MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sarchertech | 2025-08-04 21:11:06+00:00
It’s likely that the rural students are bringing the average down, but it seems less likely they could bring the average down so far given that only 1/3 of the country is rural.

Either way there seems to be a pretty strong consensus that one of the advantages of a phonetic alphabet is ease and time to learn.

Obviously a phonetic language has other disadvantages compared to a logographic language.
by didgetmaster | 2025-08-04 21:11:26+00:00
You are absolutely correct about it being a hard market to crack.

My wife, who is a doctor, often complains that the various systems she has to deal with are often unusable.

When I was designing my new, general-purpose data management system that handles both structured and unstructured data well; she begged me to try to come up with a better system to manage medical data.

While I think my system has the potential to make a much better EMR; the work and money needed to break into that market felt beyond my reach.

A little startup with a superior architecture, but without all the political influence and domain knowledge to navigate the medical world; has little chance of gaining a foothold.
by stevenwoo | 2025-08-04 21:11:39+00:00
I read this after someone recommended it here, you may enjoy it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612737/how-to-make-...

The title is inspired by that Carl Sagan quote from Cosmos, and the science is understandable for the most part by laypeople. There are science parts towards the end that I had to read a couple of times because it's just so unintuitive.
by star-glider | 2025-08-04 21:11:54+00:00
I recently got back from Europe; rented a car. This "feature" is _insanely_ dangerous. Whatever idiot bureaucrat decided that having crappy machine vision software jerk the steering wheel around while you're driving should be sent to an island somewhere.

The damn thing tried to kill me every time we came up on a construction area on the freeway, because it got completely flummoxed by the lane realignment. I couldn't turn it off until we parked the car, and we were on the freeway. Fighting that piece of crap for an hour made for the most exhausting drive of my life.

Far from being mandated, I can't believe that safety regulators allow _anything_ to jerk around the wheel at 60MPH.
by Uehreka | 2025-08-04 21:12:16+00:00
I’m interested to see what this model can do, but also kinda annoyed at the use of a Studio Ghibli style image as one of the first examples. Miyazaki has said over and over that he hates AI image generation. Is it really so much to ask that people not deliberately train LoRAs and finetunes specifically on his work and use them in official documentation?

It reminds me of how CivitAI is full of “sexy Emma Watson” LoRAs, presumably because she very notably has said she doesn’t want to be portrayed in ways that objectify her body. There’s a really rotten vein of “anti-consent” pulsing through this community, where people deliberately seek out people who have asked to be left out of this and go “Oh yeah? Well there’s nothing you can do to stop us, here’s several terabytes of exactly what you didn’t want to happen”.
by SuzukiBrian | 2025-08-04 21:12:18+00:00
It's true, mine has that as well. While I can't turn off the default mode, it is thankfully only visuals and sound. It does however also have the assisted suicide mode, where it will either jerk the wheel or prevent the wheel from turning. Thankfully that can be turned off permanently.

I still find it crazy that these are supposed to be safety features.
by yasserf | 2025-08-04 21:12:20+00:00
I would recommend looking into being able to recognise ‘thought viruses’

A book that really helped me was ‘Stop overthinking’ by Nick Trenton. I still have those thoughts, Anxiety isn’t the easiest thing to get rid of.

Find what it is that you enjoy, build habits (tiny habits / atomic habits are great references) and you might find that just moving a tiny bit in the direction that makes you happy might compound over time.

Success isn’t always about careers or large paydays. Your health, relationships, hobbies, identity and sanity play a big part of that as well.

I have friends who moved to other countries and restarted their lives at the age of 35/40, and I met people in their 70s who done the same.

Good luck!
Hated AI coding tools, so built my own
by gyanendrasingh7 | 2025-08-04 21:12:28+00:00
I love coding with AI, but I didnt like how Cursor or other tools used to make me download a new IDE and also take over my screen(macbook so small screen).

Also Claude code used to feel amazing but it got buffed when they moved to monthly pricing, so I just tough of making my own one which helps me and is according to my needs.

So I made code24.ai, its an independent desktop app using electron so it doesnt live inside vscode, it lives separately has its own terminal (no need to switch tabs), also works as peer programmer, debugger or vibe coder. Am using it daily and loving it. Try it out.

https://code24.ai
by benregenspan | 2025-08-04 21:12:31+00:00
It goes without saying that they are profit-oriented. The point is that they historically offered a clear trade: let us crawl you, and we will refer traffic to you. An AI crawler does not provide clear value back. An AI user request agent might or might not provide enough clear value back for sites to want to participate. (Same goes for the search incumbents if they go all-in on LLM search results and don't refer much traffic back).
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-04 21:12:43+00:00
More details in this other article: https://www.adweek.com/media/adtech-firm-openx-google-lawsui...

> The adtech company alleges that Google disallowed publishers from setting price floors that would incentivize the use of rival ad exchanges—even when publishers wanted to.

> Google also required publishers to use its ad server, DoubleClick for Publishers, as a means of revenue generation for its ad exchange while restricting access to its AdWords platform (now Google Ads) exclusively through its ad exchange, the lawsuit claims.

> OpenX also alleges that Google’s ad exchange impeded rival exchanges’ ability to win transactions by manipulating prices in digital ad auctions in response to competitors’ bids.

> “They really rigged digital advertising auctions to the disadvantage of all their competitors,” OpenX CEO John Gentry told ADWEEK. “The classic example is, because they controlled the auctions at the ad server level, they modified the auctions such that they could see all the bids that came in and then decide to modify the Google bid after the fact, which allowed them to win a far larger number of transactions than any of the competitors because the auction was simply not a fair auction.”
by bcrosby95 | 2025-08-04 21:13:14+00:00
Even front end developers have more than 1 concept of an interface: there's both technical facing interfaces and customer facing interfaces.

I guess you could just give a generic answer: an interface represents some kinda boundary between users and implementation details, and hopefully said boundary is easier to use than the details.

I would guess some would flag that as a bullshit answer, but without clarification you can't do anything but speak in generalities.

Now if it were the interface keyword, they're primarily a means by which to introduce polymorphism. They no more achieve the goal of a generally-defined interface than does a regular class, which already satisfies the definition of the generally-defined interface through their public methods. This might also sound like a load of bullshit to some.
by SlowTao | 2025-08-04 21:14:03+00:00
As a life long Melbournian, I absolutely loved how intensely Brisbane Bluey is. I know from the outside many see oz as the unified thing but the differences between cities can be drastic. Even between Hobart and Launceston in Tassie is significant.

It is like the works of Stuart McMillen (https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/), and how they depict Canberra in a way the locals can really appreciate.
by exceptione | 2025-08-04 21:14:26+00:00
Exactly, doing more with more requires a large population that spends and innovates.

It is about allocation. It might sound like a heresy, but the "invisible hand" is for a good part a myth. Resource allocation in the hand of just a few is

a) a hand that indeed tries to hide itself b) a hand that cuts of energy to the rest of its body c) a dying hand

Economics tries to model certain aspects of human behavior as driven by human's psychology, both on the individual and group level. A trading system of other "beings with a different wiring" might be a curiosity, but isn't strictly part of economics.

I would rather have economists in general (not directed at you) think a bit deeper about the unspoken assumptions of their behavioral models, to stop confusing models with laws, and to study humans and groups in a broader sense.
by freehorse | 2025-08-04 21:14:33+00:00
> couldn't the LLM access the content on your browser

Yes, orbit, a now deprecated firefox extension by mozilla was doing that. This way you could also use it to summarise content that would not be available to a third party (eg sth in google docs).

You can still sort of do the same with the ai chatbot panel in firefox, sort of, but ctrl+A>right click>AI chatbot>summarise.
by infecto | 2025-08-04 21:14:36+00:00
You make it sound a lot easier than what is really happening. It’s not that it’s porn, it’s what type of porn. This applies globally but let’s say we are only focused on the US only, it’s possible depending on how extreme of the material to have oversight by local or federal governments. This is a definite consideration when Visa is making their guidelines, you think they has a business care? Nope, it’s purely to satiate the external parties.
by cnst | 2025-08-04 21:14:37+00:00
In my experience, even most Tesla owners don't really seem to understand the difference between autopilot or FSD.

However, even though Autopilot doesn't obey traffic control devices, it still DOES issue warnings if taking over may be required.

Most Tesla owners I've talked with, are actually completely unaware of the v12 and v13 improvements to FSD, and generally have the car for other reasons than FSD. So, if anything, Tesla is actually quite behind on marketing FSD to the regular folk, even those who are already Tesla owners.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-08-04 21:14:43+00:00
Actual "autopilot" such as the kind actual pilots use does not give the pilot the ability to disregard the operation of their airplane.

How does calling a feature "autopilot" then give consumers the impression that they can completely hand over operation of the car. Driving a car is a serious task and this driver was extremely negligent in executing that task.
by grimnebulin | 2025-08-04 21:15:04+00:00
As a teen in the late 80's I had an HP calculator that I programmed to compute molecular weights given an input string like "H2SO4". It felt like having a secret superpower, especially when I participated in competitive exams. I was a very straightlaced kid and would not have used the program if it such things were explicitly forbidden, but as far as I could tell, they never were.
by heeton | 2025-08-04 21:15:05+00:00
I've test-driven 2 cars in the last 2 years (because I'm environmentally interested in swapping my diesel for an EV), but each time has put me off that entire brand. First was Tesla, I can't stand the full iPad console with no physical controls. (And Elon... but that's a side thread).

Then, Volvo, with blue lights filling the cabin and these types of safety features.

Each time I've come away thinking what a shit-show the car was, and how that seems to be the opinion of the entire company line.

I'm still driving my 15 year old diesel with manual controls and dim orange status lights at night. I just want a simple EV with aircon and speakers with media controls by the steering wheel. Minimal extra bullshit.
by atoav | 2025-08-04 21:15:29+00:00
> Too bad today's 20-something people would just scoff at the house the boomer grew his family in!

Care to explain why stating that this generation had it easier would constitute "scoffing" at the house?

If anything I'd love it if any generation would get the same chance. Society isn't a zero sum game where you have to make it worse for others to have it better for yourself.
by hinkley | 2025-08-04 21:16:32+00:00
You can tell by looking at those numbers how much of "XX% of all marriages fail" is a consequence of how many people who get divorced 1x end up getting divorced 3 or more times.

There's a certain kind of Hollywood story where the person goes to the ends of the world to 'discover themselves' and comes back with a whole new life. Such as Eat, Pray, Love. I loathe this story arc with the fire of a thousand suns because if serial divorces teach us anything it's that wherever you go, there you are.

If you're not going into a second marriage with a narrative of, "I think I know what I fucked up last time and I won't do that again," then you're going to end up blaming your new spouse for all of your bullshit that you tried to blame on the first one.
by reissbaker | 2025-08-04 21:17:29+00:00
40GB is small IMO: you can run it on a mid-tier Macbook Pro... or the smallest M3 Ultra Mac Studio! You don't need Nvidia if you're doing at-home inference, Nvidia only becomes economical at very high throughput: i.e. dedicated inference companies. Apple Silicon is much more cost effective for single-user for the small-to-medium-sized models. The M3 Ultra is ~roughly on par with a 4090 in terms of memory bandwidth, so it won't be much slower, although it won't match a 5090.

Also for a 20B model, you only really need 20GB of VRAM: FP8 is near-identical to FP16, it's only below FP8 that you start to see dramatic drop-offs in quality. So literally any Mac Studio available for purchase will do, and even a fairly low-end Macbook Pro would work as well. And a 5090 should be able to handle it with room to spare as well.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-04 21:17:45+00:00
Seems like overstepping bounds. I expect a language runtime to make use of system provided facilities wherever feasible. I also expect it to provide hooks for me to link in alternatives.

If nothing else doing otherwise is likely to cause compatibility issues for someone at some point. For example see all the problems Go had with DIY syscalls pretty much everywhere except for Linux.

There's a legitimate question of whether the kernel ABI or the libc API qualifies as the system provided facilities on a linux box. But that uncertainty only furthers my latter point about compatibility.
by layer8 | 2025-08-04 21:17:55+00:00
This. Using a Compose key [0] covers a vast range of input use cases and is eminently customizable. For Windows there is WinCompose [1]. For macOS there is [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

[1] https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose

[2] https://github.com/Granitosaurus/macos-compose
by IshKebab | 2025-08-04 21:18:01+00:00
I disagree. The EU one of the largest and most bureaucratic organisations in the world and while they often make dumb laws - especially around technology - it's usually at least with the intent of making things better for people.

State owned monopolies really only make sense for natural monopolies (e.g. transport and communications infrastructure), and I wouldn't really count desktop operating systems as that. Windows is a monopoly due to extremely strong network effects.
by zokier | 2025-08-04 21:18:03+00:00
More generous reading of the entire sentence would be that the usable life of the mmrtg is increased by improving the energy efficiency of the rover. The mmrtg power output is constantly decreasing, and so it is reasonable to say that the mmrtg reaches end of life when the power output is not enough to operate the rover. So that cutoff point depends on the power demands of the rover.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-04 21:18:10+00:00
If you don't understand why acquisitions might be blocked and the benefit of it then I'm not going to be the one to explain it.

I'm not here to defend the entire edifice of the FTC having control over acquisitions. I'm here to say that when they have that control, it should also include almost-but-not-quite-acquisitions.
by quesera | 2025-08-04 21:18:33+00:00
I haven't had a problem with indicator visibility, but I remember spending some time getting it to a place that worked for me.

Here's what I use:

set -g status-left "#{?client_prefix,#[bg=colour76]^,#[bg=colour235]_} [#S]" set -g status-right ' | #[fg=colour76]#h#[fg=default] %H%M%Z'

Right side included just for completeness. The conditional colour setting was the useful part, IIRC.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-04 21:18:56+00:00
From a game theory perspective, it used to be that if I email a company with my resume and a custom-written cover letter, that's an "honest signal" that I'm genuinely excited about working for that particular company. Since I spent a few minutes out of my day to seek them out and write a cover letter just for them.

ChatGPT degraded that honest signal. Nowadays if a company gets my email with a custom cover letter, they have little idea if I'm actually the slightest bit excited about working there.

We're now seeing degradation in the opposite direction. It used to be that if a company was willing to screen me, that was an "honest signal" that they were truly interested in hiring me. They're telling an engineer who commands a high equivalent-hourly rate to take some time out of their day to talk to me. With an AI screen, I have no idea if I've got a genuine shot.

It's easy to blame the company in this situation, but in a certain sense it was an inevitable result of being flooded with AI-assisted applicants. The company needs a new way to filter for those who truly want the job.
by dvh | 2025-08-04 21:18:58+00:00
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!” — Richard Feynman, Six Easy Pieces
by avidiax | 2025-08-04 21:19:45+00:00
No aircraft manufacturer is misleading the pilots around their automation capabilities.* Pilots have to go through extensive training, including type certification on the plane they will fly. They are acutely aware of limitations. When anything does go wrong, there is a thorough and public postmortem, with legally binding findings and mitigations.

For Tesla, anyone that can read the one sentence description of enabling autopilot (double tap the stalk) can use it in any condition, without any special training, and the company will stonewall any accident investigation. The entire term "full self driving" is just "puffery".

* Yes, MCAS, but this is not an autopilot/autodrive system, and Boeing is in trouble for this.
by liamdgray | 2025-08-04 21:20:22+00:00
Abstract: "Deep neural networks provide unprecedented performance gains in many real world problems in signal and image processing. Despite these gains, future development and practical deployment of deep networks is hindered by their blackbox nature, i.e., lack of interpretability, and by the need for very large training sets. An emerging technique called algorithm unrolling or unfolding offers promise in eliminating these issues by providing a concrete and systematic connection between iterative algorithms that are used widely in signal processing and deep neural networks. Unrolling methods were first proposed to develop fast neural network approximations for sparse coding. More recently, this direction has attracted enormous attention and is rapidly growing both in theoretic investigations and practical applications. The growing popularity of unrolled deep networks is due in part to their potential in developing efficient, high-performance and yet interpretable network architectures from reasonable size training sets. In this article, we review algorithm unrolling for signal and image processing. We extensively cover popular techniques for algorithm unrolling in various domains of signal and image processing including imaging, vision and recognition, and speech processing. By reviewing previous works, we reveal the connections between iterative algorithms and neural networks and present recent theoretical results. Finally, we provide a discussion on current limitations of unrolling and suggest possible future research directions."
by jadbox | 2025-08-04 21:20:24+00:00
Could we maybe say that an LLM which can update its own model weights using its own internal self-narrating log may be 'closer' to being dynamic? We can use Wolfram's computational irreducibility principle which says that even simple rule-based functions will often cause unpredictable patterns of its return values. You could say that computer randomness is deterministic, but could we maybe say that ontologically a Quantum-NN LLMs could perhaps be classified on paper as being Dynamic? (unless you believe that quantum computing is deterministic).
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-04 21:21:38+00:00
You're the one that listed the injustice I'm reacting to:

> Basically what happened when we moved the limit from .05 to .02 is that people stopped having “only one beer” (which is, of course, at risk of becoming three) before driving home.

If you hadn't said that line I wouldn't have said anything.

But that line directly states that people that actually had one beer were being screwed over to get people to stop drinking more than one beer.

Is that line not accurate? Am I missing something that makes it not actually an injustice?
by remyp | 2025-08-04 21:21:56+00:00
Gleaning information isn't the goal; whittling down deluge of applicants is. For the company, candidate time is free and manager time is massively expensive. The AI tools are cheaper than hiring more HR staff, so companies buy them lest they be haunted by the ghost of Milton Friedman.

Anybody who has been on the hiring side post-GPT knows why these AI tools are getting built: people and/or their bots are blind-applying to every job everywhere regardless of their skillset. The last mid-level Python dev job I posted had 300 applicants in the first hour, with 1/4 of them being from acupuncturists and restaurant servers who have never written a line of code. Sure, they're easy to screen out, but there are thousands to sift through.

Having said that, I don't like AI interview tools and will not be using them. I do understand why others do, though.
by bangaladore | 2025-08-04 21:21:59+00:00
The general advice is 5 mils Intra-Pair and no specific requirement for Inter-Pair. These follow the same engineering guidelines as PCIe 4.0, with identical impedance and coupling. As far as I can tell, there are no significant differences, aside from PCIe 5.0 having smaller theoretical margins. Even then, the 5 mils spec is likely overkill for both.

From what I’ve read, a well-designed PCB that supports PCIe 4.0 should also meet PCIe 5.0 requirements electrically and for signaling. I suspect the issue may be related more to power delivery or EMC than to trace layout or stack-up. Alternatively, it could just be an AMD policy decision to limit PCIe 5.0 support on this chipset variant, rather than a design flaw.
by 9dev | 2025-08-04 21:22:02+00:00
The terminal emulator is not involved in piping to other processes. Grep will search over escape codes if you don’t suppress them in non-interactive environments, so this most definitely is a string output problem.

If you want to do it yourself, do it right—or defer to one of the battle-tested libraries that handle this for you, and additional edge cases you didn’t think of (such as NO_COLOR).