MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kstrauser | 2025-08-03 01:11:24+00:00
Absolutely. And what works best is incredibly personal. My wife tends to run in Nikes because others don’t fit and move just right for her. Meanwhile, I’ve never found a pair of Nikes I could stand, but Brooks Adrenaline give me superpowers.

Don’t ever get what someone else likes instead of what you prefer. Your feet aren’t theirs.
by EdwardDiego | 2025-08-03 01:11:41+00:00
Yeah my mindset was "Everything that happens is my fault" when riding - obviously false, but it was a good way to approach defensive riding.

That car that changed lanes into me? My fault for being in its blind spot and assuming they'd actually check it. So make sure to never linger in blind spots.

The car that did a u-turn in front of me that I nearly hit - my fault for not interpreting the car's body language. Make sure to note the angle of the front wheels of cars pulled to the side of the road in my scans in future.

That time I low sided because I was thinking about work not my ride and then hit a corner slightly too fast right as my front wheel hit a pile of small gravel from a road resurfacing - that was entirely my fault for not focusing on the ride.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-08-03 01:13:24+00:00
> After the sale, Hill got to work on building the ultimate ThinkPad, the X300. When it launched in early 2008, the X300 was one of the thinnest and lightest laptops made... It was also the first ThinkPad to ship without an IBM logo on it.

I swear that the ThinkPad z61p I got in July 2007 had Lenovo branding on it.
by pizzly | 2025-08-03 01:13:31+00:00
same here. The problem in this region is that they are too restrictive. Libraries have strict rules like not making noise in some areas and being told by security guards to take feet off low tables (which was impractical for reading), parks have so many rules including which sports can be played and not. At least in the region where we live its not the lack of facilities but a culture and rule system that makes public areas useless.
Ask HN: Want to leave my job with nothing lined up
by bsjak | 2025-08-03 01:14:25+00:00
I’m currently working in a very toxic environment and it’s starting to affect my life outside of work in negative ways. I have money saved up, don’t live an extravagant lifestyle, and have around 7 years of experience but I do know how challenging the job market has been which worries me. I would also be leaving my current company towards the end of the year when not many people are hiring.

When asking my friends and colleagues what to do, I always get the same answer of either wait until you find something else to quit or wait until they fire you, but whatever you do don’t leave with no offer in hand.

I agree with their approach in general but I’m just really burned out and don’t have the mental energy to come home from a 10 hour day and start preparing for interviews. Ideally I would like time to prepare adequately for interviews and really think about what I want to do next instead of just taking the next thing I’m offered because I’m so desperate to leave my current position.

I’m at a point in my life where I don’t want to sacrifice my mental health just to get the next paycheck, but maybe I’m being foolish and just need to get through it.

Has anyone navigated a situation like this before?
by sega_sai | 2025-08-03 01:14:47+00:00
I am sure people here will disagree with me, but I do not think that the 250M$ packages makes sense. In my opinion nobody is is worth 1000s times more the other people in the same field. A way to deal with this is through the tax system that would make it economically inefficient to have insane pay packages. Obviously that will not happen (especially in the US).
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-03 01:16:33+00:00
> "Back in 2021 people thought it wouldn't be until 2040 or so when AI models could look at a photo and give a human-level textual description of its contents."

Claim doesn't check out; here's a YouTube video from Apple uploaded in 2021, explaining how to enable and use the iPhone feature to speak a high level human description of what the camera is pointed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnoeaUpHKxY
by roenxi | 2025-08-03 01:17:10+00:00
I can't really call it a conclusion, I just don't know if the residuals are assumed to have a mean of 0 in their model or having a mean of 0 is simply standard practice. Alternatively if you mean the appearance of bias, you can plot the cumulative sum of the revisions (first chart in the mishtalk.com link) vs. a cumulative sum of a normal variable with the same standard deviation. A clear trend emerges because the mean adjustment isn't 0.

In fairness though, Trump's decision is clearly political, these sort of technical factors aren't important enough to rate an official press release and there isn't a cut and dried case that there is anything wrong with the BLS's methods looking in from the sidelines. But for the last few years they have been too optimistic with their estimates and that does strengthen Trump's case.
by teapot7 | 2025-08-03 01:17:19+00:00
I remember how much I liked my old iPhone 4. I liked the straight edges and crisp look and feel. I upgraded eventually to an iPhone 6 and hated the roundness - the design language of the phone said one thing to me, and that was "drop me on the ground and break me". I got a case for only minutes after I bought it so it would have a chance of survival.

Currently on an iPhone 12 mini and happy both that the clean straight edges came back, and that Apple's still making the occasional small phone.
by reactordev | 2025-08-03 01:17:34+00:00
I support this, as odd as it is. There’s times when you’re needing something drawn but can easily reuse an html element from elsewhere. Previously you’d have to render that to a bitmap offscreen and then copy that to a full screen quad or draw it on the canvas. Up until recently, even if you tried to z-index elements with position absolute it would be visually overwritten by the canvas (I think this is mostly fixed though).

I don’t know if this is the best solution but it’s better than previous hacks. IF you need to go that route. Basically html2canvas.
by moggers123 | 2025-08-03 01:17:38+00:00
I just chucked something together to try and demonstrate. I don't see the massive 20x slowdown, only about a 3x slowdown (5x on release build). Still enough to be painful for the use case in question.

https://github.com/Moggers/rusqlitebenchmark

Do you think you could look through it and point out what you think the reason is? I think they've both got the same WAL and mutex settings. Its a very contrived and synthetic example but actually somewhat representative of what the original code wanted to do.
by chongli | 2025-08-03 01:17:40+00:00
No it measures CPU speed, memory, etc under the assumption that scaling these provide some kind of tangible benefit to warrant the idea that we’re getting “more computer for less money” but these benefits are clearly nowhere even close to a linear relationship with CPU speed.

Productivity was an example of a benefit I chose off the cuff but you could choose others. Are today’s video game consoles 1000X more fun than a NES? Given that many people actually prefer old NES games and are even willing to pay inflated prices to collect them suggests the answer is a resounding no.
by yaky | 2025-08-03 01:18:33+00:00
I hosted Matrix Synapse for a few users and some bridges for many years, and I get some of the sentiment.

Synapse is okay, and bridges were the main reason for me. Documentation for setup and configuration is good now. No built-in admin panel, but I wrote my own. The bad things are:

- room replication means rooms stay on your server even after you leave them, and require manual cleanup. - state_group_states is an append-only table that bloats the DB to incredible sizes, and also requires manual cleanup via SQL queries. - media is not deleted when associated event is deleted and must be cleaned up manually. - users cannot be deleted (in a reasonably simple way) at all. IMO a GDPR violation right there, but what do I know.

Element is great because it is consistent across platforms, but "share to" functionality was broken on iOS last that I checked, and image captions are not supported (although visible on long-press?).

ElementX is supposed to be better, but calls are not backwards compatible (why?), "share to" and a lot of other functionality is absent.

Both still have to rely on Google Play Services for timely notifications while Conversations.im manages to get instant notifications even without Play Services.
by bentocorp | 2025-08-03 01:18:39+00:00
From the reports from Bloomberg etc, yes, it does sound like some Apple AI employees may need rallying.

Though it sounds like what they actually got was fairly in-substantive statements without a clearly articulated AI strategy.

Doesn't mean that Apple doesn't have a promising AI strategy though, if so, it wasn't communicated in this Pep Talk: so what was the point?

Perhaps to look like they are doing something? Are empty words better than no words at all?
by exasperaited | 2025-08-03 01:18:45+00:00
If you agree it is a bubble, you are agreeing it is going to burst. Because that is what defines a bubble.

I have two questions about this, really:

- is he going to be the last guy getting this kind of value out of a couple of research papers and some intimidated CEO's FOMO?

- are we now entering a world where people are effectively hypothetical acquihires?

That is, instead of hiring someone because they have a successful early stage startup that is shaking the market, you hire someone because people are whispering/worried that they could soon have a successful early stage startup?

The latter of these is particularly worrisomely "bubbly" because of something that people don't really recognise about bubbles unless they worked in one. In a bubble, people suspend their disbelief about such claims and they start throwing money around. They hire people without credentials who can talk the talk. And they burn money on impossible ideas.

The bubble itself becomes increasingly intellectually dishonest, increasingly unserious, as it inflates. People who would be written off as fraudsters at any other time are taken seriously as if they are visionaries and ultra-productive people, because everyone's tolerance for risk increases as they become more and more desperate to ride the train. People start urgently taking impossible things at face value, weird ideas get much further advanced much more quickly, and grifters get closer to the target -- the human source of the cash -- faster than due dilligence would ordinarily allow them.

"This guy is so smart he could have a $1bn startup just like that" is an obvious target for con artists and grifters. And they will come.

For clarity I am ABSOLUTELY NOT saying that the subject of this article is such a person. I am perfectly happy to stipulate that he's the real deal.

But he is now the template for a future grift that is essentially guaranteed to happen. Maybe it'll be a team of four or five people who get themselves acquihired because there's a rumour they are going to have billions of dollars of funding for an idea. They will publish papers that in a few months will be ridiculed. And they will disappear with a lot of money.

And that could burst your bubble.
by avoutos | 2025-08-03 01:18:59+00:00
The net savings are probably positive. DOGE's stated savings are 199B, so that would leave 177.3B in savings.

If DOGE is overstating savings, I doubt they are doing so by 900% which is what it would take for savings to dip into negative territory. Either that or losses are severely understated, but again if so probably not by enough.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-03 01:20:04+00:00
If they were overleveraged, they’d be doing a short sale or foreclosure (if you’re underwater, a traditional sale is off the table unless you can bring the negative equity in cash to closing). Otherwise, you are spot on. Sellers who aren’t cutting prices don’t have to and can ask their “make me move” price, to your point, either because they have a low payment or low interest rate. In some cases, they turn into accidental landlords to get the cashflow instead of concede on price.
by dogcow | 2025-08-03 01:20:30+00:00
Doesn't using ULAs kind of defeat the purpose (or one of the main intents) of IPv6, which is every device having a globally rotatable IP address? It kind of puts us right back in the IPv4 with NAT situation, only with longer, uglier addresses.

I personally think it is absurd that the ISPs that do actually support IPv6 are being so difficult and stingy about assigning static v6 prefixes.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-03 01:20:53+00:00
I'm not comparing children with immigrants. I'm pointing out the demographic fact that Japan has a low birth rate, far below replenishment.

This implies the number of economically active individuals will only ever decrease over time. Without economically active people, collapse is inevitable. Therefore, they must either promote new families or accept immigration.

Attempts to raise birth rates don't seem to be bearing fruit in any developed country. Therefore, acceptance of immigration is merely a matter of time. They have no choice.
by jovrtn | 2025-08-03 01:21:29+00:00
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by pagekicker | 2025-08-03 01:22:26+00:00
Per the Washington Post, DOGE is running LLM analysis against the Code of Federal Regulations (5B tokens) *this month* (August) with the goal of generating revision texts that will eliminate 50% of US regulations. This is a governance cataclysm that is happening right now. My proposal is that there should be many teams analyzing the same data and making recommendations.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-08-03 01:24:53+00:00
> An ambitious PM has a bunch of metrics in a dashboard. The PM uses them for things like: showing how well their team is doing, and asking for a raise, and asking for more resources.

[metrics turn out to be useless]

Key business metrics (relating to money and growth) matter but nearly everything else doesn't because of the difficulty of attribution.

Usually it doesn't matter because at a certain company size, everyone is just playing the game. The PM's middle manager boss asked for metrics because it "looks bad" that so much decision making is based on experience, judgement, internal politics and who has favour at any given time. The PM correctly "read the room" and created a bunch of metrics and a dashboard to help everyone pretend that things work otherwise.

The end goal of creating the metrics is really the opposite of the stated goal (accountability / transparency) - it's diffusion or deflection of responsibility.

Actually everyone is still just making things up. But the subjectivity has been swept under the rug, hidden in the choice of metrics, how they are measured, how much importance we place on them and the stories we tell about why they changed. In enterprises, this is not a bug, it's the whole point :/

Reading this back it feels too nihilistic; maybe there are places where "internal metrics" work well. Interested to hear dissenting viewpoints.
Ask HN: One week to get up to speed with AI
by brcmthrowaway | 2025-08-03 01:25:52+00:00
I'm stuck alone in a country due to circumstances out of my control. What updated course does HN recommend to get working with AI as a practitioner? Maybe end up writing a simple LLM from scratch? Would be nice to include GPU hardware basics as I am a computer engineer

Any awesome github.io links?
by thrance | 2025-08-03 01:28:19+00:00
And then what if you realize you need a canvas-in-the-html-in-the-canvas? It's endless. Canvas-first makes sense, it's basically how it works everywhere outside of the web. Start with the smallest abstractions and build on them (html on canvas) rather than leave escape hatches to your big abstractions because they fail to cover every use cases (canvas in html).
by atonse | 2025-08-03 01:29:36+00:00
One thing AI won’t be able to do is take the blame for big decisions.

I’ve realized that companies like McKinsey also provide a scapegoat for a manager’s decision gone wrong. They can just blame McKinsey for advising them to do it. But they can’t as easily blame an AI. And McKinsey is happy to be the bad guy.

I think this is an area where we will still keep humans. To blame someone when something goes wrong.

Unfortunately for McKinsey, that’s not going to be enough to prop up their revenues.
by tombh | 2025-08-03 01:32:03+00:00
Where does SVG's `foreignObject` fit into this? It seems that SVG supports all of thelproposal already? As is evidenced by projects like https://github.com/zumerlab/snapdom that can take "screenshots" of the webpage by copying the DOM with inlined styles into a `foreignObject` tag in an SVG. Then of course that SVG can be rendered to a canvas.
by euvin | 2025-08-03 01:32:08+00:00
It's not a book, but you might find this interesting: https://mathacademy.com

It's a (paid) online platform that breaks down mathematics (from 4th grade to university level) down into very small steps/skills, makes you drill them periodically, and also integrate them in increasingly advanced skills. The platform tracks your successes and failures to give you just the right amount of training at just the right time (in theory). You can see the exact skills they train as these really huge interconnected graphs, all created manually.

I read their pedagogy https://www.mathacademy.com/pedagogy and it seems to line up a lot with that philosophy. To use their language, they emphasize "finely-scaffolded steps" and "developing automaticity".

I always love to see more projects or initiatives in this area. I also know of https://physicsgraph.com that was inspired by it, but for physics.
by Larrikin | 2025-08-03 01:32:23+00:00
Where are you making this conclusion from?

Nobody in my family was waiting for one of my parents to die and it actually happened rather suddenly although he was retirement age. There was a very rapid effort to ensure we discovered as many passwords as possible, bought a family NAS, and backed up his entire computer starting with the Lightroom video and pictures. We later went through all of the family photos and folders he hadn't put in there.

To this day it's constantly running with an off site back up to my NAS. There are some photos of cousins we didn't really know, but he owned the best digital cameras of every era since their invention so it's a huge documentation of life. It would have been a family tragedy to lose that.
by Lucasoato | 2025-08-03 01:32:32+00:00
> I couldn't imagine paying >100$/month for a dev tool in the past, but I'm seriously considering upgrading to the Max plans.

Sadly, my experience with the Max plan has been extremely poor. It’s not even comparable, I’ve been vastly experimenting with claude code in the last weeks, spending more than 80$ per day, it’s amazing. The problem is that in the Max plan you’re not the one managing the context length, and this ruins the model ability to keep things memory. Of course this is expected, the longer the context the more expensive to run, but it’s so frustrating to fail in a coding task because it’s so obvious the model lost a crucial part of the context.
by russellbeattie | 2025-08-03 01:33:06+00:00
How about a flag on the body element like:

<body canvas="true"></body>

This would make the entire visible page into a canvas-like drawing surface which also renders DOM elements as per usual. At some level there's a process which rasterizes the DOM - opening drawing APIs into that might be a better solution.

It's sort of the same thing as HTML in canvas conceptually, but architecturally it makes DOM rendering and canvas rendering overlapping equals with awareness going both ways. E.g., a line drawn on the page will cause the DOM elements to reflow unless told to ignore it.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-03 01:33:09+00:00
> Universal healthcare, strong social safety nets, free education, etc.

No such thing as free anything. Somebody's gotta work to pay for it. Those somebodies are the children and young healthy adults who are economically active. They are the ones who will pay the taxes which in turn fund services for everyone else.

So it's impossible to create a welfare system in order to encourage families. People need to have children first so that they can be made to pay for it.
by XorNot | 2025-08-03 01:33:36+00:00
People who drive a truck for work aren't going to crash it into things all the time, what are you even talking about? Do you regularly crash your car into things while driving it? Like on a daily basis?

Like..you get that mud and dust just wash off, and the reason to wash them off is that once dried they can mess up the paint over a long period which then gives you a rust problem you really don't want?
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-08-03 01:36:42+00:00
To me, it is not hard to make sense of quantum reality and it’s not weird at all, it actually makes sense. And it makes sense to me because we are living in it.

If you’ve ever looked into the theory of Orch-OR I’m sure you’d understand what I’m talking about. The minute you think of the quantum being different from the classical is where the problems begin.

Classical physics is the only process we have to understand quantum physics. Our brains are quantum computers that collapse wave functions so we can navigate the universe. And by collapsing the wave function I just mean we make a probability the best certainty we can.

Light as a wave is a probability. Light as a particle is a certainty.
What happened to U.S. public infrastructure?
by octor_stranger | 2025-08-03 01:37:13+00:00
Where is the high-speed bullet train, the high-power dam, and the new skyscraper? It seems like U.S. public infrastructure peaked in the '90s and has stopped developing.

When I was a kid, I always looked up to the U.S. as a modern, first-world country. I thought they had to keep developing—but it seems like everything peaked in the '90s and 2000s and then just stopped. Now, the U.S. mostly consists of rural areas, rows of private houses, a Walmart here and there, and massive highways. That’s it. What happened?

US was ahead of the world 25 years ago, it supposed to be ahead of the world 25 years as of right now but we don't see it's the case anymore compare other country similar in size like China.
by elefanten | 2025-08-03 01:37:16+00:00
A lot beyond the scope of the time I have to comment here. Read it with an open mind, knowledge of tech business, knowledge of how things unfolded since it was published and see for yourself.

But some short hand:

-Assumes vertical integration is necessarily abusive

-Assumes lowering price is necessarily a setup for anti-competitive practices. This one’s particularly ironic because lowering prices is definitely a first-order good for consumers and businesses that buy those goods. Bezos’ famous saying was “your margin is my opportunity” —- would you rather the standard continue to be massive retailer markup profit that goes straight to retail corps?

-Vague scare tactic claims that expanding into media production etc will somehow (yadda yadda, Step 2: ???) lead to monopolies in every category they enter.

The TLDR of the problem with Neobrandeis is it forms a very opinionated paranoid notion that size can only lead to bad things and no good things. It is a lazy dodge around the traditional responsibility of regulators to identify and regulate actual anti-competitive behavior when it actually happens By constraining companies from using any form of size or integration-related advantage, it lowers the pressure to actually be competitive and innovative for everyone else. I’m not saying everything should be unconditionally allowed, there’s a balance to strike. But when you just have a blunt “anti-size” hammer, you’re gonna do collateral damage to a healthy competitive ecosystem in a damaging way.