MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ksec | 2025-08-16 13:51:57+00:00
I think OpenBSD has gotten quite a bit faster in the last 4 - 5 releases. Unfortunately we will need to wait for another round of benchmarks by phoronix as it seems to have problems every time benchmarks are ran.

Somewhere along the line may be it will become fast enough and certain applications may use it for different sets of reasons.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-16 13:52:37+00:00
Employment is all about being a good fit for the employer, not about being a good developer. I am often not selected because I preference things that scares the shit out of most developers even if such things are hugely beneficial.

Interviews are just talking to people. Its not the same as a casual conversation, but its also not a hostile police interrogation. Nonetheless, its still just a conversation. If you imagine it to be something different then something different it becomes.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-16 13:52:55+00:00
NFTs are the most metaphysical purchases possible. You're not buying a thing, you're buying a token that represents the idea of the thing, and its only value is that you're the person who paid for it and nobody else did.

If you disagree that this is an issue of metaphysics, fine, but google "NFT metaphysical" and you will see that there is an absolutely massive overlap between the world of woo-woo and the world of NFTs.

NFTs are, among other things, apparently cryptography for astrologers.

Grift squared.
by thfuran | 2025-08-16 13:53:08+00:00
Universal public schooling in its modern form is very recent and certainly not some sort of biological imperative. Before cheap books and universal literacy (which is frankly something of an overstatement), it wasn't remotely plausible to expect reading books to be a near ubiquitous pastime, and even now recreational reading has decreased in the past few decades. You may quite like to read, but framing it a some kind of eternal and universal experience is just complete nonsense.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-16 13:53:31+00:00
> e.g. if you are a quiet, introverted person then there probably isn't much you can do if you are interviewing for a job that requires an outgoing personality like sales or event planning

Learning how to talk to people, read a room, small talk, etc can be learned. I’m definitely an introvert by nature. But people in a professional setting are really not that much different than computer systems. Once you understand different type of personalities, you learn what input gets you what output.

The Career Tools/Manager Tools podcasts has dozens of podcasts about dealing with people with different DISC profiles.

One secret I use when starting a conversation with someone new is “what keeps you busy?” and act interested and ask open ended follow up questions.
by raldi | 2025-08-16 13:53:35+00:00
I’ve learned a lot more from talking directly to people, watching videos, participating in forums, and doing things than I ever have from books. This is especially true now. I’m not sure the 1913 take was wrong.

For the past year or so, whenever I’ve wanted to learn something from a book, I’ve downloaded the Kindle edition, converted to plain text, given it to Claude, and asked it to tutor me chapter by chapter.
by homefree | 2025-08-16 13:53:43+00:00
The diagnosis criteria in that consensus is pretty weak imo and part of the subjectivity I’m talking about.

They claim there are observable differences, but none of these alone can be used for diagnosis.

> The diagnosis of ADHD has been criticized as being subjective because it is not based on a biological test. This criticism is unfounded. ADHD meets standard criteria for validity of a mental disorder established by Robins and Guze (Faraone, 2005; 1970). The disorder is considered valid because: 1) well-trained professionals in a variety of settings and cultures agree on its presence or absence using well-defined criteria and 2) the diagnosis is useful for predicting a) additional problems the patient may have (e.g., difficulties learning in school); b) future patient outcomes (e.g., risk for future drug abuse); c) response to treatment (e.g., medications and psychological treatments); and d) features that indicate a consistent set of causes for the disorder (e.g., findings from genetics or brain imaging)

I don’t find this very persuasive and it’s a problem in the field generally.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-16 13:54:12+00:00
As somebody that used to drag about 10kg worth of books back and forth to high school in the eighties, I don't think getting rid of that is necessarily that bad. And there are only so many books you can drag with you. And most of the educational books were pretty crappy and uninspiring as I recall.

Modern kids can have access to a wealth of information. AIs doing what teachers don't have time to do might actually be an improvement. I had some great teachers that went above and beyond, and also quite a few burned out not so great ones too. Modern schools weren't created to enlighten people but to turn kids into productive factory workers meeting bare minimum standards. Historically, there always was a big difference between the rich and the poor on this front. And whisking away the few smart kids and training those up properly was something left for higher education.

Modern tech creates potential for more bespoke and tailored teaching but also lots of challenges for teachers.
by audunw | 2025-08-16 13:54:23+00:00
Is eating plenty of carbs to have good performance during exercise a “free lunch”? It’s more like it’s just optimising what you eat to give the body what it needs during exercise, no?

Creatine is pretty much in that category. It’s just a natural source of energy, essentially. You get it in some food as well. And you don’t get much benefits unless you’re doing strength exercise.

There may be some benefits for the brain as well, especially in older individuals. I doubt that there’s any significant downsides in general.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-08-16 13:54:51+00:00
That is not true, and even TFA points at why that can't be true: to your insurance, to vehicle taxes, etc. you declare the power _of the installed engine_, not of whatever software interlocks you, your tax advisor, or the manufacturer have decided to install on it.

TFA already says the car is registered at the maximum power level regardless of the actual software cap. So you are _quite literally_ paying for it, at least in terms of increased insurance and taxes.
by pixelpoet | 2025-08-16 13:55:11+00:00
Guaranteed this is the case, I see it a lot too. They've done it twice before on previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755116 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785347

In case anyone is curious, the way to phrase it as a question would be, "How does randomness improve algorithms?"
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-16 13:55:36+00:00
Why would they post a whole blog post about it then? They even say they aren't certain as to the moral status of LLMs, implying this is a topic of live debate inside the company.

None of this is in any way surprising, in fact I wrote an essay predicting this direction back in 2022:

https://blog.plan99.net/the-looming-ai-consciousness-train-w...
by paulryanrogers | 2025-08-16 13:56:42+00:00
> My wife has had to handle more than one incident with serious child sexual abuse. This isn’t something teachers expect to do when they apply for their jobs.

My spouse also taught and heard some difficult stories of home troubles. But she did have school counselors she could recommend.

I'm not sure there is a better alternative. Someone has to be on the front lines with kids. Perhaps all kids should have to talk to a (school?) counselor or social worker periodically? It would certainly be money better spent than burning money on crypto mining, AI, or cutting taxes of the top 10%.
by oriettaxx | 2025-08-16 13:57:00+00:00
thanks for the link: I cannot stand their pay wall, but

pretty weird:

this website (archive.ph) is banned for Italian by law

"Ministero dell'Interno Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza Direzione Centrale per la Polizia Scientifica e la Sicurezza Cibernetica Servizio Polizia Postale e Sicurezza Cibernetica

STOP !

PAGINA INTERDETTA DAL CENTRO NAZIONALE PER IL CONTRASTO DELLA PEDOPORNOGRAFIA ONLINE (C.N.C.P.O.)"
by almostgotcaught | 2025-08-16 13:57:02+00:00
> Yet they are languages according to formal language theory, a definition which I’d say is a bit more widespread than yours. Indeed what you propose roughly maps to (a subset of) context-sensitive languages in particular.

I love when people talk down to me as if I don't have a PhD in this shit lol. No actually what I'm talking about is Recursive languages.

> Then regex, HTML, YAML, and so on are not languages either according to your definition.

Do you see the M before the L there in both HTML and YAML? Do you know what it stands for? Markup. Markup is a funny word that colloquially means the same thing as annotate which bears a strong relationship to the word notation hmmmmmmmm.

Let me put it simply: if the force of the original comment is that context free languages can be 2d then I would say..... no duh.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-16 13:58:21+00:00
> You should not think that you're paying more for getting less. You should think that finally you can now enable more in your engine if you want to. Until today, you couldn't.

I can think the way I want to think. I'm not going to pretend that I'm not paying more and getting less when that is what's happening!

> You just had to know that your car is more powerful than the papers say and live with that.

Or I voice my opposition to this sort of bullshit in the hopes that enough like-minded people can gather enough force to make it change for the better.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-16 13:58:21+00:00
Obviously an orderly school is preferable to a disorderly school, but I doubt it's enough.

I am completely convinced by the arguments for individual tutoring. I got some in languages and I liked the outcome (it was also a fun social thing to do with my parents). It would have saved a lot of time to also get it in maths, physics, chemistry and biology.
by latexr | 2025-08-16 13:59:31+00:00
Maybe watch the rest of the video. The Tesla, unlike the LiDAR car, also failed the fog and rain tests. The mural was just the last and funniest one.

Let’s also not forget murals like that do exist in real life. And those aren’t foam.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...

Additionally, as the other commenter pointed out, trucks often have murals painted on them, either as art or adverts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_art_in_South_Asia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekotora

Search for “truck ads” and you’ll find a myriad companies offering the service.
by staticman2 | 2025-08-16 13:59:52+00:00
>>>No, because one built a civilization and the other is actual nonsense

If you believe the bible isn't superstitious nonsense then maybe you should say that directly.

"One built a civilization" describes a lot of religious books and seems to be a non sequitur.

Of course "The bible is like this occult book except the bible is true" isn't a very interesting argument.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-16 14:00:08+00:00
That’s…that’s literally what my point was. I didn’t think my snark and vitriol was papering over my opinion of subscriptions in vehicles as being awful things or of maintenance items being cheaper outside of dealerships, but instead merely highlighting that the only really acceptable subscription model was something like Volvo offered - a single monthly or yearly price for handling most maintenance and repair items.

I’m never - let me be clear - never going to condone proprietary bullshit like specialized gas or electricity or what-have-you. But if car dealers and makers really want recurring revenue, just take the pain out of maintenance and repairs via subscription. Most people I know of (across multiple income strata) would gladly pay for that peace of mind instead of fretting over a repair bill.
by ben_w | 2025-08-16 14:00:18+00:00
> "Will these guys be around to support me in 25-40 years?" That has never really been a question for the US in the last 75 years.

From the POV of the time? Sure, we can see with the benefit of hindsight that even 40 years was true up until at least 1985, but did people plan that far ahead at the time?

25 years, sure, I think that was true for most of it, with only a handful of exceptions like France and the UK being upset about what happened in response to their actions in the Suez Crisis. IMO correct call by USA there, and I say that as a British citizen by birth, but still means "can we rely on them?" resolves "no", and this loss of de facto independence in what they could do explains much of British foreign policy since then.
Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
by adrianhacar | 2025-08-16 14:01:38+00:00
I wanted to find a way to use Instagram without ending up scrolling for two hours every time I open the app to see a friend's story.

Most screen time apps I found focus on blocking the app itself instead of the addictive feed, so I created this app to allow me to keep using the "healthy" and "social" features and block the infinite scrolling (Reels)

After implementing the block on Instagram Reels, I got addicted to YouTube Shorts and Reddit feed. So, I extended the app to cover these as well.

To avoid replacing the scrolling for regular feeds, I also added a feature that shows a pop-up when I'm overscrolling in any app. It forces me to stop and think for a minute before I continue scrolling.

I built it on Android Studio, using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for the UI. I use the Accessibility Service to detect scrolls and navigate out of them. Unfortunately, this only works for Android. There is no way (as far as I know) to do this on iOS.

I'd love to hear your thoughts
by i_am_proteus | 2025-08-16 14:01:55+00:00
Same thing on the current F-800 and F-900: identical engine blocks, different power outputs, F-900 comes with taller suspension, spoked wheels, and so forth.

I believe part of the rationale is that Euro A2 licenses permit a "restrictor kit" to reduce motor power below 47 hp, but only if maximum horsepower is less than 94 hp (double the limit). One can buy an F-800 with a restrictor, and then remove the restrictor once one has obtained the upgraded license.

Now, looking at the motor torque and power curves, most of that extra power comes in the high RPMs. In practical riding of BMW twins, I find that I rarely place the motor into the high RPMs, because the torque curve is nice and flat and there's plenty of pull in the low range :)
by franga2000 | 2025-08-16 14:02:16+00:00
Genuinely, have you looked at modern screenshots? When in ribbon mode, it's basically the same as MS Office.

LO Writer: https://i.redd.it/0ps5cvvffdf21.png MS Word: https://erinwrightwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Wor...

Got any other "ugly" spots? All the "old" menus (like editing a paragraph style or list style) look kind of bad on both, but at least MS Word's print preview got a facelift (used to be even worse than LO, now it's quite a bit better).
by byproxy | 2025-08-16 14:05:11+00:00
A 10% in strength drop after stopping creatine intake seems like quite a bit. Creatine certainly helps out in resistance training (if you're a responder), but generally by way of maaaybe being able to add another rep to a set at a given weight or maaaybe being able to add 2-3% more weight to a given set. This has cumulative effects, of course, but I wouldn't expect such a steep decline.

Unless you are a super-responder, that is!
by cesarb | 2025-08-16 14:05:11+00:00
> > Windows 2000 was peak Windows to me.

> These days Microsoft is openly and aggressively hostile to the user and its getting worse every update.

In my opinion, the moment at which Microsoft started being actively hostile to the user was when they added WGA in the Windows XP era. Its existence meant that the owner of the computer would no longer be considered a trusted party; that piece of code was actively working against the computer owner. That led Microsoft to gradually adopt a mindset in which the owner of the computer is no longer supposed to be in control of the computer. That mindset got even stronger with the addition of DRM (which treats computer owners as if they were actively malicious), and with malware protection measures like Secure Boot and Kernel Patch Protection (which treat only code explicitly authorized by Microsoft as reliable).
by mcdeltat | 2025-08-16 14:05:11+00:00
My very cynical hypothesis: the time for mainstream or mainstream-adjacent tech doing anything actually useful for us is ending or over (if such a time ever existed). It's mostly rent seeking garbage now as tech matures and companies get greedy. Too much software is utter trash and is shoved in our face to display ads, collect data, or sell something. Hardware is increasingly locked down into crap-ridden environments. I mean you can barely even buy a device and boot the OS without some corporation like Microsoft trying to shoehorn you into 20 useless features to suck the joy from your life while their wallet gets fat. Features for the sake of features, churn the sake of churn - it's an increasingly sickening rot all the way down. Just give us a simple computer that does what we need. Not everything needs to be an infinite revenue source.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-16 14:05:16+00:00
I generally don’t believe in Panacea’s, and if these jobs were so great and the solution to all our problems, why is it when we live in a country where a large percentage of folks are rural or otherwise have blue collar values, there not pursuing them?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying all blue collar jobs are bad, many are fantastic! But like all things, it’s likely a pyramid. Just like a lot of software engineering jobs are shitty.

If it is offered as a panacea, then the glut of applicants will just drive down wages.
by morsecodist | 2025-08-16 14:05:35+00:00
I don't agree that it is because of the "quality" of the video. The issue with AI art is that it lacks intentional content. I think people like art because it is a sort of conversation between the creator and the viewer. It is interesting because it has a consistent perspective. It is possible AI art could one day be indistinguishable but for people to care about it I feel they would need to lie and say it was made by a particular person or create some sort of persona for the AI. But there are a lot of people who want to do the work of making art. People are not the limiting factor, in fact we have way more people who want to make art than there is a market for it. What I think is more likely is that AI becomes a tool in the same way CGI is a tool.
by tomjen3 | 2025-08-16 14:05:43+00:00
Good. Plastics are one of those technologies that have been maligned incorrectly and now we cannot be reasonable about it.

We are not even looking at e.g removing plastics from the ocean, because that would force us to come to terms with the inconvinient truth that most of the plastic is from a few rivers in poor areas (basically it is been used as a self emptying trash system) and used up fishing nets.

There are solutions for these problems, but the ones like banning plastic straws simply do not address this problem.
by thefaux | 2025-08-16 14:06:36+00:00
There is a naive belief that media does not matter so long as the same content is presented. For various reasons, I believe books are far better learning tools than digital devices for most things. Among other things, memory is linked to place and space. A physical book is a link to the real world that grounds the learning in space and differentiates it from other materials. My theory, based on my personal experience, is that reading a physical book, you have an experience with that object that helps link the content into the spacial memory system.

Physical books can be totemic symbols of learning. Just having them around is a reminder of what you've learned, or what you've been putting off if they remain unread.

Physical books are also wonderful gifts that digital can never replicate. A wise old man once gave me a book that he cherished and had been given to him in commemoration of his contribution to its production (it was a very important book). Every one of the hundreds of pages was filled with many of his annotations. Whenever I read from it, I am connected to him and his study. What would be the equivalent for digital? Giving someone a used phone?
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-08-16 14:06:37+00:00
Two thoughts:

1) As far as I recall this program of formalizing mathematics fails unless you banish autoregression.

2) It is important to point out that a theorem in this context is not the same as a "Theorem" from mathematics. Production rules generate theorems that comply with rules and axioms of the formal system, ensuring that they could have meaning in that formal system. The meaning cannot justify the rules though, fortunately, most know to use the rules of logic so that we are not grunting beasts, incapable of conveying information.

I think the author wonders why theorems that don't seem to have meanings appear in the output of AI.
by t0mk | 2025-08-16 14:06:41+00:00
I sent the email and got response from Czech Pirate MEP:

[..] The bad news is already circulating—the EU Council is now led by the Danes, who would like to push their position of unrestricted surveillance through among the other member states.

Just a few months ago, however, a vote—only to reopen the discussion!—was supposed to take place, and most states blocked it. So the Danes may try to gain a majority, but we have no indication that the positions in the Council will change significantly. For now.

The bad news, of course, is that as parliamentary elections take place in the coming years in the national states (for example in Czechia in a month), the positions of the states may change. [0]

This needs to be noted, and if it starts to change to our disadvantage, sound the alarm with the new (czech) government.

However, I also have some good news for you in general—for the next four years. :)

Legislation in the EU is approved in such a way that the Parliament and the Council create a position, and then they must work together to reach a compromise.

The current situation is blocked because there is no Council position. However, even if the Council were to finally approve a position and it were terrible, the Parliament's position is strongly against the proposal, and after discussions with other rapporteurs, I can assure you that nothing will change (only the KDU-CSL (a czech christian-democratic party) is causing problems ;)). So no "spying compromise" will pass through us.

[end of translated citation]

[0] There will be parliamentary elections in autumn 2025 in Czechia, and the populist parties are leading the polls, most notable Ano 2011 led by A. Babis (a mid-left party). I don't know what's their position on Chat Control, but I guess it will be whatever they estimate is going to gain them most votes in elections coming up next.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-08-16 14:06:43+00:00
I mean you have a 100kW battery that is limited by the software at 70-80kW. This is what I mean by de-rating.

Secondly, a 100kW battery is heavier than a 70-80kW one.

If you don’t pony up for the upgrade fee, you carry around all the time probably 50kgs of useless mass. More mass, less mileage.