MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by i_am_proteus | 2025-08-18 11:48:57+00:00
Thank you for your comment. I must admit that I am baffled by it. Is this a series of general observations on the function of the Twin? It does not seem to respond to the prior discourse about 6L6GC power tubes being run above design maximum plate voltage.

Certainly it is very wonderful to observe the relative simplicity of tube amplifier schematics, which rely on a mere handful of passives for bias and tonestack, compared to solid-state amplifiers, that require complicated arrangements to provide negative feedback necessary to stabilize the transistors.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-18 11:48:58+00:00
That's not so odd if you take into account that a lot of US citizens trace their origins back to people that left Europe because their beliefs were conflicting with those of the established churches. And because the established churches did not have a strong presence in the United States (or actually, its predecessor) these suddenly found themselves to be the dominant religion in sometimes much larger regions than they ever could have hoped for back in the home country. And when the population boomed so did their numbers.
by zahlman | 2025-08-18 11:51:10+00:00
> Did you read my comment

Yes.

From Wikipedia:

> An ideology is a set of beliefs or values attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely about belief in certain knowledge,

You are passing judgment and using emotionally charged words (such as "weaponizing", which also implies intent and motivations not in evidence) to make a point about what you consider moral. And you use your judgement to set up a completely false dichotomy with incoherent terms (I have absolutely no idea what you think the phrase "normal company" means here), while completely ignoring my point.

That is ideology.

My opinion of Meta as a company is not relevant to anything I have said so far.

It does not matter whether you are right or wrong about any of this.

My objection is to your rhetorical style, and to the placement of your arguments in an inappropriate forum. These objections do not require that I agree or disagree with you about anything at all. I am not interested in debating morality with you. That is the point.

As far as I can tell, you did not even stop to question whether I work for Meta in the first place. (I do not.)
by jacquesm | 2025-08-18 11:51:15+00:00
Yes, and that influence reaches far outside of the cities themselves. I only realized this after moving to rural Canada where on a clear night you would see the sky in a way that you could never see it within 30 km of any major city. It is hard to describe in words, you'd have to go up North during a cold winter night and lay down and stare upwards.
by lproven | 2025-08-18 11:52:03+00:00
> For whatever reason, Acorn dropped the ball.

Acorn's CPU division is the most successful CPU design house in the world and sells around 10x more than all forms of Intel and Intel-compatible chips put together.

It was named after its first product, the Acorn RISC Machine: ARM. It is still called Arm Ltd. today.

Arm alone is one half of the entire CPU market.

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/arm-2025-q4-and-fy-fina...

An Acorn-compatible CPU is inside half of the processor-powered devices in the world.

How is that "dropping the ball"? It is the most successful processor design of all time, bar none.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-18 11:52:11+00:00
You've misunderstood the OP's words. … *sigh* Time to point at the dictionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mention#Verb sense 1:

> To make a short reference to something.

Sense 2 (the sense you were thinking about) is a specialised sense used in "philosophy, linguistics", and even then the context makes it clear when this sense is meant. 'No mention of "Sophie Wilson"' might conceivably be referring to the name, but 'No mention of Sophie Wilson' refers to the person.

Historical retrospectives show systematic erasure of trans women's contributions to STEM. (Certainly this happens in other fields, too, but I haven't studied them enough to notice the pattern.) This is worth talking about, if it has happened here, and does not need to be derailed by a pointless semantics argument.
by rco8786 | 2025-08-18 11:52:49+00:00
> when LLMs can just connect to the existing API endpoint

The primary differentiator is that MCP includes endpoint discovery. You tell the LLM about the general location of the MCP tool, and it can figure out what capabilities that tool offers immediately. And when the tool updates, the LLM instantly re-learns the updated capability.

The rest of it is needlessly complicated (IMO) and could just be a bog standard HTTP API. And this is what every MCP server I've encountered so far actually does, I haven't seen anyone use the various SSE functionality and whatnot.

MCP v.01 (current) is both a step in the right direction (capability discovery) and an awkward misstep on what should have been the easy part (the API structure itself)
by clippyplz | 2025-08-18 11:53:19+00:00
WYSIWYG does not refer to the icons in the toolbar, but rather the text itself. This is not WYSIWYG because when I make something bold, I see a bunch of asterisks around it.

Still a cool project, but someone who does not understand markdown would wonder why pressing the heading button makes my text into a hashtag instead of making it bigger.
by aredox | 2025-08-18 11:53:22+00:00
Easy: the hundreds of millions of dollars he has extorted from universities, media companies and law firms for "saying things he happens to disagree with".

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/trump-harvard-settlement-de...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-pro-bono-legal-work...

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-jobs-report-dc-crime-...

https://www.ibanet.org/Trumps-assault-on-the-First-Amendment

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/us-free-spee...

Why did Mahmoud Khalil spend 3 months in prison for and missed the birth of his child, again? And Rümeysa Öztürk?
by lillecarl | 2025-08-18 11:53:22+00:00
I can't say I know what OpenRC really does, but at it's core systemd is just a glorified script runner as well? You have ExecCondition, ExecStartPre, ExecStart, ExecStartPost, ExecReload, ExecStop, ExecStopPost which are all quite self explanatory, this alongside a billion optional parameters which I wouldn't know how to implement in scripts without endless hours of dread.

I remember an old Debian machine with /etc/init.d/something [start|stop|reload|restart] but I can't recall being able to automatically restart services or monitor status easily. (I didn't speak $shell well back then either)
by dijksterhuis | 2025-08-18 11:53:43+00:00
> RRT (Refrain Restrict Trap).

> Refrain from using LLMs in high-risk or safety-critical scenarios.

> Restrict the execution, permissions, and levels of access, such as what files a given system could read and execute, for example.

> Trap inputs and outputs to the system, looking for potential attacks or leakage of sensitive data out of the system.

this, this, this, a thousand billion times this.

this isn’t new advice either. it’s been around for circa ten years at this point (possibly longer).
by suddenlybananas | 2025-08-18 11:55:05+00:00
I'm not doubting that the finding is there, I'm expressing scepticism that it means very much. If you randomly sample uniformly from the set {"a", "b", " "} repeatedly, the "word "ab" will appear much more often than the "word", "aaaaaabbbbababa". Doesn't say very much about language itself though.
by guestbest | 2025-08-18 11:55:25+00:00
Not really. There was a way of slab typed smart phones with capacitance touch screen windows mobile devices and they were more capable than the iPhone with on board GPS, etc. but they didn’t have an integrated App Store, which was the key to customer retention. The first iPhones didn’t have GPS and so the map app wasn’t quiet as capable as the other high end smart phones in the market as it couldn’t do directions properly. It had the best web browser, though.

Every other model of high end smart phones quickly adopted the App Store model since it was such an obviously thing to install application directly to the device, but up until it was a major missing feature. All phones at the time required a computer tethered to do the purchase and installation.

With the App Store the age of phones needing full general purpose computers was coming to an end. It was a whole cultural shift in software

Later they started the iCloud sync so backups could be done ‘in the field’ as well.
by zahlman | 2025-08-18 11:55:49+00:00
> Most people who write code in these languages rely on them!

I find that a little hard to believe. There is a universe of programmers out there who are basically invisible to you.

> I just don't think about it. I write my code in whatever way is easiest to type - including letting the editor auto-insert closing braces - and then hit save to format.

Don't you want to see neatly formatted code while you're writing it?
by jdhwosnhw | 2025-08-18 11:56:08+00:00
That would also be an incorrect phrasing. This entire thread is a good illustration of the difficulty of speaking precisely about probabilistic concepts.

(The number of successes has zero uncertainty. If you flip a coin 10 times and get 5 heads, there is no uncertainty on the number of heads. In general, for any statistical model the uncertainty is only with respect to an underlying model parameter - in this example, while your number of successes is perfectly known, it can be used to infer a probability of success, p, of 0.5, and there is uncertainty associated with that inferred probability.)
by lproven | 2025-08-18 11:56:48+00:00
> The Amiga and ST wiped the floor with it.

And yet... Do you own a smartphone of any kind?

It has an Acorn-compatible CPU inside it. In fact, if it isn't 20+ years old, it has several: it has a multicore main CPU with several different Arm cores, and there are more in the Wifi controller, and more in the Bluetooth controller.

There is a pretty good chance that if you own an x86 machine with wifi, it includes multiple Arm cores too. Whatever OS you run, from Windows to BSD, if you were to search your SSD, you will find BLOBs of Arm code on it.

Is there any Amiga or ST derived tech in them? Not that I know of. But a company with "A" for Acorn in its name is in very nearly every device with a microprocessor.
by DannyBee | 2025-08-18 11:56:49+00:00
It's gone fine. It's always fun to hear about the wonders of privatization where everyone conveniently ignores that the vast majority of private businesses fail miserably. Over 50 percent in five years. Mostly due to mismanagement of money, the thing they are supposed to be better at. The rate is even higher (80-90 percent) if we were to look at small businesses.

They do have better PR though.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-18 11:56:53+00:00
> People had vastly higher standards of living in the good old days.

As a percentage of spending on groceries, people used to spend 25% and now it's 10%; for clothing it used to be 10%, now it's 3%. In 1900 people used to spend over 40% of their budget on food:

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archi...

Transportation and and telecommunication costs have plummeted over the decades:

* https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/what-is-tra...

Compare the Mustang (and Charger) in the 1968 movie Bullitt compared to today: more horsepower, more torque, better fuel mileage, better safety and comfort (air conditioning!).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(first_generation...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(seventh_generati...

The main thing that has changed is that housing has gotten more expensive: just about everything else has gotten less expensive.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-18 11:56:55+00:00
> it’s bad form to deadname someone even if you are referring to a period when they went by the deadname.

That's the general rule, but some people make exceptions. Sophie Wilson was involved in the production of Micro Men, so presumably signed off on however she was depicted in it. (Then again, Clive Sinclair was also involved, and per https://web.archive.org/web/20250711183307/https://www.indep... objected to his portrayal, so…)
by Kye | 2025-08-18 12:00:06+00:00
There is a third path where the traditional thing can't be commercialized so modern medicine doesn't pursue it. A (sincere) traditional practitioner might be less concerned with gaining and exploiting a patent, so the commercial potential isn't as important.

Telling that person apart from the sea of charlatans complicates things a bit. They're not the people who launch their careers with Oprah's help and spawn a million others riding in their wake.
by lproven | 2025-08-18 12:00:07+00:00
I am not sure what your point is here.

You miscategorize most of the lines in this list.

> Commodore Amiga and Atari ST were 16-bit 68000 chips.

And the Mac which outsold both in the long run.

You missed:

Sinclair QL -- also a MC 680x0.

> The BBC Micro was 8 bit and a 6502 chip, that era had at least the following:

> BBC Atom, Micro, Electron, Master

> Commodore Pet, Vic32, Commodore 64

> Atari 400/800 XL

All 6502, yes. But you missed:

> Oric Atmos

Then you do not have a category for Zilog kit.

Powered by the Z80:

> Tandy TRS80

> Sinclair ZX80, 81, Spectrum, QL

Not the QL, no.

> Amstrad CPC 464

> MSX machines

Then another error. This line:

> Dragon 32/64

Is neither 6502 nor Z80. It is a Motorola 6809, along with 1 model of TRS-80.

Given this confusion I am not sure what you were trying to say.
by MrJohz | 2025-08-18 12:01:00+00:00
The biggest advantage if you can avoid significant whitespace is that it's usually a lot easier to manipulate text if you don't have to worry about the whitespace being correct. For example, when I'm copying and pasting Javascript code from somewhere else into a file, I don't need to worry about getting the indentation right, I just paste it into the right location, press format, and it does what I want. This is often nontrivial in Python, where both the source and the destination may have existing (invisible) whitespace. Worse, leading whitespace characters are often trimmed on copy or select, which often makes the resulting paste even more chaotic.

This is a minor inconvenience, and I still use Python regularly when it makes sense, but from a language design perspective, I think it's one of those decisions that makes your users' lives that slight bit harder with no real upside.
by scraper01 | 2025-08-18 12:01:16+00:00
I was trying to get up to speed on a new topic for a project and got really tired of juggling a dozen PDFs. You know the drill: download, skim, lose track of which paper had that one good paragraph, repeat. So I hacked together a little Streamlit app to help with this. Basically, you give it a topic and some websites (like arxiv), and it tries to find and download a bunch of PDFs for you. Then it chews on them for a while and gives you a chat box so you can ask questions about the stuff inside.

The tech part that might be interesting: I didn't want to do just a basic vector search on text chunks. I'd read the RAPTOR paper and thought it was a cool idea, so I tried to implement it. It recursively clusters the text chunks and then uses an LLM to summarize each cluster, building up a tree. The hope was it might give more high-level, synthesized answers. The whole multi-step process is held together with LangGraph. It's pretty rough right now. PDF parsing is a nightmare, as usual, so it probably messes up on papers with complex layouts. And the indexing part is kinda slow if you give it a lot to read. It works with local Ollama models or Gemini if you plug in an API key.

I don't have a live demo up because the indexing would probably cook a cheap server, but it should run locally without too much fuss. I'm posting it here mostly to see if this is a problem anyone else has, and if the way I'm trying to solve it makes any sense. If you end up trying it, I'd love to know what breaks or what you think would make it more useful.

The code's here: https://github.com/andres-ulloa-de-la-torre/deep-search-acad...

Thanks.
by diggan | 2025-08-18 12:02:17+00:00
> might ok a code change they shouldn’t have

Is the argument that developers who are less experience/in a hurry, will just accept whatever they're handed? In that case, this would be as true for random people submitting malicious PRs that someone accepts without reading, even without an LLM involved at all? Seems like an odd thing to call a "security nightmare".
by patwolf | 2025-08-18 12:02:33+00:00
For anyone looking for an off-the-shelf solution for wireless texting, I've used the BTECH GMRS-PRO. You can send messages on the device, but it's much easier to connect it to your phone via BLE and text through the app.

However, it uses GMRS bands, not LoRA, so all the FCC restrictions apply.
by jimkleiber | 2025-08-18 12:04:39+00:00
I agree, it makes sense to fear love, but also to have the courage to love anyways.

I often frame love as emotional intimacy, and when the level of closeness is very high, just like with physical intimacy, one can get more hurt. Can't get stabbed from far away. But also can't kiss from far away. One slight movement could mean a kiss or a headbutt.

So yes, I think feeling that close to someone has the risk of really hurting us...but also helping us.
by LarryMade2 | 2025-08-18 12:05:57+00:00
One that I see that looks promising is CZUR scanners, they are relatively low-cost and have a lot of ease-of-use features like OCR, page separation (scanning an open book and creating two pages), auto rotation, curl flattening (corrects warped scans due to book spines), foot control, etc.

I haven't used it but maybe someone will pipe-in with a reply.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-18 12:07:28+00:00
>We are undoubtedly witnessing a rapid decline of Mozilla and its products: the question we should be asking ourselves is: how long before the total collapse?

Why ask this? Tomorrow they could announce huge new funding from Bezos or google announcing cutting off funding. Regardless, it doesnt uninstall software from your machine.

>And furthermore: are those Linux users (like me) who are still relying on Firefox for doing their development job ready to abandon it?

I technically use firefox everyday; but it could be force uninstalled from my computers and id mostly not notice. I cant imagine being so dependent on it.

>I wonder what is your opinion

Hardly needs to be proven that Mozilla has been declining a very long time.

Microsoft never invested in Internet Explorer because of the antitrust charges in the early 2000s.

Opera had ads, firefox basically became a major player by default with nobody contesting them.

Mid to late 2000s, financial crisis era, they became activists for the open web and net neutrality; but after the financial crisis they jumped over to "social justice" which destroyed them.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-18 12:08:02+00:00
It wasn't their goal to become a CPU vendor, come on. He was clearly meaning the Acorn computers.

It was such a pity. As a British schoolboy in the early 90s we had a mix of Acorns and PCs, and I had a BBC Model B at home and then a bit later also a PC. Very lucky in hindsight.

The Acorn machines were ridiculously better except for fewer games. At first I don't remember there being much of a gaming gap and there were plenty of games targeting the BBC Micros, but as games scaled up the bigger US economy started to matter much more and the app/game selection just wasn't as good.

But in terms of engineering the GUI was better than Windows, but more importantly the reliability was way higher. My primary school teachers (!) were constantly getting me to fix the computers or install new apps because they always broke. When an Acorn "broke" it was something like the printer being out of paper. When the PC "broke" it was always something much, much harder.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-18 12:08:15+00:00
What is so expressive about doing,

type StatusCodes int const ( Success StatusCodes = iota Ongoing Done )

instead of (in Java and C#),

enum StatusCodes {Success, Ongoing, Done}

or if you prefer something from 1976's Pascal,

type StatusCodes = (Success, Ongoing, Done)
by balamatom | 2025-08-18 12:08:54+00:00
Well, only goes to show how different everyone's experiences are. I guess I've had the opposite one: Node+CommonJS was something I was extremely comfortable with.

The slow adoption of ESM by Node, with many compatibility missteps, the thousand papercuts around TS, the way frontend-centric toolchains kinda-sorta paper over the whole thing, letting it fester, and the way people have been acting like things are ready for primetime for over a decade while diligently testing them in production, all of that came later. To the point of having me wondering how did people work with TypeScript before ~5.4 - though evidently they did, and had few if any of the same complaints!

Baffling but IIWII. Anyway, only this year I discovered a pure `tsx` + ESM workflow had become viable OOTB, to no little surprise. I perceive that as the toolchain becoming unfucked just as randomly as it became fucked when Node 16 did what it did. Not that it didn't take a couple years for TS to "invent" the right compiler flags that it took to tell it to stay out of the runtime's way, too.

So a good year overall. Hope they don't break it again because when they do it's an uphill struggle to convince them that they have.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2025-08-18 12:10:14+00:00
We've been looking at virtual threads in a project at work and what we found is that it is quite difficult to adapt existing code to run with virtual threads.

For example, class initialization pins a thread so any singleton defined in the standard, recommended Java way (using a static inner instance of an inner class) can hang your program forever if the singleton definition suspends. And because they worked really hard on making async colourless, there is no way to know that a method call will suspend. This is a known issue with a workaround if the suspend is due to a network call,

https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8355036

which is useful for some applications (web servers). Figuring out that this is why my program was hanging required quite a bit of work too. We are still frustratingly far from the ergonomics of Go concurrency (all threads are virtual threads, hangs automatically panic).
by SamuelAdams | 2025-08-18 12:10:29+00:00
I was also confused. In our organization all PR’s must always be reviewed by a knowledgeable human. It does not matter if it was all LLM generated or written by a person.

If insecure code makes it past that then there are bigger issues - why did no one catch this, is the team understanding the tech stack well enough, and did security scanning / tooling fall short, and if so how can that be improved?