MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonglu | 2025-07-10 15:55:53+00:00
Currently, yes, that is hard with the people at the start - I did think of that!

That's why one of the very first step on my excel sheet is to increase everyone's intelligence & emotional understanding of one another - we all can then collectively contribute to the utopia we all want - some want cottagecore places, others countryside, others solarpunk etc

The start will be the slowest...?
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-07-10 15:55:56+00:00
That’s only a problem if you care about the stranded investment side. The energy industry isn’t that personel intensive (plus you could just continue to employ the people). But they absolutely will deprecate the power plants and stop buying the coal. The former will bankrupt some of the projects which planned with much longer repayment periods. The latter will immediately safe money
Looking for two builders (preferably) to share apartment with
by rtxone | 2025-07-10 15:56:09+00:00
Hi guys, I'm moving to SF from LA, and have a place I want to share with two other builders (preferably)

The bedroom is very nice and spacious and available for $1400 (negotiable)

The living room has one slot (also spacious) available for $800

Biggest benefits of the place are that you'd be living with obsessed builders and great people. Top priority of ours is to keep the place clean and orderly. I'm personally a minimalist so I don't really own much.

PM me if interested, would love to get on a call and get to know each other.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-10 15:56:16+00:00
Friction makes the tidal bulges lag slightly, which means they're a little bit ahead of where the moon is. That produces a net acceleration on the moon that raises its orbit. Increasing tidal friction should increase the lag which should increase the speed at which the moon's orbit raises. Completely insignificant at human scale, of course, but technically it should be doing something.
by lesuorac | 2025-07-10 15:56:18+00:00
> This is a detail conveniently left out by home owners justifying their purchase

I mean you can phrase it this way. Or you can phrase it as homeowners are willing to play a premium for stability / forced savings. (And to be less generous, homeowners may be getting cheaper access to capital than otherwise available to a renter; espsecially as the homeowner locks in ~2% interest rate while a margin loan has increase to 10+% [1]).

However, for markets with low construction and strong demand I'm pretty sure home ownership comes out ahead. Like look at housing prices in the bay area historically vs current rents. That said, you need a handicap'd rental market for renting to be worse so the general situation is it's better _iff_ you invest the difference.

[1]: https://www.schwab.com/margin/margin-rates-and-requirements
by soerxpso | 2025-07-10 15:56:23+00:00
> Maybe a site like this should try to root-out the "root source" of information - official press releases or press conferences, eye-witness accounts.

I'd personally pay for that. It feels like 90% of the "news" I see these days is just some site telephoning what a different reporter said. I regularly see "study finds x" articles that completely bury the original academic source. Often, "politician said x" articles that spend a lot of time going over everyone's reactions to whatever the politician said without letting me have the full video or press release where he actually said it.

This would also fix an issue I'm seeing on Kite where some stories seem to be the same thing from different angles (one article about the Texas floods is directly above an article about how the Texas floods are "testing FEMA", and there are two separate articles for the recent Trump-Netanyahu deal, one in World and one in USA. X's CEO resigning is three different articles in different feeds. The Business tab has two different articles about Trump tariffs that could really be one article).
by Groxx | 2025-07-10 15:57:01+00:00
It seems to be pretty explicit that the "program" being run contains the full hashing algorithm used (to output the correct answers most of the time) plus additional logic to allow cheating.

That rather clearly goes wildly beyond what most ZK schemes use. That's arbitrary code execution of your choice, either as input or as part of selecting the program. Which seems like it puts this somewhere near "if you allow `eval` on user input in your script, it could do anything", doesn't it?

Plus like. They fixed it. That seems to imply it's more of an implementation flaw than a fundamental, even if it may be a surprisingly achievable one.
by nsbk | 2025-07-10 15:57:02+00:00
Some of the insights match my personal experience and preferences. At $dayjob we're migrating from Mongo to TimescaleDB (now TigerData ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) which is basically a PostgreSQL extension for time series data and couldn't be happier. We are getting better performance and massive storage savings.

On the analytics side of things we are starting to use DuckDB for some development efforts, but we are keen on potentially replacing some or all of our Snowflake usage with DuckDB.
by kenjackson | 2025-07-10 15:57:18+00:00
I think this article was way overdone, based on what I see with my teenage kids. They don't go to any "parties", but during the summer they are at the beach around 4x per week with bonfires at night. Almost 1/3 of their class (at a somewhat small school) is there.

And with Snapchat they know where everyone is. It's typical on a Friday school night they are scanning their map to see, "this group is at the mall. this group is at the football. this group went to her house." And then pick where to go.

Honestly, the current method of social gathering seems so much better than what I did in the 80s.
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-10 15:57:22+00:00
I am extremely skeptical of that 1000 year estimate. It is almost entirely depending on the assumption of the continuous energy increase of 2% per year every year, for the next 1000 years, and that tidal energy remains 1% of that total the entire time.

I think that those assumptions are wrong in multiple ways and that reasonable estimates of the amount of tidal energy that could be extracted would lead to time scales where the risk no longer becomes relevant.
by jfengel | 2025-07-10 15:57:34+00:00
It also causes a decline, because later pregnancies will also mean fewer children. Pregnancies after 35 are called "geriatric". (Actually, they now call it "advanced maternal age" to sound less insulting, but the older term conveys how much harder it is to get pregnant and fully gestate.)

A woman who waits until 30 to start a family is likely to not have one. It's a deeply unfortunate dilemma, because her male partner suffers much less decline.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-10 15:57:45+00:00
Calling people names to dehumanize them is a page from the Nazi playbook.

20 years of anti-fascists who are jealous that some other people have better footwear calling wolf was a magic spell that brought real fascists into existence.

(If you had to say what was wrong about Twitter in a short text it is that it is easy to say something like the above message in a short text but impossible to conclusively refute as it involves introducing concepts such as "The meaning of a communication is its effect", "The purpose of a system is what it does", "Chaos Magick is real", and that even though physics is real some things obey the laws of 'pataphysics instead.)
by mkagenius | 2025-07-10 15:58:07+00:00
Oh yes, its been good for a while. When we created our Android-use[1] (like computer use) tool, it was the cheapest and the best option among Openai, Claude, llama etc.

We have a planner phase followed by a "finder" phase where vision models are used. Following is the summary of our findings for planner and finder. Some of them are "work in progress" as they do not support tool calling (or are extremely bad at tool calling).

+------------------------+------------------+------------------+ | Models | Planner | Finder | +------------------------+------------------+------------------+ | Gemini 1.5 Pro | recommended | recommended | | Gemini 1.5 Flash | can use | recommended | | Openai GPT 4o | recommended | work in progress | | Openai GPT 4o mini | recommended | work in progress | | llama 3.2 latest | work in progress | work in progress | | llama 3.2 vision | work in progress | work in progress | | Molmo 7B-D-4bit | work in progress | recommended | +------------------------+------------------+------------------+

1. https://github.com/BandarLabs/clickclickclick
by fzysingularity | 2025-07-10 15:58:33+00:00
This isn't surprising at all - most VLMs today are quite poor on localization even though they've been explicitly post-trained on object detection tasks.

One insight that the author calls out is the inconsistencies in coordinate systems used in post-training these - you can't just swap models and get similar results. Gemini uses (ymin, xmin, ymax, xmax) integers b/w 0-1000. Qwen uses (xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax) floats b/w 0-1. We've been evaluating most of the frontier models for bounding boxes / segmentation masks, and this is quite a footgun to new users.

One of the reasons we chose to delegate object-detection to specialized tools is essentially due to the poor performance (~0.34 mAP w/ Gemini to 0.6 mAP w/ DETR like architectures). Check out this cookbook [1] we recently released, we use any LLM to delegate tasks like object-detection, face-detection and other classical CV tasks to a specialized model while still giving the user the dev-ex of a VLM.

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/github/vlm-run/vlmrun-cook...
by refulgentis | 2025-07-10 15:58:35+00:00
> Oklab is perceptually uniform and addresses issues such as unexpected hue and lightness changes in blue colors present in the CIELAB color space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklab_color_space

This isn't true. Oklab is a singular matmul meant to approximate a perceptually accurate color space.

> Oklab is used in CSS because it creates smoother gradients and better gamut mapping of out-of-gamut colors than Lab.

That's not true, at all. Not even wrong. Gamut mapping is separate from color space.

> Here's a picture how Oklch (on the left) creates smoother gamut mapping than CIE Lch (on the right)

I love the guy who wrote this but we have an odd relationship, I'd have people tell me all the time he wondered why I wasn't reaching out to him, and we've never met, he's never contacted me, etc.

If you're him, we should talk sometime.

I doubt you're him, because you're gravely misunderstanding the diagram and work there. They're comparing gamut mapping algorithms, not comparing color spaces, and what is being discussed is gamut mapping, not color spaces.
by taeric | 2025-07-10 15:58:54+00:00
I definitely feel a bit lucky that my kids were big enough to be out of car seats by elementary school, already. That said, I thought most were out of needing car seats by the second or third grade? I'm surprised to hear it is at all common for kids to still be in seats all the way to middle school.

I also can't offer much of a defense of car seats. Obviously, go for safety; but it does feel that people are chasing a tail end of safety that is not really measurable. Modern cars and using seat belts have come a long long way to make vehicles safer.

There is also the interesting contrast with busses on this. Kids don't buckle up or use seat belts in school busses.
by giingyui | 2025-07-10 15:59:11+00:00
I have glasses. They greatly ameliorate the issue, but not completely. My prescription is a single number which I don’t believe has the necessary granularity (I think, intervals of 0.25) to express the exact prescription I need. I also suspect that astigmatism is a deformation of parts of the eye that cannot be expressed with a single number. It’s possible I should have gone to an ophthalmologist instead of an optician in a mall but that’s what I did.

Also I generally don’t wear the glasses unless I’m working (with a computer of course) or driving. I also have myopia, but both my astigmatism and my myopia are mild. The problem is much more severe when it’s dark, so I always wear my glasses when it’s dark and I very rarely wear them during the day. I must always wear them if I intend to use the computer for a long time, though. Especially if I’m staring at a terminal or whatever else with white letters on a black background. But I don’t need them to read (black on white, not too far away) or to use my mobile (always closer to my face than my monitor).

Judging the distance/speed of other cars during the night without glasses is simply impossible despite my mild prescription.
by afavour | 2025-07-10 15:59:26+00:00
> If you spend time with kids in the real world, you learn very rapidly that most of them aren't on platforms like Reddit and Twitter. Of those who use Reddit, few of them actually post anything or even have accounts.

Certainly true. But it's also undeniable that a huge number of them are on TikTok, Instagram and the like. I think OP's point still stands that today's youth have been affected by that.
by aeve890 | 2025-07-10 15:59:47+00:00
Why the downvotes?

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and following tsunami shortened Earth's day by 2.68 microseconds. The energy of the tsunami alone was around 4.2E15 joules. Considering Earth's mass, radius and moment of inertia it would take ~2.9E26 joules to shorten the day by 1 minute.

It seems it really won't be an issue for a while.
by Bender | 2025-07-10 16:00:23+00:00
There are a lot of animals that hunt and kill coyotes. I might have gone with Grizzly Bears with rubber tank tracks that can actually chase animals as well as human activists that roar at them and run them over or pin them down. This is less lethal than the permitted M-16 once someone steps over the red line. The Bear Tanks should weight at least 900 pounds.

Also Golden Eagles on tall poles that are solar powered and their heads move on a swivel and double as surveillance cameras to cover camera blind spots.
by isaachinman | 2025-07-10 16:00:35+00:00
We're using Orama for client-side search, which is best in class as far as we can tell, after quite an extensive period of research.

It is able to use BM25, QPS, or PT15.

We're still playing around with various weights/settings, but have seen fantastic results so far.

What do you mean by "double quoted phrases"? Do you mean the ability to search for an _exact_ term?
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-07-10 16:00:55+00:00
Part of the reason you can walk across the city in this time is because it is really walkable. I'm from the Midwest - Trondheim is the biggest city I've lived in but more walkable than any of them. I'll add that the "across the entire city in less than an hour" isn't as true as it once was, especially when you consider that places like Klæbu are part of the city now and the population has grown. Byåsen would take me over an hour to walk to.

Den Gode Nabo is still about, but its been years since I've been there :)
by xracy | 2025-07-10 16:00:57+00:00
I think the difference between what you're complaining about the person saying, and what the person is actually saying could be solved by workers getting paid like $5/hour more (AKA a living wage).

The person didn't say anything that contradicts what they're saying other than that you're unhappy with the status quo that is offered to migrant workers. And you're absolutely right. But a more constructive dialogue would be "let's improve the conditions for those people."
Show HN: Trim Transformer: A transformer for physics models
by emanuelgordis | 2025-07-10 16:01:09+00:00
Trim is building a foundation model for physics. We found almost all well-maintained transformer-based architectures are optimized for language models. We’re releasing our own open-source transformer package that is optimized for physics. It achieves a 90% reduction in memory usage and a 3.5x speedup in a standard Navier-Stokes dataset.
by perdomon | 2025-07-10 16:01:30+00:00
That's good to know. The Mail app shortcut keys don't make a lick of sense, but I don't mind that as much as the inability to zoom in on images in a message. No pinch and zoom on an image is diabolical in the MacOS ecosystem. Do you miss anything about Mail now that you're Thunderbird full-time? Anything you prefer in Thunderbird over Mail?
by dotancohen | 2025-07-10 16:01:34+00:00
I let the LLM come up with all the boiler plate classes, functions, modules, etc that it wants. I let it name things. I let it design the API. But what I don't let it do, is design the flow of operations. I come up with a flow chart as a flow of operations, and explain that to the LLM. Almost any if statement is a result of something I specifically mentioned.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-07-10 16:01:37+00:00
>Find me community like this anywhere in America these days.

The only reason I have become a staple member of my little dead-end, working-class street is because I don't email/text, and last summer I spent outdoors building a tinyhome (that all the passersby watched/asked about).

"How do I get ahold of you?" they used to ask... "Simple," I'd say, "just knock on my door between noon through sunset" [my calling hours, to use the historic term, posted by my doorbell]. Haven't even used my phone but a handful of times this 2025 — turned off entirely since early May — & my social life is what I want it to be, I am not alone any more than I wish to be.

I moved here two years ago, and already know everybody on my street (24 dwellings, total); it's primarily rentals, so when there is a new U-Haul I make sure to bring over a beer/conversation (typically a week after moving in — so they can settle/adjust/remember).

Before living in this working-class neighborhood, I lived in the nicer parts of towns... and honestly, these working-class people are nicer and more giving/understanding/decent than anywhere else I've ever lived (e.g. Westlake Hills [near Austin]; West End [Nashville]; Barton Hills [ATX]; Lookout Mountain [Tenn]).

Stop doing everything on your phone. Start being neighborly.

Example: multiple neighbors and I have jointly-purchased a nicer lawnmower, instead of each buying our own simpler pusher.

¢¢
by chaosharmonic | 2025-07-10 16:02:09+00:00
Bit of both. It stores available jobs via JSON upload, but also lets you log interviews and track their overall lifecycles.

This demo is just the UI and isn't thorough about API mocking (and the interview forms have a couple snags I need to work through still so I've left it out of the test data), but the full application also includes crawler flows for collecting results.
by Symmetry | 2025-07-10 16:02:13+00:00
I think if we're positing a world where our energy use increases 2% annually for a thousand years and that tidal power will remain a fixed fraction of that we're not dealing with a reasonable projection. In any event, at the end of those thousand years humanity won't be very far from Dyson Sphere territory and the tidal locking of Earth wouldn't be much of a problem for the civilization implied, but I don't think it's possible to extract tidal energy that fast.
by libraryatnight | 2025-07-10 16:02:25+00:00
The headline had me thinking of the Star Trek TNG Nano-bot episode. When do they get out and work together becoming sentient?!

Sincerely though, it's nice to see this - lately I feel like all I read about is AI doing the things we'd rather be doing, glad people are still working on robots to do what we'd rather not :D
by GTP | 2025-07-10 16:02:33+00:00
So, in the end, what is the core concept of the attack? Were they able to generate a program (maybe exloit the fuzzyness of the distinction between data and program to generate a program) that contains the hash of itself? I doubt that this is it, as if this were the case, then it would be likely to be an issue with a specific hash function and not a general issue. Unless they are using some trick like the one I presented above, but then it seems to me that the problem wouldn't be with Fiat-Shamir itself.
by blacklion | 2025-07-10 16:02:38+00:00
> You have to remember that when Gmail was launched it was considerably better than most desktop mail clients at the time.

It was not better for me than old FIDONet GoldEd 2.8x! It didn't (and doesn't) support proper threads, it supports effectively only top-quoting, it didn't (and doesn't) understand mailing lists in any way, it didn't support forward-as-attachment in both ways (now it supports it, though). Its filtering is still much more cumbersome than even Thunderbird one, not to say Sieve, and can be done only from web, but not from Android client. It doesn't support any crypto natively, both PGP or S/MIME.

Their are all features which I'm using daily (maybe, crypto is not daily, but still use sometimes).

Only good thing is labels, which is more flexible than tree folder structure. And, yes, full text search, obviously, as it is Google product.

As far as I remember, Thunderbird was not much worse than it is now, and it is supports most of this (though, quoting was and still is very weak, problem solved in FIDONet in 1990s!).

To be honest, I don't remember what was situation with address book and address autocompletion from it in Thundrbird before GMail, maybe there was none (but I will surprised, as, again, it worked in old TUI-based FIDONet client for DOS and OS/2), but this feature is trivial to implement in desktop app, and it could use LDAP or another centralized directory, not only addresses collected from your mail.

It was better than any web-mail, for sure, but better than desktop client? It is debatable.

1GB of storage is question of hosting, not client.

Update: Add to it modern gmail hate to self-hosting mail domains, and I could say that Google kills email as federated, free, non-vendor-dependent system. It is not surprise to me, of course, but still.
by sershe | 2025-07-10 16:02:49+00:00
this narrative is basically a lie

1) Americans spend less than OECD average out of pocket as a percentage of healthcare costs. This is much larger in absolute terms but the multiplier - cost of healthcare is nearly entirely due to provider costs.

2) Health outcomes are really different between states despite having basically the same system. demographically controlled iirc outcomes are not different and sometimes better (e.g. japanese americans).

3) Insurance company profits are pretty low relative to cost of healthcare. while the bureaucracy is more expensive its not "catastrophically" by any means and iirc there are oecd countries with similar overhead although im too lazy to search on myvphone.

4) Rationing healthcare has to and does happen in all advanced economies. again modulo cost in the us, id rather it happen via money than government or inforrmal scarcity (like in Canada).

4a) Frankly while i dont have evidence for this 4a, lookinng at us spending by age (and eg the enormous money usg spends on kidney dialysis for people thay mostly just die in a few years anyway), I wonder if an important reason US providers are so expensive is, we ration limited supply properly for most people but then don't ration keeping a bedridden grandma alive for 6 more months at extreme cost, cause hey, the govt pays.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-10 16:02:54+00:00
>removing heat from the ground

You're not removing anything, you're just transforming kinetic energy into electrical energy. Energy transforms, everything transforms on earth, as per the laws of physics. When you die, your body doesn't get "removed", it gets transformed into worm food. It's the cycle of matter and energy. "Yeah science Mr. White!"

I doubt human devices that capture wind and water wave energy are enough to negatively impact the climate in a meaningful way, considering how powerful nature is.