MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timschmidt | 2025-08-31 02:46:46+00:00
I'm looking forward to the day when Javascript can be just another WASM polyfill loaded with the page with a well-defined, portable, and fast API to the DOM. Also can't wait for WebGPU to be adopted in more places. Right now I rely on WebGL2 because WebGPU isn't available in Firefox/Linux stable by default.

Another minor annoyance is that 'cargo bloat' and similar tools don't yet have backends for wasm, so I need to fix up the native build to make use of that sort of analysis, which I'd like, because I serve the whole application from microcontroller flash where I only have 4 - 16mb to hold application and firmware, including the http server and network stack.
by IdreesInc | 2025-08-31 02:48:14+00:00
Thank you for sharing that! I had originally started this project with the intention of making an editor for the "mail" from Pokémon G/S/C before I decided to focus on Animal Crossing instead. It's cool to know that I'm not the only one interested in that sort of thing, but shame that they never added the mail from that game.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-31 02:49:57+00:00
Yes, as long as it's Trump. We're lucky to have found a man who makes correct decisions. Can you imagine the hullabaloo that would have accompanied Biden or Obama or even G.W. Bush making these kind of decisions? We'd have heard from all major media how bad it was, billionaires would have been upset, and there would be congressmen and senators lining up for hearings. Now? Almost nothing. A few dispassionate, totally factual articles. Pundits are happy, billionaires happy, we're just waiting for the Supreme Court to dot the i's and cross the t's of formality.
by sipofwater | 2025-08-31 02:49:59+00:00
* "Windows 11 Update KB5063878 corrupted my 8TB Seagate drive (RAW, data loss)": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5534282/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5534282/windows-11-update-kb5063878-corrupted-my-8tb-seaga)

* "Potential SSD Detection Bug in Windows 11 24H2 Following Update KB5063878 (August 12, 2025)": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5536733/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5536733/potential-ssd-detection-bug-in-windows-11-24h2-fol)
by evantbyrne | 2025-08-31 02:53:24+00:00
The reason Go does not have a grand framework is that the language has a severely underdeveloped type system, which makes building complex libraries that meaningfully complement each other overly difficult. I waited nine years before starting on my first Go database toolkit so I could use generics. I succeeded, but can't shake the feeling that I know I had a better experience doing it with Java in undergrad. Being able to map/filter/reduce from a result type into another generic type would be a complete game changer. Being able specify union types would eliminate my need for the "any" type. Being able to overload would clean up a lot of code. It needs more time in the oven.
by red369 | 2025-08-31 02:54:18+00:00
I assume you mean it's not really worth watching if it's currently on broadcast TV?

Surely there's a huge list of old broadcast TV network shows that are worth watching, and that still suffer from the ad-break problem to various degrees.

Obviously I'm pulling from a wide time-period, and I'll probably get some of these wrong because I'm not in the the US and don't quite grok the network/cable divide, but off the top of my head, I think these are/were all worth watching: Seinfeld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Community, Schitt's Creek, The Office, The X-Files, various Star Trek series, Cheers

That list could be easily improved on, but I assume it's missing your point anyway if you were only talking about current broadcast network TV (if it exists :) )
by bofadeez | 2025-08-31 02:55:26+00:00
So now you're pivoting to saying Flynn Effect is just an observation of noise and human error with no meaning. You brought up the Flynn Effect, but you don't think it's meaningful to measure IQ? But you do think time series analysis on IQ is meaningful? You made no attempt at even a reasoned claim that Flynn Effect debunks validity of IQ. It's all patchwork emo stuff going on with u, and u agree grammur policing is a last resort of a broken mind. Not much respond to when you have to twist yourself in a pretzel and then trip over your own arguments on the pivot.
by thoughtpeddler | 2025-08-31 02:55:40+00:00
Someone should make something like this for the wider world outside of just HN. Go through all my publications through gScholar or elsewhere, and scour and parse anything I wrote publicly pre-11/30/22 to establish some kind of proof-of-humanity. Sincerely, an em-dash user who got overtaken by the GenAI wave of the mid-2020s.
by timschmidt | 2025-08-31 02:56:22+00:00
Thank you. There is still a lot of work left to get it controlling it's first machine. I am currently figuring out how best to build for all the mcu and board combinations I expect to support, and then wiring up motion control to the UI. Just got the node-graph interface for csgrs working and there's still a lot left to flesh it out fully. Advancing slowly :D

Please consider joining the Discord: https://discord.com/invite/cCHRjpkPhQ

I'm the only one in there at the moment. Bring friends! lol
by sneak | 2025-08-31 02:57:02+00:00
I don't. I don't want the web to become just a runtime for opaque binary applications. Right now we still maintain some semblance of user control over the DOM and the application; when everything is WASM and WebGPU using its own custom renderer, the ability of people to casually inspect, modify, hack, tinker, and tweak will be completely over.

I learned how to build for the web by looking at webpages and seeing how they worked. What you're describing is the switch from circuit boards of discrete components to everything in a single microscopic IC under a blob of epoxy.
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-31 02:57:11+00:00
My test only provided at a 90% CI. Not like it is a substantial difference, but I thought I’d throw that out there.

Then again, the same psychologist told me that the discrepancy between my scores was so large that a true FSIQ cannot be used. In a sense, he told me that based on that test, I didn't actually have an IQ that could be accurate measured based on that given test. Apparently, it’s not normal to have almost two SD between some scores...

Being a smart idiot isn't easy work, but someone has to do it.
by kawfey | 2025-08-31 02:57:31+00:00
I notice this too.

I've made a new year resolution in 2024 to be much more outgoing with my friends and coworkers, and to go to more concerts. My wife isn't a concert person, and I don't have many local friends. But still, I always buy two tickets and, to the friends and colleagues I will offer the other ticket, usually in conversation or at random, usually months in advance, and usually at no cost just because I just really like having friends -- who doesn't?

Of the 6 shows since then, 4 people accepted to go with me, but all of them ended up cancelling. One friend tapped in at the last second just because he was a local student with nothing better to do on friday night. So I've been to a lot of concerts alone, which kinda sucks. Everyone else is there with some companion, but I'm kinda extraverted so made a few acquaintances.

I also planned a fishing trip with another -- free airfare (companion pass) and lodging (family condo) for them -- and cancelled about 2 weeks prior to it.

I also realized i'm the manufacturer of my friendships -- I am the one who asks friends out for lunch, brunch, hikes, beers, coffee, picnics, game night, etc. I'm the conversation starter. I send the plurality of reels. I'm reminded of my friends on a daily basis from random happenings, that spur me to get a gift, or send a news article, or just a pic or text, or to form a plan for a birthday party or fishing trip or cross-country flight or anything.

They'd often accept the small stuff, and things were good. But I backed away during my recent paternity leave, and they basically disappeared. I still send and receive some how are you's, but it made me realize how lopsided my relationships became.

I kinda burnt out manufacturing my relationships (also after learning about that term), so I stopped, and for the last 3 months I've been essentially devoid of friendship (except for one person who ).

Started to make me think I smell or something, but reading of the male loneliness epidemic and an overall dissolution of community is making me realize the only thing I'm doing wrong is not continuing to manufacture my friendships like I was before.
by creatonez | 2025-08-31 02:57:58+00:00
You're right. It's a completely asinine approach. Especially when PHP itself is used as a templating language.

And solutions that try to fix this (custom templating engines, runtimes that run the whole thing inside a continuous PHP process) are simply putting lipstick on a pig.

The solution is to use a language that wasn't originally called "Personal HomePage"
by GodelNumbering | 2025-08-31 02:58:04+00:00
No, the nature favors the fittest. The incumbent may or may not be the fittest. The said policies allow the unfit or inefficient businesses to stay around or dominate.

While I acknowledge your point of view, a Tesla taking in $38B of government subsidy or a google/apple getting special lenient legal treatment is not laissez-faire.
by nilslindemann | 2025-08-31 02:58:14+00:00
Notice, if you have all these settings enabled, you can still be fingerprinted. Test here:

https://fingerprint.com/

In my tests only Tor was able to prevent that, but using Tor will give you bad rankings on payment sites like PayPal, you may even get banned there.

I learned this from here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243355

That site is now black, surely a coincidence. Here the archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250801173508/https://www.bites...

Have a local copy.
by red369 | 2025-08-31 02:58:19+00:00
I agree with your feeling that those mini cliff-hangers break the immersion, especially when watching without ad-breaks, although I can mostly deal with it. I agree with some of the other replies though, that it is more prevalent in older shows.

I find that laugh-tracks are the aspect of older shows which I find harder to ignore. Still worth bearing with for some old shows though, especially as I gradually stop hearing them.
by ferguess_k | 2025-08-31 02:58:25+00:00
I'm struggling with the amount of complexity. As an inexperienced SWE, I found it difficult to put everything into my head when the # of function calls (A) + # of source code files (B) to navigate reach N. In particular, if B >= 3 or A >= 3 -- because, B equals the number of screens I need to view all source code files without Command+Tab/Alt+Tab, and cognitive load increases when A increases, especially when some "patterns" are involved.

But I'm not experienced enough to tell, whether it is my inexperience that causes the difficulty, or it is indeed that the unnecessary complexity tha causes it.
by hansvm | 2025-08-31 02:59:04+00:00
A subtlety still exists there. Copy-pasting is fine. What you're trying to prevent with DRY is two physical locations in your codebase referring to the same semantic context (i.e., when you should change "the thing" you have to remember to change "all the places").

Somewhat off-topic, that's one usual failure mode of "DRY" code. Code is de-duplicated at a visual level rather than in terms of relevant semantics, so that changes which should only affect one path either affect both or are very complicated to reason about because of the unnecessary coupling.
by greazy | 2025-08-31 02:59:24+00:00
I do not understand the shape problems. How are they solved? Does then pattern progress left to right, top to bottom? Or is that part of the riddle?

For the dice questions, which rotation on the is being performed? I think that's part of the riddle, most rotations are impossible given the initial position.

Either am an idiot or the solution to the riddles is something taught in school, which is something I've never been taught.
by CBLT | 2025-08-31 02:59:59+00:00
I also run Harbor. I use the official Helm chart; it's a little jank, doesn't support a couple of things we want. It only works with one of ArgoCD/ExternalSecretsOperator, and it doesn't support Redis TLS.

Contrary to the author of this post, we just run one (the "source of truth") and use caching proxies in other regions. Works fine for us.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-31 03:01:01+00:00
Those crops would need to have been planted at scale months ago, with the full supply chain build-out leading up to that beforehand. The history of agricultural supply chains demonstrates that it is not nearly as agile as laypeople assume due to a long chain of sequential dependencies.

You either have to find a way to consume what is already in the pipeline or go without. Governments are very sensitive to the food security implications because there isn’t much slack politically to “go without”.
by bobsomers | 2025-08-31 03:02:16+00:00
> But if they do choose to leave, or at least stop expanding their businesses, you can’t deny the rational self interest

"If you tax the rich, they will leave" is a myth created by the rich so that you won't tax them.

In the middle of the 1900s, the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans was 91%.

Nobody is going to leave over Mamdani's extremely modest proposal.
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-31 03:02:18+00:00
A lot of things are correlated. Let me know when causation is determined.

Also, your Vox link was pay-walled, but nevertheless, I am fairly well versed in some of the data. I have my own archive of research on this topic for what it is worth (not likely much).

Any hoot, the correlations, while positive, are nothing to write home about in my opinion. Sure, IQ might have more breadth of predictably, but it definitely lacks depth of predictably compared to more granular models depending on the domain.

For example, IQ is not a better predictor of chess performance than say a chess tournament.
by benreesman | 2025-08-31 03:03:06+00:00
Take it up with the people who could easily prevent it by instituting reforms, not with me, that's shooting the messenger because I'm easier to get to. But I'm fighting those people tooth and nail precisely because every small victory however symbolic is one pebble in the scale and there are degrees of "mess": plenty of corrupt elites make a deal, let's pray these do.

If there's a genocide level event it won't have my endorsement, I'm still mourning a kid brother who would still be here if it weren't for a lot of the factors killing men his age in stupendous numbers. That genocide? It's been happening for a minimum of 5 years, more like ten.

I appreciate the merits and gravity of your complaint (to put it mildly) but mine is the wrong complaint box for it.
by loeg | 2025-08-31 03:03:07+00:00
> The entire system just helps big companies become even bigger and even more anti competitive. Even just due to their existence (being large and existing). Passive investing is good for the general person but also makes this concentration worse and keeps capital away from smaller companies.

No. There's still plenty of active money doing price discovery; you can't attribute this market concentration to the rise of passive. (And this is self-correcting; as the share of active money shrinks, the reward to active investors for price discovery grows.)

The market is concentrated because that's where active money thinks the future profit is.
by toofy | 2025-08-31 03:03:10+00:00
yeah, this is unfortunately exactly what is going to happen.

the writing was on the wall once they won their first Oscar.

but, at least they've proven that there is success to be had in creating new IP. there will be people who will watch your movies if you actually create something new. the cycle of nothing but sequels, remakes, and universe movies has been hilariously bad for years.

we do still have the unfortunate reality that most of the studios have been bought up and are run by people who are ... to be kind ... bean counters who have no affinity for movies. but the bright side to this is we will almost certainly have another massive independent movie bonanza similar to the late 90s to fill that void.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-31 03:04:10+00:00
Beware of rankings that rate perception.

Also most easily available statistics are from 2020. The US economy has been a massive winner post-Covid and has diverged a lot from some countries.

This website should be a good example. The typical Sr Software dev in the US would be in the top 1% to 0.1% of earners in European countries and Canada. The US has more millionaires than many entire European countries have citizens.

A top 10% earner in the US would be in the top 1% in Canada. An AVERAGE earner in the US is about top 10-15% in Canada.

Class mobility (or social mobility) indicates ability to go from lower to middle class, working class to generational wealth, etc... All income statistics show the US as having a particularly large amount of high income earners, self made millionaires (and billionaires), etc...
by lossolo | 2025-08-31 03:04:38+00:00
> Since then we've had "sparsely-gated MoE", RLHF, BERT, "Scaling Laws", Dall-E, LoRA, CoT, AlphaFold 2, "Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning", and DeepSeek's training cost breakthrough.

OK, I will bite.

So "Sparsely-gated MoE" isn’t some new intelligence, it's a sharding trick. You trade parameter count for FLOPs/latency with a router. And MoE predates transformers anyway.

RLHF is packaging. Supervised finetune on instructions, learn a reward model, then nudge the policy. That’s a training objective swap plus preference data. It's useful, but not breakthrough.

CoT is a prompting hack to force the same model to externalize intermediate tokens. The capability was there, you’re just sampling a longer trajectory. It’s UX for sampling.

Scaling laws are an empirical fit telling you "buy more compute and data" That’s a budgeting guideline, not new math or architecture. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/8c1i45/sta...

LoRA is linear algebra 101, low rank adapters to cut training cost and avoid touching the full weights. The base capability still comes from the giant pretrained transformer.

AlphaFold 2’s magic is mostly attention + A LOT of domain data/priors (MSAs, structures, evolutionary signal). Again attention core + data engineering.

"DeepSeek’s cost breakthrough" is systems engineering.

Agentic software dev/MCP is orchestration, that’s middleware and protocols, it helps use the model, it doesn’t make the model smarter.

Video generation? Diffusion with temporal conditioning and better consistency losses. It’s DALL-E style tech stretched across time with tons of data curation and filtering.

Most headline "wins" are compiler and kernel wins: FlashAttention, paged KV-cache, speculative decoding, distillation, quantization (8/4 bit), ZeRO/FSDP/TP/PP... These only move the cost curve, not the intelligence.

The biggest single driver the last few years has been the data so de dup, document quality scores, aggressive filtration, mixture balancing (web/code/math), synthetic bootstrapping, eval driven rewrites etc etc. You can swap half a dozen training "tricks" and get similar results if your data mix and scale are right.

For me a real post attention "breakthrough", would be something like: training that learns abstractions with sample efficiency far beyond scaling laws, reliable formal reasoning, causal/world-model learning that transfers out of distribution. None of the things you listed do that.

Almost everything since attention is optimization, ops, and data curation. I mean give me exact pretrain mix, filtering heuristics, and finetuning datasets for Claude/GPT-5 and without peeking at the secret sauce architecture I can get close just by matching tokens, quality filters and training schedule. The "breakthroughs" are mostly better ways to spend compute and clean data, not new ways to think.
by wildzzz | 2025-08-31 03:05:24+00:00
Owning a gTLD isn't the same as registering a trademark. It's on par with petitioning the local government to rename the street your business is on to your business name. There's an incentive to fight for your trademark, Apple would probably sue anyone starting a business with the word Apple in it if there was any chance that the company does anything with technology. However, Apple has no ownership of the word Apple. I could start a pick your own apple orchard called Apple Farms and buy the gTLD so I could have pickyourown.apple.
by al_borland | 2025-08-31 03:06:06+00:00
In this model, job seekers should simply post their resume and let the employers find it.

Spray and pray overwhelms the employers with low quality applicants, which leads to a lot of broad generalizations and generic qualifications being used to weed things down to something manageable.

For those who don’t want to put effort into applying, they should just be throwing their resume into a pool, imo.

I say this as someone who just posted his resume on a job site and waited until I got a call. It took about 8-12 months, but have been working at that job for almost 20 years now.

When interviewing people, a big pet peeve of mine is when the person seems to have no clue what job or company they are talking to. It implies spray and pray, and even when they got a bite, they couldn’t be bothered to look us up and see what we’re about.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-08-31 03:06:09+00:00
One can explain the equation all they like - the fact is that negative free cash flow is just a reality of the early stages of some very, very good businesses.

In the 90's and early 2000s, but people laughed at businesses like Amazon & Google for years. These types of people highly focused on the free cash flow of a business in it's early years are just dumb. Sometimes a business takes a lot of investment in the early stages - whether it's capex for data centers or S&M for enterprise software businesses, or R&D for pharma businesses or whatever.

As for "clear steep barriers" - again, just clueless stuff. There weren't clear steep barriers to search when Google started, there were dozens of search engines. Google created them. Creating barriers to entry is expensive and the "FCFF people" imagine they arrive out of thin air. It takes a lot of time and or money to create them.

It's unclear if "the model business" is going to be high or low margin. It's unclear how high the barriers to entry for making models will be in practice. It's unclear what the reinvestment required will be. We are a few years into it. About the only thing that is clear is this: if you try to run a positive free cashflow business in this space over the next few years, you'll be crushed. If you want a shot at a large, high return on capital business come 2035, you better be willing to spend up now.
by MrDarcy | 2025-08-31 03:06:18+00:00
I don’t do this because with a complete copy I get progressive rollouts across regions without the complexity of if statements and feature flags. That is to say, making the change twice is a feature not a bug when the changes are staggered in time.

From an operational perspective it’s much more important to ensure the code is clear and readable during an incident.

Overrides are like inheritance. They are themselves complex and add unnecessary cognitive load.

Composition is better for the common pieces that never change across regions. Think of an import statement of a common package into both the Europe and North America folders.

I easily see the one line diff among hundreds of thousands using… diff.

Regarding Africa, we’ve established 1 is a feature and 2 is a non issue, so I’d copy it again.

This approach scales both as the team scales and as the infrastructure scales. Teammates can read and comprehend much more easily than hierarchies of overrides, and changes are naturally scoped to pieces of the whole.