MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perihelions | 2025-08-01 07:19:31+00:00
It looks like (if I've parsed right) every one of them stands for "Earth", except that HEO alone can also be overloaded three ways (high-earth, highly-elliptical, and highly-eccentric).

This is unimportant, but: a site:nasa.gov search shows all three "HEO" acronyms in common use, there; and even Wikipedia abbreviates it inconsistently across entries[0-2].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Earth_orbit ("A medium Earth orbit (MEO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an altitude above a low Earth orbit (LEO) and below a high Earth orbit (HEO)")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_elliptical_orbit ("A highly elliptical orbit (HEO) is")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Earth_orbit ("In this article, the non-standard abbreviation of HEO is used for high Earth orbit[2]")

[edit]: I overlooked the abbreviation of "geostationary equatorial orbit" for GEO, which brings it up to four different "E's"!
by KennyBlanken | 2025-08-01 07:19:32+00:00
No, it's spreading because corporations are waking up to what an insanely good deal "pay my employees for me" is.

In my state an employer is only responsible for raising an employee's effective wage (for the entire pay period) to minimum wage if the tips don't.

You can tip someone working as a waiter $100 and unless they've already hit minimum wage for that pay period, all you're doing is handing $100 to the owner because it's $100 they don't have to pay in wages. Once the waiter has met minimum wage, then the money actually goes to them.
by p1dda | 2025-08-01 07:19:38+00:00
I completely agree about the excellence of Direct Democracy (DD). One of the most common arguments against DD is that: "people aren't smart enough or knowledgeable enough to make important decisions". My reply to this is: and current politicians are? Politicians obviously aren't smarter or more knowledgeable than the average citizen, they are more inclined to act in their own best interest rather than the public's best interest though. We get rid of the middlemen and we get rid of: corruption and the abuse of power. The Swiss are doing excellent with DD!
by franga2000 | 2025-08-01 07:19:54+00:00
Except the RPi is smaller, lighter, lower power and more efficient than most mini PCs. It also has a bunch of unique addon boards, many (most?) of which don't really use GPIOs, but a standard communication interface like PCIe/USB/serial/SPI/I2C.

No mini PC can beat most things about the Pi, apart from performance and compatibility, the latter of which is fully the fault of the manufacturer.
by CalRobert | 2025-08-01 07:20:39+00:00
Usually the town was made "desirable" by residents there from ~1890-1940, and the current NIMBY's are leeching off that. In most cases the desirable part was bulldozed in the 50's-70's to make parking for the suburbanites. Portland, OR had streets that could make you think you were in Budapest before they were demolished in the 40's
by Ekaros | 2025-08-01 07:20:48+00:00
What would happen to those who can't afford to buy? Say student just turned 18? Continue to live at home and gather some money for down payment? Who would keep these assets and maintain them until next buyer comes around? What if there is no buyer and they make loss?

There is nothing inherently wrong with renting. The landlords provide capital that renter lacks for time being. But due to supply constraints prices have been driven too high.
by anthk | 2025-08-01 07:21:25+00:00
I'm from Spain; before joining the European Economic Community (pre UE entity) in 1986 our country except for the main cities sucked a lot, it was behind France in lots of terms. By 1992 the gap went almost to /dev/null.

So, I you can be pro EU and denounce these STASI like mafias, you know.
by grafmax | 2025-08-01 07:22:46+00:00
Abundance YIMBYism has many shortcomings. It doesn't address the risk of gentrification and displacement, the slow and unproven trickle-down effect of market-rate housing, or the critical need for direct public housing to serve low-income communities. Journalistic ideologues deserve little praise for dismantling the weakest counterarguments of their opponents while ignoring core criticisms.
by 7373737373 | 2025-08-01 07:22:48+00:00
Most LLMs I've tried come up with invalid reasoning, many confuse empirical evidence (of simulating it for a few steps and it 'most probably not halting') with definite proof that it never does, some create invalid probabilistic mathematical arguments to the same effect

Others I've tried are caught in a loop of trying to prove the same, insufficient approach over and over again, lacking explorative and "creative" behavior

Generally it seems that LLMs lack the 'motivation' to actually try to solve unsolved problems especially if they know that they are unsolved or difficult
by preommr | 2025-08-01 07:23:57+00:00
> "treat you better than everyone else."

People say this, but what is better service?

It's not like you get better or more food, or get the food faster since all that depends on the kitchen that isn't getting tipped directly.

It's pretty much them coming to your table to take your order. I'd much rather have a free burger or drink (the equivalent of what I could get instead of tipping) with the slow service than get my water refilled every 5 minutes.
by justanotherunit | 2025-08-01 07:24:00+00:00
I actually foreshadowed this about 6 months ago when Lovable was starting to gain heat here in Sweden. It was quite obvious that for a start and prototype, these kind of applications are good. But if you are going full SaaS, hire an engineer to set the app in stone.

This might be a new branch of software developers on the rise. Those that take sloppy AI code and turn them into real applications for customers.
by Pinus | 2025-08-01 07:24:09+00:00
Handwriting seems to be becoming more and more of a niche phenomenon, actually paying attention to what one writes with even more so, and actually using fountain pens yet more so. Still, there seems to be an absurd number of ink makers around, producing an absurd number of inks. I suppose dyes and water are relatively cheap, and can be mixed in buckets...
by zapnuk | 2025-08-01 07:24:34+00:00
Good luck to anyone using it. We used it for embedding about 6k documents.

The API constantly gives you quota errors when you reach about 150 requests/min eventhough the quota should allow about 50_000 requests/min.

We’d like to use the Batch API, but the model isn’t available yet.

Quite a nice model though. Being able to get embeddings for a specific task type [1] is very interesting. We used classification specific embeddings and noticed a meaningful improvment when we used the embeddings as input for a classifier.

1: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/embeddings#supported-t...
by JonChesterfield | 2025-08-01 07:25:48+00:00
Implementation would be by modifying clang. Traverse the clang ast emitting the new language instead of llvm IR.

You wouldn't get idiomatic code out but with some effort you'd get rust/d/c/other which clang compiles to the same IR as the original.

How much refactoring is warranted afterwards would depend on how much effort you put in to recreating templates / header files / modules etc on the fly.

I'm not sure I'd choose to do this myself if I was in Google's position but it would be tempting.
by freehorse | 2025-08-01 07:26:57+00:00
They are still paid to be polite and friendly, just not directly from you. It can also be a selection process because the ppl who do not smile enough have been fired or not taken for the job in the first place. Having a boss in these industries “encouraging“ employees to smile more is not unheard of. It makes sense that it feels better than paying directly to produce this outcome, but in a last analysis it is not very different.
by PeterStuer | 2025-08-01 07:28:31+00:00
Most non-trivial expertise topics are not one-dimensional. You might be at the "ceiling" in some particular sub-niche, while still on the floor on other aspects of the topic.

So even if you follow the artcles premise (I do not), it still can potentially 'raise' you wherever you were.

Key seems to be wether you have enough expertise to evaluate or test the outputs. Some others have refered to this as having a good sense of the "known/unknown" matrix for the domain.

The AI will be most helpful for you in the known-unknown / unknown-known axis, not so much in the known-known / unknown-unknown parts. The latter unfortunatly is were you see the most derailed use of the tech.
by justcuriousab | 2025-08-01 07:29:15+00:00
> If WG21 were handling Rust instead f64 would implement Ord, and people would just write unsafe blocks with no explanation in the implementation of supposedly "safe" functions. Rust's technology doesn't care but their culture does.

But Rust allows pattern matching on floats.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Rust Zulip is C++ WG21 confirmed?
by delusional | 2025-08-01 07:29:35+00:00
I don't believe in "police" as a transnational group. I don't believe that the actions of police in some other country carries any information about the culture of police in mine.

If police use these systems outside of their intended and legally mandated forms, that must be dealt with. We do need effective police though. We do that with robust surveillance infrastructure for police queries in the database, possible even with a mandatory log of queries as part of discovery.

I don't have to "think" it will stop them, I can utilize the levers of democracy to check them.
by geocar | 2025-08-01 07:30:30+00:00
> for setups requiring this behavior?

TLS terminating at your edge (which is presumably where the IP addresses attach) isn't any particular risk in a world of letsencrypt where an attacker (who gained access to that box) could simply request a new SSL certificate, so you might as well do it yourself and move on with life.

Also: I've been unable to reproduce performance and reliability claims of quic. I keep trying a couple times a year to see if anything's gotten better, but I mostly leave it disabled for monetary reasons.

> This approach works well when implementing a failover mechanism: if the default path to a server goes down...

I'm not sure I agree: DNS can take minutes for updates to be reflected, and dumb clients (like web browsers) don't failover.

So I use an onerror handler to load the second path. When my ad tracking that looks something like this:

<img src=patha.domain1?tracking onerror="this.src='pathb.domain2?tracking';this.onerror=function(){}">

but with the more complex APIs, fetch() is wrapped up similarly in the APIs I deliver to users. This works much better than anything else I've tried.
by bornfreddy | 2025-08-01 07:31:52+00:00
Nice idea, thank you! I think it should be possible to make a Python object behave in a similar way (crashing when converted to string / ...), need to see if I can make it work.

In PHP, you can construct objects directly from $_GET/POST (and erase everything from these vars to make sure they are not used directly), then lean on data types to make sure that these values are not used in a wrong place.
by happymellon | 2025-08-01 07:32:22+00:00
I have, in the UK. Probably 95% of customers didn't tip. I didn't have any problems with this.

Why?

I was nice to people because that was my job, but when I've travelled to the US I have definitely seen entitled customers treat staff like shit and claiming it's their right because they were tipping.

Tipping as standard should go out the window, it just drives customers to be assholes.
by alkonaut | 2025-08-01 07:32:25+00:00
There’s tipping everywhere (more or less, there are some exceptions). But there’s just one country that I know of where 15% is ”no tip” because it’s the expected baseline, and 25% is a small tip because it’s 5-10% over the expected minimum so the actual ”tip” part of a 25% tip is actually less.

I tip 0-10% where I live. Just like most Americans tip 15-25% but the first 15 are just eaten by expectation. There is zero difference except that 1) my menu shows actual prices 2) wait staff have a living wage regardless of tips or how busy the restaurant was that day.
by ofalkaed | 2025-08-01 07:32:59+00:00
A good number of the inks are because of artists, hence the wide variety of colors including colors which are not particularly useful for writing. The water based inks used in fountain pens are the primary inks for pen and ink drawing because they allow all of the classic techniques like washes and water brushes which do not work with other sorts of inks. Many of the makers of these inks have started to exploit the fountain pen fad to expand their market.
by CalRobert | 2025-08-01 07:33:22+00:00
Inhaling combustion products isn't great... not sure why you'd link those things?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9819315/

"We found that 12.7% (95% CI = 6.3–19.3%) of current childhood asthma in the US is attributable to gas stove use. The proportion of childhood asthma that could be theoretically prevented if gas stove use was not present (e.g., state-specific PAFs) varied by state (Illinois = 21.1%; California = 20.1%; New York = 18.8%; Massachusetts = 15.4%; Pennsylvania = 13.5%). "

Indoor combustion seems like a very good thing to eliminate.
by kqr | 2025-08-01 07:35:24+00:00
A lot of people in this thread speculate that Raku (formerly "Perl 6") killed Perl. But I have yet to see convincing first hand accounts confirming that.

I certainly don't believe it. Everyone I talked to at the time who worked with Perl knew it would not go away: humanity had chained too much of the infrastructure of the internet to it. Someone would have to maintain it for many years to come, even if Larry's new experiment became a wild success. (Already back then people seemed skeptical of the experiment and hung back with Perl 5 waiting to see what came out of it before paying too much attention.)

I still struggle to understand why Perl went out of favour[1] but I think what another commenter wrote here might come close: for Unixy folks who know shell, C, awk, sed, Vim, etc. Perl is a natural extension. Then came a generation of programmers brought up on ... I don't know, Visual Basic and Java? and these were more attracted to something like Python, which then became popular enough to become the next generation's first language.

[1]: As someone who knows me might understand: https://entropicthoughts.com/why-perl
by LatteLazy | 2025-08-01 07:35:28+00:00
Lookslike more vapourware:

* no prices

* no dates, just "2026" (elsewhere 2028).

* no pictures even of prototypes just computer graphics.

* helium is notoriously hard to keep from leaking

* it's all just way too promising and convenient and appealing. Who doesn't want a reactor that fits in a shipping container? Who doesn't want reliable, clean energy? Who doesn't like hospitals and the military? Does it also release puppies and cure cancer?
by CalRobert | 2025-08-01 07:35:53+00:00
I like it too, and you're talking to someone who has been trying, mostly in vain, to teach his kids the difference between "I wish I was there" and "I wish I were there", or how you can get eggs from a coop or a coöp, and they're different things, but eventually the hyphenation dies out and the phrase remains.
by dib258 | 2025-08-01 07:36:51+00:00
Thank you for working on this! Since there was no option available, we were required to use Python with some API or just plain API for the major paid models. Now with ONNX we can load open-source model and use them.

Keep up the good work and I hope this will bring a lot more packages that will make this ecosystem a little more up-to-date!
by vunderba | 2025-08-01 07:37:09+00:00
The Image Showdown site actually does have Flux Krea images but they're hidden by default. If you open up the "Customize Models" dialog you can compare them against other Flux models (Flux.1 Dev and Kontext).

> FWIW, this model focus was around aesthetics

Agreed - whereas these tests are really focused on various GenAI image models ability to follow complicated prompts and are not as concerned with overall visual fidelity.

Regarding the "flux look" I'd be interested to see if Krea addresses both the waxy skin look AND the omnipresent shallow depth of field.
by CalRobert | 2025-08-01 07:38:07+00:00
I spent half my adult life in Ireland, had kids there, built a house there, etc and like to think that during said time I learned a few things and noticed changes. I do think part of it related to POS systems normalizing it. But it is certainly possible that our experiences differed. It was more common in Dublin 2 than in Offaly I'd say...

Honestly something that was a bit galling was that the Irish would moan about Ireland morning day and night but the instant a foreigner made _any_ observation that wasn't rainbows and sunshine we were out of our lane and needed to shut up. And I spent much more of my time extolling Ireland's virtues than complaining about it! It was surreal to be chatting with taxi drivers and trying to make the point that Ireland wasn't an utter kip.
by KronisLV | 2025-08-01 07:38:30+00:00
> The point of the Coffee Beans Procedure is this: if you can’t answer those questions, if you don’t even find them interesting, then you should not open a coffee shop, because this is how you will spend your days as a cafe owner.

If we spent time overthinking everything, nothing would get done because circumstances are seldom perfect. A lot of it is about making stuff up as you go. Of course, reality almost never matches our imaginations either and there unpacking might help. At the same time, not everyone is passionate about the details of every job and as long as it puts food on the table (or something in the retirement account), it's good enough.

> High-status professions are the hardest ones to unpack because the upsides are obvious and appealing, while the downsides are often deliberately hidden and tolerable only to a tiny minority. For instance, shortly after college, I thought I would post a few funny videos on YouTube and, you know, become instantly famous.

Most people who try at anything won't see much success, especially when that depends on standing out from others.

Most actors won't be in box office hits. Most content creators will be relatively obscure. Most software devs will write boring CRUD apps in sub-optimal environments and it will sometimes be a bit scrappy. Most employees won't be employee of the month or whatever. Same for trying to run your own business, it being profitable in any sense is already more of a success than one might think. Actually same for various creative pursuits, e.g. when people spend months working on a video game of their own, release it... and realize that they've spent thousands of dollars worth of time and won't even make that back... while something seemingly simplistic like Vampire Survivors blow up and inspire an entire genre overnight. It's the same with having a YouTube channel - you might do ten uploads and see no success. Hundred uploads and see no success. Even a thousand videos and no success yet. Meanwhile, there's someone else who seems to get 10x-100x more views or whatever, after starting building a channel at a similar time to you. You might be able to learn from them... or it might just be some inherent characteristics that you don't have and that's that.

Long story short, maybe there is something you excel at and you just have to find it. Statistically (for a general population), probably not. I think a big problem of our time is being exposed to the very best wherever you look - from the highlights of the lives of attractive people on social media, to YouTube videos produced to a crazy high degree of quality, to completely mismatched expectations of what the mediocrity of real life will look like for most folks.
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-01 07:38:40+00:00
I get that reaction and see how it could sound a bit Black Mirror ish. It's literally just art and curated audiovisual experiences designed to help you feel and process your emotions though.

We’re already living in a scifi dystopia where our emotions are constantly being manipulated by social media, algorithms, ads, etc. Feel is an attempt to offer an intentional alternative. It's not about manufacturing emotions. It's about moving through them more consciously with greater awareness and emotional intelligence.

I appreciate the comparison and feedback though. I welcome it all.
by SSchick | 2025-08-01 07:39:03+00:00
My tips have been going down progressively, when I moved to the US I was taught 20% is "normal", now I tip 15% at MOST at restaurants and at MOST 5% on take out.

I'm tired of being shamed to pay more for less.

Also whoever was in charge of teaching staff to "turn away in shame" when the tipping screen is shown needs to go to some sort of gulag.
by freehorse | 2025-08-01 07:39:23+00:00
There are 3 types of countries x industries (because even within a country different cultures may apply)

1. Places where service workers are paid peanuts or nothing and tipping is considered mandatory

2. Places where workers get a basic actual salary and tipping is rather voluntary (and can be more or less expected)

3. Places where tipping is not an actual practice and can make things awkward even, depending the amount.

In reality, 2 is a spectrum between 1 and 3.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-08-01 07:39:31+00:00
Interesting - did anyone write up how it worked anywhere?

I also worked on a similar system in 2015, which provided anonymity and unlinkability in almost all interactions (you don't know who it is, and you don't know whether the anonymous user is the same one you saw last time).

You did have to pay for the service of course, but it issued blind signature tokens for access (similar to what is described in the article). So the service did not know who actually did what.

It could also provide anonymous attestation of some attribute (like age). This was a bit more efficient and secure in that you did not need to store a bunch of tokens. It could transform the proof to be unique each time (thus giving unlinkability). It would only work if you had access to your private keys (so you could not just give your age proof token to a kid - you would have to give them your entire account and keys).
by maxmosca | 2025-08-01 07:39:57+00:00
Here the landing page where you can TRY the parser: https://gitubo.github.io/bixit/

('Try it' section - it comes with a working example using CAN as format)

The goal is to easily convert binary data to JSON and vice versa, using only a JSON configuration file that describes the message format.

The main value is to eliminate the need to write code for each binary format you need to support. Instead, you just define the structure of the message in a config file and the engine handles the rest. This could be particularly useful for those working with various legacy or embedded systems protocols.

A single Bixit engine can decode multiple formats simultaneously. The advantages in terms of manageability are significant, as to update a format or add new ones, you simply need to move a configuration file, without having to recompile anything.

I'm looking for sincere feedback on this idea.
by alkonaut | 2025-08-01 07:40:29+00:00
How is the trend? I imagine it’s already possible to estimate what year it will be almost zero from that trend. It also tends to accelerate: once a restaurant has very few cash customers they tend to become no-cash because the cost of cash handling is more than the potential loss of business. I’m unsure if there are any legal obstacles to going cashless in the US however. But where I live no one uses cash and more and more places are cash free (a chicken and egg problem).