MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xg15 | 2025-06-29 10:52:05+00:00
If this was conveyed more honestly, it would at least be understandable (up to some point).

I think what grates me is the dishonesty: We want to do both at the same time: A neutral mediator that advocates for the two state solution and the world's (second-)closest ally of Israel. That's like wanting to be both the coach and the referee. At some point it just becomes an insult to everyone's intelligence.

(The US does the same spiel)
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-29 10:53:12+00:00
I don't necessarily disagree with working for a founder who has that as a philosophy, because I also don't think some of the arguments here about the elite of the world appropriating ever more wealth while crushing the masses into misery are realistic at all (They smell more like mid-20th century communist fantasies of capitalist decline than anything to me)

But, if your central moral argument about the subject does revolve around thinking such a scenario is likely and being disgusted by it, then being paid by the people supposedly promoting this kind of economic inequality and working with them while they do it is pretty goddam hypocritical.
by roenxi | 2025-06-29 10:53:19+00:00
Newton had to invent calculus before his laws made sense. There isn't anything equivalent to that in modern machine learning. It uses concepts that are centuries old except for maybe a few stats techniques that might be around WWII era since there was a big stats push around then. Plus back-propagation which is a pretty big deal, but it is hardly new to the boom we're seeing right now. It is an idea that was sitting around for a while before hardware changes made it effective.
by TrackerFF | 2025-06-29 10:54:01+00:00
Even if you play gigs 7 days a week on Broadway (Nashville), all year round, you'd make a pitiful salary - compared to the work put in.

And you'd be locked to only playing certain types of music (country, classic rock, singer songwriter), doing multiple gigs a day.

Truth be told, most musicians would be better off by picking a job, any job really, and treating music as a side hustle. And that really pains me, as I started out as a musician.

If you're going to make a living off music, it's going to be a never-ending marathon of hustles and uncertainty. Cover bands, church bands, wedding bands, session work, lessons, roadie work, instrument tech, and half (of not two thirds) of that work is based on sheer luck, depending on what people you cross paths with.
by delusional | 2025-06-29 10:54:25+00:00
> and the main pressure against that is for companies or people to leave.

Has there been any serious research in this area that supports that conclusion. My impression, which is completely uninformed I admit, is that we often talk about companies leaving due to high tax burdens, but that it rarely happens. It's a politically signal, more than a factual systemic driver.

Sure, a bunch of companies have relocated to tax havens, but we're not going to solve that by regressing to a 2% universal tax rate.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-29 10:55:36+00:00
> For the 70cm equipment, I participated in VHF/UHF contests with multioperator groups.

Why?

This is a genuine question! I know I am genuinely uninteresting because I don’t know why I would do this if there wasn’t already a built-in audience. This seems adjacent to shouting into the void if one doesn’t already know that there are listeners/receivers. Why does anyone do this at all?
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-29 10:56:04+00:00
The whole missing ROPs saga[1][2] didn't help. I bought a 5070 Ti and had to return it due to missing ROPs. Had to get another brand as replacement, as they had so little stock.

[1]: https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/investigating-nvidias-defective...

[2]: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5628/~/h...
by abc123abc123 | 2025-06-29 10:56:13+00:00
This is the truth! Added to the purely mechanical process, is an enormous psychological aspect. But... we can do even better! The above _assumes_ that fist fighting is indeed what we want to do, but perhaps the best (TM) solution is to avoid the fist fight alltogether?

Since ultimately, living, and living well, is about values, how do I choose to live, according to which values, science will never be able to capture that dimension.

I feel that scientists and technologists, and designers for that matter, should study more philosophy. It will open up their eyes to the fact that not every question is solvable by science.
by Symmetry | 2025-06-29 10:56:26+00:00
> In a transistor, the voltage of the gate lying on top of the channel controls the conductivity of the channel beneath it, either creating an insulator or “depletion region”, or leaving the silicon naturally conductive.

That's... not how this works at all. Eventually the depletion region where the positive or negative charge carriers (for p or n doped silicon) deplete far enough and then at the threshold voltage inversion happens when the opposite sort of charge carrier start to accumulate along the oxide and allow conduction. By surrounding the channel there's less space for a depletion region and so inversion happens at lower voltages, leading to higher performance. Same as people used to do with silicon on oxide.

The Wikipedia article has nice diagrams:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 10:57:15+00:00
The reason inequality is a problem is very simple.

As inequality increases at scale it means that an increasingly concentrated group has more and more capital. What do they do with that capital? They buy assets, they are basically forced to do so by design.

What happens when they buy assets? They capitalize those assets. An apartment unit now becomes a home others can rent but not purchase.

Rinse and repeat until eventually wealth is so concentrated that the ability for any other individuals to access assets is basically zero. This means those individuals cannot build capital or ultimately wealth and it also means that, even if more resource become readily available, more people cannot afford them. They have to do 2x today what they did yesterday to an achieve the same amount of stability even if their "standard of living" has increased because of a wider swath of goods and services.

Honestly at this point I think that anyone who doesn't see inequality as a major driver of contemporary problems is simply not paying attention to the USA or must not live there. Countries in which it is less of a problem basically only mitigate it by having a state that can provide essentials to effectively prevent the capitaled class from taking them away from people (eg healthcare, as you mention).

Economics is all about the balance of who has access to what resources. We cannot just generate resources and capital out of thin air. One person getting more necessarily means another gets less. Period.
by p_l | 2025-06-29 10:58:40+00:00
The same chip as the "proper"[1] 5090 is also used for workstation and some server cards, which go for easy higher price. So it's just an allocation of child to different products, taking into account that with the power demands and design issues in 5090s power supply there isn't all that much demand for 5090 either.

[1] there are now 5090 branded cards that use same chip as 5080
by ggreg84 | 2025-06-29 10:59:11+00:00
Chips and Cheese GPU analysis are pretty detailed, but they need to be taken with a huge grain of salt because the results only really apply to OpenCL and nobody buying NVIDIA or AMD GPUs for Compute runs OpenCL on them; its either CUDA or HIP, which differ widely in parts of their compilation stack.

After reading the entire analysis, I'm left wondering, what observations in this analysis - if any - actually apply to CUDA?
by ksec | 2025-06-29 11:00:01+00:00
The App Store Search and iCloud Ads are relatively recent thing. The focus on tracking and invasion of privacy is also a refined version of it. Their whole PR campaign from 2017 to 2020 against ads. ( And it was more targeting Facebook Ads without saying it. Which Apple plan to destroy ) Somewhere between 2019 - 2022 They literally have to come out and said to say they are not against ads but only against tracking because the whole Ad industry was furious so they have calm things down.

Here is another angle. If Apple could successfully destroy the In App Ads industry, which they earn nothing from, and force those value into subscription, who will benefit most? Remember Apple tried iAds and earn a percentage of it but failed.

People should at least read PG's Submarine [1] to understand how modern PR and media works. Once you have that understanding the lens of reading anything about Apple becomes a little different.

[1] https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
by avereveard | 2025-06-29 11:00:04+00:00
> Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles. This is Moore’s Law.

that... isn't the moore law, it is about count / complexity, not density. and larger chips are a valid way to fullfill it.

https://hasler.ece.gatech.edu/Published_papers/Technology_ov...

https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/COURSE/E7770_Spr07/READ/...
by delusional | 2025-06-29 11:00:53+00:00
> I chuckled at first, but as a beneficiary of Pax Americana, this is a really sad state of affairs

I've felt some of the same. I believe what I'm actually attached to (both emotionally and financially) is the stability of the old system. As you say in a later comment, the value of the American hegemony has been in the fixed but flexible rules and the absence of any direct power politics. The market based economy and "American philosophy" has been secondary.

It's easy to forget that we used to have small skirmishes with neighboring countries constantly. My country (Denmark) had a war with Sweden every 40 years up into the 19th century.

We have to remember that a new system, possibly without America at the helm, cannot be one of power politics. We cannot let the paranoia of Trumps America dictate our politics.
by TrackerFF | 2025-06-29 11:01:03+00:00
Pretty much anything in the "creatives" industry.

Want to work for the most prestigious fashion brands? You start with unpaid (or very low pay) internships in some of the most expensive cities in the world. Same goes for record labels. Art. Literature publishing.

And these days, some of the above will filter out applicants that don't have big enough social media accounts.
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 11:02:41+00:00
> Let's invert that: if I make everyone's lives 10% more miserable, but the lives of the richest 1% a whopping 20% more miserable, that will have decreased inequality. But it's not a good idea.

You are conflating two different things, wealth and misery.

Wealth is about material resources not misery or happiness. This is about giving more people access to more material resources by taking away some of the exclusive access to those resource by the rich. Will preventing the uber rich families from buying their seventeenth fleet of housing complexes and their twentieth estate make them "more miserable" sure, probably, but it also secures the independence of the people you make that house available to (rather than make them permanent wage slaves to the landed class that just scoops up homes that they don't materially need need to extract rents etc).
by encom | 2025-06-29 11:03:43+00:00
>spamhaus

Oh boy Spamhaus. I had to deal with them a few months back. For some reason, my VPS had ended up with its IPv6 addr. on the Spamhaus block list. I have no idea how it happened, the machine runs nothing with the capability to send email, and as far as I know, Digital Ocean even blocks SMTP, so it would be literally impossible for this machine to send any email. Spamhaus was not at all helpful in getting this resolved (and neither was DO for that matter).
by lightandlight | 2025-06-29 11:03:50+00:00
I wrote a program that exposes my YouTube subscriptions as a news feed. It's seriously a relief to finally have this stuff show up in [my feed reader](https://www.newsblur.com).

It's not a "Show HN" because there's no way for others to try it (yet).

Some things I'm curious about:

* Is anyone else here doing something similar?

* Would anyone like to use this service?

* Are there other YouTube-meets-news-feed features that you'd love to see?
by saubeidl | 2025-06-29 11:06:58+00:00
But I think that's exactly the point - we only need to care about "our world".

Conflicts in Asia shouldn't be our problem, as an example. We should stop the US from dragging us into quagmires in the Middle East, etc etc.

What matters is that we have peace at home and the strength to preserve it. The rest shouldn't be up to us.
by Akronymus | 2025-06-29 11:07:28+00:00
> I still do that classic thing non-fluent speakers do: I'll get halfway through a sentence, realize I don't know a specific word, and have to rephrase my thought more simply. To be clear, I'm far from a beginner, just not yet fluent.

That happens to me more with my bative language (german) than secondary (english) nowadays.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-29 11:08:35+00:00
That group of authoritarian believers has won the USA, and are now very focused on the EU. This is very similar to how the CCP views Taiwan. The EU and Taiwan are examples of the other possibility, and the authoritarians just can't have that.

See Musk's comments [0] and very obious regarding German politics, the CPAC gathering in Hungary, the ownership of euronews.com, the recent creation of r/europe_sub... We need to stop being passive about all of this, or democracy will become a historical note, and not something that we all enjoy on a day-to-day basis.

We have all taken democracy for granted, like breathable air. We can no longer do that.

edit:

[0] I am sorry if it makes anyone comfortable, but the richest man in the world clearly gave 2 nazi salutes live to the world, with far too few repercussions. This is the reality which we need understand, and fight vigorously.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-29 11:08:37+00:00
I’ve met so many people who only have that one album on their devices, and it plays every time they plug into their car or connect via Bluetooth. And they are all just annoyed/accepting of it. My wife was one of them. And what made it worse was you couldn’t just pause it: with her car’s particular head unit, anything you touched (like the volume control) would cause the head unit to issue another “play music” command to restart it. Eventually enough was enough and I figured out how to remove the album for good.
by andrewstuart | 2025-06-29 11:09:02+00:00
It’s very odd that the first product announced is not a retro computer but some sort of anti social media product.

Doesn’t take long for directions to change.

Strikes me the main real opportunity was to bring the original C64 back to life, not to go to war with social media, which is so unrelated to retro computing and commodore that I shook my head and turned off the announcement video.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-29 11:09:37+00:00
> is not appropriate here

Actually, if the agenda of pushing CBD therapy applies, then it is. I know a number of folks that have autistic children, of various levels, from "nerd," to "wheelchair-bound." Their parents are usually absolute saints, regardless of their political views, or misinformation diets, and live in constant pain; making daily sacrifices that I don't think many folks here, can even comprehend.

We were discussing a serious mental illness, and, as someone that is a caregiver for someone like that, I think that my experience is relevant; just as someone who believes that their child's condition was caused by something that is really a red herring.

The real villains, here, are the people that have secondary agendas (like legalizing drugs, or pushing political agendas), and look at people like us, with very real pain, as nothing but pawns, to be used to push their agenda (Think of the children!).

CBD, like Blockchain, probably has some valid application, but, because it was so unexplored, scientifically, it is currently about 75% snake-oil. We'll find out what it's good for, over time. The same can be said for other drugs, like MDMA, microdose LSD, or psilocybin.
by smeej | 2025-06-29 11:10:14+00:00
Sure, you could. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that now you could post on your own.

That's what turned it from a method of reaching out and sending messages to specific people when you had something to say to them to a means of shouting into the void and expecting (or at least hoping) that someone, somewhere, would see it and care what you had to say. It went from something actively pro-social to something self-focused.

Blogs and other self-focused things already existed, but almost nobody used them for small updates throughout the day. Why do you think the early joke about Twitter was that it was just a bunch of self-absorbed people posting pictures of their lunch? Nobody knew what to do with a tool like that yet, but the creation of that kind of tool has led to an intensity of self-focus and obsession the world had never seen before.
by exiguus | 2025-06-29 11:11:16+00:00
I did not really understand why they use the term 'Design Thinking.' The article did not make it clear to me why they use the product development framework for social problem-solving.

Personally, I like data-driven design. As in: ask a designer why, and you know why this is good or bad design. The 'why' should be linked to real data and decisions based on them.
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 11:11:58+00:00
No one is suggesting to "make Mr Zuckerberg worse off".

The inequality problem is about access to material resources. Money is just an abstraction. No one is seriously suggesting to refuse zuckerberg access to good things on principle or to just diminish and not redistribute his wealth, that's preposterous.

The point is that access to capital is access to resources. The people that hoard capital necessarily end up hoarding important resources and they use this imbalance to then extract further capital from others and further their position, thus in turn gives them power. The problem is all about bringing more balance to this situation so that we avoid a return to feudalism in which a handful of people have control over all the resources and power and everyone is is basically just beholden to their whims.
Show HN: Rotta-rs, Deep Learning library in Rust has Released 0.0.4
by araxnoid | 2025-06-29 11:12:40+00:00
ROTTA-rs is an AI Deep Learning library that focuses on simplicity and ease. Now ROTTA-rs has released version 0.0.4 with additional features and performance optimizations on basic operations as well as bug fixes. Version 0.0.4 also adds a way to create more tensors and adds 2 optimizers, namely SGD + Momentum and AdaGrad.
by garaetjjte | 2025-06-29 11:13:08+00:00
I'm contemplating about building 32-bit CPU from 74AUC family (fastest CMOS logic available, second only to ECL parts) and register file in asynchronous SRAM. I think the trouble with FPGA implementation is that some tricks I want to use doesn't translate well, like tri-state bus muxing or FET switches on some paths to reduce propagation delays.
by troupo | 2025-06-29 11:15:10+00:00
> Previously, many companies gated these APIs but with the MCP AI hype they are incentivized to expose what you can achieve with APIs through an agent service.

Why would they be incentivized to do that if they survived all the previous hype waves and still have access gated?

> user wants automations on data and actions on a service they are already using,

How many users want that? Why didn't companies do all this before, since the need for automation has always been there?
by iainmerrick | 2025-06-29 11:16:04+00:00
Yes, of course, YouTube is super popular. By definition, that’s the medium through which a huge number of people experience culture. And YouTube itself has shaped and redirected culture.

But what you said was:

Youtube is probably hugely responsible for Erik’s modern popularity.

That makes it sound like people weren’t aware of this music before YouTubers started picking it up. That’s very much not the case.

If you’re just talking about name recognition rather than the music itself, I suppose that’s possible as I don’t think his name was all that widely known. You’d have to show that it is more widely known now, though.

My guess would be that his music is familiar to quite a large fraction of people, but that most still don’t know his name.

I’m not trying to be snobby about this -- there’s plenty of catchy classical music I really like where I can only vaguely guess at the composer. I just happen to know and like Satie. It helps that a lot of his music is relatively easy to play for an amateur pianist like me.
Show HN: InfiniDesk – new app to switch between project-specific desktops on Mac
by ben_s_e | 2025-06-29 11:16:16+00:00
I just released InfiniDesk, a new macOS menubar app that lets you instantly switch between different sets of desktop files — one for each project or context (e.g. work, freelance, personal). You can also switch to a clean, empty desktop for online meetings, presentations, or focused work.

I originally built the prototype for myself while juggling multiple projects in academic research. Over the past 6 months, I’ve turned it into a polished, production-ready app. Just launched this week!

Safe: Doesn’t move or delete files — only toggles visibility Private: Works entirely offline Simple pricing: Free trial (50 switches), then $12.99 one-time

I’d love any feedback or feature suggestions.

Ben (Developer)
by Hilift | 2025-06-29 11:17:12+00:00
Tetraethyllead was introduced into gasoline in 1922, and lasted about 70 years. The effect would have been greater after WW2 due to there were more cars and a larger population with greater desire for mobility and closer proximity to cars.

During the Depression there were fewer cars for economic reasons, and during WW2 fewer for reasons of rationing and recycling, raw material went to the war effort.
by drmpeg | 2025-06-29 11:17:42+00:00
It's an organized event, just like Field Day. The most popular one is in June, since sporadic-E propagation on 50 MHz is available.

https://www.arrl.org/june-vhf

To be honest, I've pretty much phased out on conventional ham radio. The last time I was out in the field was 2010. These days all my ham radio activity is for SDR (Software Defined Radio) development testing. Here's my Github.

https://github.com/drmpeg

And here's a demo video of my open source ATSC 3.0 transmitter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLn5L-k4EPA
by Oarch | 2025-06-29 11:17:58+00:00
I've spent far too long in the "Design" world (I'm talkikg Design with a capital D).

It's largely an ivory tower ego playground for the financially elite, but with a creative side. It's a lot of relentless self-marketing with a generous helping of whatever buzzwords are in at the moment.

The designers are easy to spot. They wear boldly coloured look-at-me glasses and clothing. It's like a menagerie of rare birds. Find them at international Expos, Bienalles and design festivals (if in doubt, seek out a pavilion).

Their ideas are largely stale and reused. These people are born rich and die rich and affect very little positive change in the time between.

But - remove the glamour and apply design thinking to hard, thankless but important problems and it can be a pretty meaningful and worthwhile profession IMO.
by jama211 | 2025-06-29 11:18:54+00:00
Very much so, and even though the article answers its own question with a no, they know many people will read the headline and only remember the link, and rumour will spread.

I can’t believe we’re _still_ allowing headlines like this in this day and age. I might even report it, because even though technically speaking the article content doesn’t spread misinformation, the title does.