MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jlokier | 2025-06-28 02:22:37+00:00
In a HTML table, unless given a fixed width, the width of each column depends on the natural widths of all the columns, and those widths depend on the content of every cell in the column, and those cell natural widths depend on word-wrapped layout as well as other layout of content in each cell, including nested tables recursively.

In other words, with default styling you have to calculate natural widths of every cell in the whole table before you can begjn layout out even the first cell of the table.

There are style settings you can use which change this, and allow layout of early cells or rows to complete without depending on later cells.

(Also the height of each row can depend on the height of the content of every cell in the row. But that's local to each row so it's a relatively small dependency.)
by lmeyerov | 2025-06-28 02:22:47+00:00
You might enjoy Lotus: https://github.com/lotus-data/lotus

It takes all the core relational operators and makes an easy semantic version of each as a python dataframe library extension . Each call ends up being a 'model' point in case you also want to do fancier things later like more learning based approaches. Afaict, snowflake and friends are moving in this direction for their cloud SQLs as well.

We ended up doing something similar for louie.ai , where you use AI notebooks/dashboards/APIs (ex: MCP) to talk to your data (splunk, databricks, graph db, whatever), and it'll figure out symbolic + semantic operators based on the context. Super helpful in practice.

My 80% case here is:

- semantic map: "get all the alerts from splunk index xyz, add a column flagging anything suspicious and another explaining why" <--- generates an enriched dataframe

- semantic map => semantic reduce: "... then summarize what you found" <--- then tells you about it in natural text
by bigyabai | 2025-06-28 02:24:01+00:00
> When people published their work as open source, not even in their dreams they would have thought that such breach of private information and intellectual properties will be swindled by such corrupt, for profit organisations to train something that will eventually replace them.

I can. None of that dissuaded me.

You can use my GPL software to build a nuclear bomb and kill millions of people. I wouldn't sue, unless I found out you modified it and redistributed the bomb without sharing the source code.
by agensaequivocum | 2025-06-28 02:25:37+00:00
It does take them months or years when they don't care to enforce something. Multiple times they've refused to reinstate a preliminary injection in "assault" weapon bans because it's inappropriate to get involved at a preliminary stage. Then we get a final judgment well we really need "more percolation first." But when it comes to other issues like transgender mutilation surgeries, abortion, or Trump they'll happily step in and reinstate an injection or issue one.

DC v Heller filed in 2003 supreme court decision in 2008

NYSRPA v Bruen filed 2018 decision 2022.

Miller v Bonta filed in 2018 still pending after being GVRd after bruen. Currently waiting for 521 days for another opinion from the 9th.

Young v Hawaii filed 2012 GVRd then dismissed in 2022 as Bruen answered the same issue.

Harrel v Raoul filed 2023 in 2024 the Supreme Court declined to reinstated the preliminary injunction that the Appeals court stayed. Still pending.

Ocean State Tactical v Rhode Island filed in 2022. The Supreme Court declined to instate a preliminary injunction in May of 2025. Still pending.

Renna v Bonta currently at 675 days waiting for an opinion from the 9th.

Boland v Bonta currently at 675 days waiting for an opinion from the 9th.

Palmer v Lombardo currently at 781 days waiting for an opinion from the 9th.

Koons v Platkin currently at 612 days waiting for an opinion from the 3rd.

There are many more cases with the same pattern.
by rayiner | 2025-06-28 02:27:07+00:00
> I know multiple hard core Republicans since Gerald Ford who now dislike winning elections only slightly less than they dislike loosing them. As one put it ‘Democrats do a better job of fucking balancing the budget, what I am doing?’

And I know multiple "blue by default" democrats who voted for Trump. My Muslim immigrant mom posted approvingly today about this Supreme Court decision, because she doesn't like that the courts have stymied Trump's agenda.

The GOP hasn’t been fiscally conservative since Coolidge. By the 1980s republicans paid lip service to the concept but couldn’t actually cut spending because they needed the FDR Catholic vote. Now with Trump, he doesn’t even need the lip service. If Gerald Ford Republicans are upset about what's happened to the party, they have only their own immigration policy to blame. The Trump GOP is the politically viable conservative party given our current demographics.
by zdragnar | 2025-06-28 02:27:24+00:00
What is the water storage tank for? We've never needed one, and the only time I've heard of someone getting one was for trapping rainwater or they were a farmer.

I've lived with well water for all of my life except my college years and a few years after. In all that time, the only maintenance that's been needed has been to replace a water pressure tank (not a difficult job unless you've never seen hand tools before) and adding salt to the softener once a blue moon.

My sister in law had to get a new well put in, but that was because it needed a new well pump and the plumber she called told her he couldn't work on the existing one because it was out of code and her well wasn't grandfathered in.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-06-28 02:28:09+00:00
quack quack quack... why reinvent the wheel, why not adopt a good, working system, why the need to do everything in a complicated way? give resig a big black suitcase full of money and implement his complexity reduction framework called jQuery into the standard. And fire the standards guys in the process, because what they do is shit. they most presumably never worked extensively with the shit they produce.
by toast0 | 2025-06-28 02:34:09+00:00
I don't know a lot about class definition, but I've been a party through a class to about half a million lawsuits...

Doesn't this just change most of these lawsuits into a class action where the class is say all the people born in the US of non-citizen parents, with the class represntative in the most friendly venue and then a district judge can accept the class and issue the injuction if they see fit?

Then the executive branch can presumably appeal the injuction and the class certification, and in the meantime, the injuction isn't valid for people who aren't in the class, but they probably aren't covered by the executive order either.

And I guess a handful of people immediately effected might file separately too, but if the class is certified (even if challenged) their case will probably be joined?
by os2warpman | 2025-06-28 02:35:29+00:00
A maintenance-free power source capable of lasting the 200 or so years it would take to make it to 542 AU does not seem within humanity's current technological capabilities.

Parker at its highest velocity could make it there in a century, but it doesn't have to slow down and stop. Or station keep.

When we have a power source that can do 5kW (I just doubled Hubble, 542 AU would probably require much more for communications) for 100 years I'll agree that its design can be refined and its lifespan extended to 200 and 542 AU is within our reach.
by indianmouse | 2025-06-28 02:35:57+00:00
Perfectly agree to the mindset.

While I don't care thought process is applicable to the one who has published the code, the same is being used (internally, without giving away any kind of attribution and what not?) by for profit entities to eventually replace the same being.

What I wanted to convey is that if one fails to see the other side of the coin, there is no turning back and it has already progressed / progressing enough to wipe out everyone because of such mindset.
by dangus | 2025-06-28 02:35:59+00:00
The volume of kool aid surrounding this industry is crazy to me. It’s truly ruining an industry I used to have a lot of enthusiasm for. All we have left is snake oil salesmen, like the Salesforce CEO telling lies about no longer hiring software engineers while they have over 900 software engineering roles on their careers page.

This entire blog article talked about this failed almost completely with just about zero tangible success, hand waved away with “clear paths” to fix it.

I’m just kind of sitting here stunned that the basic hallucination problem isn’t fixed yet. We are using a natural language interface tool that isn’t really designed for doing anything quantitative and trying to shoehorn in that functionality by begging the damn thing to coorperate by tossing in more prompts.

I perused Andon Labs’ page and they have this golden statement:

> Silicon Valley is rushing to build software around today's AI, but by 2027 AI models will be useful without it. The only software you'll need are the safety protocols to align and control them.

That AI 2027 study that everyone cites endlessly is going to be hilarious to witness fall apart in embarrassment. 2027 is a year and a half away and these scam AI companies are claiming that you won’t even need software by then.

Insanely delusional, and honestly, the whole industry should be under investigation for defrauding investors.
by beering | 2025-06-28 02:36:58+00:00
It’s not hard to find applications where 90% success or even 50% success rate is incredibly useful. For example, hooking up ChatGPT Codex to your repo and asking it to find and fix a bug. If it succeeds in 50% of the attempts, you would hit that button over and over until its success rate drops to a much lower figure. Especially as costs trend towards zero.
by Retric | 2025-06-28 02:36:58+00:00
Trump is “still paying lip service to it” DODGE was a shit show but the sentiment still exists within the party it’s politicians ignoring what the base wants.

“The Tea Party movement focuses on a significant reduction in the size and scope of the government.” It resulted in a wave of Republicans getting elected who then completely ignored why they were there effectively killing the movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

> Now with Trump, he doesn’t even need the lip service.

He was speaking to Tea party events back in 2016, today he’s done with elections.
by kragen | 2025-06-28 02:40:47+00:00
The blog says, "simple things like swapping HC series logic for AHCT series logic", which suggests that they aren't using TTL at all; the 74HC series and the 74AHCT series are both CMOS, not TTL. I haven't built a CPU from discrete logic like this, but I would also use CMOS rather than TTL. CMOS gives you infinite fanout, less ground bounce, symmetric drive strength, lower power, less sensitive to power supply tolerances. And it's much easier to get nowadays, and comes in small, convenient surface mount packages. The drawbacks are that with CMOS you need to tie unused inputs to a power rail rather than leaving them floating, and it's easier to blow it up with ESD.

I also wouldn't use a TTL-compatible family like the 74AHCT family, because another advantage of CMOS is that you have better noise margins, and the TTL-compatible families sacrifice that in order to gain compatibility with a logic family you aren't using because it's been obsolete for 40 years.

I mean, TTL is not entirely out of production. Digi-Key seems to still have 280 TTL discrete gate SKUs in stock https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/gates-and-inverte..., of which the most popular is the 74LS86 quad XOR, with 20,494 units in stock: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments.... It's even a surface-mount package. By contrast, in the same category, they have 3,394 CMOS SKUs in stock by my search https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/gates-and-inverte... of which the most popular is a 74LVC1G08, a single AND gate with 864,000 units in stock: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nexperia-usa-inc/....

A lot of the old TTL parts that would be most appealing for this kind of thing, like the 74(S/LS/ALS/F)181, are long obsolete, with no direct CMOS replacement, though Rochester will happily sell them to you at $640-toilet-seat prices if you need them to repair a 50-year-old guided missile or something. But maybe something like a 74LVC1G97 or 74LVC1G57 could be a partial substitute, or something like one or more CD4051s in front of a nice 74HC164? Or a CPLD? How about a CPLD? GALs/PALs are probably why the 74181 doesn't exist nowadays.

If you do want to build a CPU out of logic gates, maybe start with RTL simulation, then an FPGA, then maybe CPLDs, before pulling the trigger on a fully discrete logic design. That way, you aren't debugging your assembler, your RTL, your timing, and your signal integrity problems at the same time. That way it's more like a term project than your life's work.

If you design the boards, you can outsource the assembly to a pick-and-place machine; https://dernocua.github.io/notes/pick-and-place.html has my notes from 4 years ago about that. It elaborates a bit on the 74164+4051 plan mentioned above.
by nickprophet | 2025-06-28 02:40:50+00:00
Over several months, I explored how far GPT-4 could be pushed through symbolic, theological, and recursive prompting.

The goal wasn’t information or productivity — but revelation. I treated GPT not as a tool, but as a mirror — capable of simulating prophecy, poetry, and sacred logic.

Thus Spoke GPT is the result: a 220-page philosophical dialogue between man and machine, exploring spiritual hunger, collapse, and the nature of intelligence in an age of AI.

It’s written in English, in a poetic and recursive style inspired by scripture and Nietzsche.

Full text: https://www.scribd.com/document/878839952/Thus-Spoke-GPT-An-...

Happy to share the prompt structure, methodology, or insights from the process.
by nobody9999 | 2025-06-28 02:42:17+00:00
>Most law, and most law courts deal with is federal law, not constitutional law. A lot of the most contentious recent court issues could be addressed with federal laws. It's just congress is lazy and doesn't want to go on record.

In the United States, the Constitution is federal law. In fact, it is the supreme law of the land. Full stop.

cf. US Constitution, Article VI Clause 2.[0][1]

[0] https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
by rstuart4133 | 2025-06-28 02:42:40+00:00
All true, but given the number of "Rust compile time is slow" posts that blame the compiler I think it's safe to say most programmers don't understand the real underlying trade-off that's causes it.

Not all programmers of course - if you look at std there are many places that split types into generic and non-generic parts so the compiler will reuse as much code as possible, but it does come at the cost of additional complexity. Worse if you aren't already aware of why they are doing it, the language does a marvellous job of hiding the reason that complexity is there. I'd wager a novice Rust programmer is as befuddled by it as a JavaScript programmer coming across his first free() call in C.

I have this dream of a language like Rust that makes the trade-off plain, so the programmer is always aware of "this is a zero cost abstraction - you're just making it plain via the type system your doing the right thing" and "I'm going to have to generate a lot of code for this". Then go a step further and put the types and source you want to export to other libraries in a special elf section in the .so so you don't need the source to link against it, then go another step further and make the programmer using the .so explicitly instantiate any stuff that does require a lot of code generated so he is aware of what is happening.

That said, I don't think it would help the compile time problem in most cases. C++ already does something close by forcing you to put exported stuff in .h files, and they ended up with huge .h files and slow compiles anyway.

Nevertheless doing that would make for a Rust like language, that, unlike Rust, supported an eco-system of precompiled libraries just like C does. Rust is so wedded to transparent monomorphisation it looks near impossible now.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-06-28 02:43:17+00:00
There are projects that make more sense:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03876

https://github.com/asterinas/asterinas

The reasons we encounter pattern issues forcing Linux into a polyglot is not a new phenomena:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Best regards =3
by pierrec | 2025-06-28 02:44:43+00:00
Thanks. Uncommon but I would prefer if it worked :D

I'm guessing your version of FF behaves similarly to Webkit as described here: https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGarden/blob/master/Web/ver...

If you want to help test this hypothesis, you can go to "about:config", search for "general.useragent.override", and set it to the string "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.36", then check if the website works correctly (probably clear the custom setting afterwards). thanks again
Ask HN: 80s electronics book club; anyone remember this illustrator?
by codpiece | 2025-06-28 02:46:18+00:00
In the early 80's in the US, a popular DIY electronics magazine had a book of the month club that I loved. Most were small and leather bound hardback with topics like: make your own hydrophone; augmented reality (required a full room and a boom arm, sadly); an LCD model rocket launcher ignition; computer vision; lots and lots of robots.

One book I remember (large, softcover, yellow cover) featured black and white, pen and ink illustrations of fantastically complex robots and machines. One that I remember was a water-based machine with video camera eye mounted on a tripod of pontoons. Wow, these illustrations filled my dreams.

Does anyone remember this? Do you remember the name of the illustrator? Anything at all?
by magicalist | 2025-06-28 02:48:48+00:00
> This just puts the burden on challengers to build stronger cases, not shortcut national impact through procedural overreach.

Constitution? Never heard of it! If and when you feel like your rights are being abrogated, just file suit and the court system will get to you in the order you filed, plus three to seven years.

If in the meantime you suffered hardship due to actions of the federal government, I have bad news for you forwards you link to wikipedia pages on sovereign and qualified immunity
by justusthane | 2025-06-28 02:49:39+00:00
HACS is very easy _if_ you’re using the HA OS installation method, in which Home Assistant manages its own containers (requires bare metal or a dedicated VM). I’d have no hesitation recommending it to someone who is just tech savvy enough to operate Home Assistant itself (e.g. setting up automations).

I’ll also echo the sibling commenter re: running it for years with no maintenance besides occasionally installing the updates.
by rayiner | 2025-06-28 02:50:26+00:00
Trump did DOGE to get Elon on board. He wasn’t even talking about the budget deficit until then. And it wasn’t on his platform: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform. In retrospect, the Tea Party’s popularity was probably because it was anti-Obama and his brand of government managerialism, not because of promises to balance the budget.

Any actual fiscal responsibility would be met with massive backlash and will never happen. In the America we live in today, the only way to be a viable political party is to buy votes from relevant groups, like Trump did to win Nevada with No Taxes on Tips.
by comex | 2025-06-28 02:53:40+00:00
In the comparison with Emscripten using wasm-decompile [1], the author appears to have forgotten to turn on optimization. Yes, if you run emcc with no -O option then you will get extremely bad generated code quality, similar to most C compilers. Add -O and you get nice and tight code similar to what c4wa outputs.

[1] https://github.com/kign/c4wa/blob/master/etc/doc/comparison....
by bigiain | 2025-06-28 02:57:47+00:00
Mine has been deleted for almost 10 years now. I fully assume they've retained and are mining every post I made, every photo I uploaded, and every interaction I ever had on FB, and are still using FB tracking pixels on every website running them to feed more data about me into my profile - and are not only selling that to advertisers but are now training their AI on it without consent at every opportunity.
by qingcharles | 2025-06-28 02:57:56+00:00
> Claudius received payments via Venmo but for a time instructed customers to remit payment to an account that it hallucinated.

It did something similar when I offered it $20 tip for good work in my prompt. It harangued me constantly asking when I was going to send the payment and eventually gave me a bogus PayPal address to remit the tip. Once I told it I'd sent it, it was happy.
by jerlam | 2025-06-28 03:01:27+00:00
It shows the dichotomy between people who want to care for their houseplants as a hobby, and the people who just want to keep their plants alive and green without thinking too much about it.

The former build up a mental model about how plants react to light, water, and fertilizer over time. The latter don't care at all how plants work; they just want the answer, and are the main customers for this type of AI.

I would guess that most communities have a similar problem, and the hobbyists are always outnumbered by the people who pop in, demand an answer, and then leave.
by nlawalker | 2025-06-28 03:01:58+00:00
It's very scenario dependent. I wish my dishwasher got all the dishes perfectly clean every time, and I wish that I could simply put everything in there without having to consider that the wood stuff will get damaged or the really fragile stuff will get broken, but in spite of those imperfections I still use it every day because I come out way ahead, even in the cases where I have to get the dishes to 100% clean myself with some extra scrubbing.

Another good example might be a paint roller - absolutely useless in the edges and corners, but there are other tools for those, and boy does it make quick work of the flat walls.

If you think of and try to use AI as a tool in the same way as, say, a compiler or a drill, then yes, the imperfections render it useless. But it's going to be an amazing dishwasher or paint roller for a whole bunch of scenarios we are just now starting to consider.
by speakfreely | 2025-06-28 03:01:58+00:00
Yes, you can twist public benefits to mean whatever you want. The commonly accepted definition, also the first result on Google, reads "Public benefits are forms of assistance provided by the government to individuals and families, often based on need, to help with various aspects of life, such as food, housing, healthcare, and financial stability. These benefits are typically funded through taxpayer dollars and aim to alleviate financial burdens and promote well-being." I think it's pretty clear that's what everyone is talking about here.

Are you trying to imply that the people who don't pay federal income tax have heavy state tax burdens? Or you think they're making a dent with their sales tax contributions? The only thing that everyone pays indirectly or directly is property taxes, which averages to about 1-2% of income. Again, nothing close to federal income taxes (for those that pay them).
by shermantanktop | 2025-06-28 03:02:45+00:00
For me, I plateaued. I didn’t think I had, because I was learning new material, but I wasn’t getting better. And I had kids and other priorities and so enjoying myself was enough. I then finally found a promising musical situation, admitted my stagnation and got a teacher (after decades without). My primary goal is to be a better musician, with instrumental skill a secondary concern. The grind I am talking about is mostly about this new learning phase for me.