MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by itsanaccount | 2025-07-30 14:25:02+00:00
deer and horse flies are fundamentally different. a horse fly can be caught by a chemical attractant, think the "pop" traps. Which you can scale to a 5 gallon bucket no problem.

A deer fly goes after movement and the color blue, so your traps tend to be sticky traps, like a lowes bucket coated in tanglefoot. but you can't feed them to fish, chickens and they're a pain to clean.

I've been looking for someone to scale up some kind of fan trap for deer flies, like think a bigger version of the Katchy UV traps, but so far nobody has done anything. A fellow had a good example of using blue nitrile gloves blown up and coated in tanglefoot on a stick but while cheap, still messy.
by turnsout | 2025-07-30 14:25:34+00:00
I've run my own servers for over 20 years now, but I guess I don't understand the pain point. Can you elaborate? They write:

> Our system delivers all the hardware and software you need to run cloud…

To "run cloud?" Does this mean treating your own servers like "serverless?" Does it mean running Kubernetes? Is this primarily for people who want to self-host LLMs?

I'm literally so old that I write programs that run on a server and never think about infrastructure.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-30 14:25:56+00:00
For most of the kids falling over themselves in this conflict, history between the two nations began October 8th 2023.

For the adults that run the world and been around 50+ years watching this shit, they just want it to be over, and don't really care who wins. At this point Palestine has no cards left and no friends helping them. They have lost, and the adults want them to go away without human-shielding themselves to dust.
by abxyz | 2025-07-30 14:26:10+00:00
I argued this in the previous discussion about oxide’s compensation structure: I disagree that sales must be commission based. Yes, finding sales staff that are willing to work for a salary and equity shrinks the pool but the same is true of engineers willing to work for a flat rate across the company.

Sales might seem mystical and magical to engineers but it isn’t. A small company with a small sales team can absolutely work without commission. Yes, it is harder, but it is not impossible. The carve out for sales undermines the ideas behind a flat salary structure. Just because we can measure a sales person’s contributions in dollar amounts does not mean we must measure it in dollar amounts. Sales is as much about the partnerships between sales people and product/engineering, why aren’t all the people who work on a deal getting commission?

I’d go as far as to argue that oxide is in the perfect position as a big-ticket long-cycle business to abandon traditional sales commission structures. They take on all the negatives (sales people overselling to get commission) with no benefits. There are other ideas. Company wide bonus based on sales made during the year?
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-30 14:26:14+00:00
I actually think that having more cloud providers might deflate a lot of the pricing. If you think about it, companies like Amazon buy server hardware and then rent it out by the vcpu (with throttling if they can get away with it) per month. Add memory and IO and you are looking at bills that pay for the server in mere months/weeks several tenants carving up all the hardware and each paying tens/hundreds per month.

There are of course benefits to using cloud based VMs and I use them as well. But you are paying a very steep premium for what is a pitiful amount of compute and memory. There's a lot of wiggle room for price decreases and the only thing preventing that is a lack of competition. There's a reason Amazon is so rich: nobody seems to challenge them on AWS pricing. There's value in having them do all the faffing about with hardware of course. That's why companies use them. I'm in GCP; but same principle. I don't want to have to worry about replacing hard disks in the middle of the night, deal with network routers that are misbehaving, cooling issues, etc. That's why I pay them the big bucks. But I'm well aware that it's not that great of a deal.

I used Hetzner a decade ago and paid something like 50 euros per month for a quad core xeon with a raid 1 disks, 32 GB, etc. Bare metal of course. But also, 50 euro. We had five of those. Forget about getting anything close to that with modern cloud providers for anything resembling a reasonable price. Your first monthly bill might actually add up to enough to buy your own hardware. Very tempting. They have beefed up their specs since then. You now get more for less. And they also do VMs now.
by waldopat | 2025-07-30 14:26:36+00:00
I'll kick off. Yes, I have a library card. Although, I'll be honest since the pandemic I pretty much stopped going. In contrast, my wife has been using her library card more since the pandemic, particularly to listen to audiobooks.

In the before times, I did quite a bit of research through the library or would check out books based on my interest areas. I never had a problem waiting for books, though sometimes I had to do an interlibrary loan.

Anyways, now I'm excited to get back to my local library.
by sunscream89 | 2025-07-30 14:26:50+00:00
Interference is constructive and destructive anything. Constructive interference might be that by well informed lawful consent, and destructive against these principles.

Funny you should say (regarding violation), I use the term “breach” in my derived works to isolate exactly that. Breach is destructive interference (by will or neglect, I.e. not by freak accident or forces beyond account) upon the “domain” of another.

There is lesser breach, which could be harassment, through “egregious breach” which means to diminish the potential of existential being (murder, actual physical damage, rape, etc.)

I have doodled around with some assertions I would love to discuss elsewhere if you are taking this seriously.

For instance I define “law” as “the aspect of order, the interface of breach (violation), the ultimate resolve of domain.”

Here we say when there is a “breach” (my technical term for “violation” for reasons you may intuit) among selves (embodiments or actors) “law” (itself defined as “aspects of order” [of domain]) is the “ultimate resolve of domain.”

A violation (breach) is viewed as a debt to the domain (law, as proxy for the violated other.) Here resolve would be whatever lawful/moral response to the balance of the debt breach causes by the responsible party.

Domain is any isolated scope, identified through relationships (vectors) and evaluates to the highest encapsulation of authority (which may be beyond one’s self.)

You’re right, there is an art to saying simply and explaining such In complexity. I feel there are simple rules in there we must have the right language to describe.
by westurner | 2025-07-30 14:27:20+00:00
Systemantics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics :

> The term systemantics is a commentary on prior work by Alfred Korzybski called general semantics which conjectured that all systems failures could be attributed to a single root cause – a failure to communicate

Which character says "what we have here is a failure to communicate?" in the film 'Cool Hand Luke'?

It looks like the full OT quote has another sentence:

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

Is this why we are encouraged to write a test, ensure that it doesn't pass yet by running it, write code to make the test pass, ensure that there are sufficient tests and that they all pass, and only then commit to a pull request branch, so that the centralized build runner will verify that all of the tests pass before code is merged onto the release branch?
by ForOldHack | 2025-07-30 14:27:21+00:00
Nope. Win 10 is now a free year of support. All the way to Oct 2026. Thanks for pointing out mistakenly your mistaken. And is it surprising than hardware shills are pointing not pointing this out? You want Linux get a Thinkpad, and a mouse, and plan on replugging every time you wake. "It just works." Well guess what?
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-30 14:27:30+00:00
I'm sure it's possible, but AI companies don't invest much money into complying with the law as it's not profitable.

A normal industry would've figured out how to deal with this problem before going public, but AI people don't seem to be all that interested.

I'm sure they'll all cry foul if one of them get hit with a fine and an order to figure out how to fix the mess they've created, but this is what you get when you don't ethics to computer scientists.
by xyst | 2025-07-30 14:28:20+00:00
I wonder if the "US intelligence community" is really Kash Patel.

He has been known to work/consult/lobby on behalf of Chinese (and other foreign country) companies to push or backchannel in DC for favorable outcomes in US. [1]

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/patels-roster-of-forei...
by cmilton | 2025-07-30 14:28:44+00:00
Are you suggesting that if you are from the US, you are unable to form an opinion of the facts that are presented from both sides?

I did have to go to school some time ago, but I also gained access to the internet during that time that allows anyone to research both sides of a topic. There are tons of books available that provide descriptions from both sides.

Why do I have to be on one side or the other? Is it because of my push back against a specific side, you assumed I aligned with the other?
by mindslight | 2025-07-30 14:28:58+00:00
It's not a matter of the administration itself reading message board comments to feel justified. That's a straw man.

Rather it's about people reading each others' opinions and continuing to placate themselves with thoughts that these actions are anything resembling reform or serving the general interests of our country.

Policy positions don't exist in isolation - their actual effects depend on other policies. Even if everything you yourself advocate for would work well together, this does not mean all of your desired policies will be taken up as a whole (similar dynamic of my comment two back). Furthermore the specifics of a big-name policy depend on the people implementing those policies, which is why I keep coming back to the motivations of the current gang.

Cut funding to scientific research by half, with the goal that private industry will take up topics adjacent to it (semiconductors, computing, drug research, etc), while significantly shrinking the tax/inflation burden by generally downsizing the government? Maybe plausible. Cut funding to scientific research by half indiscriminately while stifling domestic industry with hefty import taxes and raising taxflation? Once again, it doesn't seem like the goal is reform to further our national interests - regardless of one's political framework.

But even modulo other policies, what do you see as the point of say coming up with the perfect nuanced plan how to reform the public system of scientific funding? The system of last year no longer exists. Today's system won't exist in a few months. Maybe we can talk about how best to pick up the pieces and rebuild when the butchers are gone, but even just thinking we know where the bottom will be is hopeful.
by dagmx | 2025-07-30 14:29:08+00:00
Please note that I specifically said “equivalent focal length”.

A 24mm equivalent will have almost the exact same perspective on any sized sensor, because that’s what equivalent means. It’s a relationship of sensor size to actual focal length.

A 16mm on a 1.5x APs-c is a 24mm equivalent on a 35mm. The iPhones base lens is something like 1.5mm but when related to its sensor, it’s roughly a 24mm equivalent.

There’s no cropping that needs to happen.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-30 14:29:19+00:00
The web remains unreliable. It's very useful, so good web users have developed a variety of strategies to extract and verify reliable information from the unreliable substrate, much as good AI users can use modern LLMs to perform a variety of tasks. But I also see a lot of bad web users and bad AI users who can't reliably distinguish between "I saw well written text saying X" and "X is true".
by throw0101c | 2025-07-30 14:29:21+00:00
> To "run cloud?" Does this mean treating your own servers like "serverless?" Does it mean running Kubernetes? Is this primarily for people who want to self-host LLMs?

Machine/system/service deployment via API.

See §Essential Characteristics

> On-demand self-service; Broad network access; Resource pooling; Rapid elasticity; Measured service

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

None are generally applicable to standalone pizza boxes as managed individual (as opposed to being herded by (e.g.) OpenStack).
by DarKraD | 2025-07-30 14:29:29+00:00
I don’t know much about MSFS plugin system so I don’t know if this is possible but you can easily extract data from X-Plane and then send over to MSFS. So that you use XP as physic and model engine, only MSFS as out-the-window view.

Basic things like latitude/longitude/altitude/heading should be straightforward. But then you might have problems with mismatch scenery, like missing airports/runway, different terrain heights, etc. And then the weather synchronization is another can of worms. Matching what you see with the physic model can be challenging.
by IpV8 | 2025-07-30 14:29:44+00:00
I have tried this a few times. If you live in the woods with lots of standing water, then it has literally no effect. I bought a giant supply of bacillus thurengensis pellets and put them in every body of standing water around the property weekly for a whole summer and still got annihilated by mosquitos. Now I spray, and while I hate pouring chemicals all over the property, it works fantastically well.

I could imagine it working alright if you live in the city or maybe a suburban area.
by bugjoey | 2025-07-30 14:29:53+00:00
I'm a person just like you, I have dozens of side-projects around. The difference is that I've never went "far" enough to buy domains for any of those.

But I have a decent half-baked AI based investment portfolio manager, one month of hard work (nights/weekends) dreaming of selling it for a bank. Projects of such complexity are impossible for people stuck in the ordinary life (job/family). PS: I'm not complaining - I love my family. But it demands energy.
by diggan | 2025-07-30 14:30:28+00:00
> No wonder the Spotify algorithm is so shit.

I guess you get what you play, none of those songs are recommended to me, and my Discover Weekly has maybe ~75% of music I like which is high enough to be useful for finding new stuff. But then I have been using Spotify for almost 20 years, might be why they're a bit better at recommending me music.

But then you also consider other people's music taste "basic" so we already know you're a bit of a elitist music snob, no wonder recommendations don't work for you :)
by cratermoon | 2025-07-30 14:30:29+00:00
If you want to multiply two numbers together, a quick way to do it is to roll a few d10s and use their digits as the answer.

It's fast and very easy, but there is a little skill in knowing how many dice to use. Right now it sometimes hallucinates the wrong answer but dice tech is improving all the time so it's only going to get better from here on.
by captainbland | 2025-07-30 14:30:33+00:00
I think this is wishful thinking. Using a VPN is very much so within the capability of normal mobile users today and many people are aware of them (wide advertising on social media, news articles, discussions, etc.). It's not harder than installing e.g. WhatsApp or TikTok. Couple that with the Streisand effect and just normal teenage rebellion behaviour and honestly it could lead to an increase.
by hellojesus | 2025-07-30 14:30:46+00:00
> Otherwise you spend your whole life chasing something that will probably never happen, and avoiding better opportunities.

I'm also have a decent graveyard of domains. I've all but accepted that I'll never create anything of value in my life or even anything awesome.

But the dark side of that is now there's no point to being alive, so I'm planning to die. What are these better opportunities you referenced? Anything that will make a life of mediocrity bearable?
by quietbritishjim | 2025-07-30 14:30:48+00:00
From right above where you linked to:

> The need for this class has been partially supplanted by the ability to subclass directly from dict; however, this class can be easier to work with because the underlying dictionary is accessible as an attribute.

Sounds like (unless you need the dict as a separate data member) this class is a historical artefact. Unless there's some other issue you know of not mentioned in the documentation?
by neom | 2025-07-30 14:31:13+00:00
I'm a Bryan Cantrill fan so I'm glad this is working out, I was extremely skeptical of them at the beginning(on HN too), I think because I've built DCs for many years and was stuck in a mindset that served my use case, I've come around to Oxide. My main concerns originally were 2 fold: "this seems bougie", is there actually a market for this, and, is there a good interoperability story with mix and match. From what I could tell the answers were "yes" and "don't care" - I had thought this wasn't a great answer but it seems I'm wrong. I was chatting with Boris Mann just last week about them and he said "actually John that isn't correct, think of how much quick compute needs to come online and how much discreet compute is going to be required with low management overhead, they're doing just fine and that market will grow" - After that I did some research and pondered on it for a day - I think my friend is right and I am wrong, I think at this point Oxide is going to be a really strong name and I wish them the best of luck.
by diggan | 2025-07-30 14:31:39+00:00
> How can we verify that these playlists are legit?

Even if they are "legit", we don't know it's actually them who listened to it. I'm in the car with other people plenty of times, and listen to music I'm not a huge fan of but others are. I'm sure I'm not alone in not being 100% exclusive listener to the music my Spotify account ends up playing.
by tgrrr9111 | 2025-07-30 14:31:48+00:00
Wow

God I needed this:)

Been wrangling a RAG pipeline for the past few weeks and I swear the model looks like it’s working, but then drops logic mid-sentence, forgets context it saw 10 seconds ago, or hallucinates citations from chunks that were actually relevant — just… semantically wrong…….

The worst part? No errors. Nothing crashes. You just sit there wondering if you’re going crazy or if “LLMs are just like that.”

Reading your list was like watching someone read my bug reports back to me, but actually organized. Especially the stuff on memory gaps and “interpretation collapse” — we’ve hit those exact issues and kept patching them with duct tape (reranking, re-chunking, embedding tweaks, all the usual).

So yeah, big thanks for putting this together. Even just having the names of these failure modes helps explain things to my team.

MIT license is a cherry on top. Subscribed.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-30 14:31:58+00:00
> If trends continue, then you'd expect people to spend less time in productivity software, and more time creating and connecting.

Sorry, but Jevon's Paradox[1] returns yet again.

If you make workers more efficient, then we won't be freed up to spend more time creating and connecting. There will be more work.

Creating more efficient steam engines didn't reduce coal consumption, it just made there be more steam engines. The second order effects of efficiency don 't work the way we think they work.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
by jmuguy | 2025-07-30 14:32:05+00:00
Bingo. We did these buckets, were very diligent about it. They appeared to work (at least in terms of attracting Mosquitos, which they're meant to do) but had no real effect generally. House next door is a rental, with a rotating cast of 20-somethings that do not keep up the yard and its filled with nice little habitats for Mosquitos.

One thing that an HOA might actually be good for - I would love to see what happens if our entire neighborhood did this.
by Spagbol | 2025-07-30 14:32:08+00:00
Currently I've been using these to deal with fungus gnats in my indoor plants; they are quite effective, just put one in my watering can, keep the watering can full so it can steep, and water as normal. It kills the larvae in the same way and after about a month I had no more fungus gnat problem (after trying many other things with no success) I do wonder about the eventual mosquito adaption to this if it is employed on a large scale though.
by squigz | 2025-07-30 14:32:10+00:00
Except many parents understand and accept that their teenagers go and have some beers or drinks with friends; as long as they do it as safely as they can. And of course this sort of approach to it - rather than the heavyhandedness some parents apply - means your children are more likely to trust you enough to, say, call you for a ride home rather than drive drunk, or otherwise come to you if they have a problem.

Anyway, it's a bit silly to compare having a cellphone (what GP was talking about) to regularly consuming alcohol. Sure, maybe social media is the equivalent, but then, those might be the "dangers" I talked about.
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by tsuyoshi_k | 2025-07-30 14:32:12+00:00
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by shruggedatlas | 2025-07-30 14:32:28+00:00
I've never attempted it so I don't have any first-hand judgements of its effectiveness. However, the logic in the article seems reasonable. A backyard which already has a high population of mosquitoes implies the area has existing spots with standing water where the eggs are being hatched. Adding controlled spots of water would concentrate those eggs there and kill them off before they have a chance to hatch more eggs and add to the population. Then, the existing adults die off naturally within weeks, and you should be left with a "mosquito free yard"
by mikewarot | 2025-07-30 14:32:41+00:00
I just watched the trailer... and yeah... that fits with what I've seen tangentially through my wife's career, and the stories she brought home.

In the ER, you at least have a doctor on staff. I can't imagine what it's like to be an understaffed floor nurse. Given the oncoming Tsunami of hospital closures and funding cuts, it's going to get much, much worse here in the US.
by cpach | 2025-07-30 14:32:47+00:00
These days there are very few companies innovating in this space. Oxide is the only one I can think of. (No, HPE and Dell doesn’t count, not in my book at least.)

There used to be lots of them, but they all had a very rough time after the 90s when cheap x86 boxes started to become ubiquitous.

I have no idea if Oxide will succeed or not, but I sure hope so. If it goes well they might become the Sun of the 20s.