MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by masklinn | 2025-07-24 08:04:12+00:00
I think their point is that you eat clutch when you slip it e.g. when you’re getting in and out if parking on hills, or in city stop and go traffic. When the clutch is fully engaged there’s little wear even hard-driving, and doing a straight in-and-out does not bother clutches much.

Hence Quattroportes eating clutches like nobody’s business while the harder-ridden higher-power Ferraris don’t.

As such downshifting would not wear clutches much.

And anecdotally I’ve never suffered from or heard of engine braking causing clutch issues.
by lutoma | 2025-07-24 08:04:14+00:00
Personally I'm quite happy that these tiles cut down on the clutter in the original OSM tiles. It made it very hard for me to actually use them for navigation because there was just so much stuff everywhere.

For example the old tiles displayed rail tracks extremely prominently, which just aren't relevant 99% of the time even when traveling by train. In the vector tiles they're much more muted and thinner.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-24 08:04:19+00:00
Basically is programming against composable interfaces like COM, Objective-C protocols, and anything else like that, but sold in a way that anti-OOP folks kind of find acceptable, while feeling they aren't using that all mumbo jumbo bad OOP stuff some bad Java teachers gave them on high school.

Most of them tend to even ignore books on the matter, like "Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming." [0], rather using some game studios approach to ECS as the genesis of it all.

[0] - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3564280M/Component_software
by safety1st | 2025-07-24 08:04:45+00:00
Hacker News readers should be aware that the Department of Justice has sued Visa for monopolization and other unlawful conduct: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...

There was also a recent class action lawsuit by business owners against both Visa and Mastercard accusing them of anti-trust violations, that was settled for $5.5B.

It's not yet clear how seriously the Trump Administration will take the lawsuit against Visa. There is mounting evidence and sentiment that both of these companies are not just self-appointed censors, they're also criminal entities who use their market power to extort and abuse both their customers and partners. Now more than ever it's important to contact whoever represents you in the government and tell them that a settlement won't cut it and you've had enough of criminal enterprises dictating the future of both United States and world society. There simply aren't any other solutions to organized corrupt power at this scale, it's either hand the world over to a tyranny ruled by this growing form of organized corporate crime, or act through the public institutions that we as the People have endorsed to represent us.
by jdietrich | 2025-07-24 08:04:47+00:00
It's a market where nobody has a particularly deep moat and most players are charging money for a service. Open weight models aren't too far behind proprietary models, particularly for mundane queries. The cost of inference is plummeting and it's already possible to run very good models at pennies per megatoken. I think it's unreasonably pessimistic to assume that dark patterns are an inevitability.
by oAlbe | 2025-07-24 08:04:48+00:00
> My only beef is I can't completely disable tabs, but I don't know of any equivalent browser that can.

There is an addon[1] that allows you to discard tabs both manually and with a degree of automation. I've been using it for a while and it works quite well.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
by Sesse__ | 2025-07-24 08:04:49+00:00
Yes, I'd say that the strongest part of autovectorization is that you can get more-or-less automatic support for wider/newer instruction sets than what you had when you wrote the code; older SIMD, like all other code, tends to rot. Of course, this is predicated on either having function multiversioning (works, but very rare) or being able to frequently raise the minimum target for your binary.
by sam_bristow | 2025-07-24 08:05:38+00:00
Apparently System-scope custom fields have a significant performance hit in Jira. I think project-scope custom fields are better.

Sometimes it feels like Jira is so incredibly configurable but is really missing the "pit of success". There is a way to make it nice to use and reasonably performant, but you really need to go into it with a strong plan. And even then it's really easy to balls it all up in short order if you're not vigilant.
by sourovaf | 2025-07-24 08:05:54+00:00
You're absolutely right. Technically, anyone with enough knowledge can interact directly with Thorchain or Mayachain. But in practice, doing so safely and efficiently is non-trivial. We've seen many cases where even technically capable users lost funds due to minor mistakes in transaction crafting.

NativeSwap is for general user or even for technical person if they want to ditch manual crafting in exchange of little fee. And that is the main motto of NativeSwap, making cross-chain exchange cost effective

That said, if you're comfortable working directly with the protocols, there are definitely alternatives available. Our focus is on making it cost-effective, easy and secure for general user.
by perihelions | 2025-07-24 08:05:57+00:00
> "We've seen this pattern repeatedly: PayPal blocking VPN providers over "piracy concerns," Visa suspending payments to adult sites, and now this coordinated pressure campaign."

And more: before those, there was also Wikileaks[0,1], SciHub[2], and Tor[3]—among other high-profile acts of authoritarian censorship. There's countless others if you search HN—hard to sort them out for the sheer volume.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1969048 ("PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account (nytimes.com)" (2010) — 74 comments)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808975 ("EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation (falkvinge.net)" (2012) — 61 comments)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23645305 ("Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin (coindesk.com)" (2020) — 290 comments)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371787 ("PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter (eff.org)") (2021) — 185 comments)
by matsemann | 2025-07-24 08:06:10+00:00
Hehe. But where I'm from (Norway) it's only allowed to serve drinks with 40 cl (edit, I meant 4 cl heh) of liquor (with exceptions for international recognized cocktails). So if you were to get less ice you wouldn't get anything more for your money anyways. Except more soda water and a diluted taste.
by UmGuys | 2025-07-24 08:06:12+00:00
It's true. Recently I moved to a rural area and many nurses work as doctors. Soon we won't have hospitals here so there's no more need to keep up the cruel charade. It's absolutely disgusting and the primary reason I could never have children. It would be impossible to guarantee their security.

Edit: I haven't yet achieved my savings goal so I can escape to a place where it's safe to have a family.
by dspillett | 2025-07-24 08:06:30+00:00
>* If I am lucky, there is a "necessary only".*

I never use those. I suspect that in many cases if there are "legitimate interest" options¹ those will remain opted-in.

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[1] which I read as "we see your preference not to be stalked online, but fuck you and your silly little preferences we want to anyway"
by wizardforhire | 2025-07-24 08:07:29+00:00
Obligatory [1]

My apologies for not being able to find the original tale. I’m sure the original website is around but this is a decent synopsis regardless.

Doesn’t look like they cover it in the article but if I remember correctly they pruned the model down to fit on 56k eprom that was able to be sold for originally $10 (also dating myself, this article claims $15)

And of course the jargon has changed with time, I guess were saying distilled now, originally we said pruned… because thats what you did once you had your weights you would prune the rest of the network to get the core model. I guess distilled works also, just less literal imho. I guess if we want to get really pedantic networks exists in liquids, but I digress.

[1] (apologies for the add crap, best I could find) https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/22269/how-electronic-20-...
by freehorse | 2025-07-24 08:07:41+00:00
Pornhub hosted material featuring sex trafficked women for years without taking serious action. Other porn sites were doing the same.

I do not see how a game in steam or itch.io where everything is fictional is anywhere close to that or requiring such moderation. This is a totally different issue, in the same way that a game involving killing others is not the same as an actual video of somebody killing people. Shall we ban books featuring similar themes too?
by lll-o-lll | 2025-07-24 08:07:48+00:00
You are forgetting:

0.5 User 1,563,018 puts their credit card details in to make the world’s first online transaction!

0.50001 The web is filled with spam and unsearchable for real information

0.9 Some smart nerds figure out an algorithm to find the signal in the noise

1.9 Google throws out “don’t be evil” because search is cost, ad’s are money

4.1 Google and the rest of the AI/s subvert human decision making in ways that marketers could only ever dream

∞.∞ Humans toil in slavery to the whims of our corporate overlords

I wanted a different dystopia.
by ekunazanu | 2025-07-24 08:07:59+00:00
Oh I was referring to the response of the cones itself (not the response after the opponent process). I was under the assumption there's no measured curves for the responses after having gone through the opponent process in the neuron-layer(?), so the graph and caption were conflating the response of the cones with color matching functions.

> This contains a nice introduction to biological colorspace

Looks like an interesting read, thanks for sharing!
by jajko | 2025-07-24 08:08:28+00:00
That's not OK by any means, you don't have mandatory periodical technical inspections? This would fail immediately in any half-decent country. An example - wife's older Seat has 6 years old winter tires which were given for free when buying it second hand a year ago. Technician just told us even those are beyond acceptable here in Switzerland and we need to change them before next inspection.

Your very old tires makes you a serious threat on the road while completely oblivious about this fact... not cool, please change them if you drive on public roads, if not for you just for the sake of others.
by imtringued | 2025-07-24 08:09:43+00:00
>If the main thesis is "training on larger resolution results in better performance on high resolution images" then this seems to be a conclusion we already knew from a pure mathematical understanding of entropy, and is something many researchers have been discussing for decades.

I think you missed the part where the word performance is doing double duty here. Performance as in accuracy of the result and performance as in the time it takes to achieve said result.

The expectation is that training on a larger resolution will worsen performance in the second sense. You also mentioned that downsampling images will destroy information, hence FastVLM should also perform worse in the first sense, since it is clearly running its transformer layers on downsampled images through the patch embedding halving the image resolution with each layer.

To be fair, the presented network architecture does not really look like anything special. Three CNN layers with two transformer layers is just good product engineering. The real insight to be had here is that writing your own custom downsampling algorithm is a waste of time. You should make the downsampling learnable and part of the model.
by pama | 2025-07-24 08:09:56+00:00
Silicon is already more efficient for inference than the brain. If we use centralized decoding of the V3/R1 scale models as a baseline, one can produce 720,000 tokens (a wild guess for the tokens humans could produce in 24 hours) using the energy of only 0.36 bananas. Deeply thinking humans expend up to a a third of their total energy on the brain, but cannot sustain themselves on a single banana per day.

(You can use an LLM to check this work at the cost of a tiny speck of a banana, eg: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw%3D%3D_60f4890d-711b-4331-9... )
by pkolaczk | 2025-07-24 08:10:36+00:00
Another part of the point is that you can pack a much smaller and more efficient ICE and then substitute the missing power and torque from electric motors when needed. Most cars are not used at max power all the time. You need max power only at short times when accelerating. With pure ICE there is the tradeoff - a bigger engine will get you more max power / max torque but is going to be less fuel efficient because of internal friction.
by slaw | 2025-07-24 08:12:43+00:00
Xiaomo SU7 Ultra - 1,138 kW (1,547 PS; 1,526 hp). OP quoted max battery power. Xiaomi on tracks is faster than Ferraris and Bugattis.

Nürburgring times.

7:04.957 Xiaomi SU7 Ultra

6:22.091 Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Prototype
by dspillett | 2025-07-24 08:13:27+00:00
Off the top of my head, all that springs to mind is: If someone is using rewrite rules to direct users depending on cookies and other request values, it could permit access to things the current user should not see, or should need to re-auth to see.

Though this doesn't seem to be a good way of doing that anyway, certainly not on its own (perhaps as a low resource initial test it is valid, in a bloom filter sort of way it could cover some "definitely shouldn't be here" cases efficiently).
by discreteevent | 2025-07-24 08:13:45+00:00
> They were missing some important features like sum types.

They support unions now. I haven't had any trouble representing anything including recursive structures.

> The code output was a pain, but targeted a few languages.

You do need a day or so to get used to the code. Its a pointer based system with a 'flat memory'. Order of operations matters. If you have a parent and a child you need to write the child first, obtain a pointer to it and only then create/write the parent containing the pointer to the child. Once you get used to this it goes quickly. The advantage is that you don't have to create an intermediate copy in memory when reading (like protobuf) and you can read any particular part by traversing pointers without having to load the rest of the data into memory.
by dinfinity | 2025-07-24 08:13:51+00:00
> If i quote the WHO[1] on this, you might just say they are not literate enough.

This is a page primarily about herd immunity, not about vaccine efficacy. You had to dig to find this (or somebody dug for you).

Having said that, even though they added several sentences on how certain things are unsure or need more research, I will admit that they worded this specific sentence badly: "Vaccinated people are protected from getting the disease in question and passing on the pathogen, breaking any chains of transmission."

It is clearly overstated and does not match the careful wording later on: "We are still learning about immunity to COVID-19. Most people who are infected with COVID-19 develop an immune response within the first few weeks, but we don’t know how strong or lasting that immune response is, or how it differs for different people. There have also been reports of people infected with COVID-19 for a second time."

> The rest of your post are personal attacks that do not add to your point.

They do, because you clearly have a bone to pick that is preventing you from rationally approaching the matter and discussions in general. Think about what point you're actually trying to make and what that has to do with the base rate fallacy. Really, verbalize it. What is it? Why did you feel the need to inject that into the discussion, even though it doesn't belong here at all?
by piva00 | 2025-07-24 08:14:28+00:00
> I think you are confused, MacOS definitely necessitates specific kernel drivers to get the lowest latency possible and some other features. Every high-end audio interface has its own driver that you need to install just like on Windows.

> Otherwise, you actually use the generic HID (Human Interface Device) implementation which has a 16bits/96khz sample rate limitation along with many other limitations, depending on variables (interface speed, specification etc.).

I currently have an audio interface with 32bits/96kHz which never needed any special drivers, it runs flawlessly without any latency whatsoever, plug-and-play.
by alex-moon | 2025-07-24 08:14:51+00:00
Since no-one else has mentioned it so far, I wanted to say I appreciated the big warning at the top. As someone who has struggled with (and overcome!) alcohol dependency in the past, having a big reminder that literally says "You should probably stop reading this" shows a sensitivity to the issue I rarely see online.

The other thing I loved about this write-up was the photo of the "best cocktail bar in the world" being the skeeziest, most dangerous looking flat-top you've ever seen. Having known a few bartenders in my life, I am absolutely not surprised that a "bartenders' bar" would look like that.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-24 08:17:01+00:00
According to TFA, they have succeed to produce 2-inch wafers of indium selenide with a small enough density of defects, which nobody did previously.

The first roadblock on the use of new semiconductor materials is that in the beginning nobody succeeds to make crystals that are both big enough and free enough of defects. For size, usually achieving to make 2-inch wafers is the threshold for enabling commercial applications.

The second problem is finding metallization systems that can achieve ohmic contacts and rectifying contacts on the semiconductor crystal and the third is finding impurities that allow to modify the polarity and the concentration of the charge carriers in wide enough ranges.

These 2 problems are particularly difficult for wide-bandgap semiconductors, like gallium nitride, but they are unlikely to be difficult for indium selenide, which should behave similarly to zinc selenide or indium phosphide, for which there is much more experience.
by fn-mote | 2025-07-24 08:18:28+00:00
The questions here are very good.

I disagree with some of the implied answers, especially paragraph three, but:

> Where is the line on tyranny?

> Who decides?

> when does this go from "we're prepared" to "time to act"?

Like I said, these are excellent questions. An individual with a strong moral compass should have answers that differ from “not me” and “somebody else”.
by piva00 | 2025-07-24 08:18:35+00:00
> But it doesn't have that many advantages in comparison to a well-managed system apart from some specific audio utilities (that can be quite useful/good, that much I can agree with).

> In other words, Macs are good for noobs, and the stereotype of Apple users being pretty bad with computers is usually not completely wrong (the average Windows user isn't better really but they are not so narcissistic and arrogant about their choice of computers).

There is extreme value in making the computer do something extremely well without having to care about "properly managing it", you are leaning towards a "No True Scotsman" situation, audio professionals might be noobs with computers, to the point where learning yet another skill just to have a functioning setup is not worth it if there's another solution on the market that doesn't require it.

The stereotype of Mac users being bad with computers is... Well, just a stereotype. The difference being: Linux requires you to be good with computers, there's no other option, if you aren't you simply cannot keep a well-managed system, that won't ever have mass appeal.
by dirkc | 2025-07-24 08:18:44+00:00
At some stage Google will need to be accountable for answers they are hosting on their own site. The argument of "we're only indexing info on other sites" changes when you are building a tool to generate content and hosting that content on your own domain.

I'm guilty of not clicking when I'm satisfied with the AI answer. I know it can be wrong. I've seen it be wrong multiple times. But it's right at the top and tells me what I suspected when I did the search. The way they position the AI overview is right in your face.

I would prefer the "AI overview" to be replaced with something that helps me better search rather than giving me the answer directly.
by spauldo | 2025-07-24 08:18:44+00:00
I wouldn't consider a "moderness" comparison between CL and Scheme to be useful. They're too different in intent and capabilities.

CL has a more-or-less frozen standard, in the sense that it's unlikely to have an update. Scheme gets updated standards, but they seem to focus on refining Scheme rather than adding "modern" features. Both are very extensible and people do add modern features as implementation extras or libraries.

I can't comment about Racket. As an outsider, it appears to be a playground for hardcore CS types to experiment with different programming language features, which suggests it's the most "modern." That's just the impression I get, though - feel free to correct me on that.
by mort96 | 2025-07-24 08:19:59+00:00
And, you can make much lighter and lower range electric cars without all those heavy batteries, and boost the range with diesel when needed. Very attractive in principle. Most cars are not using their full range all the time, for a lot of people a 50 mile range car would be more than enough 98% of the time, but that remaining 2% means that people end up buying 200 mile range cars instead.

But then, do you end up removing enough battery weight to offset the weight of a whole ICE?
by kingname | 2025-07-24 08:20:26+00:00
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by LinXitoW | 2025-07-24 08:20:30+00:00
How many of the "good sites" do you pay for regularly? 99.9% of ALL sites are ad-funded, good or bad. Most people, even people with the disposable income, don't pay for the good sites, esp. because their value is only fractions of a cent from that one google search a month.

My irrational hope is that the "good" sites establish a shared Spotify-esque model, where I pay a basic subscription that then gets distributed roughly by usage to all the websites. There is no chance in hell anyone is willing to have the 20 subscriptions to support all the websites they've gotten utility from (directly OR indirectly) this month.