MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wsc981 | 2025-06-12 07:05:37+00:00
I am not a European citizen anymore, but I was born and raised in The Netherlands, lived there until about 30 years old.

But if I still lived there, I would have more trust in US companies to be honest. I actually use US-based DNS to this day, Cloudflare is my number one choice.

By the way, this is from a comment in a Reddit thread linked in this HN thread:

> they want to sanction unlicensed messaging apps, hosting services and websites that don’t spy on users (and impose criminal penalties)

> mandatory data retention, all your online activity must be tied to your identity

> end of privacy friendly VPN’s and other services

> cooperate with hardware manufacturers to ensure lawful access by design (backdoors for phones and computers)

> And much, much more. And this law isn’t aimed towards big companies, all communication service providers are explicitly in scope no matter how small or open source.

> A mass surveillance law being written by unknown lobbyists behind closed doors, demanding that the EU should monitor the internet more than Russia, being pushed by the EU commission. Should be the biggest news of the decade, but isn’t.

> Also, EU commission (Ursula, Virkkunen, Brunner as the key players) are using the same high level group as a key source in their ProtectEU plan, which is their strategy for 2029 and includes restricting encryption.

Seriously, EU is slowly turning into some communist superstate. And with the technology that exists now, it'll be way easier to control people compared than -say- back in Soviet Russia. EU also don't want people to have much cash at home, will not allow people to get a lot of money from ATM, etc...
by noen | 2025-06-12 07:07:06+00:00
Microsoft rarely did or does anything first. They are typically second or third to the post and VC is no different.

Most people don’t know or realize that Git is where it is because of Microsoft. About 1/2 of the TFS core team spun out to a foundation where they spent several years doing things like making submodules actually work, writing git-lfs, and generally making git scale.

You can look for yourself at the libgit2 repo back in the 2012-2015 timeframe. Nearly the whole thing was rewritten by Microsoft employees as the earliest stages of moving the company off source depot.

It was a really cool time that I’m still amazed to have been a small part of.
by giorgioz | 2025-06-12 07:07:33+00:00
Cool question! I was a digital nomad working a B2B SaaS for ~5years. I worked from cafes but they were always indoor. The bullshit of photos of people with a laptop nearby the beach/outdoor is that brighr light makes it impossible to read LED screens. I always hoped at some point e-ink screen would fix that. I saw some laptops with e-ink screens online. Never tried one. Googling "laptop with e-ink display" returns a lot of results.
by kseistrup | 2025-06-12 07:08:03+00:00
I perceive suffering as unnecessary pain and/or fear. I can certainly know when I suffer myself. And while it's true that I cannot directly measure the pain or fear of other organisms, to some extend I can extrapolate my own experience to that of other beings. Empathy. First and foremost “higher” animals. E.g., if a dog is screaming when somebody treads its tail, I lend from my own experience when somebody steps on my toe and conclude that the dog is screaming in pain. I could be wrong, of course, but that's how the reasoning goes. And don't we all behave based on our conscious or unconscious evaluations?

The further away, phylogenetically, we come from the human species, the more difficult it is for me to assess if a being is suffering (i.e., experiencing unnecessary pain or suffering), but based on my observations of plants, and my knowledge of their anatomy and physiology, I have concluded that yes, they may feel something — even pain — but it doesn't look much like they do. But I could still be wrong. It's still how my reasoning goes. If one day I am faced with more tangible evidence, then I will obviously have to evaluate my behaviour. Until then I choose what seems to be the road of less suffering.

40+ years ago I worked for several months at a “chicken farm” where chicks were raised from “Easter chickens” to fullgrown chickens in roosts of 10_000 chickens each. It was a waking nightmare. It is _the_ most horrible experience I have had in my life because of the obvious and extensive suffering of the animals, and the experience made me choose to become a vegetarian because I didn't want to contribute to that specific suffering. Later evidence has shown that pigs and cattle and other farmed animals are experiencing suffering too because of the way humans are raising them. I simply don't want to be a part of that. Period.

My choice of diet doesn't change my value as a human being even one iota (the same way the value of any other human being isn't measured by their choice of diet). I could be very very wrong about the whole thing, and in that way making things unnecessarily complicated for myself (and my fellow human beings), but I cannot live on Earth without making decisions, and I try to make the best I can — just like all other humans do. All other humans could be right, for all I know. I could be the fool here. Who am I to judge.
Show HN: Ask WWDC – Find the WWDC session you're looking for
by mattspear | 2025-06-12 07:09:07+00:00
Apple just dropped over 42.5 hours (100+ sessions) of content at WWDC. It’s exciting, but also overwhelming as we try process all the new APIs, frameworks and best practices.

I built Ask WWDC to help find quick answers to questions and the exact sessions you need – without scrubbing through hours of videos.

Stack: - T3 (Next.js, Typescript, tRPC, Drizzle, MySQL) - Simple RAG with OpenAI GPT-4o + embeddings

Considering adding a deeper "research mode" soon (o3 is more affordable now). Still figuring out a good ‘waiting’ UX for longer queries.

Feedback, questions, or feature requests welcome!
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-12 07:09:34+00:00
Not quite the same, but OpenAI is doing it in the opposite direction with their thinking models, hiding the reasoning step from the user and only providing a summarization. Maybe in the future, hosted agents have an airlock in both directions.

> ... in the future we may wish to monitor the chain of thought for signs of manipulating the user. However, for this to work the model must have freedom to express its thoughts in unaltered form, so we cannot train any policy compliance or user preferences onto the chain of thought. We also do not want to make an unaligned chain of thought directly visible to users.

> Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought monitoring, we have decided not to show the raw chains of thought to users.

Source: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/
by terhechte | 2025-06-12 07:10:28+00:00
This is my biggest iPad gripe. I understand the security, but just make it a new "entitlement" that is only given to UTM, Parallels and VMWare fusion. Or make it a "developer mode" that you can only enable if you pay $99 a year. I'd be fine with that, but the whole iPad is unusable for any kind of software development and I'd love to be able to travel with just an iPad because for everything else I do while I'm traveling (watching videos, reading, browsing, writing, drawing) the iPad is great and I don't have to lug two devices around.
by crote | 2025-06-12 07:10:43+00:00
Key word being "widespread".

10GBASE-T dates back to 2006, and we've been seeing it on the odd prosumer workstation / elite gamer motherboard for quite a while now. But those markets aren't going to lead to a full office rewiring.

The entry-level market is more interesting: when will we see it on motherboards that retail for $100? When will we see it on the average Dell Optiplex? When will your ISP router come with 10G ports?

Will some people be using 10G before that? Definitely, and I'll be one of them. Will it be something to consider for the average office environment? Nah.
by ramon156 | 2025-06-12 07:10:45+00:00
My first job was the only job I just went home from and just cried because of how useless thah job felt. We were building a SaaS that took weeks for a simple update with 8 devs (of which 2 were actually good).

This was purely because of the legacy stack and poor management. The boss wanted to scale but did not care about tech, so we just never made real improvements. Sure, a feature got implement at least a week. We saw revenue grow a ton. We never saw time to improve our stack.

Safe to say I felt like I was adding nothing to that company. They just didn't want to grow despite saying the opposite. I get that the shiniest framework will not improve the project, but there were some serious bottlenecks that just got shoved under the rug
by PeterStuer | 2025-06-12 07:11:21+00:00
Theoretically it is nice. We did the same in the 80's for evolving small NN (less than 30 neurons) for controlling self sustaining simulated mobile robots.

The problem is you have to keep eval relatively cheap, as you are going to need a lot of instances to test.

If your eval is loading a large SOTA LLM and running SWE bench, this will become painfully slow and expensive.

That said, I am a fan of a=live/GA like approaches, purely from a scientific interest pov.
by rramadass | 2025-06-12 07:11:48+00:00
Sure, you can do the "Real Analog" course independently. Study it with a Parts Kit from Digilent+Analog Discovery 2/3 device(AD2/AD3)+Arduino board. That would be a nice entry point into Electronics+Embedded Systems.

I was referring to the tutorial pdf of Understanding Signals with Propscope containing very nice step-by-step lessons in using a USB Oscilloscope for measuring various circuit parameters. The Propscope itself is very old/underpowered (not being sold anymore) and not needed. You just use AD2/AD3 with its Waveforms software to do the same experiments with any board.

Note that if you use a AVR-based Arduino you can learn to program at the higher Arduino API/library level and then at the lower direct AVR level both with the same board. For learning Arduino Programming see Exploring Arduino by Jeremy Blum and for direct AVR programming see Make: AVR Programming by Elliot Williams.
by zonkerdonker | 2025-06-12 07:12:11+00:00
It's an intriguing idea, but the scope of any such formal definition would essentially be the entire scope of physics, materials science, thermodynamics, etc. For much more bounded problems (like that very fun website you linked) I think something like that would be more attaintable, but still challenging.

Take the example of the differential gearing shown. I doubt there exists any functional differential/mass produced assembly that looks exactly like the example presented. The concept of differential gearing may be able to be broken down into more symbolic representation of forces and motion, but at some point it becomes simplified to the point of impracticality.
by solatic | 2025-06-12 07:12:51+00:00
It's a double-edged sword. AI agents don't have a long-term context window that gets better over time. People who employ AI agents today instead of juniors are going to find themselves in another local maximum: yes, the AI agent will make you more productive today compared to a junior, but (as the tech stands today) you will never be able to promote an AI agent to senior or staff, and you will not get to hire out an army of thousands of engineers that lets you deliver the sheer throughput that FAANG / Fortune 500 are capable of. You will be stuck at some shorter level of feature-delivery capacity.
by wk_end | 2025-06-12 07:13:10+00:00
Well, $1300CAD. How much is a four day conference supposed to cost?

Like...I dunno, it does seem like a lot. But JSWorld was apparently 250EUR for a one-day ticket, so it comes out a slightly worse value.

VueJS Amsterdam is two days for 700 EUR - so that's a considerably worse value. React Miami is $550USD for two days, so that's also a little worse.

PyCon, on the other hand, is substantially cheaper - nine whole days for only $450USD.
by chii | 2025-06-12 07:15:02+00:00
> 2 factor authentication through a secure app

the problem is that the sort of emergency scenario in which family member would need the help is not often done or possible via a secured app. It's often just a telephone, with a number that you cannot recognize - imagine getting that phone call from a police station in the middle of nowhere when arrested, then you dont have access to any of your personal belongings as they're confiscated. The phone is a landline from the police station!

Therefore, a verbal password is needed, as this scenario is exactly how a scammer would present as the emergency that they need help (usually, wire some dollars to this account to bail out).
by input_sh | 2025-06-12 07:16:36+00:00
> Most devices supported except pixel devices are few years old.

That pretty much sums it up, there's a reason all of those custom ROMs pivoted to supporting basically just Pixels. Apart from Pixels, your only options are Fairphone and a few years old Chinese models (Xiaomi, Motorola, OnePlus), none of which are even close to state-of-the-art hardware.

Custom ROMs are pretty much dead, this just might be the final nail in their coffin.
by anthk | 2025-06-12 07:16:51+00:00
Well, corporation addressing clients would use señor/señora but between older/middle aged men. For anyone under 40 it looks a bit old-fashioned. They would just switch to an 'usted/ustedes' person (formal you/yall, for HN speakers) and no one will feel like they were in 1960.

And even with that, people under 35 will just stay at the informal (normal you) "tu" case.
by farseer | 2025-06-12 07:16:56+00:00
>>It’s frustrating to see how most companies view AI almost exclusively as a tool to cut costs, mainly by replacing workers, rather than as an opportunity to scale up, take bigger risks, and pursue more ambitious, world-changing projects.

Having machines do the goods and services production while humans are free to pursue whatever they wish (with a basic income of-course) IS world changing.
by masklinn | 2025-06-12 07:19:14+00:00
> It was at least a little better than CVS

Highly debatable.

CVS has a horrendous UI, but didn’t have a tendency to corrupt itself at the drop of a hat and didn’t require locking files to edit them by default (and then require a repository admin to come in and unlock files when a colleague went on holidays with files checked out). Also didn’t require shared write access to an SMB share (one of the reasons it corrupted itself so regularly).
by baxtr | 2025-06-12 07:19:15+00:00
> Marie Curie worked here from 1914 until 1934, the year of her death, handling radioactive elements including radium, which she and her husband Pierre Curie had discovered in 1898. For most of her life, she did this with bare, increasingly radium-scarred hands.

This almost sounds medieval to my ears. It’s kinda freighting how far we’ve gotten in merely 100 years.
by onecommentman | 2025-06-12 07:19:53+00:00
Second-hand story:

In the 1960s, California high schools were enlightened enough to play pop music in their cafeterias. Normal pop drivel, while all the jaded teenagers were laughing and talking. One day, “Good Vibrations” starting playing, just after it was released. And I’ve been told everything in the cafeteria just stopped…all these teenagers stopped talking, and just listened. It was that significant a new sound…
by randomtoast | 2025-06-12 07:20:36+00:00
Questions like what was before the big bang or what is outside of our universe seem to be quite natural. However, we still don't know if these questions are well defined and have a proper meaning. For instance, a few hundred years ago, one might have asked, what happens if I go to the edge of the (flat) earth? Or one might ask: What is north of the north pole?
by db48x | 2025-06-12 07:21:23+00:00
Yes. Very, very roughly the NIH is 8% of all medical research funding in the US.

According to DiMasi et al¹ in 2013 a fully approved drug cost $2.870 billion USD, if you divide up the cost of all the failures to be paid for by the successes. They also say that this cost has been growing at 8.5% per year. If we take them at their word then that growth adds up to $7.639 billion USD per drug in 2013 dollars. There’s been 38% inflation since 2013, so that is actually $10.542 billion USD in 2025 dollars.

According to the FDA website² there have been an average of 48 approved drugs every year between 2021 and 2024. Drug development takes ages, probably over a decade, but I’m going to ignore that. 48 * $10.542 billion USD is $506 billion USD.

The NIH budget³ is $48 billion USD per year, of which they spend 92% on research. $44 billion USD is 8.0% of $550 billion USD. But actually that is apparently the 2023 budget amount, so maybe we should instead say that in 2023 it was 9.3% of the 2023 total. Either way it’s a small fraction of the research done in this country.

I know that there are other funding sources than just the NIH, but even so I really don’t think that the adjustment would need to be all that difficult.

¹ Joseph A. DiMasi, Henry G. Grabowski, Ronald W. Hansen, Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: New estimates of R&D costs, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 47, 2016, Pages 20-33, ISSN 0167-6296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.01.012. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016762961...) Abstract: The research and development costs of 106 randomly selected new drugs were obtained from a survey of 10 pharmaceutical firms. These data were used to estimate the average pre-tax cost of new drug and biologics development. The costs of compounds abandoned during testing were linked to the costs of compounds that obtained marketing approval. The estimated average out-of-pocket cost per approved new compound is $1395 million (2013 dollars). Capitalizing out-of-pocket costs to the point of marketing approval at a real discount rate of 10.5% yields a total pre-approval cost estimate of $2558 million (2013 dollars). When compared to the results of the previous study in this series, total capitalized costs were shown to have increased at an annual rate of 8.5% above general price inflation. Adding an estimate of post-approval R&D costs increases the cost estimate to $2870 million (2013 dollars). Keywords: Innovation; R&D cost; Pharmaceutical industry; Discount rate; Technical success rates

² “Novel Drug Approvals at FDA” <https://www.fda.gov/drugs/development-approval-process-drugs...>

³ “Budget | National Institutes of Health (NIH)” <https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/organization/budget>
by dazzawazza | 2025-06-12 07:21:53+00:00
I agree with everything you say except git-lfs works. For modern game dev (where a full checkout is around 1TB of data) git-lfs is too slow, too error prone and too wasteful of disk space.

Perforce is a complete PITA to work with, too expensive and is outdated/flawed for modern dev BUT for binary files it's really the only game in town (closely followed by svn but people have forgotten how good svn was and only remember how bad it was at tracking branch merging).
Why doesn't AWS Bedrock EU-west-2 have the latest Claude models available?
by alex316591 | 2025-06-12 07:23:13+00:00
I am surprised eu-west-2 only has Claude 3 available whereas other eu regions, eu-west-1 and eu-west-3 have access to Claude 3.7, 3.5 and eu-south-1 have access to Claude 4. What drive those availabilities? Is it legal? Is it compute power?
by goodcanadian | 2025-06-12 07:23:22+00:00
Then how comes the neutron stars collapse into black holes despite obeying the exclusion principle?

Different exclusion principle. For neutron stars, it is the Pauli exclusion principle (IIRC) which creates neutron degeneracy pressure. Enough mass and gravity can overcome it forming a black hole. The article is talking about quantum exclusion which happens at a much smaller scale. I don't know much about it because that exceeds the limits of my degree.
by simov | 2025-06-12 07:23:41+00:00
I remember one tweet from Mikeal several years ago when he said that OSS have opened up so many doors and given so many opportunities for him and I will remember him with that, because he opened the door for me too, first by making me a collaborator in request (the Node.js module) and then by connecting me with the CEO of the company that I work for. And note that we never knew each other in person, he did it for someone who is literally on the other side of the world, I think that speaks a lot.

I'm happy that so many people remember him, because this is what a community is all about, and he was very much invested into creating one.
by anthk | 2025-06-12 07:23:46+00:00
On the other side of the spectrum, race theories on Black people were the same bullshit; up to the point that a Francoist woman in the 60's stated in a paper than the African Black people weren't neither dumb nor inferior, but oddly educated by harmful tribal customs in their childhood; tribal women didn't pay enough attention to the communicative needs of their children, it wasn't a thing in their culture.

It just happened that the Capitalist bosses from the West didn't want educated African people, but a dumb and cheap workforce with just enough skills to do their job.
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-06-12 07:24:23+00:00
When you say that they dont want the latest android before their own flagship devices are released, do you mean people running AOSP before the new pixel releases with it or other phone manufacturers/carriers beating them to releasing it?

If the second one, that seems a bit unlikely. Atleast here, I don't think I've seen a carrier that delivers an updated android without taking a long time first - iirc this was part of the reason google made it possible to split out security updates and such, to kind of work around that
by somenameforme | 2025-06-12 07:25:27+00:00
Ah perhaps I misunderstood you. You're arguing that more people are reaching our 'expiration date' rather than that date meaningfully changing. That definitely seems true, but I think there's some very clear causal factors in play there (which that article doesn't hit on). Both smoking and drinking are on the decline which is going to send life expectancy at older ages way up.

And the various observations the article does make have similarly straight forward explanations. For instance gains have not been seen to the same degree in Eastern Europe where alcoholism, especially in the windows of time considered, was chronic. It also mentions dramatic gains in Asia but yet again you had things like China's Great Leap Forward and the Indonesian Genocide in the time frame studied where you were seeing deaths by the tens of millions. It's akin to saying that global life expectancy increased dramatically after 1945, which is certainly true.
Show HN: I Vibe-Coded a Notepad
by artpar | 2025-06-12 07:26:11+00:00
prompt began with:

create a fully featured and most advanced notepad solution which encompasses every need of anyone wanting to use a notepad

https://artpar.github.io/notepad/

https://github.com/artpar/notepad

ps: not all features listed in the README.md are implemented. I have never "read" the code in this code base
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-12 07:26:42+00:00
Where do I complain about unfair and double standard moderation practices that are left unmoderated and even praised and upvoted?

See this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254864

And there's countless like him that get away with it. You'll then argue that there's no resources to moderate everything on HN, which while true, it's also more than sus how there seems to always be enough resources to moderate conservative viewpoints but rarely attacks from liberals that break the same rules, which is a blatant double standard that HN moderation is ignoring.

You talk the talk about HN being to quote you "open to a broad range of views and discussion styles" but what you actually support is a suppression of free speech and a one sided view of things that can only exist in a biased heavily moderated echo chamber, and not in the free market place of ideas you claim to support.