MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cluckindan | 2025-07-20 17:42:50+00:00
If this doesn’t use a compiler, the ”when” feature looks like it will require 'unsafe-eval' and potentially 'unsafe-inline' to be enabled in content security policy, which will disable browser XSS protections. Not optimal for an easy-to-use component system intended for display of remote data.

Edit: I don’t see a CSP on the dogfooded homepage so I would assume this is an issue.
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-20 17:43:12+00:00
Waymo has already proven that they can drive without any human in the car. Tesla have not, at all - and as this article points out, their cars continue to make major driving mistakes, like driving into an on-coming train, running red lights, driving on the wrong side of the road. These are not subtle issues. So I see no reason to assume that they'll ever work without the human driver.

Remember also that FSD can't even be trusted to drive the 2 miles of one-way tunnel at the Las Vegas Loop - even those cars require a driver today.
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-20 17:44:20+00:00
Come to a place with working public transport, then try and argue that.

I just want to get where I'm going cheaply, quickly and with the minimum of effort. In america, you need cars, outside of a few mega cities, because there is no public transport, and the stuff thats there is shite.

People want to move out of NYC because its fucking expensive, and the space you want to raise a family is very expensive. You would move to queens, because it had good train links to nyc. But as they've not extended the lines in any meaningful way for ~40 years, queens is now too expensive. (in practice nothing really since the 50s.)
by cweagans | 2025-07-20 17:44:51+00:00
> Currently using alacritty. Also considering WezTerm.

Highly recommend wezterm. That’s what enabled me to do this: https://cweagans.net/2023/09/application-specific-terminals/

You might also be interested in Hammerspoon! Lua-based customization and scripting of many macOS features.
by hvb2 | 2025-07-20 17:45:00+00:00
Healthcare is a concept that few people wish to compromise on. It's also an area that most people lack the background to make educated decisions for.

For a grocery store, you're talking about 'a commodity' with many suppliers all supplying an equivalent product. So changing grocery stores isn't a big deal.

So if one grocery store charges a fortune, you just go to a different one. For healthcare, how often do you visit a hospital and when you do, how much do you care about price since you cannot tell the difference in quality beforehand
by ACCount36 | 2025-07-20 17:45:09+00:00
Your "cameras" have about 20 MP of active resolution between the two of them. With dead zones and pixels spread out unevenly. A modern smartphone has you beat.

There's a small, sharp, high resolution color-enabled area in each eye - but the bulk of your vision field is monochrome, and mostly sensitive to motion.

You don't notice that, because your image data is stacked and post-processed to shit to make it presentable. Your brain has been doing computational photography before it was cool - 90% of what you see at any moment in time is effectively AI-generated.
by jacobr1 | 2025-07-20 17:45:18+00:00
I've found LLMs to be a key tool in helping me articulate something clearly. I write down a few half-vague notes, maybe some hard rules, and my overall intent and ask it to articulate a spec, and then ask to for suggestions, feedback, questions to clarify from a variety of perspectives. This gives me enough material to clarify my actual requirements and then ask for that be broken down into a task list. All along the way I'm both refining my mental model and written material to more clearly communicate my intent to both machines and humans.

Increasingly I've also just ben YOLOing single shot throw-away systems to explore the design space - it is easier to refine the ideas with partially working systems than just abstract prose.
by toast0 | 2025-07-20 17:45:19+00:00
The thing is, asset stripping is how failing companies finance continuing operations.

If you outlaw sale and lease back, businesses and hospitals will fail sooner, but with their real estate intact. At least until they figure out that they could move into a rental and sell their existing facility, but moving facilities is very expensive for hospitals, so they'll probably not be able to afford that.

For hospitals, especially rural hospitals, I think trying to run them for economic gain just doesn't work. They're expensive, they have obligations to provide expensive care without promise of payment in many cases. Municipal hospitals seem to make a lot of sense to me, although the same communities that are having trouble with hospitals failing would likely have trouble paying for a municipal hospital as well.
by ritzaco | 2025-07-20 17:46:12+00:00
I thought this would be about which is more useful in specific scenarios.

I'm always surprised that when it comes to "how useful are LLMs" the answers are often vibe-based like "I asked it this and it got it right". Before LLMs, information retrieval and machine learning were at least somewhat rigorous scientific fields where people would have good datasets of questions and see how well a specific model performed for a specific task.

Now LLMs are definitely more general and can somewhat solve a wider variety of tasks, but I'm surprised we don't have more benchmarks for LLMs vs other methods (there are plenty of LLM vs LLM benchmarks).

Maybe it's just because I'm further removed from academia, and people are doing this and I don't see?
by gruez | 2025-07-20 17:46:19+00:00
The problem is that it's not necessarily the case that ultra-processing that actually makes the food unhealthy. It's a good rule of thumb, but we shouldn't pretend that's actually how the world works. This piece summarizes the point quite nicely:

>Everyone knows that greens are good for your health and red meat is not. But everyone would laugh if I were to propose that red foods are dangerous and green ones healthy. I could prove my thesis making use of a few additional rules, such as postulating that some shades of red, tomatoes and apples for instance, should not be counted as red.

>The Nova classification system, which sorts foods into four categories depending on the degree of processing they undergo, uses similar logic. There is no scientific justification for the assumption that the number of processing steps is of any relevance for the health properties of foods. Making “ultra-processed” popcorn or chips is exceedingly simple. Making “minimally processed” natural yogurt requires some 20 processes.

>Heating is the process that affects foods the most, but heating is afforded no attention in Nova. It does not neatly fit into the processed or unprocessed scheme. In some cases it is essential for public health, in others it may induce carcinogens. And in a blatant example of the arbitrariness of the Nova classification, putting a loaf of bread into a bag moves it from the minimally processed to the ultra-processed category.

>The flawed, but intuitively easy to grasp, label of ultra-processed food is a handy justification for blaming food-related health problems on profit-hungry food companies. And it enables politicians to divert funding from serious research to meaningless eye-catching interventions.

>Petr Dejmek

>Emeritus professor of food engineering

>Lund University

>Lund, Sweden
by bartread | 2025-07-20 17:46:32+00:00
I think you're right: that was definitely the bet, but it really should have entered their heads that being more expensive than actual meat[0] would guarantee the bet wouldn't pay off.

[0] Again, in the UK: I'm not familiar enough with their pricing in other markets to know if that's the case globally. IMO you'd have to be out of your mind to imagine a meaty tasting meat substitute would succeed in the US if it was more expensive than actual meat so, if the high price holds in the US, it should be no surprise that they're failing.
by master_crab | 2025-07-20 17:46:48+00:00
Yeah OPT is way too short after college (I think 2-3 years max). And it does make sense to expand it to 5 years and offer a time based path to a green card (which many other countries do employ).

But there is the risk people might game the system to take advantage of that framework (though that sounds like a higher hurdle than the H1B charade now).

There isn’t an easy answer but for sure what exists now isn’t working.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-20 17:46:51+00:00
> My conclusion in cross-referencing [1] is that your "embryo proper" is around stage 4-5 and would have been implanted?

No, I believe what happened is that they made their mitochondrial changes before the pronuclei fusion, and inserted this modified egg into the womb. There it the continued on with the fertilization process, finishing up, creating the zygote, etc.

The embryo-proper bit was only relevant to the "from what point is it a human life" part of this, it is not relevant to the procedure specifically. That comes a whole week after fertilization I believe.
by atombender | 2025-07-20 17:47:03+00:00
I know it can exist just fine as an independent extension. I was asking more about whether you had gotten any signal that the core team was interested at all.

With software projects like these, you often have a somewhat insular core team who isn't particularly amenable to innovations that may be perceived as disruptive or "not invented here" or going against the grain, or for other reasons. With 30+ years fighting the downsides of MVCC vacuums and heap bloat you would think and hope they would be jumping at the opportunity.

The extension system is great. But extensions will always suffer from not being part of the core. For example, if you use a cloud provider like AWS and GCP, you're limited by what extensions are included, as well as their release cadence.
by sfink | 2025-07-20 17:47:05+00:00
I agree, and would like to hear examples of where this has not been the case. I'm sure they're out there. But pretty much everything has been "how can we use LLMs" and "it doesn't matter if it was a problem that we had that needed to be solved; we need to gain experience now because AI is The Future and we can't be left behind".

Occasionally it works and people stumble across a problem worth solving as they go about applying their solution to everything. But that's not planning or top-down direction. That's not identifying a target in advance.
Ask HN: Having terrible time with paid versions of ChatGPT and Claude
by gist | 2025-07-20 17:47:14+00:00
Using for really simple bash programming tasks.

Paid version (lowest levels) of both. Claude Sonnet 4; ChatGpt 4o; Code is MacOS.

Going around circles for things as simple as 'please mark the end of the script with #finish of script' and often leaving off parts of the script (Claude).

Failing to easily find missing braces tasks that are easy for a human.

Requesting that I run the sed command to count up the braces 'oh I see we need an extra "{" (but then doesn't even fix). Annoying.

Often requested to 'start a new chat limit reached'.

Can't properly handle coloring of text in the terminal figures out then forgets the fix later with other changes.

What are others experiencing?
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-07-20 17:47:16+00:00
No money and diabetes? You can’t walk in to a Walgreens and get free no questions asked insulin, but you can absolutely pass out in a walgreens and get a ride to the hospital, diagnostics, and insulin (a $7000 value) and when a habit of this doesn’t keep your diabetes in check, they’ll do the amputation for you too ($50,000 a foot!)
by mind-blight | 2025-07-20 17:47:34+00:00
Can't agree enough. I just don't think that beyond meat is good. I'm a meat eater who grew up vegetarian and still enjoy eating vegetarian food. A well done black bean burger (my favorite blend is with quinoa) is delicious. I'd eat that over a regular burger plenty of times.

If I went full vegetarian again, I'd stick with the classics - they taste so much better.
by ARob109 | 2025-07-20 17:47:35+00:00
That and before The Minecraft Movie came out, you could play multiplayer LAN from Xbox to PC cross platform without an XBox Live subscription.

Once the movie was released and they updated the game to add movie related content, this feature stopped working. Now to play multiplayer cross platform LAN, you have to pay for M$ servers you don’t use.

You couldn’t even load your world locally on the XBox if it was marked for multiplayer unless you had an Xbox Live account, meaning you got locked out of your world.

Fortunately you can edit the world setting to remove the multiplayer option to recover, but this was not documented at the time encountered.
by ben_w | 2025-07-20 17:47:48+00:00
> How many kids do you have to drop off at school on your way to work?

Sadly none, but if I did the nearest school is two stops along the bus route that passes almost by my front door.

Also, I can say from experience, that a lot of kids do use normal public transport here.

Furthermore, school hours don't line up with work days. Back when I was a kid myself, living in the UK, I was driven to and from infant (K-3) school, walked to middle school (4-6), and was given a bus pass and just expected to be able to figure it out for myself for secondary school (7-11). But even the primary school trip was never driven by my working dad. Different school hours here in Germany than back in the UK, but neither lines up with office hours.

> In Germany overall, 68% of people regularly drive, versus just 14% who use public transit: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germans-commute-car-ins.... And Germany is about as dense overall as the state of Maryland, and well over twice as dense as California.

The correct metric for commuting isn't the overall density, as vanishingly few people are attempting to cross farms (or in CA's case, winding mountain roads surrounded by flammable trees) on any given day. Look at each municipal commuter area separately for that, e.g. Berlin's commuter zone population is somewhat less than either the Bay Area or Los Angeles commuter zones, and all three are loosely-coherent commuter regions.
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-20 17:48:08+00:00
> I think it is possible to make a language that has both a GC and a borrow checker, treating the GC types as a third level next to the stack and the heap, where complex referencial cycles can be 'promoted to the GC'

It's doable but there are a few issues with that whole idea. You need the ability to safely promote objects to GC-roots whenever they're being referenced by GC-unaware code, and demote them again afterwards. And if any GC object happens to control the lifecycle of any heap-allocated objects, it must have a finalizer that cleans them up RAII style to avoid resource leaks.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-20 17:48:14+00:00
It's interesting that there at least starts to be two opposing camp in the executive (some people in French government start to push for more sovereignty, some EU governments too, some MEPs, etc...)

Of course the rest of the administrations are not there yet, there are contracts to abide to, habits, etc... But there is the start of a general recognition that overdependence on the US is a liability at some level.

Also, it would incredibly more feasible to move IT infrastructure back and have some reign on data, then it would be to recover from our overdependence on China in terms of... Well, in terms of everything physical.

Which means that the first milestone would be to host pour data on "sovereign" data centers... Using East-Asian made hardware.

One thing at a time, I guess ?
by maxlin | 2025-07-20 17:48:22+00:00
As much as I hated boilerplate having to write some java last month for the first time in like 5 years, I hate other kinds of bloat and fragmentation as much.

I don't think we'd do away with street lights even if the cars could see in the dark. Traffic lights we'll need for as long as human driving isn't illegal, which is at least 50 years.

Safety is pretty much irrelevant unless its uniform with no large dips in intended design. Have existing roads. Have human driver cars, and autonomous cars which use all the same signals the humans use. These things don't advance as fast as some areas, so putting the cart before the horse has no benefit here. Even if we want to progress as fast as possible!

And there's streets outside cities too. The ugliness of fragmentation with your way is too painful to think of. Like soviet roads where suddenly its undrivable.
by epistasis | 2025-07-20 17:48:49+00:00
That was the starting point, but the vision for the future was to break down that hierarchy to lead to a more fair and prosperous society.

We are at a point now where passing laws as were passed during the civil rights movement is completely unthinkable. Even laws advancing equality that were passed in the late 20th century are pretty unthinkable in today's environment. There revanchist movement has control of the government, the media, and much of society.
by simonsarris | 2025-07-20 17:49:37+00:00
I picked a random address in Evanston and a random one downtown and we're looking at 35m by car or 1h 7m by train, assuming that I catch the first train (comes every 20m)

edit: the metra wasn't considered because it takes longer but what's worse, the station near Evanston trains run every 60 minutes! If you're timing is perfect its still far worse than a car, and if your timing is bad, sheesh.
by bartread | 2025-07-20 17:49:37+00:00
It's a long time since I've visited the Oracle website but, the last time I did, which was sometime just pre- or early- pandemic for some work-related reason that I can no longer recall, I remember them doing exactly this. They had, without question, the most egregious cookie banner/popup combo I've ever encountered, and seemed to have deliberately engineered it to take minutes to "come back" if you chose to reject everything. Assholes.
by josephcsible | 2025-07-20 17:49:55+00:00
> It says 42 minutes via subway because you have to walk to the station and wait a few minutes for the next subway.

Google doesn't seem to count the time of waiting for the next subway train. It looks like they give you a departure time a few minutes in the future, such that if you leave then, you'll arrive just in time for the train. Since most people probably won't cut it that close, doesn't that mean it will probably take even longer than Google suggests? In particular, longer enough to counteract the time spent parking if you drive?
by rayiner | 2025-07-20 17:50:42+00:00
> Come to a place with working public transport, then try and argue that.

I travel to Tokyo twice a year. When I came with my wife and three kids, we took an Uber everywhere because we could. I’ve also lived in Chicago, NYC, and DC.

In all of those places, even if you’re rich enough to live right next to a subway station, driving is usually faster, you don’t have to walk at either end during hot weather or rain, and you don’t have to share a cabin with the general public.
by leptons | 2025-07-20 17:51:38+00:00
The Space Shuttle had reusable rockets. Sorry, Musk didn't invent the idea or even prove it could be done first - that was NASA in the 1970's.

He also didn't "demonstrate" the first "viable" electric car, either. There were other electric cars before Tesla that were "viable" (and I don't really care where your goalposts are for that word). He bought his way into Tesla, so it wasn't even his idea - Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

Got anything else?
by anon84873628 | 2025-07-20 17:52:17+00:00
The problem of course is looking at foods in isolation vs as part of a diet.

You can always say something is fine "as part of a healthy diet."

Clearly the problem is when people eat too much of their diet from processed foods. Because they are high in calories, low in micronutrients, and designed to stimulate appetite so people overeat.

But to say that any processed food (like Beyond Burgers) is automatically bad because they are processed is simply and example of the naturalistic fallacy.
by supplied_demand | 2025-07-20 17:52:25+00:00
== There’s nothing you can do about it other than to impoverish the population.==

So dramatic. I know plenty of economically successful people who take public transportation. Visit Chicago, New York, London, Shanghai, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, San Francisco and I bet you will see plenty of well-off people on public transit. Some of the richest places in the world, now that I think of it.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-20 17:52:38+00:00
Isn't that the point though?

Quality of the basic model Maytag washer I bought 25 years ago versus one today. Quality of a Reese's cup I bought 25 years ago versus one today. Quality of Levi's I bought 25 years ago versus a pair today. Quality of the Billy that I bought 25 years ago versus today.

Quality of the Billy HAS declined.
by thechao | 2025-07-20 17:53:01+00:00
That was my first thought: no XSLT 3 engine that I know of keeps an in-memory object that supports iterative retemplating on diff changes to the source. I think the closest to this is in the functional communities and their lenses. Given how "far" XSLT can reach through a document via Xpath, I don't think it's an easy-to-solve problem.
by maxlin | 2025-07-20 17:53:59+00:00
1. I don't like disinformation 2. I know of this subject +. I might know more of the person than you give credit for too.

Would you consider someone writing and rating Community Notes for a hour or a few hour's sitting once in a while "unhealthy" too? You should steer away from academic institutions. Or Stack Overflow. They'd be joker's asylums for you!
by alt227 | 2025-07-20 17:54:21+00:00
I feel it is the oppoosite way around.

The US is a modern country and was built in grids, incredibly easy to build any kind of transportation network on top of.

In Europe, large portions of cities and road networks were built before any kind of engine was even invented, and so it is incredibly difficult to retrofit onto winding lanes and tiny cobbled city streets.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-20 17:54:22+00:00
I like this approach in general for understanding AI tools.

There are lots of things computers can do that humans can't, like spawn N threads to complete a calculation. You can fill a room with N human calculators and combine their results.

If your goal is to just understand the raw performance of the AI as a tool, then this distinction doesn't really matter. But if you want to compare the performance of the AI on a task against the performance of an individual human you have to control the relevant variables.
by vunderba | 2025-07-20 17:54:49+00:00
Couple things:

1. Your github doesn't have anything in it, it is just a generic MCP server.

2. How does this differ from blender-mcp released by ahujasid several months ago? That one actually does have the complete source and has quite a following.

https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357112
by sethev | 2025-07-20 17:54:49+00:00
There's some faulty reasoning in this post. Without the code, it's hard to pin down exactly where things went wrong.

These are the steps described in the post:

1. Write intent record (async) 2. Perform operation in memory 3. Write completion record (async) 4. Wait for the completion record to be written to the WAL 5. Return success to client

If 4 is done correctly then 3 is not needed - it can just wait for the intent to be durable before replying to the client. Perhaps there's a small benefit to speculatively executing the operation before the WAL is committed - but I'm skeptical and my guess is that 4 is not being done correctly. The author added an update to the article:

> This is tracked through io_uring's completion queue - we only send a success response after receiving confirmation that the completion record has been persisted to stable storage

This makes it sound like he's submitting write operations for the completion record and then misinterpreting the completion queue for those writes as "the record is now in durable storage".