MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mbreese | 2025-06-19 03:23:58+00:00
One of the versions that the author compares the Framework 12 to with respect to value is the Framework 13… so, it’s not like they are ignoring the Framework repairable design philosophy.

Here is the “ugly” part of the Ars summary (as in good/bad/ugly):

It's just too expensive for what it is. It looks and feels like a lower-cost laptop, but without a dramatically lower price than the nicer, faster Framework 13.
by hearsathought | 2025-06-19 03:24:57+00:00
> At least when China does this kinda thing there's not so strong a stench of hypocrisy.

This kind of thing? When has china demanded access to foreigners' social media accounts so that they can check for anti-israel comments? Never. You think china cares what people say about foreign countries? You think china will block someone from their country because they criticized the US? Of course not. They ban you for criticizing their own country.

You are not appreciating the level of pathetic debasement we are experiencing. We are not checking for anti-american comments from foreigners. We are checking for anti-israel comments. The US government is acting like a guard dog for israel.
by hidingfearful | 2025-06-19 03:25:40+00:00
was it that in prior years a reader could usually distinguish 1 from l by context. Even today, very few things cause me to need to te11 a 1 from a l.

(typo 0n purpose)

it matters when reading code and random string (what we now call passwords, though back then passwords were things you could pronounce, unlike say ywtr466Nh%vX).

It doesn't matter for much else.

Though it did make an interesting plot twist in the Mioscene Arrow
by scarecrowbob | 2025-06-19 03:26:30+00:00
I dunno, I think it's not super great that I might not be able to pass an ideological test to get into my own damn country. Why do they get to say that what I believe isn't "American".

Like, I'm "Texas from Texas"- my anglo ancestors go back before the 1836 revolution.

But I'm not a racist so I have often been told that I'm "not really from Texas".

It's the same vibe here. I'm way more worried about the fact that they wouldn't let me back into the country if I had to pass an ideological litmus test than I am worried that someone with illiberal beliefs is going to join the other theocrats in Texas.
by surgomat | 2025-06-19 03:26:41+00:00
M'yeah... having clean, native workout animations would make the experience muchhhh smoother.

Right now, the videos are embedded from a partner app that kindly gave me permission to use them for this open-source project. I really wanted to avoid any gray areas around licensing or scraping/unapproved reuse.

The challenge is this: producing quality 3D exercise animations is very expensive often €10–20 per animation let's say, or thousands per month via "proper/serious" APIs. That's part of why it's so hard for open-source fitness tools to offer the same polish as commercial apps.

That said, I'd love (will?) to help kickstart a community-driven, open-licensed library of movement animations long-term something reusable by anyone building fitness tools. it's a REAL need.

Appreciate you bringing it
by fraserphysics | 2025-06-19 03:27:01+00:00
Thank you for your reply.

I am also not a doctor. I have an appointment with a specialist MD. My PCP was initially alarmed, but after some research and consultations believes that I am not in immediate peril.

Unfortunately the devices that those links point to would not provide 24 hours of continuous data. The data that Phillips won't give me is a continuous record of about 720 hours with a few small breaks. The interesting event was one 2 second interval in the middle of one night.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-19 03:27:12+00:00
> I create and delete HN accounts every... 80-200 karma. Why is it so difficult to believe that there are people here who view social media as a harmful thing they try to mostly avoid?

I don't know that "resetting my account" is the solution to "harmful and I want to avoid". I get why you're doing it in your mind (and there's validity to some parts), but to me "I see social media as harmful" means "I don't go on social media", not "I keep going on it, just with different credentials every so often".
by alephnerd | 2025-06-19 03:28:17+00:00
Yes.

CHIPS invested heavily in OSAT and Packaging capacity - especially in TX. Samsung, Micron, OmSemi, and TI took full advantage of that under the Biden admin while Intel and TSMC were fighting on the airwaves to undermine each other.

Much of the rest has been reinvested in SK and India (TI is part of the SCL Mohali modernization RFP) as part of the QUAD+ initiative.

A lot of us in the private and public sector working in this space aren't idiots.
by bitmasher9 | 2025-06-19 03:29:02+00:00
My vendor “Apple Computer, Inc” was less than 10% (I’m on iPhone) so I suspect HN crowd probably uses unusual hardware.

While my timezone (in USA) and device vendor are both single digit rare, combining the two probably leaks less information than you’d expect because my timezone has a much higher density of Apple devices than global averages.

It’s really not until you take into consideration a few other variables that you could really finger print me pretty decently.
by elliotto | 2025-06-19 03:29:44+00:00
An effect I've found of building agents that interacts with an API is that the bot serves as a smoke test for error handling. If your API doesn't return a clear and actionable error, or doesn't validate json fields clearly or correctly, the bot will end up finding it out and getting confused.

I can imagine a near future where crud endpoints are just entirely tested by an AI service that tries to read the docs and navigate the endpoints and picks up any inconsistencies and faults.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-19 03:29:49+00:00
I'm a bit skeptical that students are a big source of trouble. The vast majority come here, pay universities a lot of money, spend additional money in the local community, get their degrees, and then go home or maybe stay and work in generally high paying jobs, continuing to contribute to the local economy.

All that said, nobody has a "right" to come to the USA to study. It's something we allow, for a lot of good reasons, but there are doubtless a small number of people that we would not want here.
by theendisney | 2025-06-19 03:29:57+00:00
The amish are still laughing at us and it just keeps getting more embarresing.

Big tech companies are full of extremly competent people who for the most part cant get shit done. A hand full of cooperating people armed with curiosity and the desire to make something useful can do things tens to thousands of times better.

What are these websites they make that need hundreds of requests to show a bit of text? I cant view source without repeatedly screaming from laughter.

Maybe the answer to the riddle is to force the pattern and make usefulness as well as asking for help requirements for participation.
by centverdynanta | 2025-06-19 03:30:02+00:00
Thank you so much for the kind words and encouragement!

> Would you be up for sending a PR to [0] to deprecate it and point to your repo?

Absolutely, I’d be glad to submit a PR! I'll carve out some time soon to get that done.

> If you are up for it you should join the Discord in https://github.com/glimesh/broadcast-box and maybe https://pion.ly/discord I would feel honored to have you in these communities.

I’m already in the Discord server listed at the broadcast-box repo, and I’d be glad to join Pion's Discord as well! It would also be an honor for me to be part of both communities and contribute however I can.

> Lastly have you posted this on X or LinkedIn? Could I share with others.

So far, I’ve only shared the project on HN and r/rust subreddit, so I’d certainly appreciate you helping spread the word.

Thanks again for your support!
by petre | 2025-06-19 03:31:08+00:00
> What Homeland is DHS securing? The US or Israel?

There are more Jewish people in the US than Israel. I guess this is what they're securing against?

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/audit-antisemitic-incid...

Or who knows, maybe they ban Trump critics or commies from entering the US? I will definitely avoid travelling to the US due to the Trump Administration's hostility towards immigrants. These screening policies will probably remain in place under the next administration.
by 1-more | 2025-06-19 03:31:19+00:00
On a PHP project I ran into cases where I changed the shape of an object (associative array) I was passing around and forgot about one of the places I was using it. Didn’t turn into a production bug but still was the kind of thing I would rather be a squiggly line rather than remembering to rerun all the paths through the code. Didn’t help that we were testing by hand.

Same thing on the front end in JS: change the shape of some record that has more places using it than I could remember. Better tests would have caught these. A compiler would be even better.

FWIW I’ve written a lot of tests of code written in all of the languages I like. You absolutely need tests, you just don’t need them to be as paranoid when writing them.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-19 03:31:37+00:00
> the reality is that even a really precise fingerprint has a half-life of only a few days (especially if it's based on characteristics like window size or software versions).

The size of a maximized window is unlikely to change unless either the desktop environment is updated in some way or the monitor (hardware) itself is swapped out.

GPU hardware is unlikely to change frequently and various idiosyncrasies can be fingerprinted via either webgl or webgpu.

Installed fonts probably don't change all that frequently.

I'd expect TCP stack fingerprinting to be fairly stable.

That's but a few examples off the top of my head. As long as only one characteristic changes at a time you can link the cluster together. Worse, if client side identifiers (ex cookies) aren't wiped simultaneously then you can link two entirely distinct fingerprints with full confidence.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-19 03:33:40+00:00
Most of these projects invest heavily in renewable energy, becuase the scale makes it cost efficient. During the Biden era, there were a bunch of additional incentives to push for renewable investments in these projects, on top of Texas's very generous renewable tech incentives - most ONG companies began investing heavily in renewables all the way back in the 2000s because they're ENERGY conglomerates first and foremost.

If you have a beating pulse and a strong renewable tech IP, you will raise a seed successfully from the Saudi PIF or Cheveron Ventures even in this market. Sadly, this is HN, not Bookface, so most ideas are bad ideas. Sucks too because it was a very fruitful demo days - one of the more impactful over the past several years.
by _3yjt | 2025-06-19 03:34:52+00:00
The paper's motivation is to explore the new coded display, and they are doing that by exploring an aspect that they care about. That aspect is very specifically well-defined, and if you want to show whether a display has the same effect or not, then we need to look into it. But at no point is the experiment itself relating to any kind of display tech.

I mean, they are not even using a screen during the study, they are using a projector. How are you going to even make the claim that this is display technology specific when it is not using a display?!
by WillAdams | 2025-06-19 03:34:56+00:00
F.W. Goudy has a nice bit in one of his books where it is shown how the lowercase _g_ developed from the uppercase --- I also have a photocopy of page from a calligraphy text where it advocates for using the older script forms for headings, more recent for subheads, and then setting body text in current/recent styles, using age as a guide to hierarchy, which I've done for a couple of projects and it can have a nice effect.
by andsoitis | 2025-06-19 03:35:13+00:00
> > Should they be categorically denied entry to foreign countries for their stereotypical ignorance?

You missed this bit that parent said:

"If an immigrant has social media posts expressing open hatred and even calls for violence against people with sexual orientations not approved of in their home culture, will you still have an open mind about welcoming them in the US with open arms?"
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-19 03:37:53+00:00
Another minor thing you might run into is that servers don't reliably send DONT vs WONT and DO vs WILL when negotiating.

A server (or client) should send `IAC WILL <option>` to announce that it has a capability, and the other party will confirm/reject with DO or DONT.

But some servers will send `IAC DO <option>` even though they are announcing a capability (like server-to-client compression).

Telnet is fun and I like how simple it is. Kinda sad it's basically dead except for what feels like servers that nobody remembered to unplug.
by dang | 2025-06-19 03:38:31+00:00
Tom and I of course agree! But it's not so easy to disallow things, since humans do $thing anyway.

Most probably the long-term solution is for the community to express this preference by flagging comments that do this. I think we see signs of that happening, which is good, because a community solution is better than a technical solution (and way better than an authority solution) any day.

Btw, tapirl is a good contributor and I don't think they did anything particularly wrong. It just takes time for us all to learn the optimal patterns together.
by tguvot | 2025-06-19 03:38:52+00:00
literally in quote that I gave you, Erdogan claimed that Jerusalem in Turkish. He been entertaining idea of rebuilding Ottoman empire, as of recent.

Most of the western countries for example, those that recognized "palestinian state", don't recognize it in any specific borders. Recognizing it without any borders means that they don't recognize that east jerusalem belongs to it.

I never denied palestinians of their identity. I presented you with palestinians denying palestinian identity.

and btw,

Iran - Pakistan relations are so good that they exchange missile strikes in 2024

Iran - Afghanistan relations are so good that they had border clashes in 2023

Iran - Iraq relations are so good that Iran actively destabilizing Iraq and supports various militias there

Iran - Azerbaijan relations are, to say the least, strained. And Azerbaijan is famously used as Israeli base for spying on Iran.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-19 03:39:06+00:00
I noted in a different discussion here that I'm about to the point where my next computer is going to be a Raspberry Pi 500 w/ a second gen. Wacom One 13 display w/ stylus and touch and a battery, for which assemblage I'll make a folding tablet shell...

Or, maybe it will be a shell/case for the Pilet which I'll be getting from Kickstarter.
by yawaramin | 2025-06-19 03:39:30+00:00
Yes exactly! The backend server is kind of like a macro or codegen system, it uses some combination of static assets and dynamic (runtime) routines to generate the assets that get shipped to the frontend.

This has interesting implications in eg legal questions, like can the backend and frontend 'programs' have different licenses? If you look at them as separate programs that would seem to imply that yes they can!
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-19 03:40:27+00:00
Dr. Demento introduced me to artists, that my kids listen to now. The Residents and Negativland top a list. Son #3 is inexplicably on a Rutles binge this month.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativland ref: https://www.residents.com/ ref: https://rutles.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rutles_discography
by eddythompson80 | 2025-06-19 03:41:05+00:00
Yeah, I had the same reaction (billions even!)

FWIW, I can easily imagine how OP arrived at that number, but when it comes to "corporations" some people believe that applying any random fast and loose math. The type of math that says:

- Redhat == RHEL (+CentOS/Fedora) - RHEL ships GNOME - Redhat "made" 6 billion in revenue in 2024 - Therefor: Redhat made millions (or billions) indirectly of GNOME

Trying to argue against that is difficult because who the hell knows. How much money does Calculator.app make Apple on MacOS? How much does mspaint make Microsoft?

Not many of RHEL customers are using RHEL for the desktop. I don't know the split, but RHEL is a very slow moving distro. It's Desktop experience is.. Extra Enterprise.

None the less, someone could make the argument that RedHat wouldn't be able to sell their servers to as many customers as they are if they didn't have the desktop offering. Plus Some RedHat customers are using Fedora or CentOS as desktop even if not directly paying for it, they want to know that it's from their OS vendor.

so using loose anti-corporate math, RedHat is making billions of GNOME and not contributing to it. Other examples of loose corporate math I read on reddit once "Apple is literally a 3 trillion dollar company. They can literally afford to hire a support person for every customer they have."
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-19 03:41:26+00:00
The first point - there are usecases but it probably all ought to be user prompted. The vast majority of sites don't need any of it. For example when testing webgpu on chromium I had to globally enable it with a flag which prompted a security warning. A per-site prompt would have been much more secure - I was only using it on localhost.

The second point - you don't need to measure it (that I'm aware) but you _can_ measure it because disparate features that all have legitimate usecases on their own can be leveraged in tandem to accomplish things that weren't intended by the authors of the specification.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-19 03:42:24+00:00
Did you actually read the study? I assumed you did and so I read every word so I could engage with you on it, but it's really feeling like you skimmed it looking for it to prove what you thought it would prove. It's not even all that long, and it's worth reading in full to understand what they're saying.

I started to write out another comment but it ended up just being a repeat of what I wrote above. Since we're going in circles I think I'm going to leave it here. Read the study, or at least read the extracts that I put above. They don't really leave room for ambiguity.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-19 03:43:08+00:00
My prediction is that the general limitation of multi-step agents is the quality of the reward function. If you think of LLMs as throwing shit at the wall and see if it sticks, but unlike traditional bruteforce (which is ”random” in the output space) we have a heuristic guided search with much higher expected results. But, even a well guided heuristic tapers off to noise after many steps, without checkpoints or corrections in global space. This is why AI crush most games, but gets a digital stroke and goes in circles during complicated problems.

Anyway, what this means I think is you will find AI agents continuing to colonize spaces with meaningful local and global reward functions. But most importantly, it likely means that complex problem spaces will see marginal improvements (where are all these new math theorems we were promised many months ago?).

It’s also very tempting to say ”ah but we can just make or even generate reward functions for those problems and train the AI”. I suspect this won’t happen, because if there was simple functions, we’d have discovered them already. Software engineering is one such mystery, and the reason I love it. Every year, we come up with new ideas and patterns. Many think they will solve all our problems, or at least consistently guide as in the right direction. But yet, here we are, debating language features, design patterns, tooling, UX etc etc. The vast majority of easy truths are already found. The rest are either complex or hard to find. Even when we think we found one, it often takes man-decades to conclude that it wasn’t even a good idea. And they’re certainly not inferrable from existing training data.
by hearsathought | 2025-06-19 03:43:27+00:00
> There are more Jewish people in the US than Israel. I guess this is what they're securing against?

There are more chinese in the US than jews. So is DHS going to ban anyone who makes anti-china posts? We have a lot of arabs and palestinians. Why isn't DHS protecting them? Shouldn't DHS check every israeli's social media for anti-palestinian comments?

> Or who knows, maybe they ban Trump critics or commies from entering the US.

What does that have to do with israel and "antisemitism"?
by ac130kz | 2025-06-19 03:44:20+00:00
Yes, I do agree on most of AI's side effects, but it's already cheap, accurate and reliable enough to be used with a fine-tuned context/pretrained model + tooling (web and local db search in particular) at various monotonous applications without breaking a bank. A human can intervene to guide, add extra context, or even continue working from what an AI model has come up with.

It's not about "good" or "bad", we have to live with it. And as always, those who don't adapt - vanish.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-19 03:44:28+00:00
>> A recurring theme presented, however, is that LLM's are somehow not controlled by the corporations which expose them as a service. The presenter made certain to identify three interested actors (governments, corporations, "regular people") and how LLM offerings are not controlled by governments. This is a bit disingenuous.

> I don't think that's what he said, he was identifying the first customers and uses.

The portion of the presentation I am referencing starts at or near 12:50[0]. Here is what was said:

I wrote about this one particular property that strikes me as very different this time around. It's that LLM's like flip they flip the direction of technology diffusion that is usually present in technology. So for example with electricity, cryptography, computing, flight, internet, GPS, lots of new transformative that have not been around. Typically it is the government and corporations that are the first users because it's new expensive etc. and it only later diffuses to consumer. But I feel like LLM's are kind of like flipped around. So maybe with early computers it was all about ballistics and military use, but with LLM's it's all about how do you boil an egg or something like that. This is certainly like a lot of my use. And so it's really fascinating to me that we have a new magical computer it's like helping me boil an egg. It's not helping the government do something really crazy like some military ballistics or some special technology.

Note the identification of historic government interest in computing along with a flippant "regular person" scenario in the context of "technology diffusion."

You are right in that the presenter identified "first customers", but this is mentioned in passing when viewed in context. Perhaps I should not have characterized this as "a recurring theme." Instead, a better categorization might be:

The presenter minimized the control corporations have by keeping focus on governmental topics and trivial customer use-cases.

0 - https://youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?t=770
by billyhoffman | 2025-06-19 03:45:13+00:00
During my last semester at Georgia Tech, I had one remaining 3000-level English credit I needed to graduate. During the last week to register, I quickly found an open class titled "Modern Authors" and signed up.

But when I attended the first day, I learned that Gatech's online registration system had truncated the class title. The full title was "Modern Authors: James Joyce", and I was the only engineering student in a semester long class about James Joyce, which I had to take it and pass in order to graduate.

It was... pretty good actually.

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man was enjoyable, as were his short stories. His style was unlike anything I had read before and it was musical in a way. However, I found Ulysses impenetrable: It rambled, and was difficult to understand what was even being described in the text, let alone the significance of it. Mostly it was just strange. Thankfully the majority of your grade was based participating in class discussion. Talking about it, seeing how confused everyone else was, and trying to make sense of it all together was a fun way to spend an afternoon in Skiles.