MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by barnabee | 2025-08-28 02:27:13+00:00
I’ve used “real” em-dashes and en-dashes in my writing generally since I switched to using Macs about 20 years ago. Before that I used them for e.g. academic writing, which I mainly did in LaTeX, but not so often elsewhere.

They’re simple enough key combinations (on a Mac) that I wouldn’t be surprised if I guessed them. I certainly find it confusing to imagine someone who has to write professionally or academically not working out how to type them for those purposes at least.
by const_cast | 2025-08-28 02:27:35+00:00
C++ auto copies as well, it's just a feature of value semantics. References must be taken manually - versus Java or C#, where we assume reference and then have to explicitly say copy. Rust, I believe, usually moves by default - not copy, but close - for most types.

The nice thing about value semantics is they are very safe and can be very performant. Like in PHP, if we take array that's a copy. But not really - it's secretly COW under the hood. So it's actually very fast if we don't mutate, but we get the safety of value semantics anyway.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-08-28 02:28:07+00:00
The Tick Key, www.tickkey.com, does the job quite well. You put it over the tick and slide the narrow slot from behind until the mouthparts are in as far as they can fit.

You may be surprised at how hard the tick holds on, but work slowly until it pops off, preferably into a container that you can put in the freezer.

Etick.ca can be used to identify and report the tick.

My cat has brought in three ticks this spring and summer that I found crawling about while he was on my lap. Cats grooming themselves seem to prevent ticks from embedding.

Doctors can prescribe doxycycline as a precaution.
by andelink | 2025-08-28 02:28:41+00:00
Yes, and it boggles the mind as to why they did. Biden was quite the pro-worker president. Biden saved the Teamsters pension fund and then still the Teamsters officially wouldn't endorse him or Harris. To have your retirement rescued so spectacularly while the opposing party was throwing stones at it and then go on to vote for that opposing party who would have stopped that funding if they could... I just don't understand.
by purerandomness | 2025-08-28 02:31:33+00:00
In Germany, the search for an underground facility is ongoing. They hope to find a facility somewhere in 2046 [0]

In 2024, the cost for storing nuclear waste just up until 2100 was estimated to be 170 Bln. [1]

This cost is always, without exception, excluded in the calculation of the cost of generating a MWh. It's externalized, paid for by the next generations of taxpayers.

Gösgen's open data, just like all the other data, does not include waste management cost.

Gösgen is a perfect example for how brittle and outdated the technology is. The nuclear plant is off the grid since May 2025 and will remain down until at least February 2026 [2]

Just like the newly-built Flamanville 3 (12 years late, 10+Bln over budget), it's off the grid until further notice. [3]

The world is phasing out nuclear.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endlagersuche_in_Deutschland

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2024-08/atommuell-endlager-suche-...

[2] https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.akw-faellt-aus-ker...

[3] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...
by tern | 2025-08-28 02:31:50+00:00
There's no generally good way to vet stuff like this. My recommendation: if you're interested and haven't done it before, find a friend (or friend of a friend) who has and ask them for a personal recommendation.

If you want to take a low-woo course on it, here's one: https://www.nsmastery.com/ (I know Jonny, but I'm not affiliated and I haven't taken his course.)
Show HN: Pocket Agent: run Claude, Cursor, Codex and more from your phone
by yayasoumah | 2025-08-28 02:32:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Pocket Agent — a mobile-first interface for coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, and OpenCode. It lets you connect to your own dev environment (or cloud agents) and interact with them in real time from your phone.

Pocket has two parts: • Pocket Server (open-source): lightweight server (Mac + Linux today, Windows soon) you run on your machine. It securely exposes your environment to Pocket. • Pocket App (beta): your mobile interface. You can: • Chat with agents (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, etc.) • Run and monitor terminal sessions in real time • Approve or deny file edits, searches, or commands • Launch and track cloud background agents • Manage multiple projects/sessions — all from your phone

Traction in the first 24 hours: • 1,400+ unique visitors • 350+ beta signups • 130+ GitHub stars • Community already contributing: Linux support, Tailscale pairing, Claude Code auth integration

Repo: https://github.com/yayasoumah/pocket-server Website: https://www.pocket-agent.xyz

I’d love your feedback — especially if you’re building or using CLI agents. What would make you adopt and trust a mobile-first agent workspace?
by jameslk | 2025-08-28 02:32:14+00:00
> Words including “surpass,” “boast,” “meticulous,” “strategically,” and “garner” have also seen considerable increases in usage since the release of ChatGPT.

Do people really not use these words too often that they'd be called "buzzwords?" Like "surpass" and "garner," really? I don't mean to boast..err...flex but these don't seem like very uncommon words such that I wouldn't use them normally when talking. I hear "strategically" in meetings a lot, but that poor word is likely over(ab)used
by eadwu | 2025-08-28 02:33:28+00:00
Most people are missing the point. LLMs are not the be all end all of AI.

Even if you were to say memory bandwidth was the problem, there is no consumer grade GPU that can run any SoTA LLM, no matter what you'd have to settle for a more mediocre model.

Outside of LLMs, 256 GB/s is not as much of an issue and many people have dealt with less bandwidth for real world use cases.
by dralley | 2025-08-28 02:33:30+00:00
It's also worth mentioning that, while I'm not anti-nuclear on principle, the economic return on nuclear projects ranges somewhere between "multiple decades" and "never" - and there's a large empty gap on the timescale of a decade between spending most of that money and starting to receive dividends. And you'd better be running it 100%

At least with solar and wind the buildout takes a few weeks or months, and you can start collecting even with a partial buildout.
by ryao | 2025-08-28 02:33:53+00:00
The guy was referring to the explicit case where bar is a member variable. The cases where it is in the local scope under scoping rules or the global scope are not really an issue, since you can check the function definition to find if it is local. In the case that it is not in the function definition, then it is in the global scope in C. If implicit this were not done in C++, that would also be the case in C++, provided you do the sane thing and use the std namespace for everything. Just thinking about the headaches namespaces could cause when looking for such definitions with cscope gives me yet another reason to stay away from C++ whenever possible.
by abustamam | 2025-08-28 02:35:21+00:00
Thanks! I understood the quote in itself, but the OP quoting it with no additional context could have had two connotations: one nefarious (don't bother with this article because it was written by a trans person with an agenda) or one of positivity (Linux wouldn't be where it is now without trans people).

I always hope for the latter, but context and mood are impossible to communicate easily online which is why I was asking for clarification.
by abeppu | 2025-08-28 02:35:25+00:00
Logistically / organizationally, what has to go wrong for the administration to nominate her, have her in place for less than a month, and then remove her? Like, before you send someone through confirmation, do you have a quick conversation to confirm, "I want to do X, I have expectations Y" etc and confirm that they're onboard? It sounds like Monarez wasn't willing to be a loyal obedient servant, and good for her -- but could the Trump administration really not determine that in advance?

Or was she put in that position for the purpose of being fired, just for the news story, and this is all going to plan?
by xenobeb | 2025-08-28 02:36:54+00:00
At my job it takes about 50% of my time. I love LLMs but I don't see how they can possible help me with email.

I would have to write a prompt that is almost exactly the same as writing the email. It is not like I am writing a fictional story that the LLM could somehow compress the main ideas. I feel like the LLM would have to be able to read my mind to properly respond to my inbox.
by quaerisai | 2025-08-28 02:37:32+00:00
Business users are drowning in reports, dashboards, and BI tools that are slow to deliver insights. Getting answers often means waiting for analysts, learning SQL, or wrangling dashboards.

We built QuaerisAI to make data as easy to ask as a question on Google. Instead of BI reports, you can simply type or speak:

“What was our Q2 revenue by region?”

“Which contracts are expiring in the next 60 days?”

“Show me top customers by growth this year.”

QuaerisAI instantly returns a chart, table, or document excerpt — always with a citation so you can verify the source.

Why it’s different:

Works with both structured data (databases/warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift) and unstructured documents (contracts, resumes, invoices).

No dashboards, no coding. Plain English questions only.

Companies can plug in their own AI model (OpenAI, Anthropic, LLaMA) or use QuaerisAI’s.

Fast setup — live in a day for hundreds of users.

Who’s using it: Finance teams, sales, HR, legal, and operations. A CFO can ask: “Show me all contracts above $100K expiring this year.” A recruiter can upload resumes and ask: “Which candidates have 5+ years of Java experience?”

Benefits we’ve seen:

Saves time (real-time answers, no waiting days).

Cuts costs (less dependence on BI teams).

More adoption (non-technical employees use it directly).

Trustworthy (always backed by sources).

We’re working with partners like Snowflake and Fivetran, and customers across finance, healthcare, and manufacturing.

We’d love feedback from the HN community on:

How you see conversational BI fitting into your workflows.

Gaps you think still remain in current BI/analytics tools.

What features you’d want in a tool like this.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-28 02:38:00+00:00
> But the huge perk of management is leverage. If you're technically competent and credible, and want something to happen, your team will see it your way. If you're a random "ideas guy" in an IC role, that's not a given.

There are three levers of power in an organization - relationship, expertise and role. Role power is by far the least effective. If you can’t get team buy in for your ideas or they believe you’re an idiot, you won’t get anything done.

A high level trusted IC who builds relationships inside and outside of the team and who is strong technically can work miracles.

At my current 700 person company, I’m pushing through a major initiative that management up to the CTO was at first skeptical about because I convinced them of my vision and I built relationships to get buy in.

I’m a staff engineer.

Even at BigTech I saw L6s and L7s ICs push through major initiatives the same way.
by ryao | 2025-08-28 02:38:22+00:00
It would be an improvement on C++ since you would avoid the horrendous error messages from ridiculously long types, slow compile times, exception handling nightmares, bloat from RTTI and constant worry that operators might not mean what you expect. That is before even mentioning entirely new classes of problems like the diamond problem. Less is more.

That said, similar macro magic is used in C generic data structures and it works very well.
by danpalmer | 2025-08-28 02:38:28+00:00
Strange. I wouldn't have thought the safety rules would differ by region, at least not for things like that. I uploaded a photo and asked to change the glasses and change the shirt and it did both with no problem.

I just went back to the chat and asked it to remove the glasses and it worked. Asking it to remove the shirt also succeeded, although a) this is a head and shoulders photo so nothing NSFW, and b) it didn't do a great job of guessing what my shoulders look like.
by bombcar | 2025-08-28 02:39:20+00:00
Failsafe design is actually really fun when you start looking at all the scenarios and such.

But one key component is that IF a failsafe is triggered, it needs to be investigated as if it killed someone; because it should NEVER have triggered.

Without that part of the cycle, eventually the failsafe is removed or bypassed or otherwise ineffective, and the next incident will get you.
by rz2k | 2025-08-28 02:39:29+00:00
384GB is 75% of 512GB. The M3 Ultra bandwidth is over 800GB/s, though potentially less in practice.

Using an M3 Ultra I think the performance is pretty remarkable for inference and concerns about prompt processing being slow in particular are greatly exaggerated.

Maybe the advantage of the DGX Spark will be for training or fine tuning.
by lambda | 2025-08-28 02:41:51+00:00
I would write it with Option-shift-hyphon when I used macOS.

On Linux, I use Compose-hyphen-hyphen-hyphen.

I don't use it as often as I used to; but when I was younger, I was enough of a nerd to use it in my writing all the time. And yes, always careful to use it correctly, and not confuse it with an en-dash. Also used to write out proper balanced curly quotes on macOS, before it was done automatically in many places.
by redwall_hp | 2025-08-28 02:41:52+00:00
The MacBook Pro and Mac Studio are incredibly popular for people who do music stuff. A DAW running native Apple Silicon VSTs runs circles around PC alternatives, allowing you to stack tons of synths/samplers and effects without worrying about the system being able to keep up. And usually it'll do it without fan noise that gets picked up by microphones.

Another bonus is that the MBP can drive high impedance headphones on the go, without needing an external audio interface.

It also helps that Logic was popular for awhile, and Pro Tools (the OG DAW) was a Mac thing, though Ableton overall is more popular these days.
by noduerme | 2025-08-28 02:42:18+00:00
There should be some sort of, like, trusted bureau that gives a woo-level ranking to these things. Massage therapy boards and such are too busy unsuccessfully rooting out human trafficking on the other side of the self-help spectrum.

As an aside, and in all seriousness, how well would this works for a self-medicated functional alcoholic who thinks breathing exercises involve rolling a cigarette first? Does one have to be one of the self-congratulatory "healthy" and swear off vices to benefit from this, or is it something you can do before you head off to the bar?
by ajross | 2025-08-28 02:43:28+00:00
> It's a crying shame that given the choice, the voters picked the modern-day equivalent of Lysenkoism[1].

Those voters (who needless to say had never heard of Lysenko) were told by trusted, well-spoken, authoritative, legitimate seeming sources that this was a mainstream position and a very reasonable one. The people who needed to say it was bullshit were deliberately excluded.

And yeah, that applies specifically to Fox News and Facebook, but also to Rogan and the manosphere, and to 4chan.

And to HN, quite frankly. If you want to know why people turned away from science just go back and watch the discourse around late COVID or whatever. And note how it was utterly dominated by the loons in throwaway accounts. Some of us tried fighting back and ended up incessantly flagged and rate-limited, so we gave up. "Reasonable" HN posters fled the field in favor of bland tech discussion (or retreated in the face of "moderation"), and someone looking at the issue without context might assume that the modern Lysenkos must have had a point.
Show HN: Yes, another boring AI Image Editor
by lyl_003 | 2025-08-28 02:43:29+00:00
Hi HN, I made Pixfy.io. Yes. It’s just another AI wrapper — but at least it gives you an alternative way to edit photos. With Pixfy you can: * Describe changes like “remove background” or “make this photo brighter” * Swap faces, try different hairstyles or outfits * Restore or enhance images * Generate new images from text prompts, then keep editing them
by Buttons840 | 2025-08-28 02:43:57+00:00
Hopefully data centers will be built in more free states. If I live in California, and run a server in California that responds to requests coming from an ISP in California, at what point do I become subject to Mississippi law that I never had a chance to vote for?

If anything, communications between Mississippi and California would be interstate commerce and would thus fall under federal legal jurisdiction.
by paulhart | 2025-08-28 02:44:19+00:00
According to their Github page, they _are_ linuxcontainers (in a way), and Incus is Apache licensed:

Incus, which is named after the Cumulonimbus incus or anvil cloud started as a community fork of Canonical's LXD following Canonical's takeover of the LXD project from the Linux Containers community.

The project was then adopted by the Linux Containers community, taking back the spot left empty by LXD's departure.

Incus is a true open source community project, free of any CLA and remains released under the Apache 2.0 license. It's maintained by the same team of developers that first created LXD.

LXD users wishing to migrate to Incus can easily do so through a migration tool called lxd-to-incus.

https://github.com/lxc/incus
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-28 02:45:25+00:00
Ah I see what you mean. For me I don't think there is any distance where both near & far eye could each have focus -- it's always too blurry in one or the other. I could see how being able to consciously switch would feel weird!

I'm curious -- if you held a stereogram at the right distance, could you see the 3D image? Or is it also like me, only one eye at a time?
by brandall10 | 2025-08-28 02:45:38+00:00
FWIW, I used to use a light and sound machine (Mindplace Procyon) and was able to induce these states with minimal effort. And I had a couple dozen experiences w/ psilocybin in my college years, so I'm well versed in what they should be like.

The goggles w/ binaural beats create some weird sort of state where I don't feel any connection to my environment. After only a couple minutes my body turns to total mush and my brain comes alive with phosphene visuals. By about 15 minutes in, my stomach usually gurgles a bit, not unlike the indigestion that often accompanies psychedelic trips.

Interestingly enough, these machines are marketed as brainwave entrainment, but the literature on that says the visual component doesn't really have much impact. Yet auditory entrainment on its own doesn't seem to do much for me either, or at least, not convincing enough beyond placebo.

There is an app for the iPhone called Lumenate that uses the LED flash and it seems to work, though it's not as strong for me as the multi-LED goggles I used to use. Still, it's a great gateway for those who are curious.
by userbinator | 2025-08-28 02:45:50+00:00
I wouldn't say it's exactly "buzzwords", although their presence can be one signal out of many, but a particular style and word choice that makes it easy to detect AI-generated text.

Imagine the most vapid, average, NPC-ish corporate drone that writes in an overly positive tone with fake cheerfulness and excessive verboseness. That's what AI evokes to me.
by ramses0 | 2025-08-28 02:45:58+00:00
Vim isn't an editor, it's an interactive programming language for text processing.

:%norm 0f"ldt"i...

There are so many times (even per day) where I'll say to myself: "ahhh, I'll just 'vim' it rather than writing a program..."

If I'm not going to have to do it a bunch, sometimes vim itself is faster than writing a script to do whatever random task I need done.
by Springtime | 2025-08-28 02:46:41+00:00
I've had an Autohotkey replacement for the proper em dash character for over 10 years, using shorthand characters which triggers the replacement. Whether spaces are around the dash is a difference in style (see: various publications' style guides), though I use the no spaces style.

Being able to insert self-interjections and such with the correct character would undoubtedly be more widespread if it were more accessible to insert for most.
by ryao | 2025-08-28 02:47:02+00:00
You were not discussing the article in your previous reply. That said, I have repeated explained why both you and the author article are wrong to describe that structure of function pointers as a vtable by giving examples of it containing things that are not allowed in vtables (if say a C++ compiler did this to its vtables, it could cause the wrong function to be called when trying to call a static member function). You ignore that.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-08-28 02:47:47+00:00
> Ten years ago GenAI couldn't produce two coherent sentences.

Depending on the question, it still can't.

It's kinda crazy how you view repeating probabilistic outputs as "coherent sentences".

> We've come a long way, what makes you think it won't go further?

Where did I say it won't go further? I said it will never produce what they want.

Those are different things.

Regardless, you're focused on the wrong point.
by altairprime | 2025-08-28 02:47:55+00:00
In terms of a CFO in a business: one month after you’re hired, the CEO asks you to lie on this year’s financial reports. You refuse, having joined up on the pretense that you’d be given some leeway to do what’s right, and they fire you. The CEO gets to filter out all future candidates for yeslings, makes clear to the marketplace that they’re powerful ans unconcerned with being viewed as evil, and gets to create suffering and woe for someone who stood up to them. Triple win, especially if sociopathy, and it’s a very effective honeypot for well-intended individuals with a “change from within” mindset.

:(
by maxlin | 2025-08-28 02:49:32+00:00
Recent things with the government could sell an image of political games. But then again, he has laid out a quite high effort reasoning behind his candidate's support outside any business relation, and has kept consistency on those beliefs. Don't see any real comparison to acting like this; Jensen & Co sure as hell would rather be strategically ambiguous or a weather vane than state controversial beliefs on podcasts "just for political games".

Also, no people of the class we're alluding to would found SpaceX knowing its very likely going to fail and will be an absolute waste of money and potentially risk their whole luxurious welfare.

Or do that twice, with Tesla having teetered as badly too. With him sleeping on the couches in the plants. And not just during crises, as he seemingly visits his operations every week if you see how much he makes good use of his jet.

He's an alien compared to the lot.
by simonw | 2025-08-28 02:49:37+00:00
Bruce Schneier:"We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks. Any AI that is working in an adversarial environment—and by this I mean that it may encounter untrusted training data or input—is vulnerable to prompt injection. It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there."
by ggm | 2025-08-28 02:50:01+00:00
The USA has a F(ederal) CC. Not S(tate) CC.

I appreciate that not all modern post 1776 democracies are the same, but in Australia, whose constitution was informed hugely by the US constitution, Federal communications law takes supremacy over states, and states laws cannot constrain trade between the states. There are exceptions, but you'd be in court. "trade" includes communications.

So ultimately, isn't this heading to the FCC, and a state-vs-federal law consideration?

-Not that it means a good outcome. With the current supreme court, who knows?