MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by freedomdom | 2025-07-23 01:47:20+00:00
Did I just drop acid?

What about Maltron in Colemack?

https://colemak.com/

Or the Dactyl Manuform?

https://nathanfriend.com/2023/06/26/i-built-a-weird-keyboard...

Or Keyzen:

https://store.azeron.eu/azeron-keypads#keypad=keyzen

I just want an MC Escher keyboard, so I can type upside down and sideways.
by AyodeleFikayomi | 2025-07-23 01:47:38+00:00
Hi thank you for your feedback, and your project is really impressive... it's good to find like minds like yourself however to clarify the system i built is a dynamic and adaptive system focused on high-dimensional connection discovery and coherent transformations, not a static matrix pipeline. It's designed to find and adapt to structure over time, not to apply fixed transformations.
by standardUser | 2025-07-23 01:47:42+00:00
We have a way to measure this, it's called the Gini Coefficient, and it spiked in the 80's under deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy. Since then, it's been out of whack with Western norms and now more closely resembles Latin American wealth distribution.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?end=2023&lo...
by bhouston | 2025-07-23 01:48:34+00:00
My recommendation, as someone who started with a DSLR and then modded it to remove the UV-IR filter, I would have been better to just skip to a beginner cooled mono astrophotography camera, like the ASI533MM Pro. It is night and day difference in terms of quality and roughly the same cost and it automates better much better.

A high end DSLR is a huge waste of money in astrophotography. Spend the same amount on a dedicated astrophotography camera and you’ll do much better.
by gronglo | 2025-07-23 01:48:39+00:00
> In 99% of cases I do not care at all about the "artistic vision" of the UI designer and in the other 1% of cases (say an in-browser game or some useful data-viz) I could choose to allow the tab to go crazy with my resources.

I'm with you 100%. Although I'd go one step further and say CSS just isn't needed at all, and should be removed from all browsers. Same goes for WebGL (if you want to play a game, download Steam).

This would fix all of your issues and save an unbelievable amount of energy across the planet. Unfortunately people like us are a dying breed!
by infogulch | 2025-07-23 01:49:41+00:00
I accidentally allowed unrestricted signups on my publicly accessible gitea instance and came back 6 months later to 20,000 accounts hosting spam and malware. Oops. Cleanup required some mysql queries and the cli. Of course its important to pay careful attention to the configuration of any app, I'm just sharing the story of how I stubbed my toe on this furniture. :)

My instance is mostly used for archiving / mirroring interesting repos, more so since I had a glancing brush with censorship on github: a contributor to one of my repos was banned, which means entire issues and discussions and PRs they started were vanished overnight. This person was prolific and opened a lot of issues, so my repo became a graveyard of broken references and missing threads with conclusions and plans I no longer remember. Despite the minor scale of my project, this incident was rage inducing; it felt like github rebased my master branch to remove historical commits because someone was offended. Completely inappropriate imo.

For self-hosting an archival-oriented mirror, a few features would be nice:

1. Automatically mirror every repo I star on github 2. Continuously mirror issues, discussions, and PRs 3. "safe" mirroring (see #14076), so non-ff/force-push head updates have the old head tagged to preserve history
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-23 01:50:08+00:00
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/07/22/trump-...

The baseline 10% reciprocal tariff rate remains in effect for all, while many of the bigger country-specific tariffs are paused until Aug 1.

China has special tariffs that stack with that 10%: Section 301 (up to 25%) + Fentanyl tariff (20%).

In addition, worldwide tariffs impacting steel & aluminum (50%) as well as autos and auto parts (25%) are in effect.
by nemothekid | 2025-07-23 01:50:17+00:00
>Does that sound correct to you?

Yes? I'm not sure if I'm missing something you think is obvious. Lowering the retirement age will open up high seniority jobs that younger people can now promote into. You can see this in congress - despite millenials being in the 40s now they are rarely seen in high level political positions due to boomers and older sticking to their jobs.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-07-23 01:50:18+00:00
Yes, most states (if not all) won't let the owners charge for their bathroom service so there are very few places that let the general public use their bathrooms. Go to most cities and you'll find close to 0 public bathrooms. Yet, we all have to go at random times. Ever wondered where all those delivery(or whatever) drivers go when nature calls? They usually have to go to a restaurant and buy something to get access to the bathroom. I call that a crises created by unintended consequences.
by tiagod | 2025-07-23 01:52:47+00:00
Last time we had a reasonably powerful one in Portugal, I grabbed my phone the house was still shaking and it already had the Android warning!

I was surprised as I didn't even know it was a thing.

I was also a bit spooked as it was in the ocean, near the coast, and when I turned on my FM radio as we were always taught in school, all I heard were pre-recorded music programs.

Turns out it didn't meet the threshold for a warning so the authorities didn't issue any message about tsunami danger. I think they should've anyway, as I wasn't the only one that had that thought.
by Jonovono | 2025-07-23 01:53:08+00:00
LOL. Long story. But it's actually a word used in react native development. Back in the olden days before ChatGPT I was trying to figure out how to make a button "easier" to press. After digging around for a bit, came across this and I thought the name was so funny. I ended up buying the domain. Had no use for it. Decided to use it for this project as it kinda fit. Press on screen and [ai] slop comes out ;p

https://reactnative.dev/docs/touchablewithoutfeedback#hitslo...
by pstuart | 2025-07-23 01:53:27+00:00
"False" I can entertain, but reactionary? Elitist? Huh?

Your list of grievances is like a Fox News handout for viewers to remember what they hate about DemonRats.

Your "assumptions":

* Religion is bad, but only if it’s Christianity. * Men are bad, unless they’re trans * Gender is a social construct, but race is real * culture is important, unless it’s associated with whites, because they don’t have culture

Can be "fixed":

* Your Religion is yours, don't make it mine (regardless of which flavored cult) * Men no longer get to be the boss just because they're men * Gender is a personal "choice" * Culture is important (and "white culture" is tempting to make light of in that it's "punching up", and it's kind of Wonder Bread bland).

LOL IRL on the right wing balancing act, but I'll agree with the statements except for the blanket "religion is good" (it's conditional), and the Islamophobia (which I love as much as I love christianity).

I'm happy for you that you have people to pat you on the back and tell you you're smart -- we all could use a little emotional support.

Edit: I only have two Trump supporters in my friend list -- they are both intelligent, kind, and devoutly religious. Obviously I have n=2 personally, but it's a thing to very Christian and very Trumpy. It's an observation, not a judgement.
by onecommentman | 2025-07-23 01:54:31+00:00
If you are of a certain age, have the ready cash and if new cars are truly safer than old cars, then do society a favor and buy the new car. It’s cheaper for society to make a new car that keeps the aging driver, passengers and other drivers and pedestrians safe, than to pay to fix even one broken old person.

I’ve got a 2025 sedan with all the newest safety features, and what you lose in visibility you more than gain in general situational awareness, especially with aging eyes, ears, etc.. Managing display and alarm complexities is the challenge, though, since the aging population also have issues there. A driving training simulator at the dealership for these new sedans for the elderly would be a big help, since many of the safety options are only active in a vehicle under motion. The temptation for the aged is just to shut these confusing options off as too complex, thus losing the safety advantage.
by vel0city | 2025-07-23 01:56:22+00:00
Busses barely even feel the impact of running over the Suburban. Have you ever been in a collision of a car and a bus? I have, in the bus colliding with an SUV that ran a red. The driver of the SUV was wheeled away seemingly unresponsive. It cost me about a 20 minute delay in my travel a long with everyone else on the bus. Who do you want to be?

Think about how you feel safer in that giant SUV compared to a subcompact. Then remember the bus is significantly larger than the SUV even comparing the SUV to the subcompact. Which "wins" in the accident? Now think of the light rail train, even larger than the bus.

I'd rather not even have to be in the path of a drunk driver in the first place. Maybe we could redesign our cities ahead of time so those drunks could walk or ride the bus or bicycle instead of getting behind the wheel. Impossible, I'm sure.

You seemingly can't even imagine a world where one doesn't need to get in a car to go to a bar or go get groceries, it's just assumed both of these people and you will have to be in a car and share the path.

Once again you haven't actually logically thought about these differences. Think about it again before you reply.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-07-23 01:56:26+00:00
The math still has to check out. Yes I agree getting rid of the ultra wealthy improves the situation a lot and should be done. But at some point you still have too many retired people for the working population to support.

At that point it's going to have to be considered that a 60 year old is still perfectly capable of working low physical demand jobs rather than spending 10-30 years on cruise ships.
by zahlman | 2025-07-23 01:57:39+00:00
> I think this is a design issue with PyPI though. It really should have some kind of index which goes from module names to packages which provide that module. (Maybe it already does but I don't know about it?)

PyPI never really saw much "design" (although there is a GitHub project for the site: https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/ as well as for a mirror client: https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch). But an established principle now is that anyone can upload a distribution with whatever name they want — first come, first serve by default. Further, nobody has to worry about what anyone else's existing software is in order to do this. Although there are restrictions to avoid typo-squatting or other social engineering attempts (and in the modern era, names of standard library modules are automatically blacklisted).

> Of course, that doesn't help if multiple packages provide the same module; but then if there was a process to reserve a module name – either one which no package is currently using, or if it is currently used only by a single package, give the owner of that package ownership of the module – and then the module name owner can bless a single package as the primary package for that module name.

These kinds of conflicts are actually by design. You're supposed to be able to have competing implementations of the same API.

> Obviously it shouldn't do this by default... maybe something like "from __future__ import auto_install" to enable it.

The language is not realistically going to change purely to support packaging. The time to propose this was in 2006. (Did you know pip was first released before Python 3.0?)

> but maybe Python will eventually get there.

That would require the relevant people to agree that with heading in that direction. IMX, they have many reasons they don't want to.

Anyway, this isn't the place to pitch such ideas. It would be better to try the Ideas and/or Packaging forums on https://discuss.python.org — but be prepared for them to tell you the same things.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-23 01:57:47+00:00
> the godfather of the current wave of AI

Here we go again...

Geoffrey Hinton is popular because of ML. You know why he doesn't understand the modern wave of LLMs? Because the transformer architecture isn't his invention. He had almost nothing to do with it. It's like saying that nobody understands how the nuclear bomb works simply because Einstein won't explain it to you in detail. There is a science here, and denying that it can be interpreted or understood is simply hysterical. We can perfectly well understand a Markov chain, why are LLMs any different?

The "current wave of AI" is an autoregressive feed-forward algorithm inferring tokenized data using complex pretrained weights. In simple terms, you could describe this as a token predictor without glossing over any details that are fundamentally important. To call it "reductionist" you would have to explain what is missing from the definition, not simply that you distrust people who understand it.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-07-23 01:58:07+00:00
> how schools increase the spread of disease

I would want to think hard about the second-order effects of preventing transmission of regular school colds & flus before trying to suppress them, which would be that people would miss out on training their immune systems while they are young & resilient.

It would be nice to get sick less often and environmental suppression in schools seems like such an obvious win... but I don't have enough understanding to know if it would really be a good thing one way or the other.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-07-23 01:58:11+00:00
> And now we get DaisyUI, which emulates class based styling on top of a toolkit that emulates attribute based styling on top of the class based system of CSS.

I mean, no. Daisy doesn’t emulate anything, it is class based styling. It happens to have a build system that that emulates attribute based styling on top of the class based system of CSS, but Daisy’s classes appear in your CSS as normal CSS classes.
by esseph | 2025-07-23 01:59:20+00:00
Certification, yes, but it's an open standard.

Edit: Oh, yuck.

"A software development kit (SDK) is provided royalty-free,[13][14] though the ability to commission a finished product into a Matter network in the field mandates certification and membership fees,[15][16] entailing both one-time, recurring, and per-product costs.[17] This is enforced using a public key infrastructure (PKI) and so-called device attestation certificates.[15]"
by Guid_NewGuid | 2025-07-23 02:00:30+00:00
It's worth noting that crypto lobbying groups also spent a lot to support Democrats too.[0]

As usual this heavily leans towards one party and the situation would be 'less bad' with the other party but as usual the problem is money in politics and Citizens United. At least watching the collapse of your state from abroad provides entertaining reading.

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/democrats-crypto-genius-act-stabl...
by ryandv | 2025-07-23 02:01:05+00:00
> as if the liberal arts are predicated on producing language rather than language with utility

I'm sure that the liberal arts are engaged in activities and the production of language with some utility, but this is orthogonal to the question of its correspondence to reality or its epistemic value, as originally posed.

Playing the publish or perish game is different from developing some genuine insight, "justified true belief," into the state and mechanics of the world.

The grievance studies affair [0] is replete with "scholarly works" accepted for publication that are devoid of both epistemic and utilitarian value, ranging from the merely absurd to literally paraphrasing Hitler.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
by missedthecue | 2025-07-23 02:01:44+00:00
Eventually the interest payments crowd out most other government spending, or require significant across the board tax increases to maintain current levels of spend.

The US is currently at $1T+ a year in tax revenues that instantly go right out the door toward paying bond interest. It will likely be $2T within 10 years, even fewer if rates don't come down in that time. It's compounding and therefore exponential.

Situations like Japan are even more dire. A small increase in the interest rate results in a HUGE increase in interest expense at 260% debt to GDP ratios. Worse, their population is naturally shrinking a million people a year on account of their decades-long birth rate implosion. Hard to outgrow that.
by FpUser | 2025-07-23 02:02:17+00:00
I have 2 kinds of TODOs in my code:

// TODO: optimize something, refactor, blah ... // TO_F_DO: this thing is gonna blow up, can't fix it now but do it ASAP

TODO - when I have nothing to do I browse those, pick the on I like and do it.

TO_F_DO - if I find more than 1 in my code I am suicidal
by ghm2180 | 2025-07-23 02:02:27+00:00
Yeah, it's "let's fix this no matter what" is really weird. In this mode everything becomes worst, it begins to comment code to make tests work, add pytest.mark.skip or xfail. It's almost like it was trained on data where it asks I gotta pick a tool to fix which one do I use and it was given ToNS of weird uncontrolled choices to train on that makes the code work, except instead of a scalpel its in home depot and it takes a random aisle and that makes it chooses anything from duct tape to super glue.
by bm3719 | 2025-07-23 02:02:28+00:00
Interesting that Kojève and Bataille were pals. Might be relevant to the following:

> In “Colonialism from a European Perspective,” Kojève argued that the industrial nations of Europe should give financial aid to the “underdeveloped countries” that were their current or former colonies. Drawing on anthropologist Marcel Mauss’s theory of the gift and Bataille’s theory of expenditure, Kojève called this “giving colonialism.”

Bataille did suggest this in his book The Accursed Share, specifically that the US should give all its excess wealth to India "without reciprocation". He posits that energy (wealth) that isn't used for maintenance or growth can only be wasted on war or luxuries like monuments, calling that wealth the book's namesake.

What he misses is that there are other options, like investing in research which can open up new avenues for growth, or hoarding commodities (thereby storing the wealth) like China is doing with rare earths. Whether either of those (or other options) is a good idea is a separate question, of course.

This is just a personal take, but I consider this in conflict with (my interpretation of) Bataille's famous essay, The Solar Anus. Perhaps if he was able to conceive of the above, that wouldn't be the case.
by farzd | 2025-07-23 02:02:31+00:00
I recently created a voice notes app in react-native / expo. And I have a waveform that updates according to the multimeter (audio input)

From my first try, I immediately had the performance monitor visible because I knew this could be RAM intensive.

I iterated a few times until I settled on SKIA and boy, the performance was night and day.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-23 02:02:33+00:00
Interesting that the current President is 79 years old (and will be 82 by the end of his term) and he took over from someone who was also 82 at the end of their term.

Given that, software work at 67 should be well within cognitive limits.

(I'm actually not sure if I'm being sarcastic)
by mappu | 2025-07-23 02:03:14+00:00
The SAML support in https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/29403 seems like it will get merged once the MR is a little bit higher quality.

EDIT (bit better source):

> Gitea Enterprise is an offering of CommitGo, not the Technical Oversight Committee of Gitea or the Gitea project itself. CommitGo remains committed to contributing back functionality to Gitea under the MIT license.

Via https://blog.gitea.com/gitea-enterprise/#faq
by nebula8804 | 2025-07-23 02:03:20+00:00
>a lot of it is probably lack of scale.

Thats what im thinking as well. I was concerned when Straubel announced his departure but after reading multiple sources, it seems like the real reason he left was because he was getting bored and wanted to start something new (battery recycling). My hope is that he put a team there to continue onwards. It didn't seem like anyone was panicking when he announced, sounded like it was in the works for a while.

Cybertruck was supposed to have something like 250k yearly right? Are they even getting 30k yearly?

But still...tabless, structural pack, 4680, dry cell these are all things they had in production first right?

BYD Blade is amazing, but its more of a optimizing a mass market LFP cell no? Whereas I am referring to putting cutting edge tech into production.
by danenania | 2025-07-23 02:03:54+00:00
I’ll throw out a mention for my project Plandex[1], which predates Claude Code and combines models from multiple providers (Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI by default). It can also use open source and local models.

It focuses especially on large context and longer tasks with many steps.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
by nwallin | 2025-07-23 02:04:41+00:00
No.

When you see "artist's impression" in a news article about space, what you're looking at is a painting or drawing created from whole cloth by an artist.

This article is about how sensors turned signals into images. When you take pictures with a 'normal' camera, we've designed them so that if you take certain steps, the image on your screen looks the same as what it would look like in real life with no camera or monitor. This article is stating that with the cameras and filters they use for telescopes, that same process doesn't really work. We use special filters to measure specific spectral properties about an astronomical object. This gives good scientific information, however, it means that in many cases it's impossible to reconstruct what an astronomical object would really look like if our eyes were more sensitive and we looked at it.
by felipeerias | 2025-07-23 02:04:57+00:00
If pensions depend exclusively on what each person has contributed during their working years, then lowering the retirement age might theoretically help young people by opening up more senior positions for them.

However, in many developed countries today’s pensions are mainly paid for by today’s workers, often through a combination of social contributions and taxes.

In Spain, for example, the social security has a large structural deficit that gets covered by large taxes on salaries, taking money from other social services, and sovereign debt.

In other words, young workers are forced to support retirees through means that make it much harder for them to build a future of their own.

This system is kept in place because pensioners are a huge 1-issue voting block that no political party wants to antagonise. I believe that this is somehow downstream of cultural changes that have made all of society more individualistic and self-centred, incapable to work together for a common future.
by adduc | 2025-07-23 02:05:39+00:00
> The Gitea project is still community-driven and has the same yearly elections for leadership that has been around for close to a decade now :)

[1] mentions changes to the election process that mandates half of the oversight committee to be appointed by the Gitea company. Doesn't that conflict with your assertion that the "same yearly elections" have been around?

Where can one find the governance charter for the Gitea project?

[1]: https://blog.gitea.com/quarterly-23q1/