MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotharcable | 2025-06-18 11:36:00+00:00
Wayland devs and Xorg X11 devs are by and large the same group of people. So nothing you said really makes a lot of sense.

There are lots of display technologies out there for Linux besides X11 and Wayland.

There was Mir from Canoncial, which is now dead. The project moved to using Wayland.

There was Freon from Google's ChromeOS that was announced in 2015 to replace X11 for ChromeOS, but it is dead. They are moving to using Wayland.

There was DirectFB, which has been supplanted by DirectFB2. They have been plugging away doing their own thing since time immemorial. Directfb2 even has Vulkan support now. Good luck getting KiCAD working on that.

And there is Surfaceflinger from Android. Which is actively developed and widely used.

None of these things would allow to do what people are complaining about what they are not allowed to do in Wayland .

> There's too many things people want to do that Wayland designed out of their system.

eye rolls
by panick21_ | 2025-06-18 11:36:34+00:00
So you save a bit of fuel but you need to invest 10-100s of millions into a ground infrastructure. And then you are limited to one launch site and limited in orbits you can reach.

Then you still need to design a rocket. You still need a rocket engine and all the other parts of the rocket. So even best case, you only eliminate like 60% of the cost. Now you have to completely different engineering teams with little overlap in skills.

You can only build tiny rockets. In order for your accelerator not to be just completely absurd in size and cost, your gone build a rocket in the 100-200kg range. For that you can maybe ask for like 5 million $. But SpaceX is already doing that at far lower cost. And you don't even have the same flexibility of costume orbital insertions as other small launchers do.

Small launchers are a bad business, of the 100s of small launch companies, the only one that has had any success is RocketLab, other then them its a graveyard.

It will be hard to impossible for your rocket to be reusable. So you need to build the rocket for sub-1million $ including the launch to compete.

But then ... you need specifically designed sats that can handle the acceleration. So you need costumers to specifically design their sats to a complete different standard then for your competitors. And why would any costumers do this if you significantly cheaper then your competitor. Spinlaunch has started to develop its own rocket components that they hope to get other people to use.

But there are many other potentially things on a sat that could break, so for most costumers its simply not an option.

The industry has been moving to larger sats, the old idea of cubesats has gone and even small sats are regularly 200kg or more. So the market for anything below is pretty tiny, and the market for sats of less then 200kg that can handle 10000g is even smaller. And the market for 200kg sats that can handle 10000g and want to go into the specific orbit that you built your catapult for, is even smaller.

If there were many 100s of launches available, just desperately looking a way to get sats to a specific orbit, it might be worth a discussion. But there just isn't.

This kind of technology might make sense on the moon, if you want to bulk export something like ice.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-18 11:37:29+00:00
This is an offer made 2 year ago to someone:

>Base salary: $250,000 Stock: worth of $1,500,000 over 4 years Total comp projected to cross $1M/year

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zhengyudian_jobsearch-founder...

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/meta_offers_10m_ai_re...
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-18 11:38:39+00:00
Mozilla should rebrand Mv2 to SuperM or something like that. People that believe Mv3 is as powerful are simply wrong. Also malicious browser plugins weren't a sensible threat for years now.

Of course this is about making browsers less customizable, Googles wet dream of web integrity. Integrity with ads, ads, ads...

The security argument is so perverted in this instance, although that also didn't stop mobile OS from being majorly shitty until you install an ssh client.
by dsign | 2025-06-18 11:38:55+00:00
What's the experience with Windows 11? I haven't upgraded because Microsoft doesn't have a great track record of not screwing things, and I would hate their upgrade process to destroy the data in my harddrives. Which means I'll have to buy a NAS and do a full backup of everything before upgrading, and then pray that that software I bought years ago and that since then have transitioned to cough-money-monthly (like Zbrush) will not stop working. All in all, the risk of updating Windows for me is about several thousands dollars. If they charged a flat fee of 100 USD/year per user for maintaining Windows 10, I would pay; it would be a no brainer.
by schiffern | 2025-06-18 11:39:31+00:00
The spelling "tonne" is only used in countries where there might be ambiguity with the short ton. For the rest of the world, "ton" (abbreviation: t) is the metric ton. Technically it's classified as a "Non-SI unit that is accepted for use with SI," like litres or degrees Celsius.

Source is the official SI brochure: https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/
Show HN: Λ³ Bayesian Jump Event Detector – Minimal, Interpretable, Open-Source
by miosync | 2025-06-18 11:39:46+00:00
Show HN: Lambda³ Bayesian Jump Event Detector – Minimal, interpretable, open-source

Hi HN,

I’m excited to share [Lambda³ Jump Event Detector](https://github.com/miosync-masa/bayesian-event-detector), a minimal yet interpretable open-source library for detecting jump events in time series, using a Bayesian approach inspired by Lambda³ theory.

*Key Features:* - Decomposes time series into smooth trends and discrete jump events, with full posterior explainability. - Directional event detection (positive/negative), not just “changepoint” labeling. - Transparent, factorized output (no black-box predictions): each parameter is interpretable (jump magnitude, uncertainty, trend, event probability, etc). - Super lightweight – core model is just a few lines of PyMC code. - MIT License, ready for customization and extension.

*Why?* Most time-series models treat discontinuities as “noise.” In science, engineering, finance, or biology, those “jumps” are often the real story. This model aims to separate, explain, and quantify those events, with full Bayesian uncertainty.

*Demo (Colab, plots, and results):* → [GitHub repo](https://github.com/miosync-masa/bayesian-event-detector) → [Preprint and theory background (Zenodo)](https://zenodo.org/records/15672314)

> *Background:* > I’m releasing this because, honestly, in Japan hardly anyone noticed or cared about this work (lol) – so I’d love to get feedback from the international/HN community, especially anyone interested in interpretable AI, anomaly/event detection, or Bayesian modeling!

Thanks HN!

— P.S. There are sample experiments, code, and discussion of limitations (no overclaiming). The code is MIT-licensed for both academic and practical use.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-18 11:39:57+00:00
I think you don’t understand my point.

Someone wrote “If you saw an apple spiral out of a black hole, wouldn't you suspect that you were watching a reversed video?”

I replied “If you saw a comet coming from the sun, or a meteorite coming from the moon, etc. you would also find that suspicious.”

I don’t know what part do you object to (if any).

> If a meteor crashes into the moon, there's other effects than gravity that makes the video not reversible.

If a meteor (or an apple) is still in a crashing trajectory when you stop recording there are no effects other than gravity. The video is reversible - it just looks weird when you play it in reverse (because the meteor seems to be coming from the Moon and the apple seems to be coming from the black hole if you try to imagine where they were before).
by squircle | 2025-06-18 11:40:20+00:00
I have... zero subscriptions. When I am interested in a topic I read/chew through all of the source materials I can get my hands on. Then, I engage in dialogue with those around me, or attempt to actively apply what I've learned about the topic at hand. Podcasts feel rote IMO :/

Edit: if I was going to design a search engine it would be wholly different from what Google or Microsoft currently offer. Disappointing results 95% of the time. Edit: No offense to any search engineers out here... I just want to read the original source materials, or sources with provenance/known exegesis/derivation. Also, Bing loves to push Bible verses. Like, all the time. Thats fine if its your jam but, meh... I only need/want to read something once unless I'm doing research for some particular purpose. (Perhaps it is simply a cultural linguistic phenomena emerging from the Western fascination with this particular canonical text.)
by palata | 2025-06-18 11:40:44+00:00
It's not a question of what use-cases theoretically require fossil fuels. The whole problem is the scale.

We have to find a replacement for oil and get it to the scale of oil in a fraction of the time we had to get where we are now with oil. And getting there with oil was easier, because oil is extremely convenient.

It's a bit like saying "we need to rewrite the Linux kernel with a new language that we are yet to invent, and it has to reach feature-parity in 5 years". Sure, theoretically we know how to create a new language and how to write a kernel, but can we do both in 5 years? Ever heard of e.g. Fuchsia? And they didn't try to invent a language for it.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-06-18 11:41:30+00:00
The UN claims morality laws tightened up again after the 2022 protests. Enforcement probably depends on the region of Iran, whether it's a high profile woman, and luck.

Iranian security forces have escalated pre-existing patterns of physical violence, including beating, kicking, and slapping women and girls who are perceived as failing to comply with the mandatory hijab laws and regulations, according to the report from the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran. State authorities have also increased monitoring of hijab compliance in both the public and private spheres through the increased use of surveillance, including drones.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154306
by clejack | 2025-06-18 11:42:00+00:00
The main issues for problems like this fall into 3 categories

- Things that prevent you from starting the job. Org silos, security, and permissions

- Things that prevent you from doing the job. This is primarily data cleaning.

- Things that make the job more difficult. This involves poor tooling, and you'll struggle to break the stranglehold that SQL and python-pandas have in this area. I'll also add plotting libraries to this. Many of them suck in a seemingly unavoidable way.

On the second and third points llms will most likely own these soon enough, though maybe there's room to build something small and local that's more efficient if the scope of the agent is reduced?

The first point is organizational generally, and it's very difficult to solve outside of integrating your system into an environment which is the strategy pursued by companies like snowflake and databricks.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-18 11:42:51+00:00
It’s one of those road to hell is paved with good intentions scenarios. If I buy lunch in Poughkeepsie, I contribute as much as a subway rider to the MTA’s coffers.

Frankly the rider is the least important stakeholder. The state would probably save money if it just refused passengers and ran it like a model railroad.
Show HN: fzfm – fuzzy finder file manager
by ashish0kumar | 2025-06-18 11:44:01+00:00
Hi HN,

fzfm is a small Bash utility I wrote that turns fzf into a terminal file navigator with fuzzy search and preview support. It’s fast, zero-setup, and works entirely from the command line.

Core features:

- Navigate directories and fuzzy-search files

- Preview file contents with bat (fallback to cat)

- Preview directories with eza (fallback to ls)

- Open files in your editor or viewer (configurable)

- Easily customizable via environment variables

It’s designed as a quick, keyboard-driven way to browse and inspect files. I use it daily and thought others might find it useful too.

GitHub: https://github.com/ashish0kumar/fzfm

Demo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashish0kumar/fzfm/main/ass...

Would love feedback, ideas, or suggestions! (First-time poster here)

Thanks :)
by balamatom | 2025-06-18 11:44:20+00:00
i do now realize i've been unclear in my previous post; this "tunnel vision" we both speak of (hopefully we're indeed referring to the same phenomenon!) is, in my view, the culturally expected default day-to-day state of the neurotypical mind; as in, one is expected to have acquired these mandatory blinders early on, regardless if they're actually harmful to individual health and collective flourishing

it completely makes sense that a person with neurophysiological parameters that result in adhd diagnosis might experience these effects differently (different valence to same phenomenon; or, entirely different phenomenon from same preconditions). either way, imo the important thing (confirmed by what you say about the hyper-distractible state which you experience) is for one to spend as much time as needed in the headspace that is appropriate to their neurobiological makeup, rather than that headspace which other people want one to be in as if it's any of their goddam business.

ofc not to be taken that reaching "the personally good headspace" is trivial; a core part of "the blinders" is the assumption that no other stable non-pathological mind-states exist in the first place! (the premise of neurotypical supremacy?) hence the utility of altered states which demonstrate the opposite and thus provide the introspector with a basis for comparison

thanks for sharing your experiences!
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-18 11:44:41+00:00
It would be interesting to see optimization of compression that's targeted at computer vision processing instead of human visual preferences. What I mean is that instead of making the image look as nice as possible at a certain file size, the goal would be to improve computer vision task performance scores, like running a classifier or segmentation model on that image and evaluating the correctness of the model prediction. A compression algo is better if the model accuracy is higher at a certain file size.

Edit: yes, this has been done https://www.ecva.net/papers/eccv_2020/papers_ECCV/papers/123...

Jinyoung Choi and Bohyung Han, Task-Aware Quantization Network for JPEG Image Compression. ECCV 2020
by tokioyoyo | 2025-06-18 11:45:00+00:00
Fair point, but as I grew up, I realized those things really don’t matter to me. My thought process was — oh, I walk around a lot, I’m curious how much of the city I’ve covered -> oh, there’s no free app for that -> oh, I’ve never made an iOS app and this looks simple -> let’s spend a week making it and share it with friends.

As a side note, as I grew up, I realized I genuinely don’t care about the walled garden flame wars, and things alike. Life is pretty simple, I’d rather walked around a new neighbourhood and grab a pint.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2025-06-18 11:45:02+00:00
The best part is the Methods section, which opens with

> Warning! Silver azide and halogen azides are extremely hazardous and explosive. Such compounds should be handled with utmost care and only in very small quantities (<5 mmol). Appropriate safety precautions (blast screens, face shields, Kevlar gloves, soundproof earmuffs and protective leather clothing) are necessary. Make sure to eliminate static electricity before handling. It is also crucial to avoid friction and light exposure and prevent any contact with metals during sample handling to ensure safety.

That is, please do the synthesis in full armor, in the dark and don't touch anything more than strictly necessary.

Also wear ear protection, because it's still going to go bang.

I like the green energy twist in the intro too. "High-energy materials" is an euphemism chemists engaged in weapons research like to use. I went to some conference talks about high energy materials before, and research presented at those talks was always funded by various defence agencies. But maybe that's just a North American thing, this particular group only acknowledges funding from the innocuous Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
by aranelsurion | 2025-06-18 11:45:24+00:00
I personally find HDR as one of the most impactful recent display tech, but there are plenty of hoops to jump through before you get to that experience.

You need a real HDR display (800 nits+), FALD or OLED for contrast, some calibration, and software that uses it well (really hit and miss at least on Windows).

Once all the stars align, the experience is amazing. Doom Eternal has one of the best HDR implementations on PC, and I suggest trying it once on a good display before writing HDR off as a gimmick.

There’s something about how taillights of a car in a dark street in Cyberpunk look, and that just can’t be replicated on an SDR display afaict.

Then you have some games where it’s implemented terribly and it looks washed out and worse than SDR. Some people go through the pain and mod them to look right, or you just disable HDR with those.

I’d vouch for proper HDR any day, that being said I wouldn’t expect it to improve Mario Kart much even with a proper implementation. The art style of the game itself is super bright for that cheery mood, and no consumer display will be able to show 1000nits with 99% of the frame at full brightness. It’ll likely look almost the same as SDR.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-18 11:46:08+00:00
Fun fact, anyone with a surname that ends with the -stra or -sma suffix has their origins in Frisia [0], a region in current-day Netherlands and Germany that retained their independence in the Roman era. Terpstra specifically refers to someone living on a terp, an artificial hill (because there's no hills in the Netherlands lololol) that people would live on or retreat to with the intermittent floodings.

This in turn is why the Netherlands is so big when it comes to dairy and cheese; grass was one of the few things that would grow consistently and survive the floods, cows eat grass, cheese and butter can be preserved to last through winter, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisia
by uncircle | 2025-06-18 11:46:49+00:00
Nice! This makes me appreciate the improvement roman numerals had over cuneiform: that a symbol isn’t repeated more than three times so it’s easier to read at a glance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing

This is why VIII and IX are easier to parse than 𒐆 and 𒐇 (though grouping them by 5 does help)
by HocusLocus | 2025-06-18 11:47:01+00:00
A friend in IT (and sharp as a tack to this day) gave me empirical evidence that LSD's toxicity is nil. He used to hang around in a subculture that were not 'street users' eating blotters by any means, they had plenty of concentrate and had plenty liquid solution to pour.

It was a Birthday Party, and almost a dozen people had the idea to 'dose him' without knowledge of the others. After the party it was obvious this was an extended journey and those who had done it came clean to the others. The dosage was off the charts. They cared for him in shifts and the ordeal lasted almost three days. But he was fine after, apparently only some people experience flashbacks.
by csomar | 2025-06-18 11:47:26+00:00
It is not only you, but I think it is only you and me. I've also skimmed through the comments and wondering if they are AI generated; or the people even read the article. The author essentially took a graph, and then claimed a different interpretation to reality.

What the graph shows is that LLMs struggle with "hard" languages (Rust, Go, C#) with the exception of Ruby.
by simoncion | 2025-06-18 11:48:22+00:00
> ... and I want to add that there's no need to assume nepotism.

Sure, and while this is true:

> If you get code merged into something like Chrome, and it's big and goes unused for a few years [it's likely to get removed.]

it's also true that Google could have pushed JPEG XL instead of pushing WebP, which would have massively increased the usage stats of the JPEG XL code and saved it from removal. But (for whatever reason) Google decided to set things up to push folks to use WebP at every turn, and here we are.
by nodirvaliev | 2025-06-18 11:48:24+00:00
Yes, there are some opportunities for return on investment through the development of small businesses. However, in practice, these businesses are usually not very expensive to set up and mainly serve as a way to recover the initial investment, rather than generate significant profit.

As for Tajik music, it generally falls into two categories: commercial (popular music) and traditional. I recommend listening to Daler Nazarov, Muboraksho, and the group Shams — this is non-commercial but truly authentic Tajik music. There’s also a Latvian band called Baraka that has performed songs in Tajik. I highly recommend checking them out as well.
by account42 | 2025-06-18 11:50:44+00:00
> This isn’t a defeat of principle—it’s a reflection of how network effects work. The only way to realistically challenge something like WhatsApp is if a critical mass moves at once.

This isn't the only way. The other option is a legally enforced (with real teeth) requirement for interoperability. That we can require device makers to support USB-C charging but can't require social media companies to play nice with others is absurd.
by tuetuopay | 2025-06-18 11:51:17+00:00
> display no enthusiasm when communicating about things that I care about because I expect that the other person won't be interested or care

This resonates a lot, and especially in "our community" of tech enthusiasts. I don't display enthusiasm about electronics, pcb design and assembly, with non nerdy people because I don't expect any form of interest (which is compounded by the assumption the person won't understand a word about it).

It got especially reinforced of late as I made a foray in woodworking to build myself a bookshelf from scratch with a custom design. There is something about non-tech hobbies that anyone can relate to (everyone was stoked by said bookshelf) that makes it easier to share. Even the layperson can grasp the design challenges faced in such hobbies, including nerdy but non tech ones (warhammer figurine painting is the first that comes to mind). OTOH when I show a custom-made PCB to someone, I just get a "ok cool".

> I wouldn't be surprised if I subconsciously have chosen friends who re-inforce those beliefs as well

There is also a strong tendency to vary friend groups and "get out of your bubble" if you think you're boring, to get "non-boring" people around you. Which can be healthy but highly frustrating, because you don't get to share stuff with them.

I can't wait to get children to share those interests with them.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-18 11:51:46+00:00
> Especially we as software engineers are not prepared for this fight as unions barely exist in our field.

You can fight without unions. Tell the truth about LLMs: They are crutches for power users that do not really work but are used as excuses for firing people.

You can refuse to work with anyone writing vapid pro-LLM blog posts. You can blacklist them in hiring.

This addresses the union part. It is true that software engineers tend to be conflict averse and not very socially aware, so many of them follow the current industry opinion like lemmings.

If you want to know how to fight these fights, look at the permanent government bureaucracies. They prevail in the face of "new" ideas every 4 years.