MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by altfredd | 2025-07-15 04:52:07+00:00
Google already dumps old apps from store for no reason whatsoever:

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/expanding-...

You have to update an application every year, even if it is just meaningless version bump. Otherwise it will be removed after 2 years. Despite saying that this policy is required to ensure user security, several recent Android releases didn't have any corresponding major security changes.
by deaddodo | 2025-07-15 04:55:04+00:00
> Support keyboards, displays, mouse, etc., just the usual ones. So a lot of drivers.

You wouldn’t even need that if you released it as an all-in-one like the hobbyist machines of yore (C64, speccy, etc). Just give it a relatively decent cherry MX built-in with swappable keyblocks. Add a USB hub for HID devices and include a basic HID driver, and include HDMI.
by denispanda | 2025-07-15 04:55:36+00:00
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by opo | 2025-07-15 04:58:28+00:00
I would disagree with your characterization of the two approaches to increasing taxes but like you said this is a forum comment.

>...Of the two, I think only the second offers any real hope of deficit reduction. The middle and lower classes are already tapped out, metaphorically speaking.

Many people point to the high government spending in some of the OECD countries, but what they fail to recognize is that the US has one of the most progressive tax systems in the OECD. The difference is that in those other OECD countries, the middle class pays a higher share of the taxes and there is more money available because there are a lot more middle class tax payers than high income payers.

>If the goal really is to reduce the deficit through increasing revenue, I think it’s likely that revenue must come from the upper classes in one way or another.

The tax to GDP ratio has remained fairly stable for decades: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

The effective tax rates paid by the high income earners is fairly close to the highest it has ever been.

Your original point was:

>The faction that currently runs the Democratic party is the centrist, deficit-reducing, foreign-intervention-when-necessary party of Reagan/Bush.

Again, I have a hard time considering a party that increases spending so much that debt will be increased by $4.7 trillion to be one that can be called "deficit-reducing". (Nor can the R party be called that either of course.) Just because the D party talks about raising revenue doesn't really mean anything.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-07-15 04:59:51+00:00
I apologize for ruining your day, that wasn't my intention. As I stated in my post I don't doubt that obese people have screwed up that signaling over time. Are your cravings off medication worse than mine? Probably. We'd pretty quickly get in to a "Is your green my green?" type discussion talking about that, which obviously has no conclusion. However, I've seen many, many people repeat something along the lines of "Wow, I guess this is what skinny people feel like all the time!" in reference to these medications. I was just pointing out that it absolutely is not how we feel, and I'm one of the fairly rare people out there that can confirm that.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-15 05:00:31+00:00
> It's coming faster and harder than any tech in history.

True; but how is that not expected?

We have more and more efficient communication than any point in history, this is a software solution with a very low bar to the building blocks and theory.

Software should be expected to move faster and faster.

I’m not sure who is wishing it away. No one wanted to wish away search engines, or dictionaries or advice from people who repeat things they read.

It’s panic top to bottom on this topic. Surely there are some adults around that can just look at a new thing for what it is now and not what it could turn into in a fantasy future?
by jruohonen | 2025-07-15 05:01:21+00:00
With limited media diet, I'd still reckon this case is the first one. And a gem:

"They cited MORE fake cases to defend their first set of fake cases. Epic. A perpetual motion machine of bullshit, if you will."

That said, the issue was kind of solved with, you know, hyperlinks and HTML. Applies also to scientific references.
by reactordev | 2025-07-15 05:01:22+00:00
Like I said, I don’t agree with his tactics. Burning the bridges isn’t smart.

I do think a lot of DC fat is coping mechanisms. The bureaucracy is so slow to respond to change, change that this community loves, and needs a redo. Reorg. Whatever.

I get why my opinion is so downvoted but the reality is the reality.
by justanotherjoe | 2025-07-15 05:02:27+00:00
Can you describe more about the "ruined punchline" thing? Cause that sounds natural to me. Like in Jurassic Park, Alan Grant hears "We clocked the t-rex at 32 mph" and he goes "Did you just say 't-rex'?". Actually they repeat it like 3 times more to really lean into it.

And I guess my point is that Jurassic Park doesn't feel modern or clumsy in this particular execution.
by mlsu | 2025-07-15 05:02:44+00:00
I hate AI. I'm so sick of it.

I read a story about 14 year olds that are adopting AI boyfriends. They spend 18 hours a day in conversation with chatbots. Their parents are worried because they are withdrawing from school and losing their friends.

I hate second guessing emails that I've read, wondering if my colleagues are even talking to me or if they are using AI. I hate the idea that AI will replace my job.

Even if it unlocks "economic value" -- what does that even mean? We'll live in fucking blade runner but at least we'll all have a ton of money?

I agree, nobody asked what I wanted. But if they did I'd tell them, I don't want it, I don't want any of it.

Excuse me, I'll go outside now and play with my dogs and stare at a tree.
by godelski | 2025-07-15 05:03:18+00:00
If you told someone in 1950 that smartphones would dominate they wouldn't have a hard time believing you. Hell, they'd add it to sci-fi books and movies. That's because the utility of it is so clear.

But if you told them about social media, I think the story would be different. Some would think it would be great, some would see it as dystopian, but neither would be right.

We don't have to imagine, though. All three of these things have captured people's imaginations since before the 50's. It's just... AI has always been closer to imagined concepts of social media more than it has been to highly advanced communication devices.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-15 05:03:22+00:00
The framing here seems intentionally deceptive. Nobody is "fighting off" a "takeover". It's more like the city is deciding between continuing to run the library itself, or contracting it out. Nor is the fact that the company is owned by private equity especially relevant, except in the general belief that things run by private equity are not very good. I think that the use of the term "takeover" isn't a mistake though, it seems like it's meant to make people think that private equity is somehow "buying out" the library and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-15 05:04:42+00:00
Note that this entirely based on share price. While I am but an armchair "expert" a lot of the technology businesses that they are comparing too feel inflated due to AI buzz. This is not to put down AI or what they are doing but the sense of 'irrational exuberance' might be at play.

Now if this was based on the quality of Cooks ability to lead Apple, I would simply say they haven't had a huge hit since Apple Watch some 10 years ago. Cruising nicely in terms of sales and incremental improvements but nothing that has others desperately chasing them.
by freeCandy | 2025-07-15 05:04:43+00:00
They've published a series of articles on this project:

>So this is how a lot of our assets ended up being primarily designed in real life as painted paper-cutout models. The models are then photographed, taken apart and scanned. Some paint samples are also created specifically to become tileable.

https://studio.blender.org/blog/devlog-papercraft-woods/#mak...

https://studio.blender.org/search/?type=post&project_title=D...
by alexey-salmin | 2025-07-15 05:05:02+00:00
> On May 28, 1914, the Empress began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic, from Quebec City en route to Liverpool, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423.

I have to say I'm surprised by the size of the crew, both from the economic perspective and from the fact that it's steam and not sails. I guess I'll need to read more on how these ships were run.

> After a minute and a half, the boiler rooms were flooded with the equivalent of nine Olympic swimming pools of water.

Oh for crying out loud
by daxfohl | 2025-07-15 05:05:18+00:00
Nah, you never voluntarily reduce headcount. Headcount is what keeps your salary coming. Any manager worth their salt would use this newfound productivity to infringe on other teams' domains: Hostile Takeover => More Headcount => Promotion. We'll see a lot of attempted empire building over the next couple years while all this gets sorted out.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-15 05:05:45+00:00
> Developers actually take up to 19% longer when coding with AI than without it, but self-report that they were able to complete tasks 20% faster.

IF TRUE and taken at face value, surely it could have nothing to do with AI coding being so new everyone just figuring how to best use a new tool at all once.

No no, best to right out the gate compare the new tool to the decades old process.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-15 05:05:50+00:00
> attention span.

This gets repeated ad nauseum, but IMHO people are short on patience, not attention.

Parents probably understand this the most: try to find an 80s movie to show to your kids, you'll have a pass at it first to properly remember what it's about, and it will painfully slow.

Not peaceful or measured, just slow. Scenes that don't need much explanation will be exposed for about for 10 min, dialogues that you digest in 2s get 2 min of lingering on.

Most movies were targeted at a public that would need a lot of time to process info, and we're not that public anymore (despite this very TFA about how writers make their dialogues dumber)
by zulban | 2025-07-15 05:05:57+00:00
> Remember ...

No, I don't remember it like that. Do you have any serious sources from history showing that Segway hype is even remotely comparable to today's AI hype and the half a trillion a year the world is spending on it?

You don't. I love the argument ad absurdum more than most but you've taken it a teensy bit too far.
by extraduder_ire | 2025-07-15 05:07:03+00:00
They've mentioned this requirement before, last hn post I see is from early may.

They only added support in android 15, in august 2024. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/08/adding-16-...

I don't know what "targetting Android 15+" means specifically. Does that include anything with a lower API level?
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-15 05:07:56+00:00
Chiron: 2004, the UK government shut down their flu vax plant (it was in the UK). It later came out that the FDA knew what was up and basically let it slide. It was one of the early ani-vax movements torches... Crunchy moms pissed about shots for kids and parents on Oxycodone were not happy with Pharma (or corporations in general: Enron etc..)

> politically unpopular drug shortages ...

Ask your ADHD friends about how they get their meds.

One side wants to keep it, the other side wants to get rid of it. No one wants to fix the problem.
by troupo | 2025-07-15 05:07:59+00:00
Literally from the article

--- start quote ---

Anyone who sees the future differently to you can be brushed aside as “ignoring reality”, and the only conversations worth engaging are those that already accept your premise.

--- end quote ---

Mass adoption is not inevitable. Everyone will drop this "faster harder" tech like a hot potato when (not if) it fails to result in meaningful profits.

Oh, there will be forced mass adoption alright. Have you tried Gemini? Have you? Gemini? Have you tried it? HAVE YOU? HAVE YOU TRIED GEMINI?!!!
by AuryGlenz | 2025-07-15 05:08:26+00:00
Sure, and I totally get your issues. I was a damned wedding photographer and I'd only eat towards the very end of the night, and still had a few iffy days.

As I stated, I originally tried semaglutide with no luck. I didn't try tirzepatide. I've been taking a very low dose of retatrutide - about .5mg twice a week. It seemed to be waning in effectiveness a bit so I upped the dose to 2mg/week for now. It's a night and day difference. Most days I go to the bathroom maybe two times, as opposed to the maybe 5-10 times I would need to unmedicated.

To be clear, this isn't an approved use of the medications (and retatrutide isn't approved at all yet, though it pretty clearly will be). However, they slow down gut motility - and as a bonus for your refusing to eat during week-long work trips, they'd probably at least help with that too, in terms of hunger.
by yuntian | 2025-07-15 05:09:03+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the demo is definitely limited. The reason I built NeuralOS is that I'm excited about a future where boundaries between software categories fade away. Imagine converting a movie directly into an interactive video game, customizing app interfaces by talking to it, or sharing the same underlying physics/world model between movies and games. Perhaps someday, movies or even interactive games could just be detailed text prompts describing scenes and characters, with the OS "hallucinating" everything on the fly (maybe movies adapt to user preferences as well so different users watch different "versions" of the same underlying movie plot). This minimizes storage and download times, but also provides maximal flexibility.

Unlike other ML-based OS projects (such as Gemini OS, which generates code and renders traditional UIs), NeuralOS directly generates every pixel. While this makes it susceptible to hallucination, in my opinion the other side of hallucination is full flexibility. In the future, I imagine operating systems running entirely (or mostly) on GPUs, adapting to user intent on the fly rather than relying on pre-designed menus and options.
by ygritte | 2025-07-15 05:09:16+00:00
Then I'm even more disappointed. Appeal to authority does not make a good publication. He should know better or at least clearly define the terms he uses. Words have meaning. If you use the same words, but with a different meaning, it will produce confusion. Confusion may be a feature in marketing material, but if this publication is intended to teach something, then the confusion is a bug.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-15 05:09:58+00:00
> If you don't want people to feel pressure to socialize then you need to create a social norm of keeping to yourself.

This is the norm for any "outside locale" which does not assume socialization. For example, taking a walk on neighborhood sidewalks, visiting to a park, going to a local library.

> It would be nice for that to go away.

Pressure such as this originates from within. So to help that pressure go away, one must first embrace that socialization is a choice.
by Nevermark | 2025-07-15 05:10:04+00:00
Give it a permanent pre-prompt of “no bugs, no security holes, no ads, no tracking, no feed manipulation, no spam in search, online and subscription tools all backed up to run local, all online data also backed up local, all interactions or tasks to display in completed form within 100ms or less, … (burn everyone else’s Bitcoin when they attempt to transact, but not mine), …”

Looks like the entire mucky internet will be fixed with just some careful prompting as soon as this thing runs efficiently!

More seriously, it would be fun - and probably instructive - to play with a system that consistently (shallowly) simulated that. A kind of oasis.
by mekael | 2025-07-15 05:10:37+00:00
We might not be able to wish it away, but we can, as a society, decide to not utilize it and even actively eradicate it. I honestly believe that llm's/ai are a net negative to society and need to be ripped out root and stem. If tomorrow all of us decided to do that, nothing bad would happen, and we'd all be ok.
by teo_zero | 2025-07-15 05:12:28+00:00
> I like to have my lexers operate on `FILE*`, rather than string-views. [...] it does mean I can operate on streams.

While I understand the desire to support one input interface for composability, reuse, etc. I can't help wondering why 'FILE*'. Isn't reading from a string more "universal"?

> If the user has a c-string, the string can be easily wrapped by `funopen()` or `fopencookie()` to provide a `FILE*` adapter layer.

And if the user has a file, it's easy to read it into memory in advance.

What's the benefit of FILE* over a string?
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-15 05:12:40+00:00
> Users were supposedly massively exiting Reddit when that cesspool imploded

According to who? Tech journalists?

> 95% of them never left

Probably 95% of a VERY small number.

> it's easy to check and changes your opinion

Actually, I'd encourage you to take into account my theory that an incredibly, INCREDIBLY small percentage of Reddit users were making a LOT of noise about leaving Reddit, and it made a lot of people believe that there was a mas exodus, when most people didn't care at all. (What was the mass exodus supposed to be over, anyway? Blocking 3rd party apps? I know that HN is a tech worker echo chamber, but really, how many people out in the wild even trust 3rd party apps at all?)
by charleslmunger | 2025-07-15 05:13:02+00:00
A connection pool is absolutely a best practice. One of the biggest benefits is managing a cache of prepared statements, the page cache, etc. Maybe you have temp tables or temp triggers too.

Even better is to have separate pools for the writer connection and readers in WAL mode. Then you can cache write relevant statements only once. I am skeptical about a dedicated thread per call because that seems like it would add a bunch of latency.
by teepo | 2025-07-15 05:14:44+00:00
It feels to me like the tyranny of small differences. The fact that the various watchdogs amplified such specific issues greatly overshadowed their support of the mission. From what I've read, the FDA is a backwater from a funding perspective, and yet a punching bag from a regulatory point-of-view.

*He and his colleagues had also been engaged in a decades-long debate with a sprawling community of watchdogs — mostly doctors, lawyers and scientists from outside the agency — who were often broadly supportive of the agency’s mission but who fought with officials like Califf, sometimes bitterly, over the specifics: How should the F.D.A. be financed? What kind of evidence should new drugs and medical devices require? How should regulators weigh the concerns of industry against the needs of doctors, patients and consumers?*
by Duanemclemore | 2025-07-15 05:14:56+00:00
Having never seen Jurassic Park (yeah, right?) I'm guessing the preposterousness to an unaware onlooker is played for effect.

This is a more recent phenomenon. This is literally just repeating a punchline so that it tells the audience - "that was the punchline, you can laugh now."

I've seen plenty but I can't give any specific examples. I mention Kill James Bond [0] because they specifically point it out in the movies they watch. Although they don't watch any Whedon movies, in talking about it in movies where it happens a lot they cite Whedon as particularly guilty of this.

[0] https://killjamesbond.com/
by aftergibson | 2025-07-15 05:15:21+00:00
There's plenty of examples where important people framed an inevitable future and then it didn't pan out.

Somewhat objective proof of "progress" will inevitably win out, yes inevitable framing might help sell the vision a bit, for now, but it won't be the inevitabism that causes it to succeed but its inherit value towards "progress".

The definition of "progress" being endlessly more productive humans at the cost of everything else.
by vineyardmike | 2025-07-15 05:15:33+00:00
> I can understand the desire for google to want devs to recompile their apps, but I don't see the need to dump old apps from the app store

It could be that Google explicitly wants to dump un(der) maintained apps. Sure some might be clean and basic utilities that will work till the end of time, but many are probably abandonware or crummy demos and hello-world apps that look old and dated. They went on a whole purge recently already.

The App Store market is changing as Google/Apple grapple with efforts to end their monopolies. Maybe they're seeing that change and trying to use their dying advantage to frame themselves as the curated and reputable stores with high-quality maintained and up to date apps. When distribution is available from other places, they can chose their customers.
by dilawar | 2025-07-15 05:16:26+00:00
Those machines unlocked more work, different work, that led to better paying jobs!

I am all up for AI if it leads to "better" work and jobs but cutting jobs to cut cost sound like a race to bottom!!

Are AI time /cost savings going to help me pursue creative hobbies, open source, help my community without worrying about livelihood then great. If it is a means to make rich people richer by making most of us worse off, maybe we should stop and think for a while?

There may be a risk here that a zero/negative-sum game is advertised as a positive-sum game (e.g war).
by rafaelmn | 2025-07-15 05:17:05+00:00
If you claimed that AI was inevitable in the 80s and invested, or claimed people would be inevitably moving to VR 10 years ago - you would be shit out of luck. Zuck is still burning billions on it with nothing to show for it and a bad outlook. Even Apple tried it and hilariously missed the demand estimate. The only potential bailout for this tech is AR, but thats still years away from consumer market and widespread adoption, and probably will have very little to do with shit that is getting built for VR, because its a completely different experience. But I am sure some of the tech/UX will carry over.

Tesla stock has been riding on the self driving robo-taxies meme for a decade now ? How many Teslas are earning passive income while the owner is at work ?

Cherrypicking the stuff that worked in retrospect is stupid, plenty of people swore in the inevitability of some tech with billions in investment, and industry bubbles that look mistimed in hindsight.
by neurostimulant | 2025-07-15 05:17:31+00:00
> Being able to write/test code locally on a Mac and then deploy to super computers would make a good developer experience.

Does this means you can use MLX on linux now?

Edit:

Just tested it and it's working but only python 3.12 version is available on pypi right now: https://pypi.org/project/mlx-cuda/#files
by __d | 2025-07-15 05:18:01+00:00
The majority of the comments here reflect an acceptance of or even an enthusiasm for an LLM-using future. An embracing of the technology regardless of its downsides. A disregard of those who question whether it’s all a desirable future.

I’d have thought perhaps we’d learn the lessons of eg. smart phones, social media, cloud, VR, crypto, NFTs, etc, and think a little more deeply about where and how we want to go as a society and species beyond just adopting the latest hype.