MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Treegarden | 2025-07-10 10:33:46+00:00
It was but so were other models before. OP said the twitter to grok feature is a good use case and I agree. Its great for fact checking. For example it will debunk conspiracy theories and misinformation tweets in general. I even asked it about its own hitler meltdown and it rejected its own words (so I must have asked it after they fixed it).
by jzellis | 2025-07-10 10:34:12+00:00
I'm not in front of my laptop but I'm gonna download it later, as I've got a 128GB SD card filled with my middle aged white guy hipster music library that I also keep on an actual 5G iPod Classic (which I added SD storage to and keep meaning to also add a Bluetooth module to as well).

A thought, because of all the folks asking for volume limiting: if you're not into DSP, it might be easier to simply add a point in your audio output flow for AudioUnits and let people use one of the existing limiters for it - Apple just straight up includes one on every Mac in the AudioUnits library - or write one specifically and include it.

This would also allow not just limiting but EQ, compression or even simulated tube warmth if people wanted that. (Or, y'know, running everything through autotune and a bit crusher if they're psychopaths. :-D)

I've never coded in Swift but I imagine adding a point to route through AudioUnits is probably not hugely difficult and iirc Apple has example code for doing it, at least they used to.

Keep up the awesome work, either way!
by seuros | 2025-07-10 10:35:57+00:00
Merci pour la remarque !

Your 2 space credits are worth their weight in dilithium.

Funny thing is the gem originally started exactly like that, pure explicit constructors. Then I wrapped it with the DSL sugar but the explicit approach never lost its capability. Both paths lead to the same destination.

I actually loved this suggestion so much that I added a whole section called "Captain Byroot's Guide to Explicit Circuit Construction" to the docs:

https://github.com/seuros/breaker_machines/blob/master/docs/....

The resistance appreciates your feedback.
by syklemil | 2025-07-10 10:36:18+00:00
>> Especially in the era of AI assistants, the downside of writing out explicit types and repetition matters very little

> Yeah, let's design languages based on the capabilities of code assistance /s

I mean, that _is_ essentially the Go team's take these days, c.f. their previous blog post about error handling: https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax

> Writing repeated error checks can be tedious, but today’s IDEs provide powerful, even LLM-assisted code completion. Writing basic error checks is straightforward for these tools. The verbosity is most obvious when reading code, but tools might help here as well; for instance an IDE with a Go language setting could provide a toggle switch to hide error handling code.

Personally I expect that getting an LLM to write error handling and then have the IDE hide it sounds like a recipe for surprises, but I guess things work out differently if the goal is to have hordes of the cheapest possible juniors kitted out with tools that let them produce the most amount of code per dollar.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-10 10:36:19+00:00
> Like the search system falls apart if you have more than a few thousand messages in a folder, not all that many by today's standards.

My Thunderbird installation tends a 20 year old work mailbox with tens of thousands of messages, and the search works the way I want even though I don't download the messages themselves to save some disk space.

If you are using your installation for a very long time, your local caches might have broken at some point, because Thunderbird was bad at that kind of thing, but now it's not.

For folder order, I can't tell anything about it, but 13 years of folders are just a wrist-flick distance on a 2K display, and shouldn't be much worse at an 1080p one, either. So, it might be fair criticism, but it's nitpicking.

I never experienced "lost messages" for a very long time, and my progress bar is currently sitting empty, despite that installation is handling 5 busy mailboxes.

You may need to delete some cache and local MBOX files and restart your Thunderbird, it seems.
by talos_ | 2025-07-10 10:36:31+00:00
Well, why not include the word "Canadian", which significantly predates the country, as the prime example?

It's derived from Iroquois Nation words and used by French settlers to refer to Indigenous people. The word "Canada" was used by explorer Jacques Cartier to refer to the city now called "Québec". It broadly refered to the territory of a specific Indigenous tribe. (could be derogatory, but seemingly accurate / matter-of-fact)

After the British invasion, the British start using "Canadian" to describe both First Nations and French settlers (derogatory, "non-British)

Over time, "Canadian" generally refers to habitants of Canada.

Related: the hockey team "Les Canadiens" is from Montréal in the province of Québec in Canada. It's the oldest hockey team (1909, pre-NHL). The name is a reappropriation of the word Canadian at a time where it was used derogatively against "French-Canadians" (term that didn't exist at the time). Their chant "go, habs, go" refers to the "habitants", i.e., French settlers.

Related: "province" originates from latin used by Romans to described conquered territory. This is the term founders of Canada in 1867 decided to use instead of "state"

For anyone interested in Canadian history, always check-out the French version of a wikipedia page (and translate it). English pages have a lot of hand-waving and start history with their conquest. Also, ChatGPT makes outrageous historical mistakes all the time, such as suggesting that French-Canadians were a minority group in the 19th century

edit: format, typos
by p_v_doom | 2025-07-10 10:36:57+00:00
Human nature is not greed though. Human nature is very very varied and adaptive. And the historical norm of human nature is one of sharing, community and support, as much as such a claim can even be made. And human nature is subject to the whole bigger system in which it lives.

Capitalism is in many ways such a system, one that is built around driving the worst parts of human nature. And the thing is the profit motive becoming pathological is not a bug. This is the key defining feature of the system. Capitalism really isnt even about markets. Its about consumption, and producing things specifically to sell them in order to make some markup. The goal is specifically to find ways to make money, and stuff like fulfilling peoples needs, quality, workers rights, and regulations are clearly things that are getting in the way.
by alamortsubite | 2025-07-10 10:38:07+00:00
While I don't deny there are pockets of abnormality like you suggest, having grown up on a dirt road in rural America and spent most of my adult life in cities, suburbia comes across as the antithesis of community. It was founded on the very promise of insularity. Obviously, that's not everyone's agenda, but it's beyond debate that its defining principle was segregation (followed by uniformity and convenience). I want to be sympathetic but I don't understand how people buy into it without accepting this. We've made some progress as a society, but having visited a lot of suburban neighborhoods all over the U.S., the remnants of the original mindset still come across loud and clear.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-07-10 10:40:40+00:00
>"Han Wavel is a world which consists largely of fabulous ultraluxury hotels and casinos, all of which have been formed by the natural erosion of wind and rain. The chances of this happening are more or less one to infinity against. Little is known of how this came about because none of the geophysicists, probability statisticians, meteoranalysts or bizzarrologists who are so keen to research it can afford to stay there."
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-10 10:41:08+00:00
Z-wave requires certification[1] which includes alliance membership and compliance testing, and there you can do your own stuff using shields or modules[2].

Some manufacturers also make Z-wave devices, like this[3], which has some generic low-voltage inputs and outputs.

So while not as trivial as other things, it's possible to do a lot of DIY stuff.

[1]: https://z-wavealliance.org/development-process-overview-2/

[2]: https://z-uno.z-wave.me/module/

[3]: https://www.fibaro.com/en/products/smart-implant/
by pjc50 | 2025-07-10 10:41:20+00:00
This is mostly a matter of control systems engineering: inverters tend to be perfectly grid-following, but there's no reason why the phase angle can't be adjusted to provide "virtual inertia". Same for battery systems - an early market for these in the UK is getting paid for "fast frequency response". Every battery can be a virtual flywheel. https://www.modernpowersystems.com/analysis/batteries-for-fa...

Conversely, the Spain problem appears to have been a classic control systems problem of a slow undamped oscillation that gradually got out of hand.

(I believe the preliminary incident reports got published and discussed on HN, if someone would like to link that here?)

Nuclear may or may not have a role, but it's much slower to build than solar, so starting a plant now is going to face a very different landscape with a lot more solar in by the time it completes.
by TFYS | 2025-07-10 10:41:26+00:00
> Why not just do market socialism?

Because markets are based on competition, and that causes a lot of issues on it's own, even in the absence of capitalism. It's because of competition that we consume too much resources, have wars between nations, etc. I don't think we can get rid of a lot of the problems we have unless we start actually planning long term and co-operating instead of competing. I agree with you that it'd be hard and risky to build a working planned economy, and that it'd be best to start with small scale tests. I just don't see how humanity will survive unless we start planning at a very large scale and stop competing with each other. A global planned economy is the only way to do that.

> But I believe most people, including myself, would only do the minimum if no personal gain was involved

I don't think all personal gain needs to be removed in a planned economy. There could be different rewards for different tasks, if achieving the plan requires it. What is not necessary is the ridiculously large differences between rewards. It's enough that the reward is somewhat motivating, there's no need to have some tasks be thousands or millions of times more rewarding than others. If there are tasks that wouldn't get done in the absence of rewards so large, surely they are rare and worth leaving undone for the other benefits of a planned economy.

> there are a number of social democracies (which are mixed economy, i.e. capitalist) in Europe that attest to that.

I live in one of the best managed ones, and still we're slowly but surely losing our government to the influence of capital. Media is concentrating, worker rights and unions are being attacked, etc. It takes a long time in a well designed system, but eventually capital will win. Even if we manage to get a government that tries to protect the rights of people over capital, the realities of a global economy based on competition don't allow that anymore. If we try, we lose to countries that don't and then we can no longer afford it.
by Lio | 2025-07-10 10:41:43+00:00
I've used dry-rb a bit but had problems with breaking changes that put me off.

I love some of the ideas but they seem a bit too heavy for my taste.

e.g. I think (project) standardised results are a fantastic idea but I don't need the weight of Dry::Monad for that.

I think I can get enough benefit from built in features like .then and throw..catch with tags for signaling without an extra dependency and the risk of the API breaking on upgrade.
by DamonHD | 2025-07-10 10:43:15+00:00
My home's PV produces more energy than we use in a year, including heating. But the ~1:10 swing in generation from my roof in London UK between mid-winter and mid-summer is tough, and the storage to cover that interseasonally would currently cost about the same as the house and/or use ~50% of its volume. However, we import minimally in summer and export like crazy with the help of relatively modest storage.

Luckily there is this thing called a grid, and the UK has a lot of anti-correlated wind generation on it, which helps a lot.

All my detailed stats are here:

https://www.earth.org.uk/energy-series-dataset.html

Also see:

https://www.earth.org.uk/statscast-202012.html
by cheschire | 2025-07-10 10:43:31+00:00
Those are vastly different scales you’re comparing. I doubt Namibia vs America will be another Tesla vs Ford.

The whole point of the current American efforts about oil seems to be reinvigorating economic growth. Oil supply chains are a lot easier to manipulate into growth strategies than renewables.

Countries that have leapfrogged into energy independence are doing great but thats not hustle. They’re ensuring their isolation for years to come.

And to be clear that may not be a bad thing for them.
by piva00 | 2025-07-10 10:43:31+00:00
I don't think OP said anything about the spread of the fines amount being equal, they brought up that there are many EU-based companies whom have been levied fines, I believe you interpreted it wrongly and are bashing a non-existing argument.

US companies have been fined larger sums because their transgressions are more common, they do it repeatedly, and their global revenue is higher, there's no conspiracy here, it's exactly how the law is written.

I invite you to re-read their point:

> The vast majority of fines are towards european businesses.

Which is true, the majority of fines are towards EU-based businesses, not the majority of the amount in fines.

Again, if US-based companies with a much higher revenue and market penetration weren't breaking the laws they wouldn't be levied the higher fines.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-07-10 10:43:47+00:00
Apparently the Chinese solar industry are baffled by the US obsession with Solyndra.

It makes so little objective sense to be that angry about a failed investment in new tech that they thought there was something deeper going on that they didn't understand.

edit: I tried to Google for the source of this, but was stymied by the fact that Solyndra tried to sue Chinese manufacturers.

I did find this time capsule commentary on an NYT piece about how Chinese renewables were about to collapse back in 2012:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/10/ch...

The story, the blog take and the unhinged comments do a lot to explain USA losing out.

Not that all of the comments are unhinged, one upvoted to the top actually applies basic economic thinking and suggests this is just counteracting negative externalities and therefore the smart move to anyone with the eyes to see the facts clearly.

Second edit: extra context is that the blogger is funded by Charles Koch:

https://www.desmog.com/mercatus-center/
by tim333 | 2025-07-10 10:43:56+00:00
If there was a political party that said decisions will be made by this LLM, all open source, weights, prompts and all, the prompt are to run the country sensibly and harmoniously aiming for freedom and happiness for all, then I'd vote for that. The humans could override if it went nuts/stupid but then the voters could say oi - why you overriding it?
by kawsper | 2025-07-10 10:44:34+00:00
I’ve been searching for something like this, I love the name!

I currently use iTunes, and I might be an idiot, but I don’t seem to be able to export/import my library between installs, so I lose my plays and settings, but I never lose music files!

I have a massive music library and mostly just listen on shuffle, but it would be cool to be able to sync to my iPhone.

I’ll try all the recommendations in this thread!
by vintagedave | 2025-07-10 10:44:44+00:00
If you need context on this, try: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/grok-praises-hit...

There's always someone saying, 'not yet' when others draw a line. Question is, are you going to be that someone, or are you too going to draw a line?

I left Twitter/X when Musk did that Nazi salute. I have not returned. That was a line.
by Jlagreen | 2025-07-10 10:45:31+00:00
That's because Nvidia is offering a full ecosystem stack with HW, SW and networking clusters.

And that gives customers the most flexibility. Nvidia dominates training and is highly competitive in inferencing. At the same time, SW improvements speed up single node and networking performance. H100 released 3 years ago is today several times faster than it was on release with constant SW updates.

Customers who buy Nvidia for training today can use the older GPUs from Nvidia for inferencing later. And Nvidia supports even V100 still in SW updates and speed improvements. And since all is based on the same SW ecosystem, it allows for more seamless operations for customers. You can mix different Nvidia GPU clusters but you can't easily mix Nvidia solutions with other solutions.

That is also why Nvidia has always been dominant and that's flexibility. NVFP4 is a good example of what they do to stay ahead. And it is even supported by Hopper so any old customer can use Nvidia's new format to further improve model training performance. Suddenly old Hopper clusters become more valuable with some SW releases by Nvidia.

Nvidia has a track record which no competitor can match. Going with Nvidia is no mistake today while going with any competitor is a risky bet. If you spend billions, you think twice about making bets.
by CoolChum | 2025-07-10 10:46:04+00:00
> In Star Trek The Next Generation, energy is a 'solved problem'.

In later Star Trek shows of the same era they show that it isn't really. A major plot point of voyager is them having to save power because they can't get the resources to keep the ship running. It kinda forgotten about later, but it shows that whatever power sources they are using isn't infinite and is still finite.

> Material needs are also a 'solved problem'.

Did you forget the episode where Troi literally has a breakdown in one episode because she knows the desert she is eating isn't real? She won't be the only person.

They end up bartering BTW in one episode to get real eggs in so they can make real "authentic" scrambled eggs.

Throughout the show they have to barter (which is less efficient form of transaction) to get things the replica can't produce or that are hand produced.

Which echoes more wealthy people in reality buying hand produced items at a greater cost, over cheap mass produced items.

> Money doesn't exist anymore.

Money certainly exists in some sort of context as Federation has to trade and everyone else use Gold Pressed Latinum. It may not be used on Earth, but it is used elsewhere extensively and the Federation must also have some of that currency to be able to trade with those outside of it.

People who rave about the vision that TNG put forward. They seem to forget that in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 they show the other side of the Federation.

In the first episode they show the other side of the federation. Q introduced the federation to the Borg early and set off the chain of events which leads to the death of thousands of Starfleet personnel including Sisko's wife which he is haunted by throughout the entire series. This was a direct consequence of Picard's poor choices when dealing with two

There are disaffected federation citizens that have started a terrorist / militia force called the marquis as a direct consequence of the colonisation of their homes by foreign invaders when the Federation sold them out.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-10 10:46:49+00:00
Exactly. I can't express the degree to which people thinking we can fix it with just one more surgical precision law drive me up the wall. They've clearly never tried to do anything regulated.

The second, third and Nth order consequences of the sum of the shortsighted quick fixes these people have peddled result in a world where only sociopathic corporate entities can do anything, and of course those entities are incredibly "greedy", they wouldn't be able to remain profitable if they weren't.

Those vacant main street store fronts (metaphorical or literal, your pick) are only half vacant because the PE fueled megacorp that owns them doesn't deem it worthwhile to rent them. The other half are vacant because the cost of jumping through the regulatory hoops to rent them in a lawful manner is unjustifiable for the small time owner.
by drob518 | 2025-07-10 10:47:00+00:00
Exactly. I would use loop or partition+map/reduce for that case. I almost never use map-indexed. In fact I almost never use indexing at all. Mostly, when I have a sequential collection (vector, list, or generic seq), I need to iterate over all the elements, and I’m doing that with map or reduce. IMO, map-indexed has a code-smell that indicates that you’re reaching for an imperative algorithm when perhaps a functional algorithm would be better. Surely, there are times when map-indexed is just what you need, which is why it’s there, but typically not in my experience.
by seuros | 2025-07-10 10:47:23+00:00
Circuit breakers are inherently bi-modal (all-or-nothing) while token buckets provide smooth pressure control like cruise control vs an on/off switch.

BreakerMachines focuses specifically on failure protection rather than rate limiting. Circuit breakers and token buckets solve different problems:

- Circuit breakers: Reactive failure protection (stop calling broken services)

- Token buckets: Proactive rate control (smooth request throttling)

They're complementary patterns. I actually have a rate limiter gem with token buckets, sliding windows, and distributed rate limiting, but I will open source it when my ship lands on a planet or a moon. Still navigating hyperspace.

Thanks for the feedback
by bayindirh | 2025-07-10 10:47:59+00:00
Until recently, many sites had RSS functionality because the infrastructure they are using provided some of automated RSS generation. Also, many sites stopped providing "full-content" RSS feeds, but gave pointers to the website itself to drive clicks.

"Real" RSS gives you the whole content. The blog platform I use does this, for example. They are not greedy people and just want to provide a blog platform so, they use the thing as it's supposed to be.
by Levitz | 2025-07-10 10:48:20+00:00
It was also stating that the life of a single Jew is worth more than that of two million non-Jews.

LLMs can occasionally say crazy stuff, that is not surprising, and I think we should do better than leaning into the outrage machine.

The opposite is how we end up with ridiculous guardrails, like having ChatGPT say that it would rather allow all of humanity to perish than to say the N word, a statement which is orders of magnitude worse, only more publicly palatable.
by icoder | 2025-07-10 10:49:06+00:00
I can understand how/that this works, but it still feels like a 'hack' to me. It still feels like the LLM's themselves are plateauing but the applications get better by running the LLM's deeper, longer, wider (and by adding 'non ai' tooling/logic at the edges).

But maybe that's simply the solution, like the solution to original neural nets was (perhaps too simply put) to wait for exponentially better/faster hardware.
by adrianwaj | 2025-07-10 10:49:27+00:00
Hot or Not became a dating site, so make this a site for rich people (or rather show-offs / aspiring rich) to connect? Maybe there's a security issue flaunting so openly?

Can also focus on people in their favourite fashion brands, or people wanting to sell shoes / clothes / jewellery. Users can locate others by their clothing size and find their better-dressed doppelganger.

Why not have a free-tier signup or browse-only?

Make it about sub-cultures or "people of the sub-reddits" and tie it in with reddit posts/karma.

How about HN users and their crazy systems or exotic locales? Musicians and their horns? People and their pads?

How about a bling-rotation site? There are sites for crystals where people get new ones each month and send their current ones off. (crystal rotation subscription) Keep it fresh!

Bling rentalz?