the platform again
> I'm firmly on the side of trust body builders and 'bro science' not the government

You're in luck. Here's a strong bald man to tell you about seed oils:

https://youtu.be/18jNJvfFR6k?si=499sHZpvZjjAbOGh
Ask HN: Are LLMs the new compilers?
It seems clear to me that AIs are going to write more source code going forward. At the moment I review a lot of it, it seems necessary. But it occurs to me the same may have been true of early compilers. Is it the case that early engineers would review and change resulting assembly? That certainly isn't how most of us operate today, so I'm wondering if the same is bound to happen at this new abstraction level. Will we stop reviewing the output and write...english? Why or why not?

Update based on comments: Perhaps by using 'LLM' I was too specific to today's non-deterministic LLM systems..I suppose I meant AI systems in general.
As a payload that's great. As a source code file, not so great.
That'd be a good one to add to https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations.
Whose fault is that, though?
When I teach algorithms and data structures visualgo.net is one of the sites that I recommend.

However, I prefer the visualizations from USF: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.ht... - not as pretty but in my experience students pick up ideas from these faster.
Nothing, by definition. If an attacker can successfully proxy all channels designed to frustrate proxying attacks, it's game over, at least without a distance bounding protocol being used (and I don't think Bluetooth has one).
So the core tech will be open source? That is all to run it or? As that would be pretty sweet really next to this sad news.

I hope something good will come from it.
Society changes. Smartphones are 20 years old at this point and no longer require you to drop $1k+ up front for one. Should smart phones be required for everything? No. But progress is gonna progress. Who even carries coins with them these days?
One of the things that cuts the Democrats off at the knees is that the far left is even hungrier for “change” and “shaking things up” than Trump supporters are and doesn’t get any emotional satisfaction out of supporting the party of “status quo at any cost” other than the behavioral sink of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

European politics is itself in a death spiral of the center left and center right forming an emotionally false coalition whereas the AfD looks emotionally truer by the day.
It is also clear that Mooney had already "found God," so I'm not sure what all the fuss is about for this woman to affirm her beliefs in this context. Politics aside, this woman was clearly a comfort to her in a very difficult time. Why anyone would begrudge someone comfort in such a situation is beyond me. It strikes me as a type of cruelty or even sadism.
Elasticsearch can store arbitrary text in log fields, including JSON-encoded string. Elasticsearch can also tokenize JSON-encoded string and provide fast full-text search over such string in the same way like it does for a regular plaintext string.

why do you need storing JSON-encoded string inside log field? It is much better parsing the JSON into separate fields at log shipper and storing the parsed log fields into Elasticsearch. This gives better query performance and may also reduce disk space usage, since values for every parsed field are stored separately (this usually improves compression ratio and reduces disk read IO during queries if column-oriented storage is used for per-field data).

I tried explaining this at https://itnext.io/why-victorialogs-is-a-better-alternative-t...
Did the trump admin reverse course?

There is no point in giving into threats if the other party is still going to follow through regardless. I think the best argument against this being due to political pressure from trump is it doesn't seem effective in getting rid of that pressure. If trump is the thing they care about here, why would they bother if trump is going to do trump things regardless.
ARM Cortex-A is an application processor, not a microcontroller. With an MMU (can run a full OS like Linux) and without internal memory.

Cortex-M is a microcontroller, without MMU (can't run Linux etc.), and typically has internal RAM and flash.

Only the NXP i.MXRT1170 reaches 1 GHz CPU clock, and this is not multi-GHz as the prior comment declared.
How much fraud and abuse has to occur before it's able to be labeled as "corruption"?

Fraud literally means intentional lying in accounting or other financial representations, for the purpose of improperly benefiting someone. If people in government are benefited directly or indirectly by fraud, that's literally included in the definition of corruption.
Came here to mention Travle. Such a fun game! I've learnt a ton of geography through it in recent months!
The people who are running the diversity stuff at Google when I was there were very "Eye-for-an-eye".

Some dumb stuff that happened while I was at Google:

* There was a ERG for literally every single race except White people. "Just join one of the others" was what they told me.

* During an onboarding learning exercise because I was merely showing initiative before the rest of the group. "Ok everyone here's my idea". I was tapped on the shoulder by the contractor-teacher-person and asked to move aside and let the group do the very same thing without me.

* Nonwhite employees in my org also got a special mentor who helped them get a leg-up in the company. Some employees were whisked-away from their work responsibilities to go on little field trips with other teams. A few of these people were totally inept technically at their job and I saw them convert into better jobs. It must have been nice.

I'm pretty liberal, but this corpo-liberalism that somehow thinks an eye-for-an-eye to people living in 2025 is insane to me. It might even burn someone so much it changes their politics if they're whimsical.
bash bind and zsh bindkey are similar enough that you can probably just llm convert it to bash.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chmouel/zsh-select-with-lf... | llm -x "Convert this zsh script to bash" > maybe-bash.sh

seems to work for me.
Ha, poor Naomi Klein getting confused with the other Naomi... I guess it was inevitable she'd write a book about it.
oh wow that is very fast. I would really hope the open source version appears on github tomorrow then to dive in and migrate.
"So, I'm in this hotel, right? And there's this shop across the street, yeah? And it's got this suit, man - and I'm, like, I really wanna try that on."

Order of information is mainly prescribed by formal rules of expression; language itself is amenable to its users' idiosyncratic preferences and priorities.

At least, English is.

Can anyone who knows Japanese comment on whether the reverse order is possible / plausible there?