MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nyrikki | 2025-07-17 14:20:52+00:00
Subbarao Kambhampati and his team has several papers strongly suggesting that the intermediate tokens are of no symantic import.[0]

My hunch is that training explicitly for human acceptance of the intermediate/scratch tokens will end up being expensive.

What you need is to converge to the correct answer, and scratch space dramatically improves expressivity[1], but the relationship to learning and retrieval is still open unless I missed something.

Remember even access to a pure random Oracle dramatically improves compute time on some problems.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775 [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02393
by spiffyk | 2025-07-17 14:21:04+00:00
This absolutely IS a reason to distrust a website claiming to be owned by a bank (or any other institution working with such sensitive assets). To be precise, such a website absolutely needs to have a certificate granted not only on the basis of "yes, I control the machine this domain points to" (which is what Let's Encrypt does), but also based on other, more physical and reliable means.
by rob74 | 2025-07-17 14:21:10+00:00
Oh, another one of those articles where people try to logically explain why they absolutely need to learn Rust and no other language will do. This time, even with religious connotations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God-shaped_hole). I mean, if you want to learn Rust, good for you, go ahead, no need to write a whole blog post rationalizing your decision!
by kstrauser | 2025-07-17 14:21:12+00:00
That’s the thing: just is a lot simpler and cleaner for the simple things, too. Like not requiring .PHONY, for instance. And if you already have to install cargo/uv/cmake, add just to that list of dependencies.

The argument stuff is nice when you realize you’re no longer constrained by not having easy access to it. I used just to build my blog, and added a target to create a template entry whenever I updated to a new release of certain software. I could write “just newversion 1.2.3” to publish an announcement using the same mechanisms that did everything else. Without that feature, I could have scripted something up to do the same. With it, I didn’t have to. I wouldn’t have tried that with make.
by Galanwe | 2025-07-17 14:21:53+00:00
I don't understand why this is downvoted, I think people are thinking you are promoting a view, while you are non-judgmentally guessing.

And I do agree with you, I think the current administration is focused on devaluing the dollar, while trying hard to minimize collateral damage such as higher rates.

I don't think this is going to work, but I can see a lot of ways in which it could. Future will tell us.
by massung | 2025-07-17 14:22:02+00:00
I use USAA for banking.

Something they do when they initiate a call to me on the phone is they start by making sure they are talking to me (they don’t ask me to prove it) and making sure I have the app on the my phone or access to a web page.

Then they initiate a MFA check within the app. I have to get it and read back a number. Then they ask me for my phone PIN or password. Once that’s done, then we can start talking.
Ask HN: – Build Gaming Setup AIO: Steam – GoG – Epic Games – RetroArch – PPSSPP
by s3arch | 2025-07-17 14:22:10+00:00
Currently, we can legally play PC games using the Proton compatibility layer, retro games, and PlayStation games on Linux through emulators, provided we pre-own all of the games.

I have customized (refactored packages of) Linux to directly boot into the games dashboard and start playing the games. Well, there are options to switch to emulators, the Steam app, etc.

It also has the ability to sideload games, which is intended solely for testing purposes.

This way, one will be free from the hassle of installing games and configuring everything by hand himself.

Finally, as a gamer, I get the best of many worlds. PC, retro, PlayStation, etc. I get to play both using controllers as well as a mouse and keyboard.

I want to sell desktops without charging for the operating system, and I will contact all the vendors who build customized PCs to install this operating system.

I have spoken to a few vendors who built custom PCs during my PoC, and they have asked for the OS to install before selling to gamers.

As a PC gamer, would you love to try out such stuff to get a rich gaming experience with minimal configuration and setup?

Which gamer is ready to try out this setup based on the price/configuration?

A. <$600

B. $600 - $1000

C. $1000 - $2500

D. >$2500

Do you have any feedback, opinions, suggestions, or likes/dislikes? Please share.

Thank you.

PS: I am going crazy with these setup ideas and justifying my decision to proceed only if there is some valuable feedback. I have spent hours and hours tweaking the OS and making it run on various devices. Those who liked this have displayed their interest in having this OS and shipping it with them in their hardware distribution. This can be considered as a cry for help not to do free work.
by EPendragon | 2025-07-17 14:22:37+00:00
That's exactly it. It was one of those unintended consequences of blocking everything that led me down the road of figuring it out.

Like other commenters have indicated, I will likely need to go back and allow some other social media to access the OPG data for previews to render properly. But since I mostly post on LinkedIn and HN, I don't feel the need to go and allow all of the other media at the moment. That might change in the future.
by Corgipower12 | 2025-07-17 14:22:43+00:00
My 2 cents TLDR: seize opportunity but based on sound analysis and caution, not blind optimism. I think they are saying something of the effect of:

1. The short trade (The Big Short or similar trades during the housing bubble) happened during a period of market euphoria. I.e. when most investors were irrationally confident and greedy.

2. Instead of sitting out or being fearful (as Buffett's original advice would suggest), the people who shorted the market took an aggressive position. They were indeed "greedy" in the sense of seeking profit, but they did so with deep awareness of the systemic risk that others were ignoring.
by reisse | 2025-07-17 14:22:58+00:00
> We have to remember nothing was "modern" at that time (around 2008)

Sorry, your memory is wrong. I've owned Nokia 5800 back then (2009 or 2010, don't remember exactly), and had a chance to compare it side to side with HTC G1 and iPhone 3G. It felt dated. Many apps were not designed with touchscreen in mind, the standard UI was "list with two buttons on the bottom", grandfathered from phones with keyboards. Resistive touchscreen didn't help either.

Then, the mobile hardware was making quantum leaps each year. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it felt every next iPhone or Android phone was twice as fast as the previous generation. And Symbian was stuck on a basically single hardware platform, with a single supported chip and a single weird display resolution (640x360).

Symbian^3 was a step in the right direction (at least they managed to rebuild the kernel for the different chip!), but the legacy was too heavy, and the competitors were moving much faster than Nokia. Like, the last Symbian flagship (Nokia 808) still had that 640x360 resolution on 4 inches. At that time, iPhone had HiDPI displays for two years!
by techpineapple | 2025-07-17 14:23:39+00:00
I wonder? Assert? The future is more and more going to be dominated by people who want to and strive to understand the fundamentals of their craft, and people who outsource their thinking to AI are going to fall further and further behind.

People like to say, that schools need to adapt to an approach where students use AI to solve problems / teach them how to think, but I think this is deeply naive. The only people who will be successful are the ones who appreciate that they have to combine new and old ways of learning. And if you don’t disciple yourself to learn say writing by writing from scratch rather than always with AI, youre going to lose.
by blub | 2025-07-17 14:24:03+00:00
The idea that one needs Rust to write reliable software is not only ridiculous at a logical level, it is also contradicted by the fact that Rust is but a tiny, irrelevant subset of safety-critical software or really all software. If it were really “preferable for writing such production software”, more people would be using it.

But they don’t because the compiler does not carry the burden for you. It puts the burden of writing code in a way that satisfies the Rust lifetime management design on you, and that’s what you’ll be doing forever.

There zero proof that Rust software is higher quality than equivalent e.g. Swift or Java. The memory-safety trick only works against C and C++.
by stefanka | 2025-07-17 14:24:05+00:00
Roboy used dyneema tendons if I recall correctly. Fluidic actuators is another option. IMO, additional sensors and sensor fusion are necessary but this will raise the costs and demand to control software significantly. We are researching humanoid robots for quite some decades now and these problems are easily underestimated (similarly to autonomous driving). I doubt we'll see them in our houses very soon.
by komali2 | 2025-07-17 14:24:12+00:00
We ran our co-op on matrix for a while. We switched to discord because onboarding to matrix and making people use this "weird app" was a burden. I would have loved to use IRC, or xmpp, but the way we use these "chat apps" is as the cornerstone of our entire organization, and I couldn't find a good way to get IRC or xmpp to work that way.

For example, we have the "gigs" channel where gigs that are hiring are posted as threads, and people interested reply in that thread asking questions about the gig, putting their names in the hat, getting communicated with about client questions etc. A lot of the information is "duplicated" to our CRM and even our wiki in a little table, but at the end of the day the "chat room" is the hub.

Same for events (which are duplicated to wiki and calendar), announcements (wiki, monthly email newsletter), and long running threads in "general" planning FOSS projects or whatever that people that only check in a couple times a week will pick up again after a gap.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-07-17 14:24:12+00:00
I don't think this is actually quite the case when you look historically. What seems to be the case is that cities have a sort of S-shaped demand curve, where a fraction of people are willing pay a huge premium to be near their job and their entertainment, and many others need housing to be dirt cheap to live in the metaphorical pod. In other words, it's not that the demand curve is just higher than the suburbs: the demand curve is more sloped. Cities then constrain their housing supply so that landlords end up only serving high-premium customers, ensuring that the surplus here goes to landlords and not to renters.
by Eji1700 | 2025-07-17 14:24:16+00:00
Sure but I think one of the huge issues is size and the simple fact that the union is by definition NOT pro country/greater good/citizen but pro Union member.

So yea when some CEO golden parachutes out with all the money we’re all rightfully pissed, but people weren’t thrilled with jimmy hoffa or state mandated monopolies that just don’t give a fuck either.

In my city the power company will just tell you to fuck right off no matter what your schedule was for opening your business, no matter how important you are. Hope you can handle your building being built 1+ months behind because “nah fuck you” while the government head makes a million + a year.

Scaling these things so they don’t fall to corruption and graft is very very hard.
by Zenst | 2025-07-17 14:24:29+00:00
Marketing and hype have, as they would say `synergised` in recent decades under new media. Which sadly distracts from the analysis of companies, which is why valuation of companies is more based on PR over assets. I would go as far as calling it hypedinflation, as all that money that ends up in the market, comes from consumers in the end.

So saying AI is the biggest threat to the S&P is glossing over the root causes. Analysts, getting sucked into the marketing hype, are self-fulfilling in that some people go on their recommendations. After all, in the past if a bank was questioned about how stable it is, could easily see a domino of withdrawals that snowballs into actualy becomming unstable, even if it wasn't before.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-07-17 14:24:35+00:00
The answer is: it is unbound. Intellisense will most likely tell you it is `Unbound | <type>` when you try to use the value from a for loop. Would it be possible that it could be default initialized to `None`? Sure, but `None` is a destinctivly different value than a still unbound variable and may result in different handling.
by theamk | 2025-07-17 14:24:55+00:00
Some sort of class helps here a lot - not as much as actual tutoring, but just as motivation and audience that you can show off your projects to.

A tea-making robot you made at your home is boring. A tea-making robot you made during class which participated in end-of-class competition and got 3rd place? Much more interesting.

And if you are in CA, there is Robogames which has (or at least had in the past) categories such as "art bot" (any Arduino project which has a moving part can participate) and even "static bot" (for projects without moving parts). You get to demo your project to few hundred participants, and maybe even get a prize!
by dsabanin | 2025-07-17 14:25:52+00:00
I find it completely acceptable to outsource some of my thinking and tasks to LLMs. Not everything is my primary area of focus or expertise, and not all questions are equally important. For example, I could buy any random toaster oven, or I can kick off a deep research to pick a best toaster by my criteria and in 5 minutes I’ll have a much better context for this decision, without having to switch my mind from my primary objectives. I don’t want to think about toasters.
by slightwinder | 2025-07-17 14:25:55+00:00
> Who's actually being hurt here? No one is buying 20 year old consoles and games that probably aren't even sold by the original company anymore.

Actually, they do, and even significant older games. Retro-games are regularly updated and newly released. Sometimes they are even remastered into new games. Old Consoles are also sometimes resold as special time limited offers, and kinda popular.

It's not a multi-billion-dollar-business, but official retro-gaming is still thriving.

>> Agents accused the creator of promoting pirated copyrighted materials stemming from his coverage of Anbernic handheld game consoles. > Seems hardly something worthy of arresting, let alone jailing someone.

Those handheld-consoles are kinda infamous for being sold with thousands and ten of thousands copies of old games from all kind of consoles and countries. Maybe he advertised such deals. The joke here is that in my country, you can even buy them directly on Amazon, and there never seem to be a problem with it. Not sure if it's the same in Italy, but I would think the same EU-regulations apply there.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-07-17 14:26:01+00:00
How many measurements did you take over what course of time? 8 bpm can be explained by normal variance or any number of things that might slightly elevate your heart rate. Hell, last time I went for a physical they measured it 3 times while taking my blood pressure and I was able to generate a 15bpm difference between the first and last measurement just by sitting quietly and box breathing. I was also nowhere near as low as 50bpm despite being in the best shape of my life. Hell, my dad runs marathons like most people run to the store and he wasn't at 50bpm resting on his best day.

I'd also be interested to see if it flatlines, continues to increase or decreases as you maintain this program but alas I don't think imma get a longitudinal study out of a fellow workout nerd on hackernews.

edit: also for the sake of politeness let me thank you for allowing a stranger to interrogate your diet and exercise regimen on the internet. Please know that I'm not trying to call you out, the human experience is so vast that it's easy for both of our stories to be 100% true but there also has to be some sort of common element to your experience and mine
by apwell23 | 2025-07-17 14:26:50+00:00
> get points for registering read books

> little prize you can pick up from the library

I am not convinced that this is really motivating to kids. Don't they have tons' of toys at home an in the library to play with already. Why would they care about tiny shark teeth.

Also i find the whole concept of 'read to get prize' cynical, cheap and manipulative. Don't want to manipulate my own child with these cheap tricks.
by sometimes_all | 2025-07-17 14:27:29+00:00
> everyone on the consumer level is more than happy with current Intel/AMD offerings

They shouldn't be. Apple's chips changed the game so much that it was a no-brainer for me to choose them when I bought a new laptop - PCs just couldn't compete with that compute and battery life. Anyone with a decent enough budget is not even considering Windows.

I don't think any power user will be happy with Intel/AMD any more.
by danaris | 2025-07-17 14:27:34+00:00
I would say exactly the opposite, frankly.

With the internet, there was a clear value proposition for the vast majority of use cases. Even if some of the specific businesses were poorly-conceived or overly optimistic, the underlying technology was very obviously a) growing organically, b) going to be something everyone used & wanted, and c) a commodity.

All three of those parts are vital for a massive boom like that.

Generative AI is growing some, yes, but a lot of the growth is being pushed by the companies creating or otherwise massively invested in gen-AI. And yes, many people try out ChatGPT's webapp, but that's mostly a gimmick—and frankly, many of the cases where people are attempting to use it for more are fairly awful cautionary tales (eg, the people trying to use it as a therapist, and instead getting a cheerleader that confirms their worst impulses).

Gen-AI may be useful to some people, but it's not going to be a central feature of most people's lives—at least not in the forms it exists in today, or what can be clearly extrapolated from them. Yes, it can help some with coding—with mixed results—but not everyone's a programmer. Not everyone's even an office worker. The internet has obvious useful applications for a plumber or a lawyer; if I hired one of those and they said they were using generative AI to help them in their work, I'd fire them instantly. There are already a bunch of (both amusing and harrowing) stories of lawyers getting reamed out in court for using gen-AI to help them write legal filings.

OpenAI may or may not have a robust moat—I've seen people arguing both ways; personally I suspect lean slightly toward the "not" side—but generative AI as a whole is not something that's an interchangeable commodity the way internet access, or even hosting, is. First of all, in order to use the models that are touted as being advanced enough to actually look like more than spicy autocorrect, you need a serious GPU farm. Second of all, AFAIK, those models are being kept private by the big players like Google and OpenAI. That means that if you build your business on generative AI, unless you're able to both fork out for a massive hardware investment and do your own training to match what the big boys are already doing, you're going to be 100% dependent on another specific for-profit company for your entire business model. That's not a sound business decision, especially during this time where both the technology and the legal aspect of generative AI are still so much in flux.

Generative AI may be here to stay, but it's not going to take over the world the way the internet did.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-07-17 14:27:34+00:00
The first sentence says it all. Sounds like linux cake meme. I would try finding docker image with all email things working out of the box - if such thing exists.

Suggestion to other providers is also... something. I have been using other providers. Proton does not allow me to use IMAP on free. Other servers have much spam, which I have been able to clear with some cronjob, but also that is a poor job. Besides... how do you know that other companies are better on serving you? How can I know if they sell my data to China?

And self hosting is tough, even though it is easier than has ever been.
by epistasis | 2025-07-17 14:27:50+00:00
> You can zoom on the image and see the tweets.

No, I literally can not. The interface of imgur does not allow zooming in to see what is in the Tweets! Collecting that many tweets into such a massive image is the behavior of a crazy person, likely motivated by crazy politics. I do not know what's in the Tweets that's supposed to be objectionable, but the obsessive collection of stuff like that, and spending the time to create such an unreadable way.

> "If you care about what I say you are weird, and you care because you are an evil person"

Who are you quoting? Who brought evil into this? Very weird thing to start your comment with, what is your point?
by ibdf | 2025-07-17 14:28:30+00:00
The state boundaries, at least for NJ, seems wrong... so the pin is also in the wrong location.

I honestly find it hard to read the news when they are all stacked on top of each other. For instance, how is this useful? (screenshot: https://ibb.co/DDZ0txJ5)

It's hard to click on the items, and the constant zooming in/out is annoying. The linking of the news to other locations is interesting, but it doesn't really provide any new information to the user - what happens when you need to link something across the globe? How many linking locations can you have per article?

I also noticed that some news show up twice (same title / same source / same state).

It would be more interesting to me to see a sidebar with news titles/desc within a radius/city/state and as I click on the news the locations are displayed in the map. But I would still need to leave the website to go read the news, and then have to switch back and forth to get the "geographic context"... at that point as might as well just search google maps.
by microtonal | 2025-07-17 14:28:31+00:00
One of my former banks handled this pretty well. They called you and would say something like “there is an issue, but since you should never trust a direct phone call pretending to be your bank, please look up our number on our website and call us”.

It’s kinda nice because while doing this, they also educate their customers to never trust such a call and to rely on official information to contact them.
by Anon1096 | 2025-07-17 14:28:56+00:00
If you want to live in a house, then yes, you will have to commute potentially far distances. But if you're willing to live in an apartment then you can still live in the core of the cities mentioned. This just makes sense, if everyone got to live in a house then it'd hardly have the density required to be considered a city anymore. And actually the existence of 45min away suburbs from the heart of the city is exactly the problem with post-WWII development, if anything you should pay a much heavier premium or live even further.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-17 14:29:41+00:00
> Intel also makes low power SoCs for mobile devices, e.g. Atom.

Last time I heard that name was well over a decade ago for crappy "netbook" devices. Just looked it up, last Atom CPU was released in 2013 per Wikipedia [1]. They might still make them for embedded computing purposes with very long life cycles, but no idea at which volume.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom