MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deaddodo | 2025-07-12 18:40:18+00:00
> I want the Commodore 64 of 2025. A machine where middle schoolers can learn the basics of programming while having fun with graphics and sound. Maybe even have a simple 2D gaming engine built-in. I don't know. I want the spirit of the Commodore 64, not the actual machine itself.

Exactly. This is what I think every time I see one of these old revival projects. I don't want a Spectrum, C64, Atari ST, etc...we have those, they're fairly easy to acquire and renovate. And are more than capable of being run on a FPGA. And there are dozens of projects built around the same old 6502, Z80, etc.

Stop locking your perspective into the 80s to try to recapture that nostalgia.

No, give me a new "hobbyist" computer in the spirit of those days. Throw an ARM m-series/RISC-V/etc on it with some custom blitter/vdpu and sound ASICs and 512MB of RAM. Give it some easily accessible programming environment on ROM, with an option to baremetal with ASM, C, etc. Add a few slots that are MMAPed in. And let the hobbyist field run wild.
by b112 | 2025-07-12 18:41:37+00:00
Most of the prompts and context I've seen, has been people working to see if they can pull this stuff out of Grok.

The problem I have, is I see people working very, very hard to make someone look as bad as possible. Some of those people will do anything, believing the ends justify the means.

This makes it far more difficult to take criticism at face value, especially when people upthread worry that people are beng impartial?!
by ankit219 | 2025-07-12 18:41:41+00:00
This is BBC, they have a history of being uncharitable when it comes to reporting on their erstwhile colonies. Jumping to a conclusion about pilot's fault when the recorded dialogues show both had no idea who cut it off (leaving ground for a possibility of some malfunction) is irresponsible, especially when the report could have been worded better without needing to reach a definitive conclusion.

Both pilots have a long history of flying, a lot of experience, so while there is a chance one of them did it unknowingly, it's a small one in my opinion. Because it's not just a small switch, but a multi step procedure. The reporting on such a sensitive issue has been shocking to say the very least,
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-12 18:42:09+00:00
First of all, thank you for calling attention to this. You’re absolutely right, despite what others are saying here. That’s why there’s a movement for reforms.

Secondly, yes, it was likely a deliberate action to cut off the fuel switches, as you say.

You are absolutely right that there’s an epidemic in the airline industry that forces pilots to stay quiet rather than risk their careers if they’re dealing with mental health issues.

In a sibling comment: “shouldn’t they be given alternate career paths?” No. Perpetuating the myth that people with mental health issues are somehow broken beyond repair is mistaken. Current policy lead directly to that one fellow to lock the cockpit door and slam the plane into a hillside. If Air India 171 has any chance of being a mental health issue today, it should be highlighted and explored. You’re exactly right to be doing that, and thank you.

Anyone who disagrees with this should watch https://youtu.be/988j2-4CdgM?si=G39BwNy1zJEeUi2k. It’s a video from a well-respected pilot. The whole point of the video is that aviation forces people to conceal their problems instead of seek treatment, and that this has to change.
by xp84 | 2025-07-12 18:42:22+00:00
Seasonal workers are explicitly protected in the final bill as long as their average amount of work makes sense, so that argument is out.

Also, this "verify monthly" sounds like fearmongering. All I see is "requires individuals who are enrolled meet requirements for 1 or more months between the most recent eligibility redeterminations (at least twice per year)." Also: "Requires states to conduct eligibility redeterminations at least every 6 months for Medicaid expansion adults."

The Medicaid expansion is not everyone on Medicaid, just a subset who before expansion were presumed not to be entitled to a government subsidy since they don't have any dependents or any disability and could just work.

I do think it's probably not the worst thing if people who have no dependents or disability are motivated to go get a full-time job because it's kind of a hassle to have to prove eligibility.

The DNC is now advocating that taxpayers not only must pay for all the healthcare of people who don't want to work at all, but we also need to make it a maximally convenient experience. The reason Democrats keep losing elections is that they can't read the room -- most people who work and are not upper-middle-class levels of comfort don't like the emphasis on maximizing the comfort and convenience of groups like the voluntarily unemployed and undocumented immigrants when it comes at the expense of working taxpayers who follow the rules. This is why the Big Beautiful Bill passed: It actually throws a bone to people who work via things like tax breaks on overtime pay and tips, and via restoring the SALT exemption. Between these 3 policies, you can see a benefit to people across the wealth spectrum who share one thing in common: people who work hard. I know the Dems are still doing fine in rich areas, but there are two problems which are intertwined:

1. There aren't enough of those rich Democrats who just want to open the tax money spigot, the ones who wouldn't mind paying an extra $30,000 in taxes next year to put their money where their mouth is.

2. Even when there are enough to win, the rest of the population still pays most of the actual tax dollars and they are increasingly resentful of what they see as rich Democrats helping themselves (via the government) to everybody's money to bestow as favors on people who don't seem to need it. I know your heart is in the right place, but the policies are not connecting with the people, as evidenced by the fact that the Democrats keep losing ground among the non-wealthy working demographic (which, in the Democrat narrative, ought to be their strongest base).

Note: I certainly don't agree with everything in the "OBBB," but there are some good ideas in there.
by sschueller | 2025-07-12 18:42:37+00:00
Yet, Switzerland was put in the 2. Tier list[1] of countries that can get unlimited access to the top AI chips.

[1] https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/usa-restricts-swiss-access-to...

[2] https://chplusplus.org/u-s-export-controls-on-ai-chips/
by pkkim | 2025-07-12 18:42:49+00:00
It's a lot of trouble and hard to get right, but you can make it at home! The ingredients are easy to buy online. It keeps in the fridge for a long time, though after a while it stops tasting like makgeolli; the clear sediment-free layer starts resembling white wine.

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/makgeolli
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-12 18:43:02+00:00
I've worked as a related subject matter expert in a few countries. I can think of a possible reasonable justification for this.

In recent years, the operating environment in orbital space has changed rapidly, and it isn't just the number of objects. These changes are outside the design assumptions of traditional orbital traffic systems, degrading their effectiveness. In response to this reality, governments with significant space assets have been investing in orbital traffic systems that are capable of dealing with the modern environment. However, these rely heavily on classified technology and capability to address the limitations of the older systems.

An argument could be made that it no longer makes sense to fund a public system that is descending into obsolescence due to lack of capability and which can't be meaningfully fixed because that would require exposing classified technical capabilities that no one is willing to expose. In this scenario, the private sector is acting as an offramp from a system that had no future technically.

Space has turned into an interesting place, in the curse sense. It isn't as simple as it used to be.
by blincoln | 2025-07-12 18:43:05+00:00
This is one of the first scenarios that came to mind for me as well.

i.e. hypothetically, no one flipped the switches to cutoff initially, but a glitch in a computer component caused the same effect, including some indication (a status light?) that the switches were in cutoff state. One of the pilots saw the indication, and asked the other. The other (truthfully) said they hadn't. Ten seconds of confusion later, one of them flipped the switches off and back on to reset the state to what it should have been.

That assumes that the switches are part of a fly-by-wire system, of course. I am not an aircraft engineer, so maybe that's not a safe assumption. But if they're fly-by-wire, seems like there might not be a way to know for sure without cockpit video, because the logging system might only log an event when the switches cause the state to change from what the computer thinks the current state is, not necessarily when the switches change to the state the computer thinks they're already in.

Someone bumping the switches accidentally seems worthy of investigation as well, given the potential for an "Oops! No locking feature! Our bad!" scenario on the part of Boeing that's mentioned in the BBC article.
by spease | 2025-07-12 18:44:19+00:00
There are some big caveats to this approach. Note “Known Problems” for the library. Particularly, you need to use a polling backend for network / VM filesystems. I didn’t see any notes for the Python library and the fact that notify is still telling you this makes me suspect it will just fail to work in those cases.

https://docs.rs/notify/latest/notify
by alabhyajindal | 2025-07-12 18:44:23+00:00
You can choose to implement it differently based on your implementation language. Data Classes and If statements work really well for this in Python, for example.

Statement Data Classes: https://github.com/alabhyajindal/plox/blob/main/stmt.py

If statements in the parser matching against them: https://github.com/alabhyajindal/plox/blob/main/parser.py#L3...
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-12 18:44:43+00:00
> Supposing there was an SV startup that was relatively generous with equity compensation, so over 50% of equity is owned by non-C-level employees. What would you expect to change, if anything, if that threshold was passed?

If the workers are majority owners, then they can, for example, fire a CEO that is leading the company in the wrong direction, or trying to cut their salaries, or anything like that.
by eiskalt | 2025-07-12 18:44:52+00:00
Hey all! I've just released my qwen3-rs, a Rust project for running and exporting Qwen3 models (Qwen3-0.6B, 4B, 8B, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, etc) with minimal dependencies and no Python required.

- Educational: Core algorithms are reimplemented from scratch for learning and transparency. - CLI tools: Export HuggingFace Qwen3 models to a custom binary format, then run inference (on CPU) - Modular: Clean separation between export, inference, and CLI. - Safety: Some unsafe code is used, mostly to work with memory mapping files (helpful to lower memory requirements on export/inference) - Future plans: I would be curious to see how to extend it to support: * fine-tuning of a small models * optimize inference performance (e.g. matmul operations) * WASM build to run inference in a browser

Basically, I used https://github.com/adriancable/qwen3.c as a reference implementation translated from C/Python to Rust with a help of commercial LLMs (mostly Claude Sonnet 4). Please note that my primary goal is self learning in this field, so some inaccuracies can be definitely there.

GitHub: https://github.com/reinterpretcat/qwen3-rs
by tracerbulletx | 2025-07-12 18:45:37+00:00
From their faq.

Is this all just nostalgia? Nostalgia is one of our two core pillars - alongside modern innovation. Like yin and yang, these forces balance and strengthen each other in that retro • futurism approach.

The commercial power of nostalgia is real - and it will help fuel and fund the development of modern, forward-facing products in turn. It’s a symbiotic cycle: retro inspires, modern sustains. Commodore isn’t returning. It’s evolving, with purpose.
by yndoendo | 2025-07-12 18:46:20+00:00
Look over there were Law of Small Numbers can be applied to immigrants that commit crime and exploit the system. Don't believe me, here is a coherent story to help push the narrative. See that one person in this category did something bad so they are all bad!

Ignore all the wage thief and other crimes like poniz scheme's, multi level marketing scheme's, political bribery, and fraud. Those crimes just hurt millions upon millions. Don't look at those numbers, they are too big for anyone to under stand. Focus on that person's skin color and accent. They are the true criminals.

This propaganda is just sickening that it works all to well.
by cs702 | 2025-07-12 18:47:09+00:00
According https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin, Yarvin:

* has said that American democracy is a failed experiment,

* has said he wants to replace American democracy with an "accountable" "techno-monarchy",

* has said that liberalism is creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system,

* has said that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others, and

* has said that whites have inherently higher IQs than black people.

I am... speechless.
by vntok | 2025-07-12 18:47:25+00:00
An LLM is gonna convince you to treat your wound with quack medics instead of seeing a doctor, which will eventually result the limb being chopped to save you from gangrene.

You can perfectly use an LLM to attack someone. Your sentence is very weird as it comes off as a denial of things that have been happening for months and are ramping up. Examples abound: generate scam letters, find security flaws in a codebase, extract personal information from publicly-available-yet-not-previously-known locations, generate attack software customized for particular targets, generate untraceable hit offers and then post them on anonymized Internet services on your behalf, etc. etc.
by jll29 | 2025-07-12 18:48:09+00:00
Mumps, a common kid's viral disease, has overlapping symptoms, so many people might follow a "let's wait and see" approach.

Also, medical practitioners may not immediately put on their bioharzard protection suite when someone walks in with swollen lymph nodes and nausea.

That's why it is important to take news of incidents and location of the occurrence into consideration, both as a patient and as medical staff.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-12 18:48:26+00:00
It's a position some people in the Democratic Party would have but that it less likely to endorse at the national level and even less likely to act on.

Number 4 is a position that is rising in popularity generally that is somewhat well articulated here

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/

One simple story about the 2024 election is that college educated people voted for Harris and the rest voted for Trump which is the big takeaway of a conversation Ezra Klein had with a pollster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0J7dIlL7c

Jacobin has the problem that Marxism is something that appeals to highly educated systematizers, e.g. the college educated. The reason why the U.S. doesn't have representation in the fourth international is that in the 1980 the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party, inspired by Castroism, thought that their college-educated cadre ought to "go native" in workplaces and it was something they didn't want to do.

Marx himself said that the Labor movement would lead to the emergence of real working-class leadership, which it does, but the decline of unions means the decline of that pathway. (e.g. when my Uni hired non-union glaziers to put up glass for a building the glaziers set up a 12-foot high inflatable rat; maybe it makes a good image but that's not intellectual; accept his ideology or not, but Marx was one of the founders of contemporary social science and very much an intellectual.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_rat
by wunderwuzzi23 | 2025-07-12 18:48:50+00:00
Oh, so interesting!

A good approach might be to have it print each sentence formatted as part of an xml document. If it still has hiccups, ask to only put 1-3 words per xml tag. It can easily be reversed with another AI afterwards. Or just ask to write it in another language, like German, that also often bypasses monitors or filters.

Above might also help to understand if and where they use something called "Spotlighting" which inserts tokens that the monitor can catch.

Edit: OMG, I just realized I responded to Jeremy Howard - if you see this: Thank you so much for your courses and knowledge sharing. 5 years ago when I got into ML your materials were invaluable!
by BrendanEich | 2025-07-12 18:49:25+00:00
I never worked for Sun.

I liked how Bill Joy signed "Founder" and seemed to go against others at Sun.

I did not want LiveScript, and it too was under trademark threat. Mocha seemed to me more defensible, but Netscape Marketing wanted LiveScript or (if they could get Sun to agree) JavaScript. Upper management definitely wanted the Java- based name.

Hope this helps!
by vessenes | 2025-07-12 18:49:33+00:00
I tried Kimi on a few coding problems that Claude was spinning on. It’s good. It’s huge, way too big to be a “local” model — I think you need something like 16 H200s to run it - but it has a slightly different vibe than some of the other models. I liked it. It would definitely be useful in ensemble use cases at the very least.
by ourmandave | 2025-07-12 18:50:02+00:00
What about a Universal Service Fund, like the FCC has for telecom?

https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund

Star Link and other companies can charge back their customers what they pay into the fund.

Like how AT&T hits me for the Fed USF, the 20 States Fund, and state and local taxes.

https://www.att.com/legal/terms.otherWirelessFeeSchedule.htm...
by jynelson | 2025-07-12 18:50:49+00:00
you can imagine a version of Haskell that doesn’t have polymorphism or laziness, that only has unboxed integers, and as a result doesn’t need a GC. in such a language it’s still easy for the compiler to do stream fusion; whereas it’s still hard in C because the compiler needs to prove the loop doesn’t have side effects.
by 47282847 | 2025-07-12 18:52:43+00:00
GDPR is not about cookies but about privacy in general. It’s an easy read, and yes, it applies to software and telemetry as much as it applies to websites and cookies, and it applies to anyone providing services and tools to Europeans.

"Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. If you cannot directly identify an individual from that information, then you need to consider whether the individual is still identifiable. You should take into account the information you are processing together with all the means reasonably likely to be used by either you or any other person to identify that individual."
by al_borland | 2025-07-12 18:53:02+00:00
All these ID check laws are out of hand. Parents are expecting the government, and random websites, to raise their kids. Why would anyone trust some random blog with their ID?

If these laws move forward (and I don’t think they should), there needs to be a way to authenticate as over 18 without sending picture of your ID off to random 3rd parties, or giving actual personal details. I don’t want to give this data, and websites shouldn’t want to shoulder the responsibility for it.

It seems like this could work much like Apple Pay, just without the payment. A prompt comes up, I use some biometric authentication on my phone, and it sends a signal to the browser that I’m 18+. Apple has been adding state IDs into the Wallet, this seems like it could fall right in line. The same thing could be used for buying alcohol at U-Scan checkout.

People should also be able to set their browser/computer to auto-send this for single-user devices, where it is all transparent to the user. I don’t have kids and no one else’s uses my devices. Why should I need to jump through hoops?
by kragen | 2025-07-12 18:53:09+00:00
Well, like the comment said, it crashed a lot when you tried to run JS on it. It was pretty annoying to binary-search for a bug in your JS when the symptom was a browser crash. Also, it used a lot more RAM than Netscape 3 and was slower, but I don't recall it being better in significant ways.

DHTML in Netscape 4 was also completely incompatible with DHTML in IE 4. In IE you had the DOM, which is an inconvenient and inherently very inefficient interface that you could coerce into doing anything you wanted. In Netscape 4 you had layers. Our team (KnowNow) was working on an AJAX and Comet toolkit at the time (02000). In order to not write separate versions of our Comet applications for the two browsers, we stuck to the least common denominator, which was basically framesets and document.write.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-12 18:53:20+00:00
Personally I think you can "Show HN" as long as there is something to see and it's not a waitlist. (I can't speak for anybody else but I will probably flag you if you post a waitlist.)

It's also fair to have a corporate blog where you write about your product, your story, your interest, what you ate for breakfast, anything. Just, if you are posting stuff from your own blog and nothing but stuff from your own blog you will find your post start out [dead]. Don't make that rookie mistake! If you post from many different sources there is no problem with occasional self promotion.

There is a "showdead" flag on your profile which you can flip on which will give you better visibility into how moderation works.

Also note that if you post something it might just drop like a rock and get no attention. Happens sometimes, in fact, most of the time (go look a few pages past "new" and see how many things get > 5 votes) That's why the blog is a good idea, if one post doesn't connect with people you can write a better post.
by ben_w | 2025-07-12 18:53:20+00:00
A former partner of mine is a literal communist; I forget which kind of communist exactly, but the Life Of Brian thing about them constantly splitting into even more niche groups and being more angry with the other lefty groups than they are with the political right, is 100% correct.

There's a TV interview of her in the lead up to 2016 saying Trump would be better than Clinton. (Not that she liked Trump, that's different, just that she thought Clinton was worse). Still shares Demexit memes on FB, last I saw.

Actual, literal, communist. Was part of the Socialist Worker's Party in the UK just when that exploded.

Sooooo… who's the in-group?
by summarity | 2025-07-12 18:53:38+00:00
Reasonable speeds are possible with 4bit quants on 2 512GB Mac Studios (MLX TB4 Ring - see https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1943723599971443134) or even a single socket Epyc system with >1TB of RAM (about the same real world memory throughput as the M Ultra). So $20k-ish to play with it.

For real-world speeds though yeah, you'd need serious hardware. This is more of a "deploy your own stamp" model, less a "local" model.