MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ahartmetz | 2025-07-23 13:07:52+00:00
What you saw was just a standard mess - not over-engineering. Same thing that I often see.

Regarding the Cariad CEO, they could have hired someone from the US software industry or from a smaller company with a reputation for quality - these do exist, DeepL or Ableton for example (though leading such a small place must be quite different from a large place).
by mintone | 2025-07-23 13:08:01+00:00
The lede is buried at the end of this article.

> Later iOS 26 beta releases show Apple reducing transparency and adding blur effects for better readability.

This is a beta release. It is a work in progress. When iOS 7’s betas came out the reaction was similarly negative. I would suggest we wait and see what the system evolves into; by the time we get to iOS 27 I am quite sure that Apple will have found the right balance.
by mattmanser | 2025-07-23 13:08:12+00:00
Be glad you've gone through life without having a partner or friend that just puts everything on the desktop.

And then complains to you all their files have disappeared.

Usually it's because they've run out of diskspace and windows has created a temporary profile for them (which is crazy default behaviour when you think about it). Not sure if that's still a thing.

Of course they just closed the popup saying "you're running low on diskspace" last week. After all, what are they supposed to do about that?
by ppkkK | 2025-07-23 13:08:33+00:00
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by tpm | 2025-07-23 13:08:34+00:00
> I'm not going to defend the actions of the UK government, but I will ask that you give time for the courts to do their work before passing final judgement. In the case of the article you linked, for example, the man was arrested but not charged, and in the case of Palestine Action as a whole, there's an ongoing court case against the government's ban, which seems likely to succeed.

Yes but the issue is already the government acting like this. They most probably know they are in the wrong and are acting anyway, because they want to quell the dissent. The damage is already done.

> They don't even necessarily reflect the Labour Party as a whole.

Of course. I still think about the Labour as 'the good ones', compared with the Tories (or Reform) anyway. OTOH I think this does reflect the country as a whole and not only the current government. That is my feeling from living in the UK some time ago.

I will end this saying that IMO the main difference in speech/press freedom between the UK and say Slovakia is that the UK imagines itself a powerful country fully in control of its destiny, and this illusion enables executive overreach. While Slovakia is a small country thrown around by external forces so much that only the dumbest politicians waste their energy trying to limit press freedom.
by Thiez | 2025-07-23 13:09:04+00:00
You can also do something like:

fn xy_mut(&mut self) -> (&mut f64, &mut f64) { let &mut Point { ref mut x, ref mut y } = self; (x,y) }

The fact of the matter is that doing mutable getters in Rust is a bit inconvenient at times. There are various workarounds.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-23 13:10:06+00:00
I have thought many times about what I would be doing with my life if money was no object. If I just had "everything" I needed.

For me the reality is, I would still want to be doing something. I would be more picky about what I would be doing but at its core I would likely still be doing work similar to what I am doing now, just instead I would make sure it is working towards something I have a passion for.

Otherwise, what are you doing with your life? Just sitting at home all the time, that is boring.
by pewu | 2025-07-23 13:11:16+00:00
Once I tried to reverse engineer a simple checksum (10 ASCII chars + 1 checksum byte), gathered multiple possible values and fed it to Gemini 2.5 Pro. It figured out the calculation completely wrong, when I applied the formula in code I got completely different checksum. After debugging step by step it turned out it hallucinated the value for sum of 10 integer values in all of the sample data and persistently tried to gaslight me that it is right. When I showed the proof for one of the sample entries, it apologized, fixed it for this specific entry and continued to gaslight me that its formula is correct for the rest of the values.

This time ChatGPT gave me a much better result.
by thenaturalist | 2025-07-23 13:11:19+00:00
> Instead, it introduces readability problems without any of the spatial computing benefits.

> Apple's Liquid Glass may win design accolades, but history suggests it will join the long list of beautiful solutions that made computing harder, not easier, for the people who actually have to use it every day. Unless they get it right.

> Early signs suggest they're already realizing this.

Succinctly written.

How can the third most valuable company on the planet with computing being the core of their DNA not realize this pre launch?

I have no experience with either SF/ SV or culture in large US enterprises.

Does someone has a hypothesis?
by Epitaque | 2025-07-23 13:11:21+00:00
I echo this sentiment. One of my favorite periods of my life was college, actually getting to learn about some advanced topics in CS. Then I graduated and got a job and now I struggle so hard to learn new things (despite lecture videos and textbooks and LLMs existing) without a professor grading assignments/giving exams/that you can talk to, or classmates.

I’m thinking about enrolling in an online college just for fun. Though the problem I have is that I think the Venn diagram of colleges that are online, aren’t expensive, have advanced CS/ML courses, have an experienced professor that you get to interact with is pretty much zero. If anyone has suggestions, do let me know.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-23 13:11:52+00:00
>Perhaps the real motivation to keep up with the material comes from actually enrolling the university?

For most people in most situations, the real motivation to keep up with the material comes from the wage premium one gets after getting the sheepskin. It is unsurprising you, a humble autodidact, are having a lot more trouble than an actual MIT student, because unlike an actual MIT student, you will not walk out of this course any closer to having an MIT degree.

>I guess I am used to deadline-oriented studying.

You can always reverse the curse, and promise to pay someone if you don't finish X material by Y date. You probably also want some kind of proof mechanism to show that you actually did it, like eg a graded test.

>Has anyone completed such type of lectures by themselves? How do you stay consistent and disciplined?

I've read through several textbooks cover to cover including problem sets since graduating. My motivation is mostly just burning curiosity. I can't stand the feeling of not only not knowing a thing, but knowing that I don't know it or feeling like I'm faking it every time I do act on what I know.
by joshdavham | 2025-07-23 13:12:10+00:00
I was literally just reached out to this morning about a contract job for one of these “high quality datasets”. They specifically wanted python programmers who’ve contributed to popular repos (I maintain one repository with approx. 300 stars).

The rate they offered was between $50-90 per hour, so significantly higher than what I’d think low-cost data labellers are getting.

Needless to say, I marked them as spam though. Harvesting emails through GitHub is dirty imo. Was also sad that the recruiter was acting on behalf of a yc company.
by bitmasher9 | 2025-07-23 13:12:50+00:00
They depict two very different economies.

If food, energy, medical care and transportation was as cheap as it is in Trek then it might actually make it to post scarcity. One thing that makes Star Fleet such a successful organization is combination meritocracy and diversity. I think any organization that nails that will be very successful.

In The Expanse the economies are much more relatable ones of exploitation, poverty, and extreme scarcity. Specifically watching the nationalist Martian society collapse was very interesting and felt realistic.
by scosman | 2025-07-23 13:12:51+00:00
Exactly. I can see my efficiency going up a ton with this kind of speed. Every time I'm waiting for agents my mind looses some focus and context. Running parallel agents gets more speed but at the cost of focus. Near instant iteration loops in Cursor would feel magical (even more magical?).

It will also impact how we work: interactive IDEs like Cursor probably make more sense than CLI tools like Claude code when answers are nearly instant.
by oleksandr_dem | 2025-07-23 13:13:01+00:00
I'm not doubting DHH skills as web developer, actually, the reason I've dedicated my time listening to the podcast and writing this post is because I kind-of see his point. However, during my 10 years career (which is nothing compared to DHH, and I'm not saying that I'm right and he is wrong) I've learned what works and what doesn't (at least for me). And looking at Ruby on Rails my feeling is that it shouldn't work, but as stated in the post description, I've heard different people saying that Ruby is great- And so I'm wondering if they are just a small niche group or if it is as good as people say it is.

> "I don't know databases, so I found one way that worked and ran with it as an ORM"

This doesn't really play in favor of Ruby on Rails, the same applies to Typescript and Java (and I'm quite sure to any language that is popular with web developers).
by ppkkK | 2025-07-23 13:13:27+00:00
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by AlexandrB | 2025-07-23 13:13:50+00:00
> iOS 6 -> iOS 7 was a huge improvement

It was not. Probably one of the biggest UI regressions of my lifetime on par with Windows 7 -> Windows 8. The iOS 7 design is so limiting in what it can communicate that it took Apple several major releases to make the iOS shift key's state legible to users. Arguably, they still haven't nailed it. I also find the idea that's iOS 7 is minimalistic comical, since information density dropped in most applications after the transition in favor of white space padding (necessary because the boundaries between UI and content were no longer obvious).
by pjerem | 2025-07-23 13:14:21+00:00
> This rule is important because comments can get orphaned.

I've seen this argument in multiple discussion, especially against adding comments or documentation in code because they can become outdated.

But I really strugle to agree : comments/doc ARE part of the code. If you keep outdated comment or documentation in your code without anyone noticing, I'd say you have a pretty big issue with your review process.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-23 13:14:50+00:00
Personally, I never argued whether it was China or not. It wasn't pertinent.

Fox News didn't give a hoot about discussing the origins of viruses and preventing them in the future. They just wanted to sow doubt in science (vaccines) and make China bad comments and cough in people's faces.

Now that the crisis is over, it's a fair question to ask where it came from.
by JackC | 2025-07-23 13:15:02+00:00
Here https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-cha...

It's been below 300 ppm for at least the last 800,000 years, had now increased to over 400 ppm in a pattern that directly maps to the industrial revolution, radiocarbon dating traces the carbon in the atmosphere to "old" carbon like that from fossil fuels, and the known sources of human emissions adequately explain the increase.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-23 13:15:09+00:00
The history of industry and technology of the world is just one of IP theft. Long term IP diffuses, you can’t really stop it with anything short of impassable boundaries.

If China trains better models than the rest of the world by using all the data it can acquire, it will simply win. You can’t throw China in jail for not playing by same rules as other countries, you can’t economically isolate it longer than a few years, and even then 70-80% of the world won’t care about embargoes even in those few years. The best solutions will diffuse into the world eventually.
by boudin | 2025-07-23 13:15:19+00:00
Sorry for pushing the logic but this doesn't account for the land, labour and resources required for the input which replaced former, less technical ways. How much is required to produce the seeds, seedlings, chemicals, energy and machines that weren't used before? In a really old approach farms tended to be fairly independant (e.g. producing their own fertilizers and using animal traction, animal who lived on the farm). This used land and labour which was accounted for but seems unaccounted for in more modern practice. In my opinion this underestimate the land and labour cost and creates a biased vision of the actual efficiency of modern agriculture.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-23 13:15:24+00:00
I think that if you start from the belief that radon mitigation is sold based on fear, and doesn't have value, then it's easy to cling to that belief and try to dismiss or explain away or minimize information that contradicts it, and to dismiss people who see value in it as 'fear buyers' who believe in a 'bogeyman' and say 'good idea' to things which, in your opinion, might not be good ideas.

A perspective perhaps different from yours: Avoidable cancer risk isn't great, and smart people* properly weighing the facts have repeatedly judged the value of radon mitigation to exceed the costs.

* - Probabilistically speaking, this includes many who are smarter than you and me
by hyluo | 2025-07-23 13:15:39+00:00
- We build the Thread Inference Model (TIM) based on the transformer architecture, and its dedicated runtime TIMRUN.

- TIM + TIMRUN = Intelligent workflow generation, context engineering, and multi-hop tool use happens at the runtime level

- TIM + TIMRUN supports virtually unlimited reasoning enabled by context pruning, significantly improves the efficiency for long-horizon reasoning tasks

- Inference API is live at https://subconscious.dev/

- More details: https://github.com/subconscious-systems/TIMRUN
by tokioyoyo | 2025-07-23 13:15:41+00:00
Not introducing any changes can lead to becoming “uncool” among the younger generation, which can be detrimental to the longevity of the business. Generally I agree with you, but it’s not that simple as our (HN crowd’s?) attitude of “function over form” is not that common out in the wild. People will spend money on stuff that makes them feel or look better. However, designers can screw that up too, and make the new”thing” uncool.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-23 13:15:48+00:00
I also recommend https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools to debloat your Windows 10-11.

Familiarity is not really a good reason against Linux, however. Just install a Linux distro that comes close in looks. What are these Linux distributions these days? Pop OS? Elementary OS? Most people are only using their browsers anyway.
by chisleu | 2025-07-23 13:15:57+00:00
I tried using the "fp8" model through hyperbolic but I question if it was even that model. It was basically useless through hyperbolic.

I downloaded the 4bit quant to my mac studio 512GB. 7-8 minutes until first tokens with a big Cline prompt for it to chew on. Performance is exceptional. It nailed all the tool calls, loaded my memory bank, and reasoned about a golang code base well enough to write a blog post on the topic: https://convergence.ninja/post/blogs/000016-ForeverFantasyFr...

Writing blog posts is one of the tests I use for these models. It is a very involved process including a Q&A phase, drafting phase, approval, and deployment. The filenames follow a certain pattern. The file has to be uploaded to s3 in a certain location to trigger the deployment. It's a complex custom task that I automated.

Even the 4bit model was capable of this, but was incapable of actually working on my code, prefering to halucinate methods that would be convenient rather than admitting it didn't know what it was doing. This is the 4 bit "lobotomized" model though. I'm excited to see how it performs at full power.
by thefz | 2025-07-23 13:16:54+00:00
> Yes, well... are you "anyone", or an IT professional? Are you using the computer like my mother, or like someone that knows how LLMs work?

I have more than 15 years of programming experience. I do not trust the output of LLMs a single bit. This just proved my point. I honestly don't care if I used the "wrong" model or the "wrong" query, which was already quite descriptive of what I wanted anyway.

No need to get super defensive, you can keep spending your time playing code golf with Gemini if you want. My experience just corroborates what I already thought; code generation is imprecise and error prone.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-23 13:16:55+00:00
> How can the third most valuable company on the planet with computing being the core of their DNA not realize this pre launch?

They haven’t launched it. The version with the exaggerated effects was an early beta. The more recent betas are already far more refined.

Everyone is raging over some early pre-release screenshots and videos because they’re unfamiliar with how Apple works: The early betas of a new UI are always refined and adjusted significantly before launch.
by MisterTea | 2025-07-23 13:17:06+00:00
Yes I did read it. Nowhere does it say Firefox is made by Google. It does however state that Google pays Mozilla a large sum of money to keep Google as the default search engine which accounts for 80% of Mozilla's revenue. That revenue is seemingly not spent making FF better which is the major complaint shared here. To me this is corruption of Mozilla by Google which needs to be fixed, not burnt down without a plan for whats next.
by kordlessagain | 2025-07-23 13:17:49+00:00
If you watched Westworld, this is what "the archives library of the Forge" represented. It was a vast digital archive containing the consciousness of every human guest who visited the park. And it was obtained through the hats they chose and wore during their visits and encounters.

Instead of hats, we have Anthropic, OpenAI and other services training on interactions with users who use "free" accounts. Think about THAT for a moment.
by trashface | 2025-07-23 13:17:51+00:00
If you have older hardware and play older games, Proton often doesn't run those as well as windows on the same hardware. On my laptop (win10/ubuntu dual boot, about 6 years old) windows is significantly faster in every game I have tried. I also had to do a futzy ad-hoc binary search to find a proton version that works with one game (either fallout 3 or fallout new vegas, can't remember which). And proton generally crashes more.
by nick-laptev | 2025-07-23 13:17:53+00:00
Lol. I experience this often with Google AI. It uses Git for tracking sources. Fun thing - revert of Git commits is not enough. Google AI tries to revert reverted commits thinking it knows better even if I ask not to do it explicitly. I say Google AI and not Gemini, because Google has some additions over Gemini in Firebase Studio prototyper, that is much more powerful for coding than Gemini. The thing I enjoy in Gemini - it often replies "I don't know how to do it, do it yourself" :-D
by libraryofbabel | 2025-07-23 13:18:07+00:00
LLMs are indeed excellent as conversation partners for helping with difficult concepts or for working through problem sheets. They’re really opened up self-learning for me again in math. You can use them to go much deeper with concepts much deeper than the course you’re taking - e.g. I was relearning some basic undergrad probability and stats but ended up exploring a bit of measure theory using Gemini as well. I would go so far as to say that an LLM can be more effective for explaining things than a randomly selected graduate student (though some grad students with a particular talent for teaching will be better).

What the LLM still does not provide is accountability (a LLM isn’t going to stop you from skipping a problem set) and the human social component. But you could potentially get that from a community of other self-learners covering the same material if you’re able to pull one together.
by mingus88 | 2025-07-23 13:18:21+00:00
I'm not sure I entirely agree. The design of smartphones has largely been unchanged for a decade. Prior to that there was a renaissance of various designs, shapes, folds, panels, buttons, keyboards, etc. Today everyone carries around rectangular slab.

What is happening here is Apple is unifying their product lines. All OS versions have converged to 26, 27, 28. The M processor runs iPads, Laptops and Vision. You can install iOS apps on macOS.

The headset is not a hit but it's a sign of things to come. The hardware will get better and I'm expecting seamless handoff between all your apple devices. Start a facetime call on your laptop in your office? Transfer that to your visionOS headset and start walking. Move to the living room and toss that app at your apple TV and finish up the call from the couch.

We've seen apple move toward unifying their various OS interfaces for a long time. People were forecasting this when OS X 10.6 started using the app store and app icons taken straight from the iPhone.

As the article says, liquid glass works best for spatial computing. That's apple's next big bet and the whole ecosystem is going to cater to it.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-23 13:19:06+00:00
Hmm. Interesting. The old internet was a place where communities formed. (Yeah, it wasn't just that, and it didn't always worked, but it was better at it than today's internet.) You could connect with people on the old bulletin boards and forums, even if you never knew their real name.

The last time I felt that - where I felt like I actually knew people, where I could sometimes tell who wrote something just by the writing style - was Groklaw. That's been a while. Currently, of all the places I know, HN comes the closest, but I don't actually know any of you.

Of the new internet, Facebook comes the closest. You could use Facebook in that way, and some people do. I think my wife does. But she's not in her 20s...

I wonder if the 25-and-below crowd still needs personal connection, but doesn't understand how to go about getting it. So they use Facebook in a way that is different from how older people use it. (Or maybe they just don't use Facebook - that's for old people.)
by EsportToys | 2025-07-23 13:19:13+00:00
Closed-form (non-iterative) PID solution:

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/mu80ttc9aa

function sprung_response(t,pos,vel,k,c,m) local decay = c/2/m local omega = math.sqrt(k/m) local resid = decay*decay-omega*omega local scale = math.sqrt(math.abs(resid)) local T1,T0 = t , 1 if resid<0 then T1,T0 = math.sin( scale*t)/scale , math.cos( scale*t) elseif resid>0 then T1,T0 = math.sinh(scale*t)/scale , math.cosh(scale*t) end local dissipation = math.exp(-decay*t) local evolved_pos = dissipation*( pos*(T0+T1*decay) + vel*( T1 ) ) local evolved_vel = dissipation*( pos*(-T1*omega^2) + vel*(T0-T1*decay) ) return evolved_pos , evolved_vel end

For anticipation, just add an extra initial velocity in the opposite direction and let the closed-form solution handle the time evolution. The main trick here is to keep both position and velocity as state. There is no need to “step through the simulation”.