MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jwr | 2025-07-30 09:46:20+00:00
It is difficult to use by itself: the "foundation" in the name describes it quite well. It is a foundation that you build a database on. It fits my use case very well, for example, because I know my data model and usage patterns very well and I can integrate deeply with the database, but it's not a good match by itself for quick-and-dirty apps.

It provides fantastic (strict serializable) consistency guarantees in a distributed database, which is extremely rare. It is a huge advantage, but sadly most people do not understand how badly most distributed databases are broken and don't even understand the concepts (https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/) well enough to talk about the issues involved. See every discussion where someone mentions ACID.

It's hard to compete for mindshare when the concepts are difficult and every other database has a warm-and-fuzzy-feeling website saying that everything will be great (it usually won't).

Personally, I hope more people will start using it, and I hope to see more easy-to-use databases built on top of it (that's what it was designed for, really). In my experience with it, working with a fast distributed database that gives you strict serializable semantics right in your code is fantastic.
by LeonM | 2025-07-30 09:46:40+00:00
The data and PD communication are both working (that was the majority challenge on the EE side, shown in his video). So it would depend on the capability of his solution to let the phone work in host mode, thus being able to provide power to the adapter.

Though I'm also not sure how the MFi situation is with those generations of iPhones, and what restrictions Apple has built in to the OS. I haven't worked with MFi for a while, and I don't know for sure if MFi chips are even required anymore for that generation of lightning devices, or whether the author has incorporated one.

EDIT: I just saw this on his website:

> Any other accessory that requires power from the phone is not compatible.

So no, USB-C to headphone adapters won't work, they need power.
by miningape | 2025-07-30 09:50:30+00:00
But this is also again the danger of having an advanced bullshit generator - of course it sounds reasonable and logical, that's what it is designed to output. It's not designed to output actually reasonable and logical text.

I do appreciate that it's not a hard rule: things can be cross referenced and verified, etc. but doesn't that also kind of eliminate (one of) the point(s) in using an LLM when you still have to google for information or think deeply about the subject.
by jwr | 2025-07-30 09:50:41+00:00
I am moving my SaaS from RethinkDB to FoundationDB. It's a long-term project that needs to be done very carefully (thousands of people using the app), but the rewards are significant. Thanks to FoundationDB versionstamps, I'll be able to replace changefeeds with polling, simplifying the system, and also make things much faster along the way.

The consistency guarantees are phenomenal and writing software is much easier when you have strict serializability. Most people do not appreciate this because they do not understand the anomalies that you can get without strict serializable consistency.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-30 09:52:05+00:00
It depends on what level of detail you want the simulation to have. Boolean logic is easy. Analog circuits operating in certain (very limited) domains are straightforward. But - noting that what follows is well out of the realm of my experience - in other domains you have to account for things like RF characteristics and quantum effects in the semiconductors.

Imagine trying to simulate something that used water in tubes to implement logic, except it's analog logic and there's resonance and some of the joints start leaking when they exceed a certain pressure and etc.
by metalman | 2025-07-30 09:53:11+00:00
Odeh Mohammad Khalil al-Hathalin, 31, was murdered by Yinon Levi, durring the same attack, an excavator brought to destroy homes was used to strike other unarmed palisinians. There is video that also documents the murderer ,Yinon Levi, directing soldiers to arrest his victims family, which they did.
by maxbond | 2025-07-30 09:53:23+00:00
To me they look like someone earnestly asking for help, but in the wrong forum. Closing the PR would make sense to me, but I don't think there's any purpose to making this person a main character. I've spent a lot of time in online programming communities, so people asking for help in awkward ways, perhaps inappropriately or with an element of entitlement, that's just Tuesday from my perspective.

I'm not an AI zealot, as it happens. I've made a lot of comments on here critical of AI. I just don't think HN is a place to gawk at random people's faux pas of GitHub etiquette.
by Certhas | 2025-07-30 09:54:15+00:00
I am not a lawyer, but, including as in the US case the interpretations adopted by the constitutional courts, the "freedom of expression in spoken and written word and image" is considered to not enumerate a limited list of expressions but cover all forms of expression.

It is true that paragraph 2 allows limiting expression, but the point here is that generally it is not permissible to limit speech based on its content, but only due to other "general laws" that aim to do non-speech related things (including upholding other constitutional rights).

In the case of protection of honor, I find interesting the interpretation of the constitutional court that this does not limit speech if there are alternative non-demeaning ways to express your opinion. This to me seems the strongest divergence to the US concept of Freedom of Speech. If you can express the same content in a less demeaning way, the courts can force you to do so. Still: It is considered crucial by the constitutional court that general laws do not limit the freedom to criticize.

Overall the court has noted that the limits of freedom of expression need to be as small as possible, and that there always needs to be a balance of other (constitutional) rights being protected when there is such a limit placed. Laws can not arbitrarily restrict speech, and the special importance of the constitutional right to freedom of speech needs to be considered.

Paragraph 32: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheid...

The protections around speech are constructed differently than in the US, but overall seem to arrive at roughly similar results. It is also important to note that protection of speech has varied quite a lot over the 20th century in the US. From 1919 for 50 years, Supreme Court precedent was that advocating against the draft was illegal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. ... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree."

In this case the clear and present danger is that of "hindering the governments war effort". This was the status of Free Speech in the US at the time the German constitution was written.

So yeah, there are important differences, a ton of nuance, many similarities between German and US cases, etc... Which is why I can't really consider anything that boils down to "Well the US has free speech, unlike EU/Germany/...", without even hinting at the freedom of speech trade-offs that are made in both systems, as an argument made in good faith.
by soco | 2025-07-30 09:55:13+00:00
Let's not move the goalposts - nobody talked about direct democracy. There's no direct democracy anywhere in the world (even in the Swiss is quite limited) so there's no reason to hold the EU to such imaginary standards. Both the Council and the Parliament are resulted from national elections so they are elected to do exactly that: nominate people in European jobs. It works as designed, and we can either sit in the defeatist pit or act in the action points.
by lucumo | 2025-07-30 09:55:29+00:00
Out of curiosity I went a bit deeper on this. I didn't expect it could do this without a calculator, because of the nature of the technology. But I still wanted to see what it would do. So I asked it:

> Me: I have these two numbers: 3452346 and 343424. Can you multiply them exactly, but without using Python or another calculator?

I proceeded to breakdown the smaller number in 300,000 + 40,000 + 3,000 + 400 + 20 + 4 and doing each step as follows:

> Calculate each partial product:

> 3,452,346 × 300,000 = ?

> Multiply 3,452,346 × 3 = 10,357,038

> Then multiply by 100,000 = 1,035,703,800,000

I checked each step, and it got those correct. It then added the partial results together.

> Final result: 1,185,618,472,704

> So: 3,452,346 × 343,424 = 1,185,618,472,704

> No Python, no calculator — just a bit of patience and the power of breakdown.

(That answer is correct.)

I am honestly surprised that it got that right. A teacher would need to break it down a bit further, both to calculate and to explain, but it's pretty much there. (I also didn't ask it to teach, just to do a calculation.)
by llamavore | 2025-07-30 09:59:12+00:00
Totally agree, the FFI escape hatch and excellent tooling from rust, maturin pyo3 etc means so many python problems can just be solved with rust. Which begs the question, has anyone tried doing a greenthread implementation in rust? Maybe offload some of the dynamically evaled python code to a seperate process maybe with https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
by tcfhgj | 2025-07-30 09:59:38+00:00
> Especially in the early phase of an extension, you want to encourage experimentation with different approaches. Early selection would be disadvantageous.

With any standard you can experiment what you want, nobody* even can prevent you from doing it no matter how inaccessible the standardization process is.

The standardization process comes into play when you think you have found a good solution, which should be adopted by THE standard respectively the ecosystem.

What matters is what the standard itself looks like, do you have a coherent specification which specifies the current way of doing things, including optional components?

Or do you have a set of independent ways of doing it, because the standardization process doesn't actually decide what is the correct way of doing something (e.g. managing a group chat)

*okay technically not correct. Law can e.g. decide making e2ee illegal technology and criminalize even playing around with it.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-07-30 10:00:24+00:00
Eh, again people complaining about not understanding this, proposing to compete etc., when truth is simple: in today's capitalism products of publicly traded companies do not matter. Company itself, or rather shareholder's belief about the company, IS a product. So it couldn't matter less if features that Microsoft pushes are useful, asked for, privacy-respecting or whatever.
by guelo | 2025-07-30 10:00:51+00:00
Ok so you're obviously not a fan of scientists and are throwing out about a bunch of whatabouts, but the fact remains that in this paper they controlled for a bunch of confounders and your original comment said they didn't. I guess the charitable interpretation of your reply is that even though the paper says they controlled for those factors you think that they're lying because of your general skepticism about science.
by n4r9 | 2025-07-30 10:01:17+00:00
Management has two basic ways to respond to a strike. They can negotiate with the workers and work cooperatively to build an environment that benefits everyone. Or they can act adversarially to outlast or outsmart the strikers and coerce the strike to end on terms that maintains or increases their profit margin. It sounds a lot like the latter is what happened here, and this is what was being pointed out in the original comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702730
by kriro | 2025-07-30 10:02:00+00:00
Curious what made you decide to start with the macOS version. Some insight that most potential customers are on Macs or simply "we use Macs, dogfood time"? I'd always target Windows first for these tools.

Looks cool, I'll wait for the Linux version and try it.

Integration of automatic translations could be an interesting business plan value-add. Branching out into CRM things also makes sense to me.

Good luck, keep shipping.
by easytiger | 2025-07-30 10:02:41+00:00
However, I think the UK government is just trying to protect people (children in particular) from what it considers harmful content.

I can't come close to agreeing. The same minister pushing this, who is by his own admission semi literate and can't understand very basic concepts, has basically no understanding of technology (or indeed expertise in any area), has made no secret of the fact this is about censoring online speech he personally does not like[1]. He is a paid up yes man deep in the pockets of companies selling low effort AI solutions to governments for the purposes of enforcing speech[2] who wants, all said and done, to shut down twitter/X because people express opinions there he doesn't like. This has almost literally nothing to do with the old fashioned pearl clutching "think of the children". So much so he's going around holding anyone with reasonable opposition to this bill for child sexual assault, future, past and present[3]. This is obvious overcompensatory zeal. And it is week one.

What he has not done is engage earnestly with legitimate concerns about privacy and the bill. And he never will.

[1] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-peter-ky... | https://archive.is/Snw7y

[2] https://news.starknakedbrief.co.uk/p/we-need-to-talk-about-s...

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgery3eeqzxo
by piva00 | 2025-07-30 10:02:59+00:00
Not only our countries but the state of Israel itself, it's ongoing for decades, it has only further eroded Israel's security (who could've guessed that allowing your citizens to displace, and/or kill, people who already lived there would have consequences?).

The documentary "Checkpoint" is more than 20 years old by now, the treatment of West Bank's Palestinians has been fucked up for even longer than that, and Netanyahu's government only made it worse.

I wish to see in my lifetime Israel having to reckon with the fact they've become the monster, justifying their actions after the immense suffering their ancestors went through during the Holocaust is impossible...

Edit: according to Yuval Abraham[0], the killer instructed soldiers to arrest the other 4 family members of Awdah Hathaleen which are still in jail, while the murderer was released under house arrest, fucking insane.

[0] https://x.com/yuval_abraham/status/1950190191584419923
by blenderob | 2025-07-30 10:03:06+00:00
> It's a common thing but not 40-60 age group.

Where are you pulling these stats from? Do you have any references or do you just keep misrepresenting your personal observations as facts?

I sure do see my 40-60 age group friends and acquaintances going for more diet soda than regular soda. So I find it hard to believe that diet soda is not a common thing in the 40-60 age group.

It is frustrating that for someone who posted strong criticism against a research paper, you keep making bold claims without presenting any references or evidence!
by lukebrandon | 2025-07-30 10:03:19+00:00
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by RubyWave | 2025-07-30 10:03:21+00:00
>The industrial revolution didn't bring prosperity to anyone except the capital owners

This is simply not true. Compare life of common man of today, to one from 3 centuries before. Quality of life increased tenfold, medicine, knowledge access, world travelability, life expentancy, political representation etc. Of course capital owners get richer even still, but suggesting we were better of without inudstrail revolution is just disingenous.
by mjburgess | 2025-07-30 10:04:35+00:00
It's also off-the-charts implausible to say that our performance on adding up substantially degrades with the introduction of irrelevant information. Almost all cases of our use of arithmetic in daily life come with vast amounts of irrelevant information.

Any person who looked at a restaurant table and couldn't review the bill because there were kid's drawings of cats on it would be severely mentally disabled, and never employed in any situation which required reliable arithmetic skills.

I cannot understand this ever more absurd levels of denying the most obvious, common-place, basic capabilities that the vast majority of people have and use regularly in their daily lives. It should be a wake-up call to anyone professing this view that they're off the deep-end in copium.
by karthikkolli | 2025-07-30 10:06:28+00:00
My experience is Claude is better at writing rust than Gemini. Gemini cli gets confused easily. But has good higher level picture. In my use case where Gemini is the architect, it even provides full code changes to claude (does not directly compile most of the time, misses move of structs) and claude makes those changes. It works better for me that way.
by wisty | 2025-07-30 10:06:31+00:00
Um, I'm pretty sure a 24mm shot on a full frame camera will look the same as an iPhone shot, but only if you crop the full frame shot (ignoring pixels counts).

Yes, you could get the same photo of the guy in the centre on the iPhone, but only by zooming in and cropping out everything else. I guess if you REALLY wanted you could run back, and zoom in. Better get a tripod to hold it steady since you're zooming in then.

So anyone but an expert will shoot with a much shorter lens when using the iPhone.

This is how crop factors work unless I'm really mistaken.
by blenderob | 2025-07-30 10:08:31+00:00
Link to the research paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabet.2025.101665 (click "View PDF" there)

This is actually a solid study, despite what the current top comment might suggest. It's frustrating how frequently shallow, dismissive takes that don't engage with the substance of a paper rise to the top on HN. I genuinely don't understand what drives such upvotes. That's not how science works, folks.

If you're going to criticize a study, the least you can do is read it carefully and refer to specific sections and quote specific excerpts where you believe the authors went wrong. Anything less is just noise.
by x______________ | 2025-07-30 10:08:40+00:00
I was thinking along the same lines, create artificial fireflies to attempt and lure others back into the neighborhood..

But then again, fireflies use their lights to attract mates, and I'm thinking now that their phosphorus-based communication might be more complex than just a randomly emitting diode.

I can picture it now... "You're into WHAT?!? Nope, I'm out of here!"
by barnabee | 2025-07-30 10:09:07+00:00
Totally agree!

Photography for me is about the physical and optical side of things. Choosing a lens for a situation, framing the shot, aperture, shutter, etc.

When I switched to digital I was seduced by post-processing, partly as a substitute for the look I could achieve with different films, but mostly I suspect because all those sliders and numbers and graphs are naturally attractive to a certain type of person :)

I eventually pretty much stopped taking photos.

Changing my workflow from post processing RAW photos (and barely ever looking at them again) to using in-camera JPEGs that I can immediately share, print, or whatever was enough to start me taking photos again regularly as a hobby.

More unexpectedly, in addition to the obvious time saving of removing the post processing step (aside from occasional cropping), the satisfaction benefit of the immediacy with which I can now print, share, display, etc. my favourite photos has been huge. It’s so much more rewarding getting photos right after you took them and actually doing something with them!

Now I’m not even sure I’d call all that digital image processing “photography”. Sure, it’s an art in its own right, and one some photographers enjoy, but the essence of photography lies somewhere else. I’d encourage everyone to try a camera with decent in camera JPEG production. You can always shoot Raw+JPEG if you’re scared to go full cold turkey.
by miki123211 | 2025-07-30 10:10:30+00:00
It's not just "stupid" questions.

In my experience, most educational resources are either slightly too basic or slightly too advanced, particularly when you're trying to understand some new and unfamiliar concept. Lecturers, Youtubers and textbook authors have to make something that works for everybody, which means they might omit information you don't yet know while teaching you things you already understand. This is where LLMs shine, if there's a particular gap in your knowledge, LLMs can help you fill it, getting you unstuck.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-30 10:10:55+00:00
> Looking back at travel and family pictures, it has been very much worth it for me to have a dedicated camera.

I got myself a Nikon D800 over a decade ago when they were first released, and left it in 14-bit RAW mode since then. Technically these are "SDR" photos, but the captured dynamic range is closer to 1000-nit HDR. For a decade, I had to crush these to fit into sRGB SDR JPGs, which is throwing away most of the goodness.

A few months ago I took all of my 5-star pictures in Lightroom and used its new HDR processing mode to export them as 16-bit PNG files. I then turned those into a 2160p HDR video and played it on an OLED 75" television.

It blew my tiny mind!

The quality was simply jawdropping. It was like travelling back in time to all of those holidays and looking out through a window at reality itself.

This is why I go on regular online rants about how frustrating it is that the only way to share the full output quality of a modern digital full-frame camera is by uploading a HDR "movie" of the pictures to YouTube.
by MattJ100 | 2025-07-30 10:11:48+00:00
You're not wrong at all, but despite it all, XMPP has actually supported push notifications for years.

For various reasons it wasn't included "out of the box" in Prosody for a while and was maintained as a community plugin, but that's no longer the case with 13.0.x+ where it's bundled with Prosody and just works.

Monal is probably the most popular XMPP iOS app today.
by aredox | 2025-07-30 10:12:15+00:00
>Instead, you choose to devolve into personal attacks (probably because you don't have any good arguments or explanations).

Independant agencies have been set up since the 1880s. Do you think you are the first person to "ask questions"? Did you do a modicum of research on the topic before "asking questions"? Do you know the existence of the internet, of google search and of books? Do you know about "Chesterton's Fence"?
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-30 10:13:01+00:00
My bad for assuming that you were an AI zealot. But I do want to stress that this issue isn't just about a single person. It's much bigger than that.

As I mentioned in my other comments, there were an influx of spammers directed at open source projects when Digital Ocean offered free T-shirts for open source contributions. With LLMs being able to mass-produce plausible looking garbage PRs, spammers looking for job prospects will flood the open source community, burning out maintainers in the process.

This issue needs to be discussed for the survival of open source.