MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Waterluvian | 2025-07-12 19:34:58+00:00
And we know this. We can measure it and reason about it. But good times breeds weak people and we’re well into the phase of people no-longer grokking why vaccines, civil government, democracy, floodplain management, etc. need to exist.

This social plague is proliferating and I’m not sure we really know how to fight it as it takes colleagues, friends, family, celebrities we once admired.
by graydoubt | 2025-07-12 19:36:11+00:00
I had a C16, and later a C128D (and therefore a C64). The C64 had the most limited BASIC of them all, with v2.0. So many advanced features were hidden behind PEEK/POKE. With BASIC 3.5 on the C16, they added the RENUMBER command, which made refactoring much easier, and it had a SOUND command, despite having a much simpler DSP implementation. The C128 had BASIC v7.0, which included a sprite editor, and much more advanced SOUND command.

If they upgraded the C64's BASIC to 7.0, that would already make a lot of things much more accessible.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-12 19:36:38+00:00
This is like arguing that state governments have ignored the rule of law because some people get away with speeding. Additionally, illegal presence (as opposed to entry) is a civil violation, not a criminal one. And the law as written grants broad (indeed nigh unlimited) discretion to the executive branch in how administrative law is enforced and decisions are made, rather than mandating specific outcomes or methods. So I don't think your premise is valid at all.
by tptacek | 2025-07-12 19:37:03+00:00
I have no idea who you are and there's nothing personal about any of this, but I am concerned that people are going to read this and come away with the idea that departing founders with board seats generally sell them, and when they try that, everybody is going to look at them like they're both naive and irrational --- exactly what the original poster said they were trying to avoid.
by leptons | 2025-07-12 19:37:04+00:00
Have you seen the things going on with the C64 in the last 20 years?

https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform%5B0%5D=Commodore...

Some of it is astonishing given the limitations of the machine.

The technical mastery and creative problem solving going on here is what keeps the demoscene alive. The C64 is still going strong, new productions come out all the time.

And I can't think of a better machine for a kid today to start out with than an 8-bit machine. If they learn assembly language on a C64, they will have a far better understanding of how computers actually work than anyone taking a class in web or crypto or whatever they teach kids about computers today.
by omgJustTest | 2025-07-12 19:37:28+00:00
Thanks.

If a publisher was so inclined, I have like 20 or so of these breakdowns that I would like to put into a (<75pg) book. The goal would be 1-3 page distillations of events for broad appeal. 1 page for the introduction and impact of the event, 1-2 pages for summarization and conceptual distillation.

The goal is a somewhat reductive but sharply results-focused perspective on these events.
by echelon | 2025-07-12 19:37:56+00:00
> This is not open source

OSI purism is deleterious and has led to industry capture.

Non-viral open source is simply a license for hyperscalers to take advantage. To co-opt offerings and make hundreds of millions without giving anything back.

We need more "fair source" licensing to support sustainable engineering that rewards the small ICs rather than mega conglomerate corporations with multi-trillion dollar market caps. The same companies that are destroying the open web.

This license isn't even that protective of the authors. It just asks for credit if you pass a MAU/ARR threshold. They should honestly ask for money if you hit those thresholds and should blacklist the Mag7 from usage altogether.

The resources put into building this are significant and they're giving it to you for free. We should applaud it.
by mrlongroots | 2025-07-12 19:39:36+00:00
Even as a matter of safety/investigation hygiene, "pilot error" should be the conclusion of last resort, arrived at after months of poring over data, and because nothing else seems viable.

If we decided to pin all aviation incidents on pilot errors, we wouldn't even have invented checklists (what do you mean you forgot, try harder the next time).

"Natural" pilot errors lead to lessons that can be incorporated into design/best practices. That does not seem to be the case given current understanding: no flaw in any switch design seems apparent, and it does not sound like something you could do by accident.

So "pilot error" is not the "cracking the case"-grade conclusion it is being made out to be, it is an act of investigative resignation. In the days following the crash, allegations of mixing up flaps and landing gear were floated, and they all turned out to be wrong. This is not even accounting for the fact that the pilots are not around to plead their case, and basic human dignity requires us to defend their case until evidence clearly points a certain way
by almostgotcaught | 2025-07-12 19:39:37+00:00
> why you need dynamic dispatch on a second thing

You're overindexing on maximally generic visitor pattern. If you have one type of visitor but nonetheless dispatch based on type that's still visitor pattern.

EDIT: to be honest who even cares. My initial point was why in the hell would you stop reading a book because a particular "pattern" offends you. And I'll reassert it here: who cares whether a recursive descent parser fits the exact definition of visitor pattern or not - you have members of a class that do stuff (construct AST nodes) and possibly track other data and then call other members. I usually call that a visitor class even if it's the only one that ever exists <shrug>
by refulgentis | 2025-07-12 19:40:00+00:00
I write a local LLM client, but sometimes, I hate that local models have enough knobs to turn that people can advocate they're reasonable in any scenario - in yesterday's post re: Kimi k2, multiple people spoke up that you can "just" stream the active expert weights out of 64 GB of RAM, and use the lowest GGUF quant, and then you get something that rounds to 1 token/s, and that is reasonable for use.

Good on you for not exaggerating.

I am very curious what exactly they see in that, 2-3 people hopped in to handwave that you just have it do agent stuff overnight and it's well worth it. I can't even begin to imagine unless you have a metric **-ton of easily solved problems that aren't coding. Even a 90% success rate gets you into "useless" territory quick when one step depends on the other, and you're running it autonomoously for hours
by notahacker | 2025-07-12 19:40:40+00:00
Satellites make conjunction avoidance manoeuvres on a regular basis; about 275 Starlink satellites need to move every day. A non-trivial proportion of those would result in a collision otherwise. Satellites orbit at multiple km per second and manoeuvre to adjust orbit much more slowly, so they need advance warning.

Satellite operators obtain much their space situational awareness data directly or indirectly from US govt sources. The fact that collisions are presently infrequent because satellite operators act on that data isn't a particularly good reason to eliminate much of it
by baq | 2025-07-12 19:41:06+00:00
An id card is a bearer token.

You can get an anonymous, cryptographically signed, certified legal bearer token confirming your age only, or identity or whatever by a centralized service, be it government or high trust private organizations who need to verify your identity anyway like banks. With some smarts you can probably make such a token yourself so the root bearer token issuer doesn’t have the one you use to browse pornhub.
by owenversteeg | 2025-07-12 19:41:11+00:00
Few other thoughts:

- impressive that this worked so well with LLM-generated atopile, given that atopile is about a year old!

- the hardest part of a PCB is still the routing and nonstandard parts of the design; what this did is basically "find a reference design, pick components that match the reference design, and put them on the correct nets" which is the easiest part of the process for people designing PCBs today

- much like with code, 99% of PCBs designed are fairly basic boards implementing the reference design with some small tweaks, and then there is a tiny amount of envelope-pushing designs/crazy complex stuff. Obviously you can't design some fancy PCB with complex RF with this, but give it some time and I'd bet you can probably make a lot of the basic stuff...
by v5v3 | 2025-07-12 19:41:17+00:00
>No one is using Grok. They have no path to profitability. They have very low traction among consumers, and even lower traction among enterprises. Their CEO seems to think that copy-pasting code into a web browser is a good strategy for attracting programmers.

Leaving aside the controversies, Elon is one of the best players at capitalism there has ever been. As per his wealth. And to think you and I know more than someone with a deep network of Investors and fellow CEO's would be a bold claim.
Ask HN: How do you get first 10 customers?
by jcofai | 2025-07-12 19:41:25+00:00
Building is super cheap now but standing out among all AI noise has become so hard. I am seeing barely any response to my email and LinkedIn messages. These are not generic messages. They are personalized.

I am hearing similar stories from people I know. May be it is my network bias. I am building following on LinkedIn but I honestly hate it. I hate the facade of putting of expert hat and writing in stupid one sentence per line style.

The bar for customer acquisition is so high right now.

What can I do to get first 10 customers?

Please suggest for someone who don’t have much of a network.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-12 19:41:35+00:00
It's not (and I never expressed surprise about it, because I suspected the administration was lying all along), but generally I expect administrations to lawyer-dishonest - eg relying on loopholes, technicalities, fallacies, or debateable half-truths to accomplish some legal objectives.

Deliberate misrepresentations of basic are grounds for more drastic outcomes like summary dismissal with prejudice, impeachment, general loss of legitimacy.
by manquer | 2025-07-12 19:41:41+00:00
10 years ago the dynamics could perhaps be as you sketched between regulators and the carrier but today it is more complex.

Air India was government owned company till 2020s when it was sold back to the TATA group from whom it was originally nationalized from in the 1960s.

Stakeholders like regulators, employees individually could have different PoV or interests in the change .

Regulatory leadership could just as easily want to prove why this de nationalization was bad if so inclined as they could be for not wanting embarrass the flag carrier.

So it would be hard to categorically say that regulator has vested interest in protecting the flag carrier
by rf15 | 2025-07-12 19:44:16+00:00
Our ideals do not simply change the fact that chrome and its derivatives are the most used browser by a big margin at this moment. And, looking at how this came to be and how things were with IE before it, they are going to stay a bit longer still. Stop being in denial about the way most people function: they don't care, they will eat the most convenient slop they are being served and not question it much. Because it doesn't matter as long as it allows you to browse your socials.
by Bender | 2025-07-12 19:44:37+00:00
For what it's worth the federal government can legally revoke Rosie's citizen once she completes the process of becoming a citizen of Ireland. [1] In fact they can do that to just about anyone that expatriates themselves. For him to make a big stink about it just tells me he is trolling. But who knows, maybe since we and other social media sites and forums are talking about it maybe he will just do it.

The expatriating act must be voluntary and take any of seven forms.

Committing any of the following acts will create a presumption that it was performed voluntarily with the idea of giving up U.S. citizenship, although the person might later be able to rebut (disprove) this presumption:

- Becoming a naturalized citizen of another country after age 18. <<-- This one.

- Formally declaring allegiance to a foreign government after age 18.

- Accepting a position in the government of another country after age 18, if one has citizenship in, or declared allegiance to, that country.

- Joining the military force of another country either (1) in any capacity if that country is engaged in hostilities against the U.S., or (2) as an officer.

- Formally renouncing U.S. nationality abroad before a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer.

- Formally renouncing U.S. nationality in the U.S. when the U.S. is at war, if done in writing and with the approval of the U.S. Department of Justice.

- Being convicted of treason or participating in any attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.

The first five acts become effective as an act of expatriation only after the person who commits them has left the United States. The procedures for the sixth act (renunciation in the U.S.) have not yet been defined.

[1] - https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-us-citizens-can...
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-12 19:44:39+00:00
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the people who promoted neoliberalism in Russia saw how it ended in authoritarian oligarchy- supported by a religious nationalism which displaced science and progressive democratic values - and decided same would be a good outcome for them personally if rolled out across the rest of the West.

This is dense, but stunningly prescient.

https://library.fes.de/libalt/journals/swetsfulltext/1230310...

While things are undoubtedly bad in the US, Trump's grip on everything - including personal health - is far more tenuous than Yeltsin's was. And (ironically) the US has more of a history of violent resistance and agitation for both worker rights and civil rights.

The US has always been a soft economic dictatorship. But a lot of people still expect a functioning social contract, and they're going to become increasingly angry as that disappears.

It's a much more complicated picture than the one in Russia, which has essentially been the same kind of violent autocratic monarchy for centuries, even as the set dressing around it changed.
by douglasisshiny | 2025-07-12 19:44:50+00:00
Meh, I used to have that feeling, especially when discovering fp-ts and then effect (neither of which I've been paid to write), but after about four years, I'm tired of writing it period. The standard library for node is horrible; the ecosystem is okay but not great. And I don't even care for effect anymore. I also write go in my job and it's just okay, but the standard library is much better.

I've been playing around with rust in my free time and like it. I think it's a good FP middle ground. Gleam also looks interesting. But to your point I imagine there aren't many jobs paying for rust and practically none for Gleam.
by somat | 2025-07-12 19:45:03+00:00
I have this same ontological debate with myself, I settle it by having a rather stricter definition of classical music. Classical music is popular music that has remained popular for longer than two generations of listeners. Music that follows that certain large scale form is orchestral music.(or whatever sub genre it is)

This annoying behavior does not win me any friends but remember that the great classical composers were the rock stars of their day.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-07-12 19:46:39+00:00
> You open a big can of worms if entities are required to proactively comply with regulations in states they have zero presence in.

It’s true, it would cause a great deal of chaos if suddenly every person and business had to comply with fifty-plus different and sometimes contradictory state laws.

But it seems like that’s where we’re headed?
by trod1234 | 2025-07-12 19:46:50+00:00
This is misplaced circular fallacy, but to each their own. I value my life, and by extension my mind quite highly.

Those that seem to use these tools become dumber in ways they do not notice. In much the same vein I become smarter in relative retrospect just holding to my guns and shielding my exposure.

If you use a tool, whose primary consequence of use is that you become damaged and less each time you use it, and this happens in most cases in a way where you cannot recognize it happening. How do you ever stop? If you cannot know how to safely use it, and you cannot recognize the mechanism or issue, what is left?

If it alters your ability to perceive things, you certainly can't decide something if you don't recognize the need to decide.

If the factors required for that decision to come about are outside your perception, where the connections for a correct decision no longer exist, there isn't anything you can do.

You take an old argument that its just a tool, saying the choice is with the person who is responsible, not the tool, and yet the person doesn't or more likely cannot notice, or recognize the damage happening.

Its a very rare person who is capable of introspection at such a subtle degree. There is also no informed consent of the danger so all those children being force fed this stuff as GenAI when the data finally is in; well I don't want to think about a future like that, where there may be no future at all for them.

The decision-making process requires things that you may not have anymore, and while you may continue to think falsely that you do and are still capable of that but you've been blinded and when that happens, you've definitionally entered a state of delusion. Quite a lot of delusional people don't realize they've gone off the deep end, its a perceptual deficit.

Who knows maybe it will go so far as delirium as the debasement progresses and you unravel as a sentient person.

We all have psychological blindspots, and there is one blindspot above all others that we have no defense against; called distorted reflected appraisal.

There are some things where the issue is directly with the tool, not how its used.
by bgnn | 2025-07-12 19:47:06+00:00
This is a really poor experiment and conclusions do not mean much for teo reasons: 1- This PCB is extremely simple. Anyone can design this in no time. 2- This type of automation is as old as EDA tools (which means electronic design automation). Auto floorplanning and routing isn't new in the industry. Yet, LLMs do not perform well in this field. The successful implementations are using custom algorithms + RL. The bar to claim "design via LLMs" is very very high.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-12 19:47:42+00:00
It's a great idea.

I make a new Twitter account every time I realize I'm stuck in the same thought loops every day with the same timeline. And every time it's pretty annoying to restart from scratch.

I'll pick a couple accounts to start off the timeline and then autofollow Twitter's "follow these 7 ppl too" recommendation, but I often start following the similar accounts every time.

I'd like an easy way to try out completely different feeds without having to know ahead of time who I want to seed it with.
by tripletao | 2025-07-12 19:47:53+00:00
The LLM generated four caps on the LDO output. They're all placed next to each other and away from the LDO, but that seems to have been a human choice. So I can't fault the LLM there.

That said, the AMS1117 datasheet shows a tantalum cap on the output. This is presumably because the non-negligible ESR helps stabilize the regulator, though they don't say that explicitly. The LM1117 datasheet explains this better, stating that "the ESR of the output capacitor should range between 0.3 Ω to 22 Ω". (These are very similar parts, just from different manufacturers.)

The ceramic caps chosen here are probably below that, so perhaps it would ring even with correct layout. The prompt guided towards that bad choice when it said all caps should be 0603, since almost all 0603 capacitors are ceramic. The LLM was free to choose a regulator optimized for use with ceramic output caps, but it probably chose the xx1117 because it's so common.

http://www.advanced-monolithic.com/pdf/ds1117.pdf

https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm1117.pdf
by willahmad | 2025-07-12 19:48:02+00:00
Thanks for taking time to explain this.

> But, I suspect, if the model is able to handle language at all, you'll always be able to get a representation of the prompt out in a text form

if I understand correctly, system prompt "tries" to give a higher weight to some tensors/layers using a text representation. (using word "tries", because not always model adheres to it strictly)

would it be possible to do same, but with some kind of "formulas", which increases the formula/prompt adherence? (if you can share keywords for me to search and read relevant papers, that would be also a great help)
by norskeld | 2025-07-12 19:48:17+00:00
Ha-ha, thanks, I couldn't help but chuckle a bit at that intro. As for them taking their time... Well, yes, it's all rather sad, but I personally came to terms long ago with the snail's pace of JS proposals rolling out. And after all, working with dates and time zones is a rather complex matter in itself, so no judgment here.

I've had to develop interfaces built entirely around date and time operations, and it was painful not so much because of the awful and broken date parsing in JS (although it definitely doesn't help), but rather because of the inherent complexity of how we represent calendar dates and times, and how we build abstractions around these representations. Definitely NOT looking forward to developing that booking system at work...
by trhway | 2025-07-12 19:48:23+00:00
>Devils advocate: parents that are too busy or not tech savvy are helpless to block content without essentially forbidding their kids from using any connected device.

May be such inept people who don't care that much about their kids as to setup parent control shouldn't have kids in the first place? Why we all should take a hit to our rights/business/etc. just because of such careless and irresponsible parents?

Your kids is your personal responsibility. It the same story again and again - why can't these conservative people own their personal responsibilities without hoisting its costs onto the others?
by andsoitis | 2025-07-12 19:49:30+00:00
> Tylenol

This drug comes with warnings: “Taking acetaminophen and drinking alcohol in large amounts can be risky. Large amounts of either of these substances can cause liver damage. Acetaminophen can also interact with warfarin, carbamazepine (Tegretol), and cholestyramine. It can also interact with antibiotics like isoniazid and rifampin.”

It is on the consumer to read it.
by probably_wrong | 2025-07-12 19:49:32+00:00
> why did you give up your right to buy liquor anonymously?

That's not entirely true - once you look old enough most places will stop asking for ID.

As for why: because there is (or at least, was) no other system to identify whether someone is underage and, by extension, more likely to underestimate the consequences of their actions, make worse choices under the effect of alcohol, and suffer its effects more strongly. Same reason why the legal system makes a difference between minors and adults.
by sfink | 2025-07-12 19:49:37+00:00
Not that it matters to anyone, but I feel a responsibility to say it: Brendan, you were right and I was wrong about the CEO pay. It still doesn't bother me as a thing in itself, but it now seems like a critical trigger in the cascade of events leading to the MBA types taking over.

I still disagree with a lot of the HN crowd's complaints about Mozilla, and think we're still serving an important function for now. The bulk of the complaints are applying hindsight to decisions that were difficult at the time, and suggesting alternate paths that are ludicrously unrealistic or optimistic. Other complaints are on target, but way overblown. But the complaint that management has been taken over by the industry-standard hype-chasing short term value extraction mindset? I can't point to any evidence that says they haven't. (Admittedly, it's hard to find a company these days that hasn't...)