MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shwouchk | 2025-05-28 23:34:22+00:00
i was considering a similar setup, but i don’t really trust extensions. Im curious;

- Do you also archive logged in pages, infinite scrollers, banking sites, fb etc? - How many entries is that? - How often do you go back to the archive? is stuff easy to find? - do you have any organization or additional process (eg bookmarks)?

did you try integrating it with llms/rag etc yet?
by karaterobot | 2025-05-28 23:35:04+00:00
> Japan Post plans to spend about a decade to promote broad adoption of the new system.

The actual feature doesn't seem mind-blowingly useful to me, in the era where most of my form fields get populated for me automatically anyway. Doesn't seem bad, just I don't see it being a life changing thing. I'd hope it does not work as a way for the Post to learn a little bit about my shopping habits. Probably not. Who knows.

But what I think is cool is a ten-year commitment to any computer-based system, which is sadly rare to see these days.
by tel | 2025-05-28 23:35:31+00:00
Independent and undecidable aren't quite the same, even in formal logic. Or rather, sometimes they are but it’s worth being specific.

A proposition P being independent of a theory T means that both (T and P) and (T and not P) are consistent. T has nothing to say about P. This may very well be what Gödel was indicating in his paper.

On the other hand, undecidable has a sharper meaning in computation contexts as well as constructive logics without excluded middle. In these cases we can comprehend the “reachability” of propositions. A proposition is not true or false, but may instead be “constructively true”, “constructively false”, or “undecidable”.

So in a formal logic without excluded middle we have a new, more specific way of discussing undecidability. And this turns out to correspond to the computation idea, too.
by bloomca | 2025-05-28 23:35:56+00:00
Yes, it is the biggest selling point. You almost never need to debug user/platform specific UI bugs -- if the app starts, it will render the same. There might be some GPU issues, but that's not due to the framework itself.

Electron apps often fully share codebase with the Web apps, so on the app backend you implement native functionality and communicate with your app via IPC.
by skydhash | 2025-05-28 23:36:28+00:00
It's the recursive nature of it.

Almost any program can be written in a DSL that solves the class of problem that the program solves. So if you consider the user stories of your project as that class of problem, you can come up with with a DSL (mostly in form of pseudocode) that can describe the solution. But first you need to refine the terms down to some primitives (context free grammar). You then need to think about the implementation of the execution machine. which will be a graph of states (automata). The transition between the states will be driven by an execution machine. The latter needs not be as basic as the Turing machine.

But often, you do not need to do all these stuff. You can just use common abstractions like design patterns, data structures, and basic algorithms to have a ready made solution. But you still have to compose them and if you understand how everything works, it's easier to do so.
by tanin | 2025-05-28 23:38:24+00:00
With this kind of things, it's a personal productivity. You need to experiment and figure out what setting and process works best for you.

Pen and paper are great because it forces you to think and design without going into too much details and being distracted.

I find myself alternating between 2 modals: pen and paper vs. use Sublime Text to just write down some thoughts. Either seems to work well.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-28 23:38:58+00:00
That's what they said before the Snowden leaks. The Snowden leaks and latter revelations showed they were lying.

For example, they use a different meaning for the Word "collect." Instead of interception and storage of data, collect means an analyst looked at it. So, they technically weren't collecting U.S. citizens' data if analysts hadn't looked at that specific data yet. Technically... based on a strange definition of collect.

They originally also said this was limited to terrorism. Later, data showed they were looking at many more crimes. They were also passing the data onto many agencies. They were told to use "parallel construction" to deceive people about how they got that data.

Finally, BULLRUN and ECI-classified level showed they were weakening U.S. security standards, but pretending to strengthen them, so they could attack U.S. systems in secret at any time. Per "Core Secrets," they were also having U.S. companies give them backdoor the FBI could "compel" them to make (somehow).

With all that, they were caught lying under oath repeatedly. They got criminal immunity for that, too. I don't believe one word they say at this point. I also assume they're doing the same things they repeatedly lied about before and for which they can't be prosecuted.
by bloomca | 2025-05-28 23:40:55+00:00
Tauri uses native WebView (can be very outdated in old OS versions) and compiles to native machine code. Electron bundles full Chromium (rendering engine for HTML/CSS+V8 for JS) AND Node.js for your app code.

Honestly if there was an Electron without Node.js which would use literally any compiled language (although Rust is probably too low level), it would've been more tolerable.
by platevoltage | 2025-05-28 23:41:31+00:00
https://plugable.com/products/usb2-micro-250x/

This is the one I use. It is surprising good for the price. It just behaves as a regular webcam.

I primarily use it for micro soldering, so your mileage may vary, but it is very good for the price. I got it on Amazon where I believe they have an official store.
by singh273 | 2025-05-28 23:41:34+00:00
Working on something to penetrate the hiring and recruitment market(141 billion pounds just in UK). There's lot issues I see and data on current skills gap is not very good. Given use of AI tools junior roles are seem to vanishing soon enough. So looking to work on something meaningful. Also want to create health tracking specified just for kettlebells with a community element built in.
by onecommentman | 2025-05-28 23:41:39+00:00
A quick web search suggests roughly 25% of US Black householders in their 20s were homeowners during the late 20th Century, according to

https://equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Homeo...

With Black populations of 15M-30M in US during that period, that means 3M-7M counterexamples to the implication that was impossible to be an American homeowner in your 20s (or child living in a home) if “your skin was black or brown”. At least in the late 1900s.

Since you referred to America as “there”, I have to assume you don’t live in the US. You can do basic online research, though. Please present contrary evidence if you have it.

It was relatively easy to own homes in rural and semi rural America in the 1900s no matter who you were. The communities might have been segregated, but one of the most charming neighborhoods I discovered while biking on the East Coast was a small rural Black village hidden back off the main road. It was like going back in time 80 years. Slow-paced, modest, quiet…a real gem. Guessing they wouldn’t have wanted a White boy there, though.
by acquisitionsilk | 2025-05-28 23:42:02+00:00
Business emails, other comments here and there of a more throwaway or ephemeral nature - who cares if LLMs helped?

Personal blogs, essays, articles, creative writing, "serious work" - please tell us if LLMs were used, if they were, and to what extent. If I read a blog and it seems human and there's no mention of LLMs, I'd like to be able to safely assume it's a human who wrote it. Is that so much to ask?
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-28 23:42:32+00:00
I urge you to read this and then share it with other people as appropriate. The sad reality is that much of the electorate does not care about hypocrisy, even the people who complain about hypocrisy when they perceive themselves to be on the losing end.

https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/its-not-hypocrisy-youre-j...
by shirro | 2025-05-28 23:42:43+00:00
Many spaceflight fans struggle to distinguish between F9 and Starship and think success with one guarantees another. Go back and read what Fred Brooks writes about second systems. The super heavy booster is extremely impressive, particularly the raptor engines and control systems. Their engineers need to be commended for that alone. The weight is questionable and it isn't clear how much the performance is compromised but its still a very impressive vehicle and future engine refinements are going to help.

The second stage remains a huge concern. The economics of Starship are predicated on cheap, rapid second stage reuse. That huge multi engine second stage is a lot more expensive than the F9's disposable single engine second stage. Creating a robust, rapidly reusable thermal management system for orbital re-entry is an unsolved problem. I don't believe anyone, including SpaceX has a solution.

With time and huge amounts of money they can iterate through the other problems and likely do a controlled re-entry and recovery with the second stage but the vehicle isn't going to be close to reusable. It is a massive problem and I think it makes a fiction of the entire program and turns it into a money pit.

If you piece the system out though. The engines, the control systems etc, there is a lot of good stuff there for another system. I think the Mars colonisation BS worked well to inspire the troops and raise money and political interest but they seem to be in a corner with this design. It is looking very possible this system will never enter commercial service.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-28 23:42:58+00:00
That is totally true. I'll add one thing to remember for those discussions is to compare the cost to what they'd use without a GPU.

They'd probably have to spend $5k-20k on a multicore or NUMA-style box to get huge gains on multithreaded code. They also loose the cool factor of saying they're using a RTX. Maybe grant money if it's tied to GPU use. Between the three, it might make sense, even financial sense, to get a sub-$2000 GPU to accelerate academic code that barely uses the GPU.

I'm just brainstorming here, though.
by blooalien | 2025-05-28 23:43:07+00:00
We used to have the most amazing little electronics store a lot like this called "Ra-Elco" in SLC, Utah, but specifically devoted to every wild bit of electronics you could imagine, ranging from individual little components of every sort all the way up to weird esoteric devices nobody's ever heard of (at least there were a lot I'd never seen before). Totally love these kinda shoppes, and I truly wish they weren't such a dying breed. :(
by crazygringo | 2025-05-28 23:43:31+00:00
I was talking about the concept of deployment in general. Yes, of course it's usually staggered for monorepos. I don't know why you're arguing about saying there's "no such thing as when" and then immediately point out a case of "when" immediately following. (And turning off services for 15 minutes at 2 am is definitely still a thing.)

And I'm not missing any part of the article. I was talking about your comment, and the fact that you are conflating two different things. A monorepo allows you to make atomic commits that a polyrepo does not, full stop. There's no trap there. Deployment is separate. You have to worry about breaking changes regardless of it being a polyrepo or monorepo. But a monorepo can make each atomic change far easier to track and manage and reason about.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-28 23:44:07+00:00
There's an incredible blind spot which makes humans think of intelligence and sentience as individual.

It isn't. It isn't even individual among humans.

We're colony organisms individually, and we're a colony organism collectively. We're physically embedded in a complex ecosystem, and we can't survive without it.

We're emotionally and intellectually embedded in analogous ecosystems to the point where depriving a human of external contact with the natural world and other humans is considered a form of torture, and typically causes a mental breakdown.

Colony organisms are the norm, not the exception. But we're trapped inside our own skulls and either experience the systems around us very indirectly, or not at all.
by ebrynne | 2025-05-28 23:46:05+00:00
I love the idea of wha this app is doing, and so many of the options in this space are laggy and painful, so I'm very interested in this rewrite. That said, as a photographer a lot of my media is stored as RAWs, and it's not clear whether that's supported (or perhaps its exclusion from the list of "all major image and video formats" suggests that it's not)?

Does your product have docs/a support forum/other place these kinds of details would be covered?
by lolinder | 2025-05-28 23:46:14+00:00
This isn't quite the framing I'd use—the key thing that would make it make sense for the deal to go this way is if there's competition bidding for the slot. Say OpenAI also wants in and was willing to pay for it. Absent competition for the slot and assuming that Telegram actually wanted the deal, we'd expect to see at most a no-cost exchange.

There's no reason for Grok to pay this much for the deal unless either Telegram sees it as a net negative that needs reimbursement or they're competing with other bids.
by staunton | 2025-05-28 23:47:16+00:00
I'm saying that the standard model is evolving and there's no authority or institution that gets to definine what "the standard model" means. All of this is completely reasonable.

Maybe it can evolve forever to accommodate new results (e.g. by adding new fields), likely it can't (it's hard to imagine a reasonable modification for breaking CPT symmetry, not that this is the best example). If at any point noone can figure out how to evolve it before a radically different theory emerges to explain current discrepancies, we'll have what Kuhn might call a "paradigm shift", say "the standard model is falsified", and invent a different name for the new theory. I even included this possibility in my original comment, so I'm not sure what gave you offense...

That's completely unrelated to any given instance of this evolution being falsifiable. Each of them is, they stick around for a while and there aren't that many. All very proper, Popper is happy.

Meanwhile, string theory hasn't produced a single prediction that was later observed experimentally and one can even argue whether it has produced any predictions at all...
Show HN: Image-to-Image Translation Model
by ykjs | 2025-05-28 23:47:40+00:00
We launched a v1 of a image to image translation API which translates the text on an images by replacing the existing text.

For v1, it's pretty much a model pipeline: OCR current text -> generate mask -> erase text -> translate text -> use embedding comparison to find similar font -> map text back on image

v1 was more like a prototype which already beats many of the similar services provided by Google, Azure, etc

We're working on v2 where we're training a diffusion model to translate the text on the image. We've got the pipeline working for English and Chinese, and now we're building datasets for other languages.
by slippy | 2025-05-28 23:52:21+00:00
Now if your site was named wafflehurricanetracker.org it would have probably survived trademark issues. The scraping issues would have been better if they were anonymized - it wouldn't necessarily be obvious that it was Waffle House (TM) that you had scraped, but if you suggested it was made by slow scraping websites of one or more popular breakfast establishments, then it wouldn't have been obvious.
by freetime2 | 2025-05-28 23:53:58+00:00
I've had some bad experiences with form autocompletion in the past which resulted in orders being delayed (this would have been a few years ago with 1Password specifically), so I always enter address and payment info manually. I assume plenty of people use autocompletion all the time without issue, and will tell me I'm wrong, but that's just my preference.

So memorizing a 7-digit code to enter address information without error seems like a useful feature to me (though admittedly not mind-blowingly so).

It could also be useful in other contexts such as sharing an address with someone verbally, over LINE, manually entering an address into a GPS, etc. Assuming the system actually catches on and the codes are universally supported in map apps.
by qingcharles | 2025-05-28 23:55:44+00:00
Note that it isn't being created from whole cloth, it is trained on videos of the places and then it is generating the frames:

"To improve autoregressive stability for this research preview, what we’re sharing today can be considered a narrow distribution model: it's pre-trained on video of the world, and post-trained on video from a smaller set of places with dense coverage. The tradeoff of this post-training is that we lose some generality, but gain more stable, long-running autoregressive generation."

https://odyssey.world/introducing-interactive-video
by bigyabai | 2025-05-28 23:56:14+00:00
If I was 80 years old, would it change anything?

1000 years ago kings were crowned with the intent of changing the world, who died fighting for their petty share of land. Property and virtue stand at-odds with each other, not the least bit in the world of private capital. It doesn't matter how old you are, just how naive you were when the system was introduced to you.

TINSTAAFL and all that.
by ForOldHack | 2025-05-28 23:57:08+00:00
I kicked what looked like an empty card board box, and found two laptops w/ chargers, Retail $1800, Wiped their hard disks, updated all the software, put student software on it, and gave them away to other students.

I found literally a full bedroom of oak furniture, bed, a dresser, a desk, a bedside table, and an armoure... I could not get the armoure on my pickup truck, but I moved out all my old stuff, and moved in the oak, and oiled it all up, ( it had not been cared for well, so it soaked up all the oil, after a few treatments, it was grand.

Literally every university town, Berkeley, SF State, Cal State Chico... has yard sales in the late spring, and resales in the early fall, and a literal cottage industry of people who make money reselling, and armies of people who drive those neibourhoods late a night picking up everything they think they can resell - Its why all those mattresses are left.
by TOMDM | 2025-05-28 23:57:18+00:00
Terrible scrolling aside;

> pg_mooncake is a PostgreSQL extension adding columnstore tables with DuckDB execution for 1000x faster analytics. Columnstore tables are stored as Iceberg or Delta Lake tables in your Object Store. Maintained by Mooncake Labs, it is available on Neon Postgres.

Seems to summarise the reason this article exists.

Not that I really disagree with the premise or conclusion of the article itself.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-28 23:57:19+00:00
> the standard model is evolving and there's no authority or institution that gets to definine what "the standard model" means

The standard model per se is not materially evolving. We're bolting extensions onto it. And there is disagreement over what those extensions mean, whether they're true, and what free parameters they may add.

> Maybe it can evolve forever to accommodate new results (e.g. by adding new fields)

The Higgs field was the last field to have been "added" to the model. Its existence wasn't prompted by experimentation, but vice versa.
by dmurray | 2025-05-28 23:57:26+00:00
The recipient getting their stuff stolen is a big deal for the merchant too, though.

Certainly for an expensive item, the customer may be out their time, but they are going to ask for a replacement or a refund or do a chargeback, the merchant is generally going to have to accede to the request, and the merchant ends up being out money.

So if the merchant decides to trade off security for delivery cost (by choosing a courier with a slack approach to verification), that's their prerogative and they are economically incentivized to make the right decision on that.

For delivery problems that don't result in a chargeback (the courier leaves it somewhere inconvenient, or claims you weren't in, etc, but it eventually gets to you) that's the situation where it becomes your problem and the merchant isn't much empowered or incentivized to fix it.
by freetime2 | 2025-05-28 23:58:01+00:00
Entering building names can be a bit of a pain. I'm not even sure if it's required - according to Wikipedia it looks like you can just keep adding dashes until you eventually get to room number (e.g. 4-5-10-103) [1]. But a lot of address forms ask for it, so I end up entering it anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
by codethief | 2025-05-28 23:58:59+00:00
Note that the costs depend on the scale and size of the monorepo, and a polyrepo is not without costs either (which people often like to forget or ignore because they are less visible).

I spent some years at small to mid-sized companies (~30-100 devs) that would have profited from a monorepo. However, people were in the habit of splitting repositories every other month. Sometimes a single team would own a given repository, but more often than not several teams would contribute to each repository.

I have serious PTSD from that time. Every single pipeline in every repo worked differently, tools were different, setup, scripts and commands were different. In some repositories you could trust the CI pipeline, in others you absolutely couldn't. CI performance gains in one repo wouldn't translate to another. And of course you often still had some tech debt lying around from when repositories got split and people forgot to clean up thoroughly. Uggh.

Now, to be fair, people did put quite a bit of effort into their setups and pipelines and all that, and it wasn't that the outcome of that effort in and by itself was totally bad. Not at all. But everyone did things differently. And often teams just re-did the work other people had already done & solved – there was a ton of overhead.

Finally, the worst part were inter-repository dependencies. People argued coupling would be loose and all that, so we could easily split repos, but in reality there were so many implicit dependencies because ultimately all repositories made up one big application. Merge requests had to be coordinated. One repo imported files from another. Later a CI pipeline in one repo triggered a pipeline in another repo…

This brings me to another problem with polyrepos: They harm discoverability and cause certain dependencies not to be encoded in code. In a monorepo, in contrast, when people wonder where they can find X, or whether anyone uses or depends on Y, the answer is usually only a `ripgrep` or `git grep` away. In a polyrepo, however, they need to know where to look first.

Born from all these experiences, my mantra has been: Split repos only if you really have to and have a very good reason! (Entirely different applications or ecosystems; different parts of the code owned by different & independent teams; …)
by abletonlive | 2025-05-28 23:59:19+00:00
Besides running on battery and ecosystem woes, why this over a apple homepod which is cheaper and has better engineering and sound?

initially i was thinking this was some groundbreaking technology that would somehow help with privacy via fancy audio engineering - but alas it seems like just a portable speaker with a cute design.

anyway, congrats on the launch of V2 - it's valid if it's a passion project and you had fun building it in any case, just curious about why anybody would choose this over the plethora of other portable speakers

is the killer feature here motion detection ? because that seems like it can also be accomplished via a third party motion sensor + Apple Home integration