MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-26 16:46:48+00:00
> Which is what the 2A ding-dongs are usually referring to when they pipe up with the usual "Switzerland has lots of guns!" nonsense.

No. It applies to weapons issued by the state.

> Plus restrictions on what kind of ammo, and the seller can request they perform a background check.

Man, it’s as easy to buy ammo in Switzerland as in the US. You can argue on all these minor points about background checks etc (btw majority of high profile shootings in the US are done with legal arms!), but it has nothing to do with reality.

Something else is at play here
by gruez | 2025-07-26 16:46:59+00:00
>If you're asking "why didn't the people before then work less?" the answer is "because productivity gains hadn't yet made that possible".

>[...] I don't know exactly when real-world productivity got enough higher than P that we could realistically start reducing worked hours, but it definitely did so at some point in the last several decades. [...]

GDP per capita has been growing exponentially for centuries[1]. Is there some arbitrary GDP per capita level where people should be expected to kick back and relax? Why makes your arbitrary line more or less correct than someone else's arbitrary line? Moreover people's revealed preferences show that for most people, that line hasn't been reached yet. Why should people's revealed preferences be overridden by whatever number you came up with?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-p...

>If, instead, the surplus is captured by the wealthy, the workers don't see benefit, and inequality grows.

Economic statistics shows it hasn't been captured. Even if you're some sort of marxist that thinks labor's share of GDP should be 100%, at the very most this means the point at which everyone can kick back and relax is delayed by 40%.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG
by alganet | 2025-07-26 16:47:59+00:00
Superman is the Joker from Batman's perspective (dressed like a clown, always with a smile on the face, etc).

Batman is Lex Luthor from Superman's perspective (rich, creates megalomaniacal inventions and gizmos).

This movie corrupts (or subverts? depends on whether you like it or not) these classical dynamics by having Superman have technological gizmos, and a "bat-cave" he retreats to when defeated.

It's very weird. Any writer working with these characters should know that. I doubt that AI was used though.

It feels like Batman trapped in an illusion.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-26 16:48:28+00:00
> It disproves

I take it you're not a stats major.

> It's indeed Apple's fault that those PWA APIs don't work in Safari

A tiny percentage of apps use features that aren't available in Safari, ergo ipso sum, 100% of apps cannot use PWAs on any platform. Do you understand how utterly nonsensical this noise is?

I understand this thread is overwhelmingly dominated by rhetorics, seemingly by people who have zero experience in the industry, so have your nonsense.

> your objection isn't technical, you just don't like the idea of portable web apps working on iOS.

Your take is laughably nonsensical.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-26 16:48:40+00:00
The maker world I’m familiar with is basically split into two divisions:

There are the people who like building things, and the people who like making content.

Some people check both boxes, but in practice the people who like building things the most aren’t spending time grinding the YouTube game with clickbait thumbnails and constant self promotion.

So like many domains, the part you see on YouTube isn’t representative of the movement as a whole. It captures the people who like entertaining and making videos the most.
by 9rx | 2025-07-26 16:49:07+00:00
> The issue is that some people still fighting against the concepts ML family languages

To be fair, everyone was fighting against ML concepts at the time. Ruby on Rails was "in" and "doing situps" was "out". Go was built for the time it was created. It was, quite explicitly as told at its launch announcement, made to be a "dynamically typed" language with static type performance. It is unlikely it would have had a static type system at all if they knew how to achieve the same performance optimizations without a type system.

> I think Rust opted for the best combinations

But built in another time. Ruby on Rails was "out" and static typing (ML style in particular) was "in" by the time Rust finally got around to showing up to the party. Looking back, it may not seem like there was much time between the creation of Go and the creation of Rust, but on the tech scale it was created eons later. The fashion of tech can change on a dime — as captured in the humorous fable about JS having a new "must-use" framework every week.

The fashion trends will change again at some point. They always do.
Ask HN: How you network in NYC as a founder from out of town
by nlpnerd | 2025-07-26 16:49:39+00:00
I am a solo-founder of an early stage startup working on AI agents for investment research and analysis, with a public beta launched just a week ago.

I am dropping by NYC as a side trip about two weeks from now and am looking for tips and advice on forming connections with the startup community, potential clients and investors there.

Specifically interested in the wealth management space (independent financial advisors, external asset managers), hedge funds and asset managers as well as other startups and VCs that are in the same space.

Doing this with the intention to enter the U.S market within the next 6 months, i.e GTM hire and starting sales motion and pilots. Any suggestions on where and how to get started?

https://www.deepinsightlabs.ai
by pornel | 2025-07-26 16:50:10+00:00
This didn't need Microsoft's teeth to fail. There isn't a single "Linux" that game devs can build for. The kernel ABI isn't sufficient to run games, and Linux doesn't have any other stable ABI. The APIs are fragmented across distros, and the ABIs get broken regularly.

The reality is that for applications with visuals better than vt100, the Win32+DirectX ABI is more stable and portable across Linux distros than anything else that Linux distros offer.
by JayEquilibria | 2025-07-26 16:50:17+00:00
Maybe I dream of building a competitor and Traumatic Brain Injury is deeply personal to me so I am super biased but it is super "meh" because of Cytoscape.

To me, Cytoscape is simply outdated and an arbitrary constraint on the software, a relic of network science history.

The deeper problem though is how valuable is network data visualization from an epistemological standpoint? Pretty useless from my experiments besides for a kind of scientism performance art. That is not to say scientistic performance art data viz can not be lucrative in a post modern scientism society.

Take this with a grain of salt because biological networks are never going to be my strong point. There is this huge node data viz scaling problem I don't think has been solved and I am kind of waiting for this to be solved with biological network so I can just rip off the idea.
by LegNeato | 2025-07-26 16:50:24+00:00
Those don't include CUDA and don't include the CPU host side AFAIK.

SPIR-V isn't the main abstraction layer here, Rust is. This is the first time it is possible for Rust host + device across all these platforms and OSes and device apis.

You could make an argument that CubeCL enabled something similar first, but it is more a DSL that looks like Rust rather than the Rust language proper(but still cool).
by teiferer | 2025-07-26 16:50:58+00:00
Couldn't this be solved by technical means? All those self-hosted boxes in people's homes could federate. That would allow the friends to upload their photos to an album. If you want to have copies of them on your local hard drive, a config flag could duplicate the data, automatically providing redundancy that's even useful for others. Not everyone wants to run a server at home and thoae who don't want to could rely on some third party, be it a public library, a non-profit, or even a for-profit offering some extra perks. The basic tech could be all the same, even the software stack.

I wonder if there are any startups in that space, there likely are. YC anyone? Whatare the obstacles?
by martin-t | 2025-07-26 16:51:34+00:00
> According to your thinking, no one can "force" medical faculties to say that now anyone can buy a surgical doctor degree for 10$, that said if you have to get urgent surgery you'll pay for the consequences as the "doctor" who'll operate won't be qualified.

I have trouble parsing that sentence, did you mean "prevent" instead of "force"?

If yes, then it doesn't follow from my thinking at all. Lying is an offensive action by which the liar gains an advantage at someone else's expense. There are expectations of minimum quality standards for doctors, both informal (people's expectations) and formal (state exams / certification). Somebody claiming to be a doctor without fulfilling these expectations is clearly directly harming other people (whether actual harm is done - even if he somehow through sheer luck managed to perform one surgery successfully, the expected outcome is still harm and expected outcome should absolutely factor into his punishment).

> This is why we need basic rules, norms and constraints

I never said we didn't. I said we only need them when other people are harmed provably and directly; not when somebody thinks he "knows better".
by Aurornis | 2025-07-26 16:51:55+00:00
> Should they try to get a professional engineering job and join the 50% of graduates who are unemployed a year after graduating?

The graduate unemployment rate is not that high. Did you perhaps see the viral Tweets TikToks or Reddit posts going around recently based on the article that got the decimal point wrong and overestimated it by an order of magnitude?
by vehemenz | 2025-07-26 16:52:45+00:00
Original CSS spec, for reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1/#class-as-selector

The "good CSS" you're talking about was always the product of convention, and it was never sustainable for big, long-term projects. The CSS Zen Garden showcase only made sense in a world where everyone shared the same document or document structure. Those insane stylesheets depended on the source HTML document's inherent structure, which is the exact opposite of separation of concerns.

Inexperienced developers always underestimated the complexity they were adding to their project by using overly abstract classes and hidden structures between the DOM and the stylesheets. Tailwind (or any reasonable CSS methodology even) recognizes these problems and solves them.
by AIPedant | 2025-07-26 16:53:40+00:00
I would not draw that conclusion from this article - we don't have such fine-grained data from other planets, perhaps their axes are more wobbly than Earth's. E.g it was only in 2020 that we discovered Mars has a "Chandler wobble" similar to Earth's (which was discovered 150 years earlier). But Mars's wobble is quite different as a matter of geophysics, Earth's Chandler wobble is mostly sustained by ocean sloshing. There's a whole lot we don't know about the non-Earth planets.

I will add that human extraction of groundwater it not nearly as impactful as the formation of large igneous provinces and other ancient supervolcanoes. A tectonically active planet will definitely wobble unpredictably.
by 333c | 2025-07-26 16:53:50+00:00
Not connector related, but I can't tell you how many people use time zones like PST year-round. The ST stands for "standard time," meaning not Daylight Saving Time. Right now, PDT would be appropriate.

The thing that kills me is that they could just say "PT" or "Pacific time" and be right, with less effort.

I always know what they mean, but it's wrong for more than half the year.
by jimmydddd | 2025-07-26 16:53:52+00:00
I was a musician (drummer) during my school days and took pride in being the best drummer in my school, and (I thought), probably top 2% in the world. However, if ytube was around at that time, I would have watched videos from around the world and realized that I was mediocre at best. Maybe I would have lost interest? Maybe I would have worked harder at it? Hard to say.
by zo1 | 2025-07-26 16:54:41+00:00
It's a tough answer because we have had years of artificially-pumped support and development and ecosystem growth of Pydantic.

But if I had to roll the clock back I'd recommend marshmallow and that entire ecosystem. It's definitely way less bloated than Pydantic currently, and only lacks some features. Beyond that, just use plain-old dataclasses.

https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
by junon | 2025-07-26 16:55:31+00:00
If you are ever in the Hamburg area, I highly recommend making a day trip with the Regional train up to Lübeck to visit the Hanse Museum.

It's one of the most beautifully designed museums on a specific topic like this I've ever seen (it's also very accessible). The entire museum and all of its stations are translated into various languages by scanning a card you set up at the beginning, including customizing your information experience with certain topics you're particularly interested in (I chose naval architecture, if memory serves).

There's a cute coffee shop or two right there in the complex too, and the entirety of Lübeck is a beautiful, cozy area too. Many of the old Hanseatic buildings still stand as they were relatively untouched by the war.

Another hour in the same direction on the train takes you to the Travemünde beaches which are also gorgeous. Makes for a good day trip.
by nicoburns | 2025-07-26 16:55:33+00:00
> So go ahead, write your own date library, your own Unicode font rendering, compiler, OS, game engine or what ever else people tell you to never do because its hard.

You can absolutely do these things. What you need to be aware of is that in most cases maintaining these things to a production quality level is full-time job for a talented engineer. So you shouldn't attempt these IF:

- You have a higher-level aim you are also trying to achieve

- You need a production quality implementation

If one of those isn't the case then knock yourself out.
by saltcured | 2025-07-26 16:55:39+00:00
That's pretty funny... at least the narrator seems to reference the problem. It is trying to normalize it to some model of reality extracted from photos of Germany.

I think the stock game footage may be too contrasty but has much more realistic coloring for how Southern California actually looks in the summer.

Chalk one up for needing reality filters to include a notion of locale-specific and season-specific references?
by jcranmer | 2025-07-26 16:55:42+00:00
CPUs, almost from the get-go, were intended to be programmed by people other than the company who built the CPU, and thus the need for a stable, persistent, well-defined ISA interface was recognized very early on. But for pretty much every other computer peripheral, the responsibility for the code running on those embedded processors has been with the hardware vendor, their responsibility ending at providing a system library interface. With literal decades of experience in an environment where they're freed from the burden of maintaining stable low-level details, all of these development groups have quite jealously guarded access to that low level and actively resist any attempts to push the interface layers lower.

As frustrating as it is, GPUs are actually the most open of the accelerator classes, since they've been forced to accept a layer like PTX or SPIR-V; trying to do that with other kinds of accelerators is really pulling teeth.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-26 16:56:00+00:00
> This is terrifying. Imagine trying to explain to a relative the lesson of this post: always be suspicious, even if the email is from a trusted domain and dkim/dmarc/spf all pass… it doesn’t feel good to imagine their reaction.

I mean, this has been policy at my work for a while now, and in general is good practice for anything on the internet. We deal with a lot of small businesses or just individual contractors, a good chunk still don't even use MFA, or if they do are still falling victim to token theft. We then get malicious emails from these compromised accounts, so to our users - they pass all checks and look legitimate, after all it appears to be actually from our customers.

So yeah it's fair to treat everything with suspicion, especially email.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-26 16:58:40+00:00
Let me put it this way: They put on a show that matches their style on YouTube and podcasts.

The few fans who get to ask questions aren’t the ones being served. They’re entertaining the mass of people who came to see more of the same content on their YouTube channels, which is disordered chaos where they joke with each other, make fun of things, and joke around.

It’s a continuation of their style everywhere else, and it’s what many of their fans came to see.

If you were expecting a traditional panel style where each question-asker got to be the focus and drive the show for a minute, that’s not their style.

I’m not saying it’s good or bad, it’s just different from what you might expect from a more formal conference.
by danaris | 2025-07-26 16:58:51+00:00
I still don't see how this doesn't punish non-rich people in rural areas.

ETA: You seem to have edited your post after I made mine. However, your edit does not in any way explain how "steeper land tax" does not hurt people in rural areas. I'm not concerned with sprawl; I'm concerned with rural people near the poverty line being taxed out of their homes with no recourse.

Also, "income tax breaks for food production" a) do not scale proportionally with farmer land use, and b) would seem, on first glance, to encourage overfarming, rather than letting fields lie fallow periodically, which would be a short-term gain for long-term losses and damage to the soil.
by sugarplant | 2025-07-26 17:01:22+00:00
>and the number involving guns is much smaller.

lol. a threat of violence can exist without the gun. im glad you are confident in your ability to beat any random, unknown stranger (especially tweakers) in a tussle. as someone with bjj and boxing experience i would say this is unbelievably arrogant though.

>look up the statistics instead of getting scared watching the news.

ive seen the same ones that the other guy replied to you with. this is almost not worth replying to because you are just being snide and dismissive. to reciprocate, do you realize that the statistics (which you havent actually read) aren't the governing force of what happens to you in your life? statistics are a model of reality. for example, what do you think the odds would say that between when i replied to your post yesterday and now, that i experienced a break in where someone was trying to climb into my son's room at 3 in the morning? do you think my first thought was about the statistical likelihood of it? for the record i live in one of the safest states in the US. life isn't a spreadsheet with numbers on it, genius. if you are comforted by those numbers, good for you. telling others to not be scared of bad things happening to them is peak dork arrogance.
by herbst | 2025-07-26 17:01:22+00:00
You are to deep into the name finding, first you need to get some distance. Every name will sound shit before that.

Then remind yourself that the name is not as relevant as we want it to be. If it's sounding and kinda rememberable that's usually good enough for a tech product. It also doesn't have to be a .com or .io even if it would be cool.

Personally I always try to pick one ASAP, either it grows on me and feels fitting after a while (it never feels "right") or I need to change again.
by tzs | 2025-07-26 17:01:37+00:00
It can be done in a way that prevents that.

Briefly, the government can give you a digital copy of your driver's license or passport or whatever that can be bound to a hardware security key you have. Most modern smartphones have a suitable security key built.

To verify your age for a site a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) can be constructed for the site to prove that you have that document, it says your age is above the threshold needed for the site, and that you have the hardware key it is bound to, and you were able to unlock that hardware key. Nothing else is revealed to the site.

Note that once the government issues that digital ID bound to your security key they are out of the picture. They have no idea what you use that ID for or when you use it.

Google has released an open source library to help with this kind of system, discussed here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457390
by threatofrain | 2025-07-26 17:01:53+00:00
Well, you must know how to look at download stats, search metrics, GitHub activity, social media temperature, or job posts. I feel that seeing is believing with your own eyes is sufficient for anyone who wants to investigate the issue of whether there’s any winner in popularity.

To not be misleading I wouldn’t have brought up the existence of remix lest people think Microsoft belongs in the same discussion as my software consultancy.

To be clear I’m using Tanstack Start right now.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-26 17:02:48+00:00
I understand that this is ragebait, but even then, these are not mutually exclusive claims. There being a significant contributor doesn't mean it was the dominant contributor, and you being told things by some people doesn't mean you're choosing your sources well / the same as others.

Mutual exclusivity not applying so much so, that the article you're commenting on downright puts these events into the following hierarchy: groundwater pumping -> climate change -> sea level change. So it'd be a subset of the total effect of it on a theoretical pie chart: literally no conflict in the rhetoric.
by JayEquilibria | 2025-07-26 17:02:52+00:00
The key variable #1 to me is all these experiments are basically bullshit from a complex systems standpoint until we involve everyone, hence the U in "universal".

From a complex systems standpoint, it seems incredible intellectually dishonest to run an experiment in an isolated locality. Essentially, a hand wave of scaling the properties of specific and isolated local income to "universal".
by effed3 | 2025-07-26 17:03:05+00:00
Economy is way too much growth, as inequality and inefficiency, pollution, and resource exaustion, being mainly based on finance and speculation and not on -real- economy, for the good of a very small part of humanity. Has to grow in this manner even more? And with the help of AI?

If some rules are not changed and a more equality model is developed, there are no more world at all.
by DesiLurker | 2025-07-26 17:03:07+00:00
I recall Mathstar's FPOA (field programmable object arrays) have had similar architecture. it seems they have done a mixture of stack computer, this and some async programming to get this level of optimization. The other one I had seen with pretty good on chip fabric was Tilera who were using something like a packet switch to interconnect tonnes of on-chip cores.

My first reaction watching this video was that they are just shifting the problem to compiler, which is actually worse and also does not works for dynamic code with tonnes of branches. Also, didnt Intel burn a lot of money trying to do this with Itanium?

Overall, interesting idea but I filed it under 'solution looking for a problem' desk.
by K0balt | 2025-07-26 17:03:29+00:00
So, influencers are toxic to businesses, that is great.

Hopefully this results in widely banning them from private property and prohibiting random video recording in spaces that one assumes will be moderately private, like restaurants, gyms, etc.

Signs on the entrances that says they are not allowed to film inside and by entry they agree to those terms. If you want to work with a professional to promote your business, use professionals, sign contracts, then film.

Honestly, so sick of those self important parasites, they are like prolapsed paparazzi, and typically embody the very worst characteristics that culture has to offer, all rolled in to one.