MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colgandev | 2025-06-12 16:33:59+00:00
Thank you so much for writing this. I have recently discovered that I have both autism and ADHD, and increasingly it feels like this mind style has a steep counterintuitive learning curve but also very high skill ceiling.

The video game analogy rings very true for me. It helps me a lot to read articles like yours because it gives me new ideas to try. I fully agree with your premise and I've been experimenting with indeed card based systems but have been frustrated by, as you noted, how having to repeatedly make the cards every day basically means I'll probably stop doing it. The receipt printer is a fantastic idea. Making mental only systems physical seems to invoke the spatial parts of the brain. I've been trying to find good ways to synchronize my mental, digital, and physical information. I'd love to read more of your ideas if you publish anything else on your mailing list. Cheers
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-12 16:34:21+00:00
> The only "bad" job that I had was with a very good company (wonderful people, great benefits, just the code absolutely sucked),

I'm sort of in this situation right now

Lots of good things about the people, the pay, the benefits

But man

We are a "microservice" architecture with something like 5x more git repos than software devs

It's a nightmare
by marcosdumay | 2025-06-12 16:34:44+00:00
I'd say Writer is miles ahead from Word. To start with, it works and won't mangle your entire document because you added a line-break some place it didn't like.

But also, office suites are becoming anachronistic very quickly. Every time you use one nowadays, it's a symptom of some organization failure. (Ok, there are a few reasonable use cases for spreadsheets.) So the entire question is kinda of moot.
by a022311 | 2025-06-12 16:34:55+00:00
Honestly, if they manage to make the transition without major problems, it will greatly improve Denmark's sovereignty.

My concern is mostly about the government depending on open source software without contributing in some way. I really hope they fund and/or contribute to both projects.

Another interesting question to consider is whether the likelihood of attacks on these projects will increase. Knowing that government(s) use LibreOffice makes it a much more valuable target for attackers willing to pull of something like xz-utils. Likewise, increasing adoption of Linux for desktop usage could result in more vulnerabilities being discovered and more malware targeting Linux desktops.

I think there's a lot to see in the near future...
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-06-12 16:34:57+00:00
Whenever I saw statistics about literacy rates in the USA being startlingly low, I never believed it.

But then I remember many interactions I've had with people while working with the public, and...yeah I believe it.

You're right. People simply don't read. They don't even notice there are words somewhere in their vision. I used to work at a water ride at a theme park, and people would ask if they'll get wet on it, and there would literally be a sign right next to me that said "You will get wet on this ride, you may get soaked".

And then, occasionally, I'd have someone read it out loud, slowly, "you...will...get...wet..." and then be like "I don't understand, will I get wet on this ride?" and they're not even joking. They can turn the letters into sounds and words, but can't comprehend the result, yet if I just repeated exactly what the sign says, they understand it fine.

Now I wonder how many people that struggled with "word problems" in math simply weren't literate to begin with.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-12 16:35:07+00:00
It's interesting to point out that almost all of Microsoft's "augmentations" to git have been open source and many of them have made it into git upstream already and come "ready to configure" in git today ("conical" sparse checkouts, a lot of steady improvements to sparse checkouts, git commit-graph, subtle and not-so-subtle packfile improvements, reflog improvements, more). A lot of it is opt-in stuff because of backwards compatibility or extra overhead that small/medium-sized repos won't need, but so much of it is there to be used by anyone, not just the big corporations.

I think it is neat that at least one company with mega-repos is trying to lift all boats, not just their own.
by int_19h | 2025-06-12 16:35:12+00:00
Perforce is broadly similar to SVN in semantics, and the same branching logic applies to both. Basically if you have the notion of long-lived main branch and feature branches (and possibly an hierarchy in between, e.g. product- or component-specific branches), you need to flow code between them in an organized way. Forward/reverse integration simply describes the direction in which this is done - FI for main -> feature, RI for feature -> main.
Show HN: Lofi Worlds – Relax to 3D generated worlds in VR
by pixelsynth | 2025-06-12 16:35:25+00:00
I'm one of the developers of Spark, a new open-source 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer (sparkjs.dev).

While developing Spark, we built a WebXR demo that lets you experience a stream of 3D AI-generated worlds from "inside". These worlds were made by World Labs from text+image prompts last year, and I think it's really cool to imagine what's going to be possible in the near future!

If you have a Quest 3 or Vision Pro, open up lofiworlds.ai in the web browser and make sure to enable hand tracking so you can "touch" the 3D Gaussians :). Tap your wrists together to toggle spotlight mode. The demo works on mobile + desktop as well but 90% of the experience can only be had in VR so I highly recommend dusting off that Quest 3 and trying it in there! Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTc-EXNe028

I hope you enjoy some lofi relaxation in the multiverse!
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-06-12 16:35:29+00:00
No, that doesn't follow. The alternative (and to me obviously correct answer) is that "austerity" is a trick and the only alternative to growing deficit spending is higher taxes. Precisely because it's not a transient problem, random unprincipled cuts cannot solve it; there's no baseline healthy budget that we can get back to if we just trim some excess.
by rjpower9000 | 2025-06-12 16:35:32+00:00
I respect he's open about his work and struggles, and it's cool he's programming at 86, but it does seem like his approach makes it harder for him rather than easier.

For example with the bowling score calculator, it's great to start with some tests, but I think he then marched towards a specific OOP formulation which obscured rather than clarified the problem.
by simonw | 2025-06-12 16:35:41+00:00
Something I like about this piece is how much in reinforces the idea that models like o3 Pro are really hard to get good results out of.

I don't have an intuition at all for when I would turn to o3 Pro yet. What kind of problems do I have where outsourcing to a huge model that crunches for several minutes are worthwhile?

I'm enjoying regular o3 a lot right now, especially with the huge price drop from the other day. o3 Pro is a lot harder to get my head around.
by e2le | 2025-06-12 16:35:56+00:00
NASA has a positive ROI for the American economy. Hastily making cuts into programmes that generate significant economic and scientific value for your nation is a losers strategy.

I'm sure it'll also have other deleterious effects on the economy such as brain drain which would be difficult to reverse.

https://www.space.com/nasa-economic-impact-us-2023-report
by searine | 2025-06-12 16:37:09+00:00
Research is public funded because it creates public good. Most basic research is not profitable which is why it is in the publics best interests to subsidize it rather than rely in the whims of corporations.

Even then ROI for taxpayers is staggeringly huge in the long run. Calling it a "net-loss" is ... well. It is flat-earth level thinking.
by shironandonon_ | 2025-06-12 16:37:10+00:00
this site that has been previously posted on HN works well:

https://musicforprogramming.net/

Otherwise agree with psytrance / goa mixes. Techno can be good too if you are tired (eg: Sara Landry, 999999999). Trance can help to uplift if you are depressed. Classical to make you feel more ordered.. I love dubstep in my brain but it creates patterns that are counter-intuitive to doing any work — that genre makes me feel “free”.
by Veen | 2025-06-12 16:37:13+00:00
Pepys wasn't the average man, though. That's why I specified a man of his time and class. He was a successful and increasingly powerful man on the edges of Restoration court and aristocratic culture, in which such behaviour was the norm. It's complicated by the fact that Pepys was well aware that his behaviour was wrong, but hypocrisy and a public/private moral duality was, again, pretty normal in men of his station. That conflict is one of the things that makes him such an interesting figure. What irks me is the rush to focus on his transgressions as though people need to be "warned" that he wasn't a moral paragon by modern standards. That they might somehow be tainted by their encounter with him or be embarrassed if they express interest in or admiration for a bad man. As if that makes him any less fascinating or worth reading.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-12 16:37:16+00:00
>~"neither group is perfect, but it's their actual job to find and present the truth."

And let me guess, the cops' job is to protect and serve?

The situation is both more simple and less simple than that.

Journalists and scientists effective top priority is to serve their employers. Sure they want to report the news and shape truth in the same way that cops want to catch real criminals but all of these people are employed by organizations that have other priorities that take precedence.

Authoritarians hate these groups because they're effectively a competing power center. It's as simple as that. You see the same adversarial relationship between secular authoritarians and the clergy in countries with religious populations. It has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with power. Media, religious, and educational institutions power comes from shaping what people believe, truth in your words.
by mjr00 | 2025-06-12 16:37:43+00:00
Probably not much in the AA/AAA space, but plenty of indies. The Doom engine (and GZDoom, which is the most common Doom engine derivative) is GPL and there have been multiple commercially successful games released using it. I know at least Hedon[0] and Hands of Necromancy[1] sold enough copies to warrant a sequel.

GPL vs LGPL definitely isn't a blocker for a commercial game, in any case.

[0] https://github.com/madame-rachelle/hgzdoom https://store.steampowered.com/app/1072150/Hedon_Bloodrite/

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1898610/Hands_of_Necroman...
by alwa | 2025-06-12 16:38:36+00:00
Interesting, that makes sense as a way to depict individual numerals. But even at film/screen framerates, isn’t the basic motion picture idea that you’d get an illusion of continuity? The digits would flicker but the overall effect would still be something of a blur?

I have to imagine that, as his 20,000fps-or-whatever example demonstrates, you’d run into exposure challenges at speeds fast enough to capture individual digits on this particular clock
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-06-12 16:38:46+00:00
There's always going to be outliers but I find MusicBrainz pretty useful. I note that a lot of CD-text has poor application of title capitalization and MB usually has it in a more rational form. My ripping system presents a choice when both are available and I usually pick MB. There's also the benefit that the MB database is Unicode and CD-text is whatever the authoring tool used which is usually CP1252 but sometimes not.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-12 16:39:00+00:00
I am not an expert, but seems to me it is caused by two things:

1) While quantum computers are potentially exponentially faster, they also seem to be exponentially more expensive given the number of qubits, so you actually can't save money by building a huge quantum computer. This may or may not change in future. Also, there was a problem with error correction, which is made much harder by the nature of quantum computing. Smart people are working on that, I don't know the current state of progress.

2) Despite the hype, only some problems can be calculated exponentially faster using a quantum computer, not all of them. This is analogical to parallel computing: having two CPUs instead of one will allow you to calculate some things twice as fast, but some other things will require exactly the same amount of time because their steps need to be done sequentially. Similarly, a quantum computer is like a network of billions of computers that are spread across the multiverse, but they need to all run the same code, and to compress the results of the gigantic computation into about dozen bytes. So it's great for highly parallelizable tasks where the entire required output is a "yes or no" or a single number... and less useful for everything else. That still includes some important scientific problems, such as simulating atoms and molecules. But those are not the things we typically use computers for.
by masklinn | 2025-06-12 16:39:03+00:00
Because it’s way easier if you don’t require every level designer to spend 5 hours recompiling everything before they can get to work in the morning, because it’s way easier to just checkin that weird DLL than provide weird instructions to retrieve it, because onboarding is much simpler if all the tools are in the project, …

And it’s no sweat off p4’s back.
by BeetleB | 2025-06-12 16:39:37+00:00
> The discussions need to include things like exact model version, inference parameters, what system prompt you used, what user prompt, what code you gave it, what exactly it replied and so much more details, as currently almost every comment is "Well, I used Sonnet last week and it worked great" without any details...Not to mention discussions around local models missing basic stuff like what quantization (if any) and what hardware you're running it on.

While I agree with "more details", the amount of details you're asking for is ... ridiculous. This is a HN comment, not a detailed study.
by Maxious | 2025-06-12 16:39:45+00:00
> Seedance 1.0 will be integrated into multiple platforms in June 2025, including Doubao and Jimeng

> https://www.doubao.com/chat/create-video

> https://jimeng.jianying.com/ai-tool/video/generate

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09113
by petertodd | 2025-06-12 16:40:02+00:00
Baseload power stations sometimes over-produce on longer timescales than just a few seconds because they'd rather not turn them off for maintenance/operational reasons. E.g. imagine you have a big biomass boiler feeding a steam turbine. Turning it off for an hour or two means everything cools down, which is a thermal stress, reducing lifetime compared to keeping it at constant power.

But yes, certainly poorly managed solar/wind that doesn't have good mechanisms to turn off in response to lack of demand is mainly the issue. In the future, when control systems are better, I'm sure negative pricing will be much less common.
by tstactplsignore | 2025-06-12 16:40:23+00:00
This is a illogical position to hold, because clearly nobody applies that same logic about everything else the federal government spends money on.

If Texans want to fund a military parade for $45 million, and spend $16 billion on an armed secret police force, they are welcome to do so, but then Californians should not have to fund that (and neither do the rest of us who do not agree with such things while producing an outsized portion of the federal government's income).

The issue is not which of these are federally funded vs state funded, unless of course the federal income tax for Californians is specifically reduced in turn. It's a zero sum game: as a Californian, your tax dollars (whether state or federal) are now going to more objectively horrible things and few fewer objectively good things. That's the problem.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-12 16:41:00+00:00
In that general area it's more people living in tents on the sidewalk as the cause.

But yeah, SF handles homeless issues poorly and spends a tremendous amount of money doing it. And you don't have to be a "get those people out of my sight and that's all I care about them" kind of person to think that SF has been doing a bad job.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-12 16:41:10+00:00
Every US president cracks down on illegal immigrants. It's going to be like this for centuries to come. Obama the deporter-in-chief still has done more than trump. So "which party" is rather ridiculous when both parties support this.

The republicans are loving all of this. Fence sitters are loving it. They hear democrats and journalists trying to defend criminals and are completely put off by the idea.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-06-12 16:41:28+00:00
A lot of hardware is built like this. Separating the GUI from the real time or safety-critical aspects of the system is a common enough need that there are many System-on-Module (SoM) boards that can run Linux or Windows and also include an ARM processor for real time behavior on the same die.

Your UI can be built in Python/Qt/Tk while the safety critical stuff is programmed in C running on an RTOS.
by koonsolo | 2025-06-12 16:41:32+00:00
My above text was written before you replied to my other message.

And besides, just because using <img> instead of <Image> doesn't imply that the actual issue was in <Image>, it might also be in another part and <Image> triggered it. As I told you, as long as you don't pinpoint the problem, you can't say where the problem lies.

Maybe your definition of pinpointing is different than mine.
by scarmig | 2025-06-12 16:42:02+00:00
The complaint is that laws are structured in a way that only affect people who have something material to lose. There's no law of nature that says laws have to be that way, and, historically and cross-culturally, they haven't been.

Upgrading my windows to be double-paned without city approval should not result in a greater punishment from the government than attacking someone on the street.
by biophysboy | 2025-06-12 16:42:53+00:00
In my field (biotech/pharma), the private market already invests significantly in R&D. This funding largely investigates how to translate basic research (done by gov, edu) into new drugs. You are proposing that the private market covers the whole pipeline.

This will not work because fundamental research is high risk, and even if it is successful it takes decades to turn into profit. No lender or investor is going to finance that kind of pipeline given the opportunity cost; the returns are just not high enough.
by mikece | 2025-06-12 16:43:01+00:00
Why he forked Xorg: as I understand it there were THOUSANDS of merge requests to address issues in Xorg that were being ignored (possibly because the Red Hat employees who managed Xorg MRs were ignoring them on purpose because they were more interested in Wayland -- but that's speculation at this point). He felt strongly enough about this to fork the projects... at which point, apparently, all of those MRs were closed (and deleted?) making it difficult or impossible for XLibre to pick up those MRs and apply to them to the fork.

(My source on what I wrote are a couple videos by Lunduke.)
by Jtsummers | 2025-06-12 16:43:13+00:00
Per the paper, found in the wild.

> We isolated an HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus from wild birds in Korea with 96% E and 4% K at amino acid position 627 of PB2. To investigate the genomic characteristics of this clade regarding mammalian adaptation, we studied the replication and transmission of the H5N1 virus in mice.
by rogueparitybit | 2025-06-12 16:43:25+00:00
We're on the same brainwave. Literally thought to myself, "but I forget to eat all the time" and scrolled down to see this.

ADHD obviously can make stuff like this hard, and most neurotypical people seem to operate on a "if it's important I'll remember it" mentality, which I'm incredibly jealous of. I still haven't found a good system for tracking important tasks without getting "overloaded" with too many tasks and/or subtasks.
by int_19h | 2025-06-12 16:43:33+00:00
I'm in exactly this situation with Perforce today, and I still hate it. The same problem OP described applies - you need to know which exact directories to check out to build, run tests etc successfully. You end up with wikis filled with obscure lists of mappings, many of them outdated, some still working but including a lot of cruft because people just copy it around. Sometimes the required directories change over time and your existing workspaces just stop working.

Git has sparse client views with VFS these days.
by timr | 2025-06-12 16:44:06+00:00
Yeah, the deep irony of the GP comment is that, had all of these supposedly knowledgable people just read the original report from the WHO (~early 2020), they'd have realized many things about the virus (such as the extremely skewed age distribution of the seriously ill) that would have greatly mitigated the overall panic. It literally took years for the chattering class in medicine to understand basic information that was available at the beginning of the pandemic.

COVID was a perfect case study of mass hysteria, and how you can't even trust "the experts" in these situations, because the "experts" you hear from early on are also generally the ones who are the most willing to spout pure speculation for attention. Humans are gonna human, and a background in science doesn't change that fact.
by amiga386 | 2025-06-12 16:44:40+00:00
And just so people know, their edits were applied in March this year...

Edit #122458416 - Edit medium Vote tally: 0 yes : 0 no Status: Applied Opened: 2025-02-24 00:02 UTC Closed: 2025-03-03 01:00 UTC For quicker closing: 3 unanimous votes If no votes cast: Accept upon closing
by almosthere | 2025-06-12 16:44:52+00:00
The funny thing about the story is that the tradesmen that show up with an investment property isn't doing that well either. Even though in the story the locksmith asks for $750 - he's only taking home $25-35/hour. The check/card is for the company he works for. And that money will be paying his salary for a few days until the next uber expensive lockout.

In no reality is someone going lock-out to lock-out making $750 for themselves. That business, like software, is also captured. Captured by capital in advertising no individual can match.

It's just like a BTC miner. Very few people on HN will go out and buy a BTC miner box hoping to get 1 BTC in a few days - the competition is maximized to a point where each earned BTC just barely paid for all the upgrades. The fact is, that most of the BTC is mined in China and so it's just a giant siphon of money.
by bluGill | 2025-06-12 16:45:08+00:00
The real value of paper year planner books is your todo list can't grow to infinate length - if you don't do something today you have to decide at the end of the day will you forget about it or manually copy it to tommorow.

it is easy to make todo items. The hard part is realzing you can't do everything and you must not do something
by rigrassm | 2025-06-12 16:45:52+00:00
Just my personal observations of the video, I'm in no way qualified to speak on the matter.

There's a large plume that looks like smoke to me looks like smoke (could be dust/sand being blown away but I wouldn't think you'd see that much from a busy runway) visible off the left side of the runway. The plane is obscured by that structure when it happens but it looks like it's created at the same time that the plane is leaving the ground.

It looks like the plane stops accelerating completely at that same moment without any change in orientation which, in my head, looks like both engines suffered total failure at the same time.

From my limited knowledge (mostly from Mentour Pilot YT videos), that seems consistent with what you'd see if the plane flew through a large flock of birds that are spread out enough that both engines would be hit at the same time.

Again, purely speculation on my part based solely on what I see in this 1 video.