MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Marlinski | 2025-07-07 18:19:41+00:00
that was basically Rumble an app I developped 10 years ago: https://github.com/Marlinski/Rumble

I worked the field both academic and startup, I even made one of the first implementation of the Bundle protocol for store carry and forward (IETF transport protocol for the deep space network RFC9171).

Turns out the Mobile OS are making this kind of communication nearly impossible. To work well, it basically needs background job (automatic scan of nearby ble/wifi/radio) and automatic connection without user interaction (imagine being prompted to accept a connection every time you pass by someone), both have been basically made impossible (especially after covid).
by mathiaspoint | 2025-07-07 18:20:02+00:00
Enough of this carelessness and the answer becomes "the sidewalk" like you're seeing in southern California.

You either have to turn people away or let them figure out how to live but the one foot in/one foot out situation where everyone is welcome but no one is actually allowed to do anything quickly turns your town into something that looks more like a rural Indian village.
by hwillis | 2025-07-07 18:20:20+00:00
You're massively misrepresenting what I'm saying. I am not dismissing nuclear or suggesting overbuilding solar by 5x. I am responding to someone who is dismissing solar now for the fantastical idea that nuclear is cheaper now. Nuclear is good. Nuclear should replace coal. Shutting down reactors that are not unsafe is ridiculous. We should build breeder reactors. Personally I think even many countries that have reactors should build more, and retrofit existing reactors to have much higher ramp rates a la French nuclear. Countries with no nuclear or hydro or geo base like Poland should definitely build nuclear plants.

But many countries have large amounts of nuclear- many enough to supply most nighttime power. And in almost all countries, solar is by far the best and cheapest immediate option, and those countries should be building as much solar as possible until the marginal return of nuclear or storage or infrastructure for imports are cheaper than just building more and more solar.

> I am not aware of any large scale operating exports of solar energy from equatorial regions to Northern Europe, or similar distance.

No country is even close to a solar oversupply, much less a 2x or 5x. If there is no margin, why would those projects exist?
by Joker_vD | 2025-07-07 18:20:28+00:00
Naturally, this proof only works for arbitrary-precision integers: when you use fixed-precision integers, the algorithm will wrongfully report "false" for arrays like e.g. [INT_MIN, -1] or (if you insist on C semantics) [UINT_MAX, 1].

Hopefully the proof would break if one tried to transfer it over?
by otterley | 2025-07-07 18:20:39+00:00
FWIW, I see far more people wearing earbuds out in public than wearing over-the-ear headphones. Grand View Research reports that earbuds outsell headphones by a wide margin (https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/earphone...) - this is in the U.S. though; Spain may differ.

> The market for earphones accounted for around 90% of the overall share in 2022 and is anticipated to witness a CAGR of 13.2 % from 2023 to 2030
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-07 18:20:39+00:00
Nah, the vendors have generally been open about the limits of scaling. The bet isn't on that one last order of magnitude increase will hit a miracle - the bet is on R&D figuring out a new way to get better model performance before the last one hits diminishing returns. Which, for now, is what's been consistently happening.

There's risk to that assumption, but it's also a reasonable one - let's not forget the whole field is both new and has seen stupid amounts of money being pumped into it over the last few years; this is an inflationary period, there's tons of people researching every possible angle, but that research takes time. It's a safe bet that there are still major breakthroughs ahead us, to be achieved within the next couple years.

The risky part for the vendors is whether they'll happen soon enough so they can capitalize on them and keep their lead (and profits) for another year or so until the next breakthrough hits, and so on.
by tshaddox | 2025-07-07 18:22:11+00:00
I am worried about what will happen to various nations' economies relatively soon, long before the population actually halves, but I'm not worried that the fertility rate would continue on its trend as demographics change. Ignoring the potential second-order effects of economic collapse, wars over resources, etc., I think fertility rate would stabilize given that culture and genetics would by definition quickly become dominated by the people who do reproduce.
by accrual | 2025-07-07 18:23:12+00:00
I agree with the parent that distance driven should be in the equation. If there's a certain risk percentage associated with driving as a whole, then it's almost certainly somehow bound to distance driven.

For example, the risk of a car crash should be near zero if the distance driven is also zero. But even in the safest of vehicles, driving 100KM, 1,000KM, or 10,000KM+ each are going to have higher rates of accidents assuming real-life road conditions.

In the US, on average, people need to travel further to get to their destinations, and so on average I'd expect car accident and death statistics to likewise be higher.

I'm very in favor of reducing urban sprawl, utilizing public transit, etc., but in present state the US has vast quantities of existing road networks which can't be consolidated or mitigated overnight, so the next best way to improve those statistics would be improving traffic controls, vehicles, safety features, etc.
by wpm | 2025-07-07 18:23:12+00:00
If the goal is to optimize the singular task of "get water off hands ASAP", sure it probably solves that fairly well.

There might be more to the task though. What affect does it have on the user? Getting splashed with water, usually at crotch height, is a nuisance and is somewhat embarassing. The loudness of these dryers is also a nuisance, and can be downright painful depending on how many are going at the same time in a large public bathroom. Long enough for permanent damage? Probably not for the average hand-washer, but for the people who have to clean those restrooms all day, perhaps an occupational hazard.

Also, the trough shaped ones are disgusting.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-07 18:23:29+00:00
Wow, your story gives me flashbacks to the 1990s when I worked in a mainframe environment. Compile jobs submitted by developers were among the lowest priorities. I could make a change to a program, submit a compile job, and wait literally half a day for it to complete. Then I could run my testing, which again might have to wait for hours. I generally had other stuff I could work on during those delays but not always.
by reify | 2025-07-07 18:23:56+00:00
nothing to do with the youngsters.

they get the blame for everything.

I blame ai.

There used to be a gang of youths hanging around at the top of my road.

loud music, annoying, silly hoodies, argumentative but respectful.

they have now been replaced with gangs of feral bikes hanging around the corner.

little groups of five or six bikes parked all willy nilly.

God know why the bikes are there or how they got there, I live miles from any civilisation.

I think they collude during the night and make their way to a secluded spot for a bike drug party. smoking the best illegal bike oil on the black market.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-07 18:24:15+00:00
> 150K per work is the maximum fine for willful infringement

No, its not.

It's the maximum statutory damages for willful infringement, which this has not be adjudicated to be. it is not a fine, its an alternative to basis of recovery to actual damages + infringers profits attributable to the infringement.

Of course, there's also a very wide range of statutory damages, the minimum (if it is not "innocent" infringement) is $750/work.

> 105B+ is more than Anthropic is worth on paper.

The actual amount of 7 million works times $150,000/work is $1.05 trillion, not $105 billion.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-07-07 18:24:23+00:00
I would respectfully suggest that this entire approach creates a pathological distributed system, where the client is trying to internally keep track of the state of a server, but without any of the supervision tools would need to do so reliably. (And, as a bonus, it's doing this with a callback hell) What happens if either one restarts/crashes? What happens if you accidentally launch 2 clients?
Show HN: iExplain - Competitive exam learning made simple
by roninthesky | 2025-07-07 18:24:52+00:00
AI can't solve math, physics, chemistry questions completely but AI can definitely help you understand them better. Having used NotebookLM and being a fan of Veritasium, 3B1B, SciShow for learning, I realise how powerful multi-modal learning is. Allowing students multiple hooks into a concept can help them understand the concept much better. This is what my project does for competitive exam questions.

Features :

- Multiple modes of explanations - ELI5, diagrams, speed tricks for exams, references

- Dig deeper by building onto your own explanations or asking questions about any part of any explanation.

- Learn in 8+ languages

- Accepts scientific input

- Chat mode for longer discussions.
by hinterlands | 2025-07-07 18:25:19+00:00
I think there's a fundamental disconnect here: the article says that you should be focusing on strategies that, for the most part, make aging more dignified. The goal shouldn't be even curing cancer. And maybe that's right.

But the reason billions of dollars are poured by SFBA VCs into aging research is probably just that they're getting older, they don't want to die, and they figure that they can put some of their money into anti-aging moonshots. It's not really different from rich people getting cryogenically frozen. If you have more money than you can possibly use, why wouldn't you try?
by hadlock | 2025-07-07 18:25:34+00:00
If you want stateful filesystems, you should be using a different tool. https://12factor.net/ outlines the design philosophy of serving compute resources in the cloud that containers (not docker, containers) attempt to solve. Inventing use cases for containers that are not the intended purpose, is not surprising you are having issues. You can make holes in things with drills and guns, but only one of those tools is being used for their intended purpose.
by dfawcus | 2025-07-07 18:25:50+00:00
Þe 'ae' glyph is still used in printed English, e.g. spelling of 'Encyclopaedia', 'paedophile'

Similarly þhe 'oe' glyph is also used, often in medical contexts.

Þe loss of þorn is somewhat sad, as it is still easily understood by native speakers when substituted for its modern digraph.
by trhway | 2025-07-07 18:26:20+00:00
>There's no point having an agent that can write code 100x faster than a human if every change takes an hour to test.

Testing every change incrementally is a vestige of the code being done by humans (and thus of the current approach where AI helps and/or replaces one given human), in small increments at that, and of the failures being analyzed by individual humans who can keep in their head only limited number of things/dependencies at once.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-07 18:27:07+00:00
That seems rather agreeable, though. Stallman is essentially saying that words are meaningful and speakers/writers should be thoughtful about the meaning of the words they use. In that context, refusing to use terms like "intellectual property" and "piracy" because of their meaning and the effect their use has on culture, and especially insisting that journalists who interview you use the same language, seems to be a means of controlling the interpreted meaning of one's expressions.

(As an aside, it seems pointless to decry it as a "talking point". The reason it was brought up is presumably because the author agrees with it and thinks it's relevant. It's also entirely possible that the author, like me, made this argument without being aware that it was popularized by Richard Stallman. If it makes sense then you can hear the argument without hearing the person and still find it agreeable.)

"Piracy" is used to refer to copyright violation to make it sound scary and dangerous to people who don't know better or otherwise don't think about it too hard. Just imagine if they called it "banditry" instead; now tell me that pirates are not bandits with boats. They may as well have called it banditry and it's worth correcting that. (I also think it's worth ridiculing but that doesn't appear to be Stallman's primary point.) It's not banditry (how ridiculous would it be to call it that?), it's copyright infringement.

Edit:

Reading my comment again in the context of other things you wrote, I suspect the argument will not pass muster because you do not seem to see piracy's change in meaning as manufactured by PR work purchased by media industry leaders. I'm not really trying to convince you that it's true but it may be worth considering that it is the fundamental disagreement you seem to have with others on Stallman's point; again, not saying you're wrong, just that's where the disagreement is.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-07 18:27:55+00:00
> the algorithm will wrongfully report "false" for arrays like e.g. [INT_MIN, -1]

`INT_MIN + -1` is not 0 so it should report false in that case.

For UINT_MAX, the algorithm would need to be reconsidered, though, since it's written with signed integers in mind.

> Hopefully the proof would break if one tried to transfer it over?

Hopefully. The proof would have to be modified to account for the actual types. If you're using bounded integers you'd need to write a different proof.
by Miraste | 2025-07-07 18:28:17+00:00
If we're comparing, it would be useful to look at the way these things are done on a Bambu printer.

Z-axis and XY-axis calibration: Designed to be unnecessary. Not possible with stock software. Possible with Orcaslicer on old or custom firmware, in which case the procedure would look similar.

Belt tensioning: Similar, but easier and better designed (no half-baked app involved).

Camera: Bambu also requires an account, I believe. Other than that, it's much better: it comes with the printer, is in color, has a light, runs at a useful framerate, and can take offline timelapses.

I don't think the comparison is positive for Prusa.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-07 18:28:19+00:00
> Here is how individuals are treated for massive copyright infringement:

When I clicked the link, I got an article about a business that was selling millions of dollars of pirated software.

This guy made millions of dollars in profit by selling pirated software. This wasn't a case of transformative works, nor of an individual doing something for themselves. He was plainly stealing and reselling something.
by tzs | 2025-07-07 18:29:02+00:00
He wasn't facing anywhere near that. When the DOJ charges someone with a set of charges they like to say in the press release that the person is facing N years, where they get N by simply adding up the maximums for each charge that it is possible for a hypothetical defendant that has all the possible sentence enhancing factors to get. They also ignore that some charges group for sentencing--your sentence for the group is the maximum sentence for the individual charges in the group.

Here's an article explaining in more detail [1].

Most experts say that if Swartz had gone to trial and the prosecution had proved everything they alleged and the judge had decided to make an example of Swartz and sentence harshly it would have been around 7 years.

Swartz's own attorney said that if they had gone to trail and lost he thought it was unlikely that Swartz would get any jail time.

Swartz also had at least two plea bargain offers available. One was for a guilty plea and 4 months. The other was for a guilty plea and the prosecutors would ask for 6 months but Swartz could ask the judge for less or for probation instead and the judge would pick.

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
by alwillis | 2025-07-07 18:29:57+00:00
> We are so obviously in the customer acquisition phase of AI…people in this thread are talking about spending hundreds per month on AI services and I think all of those will double in price soon after large private company players like OpenAI go public or get acquired.

I guess it remains to be seen, but the cost for tokens is only going to decrease, not increase. Also, remember that OpenAI and Anthropic get a lot of revenue from large companies licensing and otherwise paying to use these models.
by dmonitor | 2025-07-07 18:30:03+00:00
"brain rot" is a subjective criticism. objectively speaking, the kids are making art and sharing it with each other. it's at worst an extension of the entertainment industry. you can not like the art, but it's at least art.

the finance industry doesn't produce anything of value. it just turns $1 into $2 and liquidates productive industries.
by mattigames | 2025-07-07 18:31:04+00:00
You completely omitted the most disturbing part that is much less common in western music, the manipulation of hordes of fans to unrelentingly post about their bands on social media, where is easy to find them complaining that a website blocked them due suspecting them from being spam bots, this endeavor is almost entirely Korean and not japanese despite similarities in a lot other aspects of their music industries https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vn6iZoMigM
by Bjorkbat | 2025-07-07 18:31:26+00:00
I recall it as less an evolution and more a complete tonal shift the moment o3 was evaluated on ARC-AGI. I remember on Twitter Sam made some dumb post suggesting they had beaten the benchmark internally and Francois calling him out on his vagueposting. Soon as they publicly released the scores, it was like he was all-in on reasoning.

Which I have to admit I was kind of disappointed by.
by quitedev | 2025-07-07 18:32:04+00:00
Hey! I still like to write by hand when learning difficult concepts. I had a bunch of notes that I made in my last semester at uni which I wanted to get into obsidian. I tried a bunch of "pdf to md" converters and OCRs but they where not great on handwritten text.

So, I created a CLI that helps me batch convert my scanned notes to markdown. It supports latex for math as well. You can either use the Gemini or Claude or Ollama to carry out the conversion. It is open source and free to use, you will need your own api key though.
by travisgriggs | 2025-07-07 18:32:07+00:00
Wow. Trying to work with a design for hire house lately, who insists that Figma is THE TOOL we must be ALL IN on. This paragraph

>> Another feature is Dev Mode, which, in theory, is the missing bridge between the design specification and the technical implementation. However, it enforces a mindset where designers polish designs far away from the technology they are designing for, and where enormous amounts of time are spent on building complex prototypes, only for them to be discarded and rebuilt in code...

really strikes home.
by gnubison | 2025-07-07 18:32:19+00:00
It would be like a speaker who can’t distinguish the uh sound in “but” with the ih sound in “bit”. Is it really the native English speaker’s fault if he can’t understand that personal dialect?

France’s vowel inventory is bigger than (or just as big as) English’s, and it has a lot more homophones. I imagine all the context goes toward disambiguating the actual homophones and not the arbitrary sets of words foreigners can’t pronounce because they don’t want to learn the accents (the system is not that hard and completely predictable).
Show HN: Universal Type Lens, it deals with the annoying inlay hints
by nipah | 2025-07-07 18:33:05+00:00
I was inspired by the ionide extension for F#, the way inlay hints work with it is very cool and much less irritating.

So I thought to myself: "can this be done by simply taking the already existing inline hints from most programming languages and just displaying them differently?", and well, the answer is yes!

To use simply install the extension in your vscode, then enable type hints in your favorite LSP, then disable the native vscode inlay hints in the menu, and done. You can also configure it if you want, it's very customizable.

It's open source: https://github.com/mii-nipah/type-lens.git
by jackdawed | 2025-07-07 18:33:14+00:00
That's the core challenge in designing a system like this. Echo chambers and comfort cages emerge from recommendation algorithms, and before that, from lazy curation.

If you have control over the recommendation system, you could deliberately feed it contrarian and diverse sources. Or you could choose to be very constrained. Back in RSS days, if you were lazy about it, your taste/knowledge was dependent on other people's curation and biases.

Progress happens through trends anyway. Like in 2010s, there was just a lot of Rails content. Same with flat design. It wasn't really group think, it just seemed to happen out of collective focus and necessity. Everyone else was talking/doing this so if you wanted to be a participant, you have to speak the language.

My original principle when I was using Google Reader was I didn't really know enough to have strong opinions on tech or design, so I'll follow people who seem to have strong opinions. Over time I started to understand what was good design, even if it wasn't something I liked. The rate of taste development was also faster for visual design because you could just quickly scan through an image, vs with code/writing you'd have to read it.

I did something interesting with my Last.fm data once. I've been tracking my music since 2009. Instead of getting recommendations based on my preferences, I could generate a list of artists that had no or little overlap with my current library. It was pure exploration vs exploitation music recommendation. The problem was once your tastes get diverse enough, it's hard to avoid overlaps.
by ThePatientTiger | 2025-07-07 18:33:32+00:00
The "problem" is not figma. It is design in general. Everybody are coping each other which makes sense: You cannot copyright a design and also copying is much easier - and looks better - than designing from scratch.

However while designers will definitely think this as a "problem" which would kill creativity, I as an engineer think that it is the path that would happen later if not now. You can't really blame companies if they want to copy other successful designs - it works.
by throw123xz | 2025-07-07 18:33:37+00:00
Very nice.

On a side note, and not wanting to criticize the people that spend their time working on something like this, that UI is the main reason why I still use Windows and macOS. Light grey on a white background, dark grey on a that blue background, a black AMD logo on a dark grey background, the padding around the text inside boxes...

I feel bad saying this when it's a free tool, but it's a shame that open source projects struggle so much with UI stuff.
by majesticsign | 2025-07-07 18:33:39+00:00
In a world where branding is everything, businesses are investing in custom acrylic signs to create sleek, professional, and lasting first impressions. These signs aren't just about aesthetics—they reinforce trust, elevate brand presence, and turn ordinary walls into identity statements.

Have you seen businesses benefit from upgraded signage like this? Feel free to check out an example here: https://www.majesticsignstudio.com/acrylic-signs-corona/

Would love your thoughts on how signage impacts customer experience and brand credibility.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-07 18:34:19+00:00
You don't even have to leave English to find examples of printing shifting script. The printing press killed the thorn "Þ" character which made the the "th" sound. It got replaced with either a "y" (which looked sorta-kinda like a thorn) as in "Ye Olde" or a "th", which is how a speaker not accustomed to the sound might approximate it "tuh-huh".