MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-06-23 05:13:12+00:00
The point is that there is no meaningful understanding of 'who is breaking international law' when everything is based on lies. For instance at this point in time most of everybody claims they didn't support the Iraq War, yet in reality the overwhelming majority did. At the peak of propaganda and lies, 80% of Americans approved of Bush's actions with regards to Iraq. [1]

And the thing about war is that there's no real way to tell who's going to win. For instance I think many people believe that the war in Afghanistan basically simmered down once the media coverage of it simmered down. But that couldn't be further from the truth. The Taliban was killing US proxies and soldiers alike, by the tens of thousands. The only way we could have even possibly won would have been a full-on ground invasion which would have entailed at least tens of thousands of US deaths, which Americans would never tolerate so it wasn't even an option. We withdrew because we were losing - the Taliban defeated the US. No sort of proxy you could ever create would predict that.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United_S...
by que-encrypt | 2025-06-23 05:13:17+00:00
My guess is that the slight overhead of interacting with mojo led to this speed discrepancy, and if a higher factorial (that was within the overflow limits etc) was run, this overhead would become negligible (as seen by the second example). Also similar to jax code being slower than numpy code for small operations, but being much faster for larger ones on cpus etc.
by qwopmaster | 2025-06-23 05:13:17+00:00
Same experience on 14 pro - it got noticeably hot after 2nd photo, and after 3rd the app crashed and OS was choppy for a few minutes. And that was indoors, in 22C and screen fairly dim. Never seen anything like it; as-is I’d avoid the app lest it actually damages something. The photos themselves do look better than apple’s default cam, but not by a huge amount. Most noticeable is better range, like a photo of a blue sky with a few clouds seen through your window that takes up a third of the photo, which by default is either very dim inside or mostly indistinct blue-gray or blown out if focusing inside. Super-resolution however, especially at 6x (double 14 pro’s 3x optical zoom) is actual wizardry.

On the other hand night photos seem like garbage - there’s a bit more stuff visible than on default 3sec night mode but the colors are nonsensical and details nonexistent, certainly nothing even remotely close to what adobe promises on their webpage.

All in all I’m not sure what use it is with the terrible performance, outside of long-range photos that you really want to shoot at 6x zoom and keep as much detail as possible.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-23 05:14:34+00:00
R, A, and W don't stand for anything. It's raw data off the sensor, not an acronym. Therefore not capitalized.

You can find millions of instances of any given literacy-impaired error. "Would of" and "your not going to find this" are wrong... but they're out there by the boatload. No need to propagate them further.
Show HN: SX – Transfer files from within SSH sessions without reconnecting
by memphizzz | 2025-06-23 05:15:20+00:00
I got tired of the constant workflow friction when transferring files over SSH. You know the drill: SSH into a server, find the file you need (often with grep/rg), then either memorize the path or copy it, open another terminal, retype `scp user@server:/long/path/file.log .`, re-authenticate, and finally get your file.

This became especially annoying during log analysis sessions where I'd discover interesting files with `rg "OutOfMemory" .log` and then have to context-switch just to download them.

*What SX does:* SX lets you transfer files directly from within your existing SSH session using reverse tunnels. No re-authentication, no retyping connection details, no context switching.

I know VSCode can remotely open files with `code filename`, but this works for larger files, binaries, and when you actually need the file locally (not just to view/edit).

*How it works:* - Start SX server locally: `sx-server --dir ~/Downloads` - SSH with reverse tunnel: `ssh -R 53690:localhost:53690 user@server` - Use three commands: `sxd` (download), `sxu` (upload), `sxls` (list local files)

*Technical details:* Built in .NET 9 with a simple JSON protocol over TCP through SSH reverse tunnels. The client (on remote server) talks to your local server through the existing SSH connection. No additional ports, authentication, or network setup needed.

I built this primarily for my own workflow pain, but figured others might find it useful. It's cross-platform (Windows/Linux/macOS) and includes tab completion for remote files.

The code is straightforward – happy to discuss the implementation or get feedback on the approach.
by djaychela | 2025-06-23 05:16:09+00:00
Calling this 'Robotaxi' rides seems somewhat disingenuous given that they are Model Ys with a full seating provision. People will be conflating this with the (IMO a very bad choice) 2-seat design seen on the demo months ago with 2 doors and no provision for more than two people (which wouldn't work too well if the drives are being chaperoned, reducing seating to one).

This conflation and mixing of words is something which Tesla seems to do intentionally (Full Self Driving, Autonomy, etc), or am I being cynical about that?
by fewbenefit | 2025-06-23 05:16:11+00:00
Switching apps isn't the root problem, switching contexts is.

If tools are well-integrated and mentally compartmentalized (e.g., Slack for fast input, Notion for synthesis, Jira for logistics), switching shouldn't feel painful. But when decisions get scattered and nothing enforces consolidation, yeah, it becomes chaos by slow erosion.

Ironically, the more we try to unify everything into one tool, the worse the mental clutter gets. The problem isn't that we have too many tools, it's that we try to make each one do more than it's supposed to.

So, It's not app switching that kills productivity. It's app misusing.
by deathanatos | 2025-06-23 05:17:19+00:00
"Configuration errors" — I'm going to include "bugs" in that —, IME, tend to be global outages more often than regional. If I recount the outages >AZ that I've seen, I think the most recent ones were:

GCP, IAM (global; just like a week and a half ago!) GCP, VMs etc. (regional!¹) Azure, application GW (global) Cloudflare (global) Azure, IAM (global) Azure, IAM (global)

You can tell IAM is a point of weakness. (As it kinda must be.)

¹though I wasn't affected by this one, as it was in Europe.
by memonkey | 2025-06-23 05:17:58+00:00
i built this toy game using cursor and claude 4. it's a game to help you decide which movie to watch. default shows 90s films bc it's my favorite film era at the moment. but need currently streaming titles, so that's a filter as well. adding more filters should be relatively simple since using TMDB. i'm thinking about adding game rooms (w/ sockets?), and eliminating the need for 2 players (maybe can be any number of players up to 6).

rules of game are:

1. player 1 chooses 3 movies 2. player 2 chooses 3 movies 3. roll dice, doubles chooses the n selected movie

would love feedback! maybe someone has built this before?
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-23 05:18:01+00:00
That's not usually the argument. It's that LiDar has historically been working more reliably than tech that doesn't use it - and reliability is pretty important in that industry.

In any case I'm curious what gives you such blind faith that Tesla's vision-only tech will work out. There's a lot of really practical and frankly obvious reasons why it hasn't been working for a very long time and similarly lot's of videos (which are aggressively taken down by Tesla or can't even be posted due to shady customer NDA's) of their self-driving equipment getting dangerously close to murdering people. And of course, there are the _actual_ cases of Tesla's self-driving tech just you know, straight up murdering people.

You can shift blame to the humans not being attentive enough to take control when self-driving mistakes come up, but then you've lost the broader argument that self-driving Tesla's are "ready", even if you're right about the former.

Edit because fuck-you-HN-comment-limit-soft-ban:

(response to child comment below):

> Obviously, only vision and hearing are required for driving

Human vision is drastically better than even the most advanced computer vision systems we have or are likely to have any time soon - especially when there are realtime and hardware constraints. That's before you introduce the relatively (!) shoddy approximations that even SOTA vision models learn via SGD.
by SllX | 2025-06-23 05:19:39+00:00
As long as you’ve got humans in the mix, it’ll also be political. What you’re describing is a political organization and wishcasting that it’ll be as neutral as you envision according your values of neutrality. It’ll also be the most powerful political and military organization on Earth, so in other words, same shit as we have now, different letterhead. You may as well be describing America, you just don’t want it to be America, and I can respect that perspective even if I don’t agree with it, but your hypothetical organization is not as different as you think it is.
by beefnugs | 2025-06-23 05:19:52+00:00
Deep state: Mr dump, we do wars to get access to more oil, not to cut off what we already have access to you dorky orangutan

Dump: I hired the greatest WOMAN that has ever lived to dismantle you deep state losers on day 1

Deep state: Sir, it is day 200

Dump: buy my son's phone, you can buy $TRUMP coin directly from us, any time of the day or night
by smallmancontrov | 2025-06-23 05:20:39+00:00
"Tesla has self-driven 4B miles in every corner of the USA, Waymo has only self-driven 0.1B miles in select cities, how pathetic! They are so far behind Tesla it isn't even funny!"

- Me, if I wanted to be equally ham-handed in throwing the comparison for Tesla.

In reality, we are seeing two bets on two different approaches. Do you scale up supervised driving to maximize data collection/diversity and then go unsupervised? Or do you go unsupervised and then scale up problem solving as you go? The cool thing is that both of these approaches are being tried so we will find out. If you want to place a bet of your own, you can find the casino in your favorite brokerage app!

In any case, the videos of what is possible with supervised FSD are quite amazing, certainly not "pathetic," and what remains to be seen is if they can successfully navigate the supervised->unsupervised jump, which is certainly not trivial.

Arc de Triomphe: https://youtu.be/o2xKpbKZLVA?t=7

Busy China: https://youtu.be/ybBpRN4Hqbc?t=13

Manhattan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafr3RrJRfU
by devjab | 2025-06-23 05:22:04+00:00
> I am not that intrigued that Python that can call some pre-compiled functions, this is already possible with any language that produces a dynamic library.

> The space that I am interested in is execution time compiled programs. A usecase of this is to generate a perfect hash data structure. Say you have a config file that lists out the keywords that you want to find, and then dynamically generate the perfect hash data structure compiled as if those keywords are compile time values (because they are).

I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but these two seem connected. If I were to do what you want to do here in Python I'd create a zig build-lib and use it with ctypes.
by rincebrain | 2025-06-23 05:22:23+00:00
Specifically, I would assume the calculus is about "how much damage does this do by existing" versus "how much risk is there that we attempt to shut it down and sue and set a precedent by losing", and because for most projects the first value is tiny and the second value is potentially enormous, companies leave them alone.

When either value changes drastically in scale (e.g. a project does something making it very cut and dry which side of legal precedent it falls on, or to massively increase the damage to The Brand(tm)), that's when you get worried.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-23 05:22:59+00:00
> My biggest gripe with latex is the tooling. During my last paper, I ended up using a makefile which would usually work. When it didn’t work, running it twice would fix the issue. In the rarest cases, I had to run `git clean -xdf` and the next run would work.

I always feel like I’m doing something wrong when I have to deal with LaTeX and lose hours to fighting with the tooling. Even with a clean install on a new machine it feels like something fails to work.

The last time I had to change a document I had to go through what felt like 100 different search results of people with the same issue before I found one where there was a resolution and it was completely obscure. I tried to help out by reposting the answer to a couple other locations, but I was so exhausted that I swore off LaTeX for any future work unless absolutely unavoidable.
by josephg | 2025-06-23 05:23:45+00:00
Yep this. I’ve been getting into photography over the last 9 months or so. I got a Sony a7iv and an increasing pile of lenses for it. It’s making me a huge camera snob. The truth is that nothing a phone can do can come close to the image quality of a proper modern camera. You can spot the difference a mile off. Photos from phones look like they’ve been passed through stable diffusion or something. They just look wrong in comparison to a real camera with real lenses and real lights.

It shouldn’t be surprising. Real depth of field is physically impossible with a small lens. And cameras have teeny tiny lenses and sensors. It’s impressive how good the photos are given the hardware, but the hardware is very very bad in comparison to a dedicated camera with replaceable lenses.
by tayo42 | 2025-06-23 05:24:26+00:00
This kind of thing frustrates me so much. Hiring and interviewing for software engineers is just so broken and detached from reality.

In theory, this should be the easiest discussion to pass while interviewing if you've done some kind of related work or qualified. Instead it's just turning into another insane cargo culted game where you need to do things according to some weird rules and hit certain buzzwords.
by stratocumulus0 | 2025-06-23 05:24:41+00:00
First of all, listen to your body and calm down. I've been to an otolaryngologist recently because of recurrent dizzy spells. The test results were all good, and the diagnosis was simple: I've been unconsciously flexing my muscles and clenching my teeth. The advice was to build consciousness to this and actively relax.

I've then realized that with that flexed state a kind of mental flex follows. I got used to this kind of stressed-out context switching that put my brain in a racing thought state. Noticing when this happens and consciously stopping and then actively releasing the bodily pressure has been an important step in regaining control of my brain. I've realized that I kind of conditioned myself to this kind of dopamine seeking that persisted regardless of the medium I'd consume. I'm >30 and therefore skipped the TikTok phase, but even as I got rid of the Instagram habit (it helps that the algorithm is really poor at predicting content I'd want to watch) I would find myself doing the same kind of short bursts of short-term attention and immediate switch even with text-based media such as Reddit or Wikipedia.

Try to capture your mental state when you are in this "mindless consumption" mode and learn to identify it. Develop a habit to notice when this happens and then stop and ask yourself what are you chasing, after all. Try to pause at the content you're currently reading and read it till the end once you calm down.

It also helps to find books that keep your brain active while being engaging to you. I've had a lifelong passion for linguistics and I found myself digging into language philosophy, for example. This is the kind of literature that keeps me engaged, but forces me to slow down as well to think and properly process what I've read. Your mileage may vary; we are different people and definitely you have different interests than me.

While I'm not a fantasy fan, I'd be a little wary of picking up fantasy books. My observations tell that the most successful ones read like action movies or first-person video games, and fast-paced action is something you want to steer away from for the purpose of this exercise. Pick up something that challenges you a bit, but is still comprehensible with the context you have right now.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-23 05:25:07+00:00
> Unfortunately there is no way to block websites at the network level (that I know of) as browsers and mobile phones have started using hardcoded DNS resolvers, so the utility of this is limited.

Any network traffic which goes through a gateway under your control can be controlled. DNSSEC[0] can make this more difficult, true, but not impossible as content ultimately originates from an IPv4/IPv6 address and can be dropped by upstream network devices.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Ex...
by motorest | 2025-06-23 05:28:09+00:00
> In theory, this should be the easiest discussion to pass while interviewing if you've done some kind of related work or qualified. Instead it's just turning into another insane cargo culted game where you need to do things according to some weird rules and hit certain buzzwords.

Your comment reads as if you think system design interviews are good if you can pass them but they are bad if you fail them.
by Kozmik1 | 2025-06-23 05:28:37+00:00
I've been using Radio Garden for years.

A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.

Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.

I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.

The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...

I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
by vermaden | 2025-06-23 05:28:52+00:00
After TrueNAS CORE went dead and iXsystems focused on Linux based SCALE version the free and open source 'zVault' fork of TrueNAS CORE happened - https://zvault.io - its page here.

One of my buddies switched from TrueNAS SCALE to FreeBSD based zVault and is more then happy:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versu...

He does not have really high expectations - besides having about 2TB of data he runs one Bhyve VM with Linux 'Home Assistant' and one FreeBSD Jail with 'Plex Media Server'.
by eesmith | 2025-06-23 05:28:56+00:00
My limited understanding of the irrigation history in the US tells makes me extremely pessimistic about the likelihood of your prediction.

I think you only need to look at the water politics of the Great Salt Lake to see the difficulty.

Look at how little water use has changed during the last 25 years of the southwestern North American megadrought.

The US policy appears to be to pray for rain.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-06-23 05:29:03+00:00
Yeah, the problem is that we don’t have a society like that and the only way white people know how to do that is to erase the contributions of Black people AFTER they’ve stolen everything from us and literally treated us as property. So excuse me if we think it’s okay to center Blackness for a month and a day when white folks (which is what you are even if you aren’t) are centered the rest of the year.
by chmod775 | 2025-06-23 05:29:22+00:00
> Without reading the paper how the heck is agi mathematically impossible if humans are possible? Unless the paper is claiming humans are mathematically impossible?

Humans are provably impossible to accurately simulate using our current theoretical models which treat time as continuous. If we could prove that there's some resolution, or minimum time step, (like Planck Time) below which time does not matter and we update our models accordingly, then that might change*. For now time is continuous in every physical model we have, and thus digital computers are not able to accurately simulate the physical world using any of our models.

Right now we can't outright dismiss that there might be some special sauce to the physical world that digital computers with their finite state cannot represent.

* A theory of quantum gravitation would likely have to give an answer to that question, so hold out for that.
by astrange | 2025-06-23 05:29:27+00:00
Nobody cares about image quality, that's not a goal in itself.

(There's an old camera influencer named Ken Rockwell who constantly pushes this; he has every possible opinion at once and is trolling most of the time, but he's right about this.)

The smallness of a phone means it can take pictures larger cameras can't because you have it with you when the picture is happening. And that's what really matters.

> They just look wrong in comparison to a real camera with real lenses and real lights.

You can use real lights with a phone camera all you want!
by jdminhbg | 2025-06-23 05:29:41+00:00
> I'm curious what gives you such blind faith that Tesla's vision-only tech will work out.

Obviously, only vision and hearing are required for driving. The question isn't "can it work," the question is "which approach will be economically viable on what time scale, and is there a winner-takes-all dynamic that excludes the approach that comes second."
by Aurornis | 2025-06-23 05:29:45+00:00
> Car ownership won't be a thing

Car ownership definitely isn’t going away. Sharing a vehicle with the general public gets old fast if you have the means to avoid it.

There are also many reasons people use cars for more than going from point A to point B on a purely transactional basis. Many professions need to leave things in the car or truck like tools or even your laptop. Having to take everything you own into every building in case the self-driving car gets called back home for service or whatever isn’t going to work.
by rtpg | 2025-06-23 05:30:06+00:00
I was having a conversation earlier today with an acquaitance who bought rubbing alcohol off of Amazon because according to him none of the pharmacies in his city have it.

He lives in Seattle.

It really feels like people's behaviors have been permanently changed for the worst, even if a "proper" competitor comes in.

I no longer have prime shipping, and seeing "shipping: $5" next to anything on Amazon definitely helps me to do at least cursory searches in local stores... would probably be a net benefit to society to outlaw Prime
by ben_w | 2025-06-23 05:30:18+00:00
> You may be able to write down some PDEs or field equations that may describe things at some base level, but even statistical mechanics, which is really what governs a huge amount of what we see and interact with, is just a pretty good approximation.

QED.

When the approximation is indistinguishable from observation over a time horizon exceeding a human lifetime, it's good enough for the purpose of "would a simulation of a human be intelligent by any definition that the real human also meets?"

Remember, this is claiming to be a mathematical proof, not a practical one, so we don't even have to bother with details like "a classical computer approximating to this degree and time horizon might collapse into a black hole if we tried to build it".