MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chneu | 2025-06-14 11:20:48+00:00
You're right on target with the over consumption line.

AI is a drop in the bucket compared to the insanely unnecessary nonsense that people buy because they just want more crap.

Anyone who is talking about how much energy AI uses should be looking at themselves and their communities as well. Change begins with small decisions/actions and americans have been convinced that small decisions/actions don't make a difference because it's an easy excuse to do nothing.

There are a handful of very simple things people can do that would make a huge difference, such as reducing food waste/red meat consumption, less air travel, using less energy to power their homes, buying less stuff, using less plastic(buy glass/metal stuff) and driving less. All those things can reduce an individual's consumption by over 50%(red meat can make up nearly 30% of that reduction). But nobody wants to do these things because we're told it's the corporations/rich people's fault. Americans are BY FAR the heaviest consumers in the world and we have all the excuses in the world for why we think it's okay.
by avhception | 2025-06-14 11:21:45+00:00
I really hope the Gripen stays the way it is - just solid engineering with a solid scope for a solid price point, and doesn't turn into the feature-creep, over engineered , money-gobbling monstrosity that is the F-35.

I really wish that Germany would have gone with something like the Gripen instead of buying the very few white elephants that won't actually make a difference should it come to a real war with Russia. Bonus points with the friendly Scandinavians, too, and no dependence on the madman in the white house.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-14 11:22:05+00:00
Interesting concept but I have been doing much the same for years using Material Files on Android which has an ftp server built-in.

Apparently, a lot of people don't realize that Windows File Manager has ftp built-in as well.

Just start the ftp server in Material Files, note the provided address then type "ftp://local_ip:port" in File Manager address bar to connect over local wifi with more ready made capability than you're likely to receive from a browser interface.

https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/
by safety1st | 2025-06-14 11:24:04+00:00
All the time. And what stands out is that when I hit a problem in a framework that's new and badly documented, they tend to fall apart. When there's a lot of documentation, StackOverflow discussions etc. for years about how something works they do an excellent job of digging those insights up. So it fits within my mental model of "find stuff on the web and run a text transformer" pretty well. I don't mean to underestimate the capabilities, but I don't think we need philosophy to explain them either.

If we ever develop a LLM that's able to apply symbolic logic to text, for instance to assess an argument's validity, develop an accurate proof step by step, and do this at least as well as many human beings, then I'll concede that we've invented a reasoning machine. Such a machine might very well be a miraculous invention in this age of misinformation, but I know of no work in that direction and I'm not at all convinced it's a natural outgrowth of LLMs which are so bad at math (perhaps they'd be of use in the implementation).
by bsenftner | 2025-06-14 11:24:34+00:00
You sound like me. I gave up looking for work, created my own CMS and had that basically in a ready state when ChatGPT4 came out, and I've turned my CMS into an AI integrated office suite. A family law firm needed tech support, so I made my "AI CMS" attorney friendly and started looking around at investors... everyone is insane. I've professionally been through a serious gauntlet in my prior career, where people start to fail to believe when I list the famous projects I have been a key part. I know serious hard work, and the investor class today is expecting no less than creating an institutionalized economic slavery engine. The professional institutional abuse expectation is ripe. None of this can stand, can last.

With the loss of zero interest financing, this industry is about to meet reality. Say good by to "campus" appearing work environments for the majority.
by osor_io | 2025-06-14 11:25:18+00:00
Thanks! <3

That was very perceptive :D

It's because the points on that specific dot are defined the opposite direction clock-wise compared to the rest of the curves on that font. So the renderer interprets them as an inner contour and not an outer one.

As far as I could tell, orientation is defined as either TrueType (outer contours are clockwise) or as Postscript (outer contours are counter-clockwise). If I find a Postscript-style orientation I just flip them so the renderer sees a consistent input. But for some reason that dot either is avoiding the flip through FreeType or is defined the other way in the source font file itself.

A lot of renderers are agnostic to the orientation of the curves, but that can lead to its own issues and undesired filled/unfilled areas. So it's pick your poison here. IIRC Sebastian Lague also has to deal with it in his amazing video about rendering text.

I might go check the source font file and see what's up. This is Libre Baskerville which is Open-Source so maybe we can even fix it if it's an inconsistency at that level.

Good catch!
by chneu | 2025-06-14 11:25:33+00:00
Everyone has their faces buried in their phones and then claims to have social anxiety, or that everyone is mean so they don't interact.

Humans do best when we are faced with uncomfortable situations on a regular basis; this is how we grow. Nowadays everyone can throw in an earbud and ignore the rest of the world.

Being bored is a good thing. Having nothing to do encourages creativity and creation. Being alone with your thoughts is a good thing to be able to do. Having a constant soundtrack, audiobook or podcast in your head is not good.

We do this to ourselves. Then we complain about it.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-14 11:25:43+00:00
I don't think they have much issues with their order backlog currently. Sweden just joined NATO and every NATO member is trying to modernize their military and is increasing spending big time.

This demonstration is interesting. Basically they are trialing the concept of having planes without pilots. Which of course turns them into big drones. Lots of people talking about this but not a lot of companies demonstrating they can do it. I think that might stimulate sales a lot more than some panel work.
by hagbard_c | 2025-06-14 11:25:50+00:00
Right, so now the same people who have for decades been running all those government programs into the ground should get control over our pocket computers as well? No and no and no thanks either, just simply no. I am far better at controlling the thing than whatever the commissars at the state would be able to do. The real problem as said is advertising and all the 'social' (but really the opposite) guff around it so you won't find any of that on my devices. No Google, No MF-book, no nothin'. I run my own services on the server-under-the-stairs which are used by my family - daughters included - and am not waiting for the 'democratically governed' alternative which no doubt will insist on propagansiding whatever trendy nonsense is coming out of the social studies academies at the moment and will block the use of private servers 'to protect the vulnerable' or some such nonsense.

Pocket computers - which these devices are - are useful and handy devices, just make sure not to pollute them with advertising and social nonsense and keep away from those data-hungry megacorpps and similar startup wannabees.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-14 11:26:32+00:00
You can easily autotranslate your question into whatever language you'd like to search, go to a search engine for that language, and see what you get.

If I want to do a search for Chinese content, I go to baidu, enter a query that makes sense to me, and look for a suggested query that looks right.

Doing this is much less useful than you might think. You'll still lack the ability to interpret the search results, or the pages you click through to. It's not an issue of translating the content. You have no idea what kind of pages you've turned up, what the ones you want should look like, or how information is laid out in the foreign websites. Your habits from the English-speaking internet won't apply.
by fhd2 | 2025-06-14 11:26:37+00:00
It's not. But I think you might be able to use your energy in ways that don't make the noise problem _worse_. Sure, if you don't do it, somebody else might, that occured to me. So what can one do?

1. Perhaps pivot to building a tool that cross references companies hiring with people attending local user groups or conferences you're interested in, to show an overlap? That might give you a hint about what circles you could enter for networking. Manual, human networking. It'd still be work, but a place to start. Of course this is stuff that's better to start when you're still employed and interested in a change, not when you've been applying for months. But it's one idea.

2. Try to work the other side. Why do fitting candidates get filtered out? Can you build a better system than what companies are using already? I wrote another comment about just how hard hiring is with all this automated spam, I'd love a human solution. This is hard of course, but I think I won't be alone and many companies will have similar experiences. Might be a problem they want to pay money for, but it's arguably harder to get than from job seekers.

Just some ideas. I emphasise with the situation and it's cool that you're trying to do _something_. Don't let folks like me discourage you from solving the problem. But consider the feedback on your proposed solution and consider other options to solve it, perhaps.
by omair17 | 2025-06-14 11:27:48+00:00
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by LeonardoTolstoy | 2025-06-14 11:28:24+00:00
It says that there is like a 10x risk of SIDS in the first four months of life with tummy sleeping.

I don't agree with her on everything, but Emily Oster's chapter on SIDS (in the second book I think, Cribsheet) I think does a good job outlining the data on it. And my brother just had a kid who also would absolutely not sleep on his back. Once he could roll he just sleeps on his tummy (but once they can roll SIDS is not really an issue)
by dillydogg | 2025-06-14 11:28:59+00:00
To help support the "retrograde menses is incomplete" discussion; I was involved in a case where a woman had a bone marrow transplant for her CML. She later developed "appendicitis" when but when the tissue sample came to the pathologist, the appendicitis was actually endometriosis. Even more, the endometriosis was XY karyotype, ie derived from the bone marrow transplant. We wrote up a case report.

NB - It is a known phenomena in bone marrow transplant recipients that the donor DNA can be taken up by host cells by unknown mechanisms, so it isn't a guarantee that the endometriosis was developed from the transplanted bone marrow.
by mort96 | 2025-06-14 11:30:10+00:00
I'm having a hard time parsing this because I don't understand what "****" is supposed to mean in "**** API". Is it a "shit API" or "crap API", indicating that the API has problems? Is it a "damn API", which just indicates that the author of the quote is annoyed but there's nothing wrong with the API itself?

I assume it's meant to be the first meaning, that the API is bad? But the censorship honestly makes me a bit unclear.
by Xmd5a | 2025-06-14 11:32:44+00:00
What happened ? I took LSA (both top-choice morning glories and HBWRs) about 20~40 times. About half to 1/3rd were "blank shots" (when you feel almost no effects). I even re-peaked once.

Very unpredictable, but it was always less, never more intense trips. The fact I took top-of-the-shelf seeds might have to do with that. It's better to take 10 HWBR from Ghana than 50 from Hawaii (may have god mercy upon your soul if this is the case).

Also ipomea vs HBWR is as different as sativa vs indica.
by oharapj | 2025-06-14 11:33:29+00:00
Not saying this makes the ui good but it should go without saying that the natural world has water which acts as a lens.

Also, of course we have perception of droplets. What we don’t have is an intuitive understanding of how light interacts with droplets.

I suspect that Apple are trying to leverage this lack of intuition to make their ui interesting to look at in an evergreen way. New backgrounds mean new interesting interactions. I’m not confident that they’ve succeeded or that that’s actually a good goal to have though. I have it on my iPhone 13 and personally I find it annoying to parse, and I feel relief when I go back to traditional apps untouched by the update like Google Maps
by rkagerer | 2025-06-14 11:34:30+00:00
Somehow I've always considered controls that float over your content to be a bit of a UI design cop-out.

They often get slapped on top willy-nilly, and wind up blocking something below - either from view, or from interaction with another tool.

While I recognize Apple's approach here tries to mitigate that complaint... I still appreciate when designers craft a distinct space for my buttons/menus/controls to live, treat those non-content pixels as precious screen real estate, keep them tight, and make clever use of layout within it across different tasks.
by ycombiredd | 2025-06-14 11:36:01+00:00
or "Unaware Adversaries" for short. I am not an academic, and it may show in this paper, but I am an IT-veteran (systems/network engineer, Enterprise Architect) with a restless mind. This started as a humor piece based on an anecdote from when I was in the 4th grade of elementary school in a classroom in an outside temporary building that had both a window-unit and a floor-mounted radiator. I began writing up this anecdote in a faux-academic tone, and ended up with this. Perhaps someone will read it.
by fhd2 | 2025-06-14 11:37:38+00:00
From my personal experience, yes, but your mileage may vary. I tried to like Flutter multiple times, but can't. Capacitator etc feel fairly hacky. All the other options are comparatively obscure.

It helps that I like React alright. I don't think it's particularly well designed or enjoyable to use, and I hate debugging React code, but it's manageable with good development practices. Same goes for JS/TS. Not great, not terrible.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-06-14 11:37:51+00:00
> inflation was due to money printing

Can you highlight a causal relation by example? I dont think so and even if you could, i still wouldnt trust simplistic explanations.

IMO it was global economics getting stirred up by lock downs, the ukraine war, stimulus packages and not to forget, large syndicates riding the inflation wave. When i see "money printer" as the only aspect someone points out, i suspect a right-wing propaganda victim singing the government-bad song, thats my simplistic take.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-14 11:40:05+00:00
I am actually just starting to go on medical leave from work due to this

My performance has been going down, my anxiety and stress are through the roof. Honestly you wouldn't know it from talking to me, other than the fact my memory is shot

I'm completely forgetting stuff minutes after it happens

I'm very unhappy with the feeling, and I hate going on leave for this, but I have to. I'm not even 40 and this is the second time in my life I've burned out hard like this
by charcircuit | 2025-06-14 11:41:34+00:00
>We will enforce all changes to critical binaries to be feature flag protected and disabled by default.

Not only if this was true it would kill developer productivity, but how can this even be done. When the compiler versions bumps that's a lot changes that need to be gated. Every team that works on a dependency will have to add feature flags for any change and bug fix they make.
by maccard | 2025-06-14 11:42:09+00:00
Reviews in any medium are entertainment whether it’s film, music, games, hardware, food. Ultimately it’s someone’s subjective opinion on something. If you actually want to be happy with your choices your best bet is to find a reviewer with the same tastes and preferences as you and follow their train of thought. If you hate horror movies, you’re not going to enjoy “bring her back” no matter what the critics say.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-14 11:43:14+00:00
I saw plenty of similar things from outsourced teams.

For instance: An e-commerce API that used JSON. Not only did the spec. tell them to use integers with pence for prices, but it explicitly called out that it MUST NOT use floating points with pounds. Sure enough, they implemented it as floating point pounds. So we asked them to fix this.

The underlying datatype in the database was pounds in a decimal type. You would think that they would multiply this by 100 and call it a day. What they actually did was: a) render it as a string, b) strip the period character, and c) parse the resulting string as an integer. They didn’t test this properly before deploying, which resulted in us charging the correct price for things that cost £xxx.x5 but undercharging by a factor of ten for things that cost £xxx.x0 and undercharging by a factor of a hundred for things that cost £xxx.00.
by rar00 | 2025-06-14 11:43:34+00:00
It is a sensible position. YC and VCs are backing businesses, not charitable causes or research initiatives. It is the founders' responsibility to liaise the two sides in order to signal that the pursuit of their particular purpose is an undeniably attractive and fast-growing investment. Which obviously entails more work and has fewer market opportunities compared to the case "money is the purpose".

After getting backed and receiving adequate funding, all that matters is maintaining a good growth rate to remain a purpose-driven business.
by Khelo | 2025-06-14 11:47:37+00:00
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by dinfinity | 2025-06-14 11:48:18+00:00
I don't "dislike the word bad". It simply does not apply here and is semantically different from "worse than". One is relative and the other (subjectively) absolute.

Getting hit on the foot with a sledgehammer is bad for you. But it's better than getting hit in the head with a sledgehammer. Using "better than" here does not make the former good for you, however.

That's how language works. It is important to be precise, for earlier mentioned reasons.
by tylerhou | 2025-06-14 11:50:49+00:00
Putting benchmarks where my mouth is: https://github.com/tylerhou/benchmarks/blob/main/vowels-benc...

Writing implementations in C++, using a reasonable encoding of how an efficient regex compiler might compile the vowel regex, the regex implementation outperforms the loop-based implementations significantly in all cases except for long strings with vowels on M1 Max MBP.

Strings were generated randomly following the regex [0-9A-Za-z]. Short strings were between 5-20 chars. Long strings were 5000 chars.

The speedups are:

- Short strings & with vowels: regex is 2.6x faster

- Short strings & no vowels: regex is 5.9x faster

- Long strings & with vowels: loop is 329x faster. This is expected, as because the regex implementation is branchless, it must always search through the whole string.

- Long strings & no vowels: regex is 1.5x faster.

If you add an early return to the regex implementation, the regex with early return becomes strictly faster than the loop versions. The early return is slower than the no early return for the short strings & no vowels case because the extra branch has a cost. Full outputs in a comment at the bottom of the linked file.
by judofyr | 2025-06-14 11:52:13+00:00
Here’s a quite recent interesting paper about this: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3643027

> In this article, we study the convergence of datalog when it is interpreted over an arbitrary semiring. We consider an ordered semiring, define the semantics of a datalog program as a least fixpoint in this semiring, and study the number of steps required to reach that fixpoint, if ever. We identify algebraic properties of the semiring that correspond to certain convergence properties of datalog programs. Finally, we describe a class of ordered semirings on which one can use the semi-naïve evaluation algorithm on any datalog program.

It’s quite neat since this allows them to represent linear regression, gradient decent, shortest path (APSP) within a very similar framework as regular Datalog.

They have a whole section on the necessary condition for convergence (i.e. termination).
Ask HN: Do you ever wish you could code from your phone?
by mattaliev | 2025-06-14 11:52:13+00:00
How often are you away from your computer but want to handle a quick dev task - fix a bug, review a PR, or address a build failure?

Is "being tied to a laptop for all dev work" actually a problem worth solving, or do developers prefer keeping mobile and coding separate?

What scenarios have you encountered where mobile dev capabilities would be genuinely useful?
by imsodin | 2025-06-14 11:52:14+00:00
Oh this link is gold, thanks :) Alread the completely unrelated mention of DEI on the reasoning for a fork, that's supposedly about doing big changes that are suppressed on the original project, is a pretty damning sign. Knowing he is also an anti-vaxxer nut-job says everything you need to know about his judgement. Sure the fork isn't "medical" or otherwise related to vaccines, but at least adequate judgement is needed for anything.
by tough | 2025-06-14 11:52:30+00:00
I guess we can explore both, but I'd ask you to research how these laws are already affecting families too in new ways on places where eutanasia is already legal.

It's easy on older -about to die-, people, but what about not such clear cut cases, some families are actually against their beloved ones taking their lifes, and the state allowing it, (Parents suing their offspring, to try and not have them do it, for example)

and yes, a judge rules out on such cases, but to me, well, i dont see why the state should -sanction- taking your own life, when is something that shouldn't be natural, there's medical cases for sure, but laws sadly aren't perfect, i'd rather have no one wrongly off themselves
by Straw | 2025-06-14 11:54:09+00:00
You might find it interesting to know that in the mid 1800s, in the UK, during a 10-year period, private investment in railways totaled 40% of GDP- an average of 4% per year. For comparison, the Apollo program was <0.5% of GDP.

The list of enormously valuable privately developed technologies goes on and on- in fact, almost all technologies. Many of these developed in the 1800s and early 1900s when there was very little government spending on research/etc. For example, oil, railways, cars, etc.

Even in cases where government research did help, often the practical realization takes a lot of money!

P.S. Companies are not necessarily collectives. It depends on the ownership structure.