MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandv | 2025-06-13 19:52:28+00:00
> semantic drift and inaccurate (or even lacking) definitions for the word "god," which is probably better understood in modern English as "mind" or "mental construct" or "the abstract" (as contrasted with the "concrete" or physical body a la Descartes, in a similar fashion to the distinction between the rarefied air of mathematical models, and the hard reality of physical law). [0]

Right. We have that thoughts exist only if identities exist; identities exist only if gods exist; and that gods are made out of the same mind-stuff as mathematics, thought, and abstraction.

In fact it sounds like your position is tantamount to saying that gods exist if and only if identities exist, which was to be demonstrated.

One wonders why one regards such viewpoints as "secular" (or even, scientific!) when they still bear the hallmarks of what was once regarded as "spiritual" or metaphysical thought.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929408
by jama211 | 2025-06-13 19:52:36+00:00
I’m going to go against the grain here (please don’t shoot!) and say I think it’s kinda pretty. They probably overstepped the mark here a bit, but likely they’ll dial it back over the betas and the actual release will be a little more tame.

I get there are accessibility concerns, but apple has the best track record of any os building company at making sure accessibility options exist and work well, so I hope that will address that. As for people here saying it’s ugly… how do I out this delicately. They do huge amounts of product research and market research as a company, it’s likely this will go down very well with the public even if it doesn’t go down well with the average HN reader… if you catch my drift.

It’ll be fine, IMO at worst it’ll be a bit ugly and they’ll be forced to walk it back a bit. The way people here talk about it it’s like this design kicked their dog or something.
by int_19h | 2025-06-13 19:52:48+00:00
It's interesting that languages which start with purely nominal structs tend to acquire some form of structurally typed records in the long run. E.g. C# has always had (nominally typed) structs, then .NET added (structurally typed) tuples, and then eventually the language added (still structurally typed) tuples with named items on top of that.
by kunzhi | 2025-06-13 19:52:49+00:00
> I think my seniority seems like a threat to some leaders.

Boy do I feel this one. I'm 20 years in now and holy shit are there are a lot of bad leaders out there. What they all have in common is that they don't want to be gainsaid. Most leaders are completely allergic to meaningful feedback, hardly any of them ever ask for it. A lot of people seem to feel that once they are "in charge" they have somehow become infallible.

It's too bad because like `softwaredoug I love developing young people, most of them are very hungry for mentorship. I find that most younger ICs are very willing to listen and learn, but the leadership sees it as a problem for some reason that they're not struggling on their own on basic shit. What a waste of time of money.
by tencentshill | 2025-06-13 19:53:41+00:00
This is one of those questions AI is actually useful for. The Lenovo Thinkpad P16 is officially linux-supported and one of the few that exceeds 600 cd/m² maximum brightness when optioned with the 4K panel.

My source was this tool by RTINGS: https://www.rtings.com/laptop/tools/table
by majormajor | 2025-06-13 19:53:48+00:00
If you keep flipping a coin you get heads or tails every time. There's no streak-breaking limit where you stop counting consecutive heads after some point. But here a streak can run into a loss-limiting wall "for this turn, you have $0, so you can't give any more away." That boundary - unless you allow infinite negative balances - breaks the first-glance intuition. As people hit 0, the amount of dollars that are redistributed on the next turn goes down. So the richest will still be losing their dollar a turn, but are less likely to gain a dollar. Which will have the most significant effect on people nearly-broke, since they will still lose, but gain less frequently.
by phatskat | 2025-06-13 19:54:29+00:00
I loved my TouchPad, was super stoked to get one through a friend of a friend who bought two. It had the feel of “this just needs a little polish”, what I would expect for any new to market device with zero prior ecosystem. I was heads down learning to write apps for it when they killed it off and I was super bummed, just kind of shelved it for me.

I think I still have the TP and wireless charger (which was, for me, unheard of at the time) in a box somewhere.
by mimischi | 2025-06-13 19:54:45+00:00
Their point was that (i) React becoming the defacto standard played into the hands of Meta, who are interested in tracking people. (ii) Tracking is made easier by running arbitrary JavaScript in the browser. And (iii) before SPAs were big (pre-React), more people used to completely disable JS in their browser.

Not saying I buy this theory. Just trying to explain what I think they were alluding to, as I had the impression you missed it and went in a different direction.
by Yizahi | 2025-06-13 19:55:24+00:00
No fallback path, but I've started to think about such possibility this year. I guess I can do telecom support, as in doing physical wiring, installing hardware in cabinets, tuning signal etc. Being a QA on telco project gets me maybe 20-30% of the skills required. But I suspect the pay will be crap, work hours a lot more than 40/week and hazardous working conditions at roofs, basements, in any weather etc.

I would probably not start a business due to lacking initial capital, and not having a fallback option for that failure. And I don't have even clue what to do which is not immediately bankrupt.
by joeld42 | 2025-06-13 19:55:32+00:00
I've been playing with this engine for a while. I really like the engine. For me the best features are:

- Scripting is really ergonomic, and fairly fast performance-wise. And if you need something to be really fast writing native extension modules for wren is pretty straightforward. So it's a choice between "reasonable" perf scripting and "fast" native code, which is much better than something like Unity where everything is kind of in the middle.

- Wren fibers (a form of cooperative threading) are fantastic for dealing with game logic (NPC state, game AI, etc) without introducing the complexity of true multithreading.

- The graphics/render module is extremely configurable. The whole render module is just a script that sets up a fast c++ execution graph, and you can modify/script this.

- The tools are very nice and a lot of care put into them. I don't use the editor too much, and mostly interact through code, but for things like level design it's really nice to have.

- Many game engines feel like a good fit for a large project or a small one but not both. Luxe is great for small jam games and full-sized projects. A project can be pretty much just a project file, a few configs and a script, or a large structure and the editor encourages (but doesn't enforce) a good project layout.

- Drawing is super flexible. You've got sprites and shapes and meshes and tiles and everything, but there's also an "immediate style" drawing api that is very high quality. Similar to having "Shapes" extension in unity but it's a first class citizen and built in.

- The "Modifiers" (which is Luxe's ECS-like component thing) took me a while to get used to using, and can be a source of friction at first, but once I got it it really feels like a better way to do things. And it's entirely optional so you don't have to if you're still learning.

- Outside of code and raw assets like images and mesh, almost everything is stored in ".lx" files which are very json-like, which can be really helpful for debugging and understanding what's going on, and on many occasions I've been able to automate stuff from script just by writing out or modifying lx files.

- Features and fixes are added constantly, but done carefully in a way that doesn't break existing code too often or without a clear migration strategy (glares at bevy).

It feels like an engine built for small teams and experimental workflows. Especially if you're looking for alternatives to Unity, I'd recommend it.
by IshKebab | 2025-06-13 19:55:36+00:00
> The devices sold like hot cake after the price cut.

Yeah but that's because they cut the price to to 1/4 of it's price!! They were offloading unsold stock at huge cost.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/aug/22/hp-touchp...

I bought one, and ... honestly even at that low price I regretted it. The software was trash. I don't know why WebOS got so much praise, it was clearly not fit for purpose.

I have an LG TV now that also runs WebOS and... it's still trash! 14 years later. The fundamental idea of using web technologies for an entire OS is bad.

That's what really killed it. This guy gushes about how amazing WebOS was but the performance was - and continues to be - too poor.
by evanjrowley | 2025-06-13 19:56:13+00:00
The Stellaris 16 by Tuxedo Computer can be had with a display capable of 1000 nits when used in HDR mode. You can read more about it in the 2nd option under Display / Monitor section here: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Stellaris-16-Gen7....

Alternatively, consider running Asahi Linux on your MBP?
by Retr0id | 2025-06-13 19:56:18+00:00
I learned about webOS in an unusual way, by writing exploits for a 2019 LG TV.

Something that became apparent even from this vantage point, was that a) the core platform was very solid and nice to work with b) the developers working on product features seemed largely unaware of point a). I assume that when webOS changed hands repeatedly, tons of institutional knowledge about how to actually use it got lost along the way (particularly in the security department). Unfortunate.
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-13 19:56:30+00:00
Good that it's being tracked, but Jesus, these numbers!

110 CPU hours for a build. (Fortunately, it seems to be a little over half that for my CPU. "Cloud CPUs" are kinda slow.)

I picked the 5001st largest file with includes. It's zoom_view_controller.cc, 140 lines in the .cc file, size with includes: 19.5 MB.

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

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

I don't think that I need to tell anyone on the Chrome team how to improve performance in software: you measure and then you grab the dumb low-hanging fruit first. From these results, it doesn't seem like anyone is working with the actual goal to improve the situation as long as the guidelines are followed on paper.
by dang | 2025-06-13 19:56:42+00:00
Breaking the site guidelines like this is not cool and will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. You unfortunately have been in the habit of breaking them.

Edit: we've had to ask you this a lot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42065061 (Nov 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684566 (Sept 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36870132 (July 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25182199 (Nov 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146606 (Nov 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24483757 (Sept 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24475231 (Sept 2020)
by yodsanklai | 2025-06-13 19:56:46+00:00
Is there such a title as "senior SWE"? many tech companies don't have such titles and if they do, it's definitely not standardized in any way.

There are some staff SWEs in company A who wouldn't pass probation period in more selective company B. And you have junior engineers who are much more knowledgeable and productive than seniors.

I don't know why anyone would care about these titles. If they want to compare themselves to their peers to boost their ego, salary is a better metrics.
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-13 19:57:49+00:00
> A significant event for Windows NT to be on an architecture other than x86.

Yeah, I too liked to run Windows NT 3.1 initial release on my DEC Alpha and MIPS workstations. Wait, what?

(I think you meant to say that the support for ARM32 specifically in Windows RT and the NT-based Windows Mobile 8+ was a noteworthy milestone, which I suppose is a fair point.)
by jama211 | 2025-06-13 19:57:56+00:00
At a minimum it shows they weren’t bad enough that others felt they had to avoid it.

But to be honest, people do market research, they know what the public like. And if I’m totally being honest, if I made a new design for the general public and the odd internet forum didn’t get enraged about it I’d be worried I either had made too un-impactful a change or worse, I’d made something critics like more than the general public.
by giantrobot | 2025-06-13 19:59:07+00:00
> Ironically this showed that there was demand for webOS. It was just priced wrongly from the outset

I think the frenzy at the discounted price showed there was demand for a 10" tablet for $99 rather than interest in WebOS. Besides the $499 iPad I don't think there were any other 10" tablets around.

People like watching TV and movies on tablets. Not everyone has space or wants a bedroom TV. Not everyone wants to watch whatever their partner or roommates are watching on a living room TV.

A 4:3 ratio screen is also much nicer than a 16:9 ratio screen for reading books and PDFs. An A4/letter paper is closer to 3:4 than 9:16 so it's way easier to read even two column pages without zooming and panning over a single page like you need to do on a 9:16 ratio screen.
by chaitjo | 2025-06-13 19:59:07+00:00
his is a lightweight, hackable way to run AlphaFold 3 that lets you experiment without the massive MSA databases or Docker overhead. Perfect for tinkering on your laptop or single GPU server - just install, drop in your sequences, and start predicting. No 100GB downloads, no container bloat, just pure structure prediction you can play with in a Jupyter notebook.
GTM advice from my experience at 2 YC Startups
by sam_josh1 | 2025-06-13 20:00:24+00:00
I’ve been lucky enough to lead GTM for two YC-backed startups and ship multiple AI products from 0 to real adoption. I say “real” because there’s a huge difference between people signing up and people actually using your product (I have seen both)

Getting your first 100 real users is brutal. Especially in AI right now. Everyone's building something. Most users have seen it all. They don’t care unless your product solves a very specific, painful problem.

Here’s what actually worked for us, not theories, not growth hacks, real dirt-under-the-nails strategies:

1. Small, Weird Communities > Broad Outreach Reddit threads with 2 comments. Slack groups with 200 nerds. Discord servers that feel like a nerdy group chat. That’s where early users lives. We used redditsearch.io + Pushshift to find conversations our ideal users were already having.

2. Trend-Hacking + Contextual Insertion We didn’t launch on a random day. We launched during the FIFA World Cup and framed our sports commentary AI accordingly using our product. For another tool, we anchored it to a debate on the new Indian cricket captain — got crazy engagement.

3. Public Series (not just threads) We ran daily series like “Day 1 of building X with our tool” on LinkedIn and X. We weren’t promoting, we were storytelling — and it worked. By Day 4, we had DMs asking “what tool is this again?”

4. Show up where competitors are We didn’t try to be the hero of every story. We just showed up. Commented on related posts. Messaged people who commented on competitor launches with “hey, we’re building something like this but for [niche] would love to show ?”

5. Lazy-Friendly Content = Growth People don’t want to dig. We did the digging and published curated lists like “Top 10 AI tools for [persona]” and subtly included ours. These lists traveled far — way more than a “launch” post ever did.

One final thing: GTM isn’t one launch. It’s 1:1 conversations, comment by comment, for months. But if your product is good and you really listen to user pain, things do start to flow.

Also building Varnan(https://varnan.tech) now with all this knowledge for early stage high growth startups.

Happy to answer questions — AMA.
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-13 20:01:50+00:00
Even without talking about batteries, I think a lot can be done using smart grids. For example, your A/C and heaters can run a little later or a little earlier, it won't have a significant effect on your room temperature, especially if your house is well insulated. It means a lot can be done just by remote controlling thermostats with minimal effect on confort. This can apply to other appliances that are not too time sensitive or can have a delayed start, like washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, etc... but thermostats are likely to be the biggest ones.

As with batteries, it would require some work with the utility companies, so that they can signal the best times to power on/off, and offer the appropriate financial incentives to do so. We are already doing that in some way with peak/off-peak pricing, but it doesn't help with high frequency, unplanned variations.
by swyx | 2025-06-13 20:02:33+00:00
well then do it when it's ready, not before??

idk what it is but when a new paradigm comes whether it is AI or AR the bigtech companies always want to ram it down everybody's throats rather than gentle opt-in. its not like they lack enthusiasts who WILL opt in to offer feedback.

you have billions of users, including many normies who just want to get shit done and dont even know that you have keynotes or shareholders to impress and dont care about the translucency of your "glass" when they're trying to call 911[0]

[0]: see talk (https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/01/25/designing-for-...) and tldr (https://hookedoncode.com/2015/02/designing-for-crisis-by-eri...)
by drweevil | 2025-06-13 20:02:36+00:00
It helps by providing some context to how we think about detecting alien life, for one thing. The big question in that field is the Fermi paradox: If there is a high likelihood of extra-terrestrial life, why haven't we detected any signs of it yet? Understanding the evolution, characteristics, and lifespan of the only instance we know of could explain the paradox.
by apwell23 | 2025-06-13 20:03:06+00:00
> Claude just tears through problems at breakneck speed. And you know what? It's actually fun again! I forgot how enjoyable coding could be when you're not getting bogged down in the tedious stuff.

yes I've been addicted to vibe coding too but i don't share the sentiment here.

This only holds true as long as you don't run into a bug that llm throws up its hands. Now you have no option but to read and understand code.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-13 20:03:43+00:00
I was very disappointed by the flagging, which I felt like must have been a product of only reading the title + not knowing the source. I thought we did better than that around here.

I also found this extremely fascinating. Where else can you find a conversation like this, with such a major player in economics?

One thing I learned about was the tragic economic mistake made by Japan, when a representative signed the Plaza Accord in 1985. This apparently lead to "the lost decade."
by Larrikin | 2025-06-13 20:03:55+00:00
The liquid glass seems like a way for smaller apps to differentiate themselves visually as flat design was a way to drastically reduce the amount of UI design time needed.

It also seems like a way to try and go directly against things like React Native and Kotlin Multiplatform. The recently announced Swift Java interoperability directly really makes it seem like they think KMP is some kind of threat.
by runarberg | 2025-06-13 20:03:59+00:00
That is not my hypothesis. My hypothesis is about weapons buildup in relation to a) war, and b) treaties and agreements. And it is about trends and likelihoods, not absolutes. To restate my hypothesis. More of (a) = more weapons. More of (b) = fewer weapons.

Sure we can look at Israel, a nation which has a part of tons of international treaties and agreements (albeit fewer then most other nations) and yet is one of the most antagonistic militarized nations in history. So we know there are exception. North Korea might be an example of a country that passes the sniff test of my second hypothesis. Outside of the most international treaties and agreements and also extremely militarized.

But on the other hand, according to my first hypothesis, Israel does pass as an example that contributes to the passing of the sniff test. Israel is probably the country that has seen the most wars and conflicts since World War 2 (maybe USA and Russia/Soviet Union have seen more; I don‘t know), and in accordance to my hypothesis, it is also one of the most militarized nation in the world currently (including one of very few nuclear armed nations).

EDIT: I was just reading an interview with Jim Walsh—a US based nuclear weapons expert, and he seems to agree with me and disagree with you:

> “I think there’s strong scholarly evidence – and certainly, if you look at the politics of the moment – to believe that in this attack, Israel will get the exact opposite of what it wanted, which is Iran is going to decide to go for the bomb.”

https://aje.io/auoxkc?update=3773054

also: https://www.wuft.org/2025-06-13/what-israels-escalation-in-i...
by const_cast | 2025-06-13 20:04:04+00:00
> If you don't see how this would be appealing for consuming content, work, entertainment, etc., then I can't convince you otherwise.

I don't, legitimately I don't.

Okay, maximum immersion. And how does that help?

Like even just on the surface having a 360 degree view doesn't do anything. Because my eyes are on the front of my head, so I'm going to be looking forward. Stuff behind me doesn't matter much.

Same thing with 3D. Okay... but paper is two-dimensional, you know what I mean? Something being 3D by itself doesn't mean it's better or contains more information or is easier to use. I'd rather read and write on a two-dimensional surface. Reading and writing is the core of a lot of stuff, so there's goes that.

The test for me really is imagining some usecase and then imagining how it would be on super advanced VR. If you try that, you'll find that 90% of usecases just fail compared to already existing technology. Like imagine some perfect VR tech 5,000 years from now. Okay, now a usecase: programming. I would rather program with a keyboard and mouse and a monitor. I don't want to talk to VR. I don't want a dumbass virtual keyboard, that's worse. The 3D stuff makes no difference because I'm reading text. So even with alien technology, my current computer right now would beat it.

With the phones you mention, when we envision some futuristic technology we can see how the phones would be useful. Same thing with TVs - I mean, people were envisioning wall-wide flat screens in the 60s. But when you do that with VR, the product still isn't very good. That's the difference, in my eyes.