MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by njb311 | 2025-06-18 16:25:30+00:00
I’d echo some of the other comments that the first priority should be to find ways to stop further damage rather than adding another human impact that attempts to mitigate previous ones.

As you have pointed out, this proposal carries significant risks. Ignoring the GMO aspect, introducing foreign species into the coral ecosystem could superficially appear to be successful in that some of the corals on the reefs might be revived. But what exactly is the measure of success here? Reefs are richly biodiverse so which corals will be affected and what other species might be affected? This might be impossible to predict until the experiment is released into nature and in a marine environment I doubt containment is possible. Humans have some form when it comes to translocating species and the costs incurred trying to revert can be significant.

There are lots of potential unintended consequences some of which might be foreseeable and others which are not. For example, what if the causes of bleaching in a locality do reverse? Will the GMO species out-compete the natural ones and prevent re-establishing the ecosystem?

Plus, of course, the worst aspect of layering more human interference into ecosystems is that it supports (and is often financially supported by) those who want to continue with all the damaging processes that have got us to this point – hey, we don’t have to worry about fertiliser run-off/ocean acidification/ocean warming because look, we ‘fixed’ the coral reef!

I’m not saying that we can’t do both things – reduce future impacts and try to fix past ones – but history has shown that solutions for a genuinely more sustainable future (for humans and the ecosystem that supports us) are harder so they get watered down or kicked down the road, when we actually need them to work even better than originally envisaged and be implemented faster.

You should not lose your passion for nature but perhaps direct it at solving problematic human activities, replacing current systems, processes and products with better ones. People are convinced we can’t do without all the things/choices we have today, so if consumers don’t want to change then we have to focus on transforming products and production. And we have to do it in a world where population has doubled in the last 50 years and is still growing, and if we expect per capita GDP also to grow – apparently our principal measure of success as a species – then overall human consumption will have to grow even faster.

Plenty to get yours and the best minds of your generation working on!
by motorest | 2025-06-18 16:25:33+00:00
> CRDTs are also crazy slow due to their architecture ;

You must back up your extraordinary claim with some extraordinary evidence. There is nothing inherently slow in CRDTs.

Also, applying changes is hardly on anyone's hot path.

The only instance where I saw anyone complaining about CRDT performance, it turned out to be from very naive implementations that tried to spam changes with overly chatty implementations. If you come up with any code that requires a full HTTPS connection to send a single character down the wire, the problem is not the algorithm.
by mhitza | 2025-06-18 16:26:22+00:00
> Is it unreasonable to think Framework should be able to make a laptop competitive with the 5 years old MacBook Air M1?

Kind of unreasonable. I mean which Intel or AMD cpu can be run fanless and perform well?

On the topic of displays, my understanding is that they "kind of use what they can get". That's how there can be a 13 display with rounded corners in a straight edge case.

What you're asking are the things I'm looking for, though still every time I go into their forum I see enough thermal, fan noise issues and AMD firmware bugs, that I'm still on the fence on buying one.

I wish them luck with the 12, for me sounds like a model for "true believers" because it doesn't seem to compete well enough with run of the mill chromebooks (or an Air) that are more established in the students segment.
by TrnsltLife | 2025-06-18 16:26:49+00:00
"in protest of the politicization of science and science funding at the NIH"

As if there wasn't politicization of science and science funding during the entire last administration. There was just more of an alignment of worldview between scientists and that administration. Scientists who didn't share the worldview or walk in lockstep still got oppressed and silenced.
by surgomat | 2025-06-18 16:27:28+00:00
Thanks to you ,really cool to have a personal trainer trying it out.

Yes, sharing workouts is on the roadmap. Users will be able to create routines, save them, and share them with others (even with public links) as the previous workout-lol project.

As for API integrations (Strava, Garmin, HealthKit, etc.) definitely something I’m open to.

Curious to know : what kind of data would you want to sync or pull in? Workouts? Step counts? Heart rate zones?
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-18 16:27:42+00:00
> inviting one big company after another to Munich (instead of, say, Nuremberg for a change)

Companies go where the workforce already is. No company will waste their time to convince workforce to move to a smaller and cheaper town just for them, and workers won't move to a smaller and cheaper town just for one employer in case it doesn't work out and need to job hop quickly.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-18 16:28:43+00:00
So…ChatGPT can recreate ye olde Dreamweaver templates but with exponentially more resources consumed, and this is a good thing?

I don’t think we need to foist such basic tasks into a prediction machine, so much as we just need to go back to making competent software for end users again.

Like sure, it’s a neat concept, but man I just do not see the value of this as opposed to prior, lighter, and easier methods of static site generation. If anything, I see an author lamenting the lack of consumer options for site building that don’t involve extortionate subscriptions to overly powerful tools, and trying to reframe ChatGPT as some form of godsend of simplicity when it…kinda isn’t.
by jekwoooooe | 2025-06-18 16:29:18+00:00
Both things are true. Trump is destroying our science presence AND Biden and co heavily politicized science regarding gender, trans, all that stuff to the point where you aren’t even allowed to do research at all!

Science should ALWAYS be free to ask questions and explore them no matter how uncomfortable they sound. And this is a huge overreaction to how the left politicized science their way and continued to say that’s it not political. And now they complain about it… can’t have it both ways.
by eej71 | 2025-06-18 16:29:24+00:00
Do you say that because you think the majority of HN readers are sympathetic to the Trump administration? Or do you say that because you think those with the power to flag this kind of submission are secret MAGA hat wearing loyalists? Or is there something else you see that makes you see it this way?

I ask these questions because in my experience here in HN and in most other related tech forums, the participants and those with the unlucky job of being a mod are usually not in tune with Team Trump.
by billyjmc | 2025-06-18 16:29:31+00:00
It could potentially help with discoverability. As it stands, I’d imagine it takes a very particular sort of search query (either “open source fitness” in Google or “fitness” on GitHub) to have a chance at finding this. Unless your target audience is only the intersection of FOSS-advocates and fitness folks, you might be limiting adoption.

With that said, the website works just fine on my phone.
by deadbabe | 2025-06-18 16:30:06+00:00
I struggle to see the point of most fitness apps.

Fitness really is a solved problem. The fitness apps and influencers will try to convince you that you need a whole database of “creative” and new exercises to see progress, making it seem like there’s “secrets” to getting the body you want fast.

There are no secrets. The truth is, you just have to do the same dozen or so “boring” exercises that everyone already knows. But you have to do them consistently, and you have to increase their difficulty over time. And then make sure you eat right.

A lot of coaching should just be on getting the numbers right and correcting your form. But once you learn how to get that right, you can pretty much be on your own, and fitness apps become little more than a place for you to track progress, if you even care about tracking progress. Progress will happen whether you track it or not, you can just go by feel.
by jekwoooooe | 2025-06-18 16:30:28+00:00
I will echo sentiments that this is ironic. Where was a Bethesda declaration when the zeitgeist banned any research into things that would upset the narrative around trans medicine in the previous administrations? Where was any outrage over the AMA ignoring in whole the UK finding that giving hormones to children did not help and in fact was harming them?
by gnarlouse | 2025-06-18 16:31:15+00:00
This is SO COOL!!!

I’ve been working on an automated calendar scheduling api that integrates with Apple CalDAV (iCal) that lets you schedule your life around goals (it uses Google OrTools to solve a great big CP-SAT constraint model blazing fast, a year in under 5 seconds), along with meal planning around macro goals. I knew I wanted to integrate a workout/training plan system but had no idea what component I’d end up using.

Now I know! Thanks for building this project.
by profsummergig | 2025-06-18 16:31:35+00:00
In the late 90's there were free WYSIWYG apps that generated reliable HTML/CSS. I did a deep search recently into finding the Microsoft FrontPage equivalent of today, and the only one I could find that worked reliably was Adobe Dreamweaver, and it's not free.

(Kompozer, Brackets, SeaMonkey, BlueGriffon, etc. did not work reliably for me. I found that TinyMCE etc. are WYSIWYG for text, but not for positioning [i.e. they are "rich text editors"])

Why did such free WYSIWYG apps to generate HTML/CSS die out? Anyone have theories?
by dietr1ch | 2025-06-18 16:31:38+00:00
Yes, but it doesn't come right away. When preferring deeper nodes for a moment you have a loop-safe Depth-first traversal, and then when simplifying things in case the Graph is a Tree you get your regular stack-based Depth-first traversal, in which if you settle for the first goal you get back a tail-call optimised DFS.
by trw55 | 2025-06-18 16:31:48+00:00
Read that book in two days. Wild stuff. Of course I don't absolve Sarah Wynn for of her responsibility that is Facebook and it's completely maliciously run company. She is also complicit I don't care how many "I was trying to do the right thing! Whaa!" she sprinkled throughout the book.

The fact that they successfully got the book removed from sale for a while speaks volumes. They not only lie they are encouraged to.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-18 16:32:00+00:00
Because in the current tech cycle, everything must be a subscription forever, controlled within the walled garden of a service provider or building upon some other complex infrastructure or framework to let someone justify their expertise in said technology to themselves.

Static site generation really should be as simple as “Export to HTML”, and upload to your web server. The fact it’s not anymore shows that none of these are about “democratizing” anything, but just locking people into prisons of their own making with highly specific tools.
by hu3 | 2025-06-18 16:33:05+00:00
I'm confused.

The article shows a few charts where a Framework laptop is faster than M4 Air both in single and multicore CPU benchmarks.

Their office suite benchmarks puts it at almost 10 hour battery.

See Framework 13 Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.

To me, being able to run native Linux alone is worth its weight in gold, even if it was slower.
by jordigh | 2025-06-18 16:33:24+00:00
> It's not disproven as nonsense, the paper appears to make sense

Not obviously utter nonsense, but a couple of mathematicians who have studied it have claimed to have found gaps and were unsatisfied with the resolution to those gaps that Mochizuki offered.

It's kind of like, well, LLM output. Has the right shape but upon scrutiny it seems to fall apart. Plausible-looking but probably nonsense.
by queenkjuul | 2025-06-18 16:34:15+00:00
Yeah when I first heard of XLibre i went and saw some of the comments on the maintainer's freedesktop PRs and immediately lost interest in the project.

That was before i even knew they were a Nazi-defending nutcase insistent on dragging politics into LKML.

Frankly hope the project dies. Wayland can't replace X for me yet but I've no confidence XLibre is an improvement on X11 in any capacity.
by AznHisoka | 2025-06-18 16:34:29+00:00
If it's not overconfident, it's the opposite - they're too much of a "Yes man", which at the slightest whim will change their mind to fit your opinion, if they even detect you might have a different one.

Then they'll change their mind to their original answer when you tell them "I wasn't disagreeing with you". Honestly, it's amusing, but draining at the same time.
by nemomarx | 2025-06-18 16:34:30+00:00
It feels a little bit ai generated there, or maybe just padded out marketing copy - more adjectives and superlatives than I'd expect from a technical site at least. Telling you how to call it to get a "mesmerizing" palette for example

I can handle some purple mysticism prose but I did want like a comparison of a few palettes from this polar system vs some traditional plane ones. If the creator reads this thread that's my note
by tkel | 2025-06-18 16:35:05+00:00
The willingness for people in the US to believe absurd lies about other countries correlates with its status as an official "enemy" or "ally" of the US government. Just like how the evidentiary standard around reporting on North Korea approaches zero. Americans will believe any absurd thing without evidence, and the media will shamelessly reprint official narratives, hearsay, and endless propaganda.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-18 16:35:22+00:00
Employees also face an enormous propaganda machine constantly telling them unions are bad, they just take your dues, you'll never do better negotiating together, and so on. The usual techie arrogance also plays a role: "Unions benefit common workers, but I am the one uniquely well-paid hard worker that is skilled at negotiaton who would not be advantaged by a union. Therefore unions are useless!" Every tech worker thinks that they alone are the captain of their industry and couldn't possibly benefit from coordinating with everyone else.
by goku12 | 2025-06-18 16:35:25+00:00
This is a chicken and egg problem. What is Mozilla's incentive in spending any effort on JPEG XL if Chrome doesn't support it? There won't be any demand for it from content creators until the majority browser adopts it.

The only way to protect the web users' interests against Google's commercial interests is to dethrone Chrome - no matter how farfetched that sounds. It's such a shame that the world managed to paint itself into a corner again inspite of the bitter experience with the earlier browser wars.
by paddy_m | 2025-06-18 16:35:44+00:00
What do you all use for a modern web development machine. 16GB of ram is no longer enough, I will soon upgrade to a new MBA with 32GB, but I still fear that won't be enough. I was looking at the latest framework and you can get it with 96GB of ram for $2k, that's $3600-$3800 for a mac and it's a much larger mac than I want. A quick scan of Dell and Lenovo non workstation class laptops didn't show any with more than 32GB.

Memory used by various apps:

docker VM take 8Gb for simple supabase images

Firefox take 5-8GB

BasedPyRight takes 2GB

Nextjs server takes 2GB
by stego-tech | 2025-06-18 16:36:11+00:00
Because they enabled too many people to have a web presence independent of social media, and therefore outside of the technosurveillance apparatus of Google/Meta/Amazon/Microsoft.

There’s a healthy appetite for WYSIWYG editors still, but nobody wants to make anything that simple anymore. It’s all about building moats, using the latest frameworks, and ultra-slick designs with spy pixels and a deluge of cookies. Everything must be in a CMS, on a hosting provider, with load balancers and CDNs, and saddled with pop-ups, pop-ins, chat boxes, e-mail signups, metric collection, data hoarding, and third-party tie-ins.
by bn-l | 2025-06-18 16:36:20+00:00
Syntax.fm Lex Friedman—but only to the tech interviews. You have to listen to the carnack one.

Joe Roegan to waste time listening to alien conspiracies.

Found my fitness. Bar none the highest quality longevity and fitness production. It’s pretty heavy so be mentally prepared. Better to listen to on a walk vs gym.

Allin- some of the worst men imaginable but absolutely hilarious and lighting fast brains.

I like podcasts. I can listen as I’m doing other things. I can’t imagine I would sit and watch tv. It’s even harder to imagine sitting and watching for hours with a girlfriend—-when we could be chatting, playing, or living life together.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-06-18 16:37:31+00:00
Idk about that. The Bavarian State Opera is very good, and all three(!) of Munich's three orchestras are world-class. Munich is a science and tech hub bringing interesting and important transients all the time. It has an amazing art collection, English Gardens that actually get used, and cultural and entertainment amenities that are well-spread across different parts of the city.
by dialup_sounds | 2025-06-18 16:37:54+00:00
There's already nothing preventing it with paper signage. The point of sale is already electronic and instantly updated, and online orders (where almost all growth is coming from) don't depend on labels at all.

The reason it doesn't happen is that the grocery business doesn't operate like a techbro fever dream. It's a commodity business that depends on repeat customers. The financial incentive for digital labels is in saving on labor costs and price overrides, not screwing your customers out of a few pennies by introducing price confusion.
by bko | 2025-06-18 16:37:56+00:00
> So…ChatGPT can recreate ye olde Dreamweaver templates but with exponentially more resources consumed, and this is a good thing?

The ultimate resource is human time and effort. Why should I care about efficiency of the underlying process. That's captured by the price. So considering an LLM call to this likely a few pennies if that much, and it's saving me even a few seconds, then I would say it's worth it.

There's costs to optimizations. We don't need to optimize everything. This is a nice general solution
by lobsterthief | 2025-06-18 16:38:04+00:00
Just like websites dying out, I think people back then made them as passion projects they hoped would turn into something more (or not). I remember one I used in the early 2000s called Selida. It had this bug where it would crash randomly on save and I’d lose all of my work. I didn’t know any better and just kept using it. The end result is I had to retype my HTML so many times that it hammered it into my head until I was proficient :) This was a WYSIWYG with a code editor view (like Dreamweaver).
by stanac | 2025-06-18 16:39:08+00:00
They went commercial (wix, squarespace, ...). Commercial offerings are solving not only building but also hosting, while old WYSIWYG apps where solving only building. Now I haven't use any of the apps (old, or new, so I may be wrong), but it would be great to have something that is free/oss and easier to use than SSGs.
by daxfohl | 2025-06-18 16:39:36+00:00
My hunch would still be no; human agents are able to cooperate without needing to do everything in a global shared record, so I'd expect AI agents would as well. If you (or any other AI agent) feel the need to check that the AI agent did some task, you just verify it "manually", like add a verification step in the workflow so that your AI agent checks your bank account to verify that the other AI agent actually transferred the sum that they said, just like human-to-human interaction (and just like a non-AI automated workflow would do).

But, that's just a guess. Maybe the combination of AI and automation adds something special to the mix where a global public ledger becomes more valuable (beyond the hobbyist community) and I'm just not seeing it.
by karmakaze | 2025-06-18 16:40:29+00:00
If I were one of the targeted, I'd probably take it as a learning opportunity. Doesn't Yann LeCun work there as the VP and Chief AI Scientist? I don't know many others doing much research other than monetizing LLMs. DeepMind by far would be my (uninformed) first choice.

As for ethics, Meta/FB is disliked but they seem pretty transparent compared to OpenAI [sic].
by f38zf5vdt | 2025-06-18 16:41:27+00:00
I'm using o3 and Gemini Pro 2.5, paying for the high tier subscriptions. The complaints I get are from native speakers -- editors and end consumers. The LLMs tend to overfit to the English language, sometimes make up idioms that don't exist, use false friend words (especially verbs), directly translate English idioms, and so on. I've translated several book length texts now and I've seen it all.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-18 16:41:56+00:00
> but does that prevent them from making a (...) hi dpi (...) machine?

It pretty much has that though? 1920x1200 at 12.2" is 185.59 PPI. Standard DPI (PPI) is 96. HiDPI to my knowledge isn't properly defined, but the usual convention is either double that or just more than that - the latter criteria this display definitely clears, and the former (192 PPI) is super super close, to the extent that I'd call it cleared for sure.

It's pretty hard to not clear at least the latter criteria on a laptop anyways. You'd see that on 720p and 768p units from like a decade or two ago.
by goku12 | 2025-06-18 16:42:49+00:00
The damage they do is much worse. They practically control the evolution of the web standards at this point, thanks to their market share. They also get to dictate the dominant standard and stifle competition in associated domains like image formats. What makes it so insidious is that this damage is practically invisible to the regular users, unlike the spyware-like behaviors it exhibits.
by jlarocco | 2025-06-18 16:43:03+00:00
I don't really understand the point of it. It seems like a very shallow replacement for skimming (or god forbid reading) the paper, without the benefit of absorbing any of the material yourself.

I have the same critique for a lot of AI tools. We're replacing the meaningful parts of content creation and consumption with a computer so we can pass it off as having created or understood it ourselves. It just seems pointless.
by acdha | 2025-06-18 16:43:15+00:00
> But it's not unconstitutional or unlawful as far I can tell.

The problem is that you can’t tell: if they follow the law, you can be fairly confident that it is constitutional but when they’re rapidly deporting people without hearings and with officers actively resisting oversight, we have only their word that the people being deported do in fact meet those criteria. Since they’ve been documented as detaining citizens, lying about things like asylum claims or criminal status, etc. in many cases, their word alone is now untrustworthy for any case. They chose to create that distrust and the only way to build trust is for them to stop prioritizing quotas over legality.

What’s happening now is exactly what happens every time some incompetent boss tells everyone to hit a number no matter what, except that the stakes are far higher.
by ethan_smith | 2025-06-18 16:43:41+00:00
Good point about the Starlink Mini - I need to add one to my kit too. Looks like I'll have to head back to https://gearscouts.com to find a bigger power station since the Mini pulls ~40W and my current setup won't cut it for extended use. That EcoFlow Delta 2 Max at CA$0.80/Wh is looking pretty tempting now.
by mywittyname | 2025-06-18 16:44:23+00:00
This is great! I've been looking for an alternative to Strong, since it has a limit on the number of workout templates that you can have in the free version (and $100+ for such a simple app feels excessive).

I added a link to my home screen to make it feel like an app and I'll give it a go for a week to see how it goes.