MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by laurieg | 2025-08-05 09:32:32+00:00
Like with all home automation, you should use it to solve problems you have, not problems you want to have.

Here are some ways I use security cameras:

Check if my colleagues are in the office or not (and if they are in the middle of a live recording). Check on my plants while I'm away. Check if there is a free parking space. Check if I left something at home or in the office.

I'm not really thinking about crime, even though they are called 'security cameras'.
by james_a_craig | 2025-08-05 09:32:52+00:00
In their own first example of English text rendering, it's mistakenly rendered "The silent patient" as "The silent Patient", "The night circus" as "The night Circus", and miskerned "When stars are scattered" as "When stars are sca t t e r e d".

The example further down has "down" not "dawn" in the poem.

For these to be their hero image examples, they're fairly poor; I know it's a significant improvement vs. many of the other current offerings, but it's clear the bar is still being set very low.
Show HN: Zettel – Quick Notes
by surrTurr | 2025-08-05 09:32:57+00:00
Hi HN! A month ago, I wanted an app that opens instantly, stays out of the way, and stores every note as plain text. Nothing fit, so I built 'Zettel'.

Zettel is nothing crazy; it's a digital piece of paper on your phone: type, swipe, done. Each note lands as a .md file in the iOS Files app, which you can use to sync to any of your other devices or applications.

I use Zettel daily to quickly get thoughts out of my head, into my favourite App Obsidian.

Zettel is free & open source, and 1MB in size - feel free to try it out if you like!

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/zettel-quick-notes/id674852524...
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-05 09:33:18+00:00
ATLAS was expanded in 2022, and this object was discovered by the new telescope in Chile - the more we look the more we find. With more survey telescopes coming online (Vera Rubin just recently, Nancy Grace Roman and Xuntian coming soon to name a few), I suspect we'll start seeing quite a few more of these.

Hopefully we humans get a mission ready to go that will allow to go and have a look when a suitable one turns up with enough notice. Presumably one that isn't nailing though quite so fast as 3I/ATLAS (ʻOumuamua and Borisov were about half the speed each - about 30km/s). Annoyingly the speeds mean that really all you can do is a very fast flyby, unless you are incredibly lucky with trajectories, the object moves very slowly or we can ship a truly massive amount of "rapid" (e.g. not ion engines if you want to catch it this side of the heliopause) delta-v to orbit.

The rocket equation is really not on our side here if we wanted use chemical means. If you have a specific impulse of 300 seconds, you basically cannot get a 100kg probe to 30km/s delta-v without a slingshot. 100 tonnes of fuel gets you to about 20km/s, 2000 tonnes gets you to 30km/s. And a craft that holds 2000 tonnes of fuel probably masses more than 100kg.

Maybe the better bet is a really good sunshield and then everyone works on their cardiac health so they can see the intercept in 30 year's time, and even then it's a blink-and-you-miss-it flyby at over 20km/s: http://orbitsimulator.com/BA/lyra.gif
by dustingetz | 2025-08-05 09:34:04+00:00
addressing only paragraph 2: American VC funded startups mostly don’t hire overseas remote programmers for two reasons: 1) they don’t need to, they are overfunded and the culture/communication overhead tradeoff is not worth it; 2) they are california biased which has poor timezone overlap with overseas time zones. The companies that historically lean in on overseas workers are the bootstrappers, because they cannot afford market american salaries. The company I founded is one such company.
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-05 09:37:20+00:00
It all depends on if one believes whether the current one is the last AI hype cycle, or "just another" AI hype cycle. We might just be at the start of the peak of the current hype cycle, or maybe we're already slightly over it without knowing it yet... which would mean that in around 10 years we might know whether there will be another AI winter or not.

Until then I'll be happy to wait-and-see and use LLMs as a glorified StackOverflow / search-engine replacement - at least as long as they're still free to use, and it doesn't take too long to get an answer back ;)
by lolive | 2025-08-05 09:38:21+00:00
I doubt anyone has the $$$ horsepower to maintain a coherent stack as big as Foundry. So in the makeOrBuy, you probably will go for a buy. And in that field, I still think SAP is way behind Palantir. Someone in the discussion mentionned IBM’s InformationServer, and I will spend some time to investigate its storage scalability strategy and the data model governance.
by skydhash | 2025-08-05 09:38:43+00:00
> LLMs is they are using a completely unknown logic system, which can shift wildly from version to version, and is not even guaranteed to be consistent.

It's not unknown. And it's not a logic system. Roughly, it takes your prompt, add it to the system prompts, runs it trough a generative program that pattern-match it to an output. It's like saying your MP3 player (+ your mp3 files) is a logic system. It's just data and it's translator. And having a lot of storage to have all the sounds in the world just means you have all the sounds in the world, not that it's automatically a compositor.

And consistency is the basic condition for formalism. You don't change your axioms, nor your rules, so that everyone can understand whatever you said was what you intended to say.

> What I mean is making more programs that study, modify and transform the resulting programs in a certain way.

That certain way is usually fully defined and spec-ed out (again, formalism). It's not about programming roulette, even if the choices are mostly common patterns. Even casinos don't want their software to be unpredictable.

> Most of our commonly used tools are woefully incapable of metaprogramming.

Because no one wants it. Lisp has been there for ages and only macros have seen extensive use, and mostly as a way to cut down on typing. Almost no one has the needs to alter the basic foundation of the language to implement a new system (CLOS is kinda the exception there). It's a lot of work to be consistent, and if the existing system is good enough, you just go with it.

> we don't publish version modifications to language runtimes as programs

Because patching binary is harzadous, and loading programs at runtime (plugins) is nerfed on purpose. Not because we can't. It's a very big can of worms (we've just seen the crowdstrike incident when you're not careful about it).
by redat00 | 2025-08-05 09:40:10+00:00
This kind of threat that we would suffer without the US help is so infuriating.

When Russia started the war with Ukraine, they we're saying that it would be a blitzkrieg. It wasn't. And we're talking about a country which doesn't have any nuclear weapons, who's fighting with shitty FPV drones.

And you're here, telling us that Russia would even dare to set a single foot in any of the European country ? While they're in reach of French nuclear arsenal ? Without the ability to even know where "Le Terrible" is on earth ?

Come on kid, be serious for a minute.
by tomalpha | 2025-08-05 09:40:41+00:00
I just searched within the (edit: iOS App Store) App Store app for

ublock origin lite “ublock origin lite”

For the unquoted search, there are twelve different apps/items returned above it - you really have to scroll down to find it at number 13.

Even for the quoted search, it’s returned in fourth place.

More interestingly the second time I searched with quoted it’s in third place, and the third time of searching the sponsored items at the top is getting even more random.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-05 09:42:41+00:00
It used to be like that, and I'm old enough to remember why they changed: not every student handles exam stress well. And it has nothing to do with their competency in that subject matter.

For example, in the UK, it was shown that biasing course results towards exam marks caused woman to perform worse than men. But when results included assignments, women generally performed better.

This is obviously a generalisation but it is one of the reasons why so many courses now take assignments into account for their final grade.
by xingwu82 | 2025-08-05 09:42:45+00:00
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by bluecalm | 2025-08-05 09:42:48+00:00
Yeah but it goes for housing as well. The property owners have been winning politically for a very long time now. It doesn't mean they will keep winning in the next decade.

My view is that it's very hard to envision a world where stocks crash and real estate doesn't but it's very easy to image real estate getting cheaper while stocks do just fine.

The latter scenario may happen with just a few policy changes or even without them if demography gets bad enough.
by npc_anon | 2025-08-05 09:43:09+00:00
The problem in your logic is that all points starts wit "I".

You're not the only stakeholder in any of those interactions. There's you, a mediator (search or LLM), and the website owner.

The website owner (or its users) basically do all the work and provide all the value. They produce the content and carry the costs and risks.

The pre-LLM "deal" was that at least some traffic was sent their way, which helps with reach and attempts at monetization. This too is largely a broken and asymmetrical deal where the search engine holds all the cards but it's better than nothing.

A full LLM model that no longer sends traffic to websites means there's zero incentive to have a website in the first place, or it is encouraged to put it behind a login.

I get that users prefer an uncluttered direct answer over manually scanning a puzzling web. But the entire reason that the web is so frustrating is that visitors don't want to pay for anything.
by defrost | 2025-08-05 09:43:47+00:00
The conversion isn't a hill I'd die on, it was sourced from a reddit economics thread as a bold assertion of fact:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/q20fr4/the_fo...

The 1922 price list looks solid though, it's from a dedicated 1920s 'fan' site, but, again, I haven't personally verified or cross checked the numbers - it just seemed like an interesting bit of info to chase :)
by lproven | 2025-08-05 09:44:07+00:00
I didn't. It is a work machine.

I smashed my right arm to bits in early 2023. I was unable to use that hand for months. I asked for a machine which could take dictation. This is what I got.

And I have to admit, it's now my go-to machine for remote events, conferences and so on; it replaced my Planet Computers Gemini.

But actually working at a desk using the thing is not very pleasant. I regularly see MacBook fans praising the keyboard and the trackpad, but IMHO they are awful.

E.g. I am often told that macOS includes middle-click support, by people who don't know that their mouse has 3 buttons. The existence of this paid app:

https://middleclick.app/

And multiple generations of this FOSS alternative:

https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick

... effectively falsify that.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-05 09:44:19+00:00
My doorbell has a camera that records locally.

When the doorbell rings I get a notification on my desktop and phone with a relevant image captured a few moments before the button was pressed.

Then I can determine if it's something I need to put my pants on for.

Mostly it's just fun and easy to add cameras around your house. Then you can do stuff like have the LLM count birds it sees or ask it "are the dogs in the back yard" etc.
by xpe | 2025-08-05 09:44:26+00:00
Don’t fool yourself into thinking a suboptimal SRS is going to be optimal at the motivational aspect. If a user needs a self-confidence boost during a flash card session, this should be a design choice, not due to poor performance of the core SRS algorithm.

Choose your SRS algorithm to best predict what a user knows and when they’re likely to forget it.

If your application decides that it wants to throw some softballs, that’s an application level decision. If you care about psychology and motivation, build a really good algorithm for that. Then blend SRS with motivation as desired.
by dsego | 2025-08-05 09:44:41+00:00
It's a tough question, it was total war, all the civilians were working to support the military goals. Japanese supposedly had a very militarized society (1). The concept of total war adopted by the expansionist axis powers meant that the allies had to fight back in the same way, namely use strategic bombing (2) to lower their morale and destroy civilian infrastructure and industrial targets which aided the war effort.

(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_militarism

(2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World...
by whatsupdog | 2025-08-05 09:44:52+00:00
You can integrate it with home assistant to send notification on your phone (or run any other automation) when it detects any specified objects.

I have set it to send me notification if any person is detected in my front yard, drive way or back yard after I have "armed" my alarm at night. I am thinking of also sounding am alarm on my home speakers.

Frigate, when configured properly, has a really low false positive rate. I have only seen 2-3 false positives in the past one year. And if rarely ever misses. So it's something you can rely on.
by pif | 2025-08-05 09:45:18+00:00
Concerning professional software development:

Customers buy solutions. They don't buy specifications documents, they don't buy elegant code, they don't buy automatic test coverage. All of these are useful only as long as they help you deliver solutions to customers faster. Any effort more is better spent on actually building solutions for customers. Maintainability is nearly top priority; real top priority is to have something to maintain in the first place.

Corollary: quick-and-dirty exist for a reason. It's easy to say that quick-and-dirty is just dirty, and it's true: in the long run, quick-and-dirty takes longer than the-right-thing. But, there is a but: time doesn't always have the same value! Time just before a deadline is much more precious than the time after the deadline, when you can relax a bit and fix things before the next stress wave. Have it working and ship it now; we'll get it in better shape next week, while the customer will be happy playing with their new toy.
by throwaway4496 | 2025-08-05 09:45:19+00:00
It is a hard problem, yes, but you don't solve it by rastering it, OCR, and then using AI. You render it into a structured format. Then at least you don't have to worry about hallucinations, fancy fonts OCR problems, text shaping problems, huge waste of GPU and CPU to paint an image only to OCR it and throw it away.

Use a solution that renders PDF into structured data if you want correct and reliable data.
by fhd2 | 2025-08-05 09:45:32+00:00
Content blockers on iOS are severely limited compared to what's possible with powerful extension mechanisms (Firefox, Chrome before Manifest V3) or built-in ad blockers (Brave). So there's not really differentiation on a technical level, which is where uBlock Origin was always strong. On these other platforms, there was a lot of innovation going on when I was in the space (2020), especially against sites that actively try to circumvent ad blockers. On iOS, there's not much that can be done. At least unless I missed some major developments.

As for the lists of resources to block and DOM elements to hide - which is by and large all an iOS ad blocker is - most just use the popular ones like EasyList with a few additions. uBlock Origin has a good track record of maintaining additional filters, so I think there's reason to believe it'll work better than most.

But all in all, for these two reasons, you probably won't notice much of a difference between different ad blockers on iOS.
by skeezyboy | 2025-08-05 09:47:11+00:00
Newspapers sell information. Information is now trivial to copy and send across the globe, when 50 years ago it wasnt. And youre wrong about "nobody could clone their content", because they absolutely could, different editions were pressed throughout the day (morning, lunch, evening newspapers) at the peak of print media. The barrier to entry used to be a printing press, now its just an internet connection, print media has a hard time accepting that
by Lutger | 2025-08-05 09:48:15+00:00
That is useful, but you can achieve a similar benefit if you manage to spec out your api with openapi, and then generate the typescript api client. A lot of web frameworks make it easy to generate openapi spec from code.

The maintenance burden shifts from hand syncing types, to setting up and maintaining the often quite complex codegen steps. Once you have it configured and working smoothly, it is a nice system and often worth it in my experience.

The biggest benefit is not the productivity increase when creating new types, but the overall reliability and ease of changing stuff around that already exists.
by SuzukiBrian | 2025-08-05 09:48:26+00:00
I would, but once I fully understood the problem it was too late to return it. When I got the car I simply turned off the features, and because I don't drive a lot I didn't notice that the car would turn them on again until I was outside the return period.

I really just didn't have the imagination to think that it could possibly be a problem. Even the manual says that it stays turned off once disabled.
by lloeki | 2025-08-05 09:48:51+00:00
> If she was obscured by an A-pillar she was likely riding too far to the side of the road. [...] You're much, much safer on the center wheel track.

I won't spend time detailing the whole situation but you could not be further from what happened.

The situation is extremely clear cut: someone speeding around a turn and running over another who had both the green light and right of way, impacting in a way that cannot possibly be ignored, then crossing two red lights is 100% responsible.

It's precisely good safety practices that _saved_ her life.
by Luneth | 2025-08-05 09:50:05+00:00
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by ptx | 2025-08-05 09:50:47+00:00
Apparently "foo(...)" is just the PHP syntax for a function reference, according to the "first-class callable" RFC [1] linked from the article.

So where in Python you would say e.g.

callbacks = [f, g]

PHP requires the syntax

$callbacks = [f(...), g(...)];

As for the purpose of the feature as a whole, although it seems like it could be replaced with function composition as mentioned at the end of the article, and the function composition could be implemented with a utility function instead of dedicated syntax, the advantage of adding these operators is apparently [2] performance (fewer function calls) and facilitating static type-checking.

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/first_class_callable_syntax

[2] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/function-composition#why_in_the_eng...
by bob1029 | 2025-08-05 09:50:51+00:00
How is this compared to other ecosystems? I've been serializing JSON for about a decade and it's been so fast I haven't really thought about it. Simdjson can do gigabytes per second per core.

Once you factor in prefetching, branch prediction, etc., a highly optimized JSON serializer should be effectively free for most real world workloads.

The part where json sucks is IO overhead when modifying blobs. It doesn't matter how fast your serializer is if you have to push 100 megabytes to block storage every time a user changes a boolean preference.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-05 09:51:19+00:00
> You mention America but this is an international cultural issue. The US is not even the worst country as far as gender relations goes.

No, it's not.

Thankfully, my country has been sparred pretty much all the discussion about transgender and bathroom and most of the religious reactionary non sense. It's very much a problem of the USA and by extension countries which consume media in English like the UK.

> I think you want to shrug this off as some kind of "both sides" situation while ignoring the simple and irrefutable facts on the ground.

Which are? You are turning the discussion into a for or against irrefutable facts by the way. Thank you for nicely illustrating my point.
by actionfromafar | 2025-08-05 09:51:47+00:00
Spoiler alert!

Edit: the book is "The Road not Taken"

There's a scifi story about a civilization stumbling upon how to achieve FTL travel. In the story, the tech is at the same time very simple and very unexpected. Anyways, they go explore the galaxy and invade and conquer with their primitive ships, which are little more than tin buckets. Their weapons technology is on the flintlock gun level.

(A tragic kind of) hilarity ensues when they stumble upon Earth with its completely unexpected, incredibly advanced weaponry. IIRC in the story most civilizations find FTL travel pretty early. Just Earth didn't happen upon it and instead had time to develop advanced weaponry, computers, etc.
by lolive | 2025-08-05 09:52:22+00:00
I definitely agree.

Two comments here:

- the real power of Foundry is that it is REALLY scalable. Palantir is selling all the knowledge management+data management that you mentionned BUT at a level of integration and scalability that I had never seen in any other product.

- someone in the discussions mentionned IBM InformationServer as an alternative. Functionnaly that sounds quite similar to Foundry. The question is whether the implementation choices are as clever as in Foundry. #toBeInvestigated
by wcoenen | 2025-08-05 09:53:53+00:00
> and JERKS THE STEERING WHEEL

Everybody who first encounters this feature (including me) seems to have the same reaction.

However, if you give yourself some time to get used to it, you'll probably realize that it doesn't actually "jerk the steering wheel" with any significant force.

It's more like a gentle nudge, similar to the effect of highway rutting. If you are properly holding the steering wheel, it will not actually affect the steering direction.