MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wongarsu | 2025-07-13 02:25:32+00:00
Reasonable speeds are possible if you pay someone else to run it. Right now both NovitaAI and Parasail are running it, both available through Openrouter and both promising not to store any data. I'm sure the other big model hosters will follow if there's demand.

I may not be able to reasonably run it myself, but at least I can choose who I trust to run it and can have inference pricing determined by a competitive market. According to their benchmarks the model is about in a class with Claude 4 Sonet, yet already costs less than one third of Sonet's inference pricing
by mortsmel | 2025-07-13 02:25:45+00:00
My experience: I've had a service called HRM.monster, the domain is up for renewal on the 19th of this month, and am thinking on letting it lapse, for a name change - it is off a product called HRMgo, I have had 0 users since the purchase a year ago, and spent $750 for it from a Flippa ad thinking I hit the money spot. Eventually ended up finding out that the software was $69 package download and not custom built, as the main website led me to believe. I tried to build relationships with various people to gain their trust in providing services to them for a bridge to their clientele (not compete, but add additional support services), a win win with the company and their clientele. No one wanted to talk with me. I heard comments later-on that said I wasn't made for being in the business. It's brutal.

While my experience may be different than yours, there are other factors at play in with God having something todo with it. There is no greater thing than word of mouth, and the house is the answer.

I been trying for over a year and too chose to use email as letting clients know I existed, I didn't get anything in return.

I would try talking to influencers who you think would benefit by a simple DM or email; you might want to look into LinkedIn's higher tiered contact searching for better contact specific to your demographic, and services such as audience lab if you have the ability of spending $500/mo you can get a few contact lists that have an excess of 300k+ lines of info w/ various other relevant data that you could also sell additional services to.

There's also building relationships through advertising on Facebook, Google, etc., there's also vibe.co, and caasie.co... budget minded services for getting your name and caasie allows targeting specific towards your industry through video ads... where as vibe puts you on billboards.

While I don't have all the answers, having something different than the crowd is also a sell, like creating a service and building that need that answers a problem you deal with at work problem; something that you could turn into a serivce, and that also is viable for other people en masse.

It is really an inundation of services out there as you've stated. The early ones caught on, had fewer people contacting them.

The ones with financial backing win, because of the marketing factor, and the NEED building for the product. The best thing is to think of a project that women need, as they're the hard core consumer. I can't think of buying myself anything except food in the last 10 years, the occasional new pair of shoes, and slacks/shirt. I've used the same computer for the last 10 years, and its virtually my life rn...

It's best to join a chamber and sell your services to on what you can do vs your product, you sound pretty sound in the AI generated apps, so you've got that going for you, just need ideas, keep building until someone finds a need for your services, you could essentially steal someones idea, unless you end up getting requested to sign an NDA with said person if you went through the chamber.

Sounds like you got a people problem though ;-)
by KolenCh | 2025-07-13 02:27:56+00:00
It really hurts to see this happening. CMB-S4, stands for stage 4, is a huge collaborative effort that units many CMB scientists and experiments, in a sense that stage 1 to 3 experiments are “converging” towards this.

To put that in context, CMB-S4 being a DOE project has many side effects to other CMB experiments in a lot of ways. For example, a few years ago the LiteBIRD mission led by JAXA from Japan has been gaining momentum, and many international CMB scientists got involved. European scientists got funded by ESA, and US scientists were expecting NASA to fund them too. In the end they denied the proposal (despite generally positive impressions when discussing with various people there), partly because they think the satellite based CMB experiment LiteBIRD has significant overlap with the goals of the ground based CMB experiment CMB-S4, deeming it unnecessary to support LiteBIRD.

And then CMB scientists used to get generous access to NERSC, a top 10 HPC system in the world. But as CMB-S4 becomes a DOE project, NERSC being DOE funded also, it becomes a bit of conflict there, in the sense that they feel they need to prioritize access for CMB-S4 to guarantee its success. There are many other factors in play but in the end it becomes much more difficult to even get access to the system, not to mention having any sizable allocation.

All these might not be so bad as CMB-S4 is supposed to be our endgame. It would benefits the CMB community as a whole so much. But now? It’s game over.

It also hurts particle physics progress as well. Long story short, the CMB B-mode holds a promising sensitivity to inflationary models, that its discovery may finally makes inflation falsifiable. At the very least, it involves an energy scale so high that no experiments on Earth can reach, and therefore is a good complement, to high energy physics experiments such as LHC.

There is a reason it is deemed so important in both the decadal survey and the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel.

Project like this has under heavy scrutiny from both the scientific community and the funding parties around feasibility, risks, costs, etc. It wasn’t a a light decision to have had happened in the beginning. Why would the end come so abruptly without explanation?
by noqc | 2025-07-13 02:28:26+00:00
Putting your phone in the fridge seems like a pretty crazy thing to do, but we do it sometimes. Plane crashes are very rare.

I don't fly a lot of planes, but I do know what muscle memory is like, and sometimes it misfires. Misfires are rare, but then, so are plane crashes.

The emergency fuel cutoff should not be a practiced maneuver.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-13 02:29:32+00:00
> There's nothing wrong with boys wearing dresses and playing with dolls. If you don't believe that harmless message should reach the ears of kids, then why?

I fully agree there's nothing wrong with boys wearing dresses and playing with dolls

I think the idea that a boy wearing dresses and playing with dolls must automatically be trans is actually very harmful and I do oppose that message reaching anyone
by kwoff | 2025-07-13 02:30:05+00:00
"He also helped to create an advanced physics course for M.I.T. freshmen with more than a rudimentary knowledge of the subject. He and Robert J. Kolenkow wrote a 2013 textbook for the course, “An Introduction to Mechanics.”"

I used Kleppner/Kolenkow's intro to mechanics (copyright 1973) in 1993 or so, not at MIT. Seems 2013 is referring to the 2nd edition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kleppner#Books Maybe the 1st edition was created for the "mechanics for masochists" MIT course.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-13 02:30:06+00:00
if you think about it global warming in the end is more catastrophic then microplastics. Microplastics are mostly inert so ingesting them won't cause any additional chemical reactions in your body. Any damage it does to your body is more mechanical in nature.

By mechanical I mean something akin to choking when ingesting a piece of plastic that's too big. Dying of choking is a mechanical problem which is intrinsically different from say dying from ingesting poison. Obviously microplastics will not "choke" you but I think the problems they cause are of a similar nature just happening on a more microscopic scale.

Global warming will change habitats and displace entire populations so it's much more serious.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-13 02:32:09+00:00
> "Transitioned against their will" is a very crude way of articulating the tradeoffs of prescribing puberty blockers.

That is an extremely generous interpretation. I think you're giving way too much credit to the average person that uses that argument.

Also I really have to wonder how much of that desistance is giving up versus actually being satisfied.
by mrangle | 2025-07-13 02:33:13+00:00
The past two times I rented a car, I later received a bill from the rental company for supposedly unpaid tolls (plus fees) that I had most definitely paid.

Renting a car with any liability exposure is a recipe for frustration. As far as I'm concerned, these scans mean that one will be billed if they legally can be. Regardless of actually accruing damage.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-13 02:34:10+00:00
Without necessarily taking a side (I don't know enough about the specifics of the FAA policy or the various incidents over the years) I'd like to suggest that you are rather missing the point of the person you are responding to.

Take your argument to the extreme. Suppose someone has a physical or mental issue that renders them unable to reliably judge a certain type of situation or undertake some action that must be made consistently and repeatedly for safe flight. Presumably such a person has no business in a cockpit, let alone on a plane with hundreds of passengers on board?

The above clearly demonstrates that there are certain minimum requirements for practical reasons and that not everyone in the population is necessarily expected to meet them. It isn't a value judgment but rather an observation about the reality of the world we inhabit.

So the person you are responding to here is suggesting that suicidal ideations might be incompatible with the safety expectations of piloting a passenger airliner. Meaningful disagreement would need to somehow address the practical concern as opposed to deflecting with an appeal to emotion.

A related example that might be worth considering would be someone who suffered from severe and debilitating panic attacks. Or someone deemed to be at particularly high risk of having a heart attack. Or any number of other potentially debilitating conditions that can have sudden and unpredictable onset.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-13 02:34:52+00:00
> Well, you don't have async/sync/red/blue anymore, but you now have IO and non-IO functions.

> However, the coloring problem hasn't really been defeated.

Well, yes, but if the only way to do I/O were to have an Io instance to do it with then Io would infect all but pure(ish, non-Io) functions, so calling Io functions would be possible in all but those contexts where calling Io functions is explicitly something you don't want to be possible.

So in a way the color problem is lessened.

And on top of that you get something like Haskell's IO monad (ok, no monad, but an IO interface). Not too shabby, though you're right of course.

Next Zig will want monadic interfaces so that functions only have to have one special argument that can then be hidden.
by gia_ferrari | 2025-07-13 02:35:00+00:00
Super, I'll check it out. I'm on Firefox in Linux (Kubuntu) using a plain old mouse - pretty sure I tried a right click pan. I tried again and it still didn't work. Also- clicking around on the canvas I get: Uncaught ReferenceError: TouchEvent is not defined Ks https://splice-cad.com/assets/SvgPage.zgJCQbB-.js:302 Ia https://splice-cad.com/assets/SvgPage.zgJCQbB-.js:302
Ask HN: What Are You Grateful For?
by behnamoh | 2025-07-13 02:36:01+00:00
Let's focus more on recent events in your life that you are grateful for. It could be simple or big. For example, I shared mine here:

https://aplaceofmind.notion.site/Good-Things-that-Have-Happened-to-Me-Recently-22f0a6eeb81d804bb8dbdede7d47b3bc
by weitendorf | 2025-07-13 02:36:27+00:00
So "MIT with attribution" (but only for huge commercial use cases making tons of money off the product) is not open-weight? Do you consider CC BY photos on Wikipedia to be Image Available or GPL licensed software to be code-available too?

Tangent: I don't understand the contingent that gets upset about open LLMs not shipping with their full training regimes or source data. The software a company spent hundreds of millions of dollars creating, which you are now free to use and distribute with essentially no restrictions, is open source. It has weights in it, and a bunch of related software for actually running a model with those weights. How dare they!
by schrodinger | 2025-07-13 02:36:30+00:00
I've always been told while renting a car that any dent/ding smaller than a golf ball was considered wear and tear, and I've never had a problem over at least 50 car rentals.

However, I've always noticed that Hertz is very dependent on the particular branch you rent from, and I generally avoid them unless I have met the general manager for the location and gotten to know them. In that case, it's been the _best_ company I've used. Otherwise, I stay far, far away. Enterprise seems more consistent.
by pabs3 | 2025-07-13 02:37:37+00:00
Under the EU CRA, open source maintainers have no obligations to anyone, unless they have paid contractual relationships with users. If anything, this means open source maintainers now have a revenue source; doing paperwork for things they are probably already doing.

https://lwn.net/Articles/944300/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1023306/
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-13 02:37:40+00:00
The effects of puberty prevent people who are trans from living as their gender identities. Why bother when you'll need $400k in surgery post-puberty just for a chance to maybe look your gender?

If you ask trans people, "it's too late to live as my gender" is a common sentiment. You even see it in the gay community, where gay/bi people who come to acceptance of their sexualities late in life, feel like it's "too late" to live with that identity, and choose to continue to live and identify as straight people.

Hence the option for puberty blockers.

Turns out trans people will opt to go through the puberty that matches their gender if the opportunity arises, just as more people come out gay/bi/etc at an earlier age now that the opportunity arose.
by kvemkon | 2025-07-13 02:38:22+00:00
I see an order of magnitude higher prices than 990 PRO / SN850X (and almost 9100 PRO / SN8100). While Optane seems to perform "only" 4 times faster in 4K Q1T1 (read) and 3-4 times faster overwriting the whole drive as quickly as possible (any use case for the later besides restoring from backup?). It looks like in less synthetic benchmarks the difference becomes more significant (only for the very last Optane P5800X).
by benced | 2025-07-13 02:38:30+00:00
This will obviously settle down into something reasonable over time, it’s as bad as it will be right now. Renting cars is a competitive business and to the extent it isn’t (mostly via the chokepoint of airport parking garage leases), that's always been true.

(Of course, NYT writing an article and people being mad is part of that settling to reasonableness process)
by cryptonector | 2025-07-13 02:39:04+00:00
We need to make it a lot cooler for researchers to not do original research all the time but to do replication and peer review. We should also demand publication of failures -- it's ok to fail, but only if you publish about the failure.

The whole publish-or-perish culture is a disaster that incentivizes cheating.

It should be considered just as valuable to have a few grad students working on replication as on original research, and that should not hurt the students' prospects.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-13 02:40:42+00:00
Ting by Whisker Labs [1] in the US has this data aggregated by their home electrical safety monitoring devices, and there’s GridRadar [2] in Europe. As you mention, its GNSS based time sync with something a little less featured than PMUs [3] (phasor measurement units) traditionally used for grid health monitoring.

[1] https://power-quality.tingfire.com/

[2] https://gridradar.net/en/wide-area-monitoring-system

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor_measurement_unit
by daxfohl | 2025-07-13 02:40:53+00:00
I went ahead and did this, just using a maze where the only actions are "turn left". "turn right", and "go forward". The response is either OK or BLOCKED, and additionally which directions are open and which are walled in the current cell (relative directions: front, back, left, right. Not north east south west).

When having it try to retain context of where it is via chat history alone, it failed. It went back into fully-explored paths and explored them again. When giving it a scratchpad to store knowledge, it didn't do any better. At least one common failure pattern I noticed is it got confused and updated its position when issuing a "turn" command. It never created a map, no matter how strongly I recommended doing so in the prompt, but generally just stored a list of cells it went to, and what it saw in each cell.

I'd have played with it more and think I could have eventually gotten it working 99% better, but I'd already spent $12 and I'm unemployed so.

Anyway, even if I got it working really really well, it'd still just be another example of "don't use an LLM when a simple state machine would be easier and work better". I think an LLM could be useful if the response from the maze game was natural language: "You went forward a step, to find yourself a T-intersection with passages off to each side.", and have the LLM translate that to a structured response that could be fed into the state machine. But it's still not reliable enough to serve as the state machine itself.
by maest | 2025-07-13 02:41:03+00:00
For Verizon, it's one of their log in forms that doesn't work on Firefox, even with ublock disabled. Works just fine with Chrome. I was able to reproduce the behaviour on both my and my wife's laptop. (I haven't tried disabling the FF privacy features)

> I am baffled by the choice...

Rereading what I wrote, I see the unintended humour in my association.

That being said:

1. These are both websites where I don't have much of a choice whether I use them or not

2. I actually expected Verizon to have a terrible website based on the sum of my interactions with them (both online and over the phone) and how uncompetitive the market is. But I was surprised the kindergarden had a needlessly restrictive website because I thought they'd care more about their online presence. And, to be clear, the kindergarden's website is fancy and expensively designed, so their lack of Firefox support can't easily explained by laziness.
by mindcrime | 2025-07-13 02:41:51+00:00
Aren't most licenses "not fully understood" in any reasonable legal sense?

OK, fair enough. Pretend I said "not well understood" instead. The point is, the long-standing, well known licenses that have been around for decades are better understood that some random "I made up my own thing" license. And yes, some of that may be down to just norms and conventions, and yes, not all of these licenses have been tested in court. But I think most people would feel more comfortable using an OSI approved license, and are hesitant to foster the creation of even more licenses.

If nothing else, license proliferation is bad because of the combinatorics of understanding license compatibility issues. Every new license makes the number of permutations that much bigger, and creates more unknown situations.
by fud101 | 2025-07-13 02:44:55+00:00
Bro you probably have a monster mac pro with 256gb unified ram. I'm typing this on a N100 minipc. We're not the same. I just tried to switch to firefox (with 3 tabs including HN and youtube) and my load topped out at 2.5. I'm back to chrome now with the same tabs (and a couple more) and it's hovering at 1.
by codeguro | 2025-07-13 02:45:23+00:00
>like when bud light was encouraged to spend a bit of its marketing budget differently

But that was the whole point. They were marketing to children. They still haven't recovered from that backlash. Anheuser-Busch took a pretty damning financial hit and it sent a message to all the other companies not to pull this kind of stunt because it's bad for business. Changing their behavior was the entire point.
by Zambyte | 2025-07-13 02:46:09+00:00
> A side effect of proposal #23367, which is needed for determining upper bound stack size, is guaranteed de-virtualization when there is only one Io implementation being used (also in debug builds!).

> In the less common case when a program instantiates more than one Io implementation, virtual calls done through the Io interface will not be de-virtualized, as that would imply doubling the amount of machine code generated, creating massive code bloat.

From the article
by bastawhiz | 2025-07-13 02:46:47+00:00
> there needs to be a way to authenticate as over 18

No there doesn't. Why is the burden on ME (as a site owner) to do literally anything at all? The burden should be on parents to control their childrens' Internet use. Install a robust content blocker or don't give them Internet access.

Am I, a site owner, supposed to work with every asinine state and national system for making this attestation system work? How do I know the person behind the keyboard is actually the person whose age is being verified (and not one of their parents')? And as a citizen and consumer, why do I have to go out of my way to get some kind of digital identification that proves my age?

Why does this have to stop at porn? The logical next step is that legislators and parents will demand that sites will block folks from accessing blasphemous content. Or that you need to prove that you're not a resident of a particular state in order to access medical facts about abortion (because if you're looking it up, you obviously intend to get one or help someone get one)?

I don't want people to know how old I am or am not. Or where I live or don't live, or my sexual orientation, or anything else about me. I don't want to have to know any of these things about people who visit my website. And frankly, the idea that I am the one who is responsible for this and not the extreme minority of folks who want to keep certain content away from their kids or whatever is wild.
by userbinator | 2025-07-13 02:47:06+00:00
This should be somewhat alarming to anyone who already knows about WEI.

I wonder if "x-browser-copyright" is an attempt at trying to use the legal system to stifle competition and further their monopoly. If so, have they not heard of Sega v. Accolade ?

I'm a bit amused that they're using SHA-1. Why not MD5, CRC32, or (as the dumb security scanners would recommend) even SHA256?
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-13 02:47:20+00:00
And yet the vast majority of "puberty blockers" are given to cis kids who experience precocious puberty.

Who are we to question God's natural order? If a 9 year old girl with precocious puberty is uncomfortable being oggled by old men, that's just fine because puberty can never be wrong.

Besides, she can't meaningfully consent to medically delaying puberty, anyway.
by nmilo | 2025-07-13 02:48:27+00:00
The original “function colouring” blogpost has done irreparable damage to PL discussions because it’s such a stupid concept to begin with. Of course I want async functions to be “coloured” differently, they do different things! How else is a “normal function” supposed to call a function that gives you a result later——obviously you want to be forced to say what to do with the result; await it, ignore it, .then() in JS terms, etc. these are important decisions that you can’t just ignore because it’s “painful”
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-13 02:49:53+00:00
People can, and do, transition as adults. Natal puberty clearly does not prevent all people from transitioning. Effectively 100% of trans people prior to about 2010 transitioned as adults.

Same thing with gay people, as per your example. I'm sure some do remain closeted their entire lives. But plenty of them come out as gay later in life.