MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattdesl | 2025-07-09 23:07:10+00:00
It does a pretty good job at emulating CAM16 with a fraction of the parameters, computational complexity, and processing; it’s no wonder it was adopted by CSS.

I don’t know what you mean by “not being linked to any perceptual color space” - it is derived from CAM16 & CIEDE2000, pretty similar in ethos to other spaces like ITP and the more recently published sUCS.

There’s also tons of discussion on w3c GitHub about OKLab, and it’s evolved in many ways since the original blog post such as improved matrices, new lightness estimate and OKHSV/OKHSL, and very useful cusp & gamut approximations.

I have a hard time seeing how it’s a nightmare in practice!
by Liquix | 2025-07-09 23:07:46+00:00
> Recreational drugs cause unbelievable havok within communities where they are unleashed.

Like.. Stable adults indulging in pot or mushrooms? IME has quite the opposite effect. Addictive drugs which devastate communities are usually not referred to as "recreational".

You're spot on about the outdated threat model and people not fully grasping how damaging social media/internet addiction is.
by goda90 | 2025-07-09 23:07:57+00:00
Think of it this way: before the internal combustion engine people used animal power, steam power, human power, wind power, etc to move cargo, passengers, and even specialized loads like water pumps for the fire brigade. Then with internal combustion they did those things faster and at greater scale. That wasn't innovating on the ICE itself, or solving new problems. But it was still useful. Of course they also eventually did innovate on the ICE, and they solved new problems with it(heavier than air flight, for example) but it took awhile.
by rich_harris | 2025-07-09 23:09:16+00:00
> I have no doubts they'll do the same with Nuxt, demanding they implement features that solely exist to pad out hosting costs while providing next to no actual benefits to end users and devs

has that happened with Svelte?

> they now have a monopoly over the most popular frontend meta frameworks (Next, Svelte/Kit, Nuxt, Astro)

this would be a surprise to the Astro team!
by miguelspizza | 2025-07-09 23:09:25+00:00
Yup! You just declare a standard MCP server and attach a TabServerTransport to it. Any TabClientTransport in the same Tab will be able to connect to it.

The examples focus mostly on extensions injecting clients at website load time, but you can ship a client with your server javascript. That being said, if the client and server live in the the same script I recommend just using the InMemoryTransports from the official SDK.
by Jeaye | 2025-07-09 23:10:47+00:00
> Might I ask the author of Jank whether he knows about Clapp and if so, how will this project try to avoid getting stagnated?

I'm aware of Clasp and have spoken with drmeister about it in the early days of jank. Ultimately, jank and Clasp differ greatly, not only in that jank is Clojure and Clasp is Common Lisp, but also in their approach to C++ interop.

> If I recall correctly, compiling Clapp takes a full day, that gives not a good vibe.

I'm not sure about Clasp's compile times, but C++ is slow to compile, in general. The jank compiler itself builds from nothing in about 1 minute on my machine. We've yet to see how the jank compiler will handle large Clojure project, but I do expect it to be slower than Clojure JVM.

> In that post and comments we read that Clapp was 100x slower that sbcl

That's an old post, so I'd expect that Clasp is faster now. I can say that jank is not 100x slower than Clojure JVM, in my benchmarks.

> Perhaps I am just too old to be open to new dreams, anyway I hope the best to this project and I thank to Clojurists Together for supporting this project. It must be very intellectual rewarding to work in a project whose aim is to extend and improve your favorite computer language. But the journey will be no an easy one, that's for sure.

Thanks for the interest and kind words. It's not easy, but it's doable!
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-09 23:12:43+00:00
>sadness suppresses anger

The Chinese v. of that really requires a link! It's nearly a chengyu but I don't know if Douyin is surfacing truly new ones these days

Problem with most things-- help us GPT-- you have to dig through a alot of chaff to get to the wheat

Another aspect of the curiosity vs agency tradeoff..?
by nikitaeverywher | 2025-07-09 23:12:51+00:00
I'm a tech person who works with data tools and back/front end code daily, this is fun to explain.

Businesses have back end data collection for centuries you can't avoid. It's limited, but it's still enough for all that absurd manipulation conspiracy you believe in. Period – no need to even start discussing blocker software.

Yes, indeed, the world generates data, and it can be analyzed. Not a surprise. This data is inevitably generated: every single machine you connect to via network records something. As soon as you buy internet from your internet provider, you're on a digital paper.

Typically, back ends log user's IP, user agent and pages you access, regardless of the software and VPNs you have. Hence, by your own logic, there's enough data points already.

Now, having something from JavaScript can enrich this data. That's perhaps what you want to avoid. The question to ask is, why. The most important data is already captured.

When your blocker blocks Google Analytics for instance, you kind of just opt out of showing your 1 visit of "example.com/some-article" to the website's owner, because they're not spending 10s of hours to implement back end tracking. That's really all it changes. You're still profiled by your internet provider, even more than Google Analytics. You're still giving your data to your DNS provider. If using privacy VPN, what makes you sure they don't store your data somewhere? I believe all these Masonic conspiracies about Big Brother play into the hands of those who sell you a "protection" from the imaginary "surveillance" of you on the Internet. Or if you don't pay, you tell it to others (like me) – and some % will pay for it. We see what we want to see, it's a game on both sides, with a large user base on them both.

The best part:

It's impossible to know whether a random site on the internet doesn't "track" you in one way or another, with or without DataUnlocker, even if you install all protections available on this mother Earth [I personally believe using Tor browser is enough]. You can't prohibit JavaScript, C#, Java. Filter lists maintained by ad blocking community we monitor are updated nearly hourly, new and new entries appear, but they can't cover the entire web. HUGE WORK to try to maintain EVERY WEBSITE, reminds me of writing "cracks" to software in 2000s, but this time for imaginary value – only to get down ~50% of client-side tracking (0% server-side, in the meaning of what servers collect – IPs and user agents). What matters really in this context is that this % will never be 100%.

Think about it – the real value from all that tracking prevention is *lowering the number of KBs transferred over the network*, which maybe speeds up a website for a fraction of a second, along with not telling website owners what page of a website [they've built for you] you tried to visit.

A real-life analogy is you demand to be unseen when you walk out of your house and go shopping. Have no passport. Etc. Not possible. Physically. Can it be minimized? Yes it can. But what it really changes for you?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-09 23:13:04+00:00
There's a "worse is better" thing in software where things that are intellectually incoherent but workable beat out things that are coherent but too complicated. See this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507076

A person who is capable of high-quality thinking might just find that low-quality thinking sells better. Look at how many people think Joe Rogan and Eliezer Yudkowsky are the great public intellectuals of our age. (Actually if I was still smoking I'd probably enjoy smoking a joint with the former -- the latter wouldn't let me get within 100 miles because I'd give him no quarter)
by danaris | 2025-07-09 23:13:31+00:00
But what's the demographic breakdown of this?

How many of that 2/3 is households that have owned the home for 20+ years—ie, since before the subprime crash?

How many of that 2/3 is households of people 65+? And how many is people under 30? Partying is still largely a young people's game, and even if your "household" owns the home you live in, if that's your parents or grandparents, you're much less likely to be hosting parties there.
by epistasis | 2025-07-09 23:14:21+00:00
It's extremely reliable, and it's also very economical.

> Degradation has proved to be worse than anticipated.

I follow the space closely and there have been zero complaints about this. And regardless the warranties would cover the early installs.

It's going to be extremely hard for any other battery chemistry to catch up to lithium ion. Sodium has a chance, but the supply chain for lithium is massive, growing, and has lots of substitutions if bottlenecks arise.

The logistics challenges of nuclear are an order of magnitude higher than for nuclear. With far more financial risk, timelines around a decade instead of a year.

The technology for storage is robust, scaling massively, and pretty much unstoppable in the US unless there are explicit bans. Nuclear literally needs a technooogy advancement to catch up, and the closest is SMR production, which is coming close to a decade of being in vogue, with plans stalling out everywhere. Even the planned BWRXs in Canada at Darlington may now be at risk since the US is starting to be viewed as unreliable and too risky to depend upon.
by Jeaye | 2025-07-09 23:14:29+00:00
I'm interested in exploring this as a potential dialect of jank. In the simplest approach, it's just a lexer change. However, there are implications around how macros will work, since macros generate s-expressions in Clojure, but they'd need to generate whitespace blocks if we want the homoiconicity to spread throughout.

If you're interested in funding this work, or helping with the designs, please reach out. In the meantime, make sure you check out Rhombus. https://rhombus-lang.org/
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-09 23:14:33+00:00
Simon Tatham's Puzzles app has a minesweeper version that both A) generates on first click so you are guaranteed to never hit a mine on the first click and B) every board is 100% solvable with no need to guess. I have no idea what method it uses. I believe that _every_ puzzle in it is 100% solvable with no need to guess. It's also add free and completely local. It's a great app for anyone who likes puzzles on their phone.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-09 23:14:40+00:00
Order re Summary Judgment https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.cand.372884/gov.us...

Google's Trial Brief (wiretapping) https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.cand.372884/gov.us...

Joint Pretrial Conference Statement https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.cand.372884/gov.us...

Proposed Final Jury Instructions https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.cand.372884/gov.us...
by atonse | 2025-07-09 23:14:46+00:00
Are you claiming that they’re already well to do (by American standards) when they arrive?

I can’t count a single immigrant in my network that was rich by American standards (which makes them filthy rich by most other nations standards) and then chose to move here.

Sure my sample size is probably 30 families (across a dozen countries) but that’s not nothing.

Every single one built their net worth here. Meaning that opportunity is also available to natives.
by maqp | 2025-07-09 23:15:24+00:00
>Sure, but for all we know it is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CIA. See Crypto AG[1].

This is such a sad propaganda tactic.

Signal's client is 100% open source. The Android client has reproducible builds. You can verify yourself the cryptographic primitives are used, and function correctly with test vectors.

E.g. Here's those for the key exchange X25519 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7748

Here's the test vectors for AES https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/Cryptographic-Algo...

>Signal is controlled by a single entity and is not federated. So it is only a matter of time before things fall apart.

It's backed by the Signal foundation, donations, and it doesn't suffer from bike shedding bigger federated systems struggle with. Take OpenPGP v5 fingerprints that are still, 15 years after SHA-1 was considered weak, not available in gpg, if at all. Federated systems and standards bodies with disengaged management are easy to subvert from the inside with tactics like these https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging...

>So it is not a good idea to promote it as some sort of messaging standard.

The protocol isn't a standard, but its security properties are the gold standard. That's why it's being used in most networked TCB apps that take their security as serious as they can.

You're also not proposing a solution so I take it you're advocating for Matrix.
by xnx | 2025-07-09 23:15:30+00:00
The past 30 years have seen a huge explosion in incidental complexity of programming. Programmers are currently very well paid understand and manage this incidental complexity. Unfortunately, because of this high compensation, they are also most responsible for perpetuating incidental complexity (framework churn, GUI design fads, build systems, etc.). Non-programmer professionals are adept at handling essential complexity. LLMs give some hope of closing the gap between "user" and "programmer" by managing the pain of incidental complexity.
by ImaCake | 2025-07-09 23:15:33+00:00
I suspect it's jumping on the hype train. Especially since its from a big Uni. Funding in research is all about marketing and latching onto the right keywords (just like VC really) so the most successful researchers are those who can market themselves effectively. Whether this tool is actually any good is secondary to whether it achieves the real goal of getting future funding for it's author.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-09 23:16:05+00:00
Hmm, I don't work in the machining industry but your comment kinda confused me - I thought it already had a significant impact and continues to gain significance with every year.

From my understanding it's currently taking over low volume production, and the volume in which it's economically viable keeps increasing as the tech improves.

Is that incorrect? Do you have an insiders point of view?
by jppope | 2025-07-09 23:16:49+00:00
I think theres probably an uneven distribution on this... I can think back to my childhood in a small town in new england and I can still remember everyone on my block, the block across the street, and every kid's house within a half mile or so. I even remember some of the 4 digit phone numbers (b/c almost everyone had the same area code and city code). When we moved though we didn't know anywhere near that many people.
Acquihire offer from another early stage startup ($2M raised, $1M revenue)
by jhubble | 2025-07-09 23:17:20+00:00
Got an acquihire-esq offer from another early stage startup ($2M raised, ~$1M ARR). They were building the same thing, but further along. Same vision. Signed some big clients recently.

Would join as a co-founder. What equity split is fair? Any advice would be helpful
by ryandrake | 2025-07-09 23:17:47+00:00
I've been so lucky throughout my career to have almost entirely worked with competent and smart developers. I've always wondered what a conversation with one of these other ones is like, after a production site is found to use 123456/123456 as credentials. "Hey, Mike, we just had someone in the public notice that our admin interface could be accessed by anyone with default credentials. You're the manager on this project. How did this happen?" I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation, or read the postmortem. How does this kind of configuration even make it past code review, let alone staging and production?
by AngryData | 2025-07-09 23:18:38+00:00
While there aren't any flashy breakthrough nuclear technologies, we should remember that universities have been doing research and advancing nuclear technology over the decades even when nuclear power plants weren't being built. The US military has wanted to maintain nuclear sciences and students, nuclear medicine has done a lot, material science has come a long ways for nuclear compatible materials, physics and nearly every branch of it has dipped its toes into if not dove right into learning about nuclear forces and nuclear chemistry. Fusion power requires understanding nuclear forces. And of course there are still people looking for the flashy nuclear power breakthrough.

The reactors we see still operating today are mostly designed in like the 70s and 80s, some going back to the 60s, but that is only like 40 years after the invention of nuclear reactors and nuclear power, we are now over 40 years past that again, and our understanding of nuclear sciences is leaps and bounds above what we used to build most nuke plants in existance.
by Zigurd | 2025-07-09 23:18:49+00:00
The whole thing was a toxic brew of an autocratic owner choosing a weak CEO he can push around plus the glass cliff. Yaccarino was a perfectly fine ad sales executive in a legacy media company. She could've had a really pleasant couple of years. I hope she negotiated a severance that sets her up nicely.

I know everyone involved is a consenting adult, but the cynicism is still pretty icky.
by refulgentis | 2025-07-09 23:19:56+00:00
Because it is a matmul best-effort approximation of a perceptual color space, not a perceptual one, and in my experience that's a significant difference when deployed and for design. YMMV. :)

I cringe myself, it sounds like a nitpick, but it's an extremely significant upgrade in every case.

Most concretely, if I use actual L*, design can use palettes linked to L* and vary hue / colorfulness while meeting any contrast standard.
by desichix1 | 2025-07-09 23:20:21+00:00
> It skews one way, but there's definitely a large diversity in opinions on Reddit that are not hard to find. It's also transitioning into an India social media site, just from sheer population numbers.

This happened on Quora until almost all western users left. Initially it was nice to have diversity of users and opinions, but then people started using Indian parlance that only other Indian users could understand (started referring to salaries as crore, relationship advice would reference Indian actors, etc.)
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-09 23:20:42+00:00
The CHSR thing is a bit apocryphal (no evidence, just according to his biographer) since hyperloop never really competed in any way with CHSR. He did, however, play a very big role in fucking up a potential Chicago connection between downtown and O'hare, as the Boring company actually did win the bid to use the abandoned cavern below the Washington Red/Blue line stop, promising to run a hyperloop up to the airport. It never went anywhere, and the cavern below block 37 remains abandoned.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/elon-musk-ohare-airport...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Express_Loop
by exmadscientist | 2025-07-09 23:21:32+00:00
Making cables by hand, or sending out orders to the cable factory during NPI?

By hand you can usually only screw it up four or five times (for a cable there are only four ways to make). Sending out orders during New Product Introduction (so nobody knows what they're doing, and the answer to "how did that work last time?" is "in fact, that has never once in the history of human civilization worked") to a cable vendor that engineering (you) recommended be dropped due to quality problems including (but not limited to) "does not read the cable drawing", but management insisted we keep using because "we know how to order from them" (which was awful -- hand delivering parts, dealing with angry dogs in the way, drunken contacts at the vendor, and finding out that not only do their neighbors hate them (no surprise), but they managed to personally (personally!) get on the bad list with their FedEx guy; this is not easy) -- so that is no excuse)... that's how you get to the real pain.
by maqp | 2025-07-09 23:22:10+00:00
"What does making the app closed source take from you? The freedom of requiring trusting the service provider = facebook"

It does change the requirement of collection.

It's no longer "Well all this data is rolling in, what shall we do with it".

It's "Hey, if we commit THREE BILLION FELONIES of backdooring our every users' encryption, we can access all that data".

Surely you realize that's a leap.
by hnpolicestate | 2025-07-09 23:22:30+00:00
I promise I'm not gaslighting you. The majority of individuals buying residential real estate where I'm located are new arrivals or 1st generation. The Chinese circumstance is bizarre and has been going on for over 10-15 years. So they all use Chinese banks right? The rumor for years is that the Chinese government funnels the financing somehow to new arrivals to buy up real estate. They used to go up and down Brooklyn buying properties with over a million in cash. But barely speak English! It's just bizarre.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-07-09 23:23:02+00:00
You got this immigrant. We have a group of a few families. Each hosts at least one large event per year on occasions like Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years and our own festivals. Everyone and their kids, and other friends / relatives join. Three families ended up on the same street by chance. We regularly cook or get takeout and get together at short notice. Alcohol and food play a big role.

That said, being an immigrant poses other kinds of challenges. So it's not all like the 1970s in the US, or where we came from.
by AngryData | 2025-07-09 23:24:09+00:00
Yeah I agree with you. Im not expecting any real improvements in my personal life by going to nuclear power, but it is all but a solved method to produce nearly any amount of power we would want over extremely long timespans with no significant emissions. You want to desalinate massive amounts of water? Nuke plant. You want to run a huge carbon scrubber farm? Nuke plant. You want endless amounts of steel and aluminum processing and fertilizer production that all require large amounts of energy? Nuclear power. And it doesn't need to rely on promises of future technology improvements or mega-structure scale projects like "Cover X entire state with solar panels and install multiple times the worlds current total battery capacity into the grid." Or waiting for the economics of solar panels to make it viable for all consumers and dealing with all the political shenanigans of connecting them to the grid.
by jpc0 | 2025-07-09 23:24:58+00:00
If you do not have backing from HR and senior management the issue will not change even if you tried.

Action without consequence causes these problems. If an employee is allowed to continually be late and rude it really does not matter in any way whatsoever if everyone shuns that employee culturally because the implicit statement is that that behaviour is acceptable but unwanted.

That is the exact situation you get into with lack of documentation, if a single employee never does correct documentation but there is no real repercussions it does not matter whether the “culture” is documentation, you have agreed by contract at that point documentation is not a requirement.

If you make it a matter of “Do the documentation correctly or we will be having talks to remove you” that clearly indicates it is not just lip service but is actually enforced culture.

Thinking the carrot will always work is part of the “documentation culture”. Make it a hard requirement or don’t do it at all.