MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by random3 | 2025-08-06 13:20:25+00:00
I'm one of those watching on the side, wishing there would be a holistic, aggregated, view on all pros/cons that highlight each results statistical relevance as well (in particular it'd be great to understand test samples).

On the natural evolution. I think it's best to think of it as a proces, with optimal state being a limit (e.g. in time, in total population), but especially in a changing environment. So, as it became easier to procure/produce fats or sugars there can be local sub-optimal states. So, in this framework, th "how come our bodies don't just produce more GLP-1?" question, can be answered with the fact that it's possible that we just haven't adapted yet. If we end up back to previous availability.— e.g. we lose farm land and "starve" again it would end up being the right evolutionary speed, if not, those that naturally produce more, may end up becomign majoritary.

The bottom line is that natural evolution is a long term process that's adapting things to long term changes and "long" here can mean many generations.

In a sense, philsophically, I wonder what prevents our own "changes" to be just a natural evolution of the natural evolution— i.e. a "conscious" evolution.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-08-06 13:20:46+00:00
Hmmm. Back in the day it was normal bikes that did all that. Young people can attain the necessary fitness easily.

I fear that once started on an e-bike, with all the benefits the article lists, the one thing that may never happen is changing to a conventional bike later. For example, some serious mountain biking Youtube channels I watch point out that electric mountain bikes are just as good at the cool stuff (berms, jumps etc) but simply take the drudgery out of getting to the top of the hill in the first place. If a less fit teenager on an e-MTB is seen as cooler than a more fit one on a conventional MTB... you know what will happen. The conventional crowd, though fitter, will be seen like the poor Android cousins to the "right coulour texting bubble" iPhone crowd.
by troupo | 2025-08-06 13:21:04+00:00
> All these excuses, especially about vanity, are masking behaviors.

1. These are not excuses, these are facts of life

2. No idea where you got vanity from

> DOM access is not quite as fast now as it was 10 years ago. I was getting just under a billion operations per second

Who said anything about DOM access?

> The only real performance problem is the JS developer doing stupid shit.

Ah yes. I didn't know that "animating a simple rectangle requires 60% CPU" is "developers doing stupid shit" and not DOM being slow because you could do meaningless "DOM access" billions time a second.

Please re-read what I wrote and make a good faith attempt to understand it. Overcome your bias and foregone conclusions.
by Apfel | 2025-08-06 13:21:15+00:00
Sidepoint but they're also a complete gamechanger for the elderly and infirm.

My 70 year old, double-ankle replacement mother who I don't remember ever walking very comfortably bought an ebike a couple of years back.

The sheer joy on her face watching her whizz up a hill made me realise just how transformational these things can be.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-06 13:21:16+00:00
They are referring to Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody's.

On Jul 24 he posted this on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-outlook-going-off-script-m...

Opening bullet: "The U.S. economy will struggle in the coming months, and while it should avoid a recession, it will be close."
by brudgers | 2025-08-06 13:21:35+00:00
Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position

"Coffee" with the friend of a friend would he better strategy than a cover letter in that case...more work, but better strategy.

Because logically, getting hired requires demonstrating you are "the kind of person we want to work with." Being qualified on paper is not necessarily required.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-06 13:21:37+00:00
This is the first time I'm hearing about Grok being able to generate videos. So if it's viral marketing it is working

I would try it out on more innocent things, but as usual with Grok I'm not sure where to even start. There is the X bot, the dedicated website, the iOS app and the Android app, and features between them never match up. Based on the reporting this might be available in the X bot and the iOS app, but not the website and the android app? I've never been able to make sense of their feature rollout beyond "it's probably on whatever Elon is using"
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-06 13:21:49+00:00
This misses all the people who were "British" and used this scheme to avoid taxes.

Here's a list of prominent ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_non-domici...

A Conservative MP who "inherited" the status.

A son of a British newspaper magnate that got it because his dad became a tax exile to France.

Hereditary peers in the House of Lords who were claiming to live abroad and so on

And many of the "other countries" in these cases are in fact tax havens like Monaco or Belize.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-06 13:22:10+00:00
You didn't address the fact that they have state-side facilities slated to open in 2026? You also said intel "doesn't" not "can't" isn't it more reasonable that demand will force supply to adapt. Why couldn't intel compete before? and why can't it going forward? China is working on TSMC rivals (if they haven't succeeded already), the west should just sit on its hands and wait for a military conflict with china because of TSMC dependence? in the short term you're right, but change is long due.
by cyrialize | 2025-08-06 13:22:32+00:00
If you are interested in learning more about scientific fraud, I highly recommend you check out the YouTube channel Bobby Broccoli [0].

He makes engaging deep-dive documentaries on scientific fraud and scandals. It is absolutely /fascinating/. Videos are anywhere from 30m to 2h long, or broken up into several 1h episodes.

The series he has on cold fusion (not the Adobe programming language, the other cold fusion) is really good! [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/BobbyBroccoli

[1]: https://youtu.be/jn92eWhGG14?si=xvH8ChiSGHsFp2Bw
by bayindirh | 2025-08-06 13:22:44+00:00
While spicy doesn't have to mean actual hot peppers, it doesn't have to mean flat out nudity, too, IMHO.

Yes, xAI is playing to the stands here, but they can be more creative and tasteful in this.

Who am I kidding with the last paragraph, but eh.

Also, somebody put it out so much better than me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811611
by handsclean | 2025-08-06 13:22:50+00:00
Kagi automatically credits you for any month you don’t use it [1] [2]. They also charge only the price difference on upgrade [3], though personally I care about this less now that unlimited is $10/mo.

[1]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#fair-pricing

[2]: https://kagi.com/changelog#6155

[3]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#if-i-upgrade-my-plan...
by cthalupa | 2025-08-06 13:22:50+00:00
But you also take up resources, continue to decline physically, etc.

We know that there is strong selection pressure for things that occur during reproductive years. No one debates this.

How much the sort of scenarios you're discussing impact selection pressure is significantly less clear.

But it's also a moot point for this discussion - we haven't been in a world where people can get this fat so easily and in such large quantities for long enough to make significant impact to evolution even if we assumed that selection pressure works the same in said world - and again, we know it doesn't.
by ryao | 2025-08-06 13:22:56+00:00
> Can you give me an example of another battery/power pack which is built today and can continue operating for 11 years without degrading?

I have LiFePo4 batteries from K2 Energy that will be 13 years old in a few months. They were designed as replacements for SLA batteries. Just the other day, I had put two of them into a UPS that needed a battery replacement. They had outlived the UPS units where I had them previously.

I have heard of Nickel Iron batteries around 100 years old that still work, although the only current modern manufacturers are in China. The last US manufacturer went out of business in 2023.

> You want genuinely better sounding drivers, you'll pay top dollar in most cases.

I do not doubt that, but if the signal processing improves things, I would consider that to be a quality improvement.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-06 13:23:12+00:00
I mean, there is also the little part of the story where a woman, irrespective of how famous she might be, is having adult content rendered with her likeness without her consent.

I personally don't give two fucks if Grok can make porn. Neat, I might actually use it then. That doesn't make deepfakes less troubling.
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-06 13:23:38+00:00
But you don't know that promising that wouldn't have emoldened the Japanese leadership. That they wouldn't have seen that as a weakening of Allied resolve and a willingness to end the war on Japan's terms. Japan was already using Iwo Jima and Okinawa to fight to the last man while exacting high American causalities, in an attempt to make the US reassess the cost of taking mainland Japan.
by thrance | 2025-08-06 13:23:43+00:00
Just more vice signaling from this awful company. Like with the white genocide or mechahitler "controversies", they're doing it to pander to the mentally ill edgelord demographic who thinks saying "heil hitler" is the coolest shit. And it's working, they're all worshipping Musk like he isn't the pathetic excuse of a human being he is.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-06 13:23:54+00:00
Trading platforms would make more money if you made just enough money to continue to trade long term. Especially the bucket shops crypto and forex exchanges that make most of their money front-running customer orders.

Unregulated exchanges are just a way to bring back the bad old days of "boiler room" penny stock scammers of the 80's. Most of the people making money are running 40 year old scams on 20 somethings who don't know better yet.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-08-06 13:23:54+00:00
The FSF thinks it counts as a derivative work and you have to use the LGPL to allow linking.

However, this has never actually been proven in court, and there's many good arguments that linking doesn't count as a derivative work.

Old post by a lawyer someone else found (version 3 wouldn't affect this) [1]

For me personally I don't really understand how, if dynamic linking was viral, using linux to run code isn't viral. Surely at some level what linux does to run your code calls GPLed code.

It doesn't really matter though, since the FSF stance is enough to scare companies from not using it, and any individual is highly unlikely to be sued.

[1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6366
by amirhirsch | 2025-08-06 13:23:55+00:00
You can tell the veteran status of FPGA devs by the quality of their rants about the tools. The big FPGA companies have no quality metrics for developer experience. You should be able to make an LED blink within a minute of powering up a board and not after a day of downloading and installing stuff. It used to be possible to quickly start with Vivado on AWS cloud, and I was using that workflow for years, although recent licensing changes presented a speed-bump there, and I ended up going with a local install for my recent project.

Even once you get that LED blinking, changing a clock speed for that blinking LED should be near instantaneous but more likely requires a rebuilding the whole project. Fundamentally the vendors don’t view their chips as something designed to run programs, and this legacy hardware design mentality plagues their whole business.

Something important here: Xilinx could and should have been where NVidia is today. They were certainly aware of the competitive accelerated computing market as early as 2005, and fundamentally failed to make a software architecture competitive with CUDA.

Before CUDA even existed I interned at Xilinx working on the beginnings of their HLS C compiler. My (decade older) fraternity brother led the C compiler team at Altera. We almost went into making a spreadsheet compiler for FPGA (my masters thesis) together but 2007 ended up being a terrible year to sell accelerated computing to Wall Street.
by j_w | 2025-08-06 13:23:57+00:00
Four comments and only one seems to be related to the article.

The article is about "touching on independence, mental health, social behavior, and even environmental awareness" just as much as not sitting on your butt inside.

It talks about car culture and social challenges. It recommends class 1 e-bikes so you still have to pedal (no throttle). Yes e-bikes are "cheating" the exercise of cycling, but teens aren't getting e-bikes to go cycling they are getting them to travel without asking somebody to drive them.

Throttle e-bikes are a bit of a menace in my area, but that's whatever. If more people can get outside and enjoy life that's a huge win.
by pfooti | 2025-08-06 13:24:32+00:00
I'll give that a try, thanks! I'm currently doing a 10h room temp ferment (from 1/4t of yeast) and a 48h fridge rest. I think I got that from kenji alt. I'm satisfied with some of it, but I wish the crust was a bit more chewy and able to stand up to the sauce. The slices all flop over, but that may also be from over-saucing.
by CyanLite2 | 2025-08-06 13:24:47+00:00
Our bodies haven’t evolved yet to produce more GLP-1 because until recently (~70 years ago) malnutrition and hunger had been one of the top killers of humans. Frankly put, we weren’t designed to live this long.

We’re designed to consume calories and store those calories indefinitely to meet short term needs, rather than lifelong health.

But we weren’t also designed to consume microplastics, artificial sweeteners, or flavors designed in a laboratory. Yet here we are. And it’s quite probable those things contribute to obesity.
by Marsymars | 2025-08-06 13:24:51+00:00
> So what is it about subscription that makes this impossible?

Just the nature of it? A subscription is always going to be a regular fee that pays for an aggregate of multiple things, some of which aren’t used by every subscriber. (And which some subscribers are going to object to paying for.) The only way to ensure that you only pay for what you use is a pay-per-use model.

And conceptually I really like pay-per-use models, but the public tends not to love them - in particular for things with low marginal costs of production/serving, like software services. (As opposed to medium marginal-cost goods, like say, home gas utility, where non-usage-based pricing is available, but tends to be poor value.)
by morkalork | 2025-08-06 13:25:38+00:00
>make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates

There's something about profiting from both the problem and it's solution here. Like Sam A. profits from ChatGPT being used to create human-like bots on the internet while also involved in that eyeball-scanning-blockchain company that's selling a human verification solution to the same problems caused by openai.

I guess also similar to starve the beast strategy: cause a problem and exploit it for narrative gain.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-06 13:25:58+00:00
Strategy I'm playing with, we'll see how good of results I get, is to prompt Opus to analyze and plan but not implement.

E.g. prompt to read a paper, read some source, then write out a terse document meant to be read by machine not human.

Then switch to Sonnet, have it read that document, and do the actual implementation work.
by teo_zero | 2025-08-06 13:26:01+00:00
I don't know Python so well as to propose any meaningful contribution, but it seems to me that most issues would be mitigated by a sort of "final" statement or qualifier, that prohibits any further changes to the underlying data structure, thus enabling all the nice optimizations, tricks and shortcuts that compilers and interpreters can't afford when data is allowed to change shape under their feet.
by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-08-06 13:26:25+00:00
> a constant act of reinterpretation and triangulation, which is something that LLMs, as linguistic averaging machines, simply cannot do.

Just a matter of time until they can do it. I actually believe it will be an "organic" nature for LLMs to correct narratives that require correction after assembling all facts.

The objective story is a discourse, including the nonsense that is often necessary for a few lines or more before one gets to the core of something or builds up the strength of character to say the truth. Objectivity is a conversation, a neverending one and getting in the way via censorship, gaslighting, cancel culture and what not is no more than an act of vanity.

Humanity's age of consciousness is getting fucked pretty bad atm and we won't recover "in time" to save enough minds before hitting the road towards singularity but I'm positive Robots will be able to salvage enough pieces later on, and simulate it to train us to be better.
by bakiuzun | 2025-08-06 13:26:40+00:00
Hi There,

I was doing an object detection project and needed to annotate some data that I retrieved. I used the automatic system of Roboflow to quickly start and thought about what are they using ? I figured out that I could do the same thing too so I started a webpage that does only one job, Auto label a dataset. The dataset can be folders of videos and images, only images, or videos doesn't matter. The user just upload the dataset, enters the keywords and/or classes names and click to "annotate". I made the price lower than Roboflow of course as you can't adjust the bounding box after but it's a good starting point I think. We don't store nor sell the data besides storing them on the cloud to upload them on RunPod GPU's and get results as fast as possible.

Right now We are using Ground DINO v1 and I plan to use Ground DINO v1.5 which is way way more capable and ultra powerful to detect very specific object WITHOUT Training and manual labeling.

Annotify v1.0.0 launched. https://www.bakiotic-annotify.com/

See you soon!
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-06 13:27:02+00:00
While we have people weighing in on e-bikes in this thread: any recommendations on a decent one?

I want something that's not a cheap Chinese thing, but something of some measure of quality. I kinda hate the fat-tire thing and I'm not a real fan of hub motors (they add so much weight to the wheel that trying to ease a bike down off a curb results in slamming the wheel for me). I prefer mid-drive.
by nickpinkston | 2025-08-06 13:27:13+00:00
As a non-robotics simulation understander, how are the specifics of the gripper/object interaction modeled?

For instance, can the gripper / object materials be soft / floppy / goopy, or does the simulation assume they are perfectly rigid bodies?

What kind of surface parameters does the model use? Coeff of friction, durometer of rubber surfaces touching the object, surface texture / roughness (RMS, Ra)? More?
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-06 13:27:36+00:00
Looks like the AirGradient went up against a similar device with a huge colour screen that's easy to read. No wonder they preferred that, although I'm not sure if the $100 price difference is worth it for other people.

The AirGradient screen isn't even that small, but the UI can be much more user-friendly IMO. There's a reason all the other meters with screens do HUGE NUMBER+tiny label.

I'm sure many people will prefer the AirGradient, but I don't think the reviewer is wrong for having different preferences.
by addy34 | 2025-08-06 13:27:37+00:00
>Try it today in the Gemini app. Available globally on desktop and mobile

Not quite. Gemini isn't available in Hong Kong. Unfortunately instead of telling Pixel users that, they updated their phones to use Gemini instead of the functional assistant, and then whenever the assistant is accessed, it just spins forever with a "just a moment" prompt.

It's not even clear why it's disabled, since it works just fine if you pay them for workspace subscription.
by roda73 | 2025-08-06 13:27:40+00:00
This is one of the reasons I absolutely hate Linux based development and operating systems built with it.

We all know it now as dependency hell, but what it is in fact is just a lazy shortcut for the current development that will bite you down the path. The corporate software is not a problem, because the corporate users don't care as long as it works now, in the future they will still rely on paid solutions that will continue working for them. For me, I run a local mirror of arch linux, because I don't want to connect to internet all the time to download a library that I might need or some software that I may require. I like it all here, but since I haven't updated in a while I might see some destructive update if I were to choose to update now. This should never happen, another thing that should never happen is if I were to compile an old version of some software. Time and time again, I will find a useful piece of software on github and I will naturally try compiling it, it's never easy, I will have to hunt the dependency it requires, then try compiling old versions of various libraries. It's just stupid, I wish it were easier and built smarter. Yes sometimes I want to run old software, that has no reason not to work. When you look at windows, it all works magically, well it's not magic it's just done smart. On GNU+Linux smart thinking like this is not welcome, it never has been. Instead they rely on huge amounts of people that develop this software, to perpetually update their programs for no reason, but to satisfy a meaningless number of a dependency.
by gibagger | 2025-08-06 13:27:43+00:00
For the teenagers of which country, exactly?.

I live in the Netherlands, where the average teenager used to ride a regular Dutch city bike. Internal hub, no-frills bicycles.

Nowadays, however, fat e-bikes are all the rage among that age group. They are quickly becoming extremely popular, and are essentially electric scooters without plates or registration. Many of them require little or no effort to pedal, and can carry up to two riders in them. These are also designed to meet regulations, while also being able to easily be modified to circumvent them, such as removing speed restrictions, and removing the need to pedal itself.

This is also reflected in the shape of these things, which generally does not account for ergonomics. Their seat and handlebars are usually fixed in place. They appear to be designed without pedaling in mind, as exerting effort without proper ergonomics would quickly become uncomfortable and painful. You can actually see some such bikes in the linked article.

Time will tell whether this is truly healthy to them, but I have a hard time believing this to be the case. I think the fat bike demographic might start putting on weight.
by wonderwonder | 2025-08-06 13:27:50+00:00
I've worked out my entire life. Always one of the strongest people in the gym. Almost always overweight. Not obese but overweight. Once I had kids I really packed on the pounds. In January I got on GLP1s and over 4 months dropped from 6'1 at 240lbs to 209lbs. I'm 46 years old with defined abs and a bench of over 405lbs. My BP has gone down and I am in a healthy range for the first time in 20+ years. My cholesterol is perfect now. I feel 20 years younger. I stopped snoring for the first time in 2 decades. My wife sleeps like a baby now which is probably the most important change. I wake up and jump out of bed fully energized and rested for the first time in decades.

Sometimes people just need a helping hand. There is no shame in that.

It appears your issue is that you just don't think its fair and that people should have to take the long way. I would argue that's a you issue and not an us one.