skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't normally get annoyed by particular noises... but I've had several middle-ear infections in my life, and I've noticed that every time I get one, I temporarily develop a strong misophonia.

Sometimes, in such infections, particular sounds seem to vibrate my (irritated, inflamed, sensitized) eardrums in a particularly noticeable and distracting way. It's not all sounds, though! Based on the feeling and the triggers, I'd say the feeling is of there being something gummed up right against (the inside side of) my eardrum; where specific frequencies of vibration cause the eardrum to rub itself against this gummy thing.

And other times, in such infections, particular sounds seem to not irritate the eardrum per se, but rather the auditory canal (Eustachian tube). In those cases, it feels like sounds of the right frequency seem to resonate the auditory canal itself (not usually possible due to it being open+connected to your sinuses — but possible when that opening is plugged with gunk!), causing any little dried bits of "stuff" (blood clots, stones from antibody-expunged bacterial biofilms, etc) to "rattle around" inside there. These sensations make me wish I could somehow stick a finger right through my eardrum and down my auditory canal, and itch the spot. (Or get a Eustachian-tube suctioning. Too bad they won't do that to you unless you go deaf from blockage; the one time I did get it, I heard better than I have in years!)

Anyway, this is all enough to make me wonder whether at least some of the people with misophonia (or auditory-hypersensitive sensory processing disorders) just have chronic undiagnosed middle-ear infections (or sequelae of such.)
I'm genuinely curious: in which countries is this a crime?

For that matter, why is it surprising that the top figures in an industry move to regulatory positions in that same industry, and vice versa? Being a top player in an industry generally implies some level of expertise in concepts related to that industry, which seems like it would be a quality you'd also like to see in a regulator over said industry, right?

It seems to me you'd rather have someone with experience being in a regulatory role, rather than someone who's inexperienced or ignorant. If you're selecting for experience, you're going to settle on someone who is an expert, and most experts will probably be in the industry.

Would you rather select against experience?

To be clear: I understand the argument against putting insiders in regulatory roles and vice versa. What I do not understand is the alternative model being proposed, and why it's superior.
Do you or do you not acknowledge that Trump's authoritarian tendencies are a threat to democratic institutions?
Translation of Part of Bible into Jamaican Patois
I think it's more so that those aren't as readily available as signal to get at the exploits, and it would be on gov provided devices not on everyday phones that people install just whatever on and then decide to set up a chat group and talk about blowing up brown people whimsically.
Linux Mint is quite good, I've got it on a few machines. So far it's the most stable, easily-updatable and "gets out of the way" Linux distro I've used in years.
I love when people spend a ton of time spouting takes like this.

I just hope they keep feeling that way and avoid LLMs. Less competition for those of us who are using them to make our jobs/lives easier every day.
A good week for the battle against microbial pathogens!

A new class of antibiotics referenced in the article above:

Jangra, M., Travin, D.Y., Aleksandrova, E.V. et al. A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08723-7

And a new anti-fungal! We've only got a handful of these:

Deng, Q., Li, Y., He, W. et al. A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08678-9
Huh, I thought they were talking about those who fought against the Confederacy during the War of Northern Aggression.
The article addresses much of what is incorrectly speculated on in the comments here.

“Researchers fed their model the x-ray images without any of the associated radiologist reports, which contained information about diagnoses” (including demographics).
At non-extremely niche tasks they fail as well.

I should start collecting examples, if only for threads like this. Recently I tried to llm a tsserver plugin that treats lines ending with "//del" as empty. You can only imagine all the sneaky failures in the chat and the total uselessness of these results.

Anything that is not literally millions (billions?) of times in the training set is doomed to be fantasized about by an LLM. In various ways, tones, etc. After many such threads I came to conclusion that people who find it mostly useful are simply treading water as they probably have done most of their career. Their average product is a react form with a crud endpoint and excitement about it. I can't explain their success reports otherwise, cause it rarely works on anything beyond that.
I recently learned that this idea of the responsibility of a business as being to maximize shareholder value is kind of recent, and that in the 50s and 60s, in the US, they actually applied a stakeholder capitalist idea, where the purpose of a business was to maximize not shareholder value, but stakeholder value, which would have been the employees, customers, communities, and society at large.

I think we are all a fool as well to simply accept that the made up institution of "business" has to be about maximizing shareholder value, like anything, this is all a political game, and it is what we agree to make it.
you are right, if your software is suffering regularly from the same issues - you go and fix them at the architecture level.

network issues? use a second DC, or some HA SDN setup, or run from a second DC.

3rd party API issues? Change vendor, or send stuff to queue to reprocess later. All of these issues could and should be solved and thats the job of the developer
Breast density affects the imaging you get from x-rays. It is well-known that denser breast tissue results in x-rays that are "whiter" (I'm talking about the image of the tissue, in white, on a black background, as x-rays are commonly read by radiologists). Denser breasts are associated with less effective screening for breast cancer via mammogram. A mammogram is a low-dose x-ray.

When using a chest x-ray to look for pulmonary edema, for instance, I would be unsurprised if breast tissue (of any quantity) and in particular denser breast tissue would make the diagnosis of pulmonary edema more difficult from the image alone.

Also, you seem to have conflated a few things in your second sentence. Deep in the article, they did have radiologists try to guess demographic attributes by looking at the x-ray images. They were pretty good at guessing female/male (unsurprising) and were not really able to guess age or race. So I'm super interested in how the AI model was able to be better at that than the human radiologists.
It's not normal, Trump / MAGA is a paradigm shift driven by Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and the Heritage Foundation. They are running the playbook that was prototyped in Hungary. This is going to take multiple generations to fix and I expect it to get worse before it gets better. I almost hope for a recession so that people who voted for tfg get a clue about how bad they have been lied to. If you want to know their justification, Fox News tows the line, not as bad as the new right media (which is really why they have been so successful)
I thought this might be the case but checked it and nope, everybody paid doing the exact same thing and some getting different reasons why it won’t work and some getting actual output.

I’ll admit we didn’t test exact same word for word prompts though.
> Yes but they're literally told by allegedly authoritative sources that it's going to change everything and eliminate intellectual labor

Why does this imply that they’re always correct? I’m always genuinely confused when people pretend like hallucinations are some secret that AI companies are hiding. Literally every chat interface says something like “LLMs are not always accurate”.
> It's much better to have immutable bindings/references so that nothing that mutates the object can be done through them. Rust does it very well, for example. Even C++ has a good version of this.

Yes, that might be superior but even Java is doing better than Go here.
No, they don't, that's just a bunch of other stuff (ex. Something something we don't differ from academic papers on agents (???))
> My manager was present on the call, and my statement seemed to really set him off. I was essentially told that my feelings about the situation—perhaps the only authentic part of myself I ever expressed there—were wrong. In the days that followed I was made to feel like I was not a team player, that I was not pulling my weight, and that I was not meeting the bare minimum of what was expected of a person bearing the torch of on-call. With the utterance of a single sentence, I opened a rift in the relationship with my manager that remained until the day I left that job.

So, this is just plainly bad leadership, right? Totally believable too, of course, but just really bad. Bad for the employee, but also self-defeating for the manager.

It seems like this would be an awful manager reaction to anything short of a quasi-fireable offense. If that's your response to an employee to not being enthusiastic about a part of work that sucks, what are you even doing as a leader?
Signal level and coupling are separate things.
good insight. I remember my mastercard being declined in store before, but I am not sure if this is still the case. They do accept mastercard online now.
A lot of Europe lies in northern areas where solar is simply insufficient, especially in winter.

Solar / wind + huge batteries + huge transmission lines would compare: capture sunlight in places like Bulgaria or Greece, feed places like Norway or Britain. But this is way more disruptive, and likely expensive, than a nuclear power plant.
I think you are discounting the fact that you can weed out people who make a habit of that, but you can't do that with LLMs if they are all doing that.
Plastic-like materials that dissolve in the sea
I'm not seeing a way to opt-out on any settings page
Need source.
Exactly, plus it's even harder if people have to deal with something they are unfamiliar with, i.e. stablecoins. This is why the stablecoin sandwich approach (with on/off ramps built in) are gaining popularity but those processes have their own costs, too.
Em and en dash usage is officially part of style guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style [1], so it's often a work requirement for many writers and editors to use them in writing. This is why these kinds of dashes are everywhere in newspaper and magazine articles.

Eventually, people learn to include them out of habit—especially as most people see them as aesthetically nicer than a simple hyphen (-).

[1] https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/H...
> When the reality is that there has been enormous action and enormous progress all over the planet.

The reality is that emissions are still increasing .. they need to stop increasing, they need to decrease considerably, and some of the emissions we've already put into the atmosphere need to be clawed back.

While we can acknowledge that the US is now (14.3 tonne per person) rolling less coal per person than it was in the 1970s (21 tonne per US citizen a year) it is still the case that the US is still emitting more per person than any other country on the planet.

Developed countries have "cleaned up their act" largely by outsourcing emissions intensive industry to developing countries ("the China emissions" issue has a sizable component that is really "a US consumption" issue).

I'm no doomer, I have a career in geophysics and have a pragmatic grounded view of the world. That said the take you have presented is papering over the very real issues.
> to comprehend our own engineered creations.

The comprehend part may never happen. At least by our own mind. We’ll sooner build the mind which is going to do that comprehension:

“To scale to the thousands of words supporting the complex thinking chains used by modern models, we will need to improve both the method and (perhaps with AI assistance) how we make sense of what we see with it”

Yes, that AI assistance, meta self reflection, is going to probably be a way if not right to the AGI, at least very significant step toward it.
You actually can still buy Office. It's quite expensive though.

I suppose it always was.

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=2113574&CLCID=0x10...
The superficial view: „they hallucinate“

The underlying cause: 3rd order ignorance:

3rd Order Ignorance (3OI)—Lack of Process.
I have 3OI when I don't know a suitably efficient way to find out I don't know that I don't know something. This is lack of process, and it presents me with a major problem: If I have 3OI, I don't know of a way to find out there are things I don't know that I don't know.

—- not from an llm

My process: use llms and see what I can do with them while taking their Output with a grain of salt.
I'd recommend switching, OpenOffice is basically abandonware. There's been security issues that were reported over a year ago that have gone unaddressed. If you look at OpenOffice's git repo (https://github.com/apache/openoffice), the vast majority of the commits are from two people who solely focus on manually fiddling with the code formatting and fixing typos in the comments.
Which of the three branches does the Smithsonian fall under?
Source is even better: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16285462

Video includes a clip of the pastor managing the translation quoting from it.

Bible.com has the whole thing: https://www.bible.com/bible/476/MAT.1.JNT
Not if you don't have internet access.
Yeah its called "don't use android at all", its called hypocrisy when you still use android without the google service

same with IOS, I bet a lot people desire IOS on non iphone device but that not going to happen soon because Apple profit is from iphone sales

same with youtube, people dont like watching ads but youtube bussiness model is not going to survive without ads (who going to spend money if people can upload unlimited video on it for free???)

google benefit from android development cost because they can generating revenue because people can get use google service

its called BUSSINESS, there is no evil in doing bussiness. dont talk me about being right or evil when we talking at HN when most people want to create unlimited subscription for their service
Yes. Opinions are significantly influenced by the marketing powers of the rich.

Now you’re cooking with gas.
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Yeah, I'm gonna need really strong evidence for that claim before I entrust my life to an AI.
Have you talked to a non-artificial intelligence lately? I’ve got some news for you…
Congress keeps extending it and I do not approve of that. I think 50 years is a reasonable length of time.
Compose - - - works for M-Dash (KDE / Linux).

For other combos — see /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose

See also: System Settings > Keyboard > Key Bindings > Position of Compose key
The Mac has had them as part of the standard keyboard layout since 1984. Using Apple kit since then, they have long been burned into my muscle memory:

option-[-] for en dash –

shift-option-[-] for em dash —
Could this explain the prevalence of louder music in restaurants? Objectively I dislike loud music in such environments, but maybe the fact it hides such chewing noises makes it subtly attractive and I end up being drawn to such places for subconscious reasons, thus unwittingly incentivizing the presence of said loud music.

Or maybe I am just overthinking it.
With respect, are you seriously so naive as to believe that a script kiddie—someone already willing to use an AI background service to cheat on a job application—is going to spend even a femtosecond of thought reflecting on whether using dishonest means to secure the job might be more problematic in certain fields, like medicine or high-security roles?
Hi,

Yes, we chose ARFF format, which is idiosyncratic yet well-defined back in the old data mining days.
GIMP takes some time getting used to, but it's reliable, it will stick around and having used it for the past 20 years, I have issues switching to something else.
500 NITS is extremely bright. The standard for professional imaging has been 100 candelas per square meter (NITS) for decades. In fact, when you go to a theater, you are typically looking at 30 to 50 NITS.

Modern high dynamic range imaging can provide enhancements to specular highlights when/where necessary. That said, due to observer adaptation in most environments this tends to be largely pointless. As someone mentioned, the viewing environment can be far more critical than the screen parameters. Even a 100 NITS screen can feel blinding in a dark environment before adaptation.

Something most people don't realize/understand is the quality of the blacks or lowlights in an image is a perceptual effect, not an absolute characteristic of the human vision system. This means that a super bright screen in a reflective environment will "pollute" your black level perception, therefore having the net effect of collapsing the range of the image (everything darker than a certain perceptual point will seem black).

As a matter of course, I generally cut the brightness of all of my computer monitors by at least 50%. I am convinced that a huge element of the visual fatigue people complain about when working long hours is because they are looking at a light bulb (the screen) pounding them at 500 NITS all day. There is no doubt that will have negative consequences.

Source: Among other things, I studied Color Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
it's worth noting that atuin is now available in debian testing/trixie, so it will eventually be an apt install away for new stable installs.
Isn't it dogmatic to think so. Sometimes it makes sense to rent tools.
may be king charles just likes hot-brew? Did anyone already enema-lyzed the question: hot or cold-brew?
Working on my taxes now with LO Calc. My resume is in Writer, easily exported to PDF. Been using it since it was called StarOffice. Go LibreOffice and FLOSS!
And most software engineering principles is for dealing how to deal with this evolution.

- Architecture (making it easy to adjust part of the codebase and understanding it)

- Testing (making sure the current version works and future version won't break it)

- Requirements (describing the current version and the planned changes)

- ...

If a project was just a clone, I'd sure people would just buy the existing version and be done with it. And sometimes they do, then a unique requirement comes and the whole process comes back into play.
Asahi is an adventure. I am in the same camp where I got a MacBook for the hardware, but am really a Linux guy. I got really excited when the fex/muvm patches came out for Asahi, and switched to mainly booting it for a couple months. 80% of what I needed to do worked, but that 20% still wasn't there. It was mainly the little things too:

1. Display output from USB-C didn't work
2. Couldn't run Zotero
3. Couldn't compile Java bioinformatics tools
4. Container architecture mismatches led to catastrophic and hard-to-diagnose bugs

There were things that worked better, too (better task management apps, and working gamepad support come to mind). Overall, even though I only needed those things once or twice a week, the blockers added up and I erased my Asahi partition in the end.

I really appreciate the strides the Asahi project has made (no really, it's tremendous!), and while I would love to say that Linux lets me be most productive, features like Rosetta2 are really integrated that much better into MacOS so that I can't help but feel that Asahi is getting the worst of both worlds right now. I'll probably try again this summer and see what has developed.
JTracking appears to reduce the complexity of setting up event tracking, which can be a challenge for many teams.
Bonus points for "Bonus: where does uv install its virtual environments?" section! I was wondering the same question for a long time but haven't had a chance to dig in. It's great that venv is not being recreated unless any dependencies or Python version got modified
> And I think the comparison to 1995, the year of the Netscape IPO and URLs starting to appear in commercials and on packaging for consumer products, is apt

My grandfather didn’t care about these and you don’t care about LLMs, we get it

> They’re a perfectly fine area of advanced research but they’re not a product

lol come on man
> Trailing commas allowed or not

The json spec does not allow commas. Although there are jsom supersets that do.

> Comments allowed or not

The json spec does not allow comments. Although there are jsom supersets that do.

> Multiple kinds of date serialization conventions

Json spec doesn't say anything about dates. That is dependent on your application schema.

> Divergent conventions about distinguishing floating point types from integers

This is largely due to divergent ways different programming languages handle numbers. I won't say jsom handles this the best, but any file format used across multiple languages will run into problems with differences in how numbers are represented. At least there is a well defined difference between a number and a string, unlike csv.

> Duplicated key names tolerated or not

According to the spec, they are tolerated, although the semantics of such keys is implementation defined.

> Different string escaping policies, such as, but not limited to "\n" vs "\x0a"

Both of those are interpreted as the same thing, at least according to the spec. That is an implementation detail of the serializer, not a different language.
Show HN: I used Polar instead of Stripe for my product
Yeah. Where I live, we are always reminded that our conversations with insurance provider personnel over phone are recorded and can be referenced while making a claim.

Imagine a chatbot making false promises to prospective customers. Your claim gets denied, you fight it out only to learn their ToS absolves them of "AI hallucinations".
Anything can fail, at any time. The best we can do is mitigate it and estimate bounds for how likely it is to mess up. Sometimes those bounds are acceptable.
so how is the ewallet getting rid of the fees for them? How do you add money into that ewallet, especially if you do not have a local bank account?
The brain drain is beginning
You can add the "Unicode Hex Input" keyboard layout, which lets you enter BMP characters by holding down Option and entering its code point in hex (similar to the hex entry on Windows). Expanding the Emoji & Symbols pane minitech mentioned also lets you browse by category (e.g. arrows), and you can customise the categories and add a full Unicode character picker (not limited to BMP like the Windows Character Map) there as well.
The fact that you don't know what Markov chain means and get angry over others over that pisses me off.

Both are Markov chains, that you used to erroneously think Markov chain is a way to make a chatbot rather than a general mathematical process is on you not them.
Show HN: Business AI Agents Targeting Level 5 AGI
Should be pretty useful before you release your vibe coding project to the wild
Indeed. I complained that Apple design gets a free pass while being haunted by Steve from beyond the grave for a decade. Your comments resemble my habits except rusted sway right into cosmic desktop alpha and done.