MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TXTOS | 2025-07-17 02:29:44+00:00
We’re open-sourcing not just one tool—but an entire stack.

This month, three major products will be released: • Text reasoning (already live) • Text-to-image • Text-driven games

All of them are powered by the same embedding-space logic behind WFGY. No tricks, no fine-tuning—just pure semantic alignment.

I'll keep improving everything. So to the brilliant minds of HN: Please, test it as hard as you can.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-07-17 02:30:31+00:00
Its obviously for surveying, different sized holes allow it to be aligned a precise distance from the eye, then some reference object (probably a wide rod or board) can be sighted. Different sized hole pairs allow for different reference distances with the same reference object.

This seems completely obvious to me, but apparently its not?

If someone can find precise measurements of one of these I will bet that when you compute the distances for a reference object when sighted through different hole pairs it makes simple integer ratios.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-07-17 02:30:36+00:00
Hillsboro is pretty much a company town (well, there are some datacenters now, but those don't need a lot of employees). Actually the whole of Washington County is heavily dependent on Intel. There's also Nike, but it's also heading for significantly lower headcount than it's had in a while. So it's kind of a double-whammy here (Triple if you count federal government funding cuts hitting places like OHSU (Oregon Health Sciences University)).

I was contracting out at Intel Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro in 2004 and I'd walk around the (then) new neighborhood there by the campus and I distinctly recall thinking "What if something were to happen to Intel in, say 25 or 30 years? What would happen to these neighborhoods?" It was just kind of a thought experiment at the time, but now it seems like we're going to find out.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 02:31:37+00:00
For... well, most people. Half of people are women, so I don't know how they do it. I'm a man, with man hands, and modern phones are not one hand operable. You need two hands. Even if you can do a particular operation with one hand, the phone is unsteady and it's awkward.

I think people with large hands are definitely the minority. So, we're not optimizing for hand size. We're optimizing for engagement, I think.
by al_borland | 2025-07-17 02:32:15+00:00
Apple did a horrible job marketing the mini. I ran into a lot of people who saw my 12 mini and said they would prefer that size, but didn’t know it existed.

When I went to buy it, and the case, the employees at the Apple Store questioned me and tried to push me toward the normal iPhone. This is the first and only time I’ve ever felt Apple Store employees steering purchasing decisions. I had to go in there knowing what I wanted, and had to assert that it was what I wanted repeatedly.

Are people buying big phones because they are addicted to their screens, or are people addicted to their screens because of big phones?
by labcomputer | 2025-07-17 02:32:37+00:00
Sure thing, boss:

If we filter by US,

* 15-19 is down almost 80% (!!!) since the mid-century peak.

* 20-24 is down about 60% since the mid-century peak.

* 25-29 is about flat since mid-century

* 30-34 is higher than any time in the 20th century

* 35-39 is higher than any time in the 20th century

* 40-44 is higher than any time in the 20th century

In other words, the story is about the same as global.

Remember, I was responding to a comment that stated "Reduced teen pregnancies are not the driving factor in recent fertility rate declines at all."

If I was going to steel-man your argument, I would note that 20-24 is the cohort with the largest numerical reduction in the US... but then the argument still rests on splitting hairs that 20-24 are not technically teenagers, and teenage pregnancies "only" account for 40% the total reduction in fertility (while teenage mothers only accounted for 16% of births in 1970).

Of course, it's hard to square splitting those hairs with the definitive statement "not the driving factor [...] at all" (emphasis mine). In fact, the only way it makes sense is if you define "recent" to mean "since 2017", but measuring things like this over a period of less than a decade is silly anyway.

The data is also abundantly clear than older women are having more babies (not just a greater percentage, but actually more babies). In Japan women ages 35-44 had more babies in 2023 than any time since 1950. In Korea, women ages 30-44 had more babies than any time since 1980.
by kukkeliskuu | 2025-07-17 02:32:45+00:00
Who could argue with the "right tool for the job"? I am not saying that there are no use cases for other approaches.

But when you say you had a "static view" (in singular, not plural) with HTMX, what do you mean? I am very interested in hearing what kind of complex interaction you had where that approach failed?

With HTMX, I have found the most useful approach is to build your pages from lots of very small components. Initially, I don't worry about reuse of those components, it is more about decomposition than reuse.

Of course, if you want to do "fast client data slicing", then HTMX makes no sense, because it pushes logic to the backend and by definition your solution wants to process data in the fronted. So if you start from that premise, HTMX is obviously the wrong tool.

If you want to use HTMX, you need to rethink your solution, i.e. question whether you really need "fast client data slicing". So why bring all the data to the frontend, and not just the slice you want to visualize?

One reasonable use case is reducing server load. I have one app where data is loaded from static generated pages (periodically updated, for performance, stability and reduced server load), and sorting is done on the frontend using Javascript, based on data attributes on the DOM.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-17 02:33:19+00:00
> This is no different than at other times in history. Creative destruction at its best. New jobs will arise and there will be plenty of jobs to go around once the new growth cycle gets underway.

This feels a bit unwarranted. There doesn't need to be some major new paradigm shift for things to get bad from an employment perspective. All that needs to happen is for this creative destruction rate to slightly exceed the new job creation rate, and there's your tipping point. I certainly feel that your average grad today doesn't have the same opportunities I did in the late 90s.
by cdf | 2025-07-17 02:33:37+00:00
Most religions have the concept of ritual cleanliness for thousands of years, esp touching dead bodies make them unclean and yet at some point, doctors have to be reminded to wash their hands after performing autopsy.

How did we get there? Because "modern science" rejects superstitious beliefs and ritual cleanliness is superstition. Right?

I chose antibiotics and paracetamol as examples precisely because it is well understood _now_ . You go back 50 years before we understand gut bacteria or the difference between male and female bodies and suggest the same, the then modern medicine will laugh at you and call you a witch doctor.
by zug_zug | 2025-07-17 02:34:20+00:00
One million percent, this is the thing that stuck out most to me.

Maybe this is just so entrenched that it's a lost cause, but I feel like 90% of managers are just cargo-culting weird behaviors from other managers that serve no purpose (e.g. using a certain business slang like 'circle-back', never expressing genuine emotion, being incredibly circumspect, hiding the very existence of all disagreements).

It's a weird cultural thing, and what's especially peculiar is that nobody genuinely believes great leaders should do that. Everybody knows great leaders should be genuinely passionate and sincere and non-robotic. But here we are...
by benreesman | 2025-07-17 02:35:02+00:00
I doubt you meant it this way, but that last bit hits a little rough. It's good that you are able to hire people when you have vacancies, and it's good that you don't have to be at the mercy of some insane rent-seeking because one crew in town has managed to monopolize one of your inputs.

But saying it's unfortunate that you can't just whack anyone at will with 20 people lined up behind them jobless is wishing for a pretty bad situation right? If all your positions were filled by someone with 20 jobless people standing behind them, who would buy the homes you build?
by UncleOxidant | 2025-07-17 02:35:51+00:00
> Is it because the employees themselves are so incompetent that no one wants to take this burden on.

I don't buy this. I think the primary problem was mismanagement especially in the 2008 to 2020 timeframe. Too many bean counter CEOs during that period who did not understand the need to constantly invest in SOTA fabs.
by dumbfounder | 2025-07-17 02:36:21+00:00
I created a search engine that crawled the web way back in 2003. I used a proper user agent that included my email address. I got SO many angry emails about my crawler, which played as nice as I was able to make it play. Which was pretty nice I believe. If it’s not Google people didn’t want it. That’s a good way to prevent anyone from ever competing with Google. It isn’t just about that preview for LinkedIn, it’s about making sure the web is accessible by everyone and everything that is trying to make its way. Sure, block the malicious ones. But don’t just assume that every bot is malicious by default.
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-17 02:37:10+00:00
Your comment isn't rude, but it is a bit close to concern trolling. (as in, "the action or practice of disingenuously expressing concern about an issue in order to undermine or derail genuine discussion.") "Won't somebody think of the local plumbers website!"

There is an assumption being made here that isn't being made explicit: the only way that malicious behavior can be avoided is by paying a programmer. Is that a valid assumption? Or the less strong: a plugin is less secure if developed by a coding agent when compared to any possible programmer. Is that a valid assumption? Aren't all of the well-known issues in WordPress plugins the fault of programmers?

What I feel in these comments isn't a genuine attempt to engage but rather Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) writ large.

Also, for what it is worth, the most recent project he developed was using React, Tailwind and Postgres (which he called "Post ... something?"). It was very work-flowy (user uploads a doc, it goes into a queue for manual review, once approved it is converted and uploaded to Google Docs, an email is sent, etc). I asked him if he had investigated any workflow builders and he said no, he just vibe coded it. It's also worth noting that he is paying for QA, I think that existed already in house for his other projects. Well, actually what he said was "it is currently in testing", so I can't confirm if it is professional QA.
by cherry_tree | 2025-07-17 02:38:04+00:00
And I think that’s why the parent used the word “indirectly”.

By supporting US industry you are indirectly supporting the US government and its actions, because those taking part in commerce in America pay taxes which support the US government. If you believe the US governments actions to be illegal or immoral then supporting US farmers would not offer a material difference to supporting Mexican farmers who themselves (it is alleged here without sources) are made to contribute towards the cartels.
by mNovak | 2025-07-17 02:39:28+00:00
From the imagery, they seem to be focused on earthmoving. Some cursory googling indicates an excavator operator can cost on the order of $1000/day (to the end customer, presumably less to an owner-operator). For some loose context, a slab-on-grade warehouse project I was distantly involved with a couple years back budgeted some $3.5M of sitework (includes other things than just earthmoving), which was about 10% of the total construction cost.

Plug in your own longevity and uptime assumptions, but if that roof-mount kit costs on the order of $50k, it seems viable.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-17 02:39:42+00:00
This feels more plausible for long-term success than Waymo for a number of reasons:

* Construction sites are smaller in footprint

* They’re more easily covered in sensor networks to support autonomous operations

* They’re typically controlled-access environments, which reduces potential interruptions to automated routines

* Since they have higher risk profiles than public infrastructure, the expectation is that workers will be more aware of autonomous operations and any deviations before they cause serious harm

Honestly, I’d wager closed-site autonomy takes off before anyone nails national or global self-driving on existing infrastructure.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-07-17 02:39:53+00:00
> I remember there being a bunch of Anthropologists that were hired before that, under Genevieve Bell. It wasn't clear to me why they were hired.

Yes, I remember contracting at Intel in 2006 and the Anthropologists were at one end of the building we were in. Their area was a lot different than the engineering areas. Lots of art, sitting around in circles, etc. I remember asking about what was up over there "Those are the anthropologists".
by fuzztester | 2025-07-17 02:40:02+00:00
>such that their back was against the wall at the end of an open plan office row. Our VP was very proud of that nobody could look over his shoulder.

Oh, so like gunfighters trying to be a bit more safe while sitting in saloons, in Western (cowboy) novels like the Sudden (name of the hero) series by Oliver Strange.

Grew up reading novels like those (and other genres) as a kid. Mainly bull, but somewhat good writing, and entertaining to a green youngster like me at the time, at least.

Good times. Sigh.

Dey don't make em like dat no more.

Grrr.

:)
by pixelmonkey | 2025-07-17 02:41:52+00:00
I wrote a little on this topic in "Putting Your Media on a Diet":

https://amontalenti.com/2024/01/31/media-diet

Written in Jan 2024. I sensed that the world had already moved on from reading as a core source of information and awareness of the world.

But in that essay, I tried to make the case that this is a mistake -- that the environment has never been better for deep readers, that the internet and the various sources of cheap/free long-form text can be a deep reading utopia, if properly curated.

But that's the issue. Most people click into the default. They don't curate. They don't monitor their media diet. And so they are drawn, like moths to a flame, to short-form video (especially), as well as other passive information sources that resemble TV and talk radio from prior eras.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-17 02:43:21+00:00
You said demo, and I said documentation. I don't need to run it, I need to understand how I would run it, and more importantly it's an opportunity for you to drive down the skepticism in your target audience since they, too, can see that you have something real

This will be the last time I reply to this thread, since you are clearly in a vastly different place in your journey, but I thought I'd take one more parting shot at getting you to treat your potential customers seriously
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-17 02:43:31+00:00
Just tonight, I saw a friend of mine, pull a new foldable Razr from her purse.

They are cool phones, but I do iOS. I still use a 13 Mini, and will continue to do so, for quite some time.

As to the point of this article, I seem to recall a couple of very small Android phones, some years ago (about credit-card sized). I guess they didn’t sell well.
by bb88 | 2025-07-17 02:43:55+00:00
Back in the early days of Redhat, rpm's didn't really have good dependency management. Yes there were rpms, yes you could download them, but getting the full dep tree was a PITA. Most people installed the full Linux distro rather than a lightweight version because of this.

Debian's apt-get was very "apt" at the time when it came out. It solved the entire issue for Debian. There was a point at which there was an apt-rpm for redhat. Yum tried to solve it for redhat, but didn't really work that well -- particularly if you needed to pin packages to certain versions.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-17 02:44:33+00:00
I confess, I miss some of the experimental teaching techniques they tried in the late 60's. Education was a surprisingly dynamic field it seems.

In the U.S. my mom moved my sister and I into a new public school for what would have been my 4th grade.

What an odd school it was compared to the previous public schools I had been to. For starters, I was not in 4th grade, I was in Community 5 (I assume that Kindergarten was Community 1, so they decided to toss the zero-based system I was used to.) I seem to recall they had combined 5th and 6th grade into something called Suite 67.

The school itself was circular in construction with a sunken library in the center of the circle — the wedge-shaped classes going radially around the library. (If it sounds like Moon Base from Space 1999, I suspect it's because everyone in the 70's were drinking the same Koolaid.)

Classes were "open". While there were enough students to form two or more classes per grade, er, community, our community did not have a single teacher but a few. So you might have one teacher and learn reading, writing, and then later in the day another teacher would step in for science, math.

I believe the two teachers swapped and would teach the other group in Community 5 — the other group getting Math and Science in the early part of the day, English after.

And it was described as "open" and I believe that to mean that the two Community 5 classes had no physical wall between them. I don't remember though And, yeah, I know, sounds like trying to watch one movie at a drive-in while another screen is showing something else. I believe though there was perhaps some theory involving osmosis or some-such.

I remember clearly, now almost fifty years later, at least two of the science experiments we did in Community 5. They involved experiments with a control group, collecting data (one involving the effects of sunlight on bean plant growth, the other on the temperature preferences of isopods). They had definitely nailed that curriculum.

It was also where I was introduced to the Metric System (that Reagan would shitcan some years later).

When, a few years back, I went back to Overland Park, Kansas to try and find the school I was sad to see that it had been torn down and a standard rectilinear building in its place. No memory from the front desk staff about its wild history.

So sad.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-17 02:45:56+00:00
None of this explains why it's just impossible to get small phones.

You have people who want them unusably large and people who want them to fit in your hand. The solution in every other market is that products are manufactured to fit both sets of needs. You don't see pants coming in one size with the advice "wear a belt".

What's going on?
by zhyder | 2025-07-17 02:48:45+00:00
I had filled out the form for this. Wish Eric stuck to this instead of the Pebble revival: it'd have a bigger market.

I don't understand how the market isn't considered big enough for any phone OEM: how can it be smaller than that of foldables? Or even if it is, isn't it still big enough, and shouldn't there generally be more sizes and form factors of phones?

It's as tho the car industry decided to only make 184" long SUVs (6.2-6.7" phones) and 200" long 3-row SUVs (foldables)... no other SUVs, no sedans/hatchbacks, no sports cars (much smaller and much lower volume). And different cars are actually hard to engineer and mass-manufacture the chassis and bodies for... in contrast a phone's HW is inherently more modular and mostly just the screen and battery need to be changed for each size.
by fakedang | 2025-07-17 02:50:27+00:00
I can safely walk around the streets at 2 am in a "bad" neighbourhood in Dubai or Singapore. Can't do the same in most Western cities.

I'd gladly trade a little bit of freedom (the freedom to criticize a government that isn't even mine) in exchange for this massive improvement in security. Apparently a lot of Western entrepreneurs are feeling the same way lately.

On a side note, a friend who used to work in the Dubai Police told me that even they're getting swamped with the rapid increase in population, and even they're getting subjected to budget cuts of late. There used to be a time when part of the police force was even foreign, but those positions were eliminated in favor of a UAE-nationals-only force.
by Duanemclemore | 2025-07-17 02:51:39+00:00
I'm an architect. Well really now an architecture professor who (elevator pitch) writes computational tools to implement sophisticated geometries in advanced fabrication...

That's all to say I want advancements in jobsite automation desperately. But it's WAY harder than people from other domains think. Imagine driving on a road while you're also building it while others are doing both around you too...

These folks seem to be concentrating at the moment on excavation which (without looking) if I recall is already a pretty active and developed in terms of automation. But get out of the ground and you hit some pretty big issues pretty quick. To get a sense, heres's one of my go-to articles when people wonder about jobsite automation...

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-are-the-robotic...
by mjg59 | 2025-07-17 02:52:22+00:00
The fundamental problem was that x86 had no mechanism for verifying first instruction at the time (Boot Guard and Platform Secure Boot provide that now), and the only way to try to deal with this was by adding immutable storage - but given where they put it, that was expensive, so small. And that led to making poor tradeoffs, influenced by having what was clearly not a great level of adversarial security analysis, but even implementing that perfectly they'd still have been fucked by the gate A20 thing which is maybe the absolute funniest legacy design failure that perpetuated well into the 21st century.

(The Intel/AMD difference on IP rollover is also funny but given the number of other ways to circumvent things...)

I actually use this as a teaching example - it's a great way to talk about how CPUs actually work and interact with other hardware, and a good understanding of this gives a lot of insight into low level platform design
by spaceguillotine | 2025-07-17 02:52:26+00:00
nah, i went from apprentice to lead installer in under 3 years, there is full training programs for the trades, but you will most likely get injured out before retirement so a lot of people won't even go that route. Until the trades are capped at 30 hours a week, you're going to injure out most of your workforce.

It is really hard on bodies.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-17 02:52:45+00:00
Fixing the half-arssed effort Sam Johnson is famous for is long overdue. Although we owe him a debt, that unnecessary B in debt is completely ridiculous.

The lack of correlation between sound and letter is embarrassing.

I wish this would have taken off (Maybe even giving us a gender neutral pronoun?).

Sadly, we'll need a dictator like Sejong the Great to make it happen.
by defrost | 2025-07-17 02:53:27+00:00
Equipment operators are lead by their largest clients, mining companies such as Rio Tinto for example.

24/7/365 large fleet operators that move a billion tonne of ore per annum and alter the spin balance of the planet by a detectable amount.

Pages such as https://www.riotinto.com/en/mn/about/innovation/automation are out of date and don't do justice to the extant of and demand for grand scale semi autonomous mining and construction equipment.

BBC coverage of one site and mining automation: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgej7gzg8l0o

There's a large yet to be built copper project in the US that has autonomus mining plans in the economic technical report.

https://resolutioncopper.com/mining-method/

https://resolutioncopper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/RTRC...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Copper#Reactions