MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skissane | 2025-06-25 02:21:50+00:00
If we imagine an alternative history in which the Reformation never happened, or in which the Catholic Church succeeded in suppressing it - I think compulsory education would still be a reality in most of the world today much as it is in our history. There are strong economic arguments for it. Given it arguably still would have happened even if Protestantism hadn’t, I don’t think Protestantism was essential to its modern prevalence-they did play a pivotal early role, but that was more a historical accident than anything else, and their biggest contribution arguably was to accelerate a development which was going to happen anyway. In a world without Protestantism we’d still have it by now, but history would record it as having started somewhat later than it did in our timeline. While that late start may plausibly mean we’d have somewhat less of it by now than we actually do, it is equally plausible that we are already so far down that path that we’d be in roughly the same place by now anyway, that even though in that other timeline we would have started later, by now we would have caught up.
by jesse__ | 2025-06-25 02:23:16+00:00
Strong agree here. The 'purity' BS of not modifying the running programs address space appears to come at the cost of significant programmer pain-in-the-ass. Having to hand-hold the library to maintain the indirection table is a hard no for me.

Metaprogramming that maintenance burden seems like it should be relatively straight-forward, if you've written a linker already.
by mrheosuper | 2025-06-25 02:26:22+00:00
i did not use Nordic-Zephyr, but i have run Zephyr on ESP32/STM32.

It's true that the learning curve is very step, but their idea is reasonable.

The execution is ... not that good at this moment imo. It's nearly impossible to debug device tree "macro hell", the preprocessor is not designed to debug that, and they abuse the hell out of it.

Also i'm wondering why you dont want "RTOS", in Zephyr setup, your entry point is still old boring "main" loop.
by Bjartr | 2025-06-25 02:27:22+00:00
GPS satellite clocks have to run fast to account for the combined relatavistic effects of moving fast and being significantly farther away from earth's gravity. Without this, they would accumulate around 11km of error per day from losing around 7microseconds per day compared to earthbound clocks.

https://www.gpsworld.com/inside-the-box-gps-and-relativity/
by munificent | 2025-06-25 02:29:09+00:00
> Alright, you're now arguing for some new regulations though

No, I'm not. I'm not talking about law at all. You talked about what reasonable people do and I'm also talking about what people do.

> I observe that many academics already put their technical books online for free.

As do I, which is why the LLMs are trained on it and are able to so effectively regurgitate it.

> I doubt it's a hugely lucrative thing in the first place.

This is true in many cases, but you might be surprised.
by 65 | 2025-06-25 02:29:58+00:00
For really basic overviews of different technologies I've found YouTube videos to be useful.

For code examples I've always found GitHub code search to be super useful.

I haven't really found a use case for LLMs where it's any faster than the research tools already available on the internet.

A good example is writing AWS CDK code, which is a pain in the ass. But there are so many examples to pull from on GitHub code search that are being used in real projects that I've found this method to be faster than prompting an LLM that may or may not be correct.
by vunderba | 2025-06-25 02:31:44+00:00
Great talk. He mentions how much more difficult (relatively) the circular-oriented shower pattern is than the standard cascade, even though both use three balls.

As an amateur juggler/magician, it's also an interesting point to consider from the perspective of your audience. The layman might not have a visible appreciation for the additional difficulty, as opposed to the keen eyes of professionals.

Claw pattern is another good one, since you don't have the luxury of allowing the ball to fall into your waiting hand but have to snatch them out of the air.

From a performative standpoint, I'm always trying to min-max—something that is trivial to learn but looks highly impressive.

TLDR: I hated learning faro shuffles.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-25 02:31:46+00:00
Gladly. There are cheaper products from competing companies going through more hoops to make sure you have cellular privacy and don't need to trust the OEM for the system to work.

Whitepapers are whitepapers. Apple had Push Notification whitepapers that insisted the data was private, look how that turned out. I don't care about their third-party auditors, I want transparency and I don't care who calls me crazy for it.
by mrheosuper | 2025-06-25 02:33:59+00:00
i dont like espressif build system.

like "component" directory in cmake, or just call our "cmake function" to include this source files. Or modify this variable to add your custom dir.

Why they can't just stick with vanilla cmake ?

That's the reason i run Zephyr on esp32, no cmake nonsense from espressif.
by Burly-loli | 2025-06-25 02:36:04+00:00
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by Qem | 2025-06-25 02:37:02+00:00
The mystery they don't name in the title is Planet Nine.

I checked the original paper[1], and it appears this is either a new paper, distinct from the preprint[2] previously discussed here a couple months ago[3], or the preprint was heavily patched while undergoing peer review, because it appears now they found two candidates, different from the single candidate pinpointed in the preview. Here the two candidades are located at R.A. 42.676 Dec. −15.021 and R.A. 45.297 Dec. −16.711. In the older preprint the single candidate was placed at R.A. 35.18379 Dec. -49.2135. Both final paper and preprint share coauthors, so I think it was likely patched, not a completely different paper.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.17288

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43874641
by komali2 | 2025-06-25 02:37:49+00:00
> As for xrandr nonsense, get AMD card!

CUDA, and ray tracing performance.

I get it, I've heard the same from the sway maintainer, maintaining their crusade against Nvidia for a couple years now (the --unsupported-gpu flag used to be something like --my-next-gpu-will-be-amd), with some good arguments about how anti-foss Nvidia is. And if that's how sway wants to be then that's how sway's gonna be.

But with steamdeck and now steam os showing better performance than windows on handheld gaming devices, and with people getting more and more annoyed with Microsoft's bullshit in windows (like unwanted AI integrations), I think all of us Linux enthusiasts have a really good opportunity here to pull a huge influx of people in, if we're willing to budge just a bit on some of our dogmatic crusades against companies like Nvidia.

There's more Nvidia cards in the wild than AMD, according to steam surveys by a huge margin. If we can get Wayland display managers working well on Nvidia thenthat's a lot of new people we can bring into the fold!
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-25 02:37:55+00:00
I was mentally prepared to be violated at the Chinese border and it was one of the most boring borders I've crossed. I am not sure I was even asked a single question. Meanwhile coming back to America was the worst border I've crossed, the border guard barked at me as if I were a criminal and asked invasive questions in an accusatory manor. I am very white and very American.
by jksmith | 2025-06-25 02:38:29+00:00
That was the toolchain that my company used. Turbo vision was a Borland product, back when Philippe Khan was running the company. We were that ahead of the curve for "shrinkwrapped software development" at the time. That legacy, Delphi and FPC still maintain the standard for desktop, native dev, really for the last 30 years.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-25 02:39:49+00:00
I don't know about patent lawyers, but a surprising amount of law work can get done remotely. If you want a good patent lawyer do you hire in your city? I wouldn't, its a federal law, and highly specialized. I would hire whoever is best regardless of location

I would imagine that some of the best patent lawyers in the whole country are actually in little nothing towns in East Texas since that district is where much of the patent suits for the nation get filed. For a variety of reasons, most patent law is litigated in Texas. Texas handles more federal patent suits than any other state by a margin of ~2x.
by Ifkaluva | 2025-06-25 02:43:55+00:00
If you read beyond the headline, the article explicitly addresses this.

The hypothesis was that firms invest in innovation in busts, when the opportunity cost is lower.

The study finds that it’s nuanced and it depends on the industry. Too close to a boom, like an oil firm, and you face high opportunity costs, and innovate less during the boom. There is a sweet spot where you are near enough to benefit from higher capital but not too close to be crippled by opportunity costs
by protocolture | 2025-06-25 02:44:28+00:00
I feel like patents are well beyond their utility.

They are really only useful today to protect companies during their enshittification phase. Is enshittification useful to society? Maybe.

Probably tech patents should have been reformed when IBM went around trying to protect its BIOS. Or when Microsoft started pushing its weight around with FAT.

A large company protecting itself against competition is almost definitionally anti productivity.

Some kind of category protection might be useful. Protect only the latest (or maybe latest x) genuinely novel innovation in a category while open sourcing everything prior. Keeps the incentive to innovate, removes patent trolling and reduces enshittification. Will need a strong hand to ensure that people dont just try and create a bunch of new categories.
by 2Gkashmiri | 2025-06-25 02:44:35+00:00
Let me explain:

Direct taxes and indirect taxes.

Indirect taxes.

These are paid by customers on purchase of goods or services. Vat and gst or hst are examples.

For a service provider, or a seller, there is no way to avoid this tax. If you sell something, you HAVE TO COLLECT THIS TAX AND REMIT TO GOVERNMENT.

Direct taxes.

This is whats "income tax".

You sell something, you buy goods to sell, you earn a markup, you subtract expenses and your PBT (profit before tax) is subject to 15-25-30% income tax and you are left with Pat (profit after tax).

Now, usually this Pat is exempt from subsequent tax because the owner gets this money but many jurisdictions now charge taxes on this "income" as well for individuals or other owners

There are creative accounting ways to reduce this PBT but you cant just show $X on your financials and then say I dont owe any income tax..

Income tax is usually calculated on PBT
by 8note | 2025-06-25 02:45:01+00:00
i'm currently using it in large part as a question asking tool. feed it a bunch of documents, then ask it to ask me questions to figure out whats been missed -- stuff that i probably know, or could find out, or look for more documents that have the answer, but arent clear from the documents i had handy.

this afternoon i spent some time feeding context, with the idea of making a QnA context for maybe 50 different website routes, so i can have it ask me similar questions per route, so i can have a hell of a lot of pretty accurate documentation for an intern to pick up a couple to work on, or get some LLM to take a try at filling out the details.

im feeding it knowledge, with the output being documents, rather than me getting knowledge from it.
by boznz | 2025-06-25 02:48:08+00:00
As a tool or an adversary?

As a tool I have found it useful a couple of times for difficult plot elements like in my last book I wanted to know if I spelt a real word on an old numeric keypad (the ones with 3 or 4 letters on the number key) what other possible word combinations could it be mistaken for. I also tried all of them proof-reading one of my free-novels for errors and inconsistencies a few weeks back and they were absolutely terrible.

As an adversary they generate pretty useless story lines but can generate so many of them, so quickly it is screwing up the algorithm especially for small indie authors who will soon have their work lost in the noise. - kind of sad really.
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by anderskaseorg | 2025-06-25 02:48:38+00:00
There is a well-defined reload point—it’s the `subsecond::call` wrapper around `tick()`. But the hypothetical design that you seem to have in mind where this doesn’t exist would not have a well-defined reload point, so it would need to be able to preempt your program anywhere.

Layout changes are supported for structs that don’t persist across the well-defined reload point.
by 8note | 2025-06-25 02:50:49+00:00
i think theres both. the LLM is an incredible tool you should be able to use well, but its a complement to your other knowledge and tools, not a replacement. if you dont add the LLM to your toolset, youre not going to be building at the same scale as people who are, and if you dont have the backing knowledge, your LLM outputs are gonna be junk because you wont be able to point it in the right direction soon enough in the context window
by JohnMakin | 2025-06-25 02:51:11+00:00
The thing responses like this miss I am pretty sure is that this is a nondeterministic machine, and nondeterministic machines that are hidden by a complete blackbox wrapper can produce wildly different results based on context and any number of independent unknown variables. so pasting “i did the same thing and it worked fine” is essentially this argument’s version of “it worked on my local.” Or it essentially boils down to “well sure, but you’re just not doing it right” when the “right” way is undefined and also context specific.
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-06-25 02:51:34+00:00
OP here. This is a blog post for a science comedy podcast, so the science is accurate but delivered with about 47% more workplace humour than you'd find in Physical Review Letters.

The core premise is based on real, cutting-edge physics research, though it's still an active area of debate.

The Page-Wootters mechanism (proposed in 1983, experimentally validated by Moreva et al. in 2013-2015) does show that time can emerge from quantum entanglement between subsystems. In their experiments, time exists for observers inside entangled quantum systems but not for external observers viewing the whole system.

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation really does lack a time parameter, creating what physicists call the "Problem of Time" in quantum gravity. And there is genuine convergence across string theory, loop quantum gravity, and causal set theory toward "emergent spacetime" models.

However, this doesn't mean time is "fake", it suggests time might be like temperature, which is real and measurable but emerges from more fundamental processes (molecular motion). The research indicates time could emerge from quantum information rather than being a fundamental dimension.

The 2023-2025 research I mentioned (cosmological time dilation measurements, atomic clock advances) is real, though the interpretation that "consciousness creates time" is more speculative than the underlying quantum mechanics. So yes, "emergent time" is a serious scientific hypothesis with experimental support, but science is still figuring out exactly what that means for our understanding of reality.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-25 02:51:34+00:00
Even assuming your big expensive heavy bunker busters can penetrate & trigger as designed:

Throwing big darts X square miles of mountain & hoping you hit a valuable target seems absurd.

This feels like trying to depth charge a submarine, you just have to pour out endless charges & hope hope hope you get lucky. When those charges weigh 15 tons a piece, that's extra hard.
by jrflowers | 2025-06-25 02:52:06+00:00
> a billion people are using an app that adds absolutely nothing to their lives each week

I like this reasoning. If something is popular it is objectively good. For example 21.7% of adults on earth use tobacco, so it must be good then.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.PRV.SMOK?name_desc=f...

Except for TikTok, which is bad because people share their experiences of chat bots not being very good on there.

As an aside, “dumb” is subjective, though if we had to put a label on it, “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels” sounds like it could be something?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-25 02:52:12+00:00
Standard copilot indeed sucks but I'm quite fond of the new researcher agent. It spends much more time than any of the others I've tried, like Perplexity pro and openai.

From a one line question it made me a relevant document of 45 pages examining the issue from all different sides, many of which I hadn't even thought of. It spent 30 mins working. I've never seen Perplexity spend more than 5.

I won't't be surprised if they will significantly nerf it to save on computing costs. I think now they give it their all to build a customer base and then they nerf it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-25 02:52:23+00:00
> Distributing a “machine” producing such output would constitute copyright infringement.

This is the thing you haven't established.

Any ordinary general purpose computer is a "machine" that can produce copyrighted text, if you tell it to. But isn't it pretty important whether you actually do that with it or not, since it's a general purpose tool that can also do a large variety of other things?
by tom_m | 2025-06-25 02:54:25+00:00
Nope! I use llms like I used to use Google and StackOverflow. Really great to bounce ideas off of, brainstorm, yes save time too ... But the at the end of the day, what will separate programmers in the future is those that bother to put an ounce of effort into things, read, and learn. Versus those who want the easy button and answer given to them. They're going to be the next generation of people who leak your passwords, social security numbers, PII, and create massive global security incidents.

To be clear. AI doesn't kill people. People kill people. In this case, lazy people. Welcome to Idiocracy my friends.
by xyst | 2025-06-25 02:56:50+00:00
It will take more than nostalgia and rust to tear me away from my neovim setup that has been built up/improved on over the years. Lsp, dap, autocompletion, aliases and bindings for each programming languages. Lazily loaded of course so it’s still snappy.

Manage configuration, and external dependencies such as lsps with nix.

Then have separate nix shells for each project to load tooling and other dependencies in an isolated/repeatable session. Add in direnv to make it more seamless development experience.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-25 02:57:48+00:00
Those are two different things.

One is, you want a phone with drivers in the kernel tree so you can keep putting the latest version of vanilla Android on it without relying on the OEM. Except the market is too concentrated and then nobody makes that. Competition fixes this.

The other is, if you give people the choice between a $200 plane ticket with two checked bags and lots of leg room and a $170 plane ticket where it's standing room only and you can't check bags because the airline is reselling the cargo area of the plane to UPS, customers pick the second one. And then a competitive market provides you with that option which people choose and then complain about it even though the alternative is available. Choosing differently fixes this.
by danieltanfh95 | 2025-06-25 02:57:53+00:00
In this case I'm still converting to assets so I can ship asset files in future updates, but yes play testing, while doable on the editor, has to be recorded in code as well, which may not be as accessible to a non-technical designer in the future, but that's for future me to solve (maybe at that time i'll finally have time to write a fully custom inspector for this) :D
by xmprt | 2025-06-25 02:58:02+00:00
Perfect example for me is that I use beancount for tracking my finances. It broke one day because I tried upgrading some dependencies from v2 to v3. I tried messing around with the imports and some function names but it didn't help and after wasting 30m I decided to give up on the upgrade.

2 weeks later when I wasn't busy trying to get it to work, I gave it another shot. This time went so much more smoothly and now everything works (fingers crossed since I haven't actually tried out ALL the functionality).
by consumer451 | 2025-06-25 02:58:08+00:00
West Germany used huge (60%) corporate tax rates in the near post-war period to force companies to invest into their R&D and CAPEX, which helped Germany rebuild their industrial base much faster than other countries.

If the goal of the USA is to force companies to re-shore, wouldn't this be a better way [0] to proceed than inflating the costs of many goods for the consumer? Large corporations appear to have record cash on hand in recent decades, where as consumers hold record debt.

[0] By better, I mean more much likely to achieve the stated goal.