MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JSR_FDED | 2025-06-30 03:53:19+00:00
I remember the first time I went into an Apple Store.

I was looking at a 17” PowerBook, salivating at the screen and performance but struggling with justifying the price tag. An incredibly nice lady walked up to me and asked if I had any questions. I told her I was thinking it over as it was a large purchase. She beamed and said “Of course, that’s totally understandable. In fact it takes on average 3 visits to an Apple Store before making a purchase”. It was the smartest, nicest, most low key way of saying don’t feel pressure…you’ll be coming back, and then you’ll buy the machine you’ve always wanted.

Very on brand. And surprisingly still not really copied by others.
by dchftcs | 2025-06-30 03:53:52+00:00
Pure vision will never be enough because it does not contain information about the physical feedback like pressure and touch, or the strength required to perform a task.

For example, so that you don't crush a human when doing massage (but still need to press hard), or apply the right amount of force (and finesse?) to skin a fish fillet without cutting the skin itself.

Practically in the near term, it's hard to sample from failure examples with videos on Youtube, such as when food spills out of the pot accidentally. Studying simple tasks through the happy path makes it hard to get the robot to figure out how to do something until it succeeds, which can appear even in relatively simple jobs like shuffling garbage.

With that said, I suppose a robot can be made to practice in real life after learning something from vision.
by zxexz | 2025-06-30 03:54:33+00:00
I call it my deprod, or home office nonproductivity suite. Or fire hazard. Or “those f**ing wires”. I’ll usually refer to just a piece of it, like “my computer”, “my weird ARM switch”, or “that engineering sample that a guy sold me at the Flea for $10 and still hasn’t died after 5 years of being on”.

I use it to decompress. Sometimes, even, to learn. And always, for personal projects.
by dmix | 2025-06-30 03:55:26+00:00
Or they looked at the results and weren't seeing much progress vs their science investments, which also coincided with these billionaire social projects becoming politically unpopular.

For ex, from the article re the school:

> But former leaders of the school who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private information said Chan had grown distant in recent years as the school’s academic performance faltered.

> In 2017, a Harvard study funded by CZI found that by 2015 the growth rate of student achievement in English had significantly improved — but that there had been no significant change for math.

> the school met stumbling blocks. Two principals left in its early years, which three former school leaders said made it difficult to establish stability for students.

NYTimes said the refocusing on science investment vs social happened slowly over 5yrs and they haven't invested in any social ones in a few years. So this change has been in the works for a while...
by KronisLV | 2025-06-30 03:56:10+00:00
Recently took some of these in Germany, was a pretty pleasant experience!

It was a bit odd how the ticket prices seem to fluctuate a lot over there based on timing (like 20 EUR if you buy half a week ahead of time, closer to 40 EUR nearer to travel date, at least in my case) but I much preferred taking the train over flying.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-06-30 03:56:45+00:00
I was just reading the Washington Post, and I saw the full-length headline.

"The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school."

"Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley."
by dangus | 2025-06-30 03:56:54+00:00
That’s really nice for Jeff Bezos and David Tepper. This point is moot because we statistically know that you’re worse off living in Miami as a bottom 90% income citizen compared to higher tax states.

Just look at statistics like education, median income, and healthcare.

Miami-dade is severely cost-burdened in cost of living compared to Seattle or New Jersey with worse rent to income.

Miami has a higher regional price parity.

New Jersey is ranked #1 in pre-k education.

Miami has a higher ratio in uninsured adults.

The Florida state health system is nearly bottom ranked at #44.

The bachelors degree attainment rate in Miami is horrific, half the rate of Seattle. I believe it’s the lowest attainment rate of any large city.

So I’m struggling to find a legitimacy to the argument that an average person would rather live with Jeff in Miami versus staying in New Jersey or Seattle.

The fact of the matter is that billionaires are fine living in a dysfunctional state because they have private infrastructure to shield them from reality.
by tamnd | 2025-06-30 03:57:53+00:00
Repo: https://github.com/mochilang/mochi

I'm building Mochi, a small programming language with a custom VM and a focus on querying structured data (CSV, JSON, and eventually graph) in a unified and lightweight way.

It started as an experiment in writing LINQ-style queries over real datasets and grew into a full language with:

- declarative queries built into the language

- a register-based VM designed for analysis and optimization

- an intermediate representation with liveness analysis, constant folding, and dead code elimination

- static type inference, inline tests, and golden snapshot support

Example:

type Person { name: string age: int } let people = load "people.yaml" as Person let adults = from p in people where p.age >= 18 select { name: p.name, age: p.age } for a in adults { print(a.name, "is", a.age) } save adults to "adults.json"

The long-term goal is to make a small, expressive language for data pipelines, querying, and agent logic, without reaching for Python, SQL, and a half-dozen libraries.

Happy to chat if you're into VMs, query engines, or DSLs.
by amluto | 2025-06-30 03:57:54+00:00
Sort of. In a lot of areas, the cost of the house has skyrocketed in the last few decades. One factor is that you can’t buy an empty lot and then build a 20 year old $250k house on it in most markets. If you want to build a house, that house will be new (obviously — relocating an old house is a real pain), and the costs of construction are silly. This effect inflates the value of old houses in a lot of markets.

Of course, in markets that don’t have plenty of inventory of both empty lots and lots with old houses, it can be hard to value the house by itself.
by geminiboy | 2025-06-30 03:58:05+00:00
Still building. https://tosreview.org/

Reading through the Terms of service in websites is a pain. Most of the users skip reading that and click accept. The risk is that they enter into a legally binding contract with a corporation without any idea what they are getting themselves into.

How it started: I read news about Disney blocking a wrongful death lawsuit, since the victim agreed to a arbitration clause when they signed up for a disney+ trial.

I started looking into available options for services that can mitigate this and found the amazing https://tosdr.org/en project.

That project relies on the work of volunteers who have been diligently reading the TOS and providing information in understandable terms.

Light bulb moment: LLM's are good at reading and summarizing text. Why not use LLMs for the same. That's when I started building tosreview.org. I am also sending it for the bolt.new hackathon.

Existing features: Input for user entered URLs or text Translation available for 30+ languages.

Planned features: Chrome/firefox extension Structured extraction of key information ( arbitration enforced , jurisdiction enforced etc).

Let me know if you have any feedback
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 03:58:25+00:00
I appreciate your perspective, and it’s interesting to see how different interpretations can shape our view of these changes. Sometimes, even what seems like a small detail can carry a lot of meaning, and I’m glad you’re engaging thoughtfully with it. It’s always valuable to have diverse perspectives and to explore different angles! (is what my LLM said I should respond)
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-30 03:59:01+00:00
> SF Pro looks very stunning and the Apple logo is chic and simple. But so is the Cartier logo. And the Rolex storefront. Or any of the other genuinely valuable things sold at malls.

If you're against the idea of selling things that are cheap to make at high prices by relying on branding, you might not want to call Cartier or Rolex products "genuinely valuable". Jewelry is not fundamentally expensive.
by tootyskooty | 2025-06-30 04:00:32+00:00
Thanks for the positive feedback (and the sub)!! Means a lot.

No socials so far as I've mostly been posting updates on the Anthropic discord. But I made an X account for it just now (@periplus_app) where I'll mirror the updates.

You can also reach me any time by email for bug reports, feature reqs etc.
by ml_basics | 2025-06-30 04:00:40+00:00
It's a europeanism. In both French and German (and probably other EU languages) the word for "subsidy" is something like "subvention" so native speakers of these language often reach for an unnatural word in English.

Btw other examples include "actually" which is used to mean "currently", and "eventually" which is used to mean "maybe".

Personally I'm torn whether to consider this incorrect use of the language as it is quite widespread. Maybe it would be better to consider this as the emergence of a new dialect.
by monero-xmr | 2025-06-30 04:01:01+00:00
America is weird in that the poorest get significantly more benefits than the merely lower-middle class. And the majority of Americans pay no federal tax after EITC and other refunds.

You can get SNAP (free food), Section 8 (free housing), Medicaid (healthcare, CHIP for kids is easier than adults, but still many people get it), and if you manage to raise smart kids despite poverty they will get college for free as well (most highly-selective universities are free for the poor, but extremely expensive for even the middle class).

I own a lot of rental property and I have a Section 8 tenant who has never worked, completely gamed the system with a subjective disability that renders her unable to ever hold a job (supposedly). A good tenant but is constantly trying to give away tons of food she buys because she always tries to spend the SNAP she gets every month. And she gets free heat, and electricity, and public transportation pass, and on and on.
by timewizard | 2025-06-30 04:01:56+00:00
I don't have the time to fully analyze this but my concern would be here:

exponent *= 2 ** (8 - E)

In the E=8 case then this is just `* 1`. In the E=31 case this is now `* 2*-23`. Python is going to do all of this for you in the float64 domain. I think it's possible that you haven't graphed what you intended.

You also don't have subnormals, infinities or propagating NaNs. You manage to only retain the signed 0.

EDIT: And the midpoint of your system is 0.5. Which is a little uncomfortable.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-30 04:02:38+00:00
> ... but if the goal is to always have a nice car, doesn't it makes much more sense to lease? The monthly payments will be a few hundred bucks less and you can upgrade every 2-3 years.

Leasing a car always includes an initial payment (in the several thousands) and typically have severe penalties for exceeding allotted mileage, any damage (even if only cosmetic), and/or if mandatory dealer maintenance is not adhered.

The monthly payments are not as disparate as one might think when the initial payment is amortized over the course of the lease along with dealer maintenance expenditures.
by defrost | 2025-06-30 04:03:13+00:00
The communication relay sats are in a geosync orbit at 35,786 km constant.

The imaging satellites with the mirrors and telescopes are more dynamic and in eccentric LEO orbits at a similar height to the starlink sats.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN (and the heading Resolution and ground sample distance indicating the close approach height being closer to earth's surface than typical starlink sat).
Something 'deeper' than Emacs, or am I looking for a unicorn?
by willschetelich | 2025-06-30 04:07:05+00:00
Hey all - I really love emacs as a text editor and environment, but I'm wondering... Does there exist something that is

- More customizable than emacs

- more mature community and 'giants to stand on' (like packages)

- Stronger expected lifespan

- Realistic enough to actually commit to (not like, build the universe, build your OS from scratch)

I'd love to hear if there's anything you've found beyond the Mariana Trench! Will
by sin2pi | 2025-06-30 04:07:30+00:00
I'm tinkering with relative positional encoding by trying to integrate acoustic features directly into it.

More specifically, I'm trying to use pitch (F0) to dynamically adjust the theta parameter in rotary positional embeddings, so the frequency of the positional encoding reflects the underlying pitch contour of the speech and instead of using a fixed unit circle (radius=1.0) for complex rotations, I'm trying to work out how to use variable radii derived from the pitch. The idea is to create acoustically-weighted positional encodings, where the position reflects the acoustic salience in the original audio. https://github.com/sine2pi/asr_model
by saboot | 2025-06-30 04:07:52+00:00
This looks really cool. An application I would use this for is to generate code for FPGAs, as finite state machines are very common.

This is an example, https://terostechnology.github.io/terosHDLdoc/docs/guides/st...

But it only outputs an SVG, and there are no tools (AFAIK) that go from diagram to code, which should easy to setup.

So I'd consider extending this to both generate code and read in code and make these nice interactive diagrams.
by jwagenet | 2025-06-30 04:08:27+00:00
I don’t agree at all. Neither is Rolex high utility, nor is anyone fooled that an analog watch which sets you back 3-4 orders of magnitude more than digital/smart watches should be higher utility.

Products competing directly with Apple products offer, at best, equivalent utility and performance for no more than 1 magnitude cost difference. Flagship android phones have cost about the same as iPhones for the better part of a decade and macbooks are often price competitive with a similarly specced ultra books. It’s understood that cheaper phones and laptops have similar utility for the average user, but some aspect of performance or quality is often a tradeoff.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-06-30 04:08:39+00:00
in europe you can not have haphazardly build electricity system without calling it "lab". (you need electrician to do your electricity work, but calling it "lab" you can do it yourself )

so in that sense i agree that homelab is just another hijacked term to allow people do nonproductive nonsense just to feel great.

look you have people here and on youtube selling (in more ways then one) nonsensical farces like "RPI cluster" etc. so i would argue that nonresistance to these farces actually proves OP is right. albeit i do not really see strong nor attacking rhetoric from OP in his post either, so i think problem is just that you have to chill out ;)

"degoogling" cost canada their sovereignty. just to refer to events of the past days... so even american president has to say something about it, so i think there is something to it, dont you think ?
by laidoffamazon | 2025-06-30 04:10:12+00:00
The Apple Store used to be the embodiment of everything I didn't have when I was growing up - status, the lives the people in the sample pictures had, any sort of individual money or agency - now I have an Apple Store in walking distance and can buy whatever I want. It's a nice shift, even though I still don't have the life those actors in the sample pictures or Apple ads have.
by zeroq | 2025-06-30 04:10:12+00:00
You are correct.

I actually double checked the word "subvention" on google to see if I'm not misspelling it and the results said I was correct. But yes, I used that word because it was direct translation from my language.

Other examples you gave are also correct.

Engrish is hard.

EDIT: as a kicker I will add that while working for BigCo I was resposible for taking care of colleages coming from abroad and the very first thing I was telling them after saying "hello" was "do not ever ask anyone how are you". ;)
by Brajeshwar | 2025-06-30 04:11:28+00:00
It’s not something technically inclined or interesting. I used to host a Flash Game, some sort of, Bubble Wrap Bubble Popper. Unfortunately, it went away along with Flash. My site complains of the usual 404 on that page. Early this month, on one fateful evening before I retired for the day, I decided to work alongside an AI Coding assistant and completed it. Since then, if not others, my daughter has popped a lot and lots of bubbles.

https://bubble-pop.oinam.com/
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-30 04:12:15+00:00
Nurture probably plays a stronger role than nature here, yep. For CCP cadres, signaling rationality is probably a no-brainer against the ever-present threat of populism, but they are also not going to do anything that are going to make peasants wonder about the mandate of heaven at an inconvenient time (e.g. demolishing shrines)

>being possessed by a fox as a way to move up in the world.

Pretending to be possessed, this is a populist, and should I say, traditional move, agreed

(Ntheless, you might be surprised how (privately) superstitious the urban elite (of the SES, not the intellect) in the Greater Bay of China are, just as how publicly superstitious many stay-at-home moms are in the US?)

But let's move on the idea of property insurance, generalized to the intellectual sort :) good patch for Szilards idea of the Bund, imho.

(Whose nemesis was another technocrat, blueblooded Vannevar. Not sure of the latter's condition,he was too high SES to tell)

Poor Grothendieck could have had some! That pays out in, if not friends, careful non-fans to play math with him in the shed. (Here informalism would be crucial)

However, I'm still a bit mindfogged so maybe next round..

but I did look up the finer details of Tokugawa & the Prussian influence on the Meiji effort to soften absolutism with social democracy. There's even a dissertation calling it "corporatism" (Graeber's term for Trump's ideology)

https://evanlaksmana.com/dissertation

I haven't checked if they meant the same thing..

("Laksmana" is the Indonesian word for "Admiral", things like nominative determinism are perhaps also more common in the 3rd world [transplants])

Oh.. music seems to be the best therapy for Sz.. (think Helfgott-- he credits his father) if your son's friend was not past tensed, they could make a band
by pants2 | 2025-06-30 04:12:25+00:00
What an awful app too. It doesn't refresh the current temperature without force-quitting and restarting. Not as bad as my water heater app though. Couldn't get it to pair after 30 mins of headbanging, finally got through to their support who told me that the app usually doesn't work and they don't know why, and that I shouldn't bother trying.
by danpalmer | 2025-06-30 04:12:27+00:00
A few years back I went in to buy an Apple TV. Walked in, straight up to the Apple TV display, stood using it for a few mins, stood looking outwards towards the rest of the store, tried to make eye contact with any staff. No one paid any attention, staff happily chatting away to each other. I couldn't have looked more ready to buy without waving cash around.

Apple Store employees are definitely trained better than the average shop, but they are far from luxury.
by coolandsmartrr | 2025-06-30 04:12:28+00:00
I made a film called "Searching For Kurosawa". This short documentary chronicles the story of Kawamura, a man who worked with legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa on the set of his opus "Ran". Kawamura was working in the BTS crew, but his footage got confiscated. It took almost 40 years to recover the footage and present that as his feature film.

My film got screened at the Academy Award-qualifying Bali International Film Festival and the Marina Del Rey Film Festival in the past month. It will be screening next month in New York City at the Asian American International Film Festival.
by brailsafe | 2025-06-30 04:13:22+00:00
I've had people get visibly upset when either questioning the intent of a word they've used or when attempting to use a more specific descriptor for something they've asked me about, specifically when it's failed to accurately capture a given concept or could otherwise be ambiguous. Seems to me that it's at the heart of language and communication to think about these things, and while some may be more trite than others, I say go ahead, split those hairs and write about it. I also don't have a home lab, I have computers at home, and some random bits of gear. I don't know at what point I'd consider it a lab, maybe if it was more of a collection that was deliberately experimental, but it's not, it's just computers that have general purposes.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-30 04:13:31+00:00
Again none of this is true. Google drive doesn’t require you to have a Google address - just an email address when you create an account.

On iOS, once you install Google Drive, it shows up as a storage provider in the Files app - as does One Drive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive etc abd you can copy files back and forth. You can also connect any USB C storage device to your iOS device and it also shows up in the Files app and you copy files to it.

AI is nothing magical. What good is using random photos for training without labeling?

> Also reminder that each versions of iOS and Android has their own limits based on app level that tops out at their versions.

What does that even mean?

And Tesla is not exactly a trustworthy company nor is it’s leader
by knetl | 2025-06-30 04:13:53+00:00
More on Wi-Fi RF sensing:

2014, "We Can Hear You with Wi-Fi!", https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2639108.2639112

2015, "Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals", https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2789168.2790109

2022, "Human Biometric Signals Monitoring based on WiFi Channel State Information using Deep Learning", https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03980
by spauldo | 2025-06-30 04:14:45+00:00
Ugh. It's weird because on the one hand, I'd love a text-only email world. On the other hand, I wish people would just admit defeat. We lost. HTML email is the norm. We need to accept it and move on.

Attitudes like this are what hold back a lot of the traditional email clients. Instead of just supporting text and claiming that's how the Internet should be, they should be adding HTML support so they can talk to 99% of email users out there. It's not like we don't know how to render HTML in a terminal.

I want to use Emacs for mail. I use it for everything else. I use Outlook because I need to see the rendered HTML my coworkers and vendors send me. And as long as people are sticking to this idea that email can only ever be text, I'll be stuck using Microsoft's brain-dead idea of what an email client should be.
by DangitBobby | 2025-06-30 04:15:21+00:00
Sounds like something a functional Congress could address after the flaws in the legislation became evident. Then, they keep revising it as manufactures try to do anything but comply. If it costs the manufacturers engineering money to try to circumvent the intent of the regulation, they learn to follow the intent instead. It's not so much an argument against regulation as it is against a dysfunctional Congress. I don't think anyone was rooting for that anyway.
by jimbob45 | 2025-06-30 04:15:39+00:00
The article heavily implies that it was a “yeah…nah” thing but does very little investigative work that could corroborate their anonymous witnesses. For all we know, there was a school shooting or a spate of suicides in which case I think everyone here would agree with closing it.

Also I’m not from the area but how are disadvantaged youth coming from Palo Alto at all? Isn’t it one of the highest CoL areas in the nation? Also isn’t it pretty crime-free and well-maintained? How disadvantaged can you be if that’s where you live?