MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tenebrisalietum | 2025-06-26 17:49:56+00:00
Sexual escapades are only senseless if you rigidly believe sex is only for specific things, and adopt a model where human beings are property and can be owned. While sex does have a biological purpose, that in itself doesn't mean it has to be limited to that purpose.

Sex is fun and most sex doesn't lead to procreation, nor is intended to. The last 50 times I've had sex, me and partner(s) involved have had no intention of making a baby, and that's fine. Nature/God agrees with me, because the number of children most families have are typically far less than the number of times the parents have had sex.

There's a lot of times people want sex and don't want it to be some big life changing event. I won't marry someone like that.

> This creates a mindset not unlike that of a drug user who is obsessed with getting another hit

Everyone wants pleasurable things with a minimum of bad or unwanted consequences. This is called being smart and using your God-given brain and free will. This doesn't make anyone a drug user. This puritanical war on pleasure can only serve authoritarian and anti-human ends, which is often an explicit or implicit base of forms of slavery/indenture, and is the main reason why I strongly advocate against it.

> The psychophysical reality of sexual intercourse is much more than some passing physical pleasure.

Anything that feels really good will beget attachment because you want more of it. When it's attached to a person, you're going to want to be around that person more. And of course, human beings are naked apes with courtship and bonding instincts and all that good stuff. But people bond over things other than sex, and any good relationship or marriage will have many bonds other than the sexual one. Indeed, marriages where sex is the only reason they got together are as hollow as this drug user strawman you trotted out.

> Masturbation is even worse.

People who become overly dependent on parasocial relationships with fictional anything, whether that's a harem, video game, movie star, person mentioned in a religious book, etc. need help. I masturbate from time to time and it does not give me any problems, but I'm not addicted to it. But I would rather lonely people masturbate themselves into a coma than sexually assault others simply because of people who will say masturbation is wrong but at the same time won't consider other things like legalizing prostitution.

> they don't want to make the cultural changes necessary to restore normalcy.

I don't. The old way sucked. Robots and AI should be doing all our menial work, and the possibilities for pleasure are endless. The people who just can't exist without an employer giving them meaning because they never got enough approval from their daddies need to move to another planet.
by habinero | 2025-06-26 17:50:17+00:00
No, they're absolutely correct that it's critical in professional and open source environments. Code is written once but read hundreds or thousands of times.

If every rando hire goes in and has a completely different style and formatting -- and then other people come in and rewrite parts in their own style -- code rapidly goes to shit.

It doesn't matter what the style is, as long as there is one and it's enforced.
by drakythe | 2025-06-26 17:50:35+00:00
Be that as it may, it _does_ still raise questions about the content and sources. If you're a bad designer (I'm a pretty terrible artist/designer myself) then I urge you to source your images from someplace ethical. Try unsplash, or google free stock images, or go on fiverr and pay an artist who won't use AI (if you can find one? I haven't tried to user fiverr in a while)
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-26 17:51:33+00:00
15 percent of American workers in the private sector have a job with a defined benefit pension. (https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/15-percent-of-private-indu...). Most workers in the public sector have a defined benefit pension, which almost doubles the number.

25% of workers is a significant percentage.
by ColinWright | 2025-06-26 17:51:58+00:00
Interesting ... and baffling. I've simply exported that from the zim wiki, not doing anything special, so I have no idea why the internet archive would complain about it.

And it's the other part of my site that people complain bitterly about:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ColinsBlog.html?yf26hn
by 6510 | 2025-06-26 17:52:00+00:00
Imagine we have a million or perhaps a billion years of experience teaching our offspring things and you could fill a sizable library with things written about it. Then one day the level of failure to implement the things we've learned reaches a point where we cant tie learning to doing things anymore.

The point where to start "teaching" by mocking incompetence seems to be written into the dna. I'm trying not to but.... man...
by screye | 2025-06-26 17:52:14+00:00
It is useful if you keep swapping things out. Langchain's wrappers stay stable and up-to-date because of their popularity. In production, it's ideal startups that undergo a lot of flux.

I would suggest against using their orchestration tooling, DSLs or default prompts. Those components are either underbaked or require deep adoption in a way that is harder to strip out later.

We change models, providers and search tooling quite often. Having consistent interfaces helps speed things up and reduce legacy buildup. Their stream callbacks, function calling integration, RAG primitives and logging solutions are nice.

One way of another, it is useful to have a langchain-like solution for these needs. Pydanticai + logfire seems like a better version of what I like about langchain. Haven't tried it, but I bet it's good.
by GloriousCow | 2025-06-26 17:52:24+00:00
Funny you mention that, I'm actually friends with twvd and we share a discord server and trade UI ideas as we both use the same GUI toolkit. Snow actually uses the disk image library I built for MartyPC.

Inspired is a strong word. I didn't invent the concept of an accurate emulator, although I'm certainly a fan of his approach.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-26 17:52:35+00:00
Russian Banks Fear Debt Crisis Is Coming as War Strains Economy - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-26/russian-b... | https://archive.today/3DUEG - June 26th, 2025

> Tensions among Putin’s top officials over risks to the economy spilled into the open at the flagship St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week.

> “We are on the verge of slipping into a recession,” Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said during a panel discussion in which Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina argued the economy was experiencing a necessary cooling. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov acknowledged “we’re going through a cold spell now.”

> Putin made his position clear in a speech the following day. “Some specialists, experts, point to the risks of stagnation and even recession,” he said. “This, of course, should not be allowed under any circumstances.”
by amberjcjj | 2025-06-26 17:53:08+00:00
This post is drawn from the conclusion section of my thesis (User-Centric Machine Learning Systems). In this post, I tried to reflect on these questions:

What kind of ML systems problems are truly worth our time? How do we identify impactful and promising directions? How should we approach solving them thoughtfully?

Additionally, I share my perspective on where AI is headed and what the future of ML systems might look like. Hoping they are helpful for future researchers walking a similar pah.
by fredoralive | 2025-06-26 17:54:26+00:00
Presumably the ANSI C standard or one of the later editions? They also cover the standard library as well as the language. (Presumably the bit about "Each such allocation shall yield a pointer to an object disjoint from any other object." if the random C99 draft I found via google is accurate to the final standard - I suppose you might question if this special use is technically an allocation of course).

Of course, microcontrollers and the like can have somewhat eccentric implementations of languages of thing and perhaps aren't strictly compliant, and frankly even standard compliant stuff like "int can be 16 bits" might surprise some code that doesn't expect it.
by lucb1e | 2025-06-26 17:54:51+00:00
I guess that can be spam but I'm not seeing a ton of that either, so it's still not obvious to me we're losing this or that war

The thing we're losing is the open web where anyone can view any page and buy any product they can afford without being banned (edit: or, reading back up what this was about, contributing to projects without the input going to /dev/null apparently)
by nkmnz | 2025-06-26 17:55:00+00:00
Yes, I am very much biased in favor of the the middle eastern state that has a democratic constitution, doesn't kill gays and offers the highest level of equal opportunities for all their citizens, no matter their gender or religion. I don't like many of their current policies, but the race between Mullahs, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis etc. on one side and Israel on the other side... it's not even close. It's a couple of centuries between them.
by masfuerte | 2025-06-26 17:55:48+00:00
It's POSIX.

> Each [...] allocation shall yield a pointer to an object disjoint from any other object. The pointer returned points to the start (lowest byte address) of the allocated space. If the space cannot be allocated, a null pointer shall be returned. If the size of the space requested is 0, the behavior is implementation-defined: either a null pointer shall be returned, or the behavior shall be as if the size were some non-zero value, except that the behavior is undefined if the returned pointer is used to access an object.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/m...
by mariano54 | 2025-06-26 17:55:54+00:00
Yeah, agreed, we started with a similar observation. These voice models are getting better quickly.

You do need an app to create a holistic learning experience just for language learning. Customized curriculum, tons of prompting, AI models chosen for transcription accuracy, flashcards/dictionary, etc.

We also support hands free mode, and many other things are customizable like slang, speaking speed, target language usage, etc.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-26 17:56:17+00:00
Ars' coverage was somewhat more substantive.

Nearly all of the questions employees addressed to NASA leadership Wednesday were submitted anonymously, and in writing: When might Guy nominate someone for NASA administrator to take Isaacman's place? Will any of NASA's 10 field centers be closed? What is NASA going to do about Guy's budget proposal, particularly its impact on science missions? Their responses to these questions, in order: Probably not any time soon, maybe, and nothing.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/during-a-town-hall-wed...
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-26 17:56:36+00:00
I haven't claimed that there were zero such instances, but my guess is that such battles in difficult terrain may be ~ 5 per cent of the total, if not less. People and animals get exhausted easily in bad terrain, and it is hard to supply the troops. Even mechanical equipment becomes less reliable and more prone to malfunction.

Notably, the German operation Sichelschnitt in 1940 was very successful because the French command considered it unlikely that German Panzers would be able to cross the Ardennes in force, even though the French command was probably well aware of their own military history.
by spacechild1 | 2025-06-26 17:57:16+00:00
> but wouldn’t it be better just to return NULL and guarantee that 0-sized allocations never use any memory at all?

This works if you are only interested in the overall memory balance. However, if you want to make sure that all malloc() calls are matched by a free() call, you need to distinguish between NULL and a successfull zero-sized allocation, otherwise you run into troubles when you call free on an "actual" NULL pointer (which the standard defines as a no-op).
by timewizard | 2025-06-26 17:57:26+00:00
LLMs haven't "killed" search traffic.

Google has intentionally degraded search as a product to try to force people to use their models.

As they've now realized this kills off any incentive to feed their LLMs with new content they're stuck actually having to pay lip service to publishers by offering them, yep, a new way to prevent users from seeing their content!

What a bummer of a decade this has become.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-26 17:58:09+00:00
> The problem is that our current tax system incentivizes the kind of venture-capital fueled market manipulation we see.

It really doesn't at all. It's quite neutral in that regard.

> Companies actively try to optimize for the lowest amount of profit

This is self-evidently false. Companies actively optimize for the greatest total profit, considering the net present value of future profits. This does mean delaying profits if reinvesting them is expected to yield growth. This is desirable.

> We have some methods to address predatory pricing but I think it's obvious they pretty much don't work on any scale that matters.

Honestly it hasn't been a major policy priority. They could absolutely work if implemented, but not everyone agrees it's a problem that needs solving. Many people consider it to be hostile to a free market. I'm not taking sides here.

> When I look around the modern US, I see the least amount of successful small businesses I've ever seen in my lifetime.

The major culprit here is technology and economies of scale. The tax code has some quirks, but it is essentially irrelevant here. Even if predatory pricing accelerates the demise of some small businesses, they weren't going to last much longer anyways. Which is why predatory pricing isn't actually nearly as common as many people think, and why it's not always viewed as a problem. E.g. Uber and Lyft engaged in it for years, but traditional taxis are still in business. Small businesses have been disappearing because they simply don't have economies of scale. Their products cost more so people don't go there. It's that simple. Nothing to do with the tax code.
by gardnr | 2025-06-26 17:59:23+00:00
The 4-bit quant weighs 4.25 GB and then you need space for the rest of the inference process. So, yeah you can definitely run the model on a Pi, you may have to wait some time for results.

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-3n-E4B-it-GGUF
by DSMan195276 | 2025-06-26 17:59:25+00:00
> allocating a few bytes that weren't asked for.

FWIW the alignment guarantees of `malloc()` mean it often will have to allocate more than you ask for (before C23 anyway). You can't 'legally' use this space, but `malloc()` also can't repurpose it for other allocations because it's not suitably aligned.

That said I still agree it's a hack compared to just using `malloc(1)` for this purpose, it's well-defined and functionally equivalent if you're looking for a unique address. The fact that you don't know what `malloc(0)` is going to do makes it pretty useless anyway.
by _mlbt | 2025-06-26 17:59:30+00:00
Several of the people participating in this are from Skip Tools, which is a product that enables developers to port apps written in Swift and SwiftUI to Android.

I would imagine that it’s quite the opposite, and they are extremely enthusiastic about this.

Also, Apple does have a couple Android apps they’ve written, such as Apple Music, so they probably would like to write some of that code in Swift instead of Kotlin, Java, or C++.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-26 18:00:20+00:00
SpaceX is very close to demonstrating an architecture that ameliorates almost all of the drawbacks of two stage to orbit architectures. The tyranny of the rocket equation ensures that while a SSTO carrying all of it's oxygen is possible, it's never going to be able to carry enough mass to be useful.

Therefore nobody is ever going to invest the tens of billions required to develop a rocket based SSTO.

If somebody develops an engine that makes air breathing most of the way to orbit feasible, this has a chance of competing a Starship style architecture.

For the reasons you espoused, this is highly unlikely. However "highly unlikely" is more likely than "never".
by alvis | 2025-06-26 18:01:11+00:00
It has an interesting note: `Currently, the time to first token you receive from a background response is higher than what you receive from a synchronous one. We are working to reduce this latency gap in the coming weeks.`

A webhook by nature has a latency anyway, but it seems like the latency is much longer than one would expected such that OpenAI has to add this note???
by justsomehnguy | 2025-06-26 18:01:50+00:00
> I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test

Remeber kids! Self-medication with the Voight-Kampff test is dangerous and can lead to the serious consequences including , but not limited to:

depression personality disorders suicide thoughts obsession with a wooden minutae giant meta-corporations hunting for you overall quality of life decrease, including death

Please consult a doctor before using the test!

(somehow the last words of the post title gave me this reaction)
by SurceBeats | 2025-06-26 18:02:00+00:00
We’ve been building HomeDock OS, a self-hosted cloud OS with a web UI, encrypted storage, native HTTPS support, a curated app store, and one-click app deployments.

Until now, it was only available on Linux. We’ve just launched a Desktop version for Windows and macOS (Electron-based) that sets everything up locally, lowering the barrier for less technical users.

It's written in Python, fully bootstrapped, and under active development.

I'll be here to answer any questions. Happy to hear your feedback!
by AaronAPU | 2025-06-26 18:02:19+00:00
The only requirement which seems reasonable to me, is that the address be unique. Since the allocation size is zero, it should never be accessed for read or write, but the address itself may need to be used for comparisons.

If you’re pointing to a zero sized data it shouldn’t matter what it’s pointing to. Even outside valid address space. Because you shouldn’t be reading or writing more than 0 bytes anyway.
by ath3nd | 2025-06-26 18:03:11+00:00
> Who wouldn't be a fan of 80% of the work for 100% of the pay?

If you, as an employer, want a motivated, energetic workforce who are not slacking off, it's also in your interest to give that opportunity to your employees, as multiple experiments have shown that 4-day work results in increased productivity and employee retention.
by miningape | 2025-06-26 18:03:24+00:00
Not sure exactly which part of my response repeated socialism/capitalism/Trotskyites? And I gave 4 specific outcomes which are easily tied to ANC policy decisions given they've ruled the country for the last 30 years (blackouts, unemployment, birthrate > GDP growth, number of race based laws).

I'll grant you "dragging us back to the stone age" is an obvious meme.

Did you even read my comment?
Show HN: Test Viewer for GitHub
by wazzaps | 2025-06-26 18:03:37+00:00
Recently I've started writing CI pipelines in GitHub Actions, and found out there was no easy way to browse test results. So I wrote a site to display them right out of your artifacts. I chose an implementation where the client fetches and parses the data by itself, so I don't have to manage user's data (or have a backend really). I didn't want to spend too much time on this side-project, so I used AI tooling, and was delightfully surprised with their effectiveness. I used Vercel's v0 for the initial design (that uses mock data), and used Cursor to introduce API calls and add features. I then manually reviewed all code and touched up the design and UX, all in a span of 2 days.

v0 generated most of the logic in the main page TSX file (it seems like AI works better when the code is centralized) and the most impressive part was that Cursor managed to (all in one prompt per change with minimal or no bugs): - Convert it from next.js to react-router - Split it into nicely decoupled logical components - Switch to a state-management framework (zustand).

Here's the code: https://github.com/Wazzaps/test-viewer

Pardon my english, I am not a native speaker :)
by bonestamp2 | 2025-06-26 18:03:45+00:00
> I think people might pay for micro-transactions, but a lot of news has no real value.

Ya, I'd pay $0.25 or $0.50 on a whim for any random article. For good articles I'd pay more, but the problem is that you don't know if it's going to be good information or some clickbait crap until you read it, so it has to be priced with that risk in mind.

But maybe I'm unique, I currently have paid subscriptions to a few online publications because I believe it's important to pay for news with money instead of clicks (if you want the news provider to be incentivized to generate quality news instead of clickthroughs).
by joshmarinacci | 2025-06-26 18:04:03+00:00
Thank you so much for Executor. I used to run it on my 486 Linux box, over an X11 SSH tunnel to the Sun workstation I used in the computer labs for work on campus. I balanced my checkbook and wrote essays in emulated Excel and Word (with rough compatibility with the Windows versions). It was so cool to be able to mix and match systems that way.
by Scoundreller | 2025-06-26 18:04:14+00:00
Michigan is just like the south: highest electricity consumption is during summer.

This may change with increased use of heat pumps for heating, but it’s still a while out before seasonal electricity consumption patterns invert.

+/- on what effect electric cars will have: people drive more in summer but efficiency goes down in winter.

Arizona, Florida, etc are not really in a sweet spot we all think it is because PV efficiency/output goes marginally down when it’s really hot (ie: when A/C demand peaks). Unless you install the panels at high altitude.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-06-26 18:04:46+00:00
We never get analysis on what returns trickle down economics have given us, but tons and tons of thought and analysis on why we have to keep doing it. You'd think after 40 years there would be some numbers to work with. Instead they sell it with fear 'the rich will leave'. If there is a real economic benefit you would think they would try and sell it with the REAL benefits it has brought us these last 40 years.
by theonething | 2025-06-26 18:06:17+00:00
I don't understand this sentiment.

Sure, there might be people out there selling snakeoil, but that's the case for every domain. Does that mean we nobody should try to make apps to solve domain problems at all? Of course not.

So you're asking everyone to stop monetizing ADHD. So the two alternatives are make the apps for free or don't make them at all. The former is not realistic or sustainable and later gives up potential upside.

I mean, do you think all ADHD apps will just be bad and are just people trying rip off ADHDers?

I think a more reasonable premise is yes, just in every domain, there will be snake oil sellers unfortunately and it's up to the consumer to watch out for those. But there will also be genuine people who are trying to solve this problem and that will potentially give people a lot of value for the money they pay for it.
by lucianbr | 2025-06-26 18:06:28+00:00
If the perspective of the company is that the official price is low, but they make it up by inflating the damage penalty and/or sometimes making up damage penalties, so that in the end the real price is not that low, then the real price for the customer is probably also not that low. It's the same money. Company has to make profit somehow.

Unless you as a customer have some advantage over the other customers allowing you to avoid the penalty more often than normal. But on average, it must be non-cheap.