MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gn4d | 2025-07-10 16:02:56+00:00
>Feels a bit like switching to TempleOS.

That's... not a bad thing, though? Terry was an extremely competent engineer and programmer who designed his software to be as user-friendly, well-documented, and performant as possible.

I have conversed with Jörg, and he is blunt and fair in a good way (code itself is emotionless, after all). And, of course, he is highly competent. I have also conversed with several Mozilla teams, including Thunderbird, and the experiences were universally horrible, as in they lacked core competency. Naturally, YMMV.
Show HN: A Chrome Extension to Reveal SaaS Sprawl, Shadow IT, and Waste
by rwgreen | 2025-07-10 16:02:59+00:00
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by rapatel0 | 2025-07-10 16:03:03+00:00
>True randomness is challenging to achieve, because computers are inherently predictable

Most modern CPUs now contain a true RNG. They usually use some combination of a metastable latch, or thermal randomness through some kind of analog amplification. Bit strings from this are passed into a pseudorandom number generator to amplify the amount of random data generated.

There probably attacks on this too but it's much harder.
by grvdrm | 2025-07-10 16:03:22+00:00
Popularity is also so subjective.

I look back at high school and see several popular groups. Did one rise above the others? Not in an obvious way.

Like you said: some were from wealthier families, some were the athletes and their groupies (no surprise). But I went to parties of all shapes and sizes - some in those groups I just mentioned and some in other groups. Didn’t really matter that there was a premier group of socialites.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-07-10 16:03:25+00:00
No, this could not allow for faking Bitcoin or Ethereum TXs. This type of vulnerability mainly concerns "zero-knowledge" proof methods, which do not occur inside the Bitcoin or Ethereum base layers. Some teams are building ZK proofs on top of these and other blockchains though, so those systems could be vulnerable, though they are still largely experimental.
by noelwelsh | 2025-07-10 16:03:29+00:00
You gotta ask the question: why does FP care about eliminating side effects? There are two possible answers:

1. It's just something weird that FP people like to do; or

2. It's in service of a larger goal, the ability to reason about programs.

If you take the reasonable answer---number 2---then the conclusion is that effects are not a problem so long as you can still reason about programs containing them. Linear / affine types (like Rust's borrow checker) and effect systems are different ways to accommodate effects into a language and still retain some ability to reason about programs.

No practical program can be written without effects, so they must be in a language somewhere.

More here: https://noelwelsh.com/posts/what-and-why-fp/
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-07-10 16:03:43+00:00
I will say, one huge advantage for home ownership over renting is when you are in a dual income household and have kids. Your lifestyle isn't going to be as compatible with moving around constantly trying to find a good deal (like I'm able to as a single person). And if you do plan to stay put for 10 years or so, you will most definitely come out ahead. But you really need to be in the right mindset and phase of your life for this to truly make sense. I often times see others not really ready to settle down rush and buy a home, only to end up regretting the decision a few years down the line, sometimes even sooner.

I will also note, that the notion of having access to a cheap line of credit, like a HELOC, can be a fantastic tool when used correctly. But... I'm also seeing folks abuse this to keep up with the Joneses. And when times get tough, they won't be able to pivot and might end up defaulting and then losing their home in the process.

The overall state of the economy will still need another major shakedown before those elements of society get their wake-up call. It sorta started happening with Liberation Day, but we bounced back rather quickly... so who knows when that would happen.
by philipkglass | 2025-07-10 16:03:58+00:00
Americans are moving less frequently now than they were in 1965:

Overall, when looking at both migration between U.S. states and within them, fewer Americans are moving each year. In 1948, the first year on record with the Census Bureau, more than 20 percent of the population moved in the past year. This had decreased to just 8.7 percent in 2022. While the share of Americans moving across state lines remained more stable, those moving within their state became much fewer, from between 15-17 percent of Americans per year in the 1950s and 1960s to results in the single digits in the new millennium.

https://www.statista.com/chart/32135/share-of-movers-and-non...
by zenkat | 2025-07-10 16:04:57+00:00
Check out Paul Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" for an interesting take on this dynamic for nation-states and political economies. His core thesis is that dominant powers rise as new players leverage new technologies (especially energy technologies), build complex interdependent economies centered around those technologies, but then wither and fall as they spend increasingly more on military power to monopolize and defend the chokepoints of those technologies. When a new more efficient technology comes along, they are doomed to irrelevance as they fail to capitalize on those technologies, and new players swoop in for dominance.

He gives examples of the Dutch and wind power (sailing); Great Britain and coal; and America and petroleum. He also predicted China's ascendency as the next player willing to leverage new technologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great...
by orangecat | 2025-07-10 16:05:03+00:00
So you're insinuating that the specific example of a house sitting empty owned by a foreign buyer is made up?

I'm sure that happens occasionally. It's not nearly as significant as exclusionary zoning and other bad policies that prevent housing from being built.

In my neighborhood specifically, there are homes being bought not by single families but specifically buy management companies so they can then rent the property

Even in that case, the homes are still on the market.
by throwaway173738 | 2025-07-10 16:05:45+00:00
Toddlers don’t just putter around. They want to be wherever you’re at doing whatever you’re doing and opening all the cabinets and boxes and pulling everything out to look at it. I think people were more apt to put them to work around the house in the past whereas now people infantilize them more. My son doesn’t speak very well as a 19 month old but he understands a lot and pays attention, and right now we’re trying to figure out how to put him to work in the kitchen and around the house so he feels involved and we get what little help he is able to contribute.
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-07-10 16:06:06+00:00
It may never be “worth” it in economic sense, but it offers a way to separate the time of “energy is used” and “energy is available”. Assuming sufficient captureable volume you could capture the emissions of a fossil power plant during the ~two weeks per year where weather is sufficiently bad. And then take the other 50 weeks to capture that carbon again. It can be completely inefficient (like sub 5% round trip efficiency) if a) we pay for it via a capacity market and b) have sufficient excess (clean) energy to run it
Show HN: RunPy – simple desktop app for tinkering with Python
by lukehaas | 2025-07-10 16:06:21+00:00
RunPy is a playground app that gives you a quick and easy way to run Python code. There's no need to create files or run anything in the terminal; you don't even need Python set up on your machine.

It's handy for learning, teaching or doing quick experiments. Available for mac, windows and linux. Please give it a try, and I'd be really keen to hear any thoughts, feedback or ideas for improvements. Thanks!
by zackmorris | 2025-07-10 16:07:09+00:00
Ya I'm shocked by it too, said as a Gen Xer born in the late 1970s, occasionally a Xennial.

I partied for 4 years of college which is something like 30 years in sober adult terms. Our ragers were reminiscent of Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds, all of those old party movies that didn't age well. Scenes from Hackers, Fight Club, The Matrix, Trainspotting, Go, Swingers, Made, 200 Cigarettes, SLC Punk, Dazed and Confused, PCU, even Undergrads (a cartoon) were so spot-on for campus life, living for the weekend. Can't Hardly Wait, American Pie, Varsity Blues, Waiting, Superbad, etc came later, and I almost consider those watered down versions of the feral partying that happened earlier just as the internet went mainstream, but still canon.

A Friday night at my city's bar scene today looks like what our Sunday or Monday was. People half tipsy on 2 drinks, even though they're Ubering home later. The faint scent of ganja now instead of basements filled with smoke and first timers trying laughing gas. Nobody puking or disappearing around a corner to relieve themselves. No sound of bottles shattering. I feel like a curator of a museum now, a derelict from a forgotten time.

In fairness, I went to college in the midwest, where there was nothing else to do. Now the West Coast has effectively legalized drugs, awakening much of the country to the full human experience, and people have done the trips and plant medicine and maybe realize at a young age that alcohol and tobacco are rough drugs that tear you up. Which is admirable, but they also prepare you for getting torn up as an adult. To miss out on learning how to make your way home on drunk logic before you black out seems like a crucial rite of passage has been lost.

And it shows. In our country's embrace of puritanical politics like we saw in the jingoist 2000s, regentrified for the antivax era. In the worship of unspoiled beauty, idolizing of influencers, pursuit of financial security over visceral experience. In the fanboyism, bootlicking and drinking the kool-aid for every new evolutionary tech that cements the status quo instead of freeing the human spirit in a revolutionary manner. I gotta be honest, most of what's happening today is laughable to my generation. Blah I sound like a Boomer. Ok cryable then. We're in mourning. We worry about the kids today. All work and no play and all that. It's killing our souls, and theirs.

I guess my final thought after writing this is that partying is one of the most powerful reality-shifting tools in our arsenal. All of this can't be it. This can't be how America ends. You know what to do.
by RC_ITR | 2025-07-10 16:07:46+00:00
Do you have this same concern about literally every structure man has ever constructed?

They do the same exact thing in terms of 'slowing wind down' and 'preventing the sun's energy from reaching the ground'.

This idea is understandable, but it falls apart for the same reason the wind turbine bird death concern does (the number of birds that have died due to humans liking windows is 1,000,000x the number that have died in turbines).
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-07-10 16:08:02+00:00
North Korea recently executed what I believe is the largest known theft in history, $1.5 billion in ETH stolen from the ByBit exchange. It was easily traceable to a state-run North Korean hacking group. No police at the door, and ETH only had a temporary dip.

I'd think that if NK was sitting on a $1-10 billion Bitcoin bug, they'd execute it too before it got fixed or exploited by someone else.
by xnx | 2025-07-10 16:08:33+00:00
1. Agreed. One of the worst timed purchases of all time.

2. Unfortunately, nothing has truly displaced Twitter. Is Meta even still trying with Threads? I don't see ads, but I have to wonder why any real company would risk advertising on Twitter.

3. Eh. As a casual user, I haven't noticed any difference. For a mostly finished product, there were probably were a bunch of overpaid do-nothings on staff.

4. TSLA stock price seems impervious to reality.
by Aachen | 2025-07-10 16:09:41+00:00
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing details. A friend with strong corrections in their glasses always mentions they feel like they can't see much in the dark, not as much as other people anyway, but we've never been able to quantify it (that they don't see something that I do). That you always wear them in the dark sounds to me like it's indeed more important to correct this effect for dark backgrounds, which I had no idea about

Another comment I saw in the meantime, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520306, proposes a mechanism for why one might have what I'd call ghosting if it were a computer screen (apparently it's called halation for eyes). That that can lead to nausea or generally feeling like things swim together and you can't see as well makes sense, this might explain a lot

I'll mention this to the friend and maybe we can do some tests in the dark with moving objects rather than just "can you see that thing there". Maybe after all these years we can get to the bottom of this issue they've had all these years :D
by xenophonf | 2025-07-10 16:10:56+00:00
That's only a problem for exhibitors who value money over the inherent humanity of their exhibits.

I'm amused by the idea of donating my body to science, especially to medical colleges for teaching purposes, but I would want to make some kind of connection with that future. I would want people to at least know my name, see my face, have some idea that I am a person, that I want them to use what's left of me to go out and do some good in the world with it.

We're all just made out of meat, but that shouldn't dehumanize us. On the contrary. And running roughshod over human rights to put on a show does not treat its subjects humanely. Worse, that harms the audience, who gets inured to that inhumanity.
by Xmd5a | 2025-07-10 16:11:08+00:00
Interesting post. I'm relaying a thesis that has been the subject of ongoing discussion. I remember reading a piece by Hameroff in which he stressed that what makes anesthetics so puzzling is that, despite having wildly different mechanisms of action, they all lead to the same result: the disruption of consciousness and pain. It's a beautiful and intriguing idea that suggests consciousness can't be captured in positive terms but only defined through what causes it to cease, along with all the excessive implications this entails.

Anesthetics and plants: no pain, no brain, and therefore no consciousness, 2020, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7907021/

Citations https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?cites=6630013537357959749&...

Don’t jump the gun quite yet: aiming for the true target in plant neurobiology research, 2024, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00709-024-019...

>In their recent paper, Kingsland and Taiz argue that proponents of plant intelligence and plant neurobiology misuse historical sources to support their claims, suggesting a pattern of bias. They critique the reliance on subjective judgments and the systematic misuse of past literature by notable scientists. This response addresses their criticisms while adhering to Rapoport’s rules to foster constructive academic dialogue. We emphasize the importance of evidence-based research and highlight areas of agreement, including the fallacy of appealing to authority and the necessity for more robust empirical evidence. However, we also challenge their selective citation practices and argue that their narrative itself is subject to the same criticisms they levy. By examining recent works and pointing out overlooked rebuttals, we aim to clarify misconceptions and advocate for a more nuanced understanding of plant intelligence research. This dialogue underscores the need for rigorous, respectful scientific discourse to advance the field.
by Ar-Curunir | 2025-07-10 16:11:39+00:00
I'm sorry, but this comment is very vague and unclear.

Cryptographers know that hashes (even cryptographically strong ones!) are deterministic. Yet, it is possible that in going from an interactive proof to a non-interactive one, one does not actually need randomness. Indeed, for some class of protocols, we know how to design hash functions satisfying a particular property (correlation intractability) so that the resulting non-interactive proof is sound. It's just that (a) these hashes are inefficient, and (b) until now no one had found a non-contrived protocol where using standard hashes leads to an attack.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-10 16:11:40+00:00
> Nevermind the fact that it was pulling teeth to get an Irish builder to show up.

Depends on the builder, but like many, many constrained services in Ireland you'll do better if you (or someone you know) have a pre-existing relationship with them.

Maybe it's a place thing also? I do know that we've never had any issues getting plumbers/electricians/roofers/general handypeople to show up, but we're in Dublin.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-07-10 16:11:47+00:00
Well you can always send a dispute letter and then it's on the charging company to prove to the card issuer that the charge is legitimate I think. Now this probably won't get you out of a renewal charge if you signed a contract and did absolutely nothing to cancel, but if you have evidence you sent an email or contacted them, then you have some sort of case the card issuer has to look at. Especially if you can show you didn't use the product after they charged you.

If anything they can't argue that you want the service on the next renewal date.

I do know sometimes you are stuck. I had a friend sign up for home security monitoring on a 3 year contract - and Ring was better, so they wanted to cancel it, but they were unable to get out of it.
by not_your_vase | 2025-07-10 16:12:00+00:00
Could be their motto instead of Intel Inside: too late.

They missed the smartphone revolution, they missed the AI revolution, they missed even the expectations of gamers, even though they are religiously loyal to their brands, up to a point.

Sure, edge AI sounds cool, I guess. Let's not even try with anything else, since it's too late anyway.
by nick238 | 2025-07-10 16:12:30+00:00
Yeah, the "2% growth forever" feels like a sneaky addition which is extremely controversial in economic theory: if endless growth is required. 1.02 ** 1000 ~= 400,000,000. So if the world population continued to grow at 2% in those same 1000 years, there'd be 2.8 quintillion people. Evenly distributed over the planet (water included), each person would get a square 1.35 centimeters on a side.
by frozenseven | 2025-07-10 16:12:54+00:00
The 100.0% you see there just verifies that all the puzzles got solved by at least 2 people on the panel. That was calibrated to be so for ARC-AGI-2. The human panel averages for ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 are 64.2% and 60% respectively. Not a huge difference, sure, but it is there.

I've played around with both, yes, I'd also personally say that v2 is harder. Overall a better benchmark. ARC-AGI-3 will be a set of interactive games. I think they're moving in the right direction if they want to measure general reasoning.
by parineum | 2025-07-10 16:14:19+00:00
> Starting in the late 1990s...

How old were you then?

People have a tendency to remember some time period when everything was carefree and you didn't have to worry about how much stuff cost and all this new, great stuff was happening. And then you find out they were 12 and the time where they think all that went downhill was when they were 20.
by wanderingstan | 2025-07-10 16:14:29+00:00
I think you might be in agreement with me in the main, just quibbling on the timing?

The US's addiction to "fat oil profits" goes back over a hundred years, and that's what the NYTimes author argues is driving the current administration's push to keep those profits going. Whether there actually are such profits is a different question.

This is exactly the behavior of the big companies in "The Innovators Dilemma": continuing to try and squeeze profits out of the dying old paradigm. (IBM clinging to hardware and mainframes, US motorcycle manufacturers not embracing small sport bikes, etc.) That's to say that, yes, countries and governments can indeed behave like companies.
by vlovich123 | 2025-07-10 16:14:53+00:00
You may want to stay away from all modern CSPRNGs then. Eg Yarrow and Fortuna rely on sources of random input data being mixed in but using a strong hash function (nowadays sha-256) to produce the output at arbitrarily fast rates without consuming entropy.

And to your criticism that this is just programmers who don’t know what they’re doing, these algorithms were developed by Bruce Schneier, Niels Ferguson, and John Kelsey.
by BoorishBears | 2025-07-10 16:14:57+00:00
You run a $149 Billion annual services deficit with the US.

No biggie. It's only like ~$800/taxpayer/year when you run the numbers.

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And can we talk about how absolutely cartoonish that is when 77% of it is digital, aka things you should have been able to build if you weren't leaking all of your top minds to power the US's service economy.

The US is actively trying to self-destruct and the EU still can't seize that moment, instead tripling down on the role of toll collector, and you'll see rabid behavior the moment you call that out.
by jaredcwhite | 2025-07-10 16:15:23+00:00
Completely absurd and ridiculous "analysis" with no basis in factual reality.

Consumers are actually down on AI now. There's increasing negative sentiment whenever a company advertises it now has "AI" in its products. They are trusted less, not more, and viewed with suspicion.

Apple is actually better positioned the more it relegates genAI to smaller local models which are good for a much more tightly-constrained number of key tasks for which LLMs aren't too horrifying.
by jecel | 2025-07-10 16:15:40+00:00
I have named the experimental languages I am toying with "Plan <x>" (for Programming LANguage, but also because it is a good term as you pointed out). Originally I was using numbers (probably would skip "Plan 9" like Microsoft skipped Windows 9) but the experiments went in different directions and implying an order was misleading. So I switched to star names: Plan Sirius, Plan Rigel, Plan Vega...
by jpk2f2 | 2025-07-10 16:15:42+00:00
I used to have a Bloomberg heat pump dryer when I lived in a historical apartment. I was fairly happy with it, only real downsides was that it did take longer to dry compared to my prior electric and gas dryers, it tended to pickup a musty smell, and it was relatively complex and difficult to repair compared to a simpler dryer (had some minor failures over the years). Upside was the efficiency and not needing an exterior exhaust.

Been a number of years since then, so I'm sure they've improved even more and are hopefully somewhat cheaper.
by gmueckl | 2025-07-10 16:16:12+00:00
Recent history is a very, very good reminder that political relationships between countries (or more generally political powers) are extremely fragile and the only reliable constant in these kinds of systems is change and stability isn't permanent, unfortunately.

Even the EU with it's very tight integration between member states is seeing a lot of pressure to tear itself apart again from the inside, despite the very real costs thĺis would bring.
by benoau | 2025-07-10 16:16:15+00:00
BTW the feature I most-loved from iTunes was when they added the colour analysis to albums, it made each album feel more unique.

http://ssrubin.com/img/musiclibrary/iTunes.png

https://www.tech-recipes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/itun...

https://cpng.pikpng.com/pngl/s/556-5568070_flower-boy-itunes...