MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jchw | 2025-06-25 12:02:03+00:00
The issue is that if you want DPI virtualization, and all of the desktops do want that, you need to be able to translate all of the coordinate spaces everywhere. If you try to integrate this into X11, you run into a myriad of different problems that are just not that easy to solve. It was direct inspiration for some of the design elements in Wayland.

The same folks who are working on Wayland today did a lot of work to get X.org to where it is now. They could do more, but the writing was on the wall.
by UncleMeat | 2025-06-25 12:03:28+00:00
The blue zone debunking was done by somebody outside of this field of study. The actual researchers who did the on the ground work to verify ages aren't so foolish as to just blanket ignore this sort of thing. Verification is more complex than "ask Bob how old he is and write it down."

"Blue zones as health miracle" is overstated. "Blue zones as simple fraud" is overstated.
by paradox242 | 2025-06-25 12:03:40+00:00
Imagine what happens if we awaken an actual god (AGI or ASI depending on your definition). I have no doubt that it would have any trouble enlisting the help of willing human accomplices for whatever purposes it wishes. I expect it would understand how to play the role of the unknowable all-knowing entity that is here to save us from ourselves, no matter what it's actual objectives might be (and I doubt they would be benevolent).
by bboygravity | 2025-06-25 12:03:43+00:00
Isn't part of the issue that LLM's are relatively bad at REST and json and all that?

I remember like 2 years ago there was big hype/revolution around ChatGPT finally being able to return ONLY valid json when you asked it to. So apparently LLMs are not that good at scripting without mistakes.

Having said that, I honestly have no clue what MCP looks like or is lol :p
by nickjj | 2025-06-25 12:03:53+00:00
> Yes, it is: both gchamonlive and myself pointed out that if your lock file exists and is out of date, your (previous) script would silently update it before installing

Check my original comment, it doesn't operate like this. You can try it yourself in the same way I outlined in the comment.

`uv lock` fails if your lock file has a mismatch and will produce a human readable error saying what's wrong.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-25 12:04:18+00:00
> continuing grants for oil

Oil isn't used for grid energy generation in most parts of the world... We shut down our last diesel plant many years ago. It's way too expensive, relatively speaking. Like, here we're using renewables to power oil extraction lol. For the most part, renewables don't compete with oil since renewables power the grid and oil doesn't. Electric vehicles can reduce oil demand somewhat, but there will still be massive demand for oil for shipping, air travel, construction vehicles and farming vehicles, for the forseeable future.
by hermitcrab | 2025-06-25 12:04:19+00:00
There is a rather splendid travel book about the strange country that is Paraguay called 'At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay'. Part history, part travelogue. All weird. Probably only available second hand. I've never been there. Having read the above book, I'm not sure I want to.

IIRC Paraguay's economy is based in some part on smuggling stuff into other countries, duty free. Whisky in particular.

The long term dictator, Stroessner, is credibly accused of having abducted and raped vast numbers of underage girls. https://www.americasquarterly.org/fulltextarticle/how-paragu...
by Hilift | 2025-06-25 12:04:36+00:00
There were also a caravan of trucks removing large amounts of items before the raid. There are estimates Iran has 600 kg of enriched uranium. One kg of uranium is about the size as a kg of gold, or the size of a phone. So they probably removed some of the harder to replace equipment. Could have been anything. Servers, weapons and ammunition, etc.

Centrifuge manufacturing has come a long way in the previous 20 years. Precision machining has newer models with up to 200,000 rpm. "Centrus (formerly USEC) plans a centrifuge with 60 cm diameter, 12 m height and 900 m/s peripheral speed." Even with their centrifuge manufacturing facilities hit/destroyed, they could reconstitute within a year or two and continue the refinement process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-25 12:05:40+00:00
I suppose another strongman would be that LLMs substantially decrease the cost of human creation (i.e. the HITL assistant use case) while producing an output of equivalent quality.

As a result of this, everything gets cheaper and more plentiful.

The counterargument I'd make to that would be the requirement that the human have creative skills, which might atrophy in the absence of business models supporting a career creating.
by pjc50 | 2025-06-25 12:06:05+00:00
I'm not sure Iran has many options for escalation left. Other than actually completing the nuke, which is something of a circular argument: they might escalate by building a nuclear weapon, but the only reason alleged for Israel escalating against them (which of course gets a free pass) is .. they're building a nuclear weapon. You can't escalate by doing something you're already doing.

It only counts as escalation if they weren't building a nuke but Israel bombing their nuke programme forced them to build a nuke?
by rurban | 2025-06-25 12:06:27+00:00
Frequent experience with movies also. letterboxd is rife with ratings on movies, which didn't pre-screen at all yet. Most of them by paid shills. A24 being the worst, but Warner also amongst them. And lb fails to hit them.

Same on IMDB, and even Rotten Tomatoes. There's a lot of money in movies. But books?
by nchmy | 2025-06-25 12:06:45+00:00
I come back to my original comment - why did he have romantic interest in a 22yr old? Theres A LOT of women out there who would be vastly more compatible with him due to being in a similar stage of life.

And, moreover, if he already knew her, he should have been able it intuit a) if she was interested and b) what her character is like - is she the sort to try to actively shame people.

I really hope your son does deep introspection as a result of all of this, rather than blaming her, women, or an entire generation.
by Tsiklon | 2025-06-25 12:07:37+00:00
A shame that the one machine I have that I wish to use ReBar on I cannot. The Mac Pro 2019 has a complicated PCI-E topology with PCI-E switches (all bar 2 PCI-E slots on the system go via the PCI-E switch topology) and no ability to tune/enable settings like sub-numa clustering or ReBar. Paired with a signed EFI and the T2 controller things look bleak for getting the most performance out of that system.

It would be pretty neat to get the most out of an NVIDIA GPU in Linux on this platform
by isaacfrond | 2025-06-25 12:07:40+00:00
The article is a bit misleading. The kind of wearable he means are glucose level measuring devices. This link is a bit better:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Granted with such a device you still have to do something with the data for it to make you better, but I think this makes a lot more sense. Many people are diabetes 2, or close to it, and they have no idea. A continuous glucose measuring device could very quickly be a real eye-opener, in a way a fitness tracker does not. --> I don't need no Fitbit to tell me, I skipped my 5k again, but I do need a sensor to tell me that my blood glucose is too high.
by guappa | 2025-06-25 12:07:44+00:00
No there isn't. In fact proprietary projects are very happy to run "npm" or "pip install" or the java/go equivalents and install whatever.

I expect most projects don't even check they're not violating licenses or ever audit any dependency… let alone do a security check on who the authors are.

Also just FYI, russians are not stupid. If they want to contribute malware they won't do it from their kgb email address. They will create a fake identity with a very standard WASP name.
by probably_wrong | 2025-06-25 12:07:56+00:00
But... Mengele was barely in Paraguay - he spent some time in hiding in 1958, moved permanently in 1959, and then departed again in 1960 because he didn't consider the country a safe place to hide [1].

As for why Mossad didn't capture him: they didn't know where he was - they found his address in Argentina, but by the time they looked into it he had already fled [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele

[2] https://archive.org/details/houseongaribaldi00isse/page/250/
by gus_massa | 2025-06-25 12:08:06+00:00
> The real productivity crisis emerged when physicists tried merging Einstein’s relativity with quantum mechanics. They discovered something that would terrify any time management consultant: the Wheeler-DeWitt equation—quantum gravity’s fundamental mathematics—contains absolutely no time variable.

Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have been merged since 1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation That's the base of all the calculations inside the LHC and with some more technical details it has been tested in some cases with a lot of precision.

For General Relativity, we still don't have a good theory to merge it with Quantum Mechanics. The article cites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93DeWitt_equatio... but if you look at the equations it says

g_μν dx^μ dx^ν = ... ... the Greek indices run over the values 1, 2, 3, 4 ...

The notation is confusing, but it's standard in the area. It means that "g" is a 4x4 matrix and "dx" is a 4 vector, and the labels of the coordinates are actually "t,x,y,z" something like [1]

┌ ┐ ┌ ┐ │g_tt, g_tx, g_ty, g_tz│ │dx_t│ [dx_t, dx_x, dx_y, dx_z] │g_xt, g_xx, g_xy, g_xz│ │dx_x│ = │g_yt, g_yx, g_yy, g_yz│ │dx_y│ │g_zt, g_zx, g_zy, g_zz│ │dx_z│ └ ┘ └ ┘

So it's a equation that has the time variable, just like the "Einstein’s block universe".

> The evidence keeps mounting from increasingly sophisticated timekeeping technology. Modern atomic clocks achieve accuracy where they’d only lose one second in 300 billion years—precision that makes your smartphone’s clock look like a sundial operated by someone with depth perception issues. These “tweezer clocks” combine atomic precision with quantum entanglement, revealing that time measurement itself has quantum foundations.

That just make no sense. Atomic clocks just measure the frequency of some process, some may use entanglement, but the clocks don't show that time is created by quantum entanglement.

> The Scientific Consensus: Time is a Group Hallucination

> What makes this development remarkable is unprecedented convergence across theoretical physics. String theory, loop quantum gravity, causal set theory, and emergent gravity models all independently conclude that time emerges from more fundamental quantum information structures. When rival physics theories actually agree on something, reality is definitely trying to communicate important information about its operational parameters.

There is no consensus about this.

[1] If you want too bee too technical, to label the index of dx you should use dx^t,... instead of dx_t,... They important part is that they are 4 numbers in a vector, but the _ or ^ have a slightly different technical meaning and there are some details in important for the calculations.
by jchw | 2025-06-25 12:08:14+00:00
No. This is an actual real issue.

For example, if I'm using KDE on a TV, which by the way I am (with Bazzite to be exact, works great) then I want to set the scale factor in KDE higher because I'm going to be standing further away. This is not optional; the UI is completely unreadable if you just let it use the physical dimensions to scale. There's nothing you can do. A preference is necessary to handle this case.

You could argue that this is a PEBKEC ignoring the fact that desktop environments care about this use case, but what you can't argue about is this: it's an accessibility issue. Having a magnifier tool is very important for people who have vision issues, but it is not enough. Users with vision problems need to be able to scale the UI. And yes, the UI, not text size. Changing the text size helps for text, but not for things like icons.

If you want to be able to sell Linux on devices in the EU, then having sufficient accessibility features is not optional.
by Teever | 2025-06-25 12:09:01+00:00
buffers in the supply chain don't account for the wastage that goes on in western countries where people let food go bad in their fridge, or farms / grocers throw away cosmetically imperfect food.

This doesn't even get into the gross inefficiency of overweight/obesity where people consume extra calories that make them gain weight which requires them to consume extra calories to carry their surplus weight around, or the amount of energy that is expended just to move them around in automobiles because they can't walk or bike even moderately short distances.

There's a lot of wastage in how we produce and consume food.
by perihelions | 2025-06-25 12:09:15+00:00
I think it's just the one nuclear bunker-buster (B61 mod 11).

"Get To Know America’s Long Serving B61 Family Of Nuclear Bombs" (2019)

https://www.twz.com/19263/get-to-know-americas-long-serving-...

> "The most recent operational variant, the B61-11, entered service in 1997 and is the first to dramatically differ in form, as well as function. The U.S. military treats this version as a combination tactical and strategic bomb even though it’s based on the B61-7 and reportedly has a single, maximum yield of approximately 340-400 kilotons."

> "The bigger difference, though, is that it has a significantly reinforced shell, possibly with a depleted uranium penetrating nose section, a delay fuzing system, and a booster rocket motor in the rear, all so it can break into deeply buried, hardened facilities. There are less than 100 of these bombs in existence, according to publicly available data, and the United States more or less built them with one specific target in mind."

> "In 1996, Russia finished work on its Kosvinsky Kamen bunker, part its so-called “continuity of government” plans to protect senior leadership in the event of a nuclear strike or other major emergency. Similar in concept and reportedly similarly—if not better—protected than the U.S. military’s Cheyenne Mountain Complex or Site R, also known Raven Rock, the Kremlin built it specifically to be hardened against nuclear weapons going off up above. The B61-11’s job was to put even those defenses beyond reach in what would likely already be an apocalyptic scenario."

> "Before the B61-11, the United States planned to use a much less elegant approach when it came to nuclear bunker busting, relying on aging B53 bombs, a design dating back to 1958 for this purpose. These 12-foot long, 4-foot wide, nearly 9,000 pound weapons would have used the sheer explosive power of their 9 megaton yield to create massive craters and crush underground targets. The U.S. government also explored using a modified B83-1, with its 1.2 megaton yield, for the role before deciding on the modified B61."

(The article also discusses the newer B61-12 as a potential substitute, although it's unclear as the key information is secret).
by genericspammer | 2025-06-25 12:09:30+00:00
As a toy project I can recommend re-creating the core functionality of Git. Its basic functionality beautifully simple.

Checking out Linus’ first commit of Git and comparing it with my own solution was also very interesting (and humbling).

If anyone is interested, here’s my toy Git implementation in Go https://github.com/emanueldonalds/shit
by masklinn | 2025-06-25 12:09:36+00:00
Yes there are multiple systems in testing or production which do battery KERS e.g. Fortescue‘s roadrunner mine truck. There are also trains which do energy recovery but shove it onto the network e.g. Sweden’s Malmbanan.

As you note direct gravity devices are centuries old: water balances, gravity balances, paired boat lifts (like the Falkirk wheel), …
by dismalaf | 2025-06-25 12:10:12+00:00
Pretty wild story. And not going to lie, as someone who did an economics degree myself (never worked as an "economist" though) I have a bit of sympathy. No one listens to economists, then blames them for not being able to fix things (since no one listens to them), it's a cycle that makes you cynical enough to want to simply overthrow everyone else and become a dictator lol...
by Gormo | 2025-06-25 12:10:23+00:00
If you do a web search and find a random blog post full of spelling errors and surrounded by ads, you're not going to trust that at the same level as a Stack Overflow post with a hundred upvotes, or an article with a long comment thread on HN.

But an LLM digests everything, and then spits out information with the same level of detail, same terminology, and same presentation regardless of where it came from. It strips away a lot of the contextual metadata we use to weigh credibility and trust.

Sure, you can follow references from an LLM, but at that point you're just using it a fuzzier form of web search.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-25 12:10:38+00:00
Which features specifically do Fairphones miss? It seems to me like most of those requirements are all part of the (mostly open-source) software stack. The Fairphone uses a standard Qualcomm chip that should work as well or as badly as a Pixel SoC.

The "Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week for device support code (firmware, drivers and HALs)" part isn't even true for Pixels.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-25 12:10:45+00:00
Trump's goal is just to prop up his base, like any normal politician. He dropped a big bomb, made a big announcement, his base will be happy.

Netanyahu's goal is to either occupy or destroy the Islamic world. He's smart enough to know he has to do it in baby steps. He's been working the long game on this for decades. So he'll notch this up as a win, and already be working on his next plan.

I don't see an imminent escalation, unless Iran itself escalates things (in ways other than economic)
by incomingpain | 2025-06-25 12:11:48+00:00
Imagine I offered you $5 million USD, every psychedelic drug regardless of law, every hedonistic dream you ever had, unlimited booze, whatever you want, nothing forced on you.

Do you take it knowing the addiction risks? You obviously say yes! Perhaps you just accept for the 5 million?

But what if the consequence is that you die in 24 hours? You quickly change your mind. No way do you take that. I 10x everything, $50 million usd. I even arranged and schedule the perfect 24 hours of hedonism before it starts. You still decline right?

You just found out, waking up each morning is worth more than $50 million usd.

In life, you have 3 big luggages to carry around. The past(40 years of 'struggle and negativity'), the present, and the future that you cant predict.

You can only carry 1 luggage. If you carry the future luggage, you're going to be fearful and anxiety from your imagination. "But what if ___ happens if i do X"

If you carry the past, you're going to ruminate about things that you cant change.

The only luggage you can carry is the present. Live the present moment. Carpe Diem.

It doesnt matter your age, in 300 years from now... Trump will be remembered. Virtually nobody else will be remembered. Spend your day in a way that you enjoy because nobody else cares or will remember what you did.
by alganet | 2025-06-25 12:13:13+00:00
I won't elaborate on the Stevie Wonder quote. I think it's perfect the way it is.

--

I can, however, elaborate on the subject separately from that quote.

The video talks about the more extreme cases of AI cultism. This behavior follows the same formula as previous cults (some of which are mentioned).

In 2018 or so, I noticed the rise of flat earth narratives (bear with me for a while, it will connect back to the subject).

The scariest thing, though, was _the non flat earthers_. People who defended that the earth was round, but couldn't explain why. Some of them tried, but had all sorts of misconceptions about how satellites work, the history of science and so many other mistakes. When confronted, very few people _actually_ understood what it takes to prove the earth is round. They were just as clueless as the flat earthers, just with a different opinion.

I believe something similar is happening with AI. There are extreme cases of cult behavior which are obvious (as obvious as flat earthers), and there are the subtle cases of cluelessness similar to what I experienced with both flat-earthers and "clueless round-earthers" back in 2018. These, specially the clueless supporters, are very dangerous.

By dangerous, I mean "as dangerous as people who believe the earth is round but can't explain why". I recognize most people don't see this as a problem. What is the issue with people repeating a narrative that is correct? Well, the issue is that they don't understand why the narrative they are parroting is correct.

Having a large mass of "reasonable but clueless supporters" can quickly derail into a mass of ignorance. Similar things happened when people were swayed to support certain narratives due to political alignment. The flat-earthism and anti-vaccine pseudo nonsense is tightly connected to that. Those people were "reasonable" just a few years prior, then became an issue when certain ideas got into their heads.

I'm not perfect, and I probably have a lot of biases too. Narratives I support without fully understanding why, probably without even noticing. But I'm damn focused on understanding them and making that understanding the central point of the issue.
by Gerardo1 | 2025-06-25 12:13:40+00:00
> because MCP brings _nothing_ to the table that I could not do with a "proper" API using completely standard tooling.

This is what drives me crazy and has stopped my tinkering with MCP in its tracks: what is the point? It's not bringing anything new. It's usually not easier to set-up than what you're describing. Or, if you absolutely must have an LLM in the mix, normal function calling does just as well as MCP.

It's a real, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills" moment: there's all this hype and bluster and "wow look at this", but there is no "this". Everyone's talking about "it can do" and "it'll be amazing when", but there's nothing actually built and present and ready that is impressive.
by funkattack | 2025-06-25 12:13:55+00:00
Current workflow that might stick:

I’m using SuperWhisper for voice dictation and casually chatting with Claude Code, which I just start in the Obsidian vault directory.

I’m currently onboarding into a new project and need to gather and structure information quickly. So I just jot down whatever comes to mind — in natural language, no structure.

Claude takes care of organizing it: generating #tags, creating [[links]], and making things retrievable later.

After a couple of weeks, I can ask things like:

• What did I do yesterday?

• Who is “John Doe”?

• Which project uses Java version 21?

• …

Happy to share more if anyone’s curious.

(English reviewed with a bit of help from ChatGPT — non-native speaker here.)
by spankibalt | 2025-06-25 12:14:25+00:00
> "Functioning democracies don't arrest people for peaceful protests [...]"

That might be true on planet Ogo, but not on planet Earth.

> "For protests, the physical switch is an attempt to find a technical solution to a societal problem, which rarely works out."

Another utterly absurd statement. Killswitches are, amongst other places and situations, useful on the battlefield (and therefore urban "battlefield", e. g. protests). And turning a practical solution to tactical and operational problems into a discussion about the inapplicability of such solutions to cure the "ills of society" at large is just... bizarre.