MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ztown | 2025-08-02 21:37:13+00:00
I'm finding that AI seems incapable of generating aperiodic monotile designs. I suspect this is because the shape is nowhere in any training data, and it doesn't pattern--so without patterns to train on, it produces obvious errors. It invents geometry that stands out like a sore thumb. I think it has potential to serve as protection against deepfakes. I made an online store around all this, but I haven't really advertised it because I'd like a little more confirmation before I run with it. Would love some feedback on the idea
by stuffoverflow | 2025-08-02 21:37:16+00:00
Archiveteam did a full site crawl[1] when Anandtech announced they were stopping. You can browse the warc.gz files like a regular web page using https://replayweb.page

Alternatively you could use solrwayback[2] to index and browse the warc files.

1: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/202409012...

2: https://github.com/netarchivesuite/solrwayback
by dbalatero | 2025-08-02 21:38:05+00:00
You're right, we only have centuries of humans doing hard things that require ongoing practice to stay sharp. Ask anyone who does something you can't fake, like playing the piano, what taking months off does to their abilities. To be fair, you can get them back much faster than someone that never had the skills to begin, but skills absolutely atrophy if you are not actively engaged with them.
by silisili | 2025-08-02 21:38:56+00:00
It's actually a really hard thing to track, and BLS does a poor job of it in my opinion. That 11% covers most but not even all people at a clinic or hospital. It counts people from doctors to records specialist, but not say, janitors or IT, and nothing outside of that like insurance. And that's not necessarily wrong to do, but makes it hard to grasp the whole size.

If you add in everyone in insurance, pharma, devices, and the jobs those support, that number seems to be closer to 17% of the workforce from what I could put together.

Not sure if those in Europe do it similarly, but it just feels like a huge number of people. Maybe that is the result of demographics and a topheavy population, though.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-02 21:39:09+00:00
I see this trend in many cities - removing amenities that actually add to the benefits of living in that city, all to accommodate or attract a larger population. What’s wrong with just having towns and cities remain the size they were and continuing to support the quality of life they had? Not everything has to be affordable. People can also move to one of the many low cost of living towns that exist if that’s a priority, rather than forcing cities to lose their way of life.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-02 21:39:17+00:00
> Why more distance? Streets wouldn’t get wider. Rather if you try to dense-up the city, streets will go narrower.

......yes?

You make the paved street narrower, allowing more distance between the lanes and the sidewalk.

And I didn't say anything about changing the density of the overall city. I'm talking about places where people are already walking but they're next to tons of cars.

> If you remove street parking, there won’t be space to fit in anything meaningful without rebuilding stuff around it.

The original complaint was people being within arms length of high speed cars. The meaningful thing you do is make that stop being the case.
by Ray20 | 2025-08-02 21:39:53+00:00
>affordability rapidly accelerating away as the middle class evaporates solves the problem

But that complete bs. Vehicle affordability is not in any danger, average price of a new pickus trucks depends on the amount of money the population has. Even if the middle class completely disappears, people will just drive cheaper pickups.

>Would you cry for me if I wanted a Lambo but couldn’t afford it?

But they could. And that the reason why "the average price of a new full-size pickup truck is around $64,000"
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-02 21:40:01+00:00
You have to define "cost". I have a "server" with 3 external drives connected. One is "media" and 2 are for backups. I have a drawer with 11 external HD drives which I haven't used in years that used to be my "media" and backup drives. Each of those represent money (buying the drive) and time (copying stuff from old 1TB drives to 2TB drives to 4TB drives) etc....

So there is a cost to digital media hording.

I wanted to save the videos I'd captured from my car's cameras but there's ~250gb every 3-4 months or so which is a more money needed. Plus, if I wanted them actually available to access I'd need a way to plug in more drives live into my server so more $$$$ and I'd need to back them up for when the drives fail so more $$$$.

So yea, there is a cost to digital media hording.
by UncleEntity | 2025-08-02 21:40:19+00:00
I've found if you're working on something where it hasn't seen a billion examples you have to give it additional information like an academic paper or similar. And get it to summarize its understanding every once in a while so you can pick up the idea in another chat (once the context gets too long) without having to explain it all again but to also ensure it's not going off the rails ...as they tend to do.

They know a lot about a lot of things but the details get all jumbled up in their stupid robot brains so you have to help them out a bunch.
by myself248 | 2025-08-02 21:40:26+00:00
Oh, this is huge and important. The number of things I watch that're just gone when I go back to look again!

Youtube is an archive like a grocery store is a food archive. [1]

If it was worth watching in the first place, it's worth saving. Reducing the friction of doing so is going to help a lot of people.

(1: I'm getting this quote wrong, what's the actual and attribution??)
by kennywinker | 2025-08-02 21:40:59+00:00
Good for the environment. Good for your health (more walking). Good for traffic safety (less fatalities). Good for the health care system. Good for your mental health and feeling of connectedness to your community. Good for the economy (more local businesses and less large box monopolies means more employment).

And on the cons side… hurts oil execs, national and international retailers, and people who define freedom as having to pay $5 to exxon to get groceries.
by metalman | 2025-08-02 21:41:21+00:00
lets see, so some of the smartest, and most technilogicaly adept people are now bieng criminalised, for , for, existing, and some random goons are bieng tasked with shakeing them down, presumably on.the look.out for anything fishy like a folder marked top secret, or a phone, or laptop, or a long string of numbers,letters and symbols, but no worrys about useing some of the most sophisticated transmitters and recievers ever created to you know bounce a couple of terrabites off saturns rings, just because, you know it was in there theisis and might as well go out in style please feel free to join me in gibbering, it seems right somehow
by 12_throw_away | 2025-08-02 21:41:56+00:00
A quantum object is its own thing - it has both wavelike and particle-like properties.

Measurement here might be better understood to "filter out" any parts of the wave that don't agree with the measurement. So a precise measurement will project out a lot of the wave, giving you something more localized and particle-like. A fuzzy measurement will project out only a bit of the wave, giving you something that's still spread out and quantum and wave-like.
by terribleperson | 2025-08-02 21:42:14+00:00
A 20-30% increase in prices does not match what I've observed.

Restaurant prices are up 50-100% over the past decade. This isn't hard to check: look at old and new menu photos on yelp. Banh mi have gone from $3 to $6 in less than ten years.

My local gas station mexican place (which has excellent food) has seem a price increase of 50% since 2019 and more like 100% since 2016. Coffee ditto, but luckily I don't buy coffee out. Fast food is actually the worst offender of all, with fast food prices up more like 3-5x over ten years.

Grocery prices are similar:

Meat prices are up roughly 50% in ten years or more from my perspective. Googling, it's actually worse: chicken is up almost 100%, beef is up 45%.

Staples like rice and bread are also up ~50%.
by nrclark | 2025-08-02 21:42:35+00:00
Does Claude Code use a different model then Claude.ai? Because Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 routinely get things wrong for me. Both of them have sent me on wild goose chases, where they confidently claimed "X is happening" about my code but were 100% wrong. They also hallucinated APIs, and just got a lot of details wrong in general.

The problem-space I was exploring was libusb and Python, and I used ChatGPT and also Claude.ai to help debug some issues and flesh out some skeleton code. Claude's output was almost universally wrong. ChatGPT got a few things wrong, but was in general a lot closer to the truth.

AI might be coming for our jobs eventually, but it won't be Claude.ai.
by kortilla | 2025-08-02 21:42:44+00:00
>If this were the case, you’d see more trucks with wear and tear on them and fewer with five years in and pristine paint jobs. Most people buy trucks as a lifestyle choice, not as a practical one.

No you wouldn’t. Off-roading, hauling things, and towing trailers does not require destroying the finish or exterior of the truck in any way.
by esskay | 2025-08-02 21:43:24+00:00
> A new F150 can get 25mpg on the freeway even without the hybrid option.

As a non-American it's super weird that this is considered a good thing. That'd be considered utterly atrocious in most parts of the developed world.

I completely get that a truck is absolutely the best tool for the job for many people. But it's pretty obvious the OP was pointing out the people who own a truck and use it to get from home to their desk job.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-08-02 21:44:14+00:00
The UK no longer really has a "minister for loneliness"

It's inaccurate to describe "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth" as a Minister for Loneliness.

It absorbed the responsibilities for loneliness but removing it from the title (previously "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness" when it was 'created' in response to the Jo Cox review) shows it's being deprioritised.

One support website has a blogpost from the current office holder describes her role as "Minister for loneliness and social connection" which again is not actually the case.
by octo888 | 2025-08-02 21:44:17+00:00
I genuinely thought a lot of these sibling comments were satire at first! The acronyms, the lengthy and confused explanations of versions, frameworks etc:

> WinUI is an evolution of UWP which is an evolution of WinRT

> WinUI 3

> WinUI 3 still supports WinRT

> XAML

> Shell UI

> Avalon

> WPF

> WPF = WinUI 1.0

> Project Reunion

> UWP

> Win2D

> ATL/MFC

> Just go for MFC FTW

> wxWidgets as it is kinda MFC-y

> Or go with Qt

> MFC/Win32 + XAML Islands
by tcfhgj | 2025-08-02 21:44:43+00:00
for dyn-dns? what's the problem exactly?

You just update the IP (or just the prefix) when the IP changes

Perhaps keep in mind that the interface id of the device the DNS entry should point is different for every device in the network.

Some use the router to update the IP and put the interface id of the router into the update url...
by gerdesj | 2025-08-02 21:44:45+00:00
I can certainly attest that cycling around the Netherlands was a joy during the late 70s and 80s. I lived in West Germany on and off, mostly in the north and close to the border. A lot of German roads had very decent cycle lanes too.

It was a bit of a shock cycling in the UK but to be fair all roads were a lot less busy back then. I also don't recall the hostility to cyclists back then that exists now.

A bunch of Dutch hydo-engineers probably (there were rather a lot of skilled folk over there) assisted Somerset back around C17+ to drain and reclaim some pretty large tracts of land in the "Levels". Perhaps we need some cycle lane building assistance.
by Uehreka | 2025-08-02 21:45:31+00:00
> Procedural (VFX, effects, non-desctuctive editing)

You had my attention, now you have my interest… or however that quote goes.

Edit: Please please please add the `playsinline` attribute to your video elements. I’m on my phone, and every time I scroll a video explodes and takes over the whole screen.
by Muromec | 2025-08-02 21:45:57+00:00
Most of Amsterdam is 30 km, including through roads. But it's Amsterdam through roads, so it's mostly two lines one way, a dedicated tram track in between, trees that separate the road from a bike path and all that. Actual in-district roads where unsupervised 8 year olds are cycling to school and back are 15 km/h.
by aaomidi | 2025-08-02 21:46:11+00:00
Anti Israel protests are the best opportunity for agent provocateurs.

Something we have evidence of Israel actually doing:

1. https://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/operation-glass-houses-idf-ag...

2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/4/10/mustaribeen-israels...

Israel is probably the “strongest” nation in figuring out propaganda and mass disinformation campaigns. It is extremely easy to say an entire protest is invalid because of the actions of a few either legitimate or illegitimate protestors.

This is why this tactic is so easily deployed across any protest that seriously threatens states. We saw the US use this tactic in BLM protests of 2020.

Anyway these protests are legitimate despite the events that you’re mentioning happening. “Fed posting” is a thing people are slowly learning to spot.
by herczegzsolt | 2025-08-02 21:46:23+00:00
With the risk of self-promotion, I did write a blog about the issues and mitigations: https://herczegzsolt.hu/posts/soho-ipv6-in-2025-still-dicey/

But I have to admit, that I ended up buying my own IPv6 block from a local ISP and tunnel to them. They have great interconnections, so bandwidth is not an issue, and latency penalty is less then 2 ms an average.
by didibus | 2025-08-02 21:47:02+00:00
So in this case, both can corroborate their findings because both demonstrate success in learning to read?

Since you said both look at controls to assess that they're better than random ?

But from the article, it seems to imply there hasn't been controls applied to the three cues system. Therefore it would have always remained just some children become good readers with this methods, so it probably works.

And what I'm not able to gather is, how much better are the controls applied by the cognitive one?
by _qbxi | 2025-08-02 21:47:21+00:00
> In fact Japanese generally make less money. IT salaries are in the $50k range. Minimum wage is $7.5 Yet they still go out.

What's their healthcare like? If something bad happens, do they need to rely on savings to pull through, or does their society have stronger social safety nets that allow them to spend their money with less concern?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-02 21:47:26+00:00
Calling it an "informal fallacy" would still make it not a logical fallacy. The slippery slope argument is correct whenever the premises are satisfied.

It's possible in some cases that the conclusion is weak, e.g. if Y is a negative outcome but not a very significant one, but that doesn't make it a fallacy and in particular doesn't justify dismissing arguments of that form as a fallacy when X does make Y significantly more likely and Y is a significant concern.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-02 21:47:30+00:00
It's you.

8 versus 16 bytes barely matters for using the addresses, especially because if you're assigning IPs to your devices you can have the second half of the address start with 6-7 zero bytes and collapse them all with ::

And I challenge you to name a way to be "somewhat backward compatible" that would actually function and IPv6 doesn't already do.
by dilipdasilva | 2025-08-02 21:47:36+00:00
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by qayxc | 2025-08-02 21:47:37+00:00
PS C:\Windows> get-childitem -path . -include "moricons.dll" -recurse Directory: C:\Windows\System32 Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- -a--- 01.04.2024 09:22 12288 moricons.dll Directory: C:\Windows\SysWOW64 Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- -a--- 01.04.2024 09:22 2560 moricons.dll

Yep.
by Muromec | 2025-08-02 21:47:47+00:00
>You could ban cars entirely. Why wouldn't you? Would you rather people die than drive cars at all?

We don't even ban drugs here and cars are more useful than drugs. It's all about harm reduction and diminishing returns. Also, autoluwe (but not autovrije) districts exist and are a selling point when buying/renting a house, so your attempt at a strawman is rather amusing.
by appease7727 | 2025-08-02 21:48:02+00:00
Did we collectively forget that most written languages directly encode the sounds of the spoken language?

Your brain tokenizes sounds into words. A beginner reader has to parse text into sounds and then into the token. An advanced reader can skip the middle step and parse text into tokens. But you still have to know how to parse text into sounds, there's no way around it.

It'd be like giving someone a French texbook, only instruct them in English, don't even mention the different sounds, and somehow expect them to learn conversational spoken French. It's nonsense.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-02 21:48:15+00:00
> No one enters the cage and just plugs something into my switches/routers.

I'm not talking about someone plugging something in. I'm talking about someone pwning your VPN endpoint or firewall, and laterally moving from there. There's always a way to move around unless you are really, really careful (and even that is not enough if the adversary has an exploit for something really deep in the network stack).

At the very least, choose different vendors for your VPN/frontend firewall gear and the rest of your system. That way, an adversary can't just go and pwn every little piece of your network infrastructure with a single exploit.
by analog31 | 2025-08-02 21:48:25+00:00
What I've noticed is that everybody skirts rules for convenience, but the offenses are different because the conditions are different.

Cars break the speed limit, look at their phones (easy to see from a cyclist's vantage point) and roll through stop signs, because those things are possible and convenient. Very few drivers are fully in control of their cars in fast, congested traffic, which is why "rear enders" seem to happen frequently.

Bikes roll through stop signs and invent their own shortcuts because those are convenient, but exceeding the speed limit is impossible for most of us.
by godelski | 2025-08-02 21:48:32+00:00
What I don't understand is with such small of a gap why this isn't a huge boon for research.

While there's a lot of money going towards research, there's less than there was years ago. There's been a shift towards engineering research and ML Engineer hiring. Fewer positions for lower level research than there were just a few years ago. I'm not saying don't do the higher level research, just that it seems weird to not do the lower level when the gap is so small.

I really suspect that the winner is going to be the one that isn't putting speed above all else. Like you said, first to market isn't everything. But if first to market is all the matters then you're also more likely to just be responding to noise in the system. The noisy signal of figuring out what that market is in the first place. It's really easy to get off track with that and lose sight of the actual directions you need to pursue.
by saulpw | 2025-08-02 21:48:32+00:00
It's not just you, I completely agree. 128-bit addresses are overkill. 64-bit would have been fine, and yes, backwards-compatible would have gotten us there that much sooner. For me, it's a deal-breaker that I can't reasonably speak an IPv6 address aloud (for instance when doing tech support over the phone).
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-02 21:48:50+00:00
The problem is I run my own DCHP server (mainly because I have stuff like PXE booting set up).

I can configure the ISC dhcpd for IPv6 but I wouldn’t know what prefix to use in any automated way. So whenever the modem disconnects/reconnects, for whatever reason, I then need to somehow manually update the DHCP server.

Not an issue for ipv4 with NAT. But enough of a problem with IPv6 that I gave up on it. However I do accept that this is a problem of my own making (ie not using ISP provided equipment).
by dekhn | 2025-08-02 21:49:20+00:00
In England the nub was referred to as the nipple.

I had a series of think pads. I think the last one was a t61p running Lennox and it was truly glorious. I can't remember if it was that model or an earlier one which had a battery known as the tumor which stuck out the back. You could hibernate the laptop and swap in another battery and turn the laptop back on and keep working without rebooting.

Everything since then for me has been MacBooks or Dell laptops. Neither brings me as much joy.
by bichiliad | 2025-08-02 21:50:09+00:00
I’d argue that neither set of rules is made for them, so it’s not surprising that they take the most convenient of the two. Plus, it’s not out of the question to have laws in which red lights act like stop signs and stop signs act like yield signs specifically for cyclists[1]. It’s also likely less dangerous if that’s the case[2].

[1]: https://www.bicyclecolorado.org/colorado-safety-stop-becomes...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/may/21/women-cyclists-mo...
by _qbxi | 2025-08-02 21:51:07+00:00
In the US, immigrants often do pay taxes, and use up fewer benefits[1]. Moreover, our social security relies on perpetual growth to sustain itself. So if we can't grow our population via children, we must grow it via immigrants, to remain solvent.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/immigrants-used-less-welfare-nativ...
by deadbabe | 2025-08-02 21:51:19+00:00
For me, the most compelling use of LLMs is to one shot scripts, small functions, unit tests, etc.

I don’t understand how people have the patience to do an entire application just vibe coding the whole time. As the article suggests, it doesn’t even save that much time.

If it can’t be done in one shot with simple context I don’t want it.