MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by treyd | 2025-08-05 23:02:07+00:00
We can use older processes if we have to. We'd be taking a step back of... maybe 5-10 years? Computers 10 years ago were not that much slower than they are today. Volume would be a bigger concern than performance. Maybe it'd force the tech industry to start writing more efficient user-facing software instead of depending on the incremental advancements made by chip designers and semi fabs.
by Toby1VC | 2025-08-05 23:02:12+00:00
I was aware of those tab listers, though I use my own addon. However the motivation to make this thread in the first place was because I was in fast-switch mode, going back and forth between tabs, to copy/paste stuff etc, and I kept feeling stuck, my mind was expecting something as intuitive as a taskbar icon, and the "alt+tab" available didn't even cross my mind tbh and a cycle is not that great, there's a reason an OS like windows doesn't just cycle without previews on alt+tab. I don't know what other browser does this better. I make my own tab manager, check out Grasshopper on the marketplace, I've been adding all the task switching features there. That moment was just that my brain was wired expecting something else and the browser felt incomplete.
by wk_end | 2025-08-05 23:02:57+00:00
With the caveats that 1) I suspect that this isn't actually data-driven as RFK Jr. is an anti-vax nut and 2) personally I think the government should fund vaccine development:

Were Shockley, Franklin, or Watts funded by the US government? To the tune of half a billion dollars?

That's not a rhetorical question - I don't know to what extent their work received grants. But I think you need to connect those particular dots to effectively make the kind of comparison you're making.

The implication of your post (sort of) is that work on mRNA vaccination development either needs to be funded by the government or it'll be given up on. If it's the kind of breakthrough that it likely is (and already has been, really) I doubt that's really the case. It's just unfortunate for Americans and the world that the work will likely be done elsewhere, perhaps more slowly, and perhaps (?) with less public (rather than for-profit) interest.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-05 23:03:03+00:00
Heroine would also help them lose weight also. Maybe cocaine too, but I'm not sure. So it's not "all that matters".

What matters is, are the negative side effects and long term consequences better for you than the alternatives. One of them is "remaining fat". The other is "doing what other people have proven works.. cut all carbs".
by delfinom | 2025-08-05 23:03:05+00:00
You got some wildly incomplete facts.

https://fortune.com/2023/06/03/tsmc-arizona-plant-jobs-salar...

>New engineering grads with a master’s degree earn on average $65,700 a year, while general full-time staff earn $32,800—compared to Taiwan’s average annual income of $21,700.

$32.8k for full time salaries in Taiwan, which is more than the average. And this is _general_ staff. Not engineering staff my dude.

>Another challenge is compensation. TSMC pays up to $160,000 annually “for Ph.D.s with some good experience,” says an Arizona-based CEO of a semiconductor recruitment firm hiring for TSMC. That same Ph.D. can earn some $30,000 more at Intel, according to Payscale, a website that tracks company salaries.

And that's the real number for PhDs in the US.

Quite frankly, though, they probably have less competition with Intel now that it's collasping ;)

>TSMC’s American rivals, meanwhile, are defending against its recruiting onslaught. The recruitment firm CEO says candidates have gotten “counter-offers like we’ve never seen. Intel is… giving [people] $10,000 to $20,000 to stick around. We’ve lost people that way.”

AND, if TSMC was really paying so low, their competition wouldn't be falling over themselves to pay retention bonuses.

(I also think they are probably underpaid in their current jobs and don't know it)
by neom | 2025-08-05 23:03:10+00:00
Not sure exactly what type of test is best to do, but I ran the same prompt with the same lyrics through both, very different results: 11labs - https://s.h4x.club/rRuR9W6p / Suno - https://s.h4x.club/bLuLedm6 - Prompt and lyrics: https://s.h4x.club/RBuDvEWm
by GhostDrift | 2025-08-05 23:04:15+00:00
This proof is constructed within a new formalism (Ghost Drift Theory) that reframes the ABC Conjecture via semantic energy functions, log-prime vector maps, and contradiction-based reasoning.

It's been independently reviewed by Gemini, Copilot, and GPT-4o. — all confirming the proof's mathematical rigor within their respective formal limits.

Preprint: https://zenodo.org/record/16746726 Press release: https://medium.com/@hide.pollini.kenkou/press-release-a-math...
by gamblor956 | 2025-08-05 23:04:36+00:00
Whenever Republican politicians go after a "vice" it's always to distract from their own vices. (E.g., Cruz and Gaetz talking about liberal grooming conspiracies after both were caught attempting to groom tween girls, Donald Trump trying to link Dems to Epstein even though Trump was Epstein's best buddy for over a decade and repeatedly contemporaneously complained about Epstein "stealing" teenage girls from him, Ken Paxton claiming family values while cheating on his wife with multiple women and defrauding his own voters of millions of dollars, Vance attacking the patriotism of Democratic veterans even though Vance pulled strings to get placed into a non-combat role and the closest he got to the front lines was playing Battlefield 2 on a military base.)[1]

I would bet money that the Florida Attorney General has a sex scandal of his own that's about to break open and he's trying to distract people from it before that happens.

[1] Not an exhaustive list. That would take days to do just for the current batch in office.
by seangrogg | 2025-08-05 23:04:48+00:00
Not going to lie, this is one of the few reasons I use LLMs at all. Even if I feel like I have a decent idea if I don't have anyone around to listen I'll just lob thoughts at an AI just to ask for alternatives, dissenting opinions, critiques, etc. Typically much of the output are things I already considered, but even that can be validating itself as a sort of reminder that I did think things through. And on some occasions it does raise things I wouldn't have considered which can be great to stop and chew on before proceeding.
by wubrr | 2025-08-05 23:04:55+00:00
Apple's software is generally low quality with more bugs and less features than equivalent linux/oss software. There is a long list of 5, 10 - year old, well-known bugs that apple simply ignores. They know their userbase is built off of marketing and 'design', not product quality.

> Also funny that other devs had the gall to make people pay (sometimes subscriptions!) for Safari adblockers inferior to the free adblockers on any other browser.

That's absolutely perfect, and fits into the typical apple fangirl pattern that can be readily seen on hackernews - pseudo-technical people promoting some closed cute-looking macos app that's just objectively worse existing OSS alternatives.

I find it analogous to when financially successful people in their mid-life crisis stage decide to buy a 'nice' car, while not having any interest in cars previously. They invariably seem to end up with the the most flashy/marketed car, even though that car is objectively worse than another car for half the price. They will extol the car's virtue in a way that sounds like they are literally reading off of a marketing brochure, and actual car people just laugh at them.
by tjader | 2025-08-05 23:06:19+00:00
It is only thermodynamically impossible if you assume 100% efficiency in energy extraction from food, but in practice we only extract a very small amount of energy from matter. Thermodynamically you could extract ~10^12 kcal from a Pop Tart if you converted its mass into energy.

Not that I agree that for a human metabolism meal timing makes much of a difference in energy extraction, but it wouldn't be thermodynamically impossible.
by Supermancho | 2025-08-05 23:06:41+00:00
I'll respectfully disagree and go with history here. "corporate" is the modern term for a conglomerate of merchant parties who capitalize on buying up real estate in urban centers. The mechanisms are similar between Roman Senators (google: Roman Senators and Merchants - land ownership), Feudal families, the Dutch/English merchants of the 1800s. Historically all the same pattern of wealth concentration by land aggregation. All modern cities evolve this way. I'm not sure how you've missed it.
by tharmas | 2025-08-05 23:06:58+00:00
>more money in the economy drives inflation

Not necessarily. Sure, it that money is chasing fixed assets like housing but if that money was invested into production of things to consume its not necessarily inflation inducing is it? For example, if that money went into expanding the electricity grid and production of electric cars, the pool of goods to be consumed is expanding so there is less likelihood of inflation.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-05 23:07:01+00:00
I use agentic flows writing code that deals with millions of pieces of financial data every day.

I rolled out a PR that was a one shot change to our fundamental storage layer on our hot path yesterday. This was part of a large codebase and that file has existed for four years. It hadn’t been touched in 2. I literally didn’t touch a text editor on that change.

I have first hand experience watching devs do this with payment processing code that handles over a billion dollars on a given day.
by thenerdhead | 2025-08-05 23:07:32+00:00
It’s tough to get a clear picture, but if you’ve been following the research closely, it’s obvious that there are better long-term candidates in the pipeline.

Project Next-Gen is highly data-driven, and the most promising candidates are rising to the top as some are already near Phase 3.

Redirecting funding toward these options isn’t as drastic as it may seem. In fact, it makes sense if we want the best outcomes.

https://medicalcountermeasures.gov/nextgen

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/79/1/115/7607231
by arbitrary_name | 2025-08-05 23:08:08+00:00
While i take your point about playing nice, it has a lot to do with stupidity: specifically ignorance, intellectual laziness, lack of curiosity, bias, anti intellectualism, inability to think abstractly, lack of education, lack of critical thinking, ideology, and a host of other things.

Almost all of which correlate in some way to 'stupidity'.

I posit that your first line is wildly wrong, but your message is broadly valid.
by MYEUHD | 2025-08-05 23:08:37+00:00
>Google started shipping 16GB as the _lowest_ amount of RAM you can get on your Pixel 9.

The Pixel 9 has 12GB of RAM[0]. You probably meant the Pixel 9 Pro.

[0]: https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_9-13219.php
by mzajc | 2025-08-05 23:08:58+00:00
KeepassXC is great, until the Passkey mafia starts actively blocking its use: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

> I've already heard rumblings that KeepassXC is likely to be featured in a few industry presentations that highlight security challenges with passkey providers, the need for functional and security certification, and the lack of identifying passkey provider attestation (which would allow RPs to block you, and something that I have previously rallied against but rethinking as of late because of these situations).

Or in less patronizing terms: "do what we want or we're blacklisting you."
by stillpointlab | 2025-08-05 23:09:30+00:00
I asked it to create a story that described the modes of the major scale with a cartoon treble clef as the main character.

It created a 10 page story that stuck to the topic and was overall coherent. The main character changed color and style on every page, so no consistency there. The overall page layouts and animation style were reasonably consistent.

The metaphor it used was the character climbing a mountain and encountering other characters that represented each mode. Each supporting character was reasonably unique, although note motif was present on 3 or 4. The mountain also changed significantly and the character was frequently back at the bottom. However, in the end, he does reach the summit.

I can't say I am overly impressed but it does mostly do what they claim.
by rudasn | 2025-08-05 23:09:49+00:00
Ok so this looks like something I would use for an app we're deploying on-prem. I'm thinking it would make new deployments/releases a bit easier if we could "advertise" upcoming features/versions and allow users to leave feedback, express their interest, or at minimum just let them know what's coming.

My questions are, can I use this without embedding your js, does it support vanilla js frontends, and how easy it is for marketing folks to build and maintain your newspage (eg starting from release notes in markdown).

I think answering these kind of questions in an FAQ on your landing page would help. I could get the gist of your offering by scrolling but no real "aha!" moment. Too much text for not enough info. (For me at least).

Also, really glad your site works without js enabled, bonus points from me!:)
by virtualritz | 2025-08-05 23:09:51+00:00
I asked it to "create 10secs of a rhythmical Argentine tango in the style of the golden era." (golden era of tango is 1935--1950).

What it gave me was some horrible ballroom-tango like abomination with prominent tempo, like a paso doble. The typical Ballroom tango sound that gives you ear cancer. I.e. it completely failed (Argentine tango sounds nothing like this).

P.S.: You can't mention any names btw, I asked for D'Arienzo (instead of "golden era") but it refused the prompt on copyright grounds.

It also refused for edad d'oro, with the same reasoning, i.e. it seemed to think this was an artist of some sort ("edad d'oro [de tango]" is just the Spanish name for golden era of tango -- go figure).

And re. copyright: as of 2024, all of Juan D'Arienzo's recordings from the 1940s are in the public domain in Argentina.
by GianFabien | 2025-08-05 23:10:32+00:00
There's only two reasons to buy stocks:

1) for future cashflows (aka dividends) derived from net profits. 2) to on-sell to somebody willing to pay even more.

When option (2) is no longer feasible, the bubble pops and (1) resets the prices to some multiple of dividends. Economics 101.
by exmadscientist | 2025-08-05 23:11:01+00:00
I've also done this. Back when I used to teach, all I had to do to get students to be on time was to start on time myself, and close the classroom door. (I think they locked automatically, so students had to knock to be let in, but that wasn't the point. I never gave them any grief, just let them in with as small an interruption as I could manage.)

I have never had a more punctual group of people that large. It works.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-05 23:11:13+00:00
It's insane to me that people keep talking about the energy in part. Forget that.

Realize that WHAT you put in can change what energy out is.

If I gave you 1800 calories of vodka at 8am, would your use the same amount of energy during the day, and even make it to your 7pm gym? No.

Ok, well sugar isnt exactly the same obviously, but it can also affect what you do that day, how your body acts, your brain even.

Your energy out gets totally messed with after you have tons of alcohol for obvious reasons. Something similar happens on sugar/spiked insulin levels. Can you willpower through it and increase your energy out by running til you drop dead and lose weight? Sure. But it's not easy.

What's way easier is not having the insulin spike in the first place.
by ahmedhawas123 | 2025-08-05 23:11:16+00:00
So much that is interesting about this

For one of the top local open model inference engines of choice - only supporting OSS out of the gate feels like an angle to just ride the hype knowing OSS is announced today "oh OSS came out and you can use Ollama Turbo to use it"

The subscription based pricing is really interesting. Other players offer this but not for API type services. I always imagine that there will be a real pricing war with LLMs with time / as capabilities mature, and going monthly pricing on API services is possibly a symptom of that

What does this mean for the local inference engine? Does Ollama have enough resources to maintain both?
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-05 23:11:32+00:00
Probably because dealing with MC/Visa directly is a PITA, and that is likely on purpose even though they have a stranglehold on non-cash in-store payment processing worldwide.

Every payment processor went through some version of this: https://kindgeek.com/blog/post/what-is-a-payment-processor-a...

The convenience fee of not having to deal with that as a business owner seems worth it to me.
by tzs | 2025-08-05 23:11:52+00:00
> Unfortunately at the moment it seems like I either have a cloud sync vendor lock-in or a single point of failure, or I have the completely impractical solution of enrolling multiple devices, which means I have to carry both around with me, thus making it far more likely I lose both of them!

• You can use multiple independent cloud sync vendors. When I add passkeys to an account I add two passkeys. One gets stored in 1Password and synced using their cloud. The other gets stored in Apple's Password and synced using Apple's cloud. This should give you enough redundancy to mitigate most vendor lock-in concerns.

• If using devices that don't cloud sync I don't see why your would need to carry around two devices in order to enroll two devices. Carry around one device, and when you make a new account create a passkey for that account stored in the device.

Later, back home, login into any accounts you created while away using the passkeys on the device you were carrying, and create a second passkey on each of those accounts and store it on the other device.
by tharmas | 2025-08-05 23:12:29+00:00
Excellent post.

You could say that was when things reverted back to "normal". The FDR social reconstruction and post WW2 economic boom were the exception, anomaly. But the Scandinavian countries seem to be doing alright. Sure, they have some big size problems (Sweden in particular) but daily life for the majority in those countries appears to be better than a lot of people in the Anglosphere.
by kelnos | 2025-08-05 23:12:29+00:00
Unclear, actually. I asked Claude about prepaid credit expiration in California. The answer wasn't super clear; Claude focused on gift cards and gift certificates, which I'm not sure prepaid credit counts as.

Then I specifically asked if Anthropic is allowed to expire its prepaid credit for California users. Claude consulted Anthropics credit terms, said the expire in one year, but then said that it's an interesting legal question, and that I might have grounds to complain to the CA Dept of Consumer Affairs!
by dylan604 | 2025-08-05 23:12:32+00:00
> most information hostile environments in human history

Is it though? East Germany comes to mind as well as the rest of the Cold War countries behind the Iron Curtain. China seems to be pretty hostile as well. In the US, it is still much easier to find real information that counters the propaganda than it is in any of those other countries. There's no Great Firewall to bypass. You don't even need to do anything anonymously. Yes, the current administration is doing its damnedest to pull the wool over the eyes of their followers, but it's only effective for them. Nobody else is fooled nor stopping their publishing of the opposition to the propaganda.
by dredmorbius | 2025-08-05 23:12:46+00:00
Naked in the forest is underrated, until the ticks and mosquitoes arrive ;-)

Fair points, I'll add that I'm not sold that LLMs will become indispensable. There's plenty of flashy tech which hasn't.

But of the past 20--30 years' or so offerings, it seems to have a reasonably high chance.
by heraldgeezer | 2025-08-05 23:14:09+00:00
I started in like December or January... Was COVID 5 years ago fuck me. Also, COVID weight gain would be during lockdowns, and ALSO my job went fully remote. Being fully remote was an issue for sure. So it's like COVID was extended for me.

I never really weighed myself and then felt weird like a big mechelin man and I saw I was 10-12 kg heavier, makes sense why I feel bad I thought, and I did not weigh before and just decided to lose it, was easy when I decided.

That's my story.

I was always slow on the uptake on things, hygiene, clothes etc.

Weight too, I grew up always being skinny, but getting to 30+ I never noticed when I got heavier as it takes a long time, you talk as if everything is obvious, but it is not.

But it is easy once you know.

So, if you have already identified weight as being the issue, losing weight is easy, in my experience. As I said, fasting feels good, skip meals, skip the beer, drink sugar-free. 10 kg gone fast, I promise you.

The issue for me is identifying the problem.

Love the downvotes, btw.

>It took you five years to do that though. Why did it take that long if it was easy

I should specify, I have been BMI 19-20 for 3–4 months now, again, as from teenager to 25-ish thats my range, thats "me", it feels like myself, so.

So that's what I mean when “recently”, not yesterday.

Time warps when you get old. So fast.

ALSO, easy things can still take a long time. You understand the words?
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-05 23:14:11+00:00
For my homelab I switched from ESXi to Proxmox a few years ago because the consumer-level hardware I mostly used didn't have Intel network cards and ESXi didn't support the Realtek network devices that were ubiquitous in consumer gear at the time.

Love Proxmox, it's done everything I needed of it.

I don't use it to anywhere near it's potential, but I can vouch for the robustness of its backup process. I've had to restore more than handful of VMs for various reasons, and they've all been rock-solid upon restoration. I would like to use its high-availability features, but haven't needed them and don't really have the time to tinker so much these days.
by snypher | 2025-08-05 23:14:39+00:00
I think it has to be. It's very similar to others[1].The channel has a SoundCloud link in it's description but this song isn't there.

[1] often being 'modern song lyrics set to a historical style of music'. I don't know how to describe them exactly but they feel 'wrong', in the same way AI text is hard to critique but feels wrong.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-05 23:14:47+00:00
Avif is cute but using that as an excuse to not add jxl is a travesty. At the time either one of those could have been added, jxl should have been the choice.

The biggest benefit is that it's actually designed as an image format. All the video offshoots have massive compromises made so they can be decoded in 15 milliseconds in hardware.

The ability to shrink old jpegs with zero generation loss is pretty good too.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-05 23:15:23+00:00
By convincing yourself that the existing rules are written by a bunch of paranoid bureaucrats that don't actually know what's going on. Which, to be fair, is easy to do when there's a lot of rules that are written by exactly those people, especially in safety-critical areas (my god there's a lot of stupid, ill-justified rules in the name of safety, because who can argue against that?). But the correct response isn't to just sweep them all aside as worthless, but to carefully and critically understand them, because some of them have important and not super obvious reasons behind them (and the unpredictability of composites under compression is exactly such an area, and one that is well known to experts in the area)