MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buildsjets | 2025-06-23 16:18:55+00:00
The motion of the speaker feeds signal back to the needle/input device. It matters even more in Jazz/syncopated music. The needle tracks with a force of only 1.5 grams or so, and any motion is greatly amplified. Also if you listen to jazz with the volume low you are doing it wrong. Do you link the volume was low in the club when Sun Ra was recording?

But besides that, those speakers are placed terribly for stereo imaging. Even tucked in the cubby, why place them with the drivers together rather than apart? And those speakers appear to be dreadful anyway. A single 12" driver in a vented / untuned baffle with no midrange or tweeter elements?

So this is definitely set up for aesthetic, not sound quality.
by Sharlin | 2025-06-23 16:19:12+00:00
For those not in the know (I had to double-check myself), the difference between explicit and semi-implicit Euler is simply the order in which position and velocity are updated.

Explicit updates position with the old velocity:

particle.position += particle.velocity * dt; particle.velocity += acceleration * dt;

Semi-implicit (symplectic) with the new velocity:

particle.velocity += acceleration * dt; particle.position += particle.velocity * dt;
by tgbugs | 2025-06-23 16:19:14+00:00
This is yet another case where my policy of stripping out unnecessary dependencies has paid off. thunar-volman and kde solid both pull in udisks by default but back in 2017 I started maintaining a fork of the default Gentoo ebuild to eliminate the dependency on udisks. The thunar-volman case is a great example of why Gentoo use flags are useful no only for customizing a system but for security by making it easier to reduce the attack surface by disabling features that upstreams leave enabled by default.
by yzjumper | 2025-06-23 16:19:22+00:00
Not the user above, but I am using the iOS app PrivateLLM when I need offline access or use uncensored models. I use kappa-3-phi-abliterated, models under 6B usually work without crashing. Using Ollama on my Mac Mini 24GB base processor (M4 not M4 pro), I am able to run 7B models. On the mac I am able to set up API access.

Funny enough the mac has almost the same processor as my iPhone 16 Pro, so its just a RAM constraint, and of course PrivateLLM does not let you host an API.

An M4 Pro would do much better do to the increase in RAM and GPU size.
by upofadown | 2025-06-23 16:19:22+00:00
>but this was (probably) a result of somebody fat-fingering the wrong contact...

Supposedly, it was the result of a helpful Apple feature getting the wrong phone number for one of the intended group participants. Then Signal cheerfully used that wrong phone number to add the reporter to the group.

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group...
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-06-23 16:19:24+00:00
For all but a tiny fraction of Americans, the cost of a passport is a tiny, rounding error expense compared to actually leaving the country. This isn't Europe, where you take a wrong turn and end up in a different country. Here in California, there's a highway you can drive on for 750 miles and not even have left the state (like driving from Paris to Warsaw). And we're just one state of 50. On the diagonal, crossing the continental US is like driving from London to Tel-Aviv.

Nearby, we've got Canada and Mexico, and up until pretty recently, you could cross over those borders with a driver's license. And both those countries are big. On the other sides we have oceans. So for most Americans, the minimum cost of an international flight is the same as the cost for a European to fly to the US ($500-$1000), and a full day's travel each way. Here on HN, we might forget that most of the population makes fucking peanuts, so keep in mind that means that for most Americans, $1000 is a lot of money. Most Americans also don't get a lot of time off, so those 2 days of travel are a significant cost in of themselves.

All told, the lack of passports amongst Americans isn't indicative of some isolationist mindset. It's just that they have no need of a passport, because they aren't taking the kinds of extremely far-flung vacations that would need one, and they know if they need one, they can just get one before their trip.
by theodric | 2025-06-23 16:19:26+00:00
When I was at unnamed major financial institution, we were ordered to stop using WhatsApp, but it had nothing to do with security and everything to do with avoiding even the possibility of the appearance of backroom dealing or production avoidance in the event of subpoena. Maybe the truth has more to do with that, or maybe not, what do I know, who are all you people anyway, and why am I posting here?
by roxolotl | 2025-06-23 16:19:58+00:00
The case for pessimism looks something like:

- Generative AI, at a below market cost, eats the internet and becomes the primary entry point

- Some combination of price hikes and service degradation, ads etc, make generative ai kinda shitty

- We’re stuck with kinda shitty generative ai products because the old internet is gone

This is the standard enshitification loop really
by sho_hn | 2025-06-23 16:20:26+00:00
Shoplifters was a recent international success and is maybe the most accessible. My favorites of his are After the Storm and Maboroshi, though. All of them feature wonderful characters and quiet adult moments.

On the arthouse circuit, I think he's best known for After Life, which is a bit more challenging (honestly: I found it a bit dull) but worth biting into.

Do you know that pang of melancholic joy-and-regret you feel after you've had a wonderful day and you know no matter how much you and the others involved try, you can probably never quite recreate that magic a second time? Grateful for the memory you'll always have, yet at the same time sad? That's how his movies feel to me, where I'm often both happy and sad I've seen them. It's pretty damn great when a movie can do that.
by strangecasts | 2025-06-23 16:20:34+00:00
Was lucky enough to get my Fairphone 4 on sale, but I'd happily pay full price now - even though the Fairphones are pricey for the specs, unless you absolutely need 24 cores etc. I'd say they are worth it, knowing the company is at least trying to improve the parts supply chain, and knowing you stand a chance of fixing the devices yourself (luckily I've only had to replace the USB-C port, which was trivial)

About the only thing I'd ding Fairphone on is not communicating earlier that they were having trouble getting Android 14 out to the FP4s, but the security patches have been consistent.

(Okay I'm also dinging them on getting rid of the headphone jack, yes I know it's a lost cause... )
by raffael_de | 2025-06-23 16:20:38+00:00
I'm not sure how to put it but given the rather impressive background that you provide on your hn profile (not to mention the first time I behold a six digit karma here) I'd assume that you'd be quite able to identify and implement a number of rather simple and obvious solutions to your issue.

Having said that, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview is by far the most useful model available with Kagi Pro - at least as far as my experience goes.
by strictnein | 2025-06-23 16:20:55+00:00
Way too many people are getting their information on this topic from things like Tiktok and Instagram. Every video on there just proclaims how the EU has banned food dyes and additives that we use, therefore they're unsafe and we should ban them as well.

Never mentioned is that the US has also banned food dyes and additives that are still in use in the EU.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-23 16:21:12+00:00
The video seems pretty honest about their attempts to even get a car in the deep suburbs of Shenzhen, let alone Shenzhen central. And the ride making them sick seems legit, but it does contrast with the many Chinese social media posts saying the service didn't need safety drivers and was comfortable (although, if you watch those videos, they are obviously in the deep suburbs also, so I guess they agree on service area limitations at least).

I was in China (Beijing) a couple of months ago yet didn't have a chance to ride a driverless car there because they were only running them in the deep suburbs (Changping near Lenovo I think?). This is quite different from my experience taking Waymo, where it served the central city just fine (although I'm not sure how Waymo would handle a narrow Hutong alley way like one of the taxi's I took did).
by mensetmanusman | 2025-06-23 16:21:54+00:00
Little s Science can’t get “corrupted” because it is just a tool. When the scientific method is used to determine what people prefer to buy based on one second of looking at the product, that is arguably an immoral use of the scientific method especially if the health of the users is not taken into account.

That’s also to say that “trust the science“ can be a dangerous way to shut down discussion when people are actually grasping for words to understand whether a scientific method is being improperly used.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-06-23 16:22:20+00:00
Perhaps you should evaluate in terms of the price premium for speed. Sometimes you buy milk at the 7-eleven instead of the grocery store. It costs more, but is worth it for the convenience in the situation you are currently in. Most of the time it is not.

You can buy a used recent PC for a hundred or two, cram it full of memory, and then run a very advanced model. Slowly. But if you are planning to run an agent while you sleep and then review the work in the morning, do you really care if the run time is 4 hours instead of 40 seconds? Most of the time, no. Sometimes, yes.
by exiguus | 2025-06-23 16:22:35+00:00
The top AfD politicians, of course. But there are many other AfD members and employees who received money from Russian influenced people. Currently, the top AfD politicians are shifting from being in love with Russia to being in love with the US. Actually the AfD has been fined several times because they have violated the donation regulations for political parties (2017, 2020 and 2021).
by dredmorbius | 2025-06-23 16:23:02+00:00
Hive mind, cargo cult, and a third phenomena, groupthink, are somewhat related but probably more usefully considered as distinct.

A hive mind in its original form is a form of emergent intelligence most especially associated with social insects (e.g., ants, bees, and termites), where collective behavioural patterns emerge which are independent of, and not fully explained by, any individual behaviours or intelligence. The term is of course also applied to humans, perhaps most famously as "the madness of crowds", as popularised by the book of the same title.

Groupthink, to skip over cargo cults for a moment, is a case where individual beliefs and/or behaviours are influenced by a group, often as an otherwise poorly-substantiated set of beliefs or actions, usually in agreement with some leader. Why groupthink emerges and what possible social/psychological evolutionary advantages it might convey (compensating for the cost of beliefs at odds with reality and empirical evidence) are hotly debated. Unlike the hive mind, groupthink isn't emergent, in the sense that individuals express specific beliefs or exhibit specific behaviours, though generally associated with the group context.

Cargo-cults are a form of groupthink. My own view is that cargo cults emerge in response to highly complex phenomena, either entirely beyond the grasp of individuals, or pushing the limits of scientific or technical knowledge. The original form, emerging on Pacific islands during and following WWII were a case of a non-technological culture (the native island inhabitants) trying to attain the benefits of a technological society (the various military belligerants of WWII) by emulating airstrips and the hope of the cargo (goods and services) these apparently brought the advanced society. Air-borne transport is knowable by humans, but only in a given social-technological context, which the islanders lacked.

In other instances, cargo culting tends to resemble fads and fashions where indicia or characteristics of some complex concept are adhered to, sometimes to achieve their ends, sometimes to indicate adherence to or alignment with a group. Fashion, language, dress, management trends, and software development practices (3GL, structured code, Agile, ML, and the like may all be examples in at least some cases). Often the foundations are more than purely technical, e.g., management or investors may feel a need to follow the crowd / leaders, often to avoid scapegoating or accountability in the event of failure.

All of which of course is distinct from the false-competence delusion of an expert within one domain presuming expertise in others, e.g., Nobel Disease <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease>.
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 16:23:09+00:00
That was my experience too, as we're seemingly of similar age. Before that we saw the muscle and chrome eras, where people really got into them and made cars their identity and centre of life. It would appear cars saw very much a similar decline to the internet feeling we're talking about as the generations went by. The are still useful tools, to be sure, but now hard to fall in love with.
by standardUser | 2025-06-23 16:23:24+00:00
> Clearly these companies are in it to make money, and they will sell the public whatever the public will eat,

You are correct, but I find it alarming that anyone would deem this necessary to say out loud. These companies would happily watch us suffer an die from chronic illnesses en masse if it inched up their share value, as would any for-profit enterprise. The phrase "duh" comes to mind. The only thing stopping them is government regulation, though that approach is under perpetual attack by anti-government zealots, the most recent of which being Musk and his child assistants.
by strictnein | 2025-06-23 16:24:19+00:00
The first amendment doesn't apply as broadly to commercial speech as it does normal speech. There's already restrictions placed on it and a framework for deciding if further restrictions would be acceptable.

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/central-hudson-test/

> The Central Hudson test has a threshold prong – does the speech concern lawful activity and is it non-misleading. If it meets these requirements, then there are three other prongs:

> The government must have a substantial interest.

> The regulation must directly and materially advance the government’s substantial interest.

> The regulation must be narrowly tailored.

It would seem like restricting medical ads would be within the realms of constitutionally acceptable government power.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-06-23 16:24:21+00:00
i don't know if this is more than you're willing to do, but i think a lot of markdown processors allow you to specify custom CSS (which would allow you to do what you're looking for, if rendering to HTML). it's a pain compared to standard markdown but if you can figure out the underlying HTML tags you're trying to style, it should be a one-and-done change.
by siliconc0w | 2025-06-23 16:25:12+00:00
The problem is that it's really hard to capture the market when there are so many well financed players competing. Plus distilled local models are within 10% or so of the frontier models and are fine for most questions so you could see a shift where local dominates and you'll only need to go to the cloud for hard problems. Finally, I think most people are willing to pay for AI - it's more utility than a streaming service or a newspaper.
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-23 16:25:26+00:00
It takes two to tango.

I'm not disagreeing, but corruption requires a corrupting company as well, and if we're going the moral route, bribing to get the upper hand on a captive population fits the "evil" definition.

Then again and again, western countries don't really need a more developed third world, and they won't bend over backward to create more competition for themselves. So supporting corrupt regimes has very few downsides from a G20 country for instance.

Banana republics are the most simple example of that, but it doesn't need to be that blatant.
Show HN: Weather Watching
by walz | 2025-06-23 16:25:48+00:00
I was walking around New York last month during some light rain and noticed about half the people had umbrellas open. When the rain picked up a few minutes later, that number jumped closer to 80%.

It got me thinking it'd be cool to track this somehow, so I built a website! I am taking a sidewalk livestream, feeding it into a YOLO model for people tracking, then sending a frame of each detected person to Gemini 2.0 Flash, which returns structured JSON about each person's clothing and if they're holding an umbrella. I also had fun making the site look like a TV weather channel.

I showed some friends this project and someone mentioned how the legendary Tasks xkcd comic (https://xkcd.com/1425) is out of date now. If you want to check whether a photo has birds in it (or if someone is holding an umbrella), you can just ask an inexpensive vision model for JSON.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-06-23 16:25:52+00:00
Armed with some doctored / poorly photoshopped tattoos and other such frivolous / false information, this innocent man has been sent to El Salvador to suffer and probably die. Now that he is back in the US, the administration is continuing to bully and harass this person, instead of acknowledging their overreach and mistakes.

What is being done to ensure Kilmar Ábrego García and others who are caught in the dragnet of this administration's regressive immigration policies get justice? When will these witch-hunts stop - when the people in the administration who perpetuate high crimes and even treason are going scot-free?
by adriand | 2025-06-23 16:26:06+00:00
Do they reduce or remove the Gemini-justified price increase if you do this? I adore LLMs for coding but I find them so annoying and useless in the context of the Google workspace.

Just for fun today, I tried "Summarize this email" for a spam email I got, and the summary was a straight-faced, "This is an offer where YOUR_ORGANIZATION can improve its SEO results for blah blah blah", when of course, the correct summary is, "This is spam, delete it".
by coldpie | 2025-06-23 16:26:18+00:00
> You're again asking for simulations about Minnesota specifically which doesn't make sense.

No I'm not, I have no idea how you are getting that idea. I'm asking for an analysis showing that Minnesota's winter needs can be met without building nuclear plants. That's it. You can solve that problem in any way you like, including importing power from other states and nations.

> Here's the RethinkX simulation of that

Thanks for the link. I focused on the New England scenario, as it's the most similar to Minnesota of the 3 scenarios. It doesn't seem to account for heating. This is the problem I keep coming to in these analyses. See page 25:

> Our model takes as inputs each region’s historical hourly electricity demand ... For the New England region, our analysis applies to the ISO New England (ISO-NE) service area which provides 100% of grid-scale electricity generation for the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Our heating is not supplied by electricity. I definitely believe that our current electricity demand may be met by renewables in a feasible timescale, but that leaves out the massive hole of heating our buildings.

The only reference I could find to New England's heating is this little note at the bottom of page 46:

> If New England chose to invest in an additional 20% in its 100% SWB system, for example, then the super power output could be used to replace most fossil fuel use in the residential and road transportation sectors combined (assuming electrification of vehicles and heating).

But I don't see any actual numerical analysis backing this up. Given their analysis earlier only spoke about electricity usage, I'm not super convinced by this one sentence.

Additionally, the New England scenario suggests they need 1,232 GWh of storage to supply only 89 hours of electricity for the area. Even if we agree that's a sufficient amount of time, the currently largest energy storage facility on the planet is only 3 GWh[1]. We would need 410 such facilities for New England alone. Can we really scale battery tech up that much, especially given resource constraints like Lithium and copper? Maybe! Hopefully! But it's a big question. Meanwhile, nuclear is here now, and it works. I don't think we should be betting our future on unproven tech.

[1] https://electrek.co/2023/08/03/worlds-largest-battery-storag...
by cbolton | 2025-06-23 16:26:47+00:00
Just have a master settings.typ that you import in top1.typ, top2.typ and top3.typ?

Alternatively, you can pass global settings at build time with `typst c --input name=value`

Maybe I misunderstood though, if you can link to an actual example (gist or something) I'd be happy to try and give a concrete solution.
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-23 16:28:25+00:00
You seem to be confused about the definition of the word theocracy if you unironically consider Israel one. No, you don't seem to be - you unquestionably are considering how you argued the point.

theocracy /θɪˈɒkrəsi/ noun

a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
by immibis | 2025-06-23 16:28:59+00:00
"As their costs go up, your costs go up" - great, let them charge for bandwidth then. Actually, incoming bandwidth to a hosting provider is free, because basically every interconnection on the Internet is billed based on the dominant direction of traffic. It's really important that you do not preemptively make assumptions about other people's business models in a way that impacts your own. If they have a problem with it, let them tell you.

Capitalism is a symmetric game (played asymmetrically). If your hosting provider thought something they did would increase your costs, do you think they'd refrain from doing it?
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-23 16:29:25+00:00
Appreciate the response, and apologies for being needlessly sharp myself. Thank you for bringing the temperature down.

> Are we treating an arbitrary ontological assertion as if it’s a formal argument that needs to be heroically refuted?

The formality of the paper already supposes a level of rigor. The problem at its core, is that p_intelligent(x: X) where X ∈ {human, AI} is not a demonstrable scissor by just proving p_intelligent(AI) = false. Without walking us through the steps that p_intelligent(human) = true, we cannot be sure that the predicate isn't simply always false.

Without demonstrating that humans satisfy the claims we can't be sure if the results are vacuously true because nothing, in fact, can satisfy the standard.

These aren't heroic refutations, they're table stakes.
by bunderbunder | 2025-06-23 16:30:05+00:00
One of the things they have that people in developed economies generally don't is a 50% infant mortality rate.

The ones that don't achieve it through access to very unnatural artifacts such as vaccines that are quite likely to have been made using ultramodern technologies such as genetic modification.

Or, I've got quite a few friends who have various congenital conditions that mean that they absolutely would not have survived in a society with a more "natural" foodway. With the modern food supply chain, though, they're doing just fine. Unnatural things you get in some ultraprocessed foods, such as vitamin fortification, mean they can even do it without having to worry about developing comorbid chronic ailments due to malnutrition.
by wging | 2025-06-23 16:30:33+00:00
I did the same thing when I was building on remote machines frequently. Either an internal one-way syncing tool or Unison, but basically the same as what I think you're implying. (Watchexec to notice changes, and kick off your local rsync to the remote machine, right?)

TRAMP rarely seemed worth it to fiddle with, especially when such a workflow supports all tools, even those run in a CLI outside of emacs: run a formatter or other automation locally and have the changes propagate? git pull locally, ditto? why not?