MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vitonsky | 2025-07-20 06:21:27+00:00
No, as i wrote in issue title and explained twice in this thread, the problem is bot SDK does not support encryption. It must work by default, for "privacy focused" application. Chat with no encryption must be an option, not default.

Matrix protocol is over-complicated, as consequence any SDK and even clients are over-complicated too, that eventually makes any interaction with Matrix is difficult, unpleasant, and error-prone.

Matrix design is error-prone by its nature:

Keys exchange confuses many users, I had many questions of people who are not programmer.

Matrix encourage login at random sites who up their web client, that is critical security problem.

But a Matrix fans are blind to a problems. This is why I don't believe Matrix will transform from marginal chat for freaks to a mainstream chat where people talk. So eventually, Matrix is a platform where Matrix fans talks about Matrix and send porn to each other.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-20 06:22:21+00:00
Even Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal eventually got them.

Zig is trying to fix C, by delivering stuff already present in Modula-2, minus comptime, in a C like clothing.

The judge is still out there if it will become something unavoidable in some industry circles, or just yet another programming language to talk about.

From my point of view, being stuck in the past of systems languages design, during the AI age where the actual language becomes slowly irrelevant, it will mean the latter.
by nine_k | 2025-07-20 06:23:08+00:00
> I doubt there's level boarding so disabled people can get on without assistance.

At every station I've ever been to, the boarding is level, and the gap is small.

Many (though not all yet) stations have elevators large enough for a disabled person in a wheelchair.

All buses (operated by the same MTA as the usbway) have a foldable ramp for wheelchairs, used quite routinely.
by nevdka | 2025-07-20 06:23:21+00:00
You mentioned restrictions around sending money, but not restrictions on receiving money. If you put obligations on the banks receiving payments to refund scam victims, those banks will have incentive to stop people using their services to conduct scams. Basically, unusual payments get stopped or delayed until the bank can confirm their own customer isn’t running a scam, identities haven’t been stolen to open accounts, etc.
by chistev | 2025-07-20 06:23:31+00:00
A means of posting on Reddit for those permanently banned.

I've been banned from using Reddit for years, and each time I create a jew account or use a different device I get suspended immediately. I don't even know how I'm getting caught for "ban evasion" lol.

So a tool to make me post on Reddit and comment, lol. I don't even know how it would work.
by qingcharles | 2025-07-20 06:25:12+00:00
Bulk Rename Utility is excellent and I've used it a lot in the past. Ironically, I've been thinking about replacing it with an LLM based rename tool that can look at each filename and make decisions about how to rename them (I'm usually trying to rename tens of thousands of PDFs which have the date written in a dozen different format and languages and normalize them all to dd MM YYYY).
by saddat | 2025-07-20 06:25:54+00:00
I had this thought that for hypothetical Voyager 3 mission , instead of a golden disc , a LLM should be installed . Then, a very simplistic initial interface could be described , in its simplest for a single channel digital channel, then additional more elaborated ones . Behind all interfaces there could be a LLM responding to provided input , and eventually reveal humanities knowledge
by ggm | 2025-07-20 06:25:57+00:00
Vegetarians and Vegans turn out to prefer less UPF dominant protein in their diet?

Plus, they apparently lost 45c in every $1 of sold product.

Quorn, allergy issue noted, continues. Growing edible fungi in tanks using classic bioreactor methods works, is economically sustainable. TVP likewise. 1960s tech which works at scale.

Me? I liked eating it a bit. I like eating flesh and organ meat, fowl and fish a lot. A lot beats a bit. I like inari sushi too. So it's not I dislike the veg alternatives.
by hakfoo | 2025-07-20 06:26:52+00:00
Perhaps they're looking at specific empty slots in the competitive product lineup and doubling-down there.

I'm sort of surprised, for example, that LTS embedded is not more of a thing. Sell something like those little N50/100/150 mini-PCs, (or more likely an ITX mainboard with the same specs) but for an astronomical price and guarantees "we'll stock and support it for 10 years" for firms who need certifiable fixed platforms. Small volume but probably easy to get name-your-price margins.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-07-20 06:27:41+00:00
How many station platforms have you been to?

https://s3-prod.crainsnewyork.com/Subway%20Mind%20the%20Gap%...

https://i.redd.it/gap-at-sheepshead-bay-v0-14ea8irudhvc1.jpg...

https://images-prod.gothamist.com/original_images/90BA6BA3-A...

https://api-prod.gothamist.com/images/346940/fill-1200x650%7...
by stevius | 2025-07-20 06:29:17+00:00
I wanted to share my GitOps project for my homelab, a self-configuring CI/CD environment for Proxmox: https://github.com/stevius10/Proxmox-GitOps

Proxmox-GitOps is built to manage and deploy LXC containers in Proxmox, fully defined as code and easy to modify via Pull Request. Consistent, modular, and dynamically adapting to changing environments and base configurations.

A single command (and accepting the Pull Request in the Docker environment, ha) bootstraps the recursive deployment:

- The Docker-based environment pushes its own codebase as a monorepo, referencing modular components (containers you define are automatically integrated as submodules), each integrated into CI/CD. - The pipeline triggers itself — updating references, enforcing state, and continuing recursively.

Provisioning is handled via Ansible using the Proxmox API. Configuration is managed with Chef/Cinc cookbooks focused on application logic. Shared configuration is applied consistently across all services. Changes to the base system propagate automatically. It’s easily extensible, aiming to have all containers built the same way. There’s an explanation of how to do this in the README of the repository.

This project is still young and there are most likely some bugs. I built it primarily for my own homelab, but I’d like to develop it further. Would really appreciate if you are interested in The project
by mdaniel | 2025-07-20 06:30:10+00:00
I know this is about Beyond but I figure the audience that would care about this article would be interested in looking at Juicy Marbles: https://juicymarbles.com/collections/all-products

I've tried the thick cut filet and just like you're not going to mistake Impossible for actual burger, so too with the filet but it's a good texture and does help fill the longing for steak for me
by tombarys | 2025-07-20 06:30:38+00:00
This is a topic for another article! We tried hard to use (test) translation tools in some real-life scenarios. The results seemed like they can help first but then we spent a lot of time again to reach our standards. As a side-effect, our translators and editors felt they are losing their own creativity and sensitivity in that process.

We are a publisher which succeeded due to the highest-quality translations. Our readers appreciated it and ask for it. Czech language is very rich and these machines are not able to make the most of it. The non-fiction sphere needs a lot of fact-checking e.g. in local and field terminology too. So even we can imagine the process of translation could be technically shortened by machine translation, it would probably ruin our reputation in a long term.

At least for now...
by dmazin | 2025-07-20 06:32:06+00:00
Woops, sorry, yes, this is in London.

According to Good Food Institute (which is a plant-based food lobbying group), 35% of UK households purchased plant-based milk at least once during 2023 and 33% of UK households bought plant-based meat alternatives at least once during 2023.

https://gfieurope.org/blog/plant-based-meat-and-milk-are-now...

For a less biased source, a 2022 ipsos poll found that 48% of the UK uses alternative milk and 58% " use at least one plant-based meat alternative in their diet".

I think things dropped a bit since then due to cost of living crisis.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/almost-half-uk-adults-set-cut-in...
by haileys | 2025-07-20 06:33:53+00:00
Well, `override` going after the return type is certainly confusing.

I was recently tripped up by putting `const` at the end, where `override` is supposed to go. It compiled and worked even. It wasn't until later on when something else suddenly failed to compile that I realised that `const` in that position was a modifier on the return type, not the method.

So `const` goes before the -> but `override` goes after the return type. Got it.
by jajko | 2025-07-20 06:34:12+00:00
At that time, maybe yes. These days, it would fail in many other criteria. Sound pollution is brutal, can't be effectively mitigated and it was all just about rich sparing few hours to get to NY/Paris faster.

Fuck the rich, take normal airliner like everybody else if you are so poor to not have your own jet. We are not bending health standards to whims of few moderately wealthy individuals, sounds like some societal progress there.

A sort of self-regulating issue for a change.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-20 06:36:52+00:00
No, I'm sorry but that's not correct. "Natural" is a meaningless health and wellness buzzword that handwaves away the details that each food comes with benefits and disadvantages. There are variable amounts of anti-nutrients almost every "natural" ingredient, some of which we process or cook to lessen them.

Indigenous people processed acorns to remove tanins.

Kidney beans (and many other legumes to variably lesser degree) naturally contain phytohaemagglutinins (PHA-E) which cause red blood cells to clump together. These can be reduces several orders of magnitude by repeated cooking, washing, and draining.

Men shouldn't eat too much soy or chia seeds. Small amounts of chia seeds are fine.

Most adults are lactose intolerant unless they have lactase persistence genes.

Spinach, pepper (the spice kind), rhubarb, almonds, and more contain oxalate that can lead to kidney stone formation. Excess vitamin C does also. Increasing citrate intake helps prevent calcium kidney stone formation, but doesn't help with oxalate kidney stones as much.

The list of antinutrients is long. Don't overdo eating one "natural" ingredient or another because that's the greatest risk of becoming a Chubbyemu video subject.
by jedberg | 2025-07-20 06:37:37+00:00
This happens to any platform using algorithmic pricing. Any time there is an unexpected event that either constrains supply or increases demand (or both), the algos go haywire. Then the the platform has to put in checks to prevent it from happening again.

Remember when Uber was new and the surge pricing could do 20X+ in just a few minutes when there was an emergency? And then they had to fix it so that wouldn't happen, the trade off being that there just weren't cars available.

The thing is, some people aren't price sensitive. In a sudden blizzard, some people are happy to pay $350 for a two mile ride home, just to get home. And some drivers are happy to go out in that weather for their piece of the $350.

The hard question is how do you find the balance?
by literalAardvark | 2025-07-20 06:39:45+00:00
Still, a child telling their parent to walk isn't actually walking.

It could easily not even know what walking means, just know that there's food when it tells mom to go to the kitchen.

I used to ask my grandmother for "plain water" because she always brought me milk. I was very disappointed when I asked someone else for plain water, because I had no idea why grandma's was better.
by aurareturn | 2025-07-20 06:40:31+00:00
Is it Airbnb that increased the price or hosts?

Regardless, I don't see any problem here. The price increases, more people with a spare apartment, home, or room will be incentivized to host which increases supply.

If you suppress the price artificially, then the supply won't increase which won't do people who lost their homes any favors.
by mppm | 2025-07-20 06:41:21+00:00
Maybe a bit late to comment, but for what it's worth: There is no primer that could be actually useful, because the "tax optimization" landscape is fragmented and constantly shifting. Everything depends on where you live, where you do business, how much much money is involved, etc.

But there is a central driving force behind it all: governments constantly fight for "tax justice" with one hand and create various "incentives" and exceptions with the other, in an effort to briefly gain the upper hand over other countries in the zero-sum game of attracting international capital. The former tends to plug all possible loopholes for the "ordinary wealthy", while the latter always leaves options for the truly big fish, they just don't stay the same decade-over-decade.
by hapless | 2025-07-20 06:42:38+00:00
Indigo2 is just convergent evolution.

The Indigo2 family had EISA slots, so it was obliged to hold a full-length ISA card.

There are only so many ways to skin that cat: You want a small, thin desktop with quiet cooling that will also fit a full length ISA card. LPX and Indigo2 look similar because they were solving the same problem.

See also: Octane and Origin 200 vis a vis ATX and WATX. When SGI adopted 64 bit PCI, their desktop-sized systems started to look a bit like ATX, despite a radically different underlying architecture

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The equivalent Sun and HP9000 kit could look quite different because they did not even try to offer EISA as an option

Later Sun and HP9000 kit, with PCI64 slots, started to converge on an ATX "look" for similar reasons to the I2 and LPX
by lioeters | 2025-07-20 06:43:08+00:00
Oh that's a more proper study than the amateur experiment I saw.

> For this purpose, we trained goldfish to use a Fish Operated Vehicle (FOV), a wheeled terrestrial platform that reacts to the fish’s movement characteristics, location and orientation in its water tank to change the vehicle’s; i.e., the water tank’s, position in the arena.

> The fish were tasked to “drive” the FOV towards a visual target in the terrestrial environment, which was observable through the walls of the tank, and indeed were able to operate the vehicle, explore the new environment, and reach the target regardless of the starting point, all while avoiding dead-ends and correcting location inaccuracies.

From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01664...
by tappio | 2025-07-20 06:43:27+00:00
I feel that it is a commom thing. You just have to "keep an eye on it". There are several failure modes with Claude. Maybe the most annoying is that it often uses kind of defensive programming, so it is harder to detect that there is a fatal mistake somewhere. It can hide those really well. And it loves to fix linter issues with any type in typescript.

Im using it regardless. Ive just learnt to deal with these and keep an eye on them. When it creates a duplicate interface I roll back to earlier prompt and be more explicit that this type already exists.

I try to not argue whether something it does is wrong or right. There is not point. I will simply rollback and try with another prompt. Claude is not a human.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-20 06:44:25+00:00
Here in hill country Texas, even Walmart sells MorningStar corn dogs. H-E-B carries most of the Impossible line including meatballs. I made some dirty rice with the IF ground "beef" and it was awesome. There's almost no oil in it, browning onions and peppers required adding some avocado oil (never use olive oil for high temperature cooking).

PS: I'm a lazy vegetarian who will eat a real burger every few months. When vegan parm and swiss cheese get as good as the real stuff, then I'd go vegan.
by orangecat | 2025-07-20 06:44:34+00:00
Dismissing any new technology because of Bitcoin makes exactly as much sense as dismissing any new medical advancements because of Theranos. Ok, some people said Bitcoin would change the world, and they were wrong. Some people also said the PC, Internet, and smartphones would change the world, and they were right.

And of course you'll have people replying to this trying to make the case for why AI coding is already a thing, when in reality those posts are once again going to be carbon copies of similar comments from the Bitcoin days

What is the actual argument here? Anyone claiming that AI has been useful for them is a lying shill?
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-20 06:46:27+00:00
This is all economy 101, rational preference BS. The reality is that suppliers very often collude to increase prices universally (particularly for things like housing, where there is almsot a natural monopoly - you can't bring in more land to the same city), and buyers have no way of knowing or acting on this. Airbnb is perfect for organizing such collusion, acting as a virtual cartel.
by edent | 2025-07-20 06:46:42+00:00
Vibe Coding seems to work best when you are already an experienced programmer.

For example "Prompt: Write me an Atari BASIC program that draws a blue circle in graphics mode 7."

You need to know that there are various graphics modes and that mode 7 is the best for your use-case. Without that preexisting knowledge, you get stuck very quickly.
by hapless | 2025-07-20 06:47:18+00:00
In the 1990s none of that stuff was made in mainland China, not even the cases. A great deal was made in Taiwan. Even more was still made in the USA.

Personally I remember AST -- a PC clone vendor who specialized in vertical integration, all in the USA. USA-made accessory cards, fit into USA-made motherboards, fit into USA-made cases, run by USA-made power supplies.

All this dried up and blew away, including the parent company, as both mainland and Taiwan capacity improved and prices fell, but it was not that long ago that you could literally build an entire PC with American components. 25 years, not 50 or 70.
by dang | 2025-07-20 06:47:42+00:00
I suppose what made me respond to that comment is that it was so plainly a generic tangent, moving the discussion in a repetitive/indignant direction—exactly opposite to the direction we hope threads will go. Also, such comments are particularly bad when the thread is new, and particularly bad at the toplevel.

> If this standard were consistently enforced, this site would be a graveyard

That sort of thing is super easy to say, but is plainly untrue. Alas, it has a destructive effect in its own right. If you guys knew how fragile everything is that we're trying (and failing) to achieve here, I believe you would be more careful. It's a tragedy of the commons thing: it's feels better to point fingers and blame others for a deplorable shared situation, than to fix one's own contributions.

That is not to dispute that many embarrassingly low-quality comments get posted to Hacker News. It bothers me and I wish it were otherwise.
by tombarys | 2025-07-20 06:48:16+00:00
I understand. The question is what does it mean to "survive" for someone.

For me survival means: - continuing to do my best at the language level – even if more people would start be gradually satisfied with less - I just believe that education, critical thinking and evidence-based principles are at core of humanity progress and one day it will make comeback - I am ok with smaller income and not wishing to exchange it for creating bullshit

The adaptation for me means: - generally: stay open-minded - I have to understand and somehow accept that the prospect is a bit grim but not to fall into some extreme and doom thinking - I have to explore new ways how to augment human-oriented creativity (with or without these tools)

What do you think?
by hapless | 2025-07-20 06:49:29+00:00
The 3000UX was dead on arrival

It cost as much as an early 1990s UNIX workstation but it featured the technology of the 1980s, so it was extremely slow by the standards of the day.

For the price of a 3000UX, you could buy an SGI with 10x the CPU power, or a Sun with 10x as many pixels on the display. It was a really, really bad deal. As per usual for Commodore, too little, too late.
by Szpadel | 2025-07-20 06:49:43+00:00
> quite impressed with the smoothness of the UX on this relatively cheap machine.

I recently tried installing cachyos kernel on fedora I tried sched_ext with it (scx_lavd specifically) and to my suprise changing CPU scheduler resolved all UI stuttering for me (even dual 360hz + laptop screen on 3y old laptop with integrated intel gpu)

I occasionally use M1 apple mini and right now I can confidently say that now my Linux machine works smoother.
by microtonal | 2025-07-20 06:51:09+00:00
Also, they taste better? I have been a vegetarian since 1999. Even in the small village I lived with my parents, the local supermarket had a meat replacement section. Later I moved to a larger city and the product selection at supermarkets is very large and nice. A few years ago, supermarkets also started carrying Beyond Meat products. We tried them a few times, but they taste absolutely horrible compared to local offerings that have been developed for decades now.
by simianparrot | 2025-07-20 06:51:53+00:00
Trust but verify is absolutely essential for doctors, as with most things. I’ve been given medication and told it’s perfectly safe only to find out the side effects and odds the hard way afterwards, for a symptom I should and could’ve treated with a simple dietary change. That’s my least egregious experience, even if said side effects have taken years to recover from.

Family members have had far far worse. And that’s in Norway’s healthcare system. So now I trust that they’ll mean well but verify because that’s not enough.
by hapless | 2025-07-20 06:52:59+00:00
Back in 1993, a $5k SGI had ~5x as much CPU power as a $10k x86 PC. Not a joke. You could get a 100 MHz R4000PC that would happily drive a display at 1280x1024 for the price of a 33 MHz 486 that would run Windows 3.x at 640x480

They worked very hard to make IRIX a competitive advantage over other UNIX vendors, but it was never a reason to buy SGI over "commodity"

If anything, IRIX was a hindrance to adoption, because UNIX was notoriously RAM-hungry, and the early 1990s had a horrible, horrible price crunch on RAM.
by BinaryIgor | 2025-07-20 06:54:03+00:00
Interesting; I was thinking about creating something like that a few years ago - since I love listening to information a lot while doing some chores/walking - but back then, all available text-to-speech converters were unbearably robotic.

How much time does it take to convert a book/doc into audio using your approach? Also, as I understood it all runs locally, so you don't need to pay for any API access/usage?
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-20 06:54:51+00:00
> If you suppress the price artificially, then the supply won't increase which won't do people who lost their homes any favors.

Supply's not increasing substantially in the near future to help regardless. Folks place far too much faith in market effects that history has demonstrated again and again only take effect in the long term.

You know what would actually guarantee an increase in supply? Government-funded public housing. But that would deflate property prices, which is far more reprehensible to americans than the institutions of poverty and homelessness. We are a disgusting and reprehensible people.