MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by plastic-enjoyer | 2025-08-09 09:26:38+00:00
> There is huge pressure to prove and scale radical alternative paradigms like memory-centric compute such as memristors, or SNNs, etc. That's why I am surprised we don't hear a lot about very large speculative investments in these directions to dramatically multiply AI compute efficiency.

Because the alternatives lack the breakthroughs that give them an edge against current-state AI and don't generate the hype like transformers or diffusion models. You have stuff like neuromorphic hardware that is hardly accessible and in its infancy, e.g. SpiNNaker. You have disciplines like Computational Neuroscience that try to model the brain and come up with novel models and algorithms for learning, which, however, are computational expensive or just perform worse than conventional deep learning models and may benefit from neuromorphic hardware. But again, access is difficult to such hardware.
by thunfischbrot | 2025-08-09 09:26:55+00:00
It’s great to have US offerings, but when US offerings become extreme self-centered as US offerings tend to be, I start questioning if this a solution I’m willing to adopt. Current direction “of protecting the oligarch‘s profits and feelings” will easily put a filter on what you will be allowed to see and find; censorship is just too easy to implement behind the closed doors
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-09 09:27:19+00:00
> If it weren’t for the fact that N₂ is basically inert and doesn’t like reacting with anything at all, life would be borderline impossible.

I don't think this argument can work; the stylized rest of the atmosphere is quite reactive.

That did indeed make life impossible for the forms of life that were around before the oxygen was there, but it didn't do anything to make life impossible in general.
by yichuan | 2025-08-09 09:29:33+00:00
That's my vision, hope it can help. I think that if we combine all our personal data and organize it effectively, we can be 10 times more efficient. Long-term AI memory, all you speak and see will secretly be loaded to your own personal AI, and that can solve many difficulties, I think. https://x.com/YichuanM/status/1953886817906045211
by pyman | 2025-08-09 09:29:38+00:00
> I've already gotten a few people reaching out saying, 'We need a way for the students to call home or call whomever. Can we get one of your phones?'

I think Patrick Schlott should launch a “Sponsor a Free Phone” programme, where people with more money can contribute to his project and their community.

He could show the usage of each phone on a dashboard, so donors can see the impact their contribution is having on people's lives.
by dijit | 2025-08-09 09:30:02+00:00
What's more surprising to me (also EU citizen) is how readily able we are to adopt US cultural norms to our own.

The most glaring and obvious example is the narrative surrounding race/gender relations. The EU has it's own racial issues but we get BLM riots too and we get chest thumping misandrists in Sweden.. the country that has done the most to promote gender equality of any nation on the planet.

BLM riots don't make sense in the UK for example, our race relations are much more nuanced, difficult, and probably put the Pakistani community in the most visibly disadvantaged position; but there's no space to talk about that as we're discussing George Floyd and police brutality (which, largely is not a UK issue at all).

I know for Americans this might come off as tone deaf because everything over there is so polarised it's like a battle to the death; but I think a major reason the right wing is growing in the EU is because of US cultural norms becoming prevalent (individualism over collectivism) and that naturally comes with some amount of xenophobia; as if you're living an individualistic mindset you naturally see resources as zero-sum.

The growth of right-wing movements thrive, ironically, by positioning themselves as a bulwark against what they frame as foreign cultural encroachment. It seems we're stuck trying to choose between a censored European world or an American one that doesn't fit us at all.

But if I have to choose, I choose the one that actually sort of fits.
by Tade0 | 2025-08-09 09:31:49+00:00
It's less than (originally Matt Farah's) million mile Lexus:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/mechanic-restores-an-ls-4...

Although the current owner's plan to do a cannonball run in it is something I find off-putting. His previous stupid idea was to put a turbocharger and see how long it will last, fortunately his fans dissuaded him from doing it.
by Timwi | 2025-08-09 09:32:50+00:00
Wow, this is terrible and dangerous advice. There are multiple laws that prohibit this, some of which are in place to protect people from danger (such as the high voltages involved or the possible risk of injury to yourself or others) while others are about certification.

The desire to help is absolutely laudable, and I wish it were easier for volunteers to get permission to go and do it, but to go on an Internet forum to wrongly claim that it's already allowed is irresponsible.
by feistypharit | 2025-08-09 09:33:22+00:00
I used to have a bip and loved it. The big thing was battery life and always on screen. It used a reflective LCD screen to do it. No newer amazefits use them.

I’ve since moved to using COROS watches. Not as cheap but really good. Always screen, weeks of battery. Even GPS functions are efficient . Recently did 11 hr hike with GPS and only used about 23% battery.
by riedel | 2025-08-09 09:33:25+00:00
Even with data flow extension (also like ipyflow [0] ) I am still struggling with the execution model of notebooks in general. I often still see people defining functions and classes in notebooks to somehow handle prototyping loops.

I would love to see DAGs like in SSA form of compilers, that also supports loop operators. However, IMHO also the notebook interface needs to adjust for that (cell indentation ?). However, the strength of notebooks rather shows in document authoring like quarto, which IMHO mostly contradicts more complex controll flow.

[0] https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow
by randyrand | 2025-08-09 09:34:39+00:00
IMO error objects should’ve included a pointer to some extra preallocated memory.

In my C code I always allocate my error objects first, with usually 1024 bytes just for error strings.

In cases where i don’t care for error strings, i allocate 0 bytes for them.

I have a simple function to append error strings, and it checks for space. So all the code is ambivalent about whether this extra space exists.

works wonderfully.
by skydhash | 2025-08-09 09:35:16+00:00
What is the modern way? Emacs is self documented like vim. Vim has the :help command, emacs have the Control + h prefix (or <f1> for an overview). You can start with a minimal config like Emacs Bedrock or Prelude, and then learn about those options first.

But the manual is very well written and worth the read. Emacs has its own culture, and the sooner you learn the conventions, the smoother your path will be.
by seanwilson | 2025-08-09 09:35:36+00:00
I'm iterating on my accessible color palette designer:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

I'm working on an article/tutorial about how to develop an intuition behind the WCAG contrast rules so you can spot bad contrast problems yourself instead of getting surprised (and irritated) by contrast checker tools giving you failures later. And how to solve color contrast problems like what design options you have when two colors don't contrast.

After speaking to other designers, I find most want to follow the WCAG rules but get stuck going in circles not knowing how to fix color contrast issues e.g. when changing one color throws another one off, and how to work with brand/primary colors that lack contrast (like orange/yellow on white).

Since working on my palette designer, I developed a lot of intuition in this area so wanted to share what I learned. There's lots of articles on WCAG rules, but many will say "pick accessible colors" without really helping you understand how, especially when you have to stick to certain brand colors.
by ponector | 2025-08-09 09:36:43+00:00
>> The USA will likely never get to an efficient govt. single pay system (unlike every other industrialized company).

Not really efficient.

Due to low pay there is a huge shortage of medical workers.

Also for non life treating conditions there are waiting lists for the next few years.

Had a light knee injury during football game? Your surgery is scheduled for 2027. Real story of my friend from Poland.

And you pay 9% of your income for this "care".
by jwr | 2025-08-09 09:36:44+00:00
There is also an amusing (?) catch-22: you could theoretically sign up with a US-based broker and buy through them, which would make you exempt from these requirements. But most US-based brokers and banks will not want you as a customer if you don't have a US address. And those that do (Charles Schwab International) will not sell you ETFs, because… you are "based" in the EU, which has information requirements for selling financial instruments, and US ETFs cannot be sold to consumers in the EU.

I can't believe how badly the US screws their expats, and nothing is done about this, it only gets worse over the years.
by mrkeen | 2025-08-09 09:36:55+00:00
Event sourcing is great because you don't commit yourself to one bad architecture. Keep the facts around permanently, and when you find you've made a mistake in the interpretation of those facts, it's no big deal to fix the interpretation. You can even run multiple interpretations simultaneously!

What this means in practice is that you can build an impressive AI system that takes enormous amounts of compute and yields plausible answers slowly.

Then when your product owner leaves the room, you can alt-tab back to the real system which is fast and gives the correct answer.

Your product owner will never know!
by porridgeraisin | 2025-08-09 09:38:42+00:00
Url is "ratelimitly"

Not even gonna read that one

Anyways, if you're gonna do "scare them" marketing, redis is a bad target. It's such a straightforward simple single threaded piece of software giving you great primitives, that anyone can reason about whether a rate limiting algorithm will work fine or not. Hint: it works perfectly OK. The redis docs even has a copy paste solution so you don't have to reason about race conditions yourself.

Try harder
by mrweasel | 2025-08-09 09:39:16+00:00
There are some calculations that makes replacing a old gas or diesel powered car more environmentally friendly, as compered to buying a new electric car. I do wonder where the tipping point is though, and if there isn't an environmental argument to be made that not only should government bad the sale of new internal combustion engine cars, but they should also ban cars with an expected lifespan shorter than e.g. 15 - 20 years.
by metalman | 2025-08-09 09:39:40+00:00
This is dangerous talk, it's a huge writeup, and the word choice is used once, in a discussion about food. People will (mostly) give up meat only if the alternatives are yummyier, and have decided health benifits, which aint happening, so what will happen is that the guy in the article will play the roll of political foil as it becoms clear that he isn't suggesting that people could change there dietary practice, he's going after the whole agricultural practice for billions of people, to legislativly end the consumption of animal protien, and to do it he want people to donate money to him, instead of for things like health and education for children, something something "occupy the philanthropy space", some of the most deranged shit I have ever read.
by OldfieldFund | 2025-08-09 09:41:16+00:00
This reads like a post-mortem Predator's Playbook.

It's a manual of deflection and self-pity.

Of course he wants to settle it all in the courts of law. Because the social court of reputation would crucify him. There are no people who will say good things about him or defend him. Because we know the guy.
by FabHK | 2025-08-09 09:42:44+00:00
Indeed - taking the square root of numbers iteratively is very satisfying, because of the super fast convergence.

Sqrt 10: Guess 3, then residual is 10 - 33 = 1, so next guess add 1/(23) = 1/6, so now we're at 3.166..., and the square of that is 10.0277..., so you're very close already.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-08-09 09:44:44+00:00
I've seen it a lot in older people's writing in different cultures before trump became relevant. It's either all caps or bold for some words in middle of sentence. Seems to be pronounced more in those who have aged less gracefully in terms of mental ability (not trying to make any implication, just my observation) but maybe it's just a generational thing.
by Thorrez | 2025-08-09 09:45:08+00:00
Thanks for the info! Yeah, I didn't realize the different neighborhoods.

That first one you linked to must be priced based on building something new there. The Zillow listing even has pictures of plans for a new house.

Here's a 2270sqft 3BR3B for $1.9M that I think is actually in Santa Barbara (looks like the edge of Riviera), although it doesn't really have a yard: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/533-Conejo-Rd-Santa-Barba...
by kazinator | 2025-08-09 09:45:16+00:00
It doesn't work that way, unfortunately. The virtual fluid represented by the LEDs does not move anything like syrup. It's like looking at a small image of water sloshing in a big tank.

To get of fluid to behave that way on the scale of several inches, the fluid would have to be massive (very dense) while simultaneously gravity would have to be reduced.
by tkot | 2025-08-09 09:46:14+00:00
If a search engine (be it Ecosia, Qwant, DDG or Google) is used by someone who is running uBlock Origin, does it benefit the company running the engine or does the cost of queries with no chance of displaying an add to the user outweigh the benefit from the meager amount of data collected (IP address? Interest in given keywords? Some more data for tuning the search results?)?
by scrubs | 2025-08-09 09:46:25+00:00
I recently left a c# shop in finance. My background c/c++. I was very interested to see if c# was less work: easier to write and build.

I was not impressed by what I saw - it was junk code. One of the major errors was writing apps as MS services which dragged in tons of MS OS junk.

I cannot totally blame c#; i think the staff there were not engineers but more guys doing stuff.

The code was complex; replete with async calls. Build artifacts were entire directories of dlls, exes, json eg 50+ files per task.

The code was littered with warnings. The company could not or would not do hardly anything outside Visual Studio.

There were entire repos of code without comments; no method contracts, obscene reliance on exceptions.

I'm prepared to think f# could be better but never underestimate how bad things can be with a good language if the devs are not engineering grade developers.
by czottmann | 2025-08-09 09:47:02+00:00
It isn't. I'm from Germany, and Musk doing the Nazi salute has widely made the rounds. Lots of people are appalled, so are people in other parts of the EU, and here are some actually numbers on that:

https://electrek.co/2025/08/05/tesla-sales-in-europe-are-in-...

The new car demand has dropped like a brick, and I'm quite sure used car sales have, too.
by chii | 2025-08-09 09:47:24+00:00
no, adhering to a set of laws (such as the constitution) generates trust.

That's what i was trying to get at, rather than any vagueness that is proposed in your comment about 'something floats your boat'.

That's why term limits in constitutions are a must, for example. And rights enshrined in it are immutable and forever.

Of course, you could argue that it's just a piece of paper, and without pre-existing trust, whatever is written there is meaningless. But the bootstrap, and continuation, of this trust, needs to be there, and i argue that it is from this piece of paper that other forms of trust are built.
by mrweasel | 2025-08-09 09:50:16+00:00
Denmark have in the past few elections had a guy run on the promise of reinstating the Glass–Steagall Act. No word on how a Dane, in the Danish parliament would even be in a position of reintroducing a US law.

It's incredibly frustrating to see people around you adopt US mentality, problems and problem solving. This can be simple things like talking to the police, ignoring the fact that there's a huge difference in talking to a police officer in Gothenburg vs. Baltimore. Some times you even run into people protesting something that's not a problem, but US centric social media has lead them to believe it is. At the same time many are completely oblivious to local issues.
by diggan | 2025-08-09 09:51:13+00:00
> you ain't repairing that, it's more expensive than a new car.

Sometimes we're more connected/sentimental about specific physical items, than the prices themselves. I kind of feel like you have to be a special sort of person to own a BMW, so wouldn't surprise me that same "special" person would pay more to repair their specific car than replacing it with an identical one but without that issue.
by pyman | 2025-08-09 09:51:22+00:00
> Google's deal with Windsurf is structured that way because they likely could not directly acquire, or were not confident that it would have gotten past the antitrust

I've been following OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft's acquisitions over the last five years, and the US government has given them the green light when it comes to AI. It makes sense since the FTC and DOJ directors are appointed by the government, and the government is concerned about China's advances in AI.

Also, Google pulled the same move Microsoft did with Inflection AI. They hired Windsurf's CEO, its co-founder, and other key people, and licensed Windsurfs codebase without acquiring the company. It was the smartest business move they could make.

So from a business and political point of view, your assumption doesn't hold up.

> Openai's agreements with Microsoft is more probable than they did not complete the acquisition because of negative gross margins.

This is also incorrect and the first time I've heard this reason. Executives have already told reporters that OpenAI and Microsoft have an agreement, and Microsoft doesn't want OpenAI entering the software development arena. They hold the keys to GitHub, and that's keeping everyone out for now, including Google.

> Plus, the old adage about how a growing startup is worth more because of a stellar team. You strip a team away and still get 2x multiple is sure enough valuing the current ARR highly.

I don't think so. Investors back people first, and in AI, the people are everything. Just look at how much Meta is willing to pay top AI researchers. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are all chasing the same talent. Knowledge is extremely valuable when it comes to AI/ML.

Google learned this the hard way when it let Noam Shazeer leave. When they realised how valuable he was, they ended up paying $2.7 billion to bring him back.
by palata | 2025-08-09 09:51:51+00:00
> For example: [...]

Those sound like requirements similar to those that can be enforced with passwords. My company enforces an SSO system with an MFA scheme that is controlled by the IT department. I can use my password manager for the password part, but I must use the mandatory MFA app.

In that sense, I am not sure it is so different from passkeys?
by gerikson | 2025-08-09 09:52:52+00:00
Thanks a lot for this link.

The followup article <https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japans-surren...> mentions that while the Soviet Union didn't pose much threat to the home islands, it would and did steamroll the armies on the Asian mainland. Ensuring these forces actually abided by to the surrender terms was crucial. So atomic bombs threatening Japan proper and the Soviet Union threatening the land forces in Asia provided the "cover" for the surrender terms.
by Kerbiter | 2025-08-09 09:53:22+00:00
I dunno mate, I've bought a very popular 60W soldering iron for like 2.5 USD. It has a ceramic heater and a knob to adjust the temperature, the default tip it came with is great, and it's also easily disassemblable. It's far better in quality than anything I could've bought locally for the same price.
by user____name | 2025-08-09 09:59:20+00:00
And it's now being exported worldwide by armies of grifters and bots.

I am disturbed by the amount of fantastical thinking I see around me by people who watch some youtube or tiktok grifter with ai voiceover and seem to be blissfully ignorant that they're being manipulated by some vested interest.

People believe what they want to believe and have always been easy to influence, but the scale at which it is happening today... God help us.
by Arech | 2025-08-09 10:01:42+00:00
TBH, such a low price for so many working (!) features is an amazing achievement if not subsidized! What bothers me here, however, is...a provenance. Let me guess, it asks from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar, SMS archive, email, medical records and political views and attitude towards CCP and then does some shady syncs with .cn servers "just to keep you data safe in case a meteor hits you"... Sad.

ADDED: Oh, seems like some people like to pretend that the results of "some other" companies getting this information are totally, totally the same.
by psychoslave | 2025-08-09 10:02:54+00:00
Why is that considred relevant to get a RAG of people digital traces burdening them in every single interactions they have with a computer?

Having locally distributed similar grounds is one thing. Push everyone to much in its own information bubble, is an other orthogonal topic.

When someone mind recall about that email from years before, having the option to find it again in a few instants can interesting. But when the device is starting to funnel you through past traces, then it doesn't matter much whether it the solution is in local or remote: the spontaneous thought flow is hijacked.

In mindset dystopia, the device prompts you.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-09 10:04:39+00:00
This kind of thing is repeated often, but I don't think it's true. For one thing, how would tattoos last so long then?

More relevantly, I don't think neurons are replaced. There must be some material churn in the atoms and molecules that make them up, but even then different for different molecules - e.g. I don't know how much of our DNA molecules get replaced over a lifespan from the repair or other mechanisms.
by pabs3 | 2025-08-09 10:05:02+00:00
Looks like Debian removed olvwm/olwm because they were incompatible with 64-bit and unmaintained.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xview https://tracker.debian.org/news/1000764/removed-32p14-282-fr... https://bugs.debian.org/911787
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-09 10:06:07+00:00
I remember this blog post coming across HN when it was posted: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/07/07/support/

It's a good story, but what I'm remembering and is relevant here is this:

> At some point, I realized that if I wrote a wiki page and documented the things that we were willing to support, I could wait about six months and then it would be like it had always been there.

Authoritarians and fascists recognize this potential to create new "truths". If you say it enough, it's the truth. If you change things and say it's always been that way, then it was. If you're willing to drag through the mud, fire, prosecute, imprison, harm, or kill those who push back, fewer people push back. Even if everyone "knows" it's false, it no longer matters - most operate as if it is true.

Let's not forget that years later, Trump felt the need to inflict revenge on NOAA employees connected to sharpiegate: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/two-high-rankin...

That's why this shit makes people nervous, why people are on edge about information changing on government websites for no apparent reason. Trump has repeatedly shown a willingness to inflict his view of reality on others, with force, and without regard for facts.

You trivialize it at your own peril.