MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eqvinox | 2025-08-06 08:46:29+00:00
WHY2025 orga has been a shitshow on the social & interpersonal level. The badge team was one of the casualties. (And triggers, from what I've heard they weren't paragons either, but that's even more hearsay.)

(Source: I'm in c3noc/Internetmanufaktur, though not attending WHY. TBH I saw the shitshow coming and decided I don't need it in my life.)
by ryao | 2025-08-06 08:46:44+00:00
Would it have happened to the same extent? Also, describing these things as gadgets understates the extent to which they are beneficial, given that a gadget refers to a novelty by definition:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gadget

Among the many things that have become affordable for every day people because money had been present to fund the R&D are air conditioners, refrigerators, microwave ovens, dish washers, washing machines, clothes dryers, etcetera. When I was born in the 80s, my parents had only a refrigerator (and maybe a microwave oven). They could not afford more. Now they have all of these things.
by Brybry | 2025-08-06 08:46:48+00:00
Small arms fire can take out small drones.

I believe both Russia and Ukraine train some soldiers via shooting target/dummy drones and skeet.[1]

And there are videos out there of Ukrainians and Russians successfully shooting down fpv drones. [2][3][4]

(Content warning: war videos but there shouldn't be any gore in them)

[1] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1948675201983553864

[2] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1920365175766483080

[3] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1936508342622437560

[4] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1923488508015956341
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 08:47:40+00:00
> Eh, how is that different from going into business by yourself?

Pedantically, there is unlikely to be a wage. But even if we use the term loosely, the type of scalable business described usually do not make any money until it is sold, so you are effectively forced out as soon as it is possible.

A highly paid wage slave may technically be able to leave just as quickly, but in practice the golden handcuffs are often very strong. It is telling that the phrase used was "People working in finance" rather than "People who briefly worked in finance".
by jweewee | 2025-08-06 08:47:52+00:00
Final year CS student from NUS interested in working on data problems, open to unpaid internships in the SF Bay Area.

- Location: SF Bay Area

- In-person: Yes

- Technologies: Backend SWE in data infra/pipelines experience

- Resume/cv/website: http://joshua-wee.netlify.app

- Email: joshuawee05@u.nus.edu
by gherkinnn | 2025-08-06 08:48:54+00:00
I smell second system syndrome.

Not only that, a new system will get completely coopted by the likes of Google for their own purposes. The result of what is built is in large parts a function of the culture that builds it. And I for one have zero interest in the current tech culture building a DOM 2.

Yes, I am generally weary of rewrites.
by lurk2 | 2025-08-06 08:49:05+00:00
> It's a man providing for his family.

Provision is not a problem in and of itself; it’s the scale at which it is occurring. I know from your posts that capital accumulation is an issue you’ve thought a lot about, and I’m sure you’re smarter than I’ll ever be, but I feel strongly that you’d change your mind on this if you spent some time reading about late Roman, medieval, and early modern economies. I was a libertarian for many years prior to looking at the dynamics of wealth accumulation that occurred during these periods and how societies came up with new ways to navigate them. I will admit I never came up with a cohesive moral theory to justify it, which is why I stop short of endorsing any alternatives; I’m just saying that the idea that it is a moral and practical necessity for these fortunes to accumulate is a relatively new one.

> BTW, the federal estate tax is 40% and the Washington estate tax is 37%. That's 77%. How much more do you want?

That is higher than I would have expected. It is notable that the federal rate has an exemption that as of 2025 is just under 14 million dollars.
by maxglute | 2025-08-06 08:49:25+00:00
No? Modern artillery shells cost 5-10k per (50-70k for guidance kits + programmable) and kill at medium distance, with entire logistic park (including self propelled) and isr chain for proper deployment. It's a different tier / type of capability. It kills lots/plurality of casualties... and historically... relatively cheaply. Autonomous drones potential for scenarios like close quarters, interiors, entrenched positions. Depending on battlefield transparency you can autonomously transport a shitload drones to frontlines and have them hunt / deny difficult targets that artillery can't effective engage. Drones that don't find target can area deny by being proxy mines for limited time etc etc. All potentially much cheaper once you eliminate 1 drone 1 operator constraint.
by parasti | 2025-08-06 08:50:16+00:00
I feel there's space for brainstorming and creating new ways of making web apps without having to take a stand against the status quo. It's a fun thought exercise, naming all the things you think are wrong with the web, but I had to scroll real far to see that this is a post about Use.GPU: "Use.GPU is a set of declarative, reactive WebGPU legos. Compose live graphs, layouts, meshes and shaders, on the fly." So felt like a missed opportunity to me to highlight that more instead of going through the list of annoyances.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-06 08:50:19+00:00
It does undermine the narrative. Eventually nobody will trust any public sector funded science. Private companies will still invest in scientific R&D to enhance their products but, like today, they won't talk about it much and they won't publish papers, only patents. That's where we're heading.

First problem: the sort of people who popularized Follow The Science™ actually meant "follow the people who run public sector institutions". Not "follow single studies" or anything that deep. The catchphrase was deployed many times during COVID to browbeat people into obeying people like Anthony Fauci, a man notorious for claiming he literally was science. "Attacks on me are attacks on science", he said. It was pure authoritarianism dressed up as intellectualism, as was so often the case throughout history (see: Lysenko).

Second problem: the heuristic that you should only trust a claim if it appears in several papers will also lead to you trusting many bogus claims. Academics regularly cite work they haven't even read, let alone replicated. It's easy to find invalid citations in the literature. Most of them just take claims on trust or even cite claims clearly advertised as made up fiction (sorry, "modeling assumptions").

Third problem: many results that replicate shouldn't:

https://blog.plan99.net/replication-studies-cant-fix-science...
by strogonoff | 2025-08-06 08:50:21+00:00
People often lament how DOM, HTML and CSS are becoming more and more complicated: the difficulty with simple and/or common tasks like vertical centering or virtualization, 600+ CSS properties, so many JavaScript methods, leaky abstractions, { contain: size }. I agree on many issues, but equally I struggle to imagine how it could realistically be not complex.

If it was a result of a single very well thought through vision and developers were expected to be committed to conforming to the latest API (think Apple’s iOS runtime or the like), we could maybe expect the <thread> and <comment> tags, we could demand there to be The One Correct Way of doing anything, that the “fat” is trimmed quickly and features go from deprecated to gone in a year. However, it is a product designed by committee (in fact, by multitudes of various committees) that has largely maintained backwards compatibility for decades, it is a free runtime that grew organically from what was supposed to be a basic hyperlinked document layout engine but now powers fully dynamic applications rivaling their native equivalents yet still has a pretty low barrier to entry for new developers, and as such it’s remarkably robust.

Yes, some applications tend to have a large amount of markup for what seems like simple features (the Slack’s input box example). However, the alternative is that browser vendors bake it all in, and then every app is stuck with the opinionated way they think is right. Perhaps some amount of chaos is healthy.
by astrange | 2025-08-06 08:50:56+00:00
AI has traditionally been driven by "metaphor-driven development" where people assume the brain has system X, program something they give the same name, and then assume because they've given it that name it must work because it works in the brain.

This is generally a bad idea, but a few of the results like "neural networks" did work out… eventually.

"World model" is another example of a metaphor like this. They've assumed that humans have world models (most likely not true), and that if they program something and call it a "world model" it will work the same way (definitely not true) and will be beneficial (possibly true).

(The above critique comes from Phil Agre and David Chapman.)
by rvba | 2025-08-06 08:51:29+00:00
Sure, a lot of problems could be solved with a cultural shift, but most people are in a rat race to survive

And those in politics are not interested in change since because (the cynical part starts here) they are selected / sponsored by billionaires who own the media, or go to politics as a job and not to help anyone but themselves

On a side note storing fat to feed the brain in case of bad times makes sense. In the past there were no convinience stores, nor refridgerators
by legends2k | 2025-08-06 08:52:01+00:00
While there are other parameters I would consider like maintainability, ergonomics, mind share, ease of deployment, etc. The ubiquitous availability point triumphs most others though. Installation of new toolchain is usually a hassle when the same task can be done with existing tools. Also when I present it in a company setting installing new software and broadening the security attack surface is the first pushback I get.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-06 08:52:25+00:00
That's not obvious from the comment and logically inconsistent with parts of it; if the trace between the cells is small it would act as an auxiliary fuse, and there is that balancing resistor (whose value I can't read because whoever drew that schematic didn't bother repositioning overlapping labels.) I'm also a bit confused about the 2 polyfuses.

That said you're right and I was focusing a bit too much on my reading/interpretation of the GGP post. I'm not sure I've ever seen a 1S2P LiIon configuration with individually user swappable cells. In the 2-cell design I did, I specifically decided to go for 2S1P and have the balancing circuit, to avoid this exact issue. It does have the downside that you need both cells, the WHY design works with only one populated... (which is what I'd recommend doing in any case.)

[ed.: the balancing resistor seems to be 200Ω. The polyfuses are 15mΩ. So I guess it's designed to trip one or both polyfuses if the cells are imbalanced. That's an... "odd"... design.]
by aragilar | 2025-08-06 08:52:27+00:00
I think if you had chased every single latest hotness then you would have hit lots of breakages, but depending on what you are doing and where you are running (and what dependencies you are using) then I think you could easily have something from 10-15 years ago work today. Part of the trick would have been to aware enough to pick the boring long-term options (but at some level that applies to every language and ecosystem), but the other part is understanding what the tools are actually doing and how they are maintained.
by eru | 2025-08-06 08:52:50+00:00
Huh? The US gets to print money for free. They don't even need to have printer's ink any more, since it's all entries in a database these days. And in return they get real stuff from overseas.

And you want to tell me that this is somehow unfair for the US?

The US can print an arbitrary amount of dollars, if there's demand for them in the rest of the world.

Btw, focussing on dollars is actually a bit narrow. When Americans sell stocks or bonds to the rest of the world, that's also part of the trade deficit. So Americans aren't just exporting dollars, they are also exporting stocks and bonds and options and futures. Financial engineering is one of great American manufacturing industries.

Interestingly enough, despite exporting so many financial products (= 'trade deficit'), Americans as a whole still make more money from their foreign investments abroad that foreigners make on their American investments. To simplify a bit too much: foreigners buy low yielding American government debt, while Americans make savvy investments abroad.

> It's not sustainable without careful policy management, and attempts to weaken the currency via tariffs, devaluation, or some other mechanism.

Oh, magical tariffs! They can strengthen or weaken your currency, just as the plot demands. They also prevent hollowing out of industry, and cure toothache.

If you want to weaken your currency, just print more of it. It's much simpler.

> You might not like Trump or his approach but he is directionally correct and does have a powerful bargaining chip (access to the US market - which is basically on track to be the only 1st world consumer driven economy 5 years from now).

What does 'consumer driven economy' even mean? Could you make your prediction more concrete. Perhaps we can even have a little bet.
by ggm | 2025-08-06 08:53:04+00:00
I think you've got to the nub of it. I worry about e.g. gall stones risk in 10y. But, friends worry it shows a lack of moral fibre or something. They aren't the same kind of worry. One is paranoia about past drug emerging issues and the other is tied up in belief eg poor addicts own their own fate, fat people should htf and eat less, depression isn't real... it's usually a short path to "I don't want to have socialised medicine for poor and old people"
by simianwords | 2025-08-06 08:53:06+00:00
I hate this line of thinking. The truth is in the middle - you can and should do generalisations because patterns do exist in real life. Indians do behave meaningfully differently than other races. And it is okay to notice those differences.

There's a new trend to oppose any pattern finding in races. The retort is always "we are so diverse that no pattern exists at all". I don't agree at all.
by dogleash | 2025-08-06 08:53:07+00:00
> Care to elaborate?

When parent poster says things like “low profile” it should be interpreted as cheap and doesn’t know their worth. Assume all hiring managers want the least qualified and cheapest possible employee that can still get the job done.

Not always true, but true enough to be useful and more true than hiring managers admit to themselves. I’ve been a senior involved with hiring for years because while I full don’t want to manage, I also never trust my manager to hire well. They have multiple mutually exclusive narratives they tell themselves about how they hire/manage. Not all of them are true, and sometimes not any are.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-06 08:53:11+00:00
Science isn't self correcting. These problems have existed for many decades. There were people complaining that social science doesn't replicate back in the 1960s.

The idea that science is self-correcting is a nice fiction spread by academics to absolve themselves of the need to reform. "Don't make us change, any problems will go away if you wait because science is naturally self correcting", they say. It's a silly word game. Academia, which is what they mean when they say science, is a human institution whose incentives lead naturally to rewarding bad behavior. Nothing in that system self corrects, corrections must be forced from the outside (or we give up on reform and dissolve the whole thing, a solution now actively being talked about in hardline right-wing forums).
by Shorel | 2025-08-06 08:53:12+00:00
The difference I perceive is the split between being the one designing the software, which is what he likes to do, and letting a LLM design the software, without the developer actually understanding what's going on, which is what he dislikes.

(This short comment exchange between us is also a meta commentary on that. Because our comments are much shorter than all the AI summaries, and at the same time, we add nuance and clarification to the ideas exposed, something the AI summaries don't do.)
by benchly | 2025-08-06 08:53:25+00:00
I appreciate all your insight!

I suppose my next question to yourself and anyone else who listens and says "this is AI slop" would be thus; if it was presented on Spotify or some other platform and not advertised as AI generated, would you still be able to tell the difference? Would your target audience?

This is where it gets fuzzy, for me. Lets say I make an album with 10 tracks of low-fi hiphop and want to sell it for $15USD with a liberal license that allows for use in commercial product. Let's also say that Bob uses GenAI to make a low-fi hiphop album that sells for $8USD assuming the same license. Which do you think the solo unpaid game dev who needs vibe music for her new cozy urban farming game is going to go for?

It's not just about consumers being able to tell the difference between GenAI product and human product, which they have proven pretty terrible at when we look at code, visual art and writing. The HN crowd is perhaps more adept at it, but as much as I enjoy this site, the HN crowd represents a tiny fraction of the available market despite what certain egos around here may think.

That is what takes the wind out of my sails; not that the GenAI can easily produce electronic music that sounds like mine, but that it can do it on a speed and scale that renders me not competitive.

To clarify, I never intended to make it my full time job. I like electronic music, saw a lot of artists on Bandcamp selling albums and doing music for games and figured hey, I think I can do that and maybe supplement my primary income a wee bit...you know, because here in the US, rather than fixing the predatory economy, we just push everyone into turning every hobby into a side-hustle. To your point about why I am engaging in a hobby where motivation is so easily lost, well...I will need to chew on that a bit. I am the type of person who enjoys trying different things to learn what I like and what I don't before investing in it more. I also wonder if there's a difference in the fact that I make electronic music with, well, electronics (into a bit of circuit bending, as well), versus someone who plays a guitar or oboe, which takes significantly more dedication and practice than what I enjoy doing.

Was I relying on making money off music? Nah. I am not even remotely close to that level, yet. But would it have been nice to put up a few albums to sell on platforms like Bandcamp? Sure! But the advent of GenAI makes me wonder if my limited free time would be best spent on other hobbies that stand a better chance of both satisfying my desire to create and putting a few extra bucks for lunch in my pocket once in awhile.
by bigmanhank | 2025-08-06 08:53:27+00:00
Not true: During World War II the Imperial Japanese Navy referred to Midway Island in their communications as “Milano” (ミラノ). This was the official code word used when planning and executing operations against the island, including the Battle of Midway.

12.82 tok/sec 140 tokens 7.91s to first token

openai/gpt-oss-20b
by redat00 | 2025-08-06 08:53:37+00:00
It's always funny when the people telling you to absolutely do something or your world will end... are the same one that have the exact cure to the problem. A problem that they mostly created.

I'm all in for AI to take over my job. And then other peoples jobs. But then what ? Once the world is made mostly of unemployed people, what will happen ? Sure you can have food prepared by clankers, delivered by clankers, taxis driven by clankers and so far... But with which consumers ? Will clankers pay money to other clankers ? Surely not.

And I'm not even that much of an anti-AI guy, I'm just wondering where the hell are we going with that ? Sure for rich people it's an absolute delight to see that they can now produce code without having to pay people, increase margins like never before ... But then what ?
by kergonath | 2025-08-06 08:53:58+00:00
These conferences have fees, just like predatory journals. They tend to be held in dodgy places in otherwise touristy areas, and most of them are partly or fully online anyway. The cherry on the cake is that attendees can use them as holidays funded by their institution.

I don’t dispute that there are probably orders of magnitude more fake papers than fake conference presentations, just that shifting from journal articles to conference talks won’t help at all. If the incentives shift, current paper mills will just shift with the market.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-06 08:53:59+00:00
>when we look at animals in nature

We should be able to tell which behaviors are not properly included in the concept of "humanity".

And when we find these behaviors within ourselves, recognize those as a vestige of inhuman nature.

We should be constantly striving not to confuse the unsuitable animalistic stuff as "human nature", otherwise that's the lamest excuse of all and has leveraged more stupidity than probably anything else in history.

I'm with you on competitiveness though, to a degree it's all not purely animalistic, especially not financially ;)

OTOH, the cutthroat stuff can be so inhuman there's not any question, or it wouldn't be called that.
by pjc50 | 2025-08-06 08:54:03+00:00
Given how much torch you can power off one of these, I'm not clear why you'd need two of them for a badge, since any conceivable use for that much current is going to start heating up the badge PCB fairly quickly. They're usually sized for >1A each, and you can get >10A off them for short periods, which is very lively for a badge pinned to flammable clothing.
by anovikov | 2025-08-06 08:54:09+00:00
Sadly it seems to have very little effect in these domains on non-overweight people. In studies, on large groups, Ozempic helps people quit drinking a lot better than it helps quitting smoking - because alcoholics tend to be overweight but smokers tend to be skinny. The higher was someone's BMI, the more pronounced are ALL of the semaglutide effects, even those not apparently associated with weight at all.
by woadwarrior01 | 2025-08-06 08:54:14+00:00
> It’s that KittenTTS is Apache-2.0

Have you seen the code[1] in the repo? It uses phonemizer[2] which is GPL-3.0 licensed. In its current state, it's effectively GPL licensed.

[1]: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS/blob/main/kittentts/on...

[2]: https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer

Edit: It looks like I replied to an LLM generated comment.