MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by modeless | 2025-07-30 23:51:05+00:00
Yeah the interface in the Kids app sucks. The way to do it is from your own phone. Use the "share" feature and choose "with kids". It takes a lot of taps to share a channel, that could be improved for sure. But if you share good channels as you come across them then over time you'll build up a great library of content for your kids.
by firecall | 2025-07-30 23:51:14+00:00
I agree.

This idea that parents should have to be the gatekeepers for everything doesn’t work.

We work better as a community, and we have democracy so we can elect people to take care of things that are good for all of us.

Broadly, as a society we have taken to blaming individuals for not being perfect at everything.

Parenting is traditionally a group activity. The individual consumer capitalist parent is a recent, mid 20th century onwards, construct.
by quintes | 2025-07-30 23:51:22+00:00
The former co-CEO said Australia needs to let go of "jobs from the past" and said those impacted by shifts can lean on the nations "very strong social safety net"

I don’t think this is pro human

The welfare state is a huge failing and the tax base will not cover continued benefits. I’m not in AU but have seen a small tax base try to uphold a large welfare base and think that from what I’ve seen with Australia migration and tax madness it’s only going to get harder there for the common people
by Retr0id | 2025-07-30 23:52:57+00:00
Until now I've been able to reliably distinguish generated artwork from human authored artwork with ~90% accuracy. Of course, it's always getting better, but my initial research tells me the main logo has existed since Jan 2024: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/2152

I don't think it was generated. (on the basis that this can't be some cutting-edge new model whose output I haven't seen yet)
by comprev | 2025-07-30 23:53:32+00:00
This is probably similar in UK - although this is pure speculation.

A limited company owning the "land" which is then leased to the "farm" business that works it.

Possibly a "group" parent company is owned by the actual farmer.

I'm sure there will be good tax and legal protection reasons to structure farms in this way, not forgetting various government schemes which bring in revenue via grants and tax breaks.
by alex1138 | 2025-07-30 23:53:49+00:00
Maybe, but I think the actual medical evidence matters more than the sociological side of things

And if people are loosening up the reigns of control a little bit it's about even the more trivial things, like a lab leak (which was squashed after initial views it might be by the editors of Lancet, right after Fauci spoke to them), rather than things which were even known at the time (and for example as Dr. Cole is pointing out the explosion in turbo cancers, or this https://rumble.com/v28x6zk-sasha-latypova-msc.-nsa-team-enig... which I've also linked on HN before which got flagged!)
by RyanOD | 2025-07-30 23:53:51+00:00
Started creating a library of retro game clones built with PyGame for people to use as a learning resource (I was learning too). I built a crummy clone of Pong and a near pixel perfect clone of Frogger...and then lost interest.

But, I'll likely come back to build another some day when the mood strikes me.

https://retroclones.com/
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-07-30 23:53:52+00:00
I don’t know how to say this without seeming rude, but a few hundred acres is very small. 500 acres is less than a square mile. Is there something about your community that makes farms of that size more common than normal?

Edit: my (extended) family has a farm, and they cultivate X0,000 acres every year, though they own far less. They do plant a larger area than most for their community, but they’re not planting 20x their neighbors.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-30 23:53:59+00:00
If the bus is using "free" roads, then it's forced to compete for space with general traffic and likely to perform far worse than BRT or trains that don't have to do this. Worse performance/speed/frequency => lower ridership => worse profitability => calls to cancel the "wasteful" bus etc.

The only way out IMO is that we have to stop ripping off the public by giving away unlimited road space for free.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-30 23:55:23+00:00
In general, bad design patterns and team management are the primary drivers for sick projects.

"[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." (Melvin E. Conway)

Keep in mind Conway's law also works in reverse, try running a private project wiki with documentation, and a ticket/task queue with small tasks.

Setting pie-in-sky project goals is just as bad as ivory tower engineers. =3
by ryandrake | 2025-07-30 23:55:35+00:00
> The real kicker to me is that the government has passed a law restricting access yet they haven't determined how they're going to enforce an age check. It's wild that they passed a law without consideration to its mechanics or feasibility.

I predict it won't even matter. This law is unenforceable in practice. There is nothing that a bored and highly-motivated teenager who has hours after school to fuck around, won't be able to circumvent. I think back to my teenage years: None of the half-assed attempts made to keep teenagers away from booze, cigarettes, drugs, or porn even remotely worked. These things were readily available to anyone who wanted them. If there is an "I am an adult" digital token, teenagers will easily figure out how to mint them. If the restrictions can be bypassed with VPNs, that's what they will do.
by theluketaylor | 2025-07-30 23:55:42+00:00
Canada Line is a bit weird since it wasn't built by Translink and doesn't use the same technology as the rest of SkyTrain. It was under built by the P3 out of caution for opening in time for the Olympics and extreme cost control, but they were really pessimistic in ridership projections. It was always going to burst at the seams pretty quickly, especially with all the transit oriented development along the route. It should have been built to the same ~80m platform as the rest of SkyTrain.

My ideal default rapid transit buildout for midsized urban areas would basically be SkyTrain with value engineering to extend the platforms to 100 or 120m with minimal cost in the future.
by sn9 | 2025-07-30 23:57:01+00:00
Yeah the way the app works is you track what you eat and your weight and this is all you need to make actionable information on how to lose, gain, or maintain weight.

Obviously you could do this on your own with spreadsheets, but the app takes all the unnecessary overhead out of it and uses more sophisticated algorithms to account for things like missing days.

It's just a total gamechanger. Totally worth the very low cost.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-30 23:57:22+00:00
>rather fashionable with supporters of the current administration

I don't support Trump.

"'Novo Nordisk is ripping off the American people,' Bernie Sanders says of Ozempic and Wegovy costs"

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bernie-sanders-oz...

Obama repeatedly referred to Europeans as "free riders" on matters of defense: https://archive.is/cvJ8d

Historically, with American Exceptionalism, Americans didn't care as much about getting a fair deal as long as they were making the world a better place. It's you Europeans who decided to gloat and undermine American Exceptionalism. That's why Americans from both parties are now focused on getting a better deal for ourselves. American Exceptionalism is over, and smug Europeans are on their own now.
by 7373737373 | 2025-07-30 23:57:40+00:00
> Do you have any thoughts on what a natural rewrite syntax would be?

Not yet, but I'd probably prefer something that more explicitly indicated (in English, or some sort of more visually "pointing" indicator) which specific parts of the previous step would be replaced

It feels weird, or I'd have to get used to that both what is being replaced and what it is replaced with depends on some distant context, it's very indirect as it requires switching attention between the tactics tree and the context or previous proofs
by ww520 | 2025-07-30 23:58:38+00:00
Vibe coding can get very far. Years ago I interviewed with a company whose business was doing price modeling on retail products. It was couple guys, who were not developers, writing some Excel VBA scripts and Access VBA scripts. They got big customers. Their system won't scale and was not robust; it's basically a proof of concept. They got tens of millions in funding. They hired a seasoned team of developers to build the real product. The project failed. They fired the team, and was interviewing me to restart. Their POC was basically vibe coding and actually got their pretty far. I didn't join because they had burnt through quite a bit of their funding, they had built the sales and marketing orgs while they didn't have a real product, they had fired the entire engineering team where all the organization knowledge had lost and it spoke of some deep distrust between engineering and the rest of the company, and their offer was completely not compelling.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-30 23:59:16+00:00
In general agreement about the need to think it through, and she should be careful to not oraise the other extreme.

> "An hour of debugging/programming can save you minutes of thinking"

The trap so many dev fall into is assuming code behaves like they think it is. Or believing documentation or seemingly helpful comments. We really want to believe.

People's mental image is more often than not wrong, and debugging tremendously helps bridge the gap.
by hnburnsy | 2025-07-30 23:59:27+00:00
Asylum: Norway accepts asylum seekers under international obligations, but applications are rigorously vetted, and approval rates vary. In 2023, about 11,000 asylum applications were processed, with a significant portion rejected, per UDI statistics.

The CIA World Factbook (2010 estimates, updated for 2025) lists Norway’s ethnic composition as 83.2% Norwegian (including Sámi), 8.3% other European, and 8.5% other (non-European).
by apitman | 2025-07-30 23:59:52+00:00
I've been on something of a quest to find a really good chat interface for LLMs.

Most import feature for me is that I want to be able to chat with local models, remote models on my other machines, and cloud models (OpenAI API compatible). Anything that makes it easier to switch between models or query them simultaneously is important.

Here's what I've learned so far:

* Msty - my current favorite. Can do true simultaneous requests to multiple models. Nice aesthetic. Sadly not open source. Have had some freezing issues on Linux.

* Jan.ai - Can't make requests to multiple models simultaneously

* LM Studio - Not open source. Doesn't support remote/cloud models (maybe there's a plugin?)

* GPT4All - Was getting weird JSON errors with openrouter models. Have to explicitly switch between models, even if you're trying to use them from different chats.

Still to try: Librechat, Open WebUI, AnythingLLM, koboldcpp.

Would love to hear any other suggestions.
by sliken | 2025-07-31 00:00:26+00:00
Sounds like my macbook 16" with the Intel i9. Just about anything, full screen video call, backups, patching, etc it sounds like a hair dryer. I'm not surprised there's various docks, stands, etc that include supplemental cooling.

I'm jealous of the m series macbooks, fast, quiet, and cool on wall or battery.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-07-31 00:01:15+00:00
I guess thats thats what american soldiers on the way to berlin had to say - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkssturm

A totalitarian ideology throwing its own future into the furnace, not for a tomorrow (all the fertilizer was ammunition, they had sentenced themselves to starvation) but for the hope of killing all your enemies one last time.

How can one venture this deep into defending this regressive madness is beyond me. I hope you heal from whatever hatred is devouring you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter
by fsckboy | 2025-07-31 00:01:23+00:00
>Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers

it's not a new phenomenon, most people who bought the farm do not follow through and till that land...

ok ok, i'll stop. to people who are not native speakers of US English, "bought the farm" is a euphemism for dying https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buy_the_farm#English

from that link: "Etymology: Not known with certainty. Two long-held hypotheses are as follows: One describes combat soldiers wistfully wishing to go back home, buy a farm, and live peacefully there; later, after they had been killed in combat, their fellow soldiers would say that they had bought the farm (compare the established metaphor pattern of having gone to that big [whatever sort of nice place] in the sky). Another links the phrase to the idea that governments compensate farmers whose land is damaged by a military aircraft crash; a deceased pilot was thus said to have bought the farm, and the term eventually entered wider use."
by zerotolerance | 2025-07-31 00:01:51+00:00
Did he need it to prove a business viable if there were already players in the market? No. Do you ever need to validate that people would switch providers of a commodity product or service if presented with a cheaper option? Also no. What did he learn then, that he can create a partial solution that people might pay for initially (no data on renewals) but will ultimately have to actually hire people to build a real product which will eat at his differentiator (price). Wait until he decides he actually has to spend money on marketing.

The good news is that with each of these we get to "validate" that having an idea still isn't worth much without the ability to actually execute.
by gleenn | 2025-07-31 00:02:49+00:00
Sometimes you can just smell it when companies are bad. I went into an interview at a company that they were trying to escape out if SAP hell and the two founders weren't anywhere to be seen. The kitchen looked sad. I told myself I'd probably be eating lunch there every day and the founders being absent made me realize they probably didn't give a crap about their employees. Also they had junior developer managing the paperwork and hiring process even though the senior lead dev did the real interview. Definitely a shell of a company.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-07-31 00:02:55+00:00
Almost certainly just the fat percentage. It's common for cows to produce milk at notably higher fat percentage (often more than 5%) than the mandatory minimum standard for "whole milk" (3.25% in the US) that large commercial producers centrifuge and re-blend down to to maximize profit.

Most consumers are unaware that "whole milk" is a specific commercial regulation that does not mean "all the original milkfat", and this gets in the way of educating people about the danger of drinking milk raw. Add a bit of pasteurized cream back into your pasteurized milk and see that it tastes much better.
by drdaeman | 2025-07-31 00:04:43+00:00
Well, they all seem to have issues with multi-line selection, as those get all messed up with decorations, panes and whatever noise is there. To best of my awareness, the best a TUI can do is to implement its own selection (so, alt-screen, mouse tracking, etc. - plenty of stuff to handle, including all the compatibility quirks) and use OSC 52 for clipboard operations, but that loses the native look-and-feel and terminal configuration.

(Technically, WezTerm's semantic zones should be the way to solve this for good - but that's WezTerm-only, I don't think any other terminal supports those.)

On the other hand, with GUIs this is not an issue at all. And YMMV, but for me copying snippets, bits of responses and commands is a very frequent operation for any coding agent, TUI, GUI or CLI.
by AngryData | 2025-07-31 00:05:11+00:00
Agriculture has a lot, utility services including fiber internet, electrical, and natural gas, many credit unions, there are a few retail stores like REI, mutual insurances, a number of pharmacies and homecare and other health services are co-op, many other worker co-ops, and there are a decent number of housing co-ops. Other than maybe a few rural fiber co-ops most are not super fast growing businesses, and they lack attention seeking rich owners, so they don't get a lot of attention, but co-ops as a whole has steadily gained more market presence nearly across the board over the decades.
by theluketaylor | 2025-07-31 00:05:49+00:00
Both examples of Great Society metros that were on the bleeding edge of what was possible in the early 70s. Automatic train control advanced rapidly, with both Vancouver SkyTrain and London Docklands Light Rail being built in the 80s and operating driverless for their entire existence.

DC Metro just recently re-enabled full automatic train operation across all the lines in June.
by gleenn | 2025-07-31 00:07:50+00:00
I would like to say I did a massive refactoring on a legacy project only to make separation of concerns by making a DB access layer with multiple backends just so I could test it. I wrote not even a single line of code. It did a fantastic job even abstracting between both databases. I was shocked. It then was a huge PR so I had it redo it in a step by step fashion and maintain the tests passing at each step so I could split it into 5 different pull-requests. This vibe-coded project did the exact opposite, it made it easy and possible to fix a mostly intested and poorly organized project far better. You can use this stuff for good SWE practices too
by bartblast | 2025-07-31 00:08:30+00:00
Thanks for the kind words! You're right about the offline-first benefits - that's definitely part of what will eventually be Hologram's local-first philosophy and it's on the roadmap (https://hologram.page/docs/roadmap).

I needed to get the performance to a usable level in v0.5.0 because the previous iteration was quite slow, and I was concerned about getting bad press early on (there was actually a previous HN discussion about Hologram's performance issues). The slowness also prevented implementing latency-sensitive features like the real-time pointer/mouse events you see in the SVG drawing demo - which are really Hologram's main use case. It's already blazing fast now, though I haven't squeezed max performance yet - there's still room for improvement.

There are still some high-priority features that need to be implemented first before tackling the local-first capabilities. The CRDT implementation in this release is part of the foundation for those distributed/sync features, but there's more foundational work needed.
by barchar | 2025-07-31 00:08:56+00:00
Some of these investments come back around in terms of savings. Taxes and velocity of money (thus numbers of opportunities to be taxed) have been trending down.

Anyway, it's sorta always been this way. That AI is very much self-hyping might make this time worse, but otoh non-european economies have more ability now to make sure the fallout is mostly confined to the investors.
by quesera | 2025-07-31 00:09:47+00:00
Right -- we know that LLMs cannot think, feel, or understand.

Therefore whenever they produce output that looks like the result of those things, we must either be deceived by a reasonable facsimile, or we simply misapprehended their necessity in the first place.

But, do we understand the human brain as well as we understand LLMs?

Obviously there's something different, but is it just a matter of degrees? LLMs have greater memory than humans, and lesser ability to correlate it. Correlation is powerful magic. That's pattern matching though, and I don't see a fundamental reason why LLMs won't get better at it. Maybe never as good as (smart) humans are, but with their superior memory, maybe that will often be adequate.
by sien | 2025-07-31 00:10:33+00:00
The case against social media is pretty weak.

https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-case-against-soci...

Meanwhile Australia has the largest per capita losses on gambling in the world.

https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/gambling

Which the government doesn't care about. This may have something to do that people don't criticise the government when they are just losing their life's savings.
by treyd | 2025-07-31 00:10:34+00:00
You might be thinking of Euclid's axioms, which defines points, lines, planes, etc, and that lines can be parallel. This is an interesting one because the system is violated if your space is not flat, like if you're on a sphere.

You could also be thinking of Zermelo-Fraenknel set theory (ZF/ZFC), which most of modern mathematics is ultimately based upon.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-31 00:10:46+00:00
> You clearly have a problem with homosexual people. The fact you conflate homosexuality with the LGBT community is even more of a red flag.

The G in LGBT literally stands for gay, so no, it is not a red flag, and for your information, that was an example because it is related (or relevant). And please, do not tell me who I have or don't have a problem with. Who are you to know better than I? I have a couple of homosexual friends and I could not care less about their sexual orientation. I do not care about yours either. Why would I care about anyone's sexual orientation? It is their own business, not mine, and I do not want you or anyone else to make it my business. This is the most important part.

It is wild that there are people like you who think nudity is not sexual. There was some guy who made into the HN main page and it turned out that he was in prison for "SEXUAL EXPLOITATION/EXPOSE ORGANS". Exposing organs, nudity, yeah. So, if there are adults being naked around children, why restrict porn online? Okay, I will give you that in Seattle they may not do that, I have no idea.

In any case, swinging your d*ck in front of children is disgusting and apparently illegal in many places. There are many videos of it online of this happening.

For the record, I treat people equally. If someone, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, religion, or whatever starts swinging their d*ck in front of children, I will have a problem with that.

I am not going to reply to the rest nor will I engage in a conversation with someone who straight out attacks me and tells me that I am the problem.

I wish the members of the LGBT would actually mind their own business as you viciously said; yeah, that would be great.

Thank you. Next time please be less hostile and assume less. For what it is worth, you strengthened my preexisting beliefs.
by pentagrama | 2025-07-31 00:11:17+00:00
Looks like a big pivot on target audience from developers to regular users, at least on the homepage https://ollama.com/ as a product. Before, it was all about the CLI versions of Ollama for devs, now it's not even mentioned. At the bottom of the blog post it says:

> For pure CLI versions of Ollama, standalone downloads are available on Ollama’s GitHub releases page.

Nothing against that, just an observation.

Previously I tested several local LLM apps, and the 2 best ones to me were LM Studio [1] and Msty [2]. Will check this one out for sure.

One missing feature that the ChatGPT desktop app has and I think is a good idea for these local LLM apps is a shortcut to open a new chat anytime (Alt + Space), with a reduced UI. It is great for quick questions.

[1] https://lmstudio.ai/

[2] https://msty.app/
by sothatsit | 2025-07-31 00:12:06+00:00
> No.

You are missing the forest for the trees by dismissing this so readily.

LLMs can solve IMO-level math problems, debug quite difficult bugs in moderately sized codebases, and write prototypes for very unique and weird coding projects. They solve difficult reasoning problems, and so I find it mystifying that people still work so hard to justify their belief that they're "not actually reasoning". They are flawed reasoners in some sense, but it seems ludicrous to me to suggest that they are not reasoning at all when they generalise to new logical problems so well.

Do you think humans are logical machines? No, we are not. Therefore, do we not reason?