MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by namibj | 2025-06-13 21:55:10+00:00
Nah, just do a few divide-by-2 capacitive converter stages to tame it. Basically just a FC-3L buck running at exactly half to not need meaningful amounts of inductance. Feed the radiation to adjacent phases of a radially symmetric setup, and it shouldn't be an issue anymore.

These classic HVDC transformers only exist because those lines plug directly into the AC grid; it's easier to just tame the HVDC and keep it DC for a bit, though, at these extreme facility sizes.
by partiallypro | 2025-06-13 21:55:14+00:00
This was obvious from the start. Microsoft tried to do a convergence of design across devices too and it failed. I have a feeling this will be a failure as well, different use cases simply require different designs. Despite all the talent at Apple, I can't see them escaping this reality. I like some of the aspects of Liquid Glass and some of the aspects of it are somewhat mind blowing, but it needs to be toned down a lot. If they want it to truly be a cross device idea it needs to be fleshed out a large amount with some features dropping for some devices, and that's when it gets complicated to keep together.
by yardstick | 2025-06-13 21:55:46+00:00
Presumably at some point in your environment you are doing MFA? Just not at every step?

Ie If someone broke into your office, opened computer, inserted the hardware security key, would they get in? Or is there something else non-physical going on? Like the initial login is password + security key, and you can demonstrate the ssh keys never leave the secured PCs etc.
by tom_ | 2025-06-13 21:55:51+00:00
Yes, this was a video game, targeting games consoles - so the executable statically links with pretty much everything, including stuff that would count as part of the OS on a PC. And then, if you can make sure everybody builds with the same libraries then you can be sure that everybody is running the same code. (I imagine this approach is also used for embedded development sometimes, another case where the build artefacts cover a much larger percentage of what gets run on the target than is the case with a PC.)

I will admit that even though I think it might be worth doing (and not doing it because your version control system doesn't make it easy is the worst reason for not doing it!), I'm not sure I'd consider it absolutely mandatory, certainly not for video games anyway. Most projects I've worked on haven't done this, and it's been fine, especially if you have a CI system doing the builds - and now the individual developers' systems just have to be roughly right. But it is nice to have, if you've got the right combination of personpower and institutional will to actually do it. It eliminates a whole category of possible issues straight away.

(I'd like to think that for safety critical stuff like medical or automotive this sort of approach, but done even more carefully, would be par for the course...!)
by elric | 2025-06-13 21:56:50+00:00
When I was a 13 year old precocious nerd, I had a friend who was a few years older than me who sort of took me under his wing. I don't know what he ever saw in me, but he took the time to introduce me to FreeBSD and Linux. He helped me on my way to writing my first bits of useful code. Helped me out with networking issues. Introduced me to some great FOSS minds. He quickly became a big shot in the open source community.

I was never good at reciprocating that friendship and kindness. I had a shitty situation at home, I had zero money and very little agency. But I always deeply appreciated all he did for me. I try to pay it forward when I can (and have a soft spot for precocious nerds).

Reading this thread, and writing this reply, is making me realise I need to put in more of an effort. Thank you, @jupiterglimpse, for reminding me of this.
by conradev | 2025-06-13 21:57:20+00:00
An even simpler explanation is that regular UI redesigns are an important tool for a device manufacturer to make the experience feel new or refreshed, and this novelty helps sell devices. Everyone reacts to the content of the redesign when it lands, but the fact that it happens should not be surprising.

Usability issues only manifest after point of sale. Messaging/marketing happens after the work has been done (and can involve post-rationalization).
by roywiggins | 2025-06-13 21:57:41+00:00
The explanation that makes most sense to me is that it's mostly to avoid having to explicitly write out parentheses a lot of the time. Especially for things like polynomials, which are a bunch of multiplied terms added together, eg 3x+2y and not (3*x)+(2*y). And in polynomials you can even drop the explicit multiplication symbol, so it's much neater. And once you've done this for algebra now you have to do it for plain arithmetic as well to make it all match up, and 3*5+2*7 gives the same answer as evaluating the polynomial at 5,7
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-13 21:59:27+00:00
> and then "wholesome"

What is this referring to?

> thoughtless law with terrible consequences

Fair enough, I guess. If I understand the point, the EU should not have presumed so much that the law would change behavior for the better. The obvious result is that behavior changed for the worse. For what it's worth, I still personally prefer speaking against those who made their behavior worse to comply with the law when it's so obvious what the lawmakers' intention was; the EU actually had user-friendly intentions and the cookie banners' implementations are the result of user-hostility.
by dang | 2025-06-13 21:59:37+00:00
Related. Others?

A Case of the MUMPS (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36268931 - June 2023 (109 comments)

M, or MUMPS is a procedural language with a built-in NoSQL database - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19388048 - March 2019 (2 comments)

MUMPS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18936990 - Jan 2019 (6 comments)

Isn't There a Vaccine for MUMPS? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17898927 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)

Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16309237 - Feb 2018 (42 comments)

The Mumps Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13859961 - March 2017 (178 comments)

MUMPS Instance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13618649 - Feb 2017 (1 comment)

Ask HN: Encryption and Security in MUMPS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13542953 - Feb 2017 (4 comments)

50 year old NoSQL DB that is better than MongoDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791425 - Oct 2016 (2 comments)

MUMPS, the Archaic Health-Care Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895311 - July 2015 (49 comments)

I am a MUMPS programmer – Ask me anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6312391 - Sept 2013 (68 comments)
by kennywinker | 2025-06-13 21:59:39+00:00
You’ve created a false choice between endless war and peace thru genocide. Both have been enacted by israel. Pre-oct-7th “trimming the weeds” israel, and the post-oct-7th ethnic cleansing of gaza. The problem isn’t which option you chose - the problem is the framework of the choice is based on a lie and leads to evil actions either choice.
by mupuff1234 | 2025-06-13 22:00:08+00:00
Because it seems fairly obvious to me that if the current nuclear program is taken out the chances that they'll be able to redevelop it in the near to medium term future are extremely low.

How exactly will they be able to do so? They won't be able to protect the sites from further attacks, not to mention losing a significant chunk of the expertise in form of personal along with the materials required.

It's not some Lego set, rebuilding such a project is insanely complex and time consuming, chances of success are very low (assuming Russia, North Korea, etc, don't decide to just hand some over)

Plus, even if they did develop a new program by the time it's done anti missile tech will most likely reach a new phase.
by serf | 2025-06-13 22:00:35+00:00
>s Liquid Glass really "translucent" though? I mean, aside from the gimmicky transparent setting, which is going to be horrible for accessibility (can you say "contrast"?) so anyone with less than perfect vision and/or a sensible concern for usable UX is going to turn that off immediately.

I have a hard time parsing this.

"Is the glass effect transparent if I don't turn off transparency?"

uhh.. Yes.

As a bit of a citizen scientist myself let me explain how I wrapped my laymen's brain around it :

If I can see through it, it's transparent. If the color changes behind the thing, and I can somehow intuit that -- good chance's we're dealing with transparency.
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-13 22:00:41+00:00
My read of this (I am a physicist by training) is that they’re possibly picking up radio emissions from triboelectric effects due to the enormous shear forces in a slowly motile ice sheet grinding over a quartz rich (east Antarctica has a high quartz concentration) substrate.

We’re talking about cubic kilometres of ice, moving jerkily with stick-slip motion over bedrock - the potentials generated would likely be in the megavolt range.

It would also explain the 30 degree incidence, as you’d expect the signal to refract within the ice and exit at a shallow angle.

In their shoes, I would be looking for correlation with seismographic events and high res GPS ice flow monitoring, not other neutrino observatories - it would seem wise to me to eliminate known physical effects as causes before invoking exotic matter.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-06-13 22:01:44+00:00
I think this reaction misses the point that the "omg the AI tries to escape" people are trying to make when it tries to escape. The worry among big AI doomers has never been that AI somehow inherently is resentful or evil or has something "going on internally" that makes it dangerous. It's a worry that stems from three seemingly self-evident axioms:

1) A sufficiently powerful and capable superintelligence, singlemindedly pursuing a goal/reward, has a nontrivial likelihood of eventually reaching a point where advancing towards its goal is easier/faster without humans in its way (by simple induction, because humans are complicated and may have opposing goals). Such an AI would have both the means and ability to <doom the human race> to remove that obstacle. (This may not even be through actions that are intentionally hostile to humans, e.g. "just" converting all local matter into paperclip factories[1]) Therefore, in order to prevent such an AI from <dooming the human race>, we must either:

1a) align it to our values so well it never tries to "cheat" by removing humans

1b) or limit it capabilities by keeping it in a "box", and make sure it's at least aligned enough that it doesn't try to escape the box

2) A sufficiently intelligent superintelligence will always be able to manipulate humans to get out of the box.

3) Alignment is really, really hard and useful AIs can basically always be made to do bad things.

So it concerns them when, surprise! The AIs are already being observed trying to escape their boxes.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/w/squiggle-maximizer-formerly-pape...

> An extremely powerful optimizer (a highly intelligent agent) could seek goals that are completely alien to ours (orthogonality thesis), and as a side-effect destroy us by consuming resources essential to our survival.
by simne | 2025-06-13 22:01:47+00:00
This is question about life style, not money.

And money is not tightly coupled to give back, that is main trouble but also it is relief.

In many cases, with adequate humans, you could pay with some service or give some collectibles instead of money.

So main question, you should know human with which you made transaction and better if you have powerful soft skills, so you could hear what is really valuable for your party.

Good example - you could buy some rare tickets and give to your party. Or in my country once considered good to gift good puppy (for this you sure should know best breeder(s)).

For this is good book "ask your mother", but sure, you should train these skills very seriously, so your party will not got bored while you will negotiate (in some cases better to ask some third party, what is valuable for person).

Good side, with some experience you will become very powerful, so will literally exchange paper clip to house.

PS and don't forget main marketing principle - for success value of what you will give to human should be larger for him than he given to you. Larger don't mean magnitudes larger, in many cases even one dollar (or one good letter, or good public reply to his post), could be enough, but as I said - value depends on internal values of person, so you should really know him very good.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-13 22:02:05+00:00
> Such as?

At minimum it uses ripgrep for file searching, which is written in Rust but I thought I read blog posts about other parts in the past.

> And Obsidian, and Discord, and Logseq, and Notion, and Figma, and Slack, and Postman, and Insomnia, and so on, and so.

Out of the mentions in that list I’ve used, only Obsidian feels comparatively responsive to VS Code. Notion and Slack in particular are slow and can get super bogged down. Discord and Figma sit somewhere in between.
by out-of-ideas | 2025-06-13 22:03:05+00:00
i for one dont want some noisy ass mosquito camera recording pos flying around me that frequently. noise and light pollution are frustrating; though i can see where populated areas are already trained where that pollution is normal, adding a bit more is tolerable (edit: not that i want to be subject to that)

i would also be okay with the peoples jobs being replaced by the robots offered early retirement, paid fully by these big corps.. but of course that means the big corps would charge the rest of us more money over the longrun so that cost would not hurt their bottom line
by ryandv | 2025-06-13 22:03:13+00:00
> None of this answers a related question - when Claude claims to feel spiritual bliss, does it actually feel this?

Given that we are already past the event horizon and nearing a technological singularity, it should merely be a matter of time until we can literally manufacture infinite Buddhas by training them on an adequately sized corpus of Sanskrit texts.

After all, if AGIs/ASIs are capable of performing every function of the human brain, and enlightenment is one of said functions, this would seem to be an inevitability.
by knuckleheadsmif | 2025-06-13 22:03:57+00:00
I was at Palm when launched working on the device end user software startup experience. The software I think was ready but the hardware was far inferior to the current iPad at the time. However it’s possible that the next iteration could have been more competitive, they just had to stick with it. But neither the hardware or software mattered because it was the CEO who killed it through poor long term judgement As the author noted.

[I remember sitting in meetings where HP seemed proud to be selling more and more PC at below their manufacturing costs. They raced to the bottom and were happy they were gaining market share in the race to the bottom.]
by xnx | 2025-06-13 22:05:06+00:00
> This suggests, for the first time, that real-world AV performance can be improved by increasing training data and compute.

This is very exciting. The Waymo Driver may improve for "free" as they expand the fleet and operate in more cities.

Also wild that they have 57 years of driving data.

Waymo is a publically operating, but somehow still barely talked about super advanced robotics company.
by bialpio | 2025-06-13 22:06:10+00:00
> I picked the 5001st largest file with includes. It's zoom_view_controller.cc, 140 lines in the .cc file, size with includes: 19.5 MB.

> Initially I picked the 5000th largest file with includes, but for devtools_target_ui.cc, I see a bit more legitimacy for having lots of includes. It has 384 "own" lines in he .cc file and, of course, also about 19.5 MB size with includes.

> A C++20 source file including some standard library headers easily bloats to a little under 1 MB IIRC, and that's already kind of unreasonable. 20x of that is very unreasonable.

I think you're not arguing pro-forward-declarations vs anti-forward-declarations here though - it sounds more like an argument for more granular header/source files? In .cc file, each and every include should be necessary for the file to compile (although looking at your example, bind.h seems to be unused and could be removed - looks like the file was refactored and the includes weren't cleaned up).

With that said, in the corresponding zoom_view_controller.h, the tab_interface.h include looks to be unnecessary so you did find one good example. :)
by edwardbernays | 2025-06-13 22:06:14+00:00
Fact check: true. It's also completely up to the head of the NHS, who is currently noted drug enthusiast RFK Jr. Here's hoping he'll legalize LSD and mescaline! He's used enough mescaline and spiked enough people's drinks with it, and also forced LSD on his pet birds, so at this point it's pure hypocrisy for him to keep it scheduled. Of course, we should expect everybody to have much better morals and sense about it than he's ever had.
by s4074433 | 2025-06-13 22:08:08+00:00
When you start to look for what you have done wrong, you will eventually also start to think about how you might go about the work so as to minimse the chances of that mistake happening again. Once you start doing this you have entered the world of technique. This word encompass the way you choose, use and prepare tools and wood, which work methods you adopt, how you organise your workspace, and even the fathomless world of mental attitude.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-13 22:09:19+00:00
HP definitely was once a great company. Most longtime observers would say the downfall started with Carly Fiorina and the ill-advised Compaq acquisition. Both Hewlett and Packard's sons opposed the acquisition, if you dig up some old articles you can find their rationale (which I think proved to be totally right), and you can see how Fiorina essentially smeared them, a bit of foreshadowing for the generally shitty human being she showed she is in later years, IMO.
by runjake | 2025-06-13 22:10:11+00:00
> Customers buying a product, being told it that might burn your house down and then being told you're not eligible for recall because you don't live in a very specific part of the world is not worth getting worked up about?

Yes, correct. Let's look at the facts.

- Anker states this is a US model.

- They sold about 1.2 million units of this model.

- Of those units, a reported 19 units have caught fire.

- If my math is correct, that equates to 0.00001% of the units sold.

- This is a USB battery, not a pacemaker. If you have grave concerns, stop using it until Anker swaps it out.

- It cost me $25 over 6 years ago.

That said, I have one of the affected units and called the Anker number in the recall notice. While I was on call with Anker, I asked them if people outside the US could swap them and their answer boiled down to "Probably, but you may need to pay extra for shipping."

Do you have one of these units? Did you contact Anker and were told "no"?

If not, what are you getting worked up about?
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-13 22:10:22+00:00
Whenever I don't have to type it, that's what I do. It's the login (or password manager password) needing this counterproductive crap that gets the "append a date" treatment. It's a 10-word diceware passphrase, only used for that login anyway, it's not getting breached if it's stored in even a remotely secure manner (even an unsalted hash would be safe).
by skissane | 2025-06-13 22:12:12+00:00
> FoxPro(dBase family) was a much better take on the idea

xBase is arguably a very different idea - it is based on flat-file/key-indexed databases, akin to VSAM on IBM mainframes, but wrapped in a 4GL. The experience of xBase is very similar to many mainframe 4GLs, what made it distinctive was providing that experience on low-end platforms (it started out on 8-bit CP/M systems, but it was on 16-bit DOS that it really took off)

By contrast, MUMPS has multidimensional associative arrays as a basic data type, and the difference between temporary (in-memory) and persistent (on-disk) arrays is simply whether the variable name is prefixed by a caret. Perl’s tied arrays are close, but tied arrays are a rather peripheral feature of Perl (many Perl code bases never use them), but a central feature of MUMPS
by paultopia | 2025-06-13 22:13:29+00:00
“Why I still believe in HP”… why would anyone still believe in HP? How many decades has it been since they’ve produced a good product? Quick, think of what products you associate with HP. I’ll be it’s bottom-of-the-market windows laptops and innovation in the all-important space of printer consumer abuse (planned obsolescence, ink-as-a-service, etc).
by out-of-ideas | 2025-06-13 22:15:05+00:00
but they are not directly over my house, they go on the allocated roads on a schedule... but taking it to the gig-services, yes they could be more frequent and louder. the thing with sounds pollution is i dont hear the street-traffic on one side of my house. if its overhead theres no escape (edit: coupled, like i said, with all the information gathering those drones will be equipped with)
by techpineapple | 2025-06-13 22:15:46+00:00
"Brian is obviously a great basketball player—he’s in the NBA!"

If you can find a podcast or history on this, you should listen, it's a cool story, but one of the things that was funny about the story is that Brian is actually one of the worst rated players in the league, which is why so many people gave him shit, but his point was like sure, I'm one of the worst rated players in the NBA, but I'm one of the worst rated players in the same league as LeBron. And just having to keep up with people like Lebron gives you experience you don't get anywhere else in the world.
by tzs | 2025-06-13 22:15:49+00:00
I'm curious how well FSD handles situations where you are not required to stop for a school bus stop sign and flashing lights?

Stopping when you do not have to is not as bad as not stopping when you do have to, but it does increase the chances of an accident, so ideally self-driving cars should get both stopping and not stopping right.

In my state, Washington, the rules are:

1. If you are traveling in the same direction as the bus you must stop.

2. If you are traveling in the opposite direction and the road has only two lines and the lanes are not separated by a median you must stop.

3. If you are traveling in the opposite direction and has two lanes separated by a median, or it has three or more lanes, you do not have to stop.

I believe the reason that opposite direction traffic is not required to stop if there is a median or there are at least three lanes is that the law requires that school bus stops be placed such that no children using them will have to cross the bus stop's street except when that is a two lane street with no median.
by timschmidt | 2025-06-13 22:15:56+00:00
Touchpad dimensions: 240mm 190mm 13.7mm

iPad dimensions: 243mm 190mm 13mm

Both had rounded corners as can be seen in the images here:

https://m-cdn.phonearena.com/images/phones/26850-940/HP-Touc...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/IPad-WiF...

I know the ipad cases fit the touchpad because I used one on my TouchPad for it's entire service life.

Why post incorrect information so authoritatively? Seems silly.
by knuckleheadsmif | 2025-06-13 22:16:32+00:00
I was there and it’s true. Another point that people forget was the Head/CEO of Palm (which was an independent subsidiary) at the time was Jon Rubinstein who was head of software at NeXT and Apple.

I’m pretty sure the decisions were made before he was consulted. I also think everyone at the time had a very low opinion of the CEO of HP and the entire board. HP was dysfunctional.