MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bell-cot | 2025-07-11 11:26:55+00:00
If you have plenty of money, and "It's Too Hot In Here!" emotions, then "Get A/C" looks like a great fix.

Vs. if you're a competent national policy maker, in a state that isn't rolling in petro-dollars, then A/C is only going to be one element of a larger Adverse Weather Abatement strategy. That's far more complex than most people imagine.

A starter on the complexity: Most commercial-scale A/C units use a lot of fresh water. If you've got a severe drought when it gets really hot, can you keep everything going? Historically, droughts and heat waves correlate. Especially if you adjust the precipitation data for extreme events - which cause lots of flood damage, but are very difficult for most fresh water supply systems to capture.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-11 11:27:36+00:00
Since when is Airbus a small company and not part of the large state supported corp monopoly gang? Same with SAP, Roche and Bayer. These are all masive corporations that swallowed entire sectors. Same with Spotify having used its monopoly status to screw over smaller artists. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I read such comments.

Let me ask you guys something else, if EU hates large monopolist companies so much as you claim, then why are all its car companies monopolistic mega conglomerates that rule the world like Volkswagen, Stellantis, Daimler Benz, BMW, and Renault? Where's EU's equivalent of Tesla if they supposedly hate all these big companies?

I'll tell you why: Just like the US, the capital controlled EU also supports its domestic monopolies and only bitches about foreign monopolies in sectors they don't control and threaten their economic hegemony. That's the cold hard truth, everything else is just political hot air and virtue signaling for brownie points, and I'm pissed people are not only buying it but also parroting it when the goal to monopolize business sectors is as strong in EU corporations as it is in US and Chinese ones.

Europe is just more stricter now with controlling large (mostly foreign) corporations since its own economy lost a lot of ground to the US and Chinese ones (it has now half the real GDP it had 2 decades ago), and since it can't create new large companies, all it can do now is protecting what it has left from foreign companies taking over their turf. The upshot being that a lot of those rules are congruent with the consumer protections which also end up globally favoring consumers abroad.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-11 11:27:42+00:00
Opened what door?

"If only students didn't complain when Milo Yiannopoulos got invited to campus, the Trump administration wouldn't be kicking out (or imprisoning) international students based on their political beliefs, rejecting papers about gay people from conferences at military academies, and imposing quotas for hiring reactionaries." Is that the claim?
by kazinator | 2025-07-11 11:28:28+00:00
Already over two years ago, using GPT4, I experimented with code generation using a relatively unknown dialect of Lisp for which there are few online materials or discussions. Yet, the results were good. The LLM slightly hallucinated between that dialect and Scheme and Common Lisp, but corrected itself when instructed clearly. When given a verbal description of a macro that is available in the dialect, it was able to refactor the code to take advantage of it.
by aitchnyu | 2025-07-11 11:28:48+00:00
Max, can users be limited to delete/push/force push certain branches? Is a server repo incremental backup-friendly? Is is as efficient in storage space and data transfer as regular git? Can we incrementally sync dbs like Sqlite?

Seems this is the best E2EE storage. No choosing creator's cloud vs finicky self hosting, nor worry about flaky sync solutions for my password manager, note app, photo storage etc. A 2$ vps would be overkill.
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-11 11:29:10+00:00
> This is part of the reason why I'm not that hopeful about Starmer, as I'm not actually sure what he stands for, so how are his ministers going to implement a policy based on bland soup?

Tony Blair said at the 1996 Labour Part Conference:

> Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile

Starmer is a poor copy of Blair. None of them stand for anything. They say things that pleases enough people so they get elected, then they attempt to enact what they really want to do.

> The Farage style parties fail because they are built around the cult of the leader, rather than the joint purpose of changing something.

There is certainly that. However there are interviews with former Reform / UKIP members that held important positions in both parties. Some of said that Nigel Farage sabotages the party just when they are getting to the point where they could actually be a threat. Which leads some people to think that Nigel Farage is more of a pressure valve. I've not seen any proof of it presented, but it is plausible.

Saying that though, most of the candidates for other parties (not Labour / Conservative) are essentially the people that probably would have no cut it as a candidate in Conservative or Labour parties.
by FatalLogic | 2025-07-11 11:29:22+00:00
>(To be real: if they had not undone the transaction immediately, then the price of Bitcoin would have collapsed, and probably that would have been the end of Bitcoin)

Yes, Bitcoin does not have sufficient trade volume, and it was a joke anyway. Bitcoin would probably not have survived even one more month in 2010, if there were 184 billion new "fake" bitcoins added in the mix.

Even ignoring all the problems about the Bitcoin software being proven to be seriously broken, those 184 billion extra bitcoins meant that every other Bitcoin was suddenly worth about $0.0000000000000001
by vernu | 2025-07-11 11:29:31+00:00
Hi everyone I like reading but many books are long and I do not always have time. So I try to solve this by making small project where AI gives summary of non fiction books.

It is free and simple. You just open and read short version of book in 10 minutes. I use gpt-4o for summarise.

I want to see if more people like this idea or if only I need this. If you have feedback or idea I am happy to hear.

Website is: https://thegisthub.com Thank you
by philipallstar | 2025-07-11 11:29:35+00:00
> If access to content is so unhealthy for anyone, then policy should address that

Kids aren't the same as adults. It's like saying "no one should drive/smoke/drink because kids aren't allowed to".

> cartoon adult content in with his comic books. This was shit from literally 100 years ago, and yet that generation turned out alright by most standards

You can't be comparing, surely? A drawn picture of breasts compared to the most hardcore and (almost always female) degrading stuff imaginable in 4k?
by giantg2 | 2025-07-11 11:30:10+00:00
The assumption you have is that it's mostly a physical ability test. In many cases people don't know the rules or the reasons behind them. Right now, it's something like a 50 question test and you only need to get get 75% right. If you don't know what the proper procedure is up to a quarter of the time on only a subset of the rules, that leaves huge room for errors. I see it all the time with people passing on the shoulder and changing lanes in an intersection. These are high risk illegal activities that many people don't even know aren't legal because everyone else does it and cops rarely enforce it. I have yet to meet a person who doesn't give a shit about getting into an accident. Those people are more likely uninformed and overly cocky.
by chiph | 2025-07-11 11:30:15+00:00
Honestly, even if I had the money, I'd be too afraid to use it. I'd get one of the replica boards.

Those electrolytic capacitors will eventually need replacing. At that point you have to ask yourself if the value will be diminished more by replacing them (with as close to a vintage cap as you can find) to keep it running, or by letting it become nonoperational.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Made a Good AI Powered Film Editing Tool?
by xvok | 2025-07-11 11:30:59+00:00
Lots of indie filmmakers out there can get a good cast and script together, but it winds up looking like it was filmed outside of a Denny's in street clothes... because it was. Anyone working on something to make indie films look more professional? Would love to see more of stuff like RocketJump was putting out, but haven't seen anyone developing something to make it easier.
by zahlman | 2025-07-11 11:31:21+00:00
I'm disappointed that the article doesn't point out that this is really a nice, round, negative 10 BTC if you work out the overflow (in satoshis).

> The rapid implementation of the patch was vital in keeping Bitcoin a viable cryptocurrency. 184 billion Bitcoin would have devalued the currency completely, leaving it at the mercy of the person holding the newly-minted Bitcoin.

It would have become worthless, sure, but I imagine that other people would have also just gone around creating additional batches of 184 billion BTC and driving the project into the ground, rather than letting one person walk off with effectively the entire thing.
by mauvehaus | 2025-07-11 11:31:35+00:00
I'm a pro. I'll agree about guards on a table saw. The ones we get in the USA are without exception crap. I haven't used a Wadkin or European style saw. I can only assume that as much as they must cost to make, there's some merit to them. A riving knife is a really nice feature and I wholeheartedly recommend leaving it in.

Shapers are a mixed bag. If you're running enough straight stock making moldings, you've probably got enough featherboards and/or hold downs if not a power feeder set up that you'd really have to try to get hurt. For smaller jobs or curves work, it's a tossup, but yeah, a lot of it gets done without a guard.

Jointers I'm going to disagree with you: I pretty much refuse to run without a guard. Except for rabbeting, I haven't found a good reason to do so. I have done so in other shops, usually on machines so old that the guard was lost 50 years ago and is irreplaceable. Generally though, if I don't see a guard on a jointer in a shop, I'm pretty wary about what else might be being treated a bit too casually. A guard on a jointer is an easy win with very little downside.
by pards | 2025-07-11 11:32:50+00:00
Just like the Ethereum fork in 2016 [0]. Before then, the battle cries of the crypto advocates were:

- Blockchains are immutable! - The code is the law!

...until someone exploited a code defect and took the founders' money, then they re-write history and ignored the hypocrisy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO
by themk | 2025-07-11 11:33:04+00:00
Hmmm, I don't see it? Are debuggers hard to use? Sometimes. But the debugger is allowing you to do something you couldn't actually do before. i.e. set breakpoints, and step through your code. So, while tricky to use, you are still in a better position than not having it. Just because you can get better at using something doesn't automatically mean that using it as a beginner makes you worse off.

Same can be said for version control and programming.
by mrweasel | 2025-07-11 11:33:25+00:00
I think we've become weary of silence. The shower is sort of the last place where we allow ourselves to just exist. There is noise all around us. We take audio books, podcasts, music, text and videos with us where ever we go, never really just letting the impressions of a place reach us.

It's all distracting from deep thought, which I suspect is also one of the reason why many lay awake at night, overwhelmed by thoughts that had no place to surface during the day.
by lopuhin | 2025-07-11 11:33:44+00:00
I find OpenAI's new flex processing more attractive, as it has the same 50% discount, but allows to use the same API as regular chat mode, so you can still do stuff where Batch API won't work (e.g. evaluating agents), and in practice I found it to work well enough when paired with client-side request caching: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/flex-processing?api-...
by strogonoff | 2025-07-11 11:33:44+00:00
Making quality software is usually a business, and if you distribute it in walled gardens even more so. That said, I have a number of iOS apps installed that I know are developed and sold by specific individuals or small businesses: myNoise, NetNewsWire, The Iconfactory (Bitcam, Tapestry), Sun Seeker, Rarevision VHS are some examples. I am sure there are plenty more, but there are reasons someone would not want to publish an app under own name—same as why you would create an LLC: liability, not having people stalk you personally if they did not like what you make (especially true if you distribute it for free or for a very low price), appearing more professional, etc.

I believe iOS App Store has been groundbreaking specifically in how it allowed a solo developer to start distributing work to millions of people across the entire globe with very little friction, taking care of things that are not just boring but actually not in reach of an individual—pricing in different currencies, accounting under different legal and tax systems, zero friction installation, discovery (at least before it, thanks to the aforementioned qualities, became ultra competitive and overwhelmed by businesses who outsource development and/or by less than scrupulous people wanting to earn a quick dollar), etc.—and just getting you paid. If there was a comparable precursor that I am not aware of, I would be keen to know.
Show HN: Swift List – A Modern Swift Implementation of Ls
by qn9n | 2025-07-11 11:34:05+00:00
SwiftList is a reimplementation of the Unix ls command in Swift 6.0. It provides compatibility with standard ls flags while offering modern Swift API design and cross-platform support.

Technical Implementation

- Swift 6.0 with Foundation and FileManager for reliable file operations - Swift Argument Parser for clean command-line interface - Shell completion support for bash, zsh, and fish - Swift Package Manager integration for easy installation - Follows Swift API Design Guidelines throughout

Key Features

- ls flag compatibility (--all, --long, --recurse, etc.) - Color and icon (emoji) support for enhanced file identification - Multiple display formats (basic, detailed, recursive) - Multiple path support - Built-in shell completion generation (--generate-completion-script)

Recent Development

- Fixed shell completion reliability across bash, zsh, and fish - Added standard version flag support - Enhanced long format display options

Why Swift?

Swift's strong type system, memory safety, and Foundation integration make it well-suited for system utilities. The result is a fast, reliable ls replacement with modern error handling and clean architecture. The project demonstrates practical Swift usage beyond iOS/macOS app development, showing how Swift can be effective for command-line tools and system utilities. MIT licensed, comprehensive test coverage, ready for production use.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-07-11 11:34:20+00:00
40% is far from the overwhelming global majority that would have been needed to make it work according to theorists like Trotsky. But maybe read his work instead of acting incredulous with a random on Hacker News.

But certainly back to my original point, because I'm really not sure what you're seeing in it. I said we live in a world driven my capitalism, not by logic. I certainly didn't say anything about adopting communism as a solution, and I actually didn't suggest or imply anything about communism at all. You've wasted both our time on an imaginary argument.
by quantumgarbage | 2025-07-11 11:34:34+00:00
This is not an attack on hash functions in general. In this paper, the authors build a statement (or "circuit") which should, by construction, not have any accepting claim. Yet, they show that when using GKR along the FS transform, you can still get accepting proofs.

This has to do with "how an hash function behaves" in the sense that, in the context of a specific protocol (GKR), it is possible to bake in the circuit the ability to predict the randomness obtained from hashing the statement itself and the public values satisfying it.
by bzzzt | 2025-07-11 11:35:19+00:00
Not offering in-app signups doesn't seem to make Spotify less dominant. I'm in the Netherlands, almost everybody I know has a Spotify subscription, I know just one guy using Apple music.

The 30% fee also drops to 15% after one year, and there are companies that negotiated lower fees. Also, 'doing it yourself' won't be free, you still need some party to do payment processing, customer service and returns which also can come close to that 15%.

The argument you need to make your own phone seems a bit far-fetched. There are multiple music apps making money on iOS.
by dumah | 2025-07-11 11:35:21+00:00
Of course every bit of it survived. U-235 has a half life of over 700m years.

Whether it’s yellowcake or UF6, it was merely dispersed within the facilities and has not been mobilized. Recovery would consist of chemical processing of debris using common chemicals.

Fissile materials like enriched uranium and plutonium can only be neutralized by secure disposal or (nuclear) burn up.

When the USSR fell, US nuclear weapons specialists assisted former Soviet republics with securing the tunnels in which many weapon cores were vaporized by subcritical weapon testing, where a weapon core is imploded in such a manner that reactivity is limited below the level needed for low or high order nuclear detonation.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-07-11 11:35:46+00:00
Fair point re: US! Though that doesn't mean it's not a problem.

Re: demographics. It's relatively straightforward: To keep contributions constant while supporting more people, you need either:

-more people via immigration (which is extremely tricky to get right) who are net contributors, not beneficiaries of social systems -massively increased productivity through innovation/technology -cut benefits from social programs

If you do none of those things, the systems will either collapse or you need to raise taxes/mandatory contributions which are de-facto taxes.
by whstl | 2025-07-11 11:37:00+00:00
This is one of those absolute statements that cause the kind of problem stated by grandparent. There are lots of those: "Use Postgres for everything", "No business data on the DB", "No methods bigger than 10 lines", "Abstractions only after 3 usages".

Back to the topic: Lots of potential bugs and data corruption issues are solved by moving part of the business logic to the database. Other people already covered two things: data validation and queue atomicity.

On the other hand, lots of potential issues can also arise by putting other parts of business logic to the database, for example, calling HTTPS endpoints from inside the DB itself is highly problematic.

The reality is that the world is not black and white, and being an engineer is about navigating this grey area.
by mauvehaus | 2025-07-11 11:38:46+00:00
Usually you aren't feeding wood into a bandsaw at the rate they're feeding cows into a bandsaw at a slaughter house though.

Apart from being a complete dunce, the usual way to get cut with a bandsaw is to be feeding with too much uncontrolled force and hitting a soft spot in the wood or running the blade out of the wood.

But yeah, when I'm teaching, the safety talk includes the line "Every piece of meat you see in a butcher shop was from an animal that was cut up with a bandsaw."

If you want to see something truly terrifying, the ones they use to cut up foam are big enough to cut a massive block of foam, and the blade is just a big, continuous band of razor blade.
by codingdave | 2025-07-11 11:39:04+00:00
Those questions are exactly why I'm going to ask my doc. But because gabapentin is specifically for neuropathic pain, I could certainly envision a scenario where a deeper neurological root cause is giving someone both pain and dementia, so they are both symptoms.

I'm not banking on that, of course. It is worth digging into to find out more.
by detourdog | 2025-07-11 11:39:25+00:00
I don't see it as choking the life out of anything. They started in blank slate era of PCs. They grew as a compnay developing many human centric details for computing. They have a group of customers that like that approach and that is who they cater to. They just want to play in their own sandbox. The desire to control their own sandbox and customers is not aggressive. Their success with customers is a reaction to that. The fact that they keep some developers ideas at arms length is not aggressive. They support development with a different set of criteria than the mass market.
by cranberryturkey | 2025-07-11 11:39:27+00:00
Browsers aren’t just born again. They’re evolving into operating systems.

Think about it. Every major app you use daily lives comfortably in your browser. Figma, Notion, Slack, and VSCode run seamlessly without a traditional OS barrier.

Why? Because the browser is now the ultimate abstraction layer. It liberates users from device constraints, creates seamless workflows across platforms, and dramatically reduces friction for developers.

The internet browser is no longer just a viewer of web pages. It's the heart of modern productivity.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-11 11:39:36+00:00
"But the realistic option that worked immediately was mandating backup cameras."

Citation needed. FARS data shows no decrease in reversing fatalities pre vs post backup cameras.

You're also mischaracterizing my argument. The point is, the current test of 50 questions and a 10 minute drive around the block is a joke of a test. Of course you're not weeding out people who aren't fit to drive with such an easy test.
by 542354234235 | 2025-07-11 11:40:31+00:00
>If they didn't need maintenance why upgrade them?

We don't know, but there are other reasons besides maintenance and it is a huge unfounded assumption to say that is the only reason. Upgrading an existing installation for better performance is likely orders of magnatude less expensive than building additional units, building the archor points, and emplacing them, so it could have been getting more data out of less budget.

They may not have permits/authorization for additional locations yet.

The upgrades may provide a significant ROI improvement and the only reason they didn't upgrade all of them was to leave one to look at long term reliability while sacrificing the improved ROI.

But fundamentally, we just don't know. While required maintenance is one possibility, it is by no means the only one.
by lapcat | 2025-07-11 11:41:07+00:00
> He was the one who took the company to a trillion dollar valuation.

Are you comparing Cook to Jobs as an Apple investor or as an Apple customer? As an Apple customer, not an investor, I don't care at all about the company's stock market valuation.

Investors seem to love Tim Cook. Warren Buffett recently said that Tim Cook made more money for Berkshire Hathaway than Buffett himself did. But as an Apple customer, I don't give a crap about Buffett or Berkshire either.

The difference between Cook and Jobs is that Cook is a money person and not a product person. According to his biographer, Jobs lamented that Cook was not a product person. And IMO the products have suffered under Cook: not in terms of profit, but in terms of design and functionality, the things a discerning customer cares about.

I think what's special about Jobs was that, ironically, he had no special training. Of course he was smart, ambitious, and charismatic, but he wasn't an engineer (before Apple, Jobs outsourced some of his work to Woz and took credit for it), wasn't even a professional designer, and he certainly wasn't an MBA. He had no qualifications whatsoever to start a tech company. Jobs was simply a computer enthusiast who had the great luck of meeting a computer genius, Steve Wozniak. Since Jobs was ordinary in many respects, he was able to empathize with ordinary computer users; that was one of his primary roles within Apple. Jobs cared deeply about the user experience, from a first-person perspective. Few if any other massive tech companies have been built by such a founder.