MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-16 16:56:51+00:00
When I was rich and on top of the world I remember running around in my boat full of people partying blasting this song and taking the chorus seriously. Man, it felt good. It felt so so good. Can't believe it was so long ago and a different life.

'We are the people that rule the world' - Empire of the Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rm0gwqCR_0
by yurish | 2025-07-16 16:57:05+00:00
So "The Russian regime (and apparently a lot of Russians) deem Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group - they call them "little Russians"." it is? And this follows from the link? Have you read it? Really?

The term Малороссия now days is outdated indeed, as wiki says. This term was first introduced not even by Russia but by Byzantine Church and word "мало" ("little" as you "translate" here) means "original" "primordial" to distinct two church branches and then where used to denote parts of Rus' under Polish rule.

Note, the linked article does not say that Russians use this term to denote someone inferior. It says that some Ukrainians consider this word offensive which is not surprising taking into account active propaganda and lack of historical education in masses.
by zyklonix | 2025-07-16 16:57:34+00:00
This idea of a “daydreaming loop” hits on a key LLM gap, the lack of background, self-driven insight. A pragmatic step in this direction is https://github.com/DivergentAI/dreamGPT , which explores divergent thinking by generating and scoring hallucinations. It shows how we might start pushing LLMs beyond prompt-response into continuous, creative cognition.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-16 16:58:17+00:00
Does seem to support cross-architecture image building, which is a feature that's kept me on Debian's multistrap and now mmdebstrap.

I should give this a go!

The README's reference page has some good write-ups et cetera! There's a good "re-introduction" on Lennart (creator of systemd, mkosi) site, from the current maintainer.

https://github.com/systemd/mkosi?tab=readme-ov-file#referenc... https://0pointer.net/blog/a-re-introduction-to-mkosi-a-tool-...
by albedoa | 2025-07-16 16:58:17+00:00
In addition to what everyone else said, comments like yours confirm that it would be a waste for me to check out Firefox for the hundredth time. You are among a sea of comments enumerating the specific reasons why it sucks, and you're here insisting with zero substantiation that it is "effective" and "by far the best browser around". A better approach would be to acknowledge the issues that users have had with it and explain how it has improved.

On the other hand, if your definition of "effective" and "best" describes Firefox the last time I checked it out, then our definitions do not match, and I don't need to check it out again.
by StrandedKitty | 2025-07-16 16:58:43+00:00
> sleeping on phenibut is very restful

Is this just you subjective experience or is it backed by some data or research? For me personally, sleeping after phenibut doesn't feel healthy at all -- in fact I often end up sleeping for 12+ hours unless I have something important to do in the morning, and it's extremely hard to get out of bed every time.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-16 16:59:00+00:00
Your first video is showing what's effectively the absolutely quietest suppressed firearm you could possibly ever shoot, which isn't a very representative example.

The second video is good, although if you click through the guy's links they have a video of them shooting the same gun with a db meter next to it, showing that it still makes 87.4 db of noise when firing, which is considered louder than "a loud radio", and is basically at the db level where anything that level or louder is considered harmful. So, not really that quiet in reality. The sound doesn't really get picked up on a microphone and played through your headphones in a very realistic manner.
by strangecasts | 2025-07-16 16:59:03+00:00
It's designed for 2D but there are libraries which add 3D rendering, e.g. Menori (https://github.com/rozenmad/Menori) and G3D (https://github.com/groverburger/g3d)

Alternatively, the LÖVR framework - https://lovr.org/ - is heavily inspired by LÖVE, but is aimed towards making VR games (but can also be used as a regular 3D game engine)
by TeaBrain | 2025-07-16 16:59:24+00:00
Whatever you may wish to call it, simile or metaphor, it's a little silly to complain about it being referred to as a metaphor, considering that similes are a subset of metaphor, even if they often aren't taught this way to children. Also, in common speech and literature, what would be taught as similes to children are almost universally just referred to as metaphors.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-16 16:59:40+00:00
I found the author's commentary on their goals the most interesting part of the article:

"We’d spent our careers working in schools and nonprofits with young immigrants, and, ..., we had no intention of leaving a life of service behind. Above all, though, what we wanted was an environment in which we could spend a lot of time writing and afford to do it. But Ben had another non-negotiable of his own: proximity to surfing. ...but I supposed it was reasonable enough to design a dream life according to one’s actual dreams."

They wanted to go to a different country for the adventure, to write in leisure and luxury, to surf, and to spread the good news of their superior insights and upbringing to uplift the natives.

Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior
by zyklonix | 2025-07-16 16:59:46+00:00
Totally agree, most prompts (especially for code) aren’t designed to surface novel insights, and even when they are, it’s hard to recognize them. That’s why the daydreaming loop is so compelling: it offloads both the prompting and the novelty detection to the system itself. Projects like https://github.com/DivergentAI/dreamGPT are early steps in that direction, generating weird idea combos autonomously and scoring them for divergence, without user prompting at all.
by tombert | 2025-07-16 16:59:48+00:00
Because sometimes I want to have logic that spans multiple lines and I don't want to assign it a name. An easy example might be something with a `map` or a filter. For example, in JavaScript

[1,2,3,4].filter(x => { let z = x * 2; let y = x * 3; let a = x / 2; return (z + x * a) % 27 == 2; });

Obviously I know I could name this function and feed it in, but for one-off logic like this I feel a lambda is descriptive enough and I like that it can be done in-place.

You're free to disagree, but I think there's a reason that most languages do allow multi-line lambdas now, even Java.
by pstuart | 2025-07-16 17:00:07+00:00
There's plenty of cases where it was mishandled (along with mishandling plenty of other things).

This is a classic playbook of taking egregious missteps on handling policy and blaming the policy itself instead of the administrative failure.

For example, we want "drug free" schools, right? So the "easiest" thing to do is establish zero tolerance rules that lead to situations like this:

https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/strip-search-13-year...

Does that mean we no longer want "drug free" schools?
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-07-16 17:00:34+00:00
When you restrict it to fit men of military age (lets be generous here and say 18-55 , even though there is ample evidence of Russian men 60+ signing up), 1 million is quite alot. The Russian population skews older - median age is around 40. There is also a massive gap of of people their 20s-early 30s.

1 million is basically an entire birth year of men ages 30-45, or two entire birth years of their male population from ages 20-30, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/...

Imagine all the men of your entire high school / college graduating class being either killed or seriously wounded so Putin can grab a few thousand km of territory.

Now they could allow women in combat roles, but I severely doubt it for this conflict. It would be extraordinarily unpopular and go against the narrative they have been selling their populace for decades.
by margalabargala | 2025-07-16 17:00:56+00:00
I think perhaps we are using the same words to talk about different things.

It may well be that colorways are used and loved by many users and that's a success. You made something people like; well done!

That we are having this conversation at all I think could be considered evidence, though, that it was a strategic failure for Mozilla. How much public opinion is worth burning for how much increased usage of a new theme feature? In my opinion, very little.

That colorways work well, that the people who use them continue to do so, that they were technically well designed and well engineered, is one yardstick by which to measure success/failure. By that measure they are certainly a success. But another yardstick is "did they have a net-positive or net-negative effect on the organization", which is where I think it came up short.

Based on the things you've said it sounds like you and I are more or less on the same page.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-07-16 17:01:43+00:00
First, we categorically lack the technology for wide-scale colonization of space or other planets. Second, no matter how much people like to deny it, the Earth does have some finite carrying capacity. We can argue indefinitely about what exactly that carrying capacity is, but it exists. It follows from those two facts that unbounded population growth is not possible. A continually shrinking population eventually leads to extinction, thus leaving a stable population as the only option that doesn't lead to either extinction or widespread chaos and calamity.

It's not really clear to me what the point of this question is. Are you advocating for infinite growth? For eventual extinction? Perhaps for a slow, long-term contraction but not extinction (i.e. eventual stability)? The latter is certainly what makes the most sense to me, but I'm just some random guy on the internet.
by kongolongo | 2025-07-16 17:02:14+00:00
>Eventually, doctors that resist the pressure loose in the market, because they end up less liked and more criticized. And that is about it.

Sounds like the incentives for doctors are misaligned. They shouldnt be subject to market demand for improper prescribing, for example that should be offset by fines or license revocation for misprescribing. Consumers cant be expected to know if a treatment is appropriate, so they consult doctors and if doctors are swayed by financial incentives to prescribe thats on the doctors.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-16 17:02:18+00:00
Apologies! I originally posted Android 9 Pie (2018), but had doubt & switched to the SDK version. My mistake!!

The AI age where the AI needs to be able to peak into all the apps will hopefully create a new API / MCP age, new machine-to-machine work. I'm not sure how much of what Google is doing today is proprietary, adding hooks into all their apps and creating some means for Gemini to access that all, and how much is paved road & available for others. Very curious to know more.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-16 17:02:28+00:00
After spending the last few years doing deep dives into how these systems work, what they are doing and the math behind them. NO.

Any time I see an AI SAFETY paper I am reminded of the phrase "Never get high on your own supply". Simply put these systems are NOT dynamic, they can not modify based on experience, they lack reflection. The moment that we realize what these systems are (were NOT on the path to AI, or AGI here folks) and start leaning into what they are good at rather than try to make them something else is the point where we get useful tools, and research aimed at building usable products.

The math no one is talking about: If we had to pay full price for these products, no one would use them. Moores law is dead, IPC has hit a ceiling. Unless we move into exotic cooling we simply can't push more power into chips.

Hardware advancement is NOT going to save the emerging industry, and I'm not seeing the papers on efficiency or effectiveness at smaller scales come out to make the accounting work.
by davepeck | 2025-07-16 17:02:36+00:00
> But in a real production environment, for real applications, you still want to avoid it because it isn't particularly easy to create robust systems for industrial use.

This is silly and seems to discount the massive Python codebases found in "real production environment"s throughout the tech industry and beyond, some of which are singlehandedly the codebases behind $1B+ ventures and, I'd wager, many of which are "robust" and fit for "industrial use" without babysitting just because they're Python.

(I get not liking a given language or its ecosystem, but I suspect I could rewrite the same reply for just about any of the top 10-ish most commonly used languages today.)
by tialaramex | 2025-07-16 17:02:38+00:00
You can get screwed over by external (to your org, even more globally) requirements

For example I work for a Research University, mostly our software procurement is - while not always excellent - pretty good stuff. Maybe the supplier isn't as responsive as we'd like, maybe the software is buggier, maybe the documentation is worse, probably not all three.

However, the Government, responding to the usual anti-immigrant sentiment, decided it needs all Universities to check that people who are here on a restricted visa to get a degree attend classes.

The underlying sentiment is clearly racist, but OK in some cases you could imagine that's a real issue, a cheap course with foreign students who are registered but actually never attending because they're out delivering pizza or whatever. For a prestige research University though it doesn't make much sense - maybe you graduated top of your class in Taiwan, your parents pay an eyewatering sum so you can study here for an EE Masters to get that job back home with a team designing CPUs - then instead you skip classes to work as a taxi driver? No, absurd. But the government legally requires we solve this imaginary problem, and the only bidding supplier is garbage. So they're basically requiring us to procure garbage.

Because the supplier knows we're obligated, why should they support anything? Why care if it works, or is documented properly, or integrates with all the things they've told the government it can do? They know they're getting free money because of anti-immigrant sentiment, and they can take advantage of that until the winds change.

Their attendance tracking stuff could be useful. You can legitimately imagine having an early warning, OK, Sarah took a week for her mum's funeral, that's sad, but then she didn't attend any lectures at all for the next three weeks, we should have somebody go check Sarah is OK, or, well, she's clearly not OK, have them figure out what Sarah should do next. Take a year pause? Counselling on our dime? Right now, we aren't required to track Sarah unless she's on a restricted visa and the software is awful (for her, for us, for her teaching staff, everything) so we don't track her. So chances are nobody notices, especially if her class is big, and then in another month's time we find out Sarah was struggling after losing a parent, and we find that out because Police have to break her door open as she's been dead for long enough that neighbours noticed the smell.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-16 17:02:43+00:00
> But prediction as the basis for reasoning (in epistemological sense) requires the goal to be given from the outside, in the form of the system that is to be predicted.

Prediction doesn't have goals - it just has inputs (past and present) and outputs (expected inputs). Something that is on your mind (perhaps a "goal") is just a predictive input that will cause you to predict what happens next.

> And I would even say that this problem (giving predictions) has been solved by RL.

Making predictions is of limited use if you don't have the feedback loop of when your predictions are right or wrong (so update prediction for next time), and having the feedback (as our brain does) of when your prediction is wrong is the basis of curiosity - causing us to explore new things and learn about them.

> Yet, the consensus seems to be we don't quite have AGI; so what gives? Clearly just making good predictions is not enough.

Prediction is important, but there are lots of things missing from LLMs such as ability to learn, working memory, innate drives (curiosity, boredom), etc.
Ask HN: Is mixpanel still the recommended product analytics tool for B2B SaaS?
by pinter69 | 2025-07-16 17:03:37+00:00
Saw this post from 2010, but a lot has changed since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213204 .

We are now building our analytics workflows and I want to make sure we are using the right tool for the job. Currently selling B2B (large businesses), in the future might venture also to B2SMB
by adamrezich | 2025-07-16 17:03:52+00:00
Have you seen Idiocracy, specifically the very beginning of the film?

These excuses sound similar to those made by the “prosperous yuppie couple” (who end up never having children)—contrasted with “trashy” couple, who churn out progeny without a care in the world.

https://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Idiocracy.pdf
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-07-16 17:04:11+00:00
> Why would I recommend a Linux system?

Greater control over what hardware and software you wish to run. e.g. you wouldn't have to follow Apple's decisions in making things obsolete and effectively keep old hardware running for a lot longer if you so wish. There's also a possible issue in having a U.S. based company in control of your O.S.
by searine | 2025-07-16 17:04:30+00:00
What exactly is 'pretending' and what is 'real'? Are we to leave that up to the politicians to decide that rather than the scientists themselves?

The 'deal' of basic science in the US is that the government funds broadly and without prejudice. Topics are decided by experts and overseen by experts. These experts are taking large pay-cuts (compared to their worth in industry) to have the freedom to investigate their own interests. In return the public gets a vast amount of R&D on the cheap, much of which doesn't seem to have immediate ROI, but as we well know, has tremendous long term ROI.

When you have politicians deciding what is 'real' and 'pretend' then you break the fundamental deal by removing academic freedom.

I certainly agree there is some useless science. But in this case, the demagogues are politicizing some science as an excuse to cut all science and embezzle the funds. Cancer, alzheimer's, infectious disease. It's all being cut right now, all because people are mad some grad student took 15K to study the relationship of smell to the gender identity of frogs.
by BigJono | 2025-07-16 17:05:21+00:00
I can give a bit more context as someone that got on WebGL, then WebGPU, and is now picking up Vulkan for the first time.

The problem is that GPU hardware is rapidly changing to enable easier development while still having low level control. With ReBAR for example you can just take a pointer into gigabytes of GPU memory and pump data into it as if it was plain old RAM with barely any performance loss. 100 lines of bullshit suddenly turn into a one line memcpy.

Vulkan is changing to support all this stuff, but the Vulkan API was (a) designed when it didn't exist and is (b) fucking awful. I know that might be a hot take, and I'm still going to use it for serious projects because there's nothing better right now, but the same extensibility that makes it possible for Vulkan to just pivot huge parts of the API to support new stuff also makes it dogshit to use day to day, the code patterns are terrible and it feels like you're constantly compromising on readability at every turn because there is simply zero good options for how to format your code.

WebGPU doesn't have those problems, I quite liked it as an API. But it's based on a snapshot of these other APIs right at the moment before all this work has been done to simplify graphics programming as a whole. And trying to bolt new stuff onto WebGPU in the same way Vulkan is doing is going to end up turning WebGPU into a bloated pile of crap right alongside it.

If you're coming from WebGL, WebGPU is going to feel like an upgrade (or at least it did for me). But now that I've seen a taste of the future I'm pretty sure WebGPU is dead on arrival, it just had horrendous timing, took too long to develop, and now it's backed into a corner. And in the same vein, I don't think extending Vulkan is the way forward, it feels like a pretty big shift is happening right now and IMO that really should involve overhauls at the software/library level too. I don't have experience with DX12 or Metal but I wouldn't be surprised if all 3 go bye bye soon and get replaced with something new that is way simpler to develop with and reflects the current state of hardware and driver capabilities.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-16 17:05:45+00:00
I don’t think I could name many 19’th century engineers, and my list will quickly start to include folks who are more mathematicians, like Chebyshev. And we have the advantage that we literally use equations named after these guys!

Names are trivia, imo. The memorization of trivia is… it happens of course, but it is just a symptom of learning.
by torlok | 2025-07-16 17:06:23+00:00
There's no need to respond with force. Russia will lose in the long-term due to sanctions as long as Republicans don't cock everything up even more by making deals with Russians and slowing down trade in the global west. Russians are wasting money and gear in Ukraine and becoming weaker. It's just a matter of time before China starts making claims on land they lost to the Soviets. Russians will lose this war the same way they lost the cold war; by cutting themselves off from the maritime economy.
by a_sydelov | 2025-07-16 17:06:39+00:00
Most teams still treat networks as mere connectivity layers — something that should "just work." But in reality, networks define how systems behave under attack, during failure, or when things drift from their intended design.

This write-up covers key architectural principles for modern networks:

Why boundaries and segmentation are essential to contain failures

The role of observability in detecting issues before users do

How continuous verification keeps the network aligned with intent

What resilience looks like beyond just uptime

If your network is still built around implicit trust and perimeter defenses, this perspective might be worth a read.
by bigbuppo | 2025-07-16 17:06:48+00:00
This has been my take. They even made Windows 11 look like a linux desktop so they can do a switcheroo later on.

Microsoft could kill off Windows as a desktop operating system and it wouldn't dent their financials in a major way. You'll know they're truly serious, though, when they start making contributions to Wine and also makes bash the default command line interpreter in windows.
by jghn | 2025-07-16 17:07:06+00:00
I added that genre to popular science books as things on which I will no longer waste my time reading. In both cases they're just collections of cool sounding anecdotes without much redeeming value beyond being brain pleasers.

And in the types of books you cited they are always Just So Stories that worked for that person. For instance, with "The hard thing about hard things", my takeaway was that I'll never be in exactly the same circumstances as the author with exactly the same context and thus their decisions aren't useful for me. Why bother? There was not a single nugget in there where I felt it was something I could add to my persona to make be a better person.