MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ffsm8 | 2025-05-11 16:52:25+00:00
Totally off topic, but the term market verticals was new to me, so I googled it... It's definition is really strange for the used term. I expected something about verticality, like how apple provides their devices - with everything being provided by them: hardware, software and the shop it's being sold in. Or how BYD is creating their EVs, with everything coming from their own factories etc

But instead, it's about specializing your product to the needs of specific customers / finding a niche and then provide exactly the service they desire. How is that in any way vertical?

Etymology is strange
Show HN: From Nandgame to Verilog to FPGA
by xocp | 2025-05-11 16:53:32+00:00
I created a Python module that converts Nandgame (https://nandgame.com) json exports into Verilog. The exports can be used for targeting an FPGA or running a simulation of your Nandgame creations using EDA tools. This is my first foray into Verilog and FPGAs - still lots to learn. Enjoy!
by pton_xd | 2025-05-11 16:53:37+00:00
> But people do get it wrong, and a girlfriend once confessed to me, somewhat exasperated: "I can't read you". To which I said: "You should try listening to me instead".

> Communication ≫ Reading

Mostly true, except sometimes people have a habit of saying one thing and doing another. Ultimately, actions are all that count in a relationship. Maybe that's what she was responding to?
by absolutelastone | 2025-05-11 16:53:44+00:00
I agree the legal restrictions (and liability) should be looser. But other countries are pretty bad about this too in my experience. It's more of a medical establishment monopoly thing it seems.

Also you can already buy home ECG devices for a couple hundred bucks. Not sure if there is some history of being banned in the past or whatever, but otherwise I'd guess the main problem is just a lack of much interest in the market.
by ctoth | 2025-05-11 16:54:09+00:00
> I can already do that pretty well with my eyeballs, and I don't need to worry about hallucinations

I see. Perhaps your eyeballs missed the part where I said I'm blind?

The entire purpose of my comment was to push back against this idea that AI is stuck in 2022. It's weird and nonsensical and seems disingenuous, especially when I say "here are things I can do now that I couldn't do before" and the general response is "but I don't need to do those things!"
by techpineapple | 2025-05-11 16:54:22+00:00
The thing that gets to me, and everyone is overly idealistic about a lot of things(learn to code!) but I really wish that that things were as simple as conservative culture warriors laid them out to be. It would be great if there was this “one neat trick!” To getting a 70k a year job right out of high school, optimized for people less academically inclined.
by repeekad | 2025-05-11 16:54:48+00:00
For what it’s worth, my intro to psychology gen ed professor told us to spell “humyn” with a y to “remove woman being dependent on man” and let us skip the final if we recorded ourselves protesting the controversial state house bill at the time.

On net I agree with what you’re saying, but know that the culture war isn’t total bs one sided, and my unremarkable school had plenty of bad examples like this. Evergreen university in 2017 barring white people from attending class for a day was particularly embarrassing.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-11 16:55:32+00:00
When you want to have native code in clouds like Vercel and Netlify, unless you rather go via nodejs native modules.

They build on top of AWS Lambda, but do not expose the full capabilities, so Go it is.

Working on DevOps space, most tools related to Docker and Kubernetes are written in Go, as this is its reason to fame. Although Rust is starting to show up as well.
by thethethethe | 2025-05-11 16:55:39+00:00
Democratic control of production. See the mondragon corporation for an imperfect but interesting example.

Strong unions are another alternative to totalitarian control of companies. Not ideal, but there are plenty of examples throughout history.

I'm not claiming these alternatives are better or worse, I'm just pointing out that other systems are possible and already exist.

Fwiw, whenever my team has done democratic planning it has always led to bad outcomes
by ayrtondesozzla | 2025-05-11 16:55:41+00:00
> AI is nothing but a tool for wealth transfer from what remains in the middle class to the top ultra wealthy.

Refreshing to hear that stated so clearly.

On your general point, I don't know if I feel the same optimism at this stage, much as I'd love to be proven wrong. Populations seem to never tire of jumping from one tech fairy tale to the next.

Developers seem to never tire of burying their head in the sand either, and I sometimes wonder if the two are correlated.

Why do you think this recent AI push will be the straw that breaks the camel's back? What if the camel just keeps plodding along?
by ncruces | 2025-05-11 16:56:08+00:00
As an “insignificant” outside contributor to Go (I think I worked on half a dozen proposals and PRs), I can say just the same, even for things that in the end got dropped or rejected: polite, firm, informative; I'd add curious.

Had a great experience contributing to the project, and Ian was a big part of that. Which for a big project like Go says a lot.
by mpweiher | 2025-05-11 16:56:15+00:00
Nope, the exact opposite.

I was and am extremely congruent between my actions and my words. This is not easy.

She ignored my words, tried and failed to "read" me instead and then was baffled when my actions were congruent with my words and not her reads.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
K Set Cover Solving Algorithm
by a_florea | 2025-05-11 16:57:25+00:00
Hello everyone, I’m looking for advice. I’ve been studying the k set cover problem (and related problems) for over a year, I’ve noticed that there is no known algorithm that can solve this problem for every instance optimal and any algorithm that does so, just takes to much time if the problem is of certain size. I think there is a big misconception about the nature of this problem because there is an easy and fast way to just solve all of them within reasonable amount of time and I’ve spent a whole year just proving that it works for any problem of this category the same boring way. Now however I have I have a very efficient algorithm (on paper), I know this could be extremely useful, but Im just lacking the right help and advices, what should I do with it?

wunderpus@mail.com

Thanks guys
by ryandrake | 2025-05-11 16:58:21+00:00
Trying to graft the Internet onto physical country borders has been fraught from the very beginning, but they keep trying. When a user in country A, connected to a satellite Internet provider headquartered in country B, through a VPN whose offices are in country C and their VPN server is in country D, looks up an IP address with a DNS server in country E, to a web site whose headquarters is in country F, and request a file hosted on servers distributed across countries G, H, I, J, and K, whose laws should apply?
by Arrowmaster | 2025-05-11 16:59:05+00:00
This absolutely seems to be the way things are going. We keep hearing about how 'AI' models have done these amazing things and learn they were specially trained models. Most news reports don't even get into if it was an LLM or ML.

Then business leaders think they can just pay for a subscription to an all encompassing LLM model and get the same results. It's just an evolution of the long standing tradition of tech being pushed from the top down because the sales guys impressed the C-suites.
by culebron21 | 2025-05-11 16:59:09+00:00
I've noticed AI evangelists -- those 2nd tier experts, who're not on every show and youtube channel, but do consulting and once in a while appear here and there -- jumped on the hype wagon 1.5-2 years ago.

They'd pedal FOMO and would promise eldorado to everyone who joins. "AI will do everything for you, you'll be fired."

Now I see them change the tone. It's like: "c'mon, it's a special tool, you need to use it properly, and give it what it needs."

They sell quickly made courses. Same guys who in '12 would advertize "Mobile strategies" consulting (remember that thing here on HN?), then AR with Google glass in '14, then crypto in '17, then web3, and so on.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-11 16:59:19+00:00
Additionally, if more performance is needed we can always write a native module.

However, I would use Go instead when deploying in cloud providers like Vercel and Netlify, as explained in a sibling comment.

It is easier to just go with the less friction option, and deploying such modules requires not only knowing how to write them, also mastering the whole deployment process, thus not something I would advise in teams with mixed skill levels.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-11 16:59:21+00:00
What's the alternative? Does having a daycare for highly paid adults to dick around all day create innovation? You can't force creativity out of people no matter how much you pay them or how well you treat them.

The web is way more mature right now than 20 or even 10 years ago. There's way lass untouched niches waiting to be filled by the new killer product. And Google already owns the search market, the ads market, the smartphone market, the email market, the browser market, the maps market, and soon maybe AI market, etc. What new untapped multi billion market is left for them to conquer? The pond is already fished out at this point. So of course most Googlers are gonna have to be factory workers keeping the factory running instead of dicking around creating new useless things that bring in maybe no significant revenue. The days of Google & Co. spending billions on pipe dreams is over for now.

Innovation is at start-ups which Google then buys because it has ad revenue. People go to work at Google because it pays well and less headaches than working at startups, not because they're gonna invent something new.
by ripe | 2025-05-11 17:00:00+00:00
Some of that money is these companies trying to find a use for this technology, because their investors don't want them to miss the AI train. Not sure what proportion is seeing any returns right now.

If the product were to disappear tomorrow, I doubt the real economy would notice the loss of 0.05% in productivity.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111207/a-nobel-...
by hwillis | 2025-05-11 17:02:22+00:00
The most common heart attack symptoms are the same for men and women. The less common, less diagnostic symptoms are more common in women. Over time the medical opinion has swung back and forth (eg thinking women had less pain, until it was recognized that many men have heart attacks without pain) but the current consensus is that the important symptoms are pretty much the same between men and women. Women may be more likely to experience nausea during a heart attack, but you can't use nausea to diagnose a heart attack and men get nauseated a similar amount. These symptoms also don't take into account body types, which have a big impact on the type of attack and symptoms.

Men and women have slightly different ECGs and a doctor can usually tell your gender from an ECG. The appearance of a heart attack will be more similar than a normal heartbeat. Gender differences have a much smaller impact on an ECG than things like body mass and blood pressure. Overworked hearts will look more like overworked hearts.
by thethethethe | 2025-05-11 17:03:57+00:00
You are taking my counterpoint a little too far.

All I am saying is that there certainly are similarities between the way fascist governments and large corporations, not that they are the same thing.

Based on your response, it sounds like you agree that companies often act in an authoritarian manner, its just that you think it is justified in some way.

To be clear, I am not making a value statement here, I am just pointing out similarities between two systems. I don't claim to have better systems for managing corporations. Tbh, I wouldnt want the majority of my coworkers calling the shots and if I was CEO, I would work to consolidate power
by sandworm101 | 2025-05-11 17:04:03+00:00
>> they usually say that the job is awful on your body without much pay.

Worse yet, when your body does fail or is injured, that wage tends to stop. Most tradespersons are working for very small companies, often incorporated as their own one-person company. If you cannot work, it all just stops.

One thing that makes the military different it that while the military can be very hard on your body (infantry) your wage does not stop if you are injured. A civilian carpenter with a broken leg must live on savings for a month. A military carpenter with a broken leg just won a month of desk duty without any drop in pay.
by Andoryuuta | 2025-05-11 17:04:33+00:00
In order to function, CDNs have to act essentially as giant opt-in MITM services. When you setup a CDN in front of your site, you will either need to give them your cert, or let them issue a cert (e.g. via let's encrypt).

If they can serve your site with https normally, they can serve any content they want under it.
by martinpw | 2025-05-11 17:05:07+00:00
At the start of the article it links to a previous article on the scroll from February 2025 which has some more background details:

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/inside-her...

In particular this part:

Researchers are further refining the image using a new segmentation approach in the hopes that it will improve the coherence and clarity of the lines of text currently visible, and perhaps reach the end of the papyrus, the innermost part of the carbonised scroll, where the colophon with the title of the work may be preserved.

So the new article is indicating they were able now to decipher the title, and also indicates maybe why the title was not the first thing deciphered (presumably it is hardest to read the innermost parts.)

I'm curious why the title is in the inside of the scroll. That implies you have to completely open it to read the title - is that the way scrolls are usually written?
by lynx97 | 2025-05-11 17:05:36+00:00
Ahh, I wanted to list translation as another "byproduct". That totally feels like solved now.

However, while OCR done by vision models feels neat, I personally dont feel like it changed anything for me. I have been using KNFB Reader and later Seeing AI, and both have sufficiently solved the "OCR a document you just photographed" use case for me. They even aid the picture taking process by letting me know that a particular edge of the document is not visible.

Besides, I still don't understand the actual potential for hallucinations when doing OCR through vision models fully. I have a feeling there are a number of corner cases which will lead to hallucinations. The tendency to fill in things that might fit but aren't there is rather concerning. Talking about spelling errors and numerical data.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-11 17:06:13+00:00
They are extrapolating the $70k figure:

"When Rios graduates next year, he plans to work as a fabricator at a local equipment maker for nuclear, recycling and other sectors, a job that pays $24 an hour, plus regular overtime and paid vacations."

This sounds like a union job, and the $70k figure sounds like towards the upper end due to hierarchy, so realistically he'll be earning maybe half of that for a couple years first.
by SoftTalker | 2025-05-11 17:06:14+00:00
To do well in the trades (i.e. doing something more than general laborer work) you need to be smart. You need to be able to program computer controlled mills and lathes, or troubleshoot computer-controlled electrical distribution systems, etc. Even to be a good mechanic, carpenter, ironworker, or plumber involves more and more technology and has always required good mathmatical and geometric ability. You also have to memorize all the detailed requirements of building code or other regulations at least as they apply to your trade. You can't advance very far if you're not reasonably smart.
by yhoots | 2025-05-11 17:06:25+00:00
Very funny that people will buy entire domains to spout Reddit-brained anti-tech takes. Same ppl who said crypto will go to zero and self driving cars will never work.

Yes many AI companies will go to zero. This is how every tech bubble works and innovation happens by ppl trying stuff and mostly failing. But in the end the survivors will remake the world for the better. Very sad to see this sort of drivel being popular here.
by super_ar | 2025-05-11 17:06:33+00:00
Thanks, Sai! Great question. The deduplication works based on the user-defined key, not the entire row. You can specify which field (e.g. a primary key like event_id) to use as the deduplication key. Within a defined time window, GlassFlow guarantees that only the first event with a given key will be forwarded to ClickHouse. Subsequent duplicates are rejected. Our idea was to keep ClickHouse as clean as possible.
by msteffen | 2025-05-11 17:09:12+00:00
For a long time I held a sentiment similar to the parent comment, and then my brother sat me down, took out his phone, put chatGPT into conversation mode, and chatted with it for about five minutes. That was the second time I was truly amazed by chatGPT (after my first conversation, where I got it to tell me a fair bit about how Postgres works). Its ability to hold a natural, context-aware conversation has gotten really amazing.

I somehow agree with the op, that I don’t think I’m much closer to hiring chatGPT for a real job in 2025 than I was in 2022, but also you that there has been meaningful progress. And in particular, products that are transformative for disabled people are usually big improvements to the status quo for abled people too (oxo good grips being the classic example—transformative for people with arthritis, and generally just better for everybody else)
by gruez | 2025-05-11 17:09:13+00:00
>The alternative is the belief that humans have some fundamental rights that it's unjust for governments to violate (e.g. the right to private, encrypted communication)

In what country is there actually a "right to private, encrypted communication"? At best there's rights for "privacy", which is a pretty woolly concept, but generally don't cover copyright infringement. More to the point, unless you reject the concept of copyright entirely, you have to accept that free speech rights will have to be "violated" to enforce it.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-11 17:09:25+00:00
> For me in Poland, my high-school education was at liceum, i.e focus on academic subjects. There are vocational schools

The US doesn't really differentiate between Lyceums/Gymnasiums, Vocational High Schools, and Technikum.

All tracks tend to be offered at the same school, but with students given the option to opt into vocational tracks.

Furthermore, a lot of skilled trades/"blue collar" (I hate that term) jobs have become increasingly specialized, so you anyhow have to attend a Community College or even a normal College to get the skills needed to land a job.
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-11 17:09:35+00:00
Glorified cruise control does not equal self driving Elon Musk disagrees. He's been calling glorified cruise control self-driving for a decade.

FSD in its current form is a decade ahead of these Yes, in terms of accidents and fatalities, FSR is way ahead of the entire rest of the industry. In terms of actual driving quality? Super Cruise and BMW have it beat. Yes, they're geographically limited. That's because GM and BMW are acting responsibly and making sure it works before they open it up everywhere. Move fast and break things doesn't work when the things being broken are people.

I got a video of my own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUGh0qAqWA Goes into detail about why FSD crashes so frequently and why the problem cannot be fixed as long as FSD remains reliant on cameras. Indeed, if you type in "FSD accident" or any variation of "accident" there are thousands of videos, many of them taken by the Tesla owner themself.
by memset | 2025-05-11 17:09:54+00:00
Wow!

I learned programming via QBasic (in 21 days!), then VB3, then VB6. My father still writes toy programs in VB6. Things like binding Access DBs to controls was magical to me.

What would it take to have a VB today? I feel like the web, APIs, auth, screen sizes, they’ve all become so complicated. And while Retool aims to make it as easy to develop, it’s just not the same.

What would it look like to really feel “the same” as the good old days?
by mikewarot | 2025-05-11 17:10:12+00:00
Texting on a modern "smart"-phone sucks. Typing on a featureless flat surface is bad enough, but adding auto-correct to the mix, and random notifications that steal focus (both on the screen, and in real life) are horrible. On top of that they add emojis that have no discernable meaning, and the total loss of all social queues. (On the plus side, I get persistent internet almost everywhere at far, far more than 300 baud, and you can host a VAX 11/780 in it!)

I'm glad that I have this nice mechanical keyboard with a cord, and my recently added wired mouse to make things predictable here on my computer at home.
by geye1234 | 2025-05-11 17:11:20+00:00
Did you see the magisterial quotes I linked to? Do you think they're wrong?

Examples of the importance of metaphysics to theology are innumerable. To take a few off the top of my head:

If you don't hold to a classical metaphysics, your understanding of transubstantiation will be different from the Church's. Locke, famously, mocked the idea of 'substance', so one can hardly believe in transubstantiation while holding to a Lockean metaphysics.

If you are a metaphysical idealist after the manner of Berkeley, the quote from Newman you provided can't be right, because persons and facts would be mere artifacts of the mind.

With the multiplying of the fish and loaves, we only know that this is a miracle because we know that a miracle is something that occurs outside the normal course of nature; but we only know that there is a normal course of nature because of a particular metaphysics. (If we adopt Hume's metaphysics, for example, then there is no normal course of nature, and so everything is a miracle, and so there should be nothing unusual or surprising about the multiplication of the fish and loaves.)

As we've seen, what you understand by the word 'soul' is profoundly affected by metaphysics.

And so on and so on. Metaphysics affects everything. People who say we don't need it, whether they're discussing natural science, theology, ethics, politics, or whatever else, end up contradicting themselves without fail. History is replete with examples.
by VerityIX | 2025-05-11 17:11:28+00:00
This paper introduces the Integrated Substrate Model (ISM), a layered cognitive architecture designed to address the limitations of monolithic large language models in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Built upon Anastomotic Substrate Architecture (ASA), the ISM framework proposes a modular system of interconnected cognitive layers—including reasoning, memory, emotional modulation, and meta-cognitive oversight—beneath a language interface. Rather than treating LLMs as minds, ISM treats them as expressive front-ends to deeper, structurally grounded intelligence.

This is the first public articulation of this system, developed through Hitherto Flux Hall, a division of Hitherto AI. The paper outlines the architecture’s conceptual structure, provides a symbolic diagram, and gestures toward active implementation efforts including simulated instinct, sensory-memory mapping, and recursive discernment modeling.
by Arnavion | 2025-05-11 17:11:41+00:00
Asrock (sub-brand of Asus but seemingly independent in the product and dev side) has been fine for me over the ~10 years I've bought their mobos. There was the thing a few months ago with X870 mobos that were apparently frying CPUs, but I think that was not sufficiently proven to be their fault?

That said, in their X670 / B650 they have the same setting as what this article is about, and it could be equally as broken on the software side as Asus's is, but I wouldn't know because I don't use Windows so I disabled it.