MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goldemerald | 2025-06-20 21:06:13+00:00
No discussion with Schmidhuber is complete without the infamous debate at NIPS 2016 https://youtu.be/HGYYEUSm-0Q?t=3780 . One of my goals as a ML researcher is to publish something and have Schmidhuber claim he's already done it.

But more seriously, I'm not a fan of Schmidhuber because even if he truly did invent all this stuff early in the 90s, he's inability to see its application to modern compute held the field back by years. In principle, we could have had GANs and self-supervised models' years earlier if he had "revisited his early work". It's clear to me no one read his early paper's when developing GANs/self-supervision/transformers.
by bitpush | 2025-06-20 21:06:21+00:00
This one has merit though, yes? Apple was all-in on AI in WWDC 2024. Had large billboards, and ads taken out talking up about Apple Intelligence features that were gonna land in the new iPhone. A year later, they have pulled those ads and the promised features never shipped.

If someone bought an iPhone last year hoping for these features, they are right to be upset - and suing the company for damages is the right course of action here.
by notahacker | 2025-06-20 21:06:25+00:00
Sure, but I'd say that the philosophical musings of EA's leadership, events, university outreach centres, and official forum were more representative of "the centre of EA debate or culture" than pledge signatories, even though I've got wayyy more time for stuff like the Giving Pledge.

GiveWell continues to plow its own rigorous international development-focused furrow, but it's cofounder, once noted for calling out everyone else for lack of rigour in their evidence base, has moved on to fluffy essays about how this is probably "the most important century" because it's either AI armageddon or maybe his wife's $61B startup will save us all...
Show HN: Buildable – Project management through MCP
by spacesh1psoda | 2025-06-20 21:06:36+00:00
I am an old developer who started using an AI Assisted code editor about 6 months ago. After building a few MVPs I started to notice a pattern in my process to go from idea to a complete MVP. It would go something like:

1. Ideate together with ChatGPT, thoroughly come up with a solid product that would seem both fun to build and give me some value from building it.

2. Dig into a good tech stack, I usually have a good stack that works for my web apps, but some times I want to try something new and that's when ChatGPT or Claude would give me some good advice on something that would work well.

3. Create a task list on everything I need to do before the MVP would be ready.

4. Start coding and tick off the boxes in the task list.

5. Launch the product.

So I figured, why not streamline the process, make it easy to run through these steps and save some time in the process. With a couple young kids at home you don't have that much time so, time saved on getting started is gold.

So lets go through what Buildable solves right now: - Creating a PRD or a context document your AI Assistant can consume through MCP. - Creating tasks that your AI Assistant can consume through MCP. - Managing tasks through MCP. - Setting up a repository with a starter .workflow doc and README. - Setting up issues in your github repository. - Centralize your project so you can jump between AI chats and get the assistant up to speed quickly.

Yeah, I guess that's it for now, I have a few cool ideas I want to add in the near future. I'm interested to hear what you think, let me hear your brutally honest critique!
by bobthepanda | 2025-06-20 21:06:47+00:00
There used to be more cross border banking until the Eurozone crisis exposed the structural flaw that under the regulations back then (and probably still currently) national regulators were responsible for bailing out headquartered banks, so you had small countries like Cyprus going belly-up because they had to bail out large cross-border banks.

VC markets are definitely not cross-border in practice.
by the_arun | 2025-06-20 21:06:49+00:00
> According to local reports, BYD’s solid-state EV batteries set a record by gaining 1,500 km (932 miles) range in just 12 minutes of charging.

If so, can this be beneficial to use cases outside auto industry? Eg. Power walls. If so, I am more excited for that. I am tired of electricity bills.
by nine_k | 2025-06-20 21:06:55+00:00
This likely happens when internal politics completely replace whatever somehow objective quality metrics, and the sales force becomes persuasive beyond reason.

«The engineer wants to build a thing cheaply enough that it functions, and then cheaply as can be while maintaining function.

The MBA wants to build a thing as cheaply as can be while extracting maximum value from the process. Maintaining function is only relevant inasmuch as is necessary for marketing. Enshittification is offensive to the engineer, and is a deliberate calculated tactic for the MBA.»

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367281)
by Alupis | 2025-06-20 21:07:17+00:00
I'm unsure if this is fair to OVH. Yes, they had a pretty epic fire not long ago - but their "bread and butter" has been low cost, from what I've gathered (never used them before).

I assume OVH will be building a private "EU Government" cloud of sorts, which may even include new private data centers. Even if they re-use their existing cloud - the government cloud isn't likely to be all in one region etc.

I guess I'm saying, it's better to give OVH (or another major cloud provider within the EU) a chance, even if they're not on-par with AWS et al today.
by Animats | 2025-06-20 21:07:35+00:00
Real answer: [1][2] From Chicago Dryer. It's boring, reliable, practical equipment for the huge laundries that service big hospitals and hotels. The machines look big and dumb, but there are vision systems in many of them, inspecting, separating, and finding corners. Robotic grippers grab items where necessary.

Industrial-strength dish cleaning has been demoed but does not seem to be deployed.[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpTuwKu5fY0

[2] https://youtu.be/7bd900ehE9M?t=41

[3] https://nalarobotics.com/spotless.html
by awongh | 2025-06-20 21:07:51+00:00
Most relevant part:

> BYD’s solid-state EV batteries set a record by gaining 1,500 km (932 miles) range in just 12 minutes of charging.

> The test charged the battery to just 80%, meaning total EV range could reach upwards of 1,875 km (1,165 miles). Keep in mind, that is CLTC range. On the EPA scale, it would be closer to 1,300 km (808 miles)

Is this true? How quickly will other companies be making these types of batteries?

Is there some reason why solid state batteries seem to be being deployed in cars sooner than in phones?
by sokoloff | 2025-06-20 21:07:52+00:00
There are 1.5 times as many people in the US competing for the same amount of land and buying houses using mortgages that are around 40% cheaper and many mortgages accept down payments that are 1/6th the size versus 1975, with underwriting that judges debt-to-income of 36% as “ideal” and some programs allowing 50% versus a limit of 25% in 1975, meaning the same amount of 1975 Americans plus the 50% extra Americans can all bid way, way more for that house you want, forcing you to pay up if you want it more than they do. In that time period, dual income households went from a minority to a majority, further heating up the competition.

Houses are also around 1.5 times the size with more bathrooms per bedroom in 2025 vs 1975, so “build less square footage and less fancy per square foot” isn’t at all “giving up so much that was standard 50 years ago”, but rather returning toward the standard of 50 years ago.
by AndroTux | 2025-06-20 21:08:04+00:00
Sure, it's possible that they were just unlucky or not quite honest, but often they backed it up with links to the OVH status page. Regardless, that's why I prefaced it with personal experience.

I'm curious, though: Do you have monitoring set up for your OVH machine? Because I've noticed that very often, disruption may just be short and not necessarily noticeable unless you happen to use the service at the time. But for something critical (or a website for your business), this is still a problem.

One of the services I used was Migadu. I migrated away from them after three months because they were just constantly unavailable for short periods of time. It was really annoying. Looking at their status page, you can see disruptions quite often. Of course, I can't say whether that's OVH's fault, or Migadu's, or a mix of both:

https://status.migadu.com/

Edit: The other service I used was masto.host. Just checked his social media account, and the last incident was two months ago: https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/114350904325778343 - If you scroll down on his profile, you'll see more posts like this, quite frequently.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-06-20 21:08:33+00:00
If gog ever manages to get the rights to rerelease civ II, I'd gladly pay $80 for a copy I could just click and run on windows and linux. Yes, there are copies on abandonware sites, but the sound is almost always jank, the soundtrack is gone and the advisors don't work (they really added a lot of character to the game!). The nostalgia of childhood is broken. I've tried everything, up to and including running win 3.1 with sound blaster drivers on dosbox to no avail. This is my white whale
by Defletter | 2025-06-20 21:08:53+00:00
Honestly, reading through all that, it sounds like you yourself are just as defeatist as liberals, if not more so: every possible systemic solution which has been shown to work[1], is to you like wishing on a Monkey's Paw. And yes, there's some truth to that: there's a saying that there are no solutions, only trade offs. But good grief, this level of defeatism is insane... why even have a government if it can't do anything for the public good? So again, I must ask, am I arguing with an anarchist?

[1] "Hav[ing] been shown to work" meaning measurably solving the issue, not necessarily utter eradication of the issue. We needn't let the perfect get in the way of the good.
by LightHugger | 2025-06-20 21:09:25+00:00
This didn't happen because redhat/ibm/microsoft took control of the project and decided they wanted to kill it. They have said this directly on social media that this is their explicit goal so it's not as if this is a conspiracy of some sort, it's just their publicly stated goal. They then deliberately stopped merging changes and left it to rot until the contributors got frustrated enough to fork it.

Now a massive gamergate-esque coordinated character assassination campaign against the creator of xlibre is ongoing even from publications that have many previous articles praising the same contributor at length. Corporate control of open source is very dangerous to the ecosystem as they also fund the "journalists" writing these articles who are willing to defend every decision they make.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-06-20 21:09:51+00:00
Oh geez so sorry for the dumb question! I read a lot about the benefits of containerization in general for agents, but thought it might be enlightening/instructive to know what this specific project adds to that (other than the special Elixir-tuned prompting).

But either way I hear you, thanks so much for taking the time to set me straight. It seems like either way you have done some visionary things here and you should be content with your good work! This stuff does not work for me for just circumstantial reasons (too poor), but still always very curious about the stuff coming out!

Again, so sorry. Congrats on the release and hope your day is good.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-20 21:10:11+00:00
> founders in the EU can chime in on some of the challenges they face when building within the EU versus the US.

the answer is very simple, raising capital. It has nothing to do with regulations, filling out paperwork in Germany is annoying but doesn't stop you, not having money or a market does.

Internal barriers of trade in the EU, the heterogenity of the countries and users and the lack of a deep financial sector across the union is what does most businesses in.
by OutOfHere | 2025-06-20 21:10:12+00:00
The article is bad advice because nothing improves without criticism.

The real problem with criticism is that management doesn't like bad news to be advertised, so they punish those who speak out. As such, it's not wise in the short term to illuminate bad truths if one seeks job security. If one seeks firm security, however, then honestly addressing all criticisms is the way to get there.

Another observation about criticism is that it can often be falsely mistaken for cynicism.
by tptacek | 2025-06-20 21:10:16+00:00
Right. I like SRP. I've implemented it many times. It's also a personal favorite because it coughs up amazingly good vulnerabilities (it's not often a dumb crypto implementation bug gets you a full auth bypass).

But cryptographers did not generally like SRP. Lots of cryptographers had misgivings about it. It is not surprising to me that SRP didn't get usefully baked into the web.

This "HTTP is designed with an authentication layer" stuff is a very old argument on HN. There are two sides to it. The other side is: baking stuff directly into the protocol makes us path-dependent on what we decide to add (see: every protocol ever designed), and if we were path dependent on 2002-era cryptography, that would be a very bad thing. Authentication is a complicated problem and people's needs differ.

I respect the take, the same way I enjoy reading Gutmann even though I agree with only like 50% of what he says.
by MostlyStable | 2025-06-20 21:10:37+00:00
For the last part, my guess is that the advantages are much more valuable in an EV than they are in a phone (where batteries are mostly fine. While longer life and faster charging are always nice to have:they are just that: nice to have), so if you are A) production limited and B) they are still more expensive (the article states they expect them to be price-comparable by the end of the decade), then they probably aren't worth it in a phone (yet).

When price comes down and production comes up (assuming those things happen), then I would expect them to start appearing in phones as well.
by Alupis | 2025-06-20 21:10:58+00:00
Additionally, it seems the big enterprise vendors will cook up any solution to whatever problem (perceived or real) a customer says they have - no matter how out-of-domain it might be for the expertise of the enterprise vendor.

We can observe this with the old-school enterprise juggernauts such as IBM. "What does IBM actually do?" is a hell of a great question today - and the answer pretty much is "whatever you pay them to do".

We also see this with our own domestic governments - where every single problem looks like a Microsoft solution - and the sales people rejoice.
by mervz | 2025-06-20 21:12:04+00:00
This is such a weird thing to say and I see it all of the time. It sucks people have been tricked into thinking a library must be updated every 2 weeks in order to still be relevant.

You think just because an author bumps the version number of a library it's somehow better than a library that is considered complete?

It boggles my mind that people actually think this way.
by lubujackson | 2025-06-20 21:12:26+00:00
People keep coming up with new metaphors for LLMs to explain their impact and functionality.

Maybe we should think of them like transistors? Right now, we are at the point where we have a room-sized computer than can do multiplication from punch card input.

It is fun to imagine what we could do if we ran, say, 1 million coordinated o3-pro queries at once?
by Alupis | 2025-06-20 21:13:51+00:00
EU member nations have been attempting to diversify for as long as the EU has existed. Germany famously went down the Linux Workstation path and eventually gave up, instead of applying adequate resources to build a competing product.

There's no reason these things cannot succeed. Apple pulled it off with MacOS (built on BSD). It's just attention span, resources, regulations and the political will.

It's much easier to just buy Microsoft and hope for the best.
by BartjeD | 2025-06-20 21:13:53+00:00
Ofcourse it is.

The IT of the ICJ on MS 365 got shut off... After a truth social post.

EU law means nothing when the employees are on the next plain to Washington. And when the funding and expertise and infrastructure is tightly controlled by USA entities, who'm react severely to the posts of the commander in Chief. (As would I)
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-06-20 21:15:01+00:00
I seriously hope the next US administration stops bending over backwards to protect the big 3. If we want to address climate change, we're gonna low cost greentech and china is currently the king of that in evs, batteries and solar.

If we're really so concerned about 'supply chain' issues we could build up a strategic reserve of batteries and solar panels. If china wants to continue subsidizing their industry below costs of manufacture I see no reason why we shouldn't exploit their generosity to meet our climate goals as quickly as possible.

One of the 'good news' stories re: the recent datacenter buildout is that grid storage is now being more widely deployed, and that compliments the roll out of renewable energy.
by mk89 | 2025-06-20 21:15:10+00:00
I think he is talking about the fact that Trump is screaming left and right that "EU iS ScREwINg US CiTIzeNs" because he merely takes into account trading of physical products, without showing the full picture. Basically if you consider services as well, the trade surplus is a few million euros only, because EU imports a lot of services from USA.
by imiric | 2025-06-20 21:15:19+00:00
> Smartphones were a step back in a lot of ways.

I was among the nerds who swore I'd never use a touch keyboard, and I refused to buy a smartphone without a physical keyboard until 2011. Yes, typing on a screen was awful at first. But then text prediction and haptics got better, and we invented swipe keyboards. Today I'm nearly as fast and comfortable on a touch keyboard as I am on a physical one on a "real" computer.

My point is that input devices get better. We know when something can be improved, and we invent better ways of interacting with a computer.

If you think that we can't improve voice input to the point where it feels quicker, more natural and comfortable to use than a keyboard, you'd be mistaken. We're still in very early stages of this wave of XR devices.

In the past couple of years alone, text-to-speech and speech recognition systems have improved drastically. Today it's possible to hold a nearly natural sounding conversation with AI. Where do you think we'll be 10 years from now?

> Imagine, for example, trying to navigate your emails by speech only. Disaster.

That's because you're imagining navigating a list on a traditional 2D display with voice input. Why wouldn't we adapt our GUIs to work better with voice, or other types of input?

Many XR devices support eye tracking. This works well for navigation _today_ (see some visionOS demos). Where do you think we'll be 10 years from now?

So I think you're, understandably, holding traditional devices in high regard, and underestimating the possibilities of a new paradigm of computing. It's practically inevitable that XR devices will become the standard computing platform in the near future, even if it seems unlikely today.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-20 21:15:26+00:00
This visualization is stark, but I would love to dive into the real reasons as to why this could be a bad thing, and how we got to this point. Here are my assumptions, please let me know if any are interesting, correct, or wrong:

1. "Velocity of money" is a concept which appears to indicate that giving money to a non-rich person is far better for the economy than giving it the to the wealthy.

2. Humans are just not evolved for being on the rich side of this level of wealth disparity, and given how all that works, we never will be. Most individuals on the wealth side begin to act really strangely when confronted with the reality. I think many of us here have seen this change occur in most people who became very wealthy. It's natural, but does not appear sustainable at this scale.

3. As worker efficiency has increased with technology, nealry all the spoils seem to have gone to those with capital, which led to this stark graph.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-20 21:15:58+00:00
The real problem is public corruption. People got tired of public officials getting paid off by a public sector union to create a bunch of makework jobs at taxpayer expense. The theory of privatization is that you put the contract up for bids and then every private company has the incentive to get the contract until the profit margins are low enough, and "low profit margins" are to the public's advantage.

But then the contracting process gets corrupted to prevent most companies from bidding and direct the contracts to specific cronies.

What you actually need is better ways to stop public officials from screwing the public for personal advantage.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-06-20 21:16:42+00:00
The trick i learned was just to add a last updated timestamp to the sqlalchemy model. You'll still incur the full overhead of the full db query (don't try to return just the timestamp field, maybe different in your case but when i test i find the overhead of RTT'ing to the database twice completely negates any benefit - maybe if i had memcached or redis in my stack that would make a better place for the timestamp, but i always just have a postgres and nothing else)

With that last updated time as a seed for the etag value for dynamic pages, it means when the cache control public header times out, and a request arrives then in the request handler i can do the orm query, and then short circuit out before template rendering or page transfer if the last updated vs etag match.

I hope that rubbish attempt at describing made sense :-) basically i like this approach because it works even for logged in per-user pages that don't change much. I know there are slightly faster approaches for non-logged in pages but i just handle everything with the same pattern.
by kevinsync | 2025-06-20 21:17:22+00:00
IMO comments so far seem to be not seeing the forest for the trees -- I can imagine incredible value for myself in a browser that hooks into a local LLM, writes everything it sees to a local timestamped database (oversimplification), parses and summarizes everything you interact with (again, oversimplification -- this would be tunable and scriptable), exposes Puppeteer-like functionality that is both scriptable via code and prompt-to-generate-code, helps you map shit out, remember stuff, find forgotten things that are "on the tip of your [digital] tongue", learn what you're interested in (again, local), help proactively filter ads, spam, phishing, bullshit you don't want to see, etc, can be wound up and let go to tackle internet tasks autonomously for (and WITH) you (oversimplification), on and on and on.

Bookmarks don't cut it anymore when you've got 25 years of them saved.

Falling down deep rabbit holes because you landed on an attention-desperate website to check one single thing and immediately got distracted can be reduced by running a bodyguard bot to filter junk out. Those sites create deafening noise that you can squash by telling the bot to just let you know when somebody replies to your comment with something of substance that you might actually want to read.

If it truly works, I can imagine the digital equivalent of a personal assistant + tour manager + doorman + bodyguard + housekeeper + mechanic + etc, that could all be turned off and on with a switch.

Given that the browser is our main portal to the chaos that is internet in 2025, this is not a bad idea! Really depends on the execution, but yeah.. I'm very curious to see how this project (and projects like it) go.