MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NomDePlum | 2025-07-14 23:26:14+00:00
What intrinsic value does other forms of money have? It's at best a promissory note which can freely be devalued by the promises.

2008 and the subsequent QE demonstrated that surely? Look to Argentina, Zimbabwe and numerous other periods of time and countries for when the value of money became frankly worthless relative to it's previous value.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-07-14 23:26:29+00:00
> Having the Firefox engine or Chrome engine isn’t going to make it any better.

Nothing is going to change in the short term for sure. Users also prefer the responsive feeling of native apps in general, though progressive web apps might help slightly.

I still believe that the EU started with the correct intentions with the DMA. They saw a need to increase the competition in the digital marketplace. However, it slowly turned into a public trial of Apple and transferring the ownership of iOS ecosystem to public domain almost.
by muzani | 2025-07-14 23:26:46+00:00
There's a reason we don't have feudalist governments. It's a "solved" problem.

The normies may have much less power, but it's never zero. Wealth isn't the only form of power. There's law/politics and there's military power. Whenever a group oversteps, you get the Magna Carta, you get secularism, you get civil wars and your Second Amendment. This is why the French Revolution and The Civil War(s) are in the textbooks.

When Venezuela's economy collapsed, a South American friend said that they deserved it. Every other South American country fought corruption and died for independence.

We never want violence, but it is there as an option. Laws and economic policies are there to make sure the violence is never the best option. Non-democratic capitalism doesn't work because it puts the law and the wealth in the hands of a few and leaves force as the only option. The world didn't suddenly convert into communism because Marx and Lenin were handsome demon lords; they converted because capitalism pushed them into a corner.

When you have this decline, it's because a society had weak and corrupt lawyers, statesmen, and economists. These may not be your normies, but they're pretty close to the middle class.

But you don't get to praise capitalism for the cheap air conditioning and then criticize it when low costs push production overseas. You can't negotiate for the high salaries then blame greedy CEOs when you get replaced by someone cheaper. You don't get to charge "as high as possible" and then wonder why your doctor is charging your life savings to save your life. The normies built a culture around winning and lopsided power, then are shocked when power is used against them.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-14 23:27:14+00:00
The government could run an exchange program instead: The cheap (subsidized) fresh oil price only applies when people are simultaneously selling an equivalent amount of used oil. The government then ensures the used oil is liquidated at a competitive price.

Real establishments would periodically swap some old containers of used oil for new stock, while fraudsters trying to arbitrage would struggle to acquire cheap old oil from some other source.
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-07-14 23:27:27+00:00
No matter how chaotic the merger looks, the event horizon must asymptotically become either spherical (Schwarzschild) or oblate (Kerr). The mass distribution inside doesn’t change this, general relativity doesn’t allow static “lumpy” horizons.

It’s wild how much happens in those milliseconds though. Numerical relativity papers like the one you shared from arxiv.org show the horizon “sloshing” before it stabilizes.
by imiric | 2025-07-14 23:28:02+00:00
> There's still no framework in e.g. Go that comes anywhere close to matching Django.

I don't think Go is an apt comparison. Its philosophy is to eschew traditional frameworks in favor of relying on the rich standard library as much as possible, and on small external libraries when needed. This does lead to a duplication of effort and bespoke mini-frameworks that only technically have a fraction of the features of a typical framework, but the end result is much simpler, more understandable and flexible. All in a highly performant language with a great ecosystem, packaging, and tooling <3

That said, Django is an amazing framework that has stood the test of time. Like many here, it was one of the projects that kickstarted my web development career. Kudos to the team and community, and here's to another 20! \o/
by treetalker | 2025-07-14 23:29:01+00:00
It's true: I/we haven't decided what "works" means.

I've been meaning to read that book; I haven't yet, so I'm not in a position to evaluate its argument. But the argument as you describe it makes intuitive sense, and I would agree that the hypothetical mind would be at least analogous to national politics.

Suppose "works" means that the majority of citizens (lower-level agents?) may readily implement its collective will for society's governance and benefit within the bounds of constitutionality. (Take, for example, the will for universal, affordable, high -quality health care.)

I would contend that the federal government was intended (in part) to enable the implementation of such will, and that it no longer works as intended. (Reasons include filibuster and other intra-chamber parliamentary rules; gerrymandering; corporate interference à la Citizens United; etc.)

(Of course one could argue that the Constitution applies pressure against the tyranny of the majority in several ways, but let's leave that aside for now.)
by i80and | 2025-07-14 23:29:05+00:00
Not their first time around the block! https://apricot.blender.org/

It's nice that the free game engine options are so much richer now than they were in 2008; if memory serves they had trouble implementing Go Frankie fully in the blender game engine, so they made one version in BGE and another in Crystal Space.

Now you can just use Godot.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-14 23:30:03+00:00
The assumption that the data must be "high resolution" is erroneous. Low resolution noisy data works just fine, you just need a lot more of it. You can use standard signal processing tricks such as stacking noisy low-resolution data to extract high-resolution features. This requires a lot more processing but that isn't much of a limitation. These reconstruction techniques work even if the data is from unrelated sources that aren't even trying to measure the thing you are measuring.

Any data exhaust will work, people have created interesting PoCs leveraging things like HVAC data, RF attenuation, etc. High-precision weather models essentially work the same way, making inferences by stitching together diverse event data that has nothing to do with weather.

High-quality high-resolution data sources largely don't exist in the way people imagine they do, so you need to do this anyway. If you have a high-resolution spatiotemporal graph for entities, tying it to identity is always trivial.

It would be more common if it weren't for the fact that open source platforms scale poorly for this type of analytical processing.
by kmeisthax | 2025-07-14 23:30:40+00:00
On Apple Silicon, writing to memory on a PCIe / Thunderbolt device will generate an exception. ARM spec says you're allowed to write to devices as if they were memory but Apple enforces that all writes to external devices go through a device memory mapping[0]. This makes using an external GPU on Apple Silicon[1] way more of a pain in the ass, if not impossible. AFAIK nobody's managed to write an eGPU driver for Apple Silicon, even with Asahi.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102376/0200/Device-m...

[1] Raspberry Pi 4's PCIe has the same problem AFAIK
by gruez | 2025-07-14 23:31:34+00:00
>To begin with, let's not ignore how broad a category "small business" is. Laws requiring health inspections or licenses etc. often operate on the basis of frequency or number of patrons. If you have around a dozen people over for movie night every Saturday with the event published on social media and you all chip in for pizza, are you a food service business? For that matter, is that a public performance in violation of copyright?

That's what courts are for. I don't think there's any case where people tried to prosecute a shared movie night as a business, because it'd be laughed out of court. Same goes for whether it's copyright infringement or not. Moreover if you look at how authoritarian regimes work in practice, dissents are often prosecuted under national security laws, campaign finance violations, or libel laws, not because they violated the health code by having a movie night.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-14 23:32:50+00:00
Thanks, this is exactly what I wondered. In practical terms I can’t imagine hitting that limit.

It’s a bit more than I pay in CAD, but I’d pay quite a bit more just to stop hitting the limits I have with Claude, even if the rest of the service was identical. It’s a pain. My usage is also very bursty so I spend several days getting no usage, then repeatedly hit limits while I brainstorm and spec things out.

I’m thinking out loud here in case it’s useful feedback. It seems like a great pricing schemes for my use case.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-14 23:32:59+00:00
Well that is rather obvious. I doubt PHP has RTOS type guarantees built in.

Funny you should mention stabilizer control (I don't think that is an aeronautic term). I recently visited the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hanger at RAF Conningsby. It turns out that the Hurricane and Spitfire had unusual (by today's standards but normal for the times) ways of applying trim to control surfaces.

One of them - you glue a piece of string on top of an aileron and on the other you smack it with a hammer to bend it (that must be the Spitfire) and then you test it out and keep fettling until the job is done.

Well, that's roll sorted out, I'm not sure what trim for the other two axes (pitch, yaw) involves. Probably knicker elastic.
by NomDePlum | 2025-07-14 23:34:54+00:00
In what way? The horrors of Auschwitz, etc where not known at the time.

Even with the limited access it's clear that Israel is killing and torturing an entire nation. Whether you want to call it ethnic cleansing or genocide anyone pretending it isn't happening has no excuse.

That the US, and more generally, the West, are arming and funding it makes us all complicit
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-07-14 23:35:14+00:00
Which home routers can resolve recursively instead of needing upstream DNS? I’ve never seen this across many brands of home routers.

Your ISP publishes T&Cs and a privacy policy too.

Furthermore, your ISP’s resolver is probably in your ISP’s network, so your queries don’t have to go out through peering/transit.
by xuki | 2025-07-14 23:35:57+00:00
That particular MBP model had a high rate of GPU failure because it ran too hot.

I imagined the convo between Steve Jobs and Jensen Huang went like this:

S: your GPU is shit

J: your thermal design is shit

S: f u

J: f u too

Apple is the kind of company that hold a grudge for a very long time, their relationships with suppliers are very one way, their way or the highway.
by indigodaddy | 2025-07-14 23:36:03+00:00
Sure, but here we are talking about an endpoint that we know should/previously responded to ICMP, and then are subsequently having a problem with it. So if we are now having a problem with the service provided by the endpoint, AND we see not insignificant packet loss on MTR/ping (or intermittent TTL exceeded which points to route issues), then we can be pretty certain we have a connectivity/network/route problem. Which is a problem at layer 3. My point in this whole thing is that once we know that, it makes no sense to say, oh let's shift to or we really should be "troubleshooting the service/application that the endpoint is providing" whether that be https or DNS or whatever. No, we keep troubleshooting the network/connectivity issues if/once we are confident that the problem lies therein.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-07-14 23:36:10+00:00
See also the Selection of the Doge (of Venice):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice#Selection_of_th...

> New regulations for the elections of the doge introduced in 1268 remained in force until the end of the republic in 1797. Their intention was to minimize the influence of individual great families, and this was effected by a complex electoral machinery. Thirty members of the Great Council, chosen by lot, were reduced by lot to nine; the nine chose forty and the forty were reduced by lot to twelve, who chose twenty-five. The twenty-five were reduced by lot to nine, and the nine elected forty-five. These forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who elected the doge.
by frollogaston | 2025-07-14 23:36:56+00:00
In college, we had the combination of spotty wifi + 10 dudes concurrently torrenting Shrek 2 + jank Android tablets running rogue DHCP servers and taking router's IP + rats chewing through cables, yet every time the internet went down, they called Comcast. And it was never actually Comcast's fault.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-14 23:37:00+00:00
I've been thinking about trying pre-serialization of SQLite commands to enable single-writer against a singleton SQLiteConnection using something like Channel<T> or other high performance MPSC abstraction. Most SQLite providers have an internal mutex that handles serialization, but if we can avoid all contention on this mutex things might go faster. Opening and closing SQLite connections is expensive. If we can re-use the same instance things go a lot faster.
by margalabargala | 2025-07-14 23:37:45+00:00
I'm genuinely not sure if you're not understanding, or deliberately ignoring my point.

I'll assume the former and try again. Maybe you didn't realize I'm not the person you originally replied to?

If a company is profitable, they have funds. The funds generated by the profits, can be used to fund additional internal projects. If the bucket of funds from profits gets ridiculously large, then it may begin to be used for vanity projects, like gutting an AI company, or building a gold statue of the founder. It seems reasonable to call companies spending on mostly-useless excesses "overfunded".
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-14 23:38:28+00:00
> And I'll claim that the exterior design is the glue you need in large, heterogeneous systems.

Yes, but the specific format (and the way that the data transmission between processes and other pieces of the system is working) for the "exterior" design is an effect of the operating system. A different operating system might have a different way.

Whether it is interior or exterior, there is going to be different data types and other differences between structures, used in different ways. (One example of a difference which does not merely involve the interpretation of byte sequences, is transmissions of capabilities in systems that use capability-based security.)

I think that it is helpful to have a combination of interior and exterior functions, although most things will be exterior. However, for some things it is more helpful to do them internally within a process, for various reasons (including efficiency, requirements according to the specific operating system in use, security, and others).

> IMO it's better to have 1 type of glue, than 2 or more types

It might depend on the specific use. For some uses, it might be necessary to do it differently.

I also think that it is a mistake to assume one character set or one operating system for everything, though. However, even then, you probably wouldn't need more than one type of glue for many things, even if this "type of glue" is not the same as you would use in a different system.

> The data sent over the wire can't be interpreted without the schema information compiled into the binary.

A program is unlikely to be able to do much with data that the program is not designed to handle, regardless of how the schema is tramsmitted, so in-band communication of the schema probably wouldn't help much.

However, there can be multiple levels; e.g. with DER format, a program that does not understand the specific schema would still be able to read most of the values (with some exceptions if implicit types are used), sequences, etc, but does not know what any of that stuff means.

(I use DER format in some programs and formats that I do, because I think it is better than JSON in many ways.)

These issues are also things that my own ideas of operating system design would hopefully improve some of this. The command shell has a combination and data format would hopefully be more helpful.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-14 23:40:21+00:00
he planned for 30 days and it wound up taking 60. he didn't strategize to minmax it, though? there was a lot of up and down and he stopped mostly at places where there were fun public camping parks. also he went solar -> battery -> ac -> tesla with an alternator to a standard tesla house plug iirc? whoo.

i think there was an interview later where he said, "yeah never doing that again" or something to that effect.
by slavik81 | 2025-07-14 23:41:05+00:00
From an efficiency standpoint, we should probably be building grid-scale solar in Alberta and pumped storage in BC. There's more sunshine on the east side of the Rockies.

As a resident of Alberta, I pay $0.205/kWh for energy and delivery, which I largely attribute to bad decisions made by our provincial government. Even still, my 10 kW rooftop solar install is barely financially viable at those rates.

With that said, it would help if the Canadian government didn't have enormous tariffs on solar panels. Canada levies taxes such that solar panels here cost nearly triple what they cost elsewhere.
by mandevil | 2025-07-14 23:41:27+00:00
The district court ruled for Google over patents and copyright- that it was not a copyright at all, the Court of Appeals then reversed and demanded a second court trial on whether Google was doing fair use of Oracle's legitimate copyright, which the district court again held for Google, and then the Court of Appeals reversed the second ruling and held for Oracle that it was not fair use of their copyright, and then Google appealed that to the the Supreme Court ... and won in April 2021, putting an end to this case which was filed in August 2010. But the appeals court in between the district court and the Supreme Court meant that for a long while in the middle Oracle was the winner.

This is part of why patents and copyrights can't be the moat for your company. 11 years, with lots of uncertainty and back-and-forth, to get a final decision.
by arp242 | 2025-07-14 23:44:30+00:00
I suppose my concern with not getting permission from all contributors is that a bad faith contributor could make life hard. For those S signs with a stripe, or just out of spite. For better or worse, in systems like the US anyone can sue anyone for any reason and everyone is expected to carry their own costs, which is why everyone is so paranoid and covers their ass with three tanks worth of metal.

Aside:

"Meanwhile, Richard Stallman, author of the GPL and founder of the FSF, had significant disagreements with the PHP project over their use of the GPL, so the PHP project discontinued the dual-licensing approach, removing the GPL license as an option"

Haha, such classic Stallman.
by mc3301 | 2025-07-14 23:45:15+00:00
There are so many cool things like this all over Japan, and only a very small percentage of them get completely run-over with international tourists. Even an hour or two outside of Tokyo, many not-so-hidden treasures like this can be found. And there aren't many tourists at these spots.

Take last year's "Lawson with a view of Mount Fuji" thing. The city had to to take all kinds of counter-measures to international tourists flocking there just to take a photo. Meanwhile, there are dozens more Lawsons in the area with epic views of Mount Fuji in the background, and not a tourist in sight.
by satyrun | 2025-07-14 23:46:00+00:00
It is impressive technically but I think the whole plot and story details are pretty bad.

The gum just doesn't work for me. A black and white mega popular white female jazz singer doesn't really make sense. Maybe a Judy Garland type singer would work but she is singing a style that I don't think makes sense. Like someone making what they think jazz vocals should sound like but they don't really listen to much jazz. Billie Holiday wasn't even that popular.

Just like the black and white part doesn't work for me because you can tell it is just the same color clips but desaturated. While real black and white would be on film and look shot on film.

I think the AI stuff is actually pretty good but the director/human creativity here is actually what is not that good. The sound design and music are pretty bad.

I am waiting to see what Aronofsky can do with these tools since the studios won't let him set 30 million dollars on fire again like with The Fountain.
by jdiff | 2025-07-14 23:46:03+00:00
I'm not asking for massive adoption. I'm asking for public facing evidence of what many claim privately, that they have evolved their job into managing agents and reviewing vs writing anything themselves.

Again, not massive adoption, just one codebase that's used in production with this property. If it's such a productivity boost, there has to be at least one public facing project that's done the same as random HN nicknames and nonrandom named individuals.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-14 23:47:09+00:00
Important: it's another fork of VSCode.

I thought AI was ushering in the age of innovation so why is the only innovation anyone seems capable of copying something that already exists...?

In all actuality, AI seems to be ushering out the age of innovation since people now consider it foolish to spend their time trying to innovate instead of clone
by gruez | 2025-07-14 23:47:22+00:00
>Tagging of events with spatiotemporal attributes, or with metadata that can be used to infer spatiotemporal attributes, is pervasive. Every system data passes through, even if not the creator of it, observes the event of the data passing through it. Event observation is not trying to track things but it implicitly and necessarily creates the data that makes tracking and spatiotemporal inference possible.

>These kinds of analyses rely almost entirely on knowing the events occurred; you could encrypt the contents of the data and it wouldn't matter. Software leaks spatiotemporal event context everywhere across myriad systems, internal and external, that incidentally collect it. There isn't anything nefarious about most of it and much of it is required for reasons of criminal and civil liability.

>What people underestimate is that you can analytically stitch together many unrelated sparse data sources with spatiotemporal attributes, many of which are quite crap or seemingly unfit for purpose, to reconstruct a dense high-quality graph. Counter-intuitively, diverse and seemingly irrelevant data sources often produce better data models. It surfaces bias, errors, manipulation, and processing artifacts in individual sources you might otherwise miss.

That's a lot of technobabble for what essentially sounds like "there's some ad SDK that's phoning home with your gps/ip geolocation every few minutes, if you cross reference that with when flights are, you can guess what flight someone took". How far off am I? Or is there some galaxy brained AI that can infer that from disparate facts like that you stopped posting on twitter for 12 hours, your car's license plate was caught by an ALPR to be heading towards the airport, and 3 weeks ago you visited some portuguese tourism site that had an ad beacon installed?