MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-08-16 17:24:02+00:00
A man of Wozniak's talents would never worry about money in his life regardless of what he chose to do. Talent + intelligence + work ethic ensures success, regardless of one's path in life, which is mostly the point of my comment. Somebody could accumulate a bunch of money at a FAANG but not necessarily enjoy their life or work in the process. Or they could utilize the same talents to go on a globe trotting life of adventure where they may earn much less, but get the opportunity to live and enjoy life much more.

Woz stated he gave away his money because he felt it was corrupting, probably seeing what it did to people like Jobs - although it's more like Jobs was like that to begin with, and the money just made it worse. Woz has also spoken repeatedly about celebrity status. Here's [1] a nice older 'interview' of sorts where he hits on the topic extensively. He didn't want it and has no interest in it.

Interestingly something I didn't know, that's pertinent to our little thread here, is that after Woz left Apple, he became a 5th-9th grade teacher, and did so for a decade!

[1] - https://www.vulture.com/2013/08/steve-wozniak-on-jobs-and-me...
by kcplate | 2025-08-16 17:25:50+00:00
On the iPad and iOS front, I feel like the real driver of support for multiuser is families. I just can’t see it being a big desirable ask beyond families with kids because the devices form factors. If I am Apple, I am wondering if that subset market is big enough to add the feature. I love my wife and she loves me, but a single shared phone or iPad among us would create more problems than a coke bottle amid the bush people of the Kalahari.
Tell HN: You can no longer see the token count in Claude code
by allisdust | 2025-08-16 17:26:47+00:00
Anthropic solved their system overload situation in a really bad way: You can no longer see the token count in claude Code and it just opaquely slows you down by slowing the token generation. The same tasks that used to get done so fast now take forever. Any one else facing this ?
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-16 17:26:54+00:00
My Python program could be worth open sourcing. It's pedagogical and a decent answer to the question of "how can a computer play chess?"

The Java program is a mess though, and there are a lot of chess programs out there, both of those programs are based on knowledge I got from

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page

I've made some really simple demos of VR rendering that play well on my MQ3 when it is attached to a computer which is running the web browser -- they tend to choke running in standalone mode which I think is the main market so the product I want is going to be one tuned up for memory use. I think the problem is that the MQ3 just doesn't have a lot of RAM and a lot of of it taken up by the OS and the standard UI. A single DSLR photograph would be like 6000x4000x3 = 72MB as a texture and it would have to be unpacked to view it. I've seen some good demos that run in WebXR on the MQ3 so I know it's possible but I'll have to really tune it.

As for text classification I have an RSS reader that uses text classification for a recommender, here it is running on the MQ3:

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114910543438621522

It downloads maybe 20,000 RSS feed items, runs them through

https://sbert.net/

to turn them into vectors (easy!) and then clusters them with k-means clustering to divide them into 20 "topics"

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.cl...

it picks the 10 highest scoring article out of each cluster and adds another 100 randomly chosen articles to show me 300 articles. I give a thumbs up or thumbs down judgement of each article and use the vectors as X and the judgements as y for

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/svm.html

with the probability option to compute the scores.

This system is super-reliable and fast, in three minutes it trains something like 20 models and picks the best.

My approach based on SBERT gets a good sense of the "gist" of something but doesn't really understand the order of words, can't handle negation, is not so good for sentiment analysis and more complex kinds of tasks -- but my recommender doesn't really need a highly accurate model because my judgements are not accurate, I might judge the same article up or down depending on how I feel that day.

People who hold court on the forums on huggingface tend to advocate "fine tuned BERT models" for classification, I think they for the birds. I see a lot of arXiv papers where people copy a training recipe from another paper, I haven't seen a recipe that consistently makes good models -- I don't want to write papers, I want a system that a person who just has text and judgements can push a button and get a good classifier for a wide range of problems.

I've worked on LSTM trainers in the past and found I could develop reliable training procedures for them, the literature tends to show these often beat the "fine tuned BERT" by a bit, so I am really interested in making one that "just works", like you give it documents as your X and your judgements as y and it will train a bunch of models and give you the best.

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/model_selection.html
by Zacharias030 | 2025-08-16 17:27:03+00:00
Wouldn’t you say that now, finally, what people call AI combines subsymbolic systems („gradient descent“) with search and with symbolic systems (tool calls)?

I had a professor in AI who was only working on symbolic systems such as SAT-solvers, Prolog etc. and the combination of things seems really promising.

Oh, and what would be really nice is another level of memory or fast learning ability that goes beyond burning in knowledge through training alone.
by treetalker | 2025-08-16 17:27:11+00:00
As with physical training, fixating on the desired end state is a recipe for disaster. Instead, we must fixate on the boring, slow, consistently repeated actions that drive in our desired direction. Athletic prowess and six-pack abs don't feel how one might suppose: they feel like a couple hours per day slogging it out on the rowing machine or stationary bike and then hitting the weights and stretching for a bit; and they feel like eating sardines and vegetables within a limited daily window. (These are examples of many possibilities, of course.)

Engage with the struggle and trust the process.
by yieldcrv | 2025-08-16 17:28:40+00:00
> As someone who’s lived nearly seven decades without once setting foot in an airport lounge—not because I’m poor but because they’re a waste of money—I was appalled by Mack’s complaint

Then someone else should write this article because airport lounges are free with the right banking relationships

Which is the problem people are resonating with. The path is too well known and followed.
by fogzen | 2025-08-16 17:29:12+00:00
I haven’t worked much with BEAM/Erlang but having worked with real distributed applications I’m quite skeptical there’s much value in helping me send messages over the net between processes. That’s the trivial part of distributed systems. The hard parts of distributed computing like data consistency, consensus, or network partitions are left to the programmer. To say nothing about hardware.

Something simple like a message queue has many ways it can be implemented in a distributed system. In Erlang every actor has its own queue. Great. I highly doubt I could actually use them in a real distributed system but I’d love to see that I’m wrong.

Here's a trivial example from one of my recent jobs: We need to queue Slack messages from different producers into some kind of per-tenant outbox queue that ensures one consumer per tenant, and which consumes at a maximum rate (to stay below Slack rate limits). This queue also needs to be bounded and communicate back pressure to producers. What unique value does Erlang provide here? Usually this kind of thing is built using Go and AWS Lambdas and SQS or Kafka. Where does Erlang/BEAM help here?
by yurishimo | 2025-08-16 17:29:32+00:00
I think there can be a different way to think about CSS that can help with that feeling of never understanding it all. Recently I’ve heard people influential in the CSS world describe it as a “suggestion” to the browser. The browser has its own styles, the user might have some custom stylesheet on top of the browser’s version, extensions, etc etc and at some point CSS is really more a long list of “suggestions” about how the site should look.

If you embrace that idea to the fullest, you can create some interesting designs/patterns that can be more resilient. The “downside” is that this way of writing css will likely made the pixel perfect head of the marketing department hate you unless they also write code.

I think it’s also okay to say that some ways of writing css just aren’t relevant anymore. A good parallel in mind is building construction and general carpentry. These days, a quick 2x4 stud wall or insulated concrete forms is fast, cheap, and standardized around the world. However, many craftspeople still exist that will create beautiful joinery for what is ultimately a simple thing, but we can appreciate that art standalone. With CSS, I don’t suspect we will ever need to go back to floats or crazy background images or whatever but it’s nice that those tools are still there for not only the sake of back compat, but also as a way to tinker and “craft” something bespoke for a special project or just because you like it. Education will eventually catch up and grid and flexbox will keep gaining popularity until we decide that it’s too complicated and come up with some new algorithm. That can all be true though and you can bring value as a developer without knowing every single aspect to the public API.
by fduran | 2025-08-16 17:30:33+00:00
Hola, I may try this out (once the HN hug of death slows down). At SadServers we ran a GKE cluster with 0.2 vCPUs workload for a PoC at it was costing us CAD $50/day until we figured out thing like GCP using a pod not doing anything just keeping a node up using 1 CPU, hidden Prometheus metrics etc.
by pron | 2025-08-16 17:31:46+00:00
Interesting, but possibly outdated by now. E.g. they compare against a seven-year-old version of ZGC. Back then, ZGC was not only not generational, but did some scanning during a stop-the-world pause (e.g. of stacks, but not only stacks). These days, even the objects directly on the stack aren't scanned at all during a STW (a pause is only used as an efficient thread synchronization mechanism; no GC work, including the scanning of any object is done in a STW).
by ranger_danger | 2025-08-16 17:32:23+00:00
If you're trying to passive-aggressively imply my comment is a logical fallacy, I would counter with another one and say I think that's a false equivalence, as there is scientific data that shows quality of a product (which I am defining in this context as not thinking it is "one of the worst UI experiences") can in fact influence sales.

I also qualified my comment with "may suggest" so as to not imply it as some kind of unfounded fact.

https://www.enrichment.iocspublisher.org/index.php/enrichmen...

https://www.firstinsight.com/blog/price-vs-quality-what-matt...

Maybe your definition of quality differs from mine or these people though.
by fallpeak | 2025-08-16 17:32:27+00:00
> If you pay in crypto, you have to report every conversion from fiat to monero

That's not what your link says, and as far as I'm aware it's not true. Buying crypto and then using some of it to buy goods and services has no tax reporting requirement, those only start when you're either selling crypto or receiving it as payment. Which is the same situation as the tax reporting for any other currency or valuable item you could deal in.
by underlipton | 2025-08-16 17:32:33+00:00
We tried the, "One company makes everything in your house," thing in the mid-century, and it didn't work. A home is an ecosystem - not the corpo buzzword that actually means "walled garden", but an actual ecosystem, with a diverse set of (often competing) "organisms" coexisting. An average room needs seating, storage, entertainment, and its contents are highly influenced by culture, lifestyle, memory, family, desire/ambition. Smart home products have become better over time as manufacturers realized that any given room is going to be a chaotic mix of other manufacturers' products, including those of competitors, and that the only way for the entire ecosystem to succeed is for all of the parts to play as nice together with each other as possible.

I feel like this is one of Apple's weaknesses. The AVP was a massive indication that they're not ready for that kind of paradigm, because even within their own product, apps (organisms) that should have been able to exist as complete digital "objects" and interact with others were instead siloed off experiences that took over the whole device.
by hinkley | 2025-08-16 17:34:45+00:00
If you squint a bit, many of the optimizations for quicksort are essentially a very short Monte Carlo simulation.

Randomness seems to help more with intentionally belligerent users than anything else. There is no worst pattern because the same question twice yields a different result. For internal use that can help a little with batch processing, because the last time I did that seriously I found a big problem with clustering of outlier workloads. One team of users had 8-10x the cost of any other team. But since this work involved populating several caches, I sorted by user instead of team and that sorted it. Also meant that one request for team A was more likely to arrive after another request had populated the team data in cache instead of two of them concurrently asking the same questions. So it not only smoothed out server load it also reduced the overall read intensity a bit. But shuffling the data worked almost as well and took,hours instead of days.
by lazide | 2025-08-16 17:34:48+00:00
That’s great and all until you have a stalker that uses your social network to figure out new and inventive ways to make your life hell.

I’ve had to stop telling anyone anything about where I’m going to be, where I’m working, or who I’m seeing or in a relationship with. Because people have gotten repeatedly stalked and attacked themselves in attempts to get to me, or ‘punish’ me for being happy.

I really wish it was paranoia or something I was imagining too.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-16 17:34:53+00:00
> A method that returns Optional<T> may return null.

projects that do this drive me bananas

If I had the emotional energy, I'd open a JEP for a new @java.lang.NonNullReference and any type annotated with it would be a compiler error to assign null to it

public interface Alpha {} @java.lang.NonNullReference public interface Beta {} Alpha a = null; // ok Beta b = null; // compiler error

javac will tolerate this

Beta b; if (Random.randBoolean()) { b = getBeta(); } else { b = newBeta(); }

but I would need to squint at the language specification to see if dead code elimination is a nicety or a formality

Beta b; if (true) { b = getBeta(); } else { b = null; // I believe this will be elided and thus technically legal }
by password4321 | 2025-08-16 17:36:26+00:00
Thanks for the details on text classification!

> I want a system that a person who just has text and judgements can push a button and get a good classifier

This seems very practical. These systems could add a lot of additional value filtering sites like HN to follow the trends for technologies someone is interested in, or drilling down into popular trends as a tool to find what to generate content about when building an audience.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-16 17:36:56+00:00
Nowhere did I claim ADHD was a personality quirk. Nowhere did I claim ADHD wasn't real. I'm not disputing the neurodevelopmental pathophysiology of ADHD. I'm questioning the labels society applies to people with such a disorder.

I claimed it's not the "attention deficit" people think it is. People with ADHD are clearly able focus when the subject is interesting enough to them. That's a huge contradiction. The truth is probably that school is way too boring for them.

I think signal to noise ratio is a good analogy. People with ADHD are easily distracted by noisy stimuli and need disproportionally high signal to focus. Society consistently fails to provide high enough SNR then labels neurodivergent people as problematic.

ADHD discussions always remind me of this article:

https://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html

I think the bipolar diagnosis is off the mark. Substitute bipolar with ADHD though and the profile fits quite well.
by eth0up | 2025-08-16 17:37:16+00:00
Either Biomin, or my first choice, Apagard (from Japan).

Biomin is cleaner, but weaker.

I generally choose Apagard though. If you do too, the Premio is a good version with a substantial hydroxyapatite content.

Try to buy from a reputable seller if Apagard. I'd not worry about Biomin much.

Edit: also note that these are rinseless pastes, intended to remain on the teeth for as long as they linger. This is where Biomin has an advantage, being cleaner. Spitting is fine, but rinsing will reduce efficacy.

Edit II: Some will wail in disagreement. I think a waterjet can literally add years to the average lifespan while helping with oral health. Maybe consider one, with simple design and minimal features.
by pengaru | 2025-08-16 17:37:31+00:00
> I've been to a lecture he gave, and Q&A session. I was left with no doubt that his ethos of joy and honesty predate his wealth and are entirely independent of it.

Don't most young people start life this way?

It's the influences of time spent in the rat race and a society fighting for scraps that beats it out of us.

I find those who struck it rich early and still turned out assholes more noteworthy.
by funfunfunction | 2025-08-16 17:37:50+00:00
OP here. I wanted a dead-simple way to quickly generate CLI commands without the overhead of Claude Code or Cursor, so I built it in an afternoon.

The project uses some zsh magic to allow for quick editing of the model's response before running the command. Commands show up in your shell history, just like any other command.

The project is intended to be very simple and hackable -- the whole project is one TypeScript file.

Feedback (and pull requests) welcome!
by chucky_z | 2025-08-16 17:38:33+00:00
Smart mouth has a flouride + hydroxyapetite. I’ve been using it for a few months now and all my tooth pain is completely gone. I’ve been dealing with issues for years and have a wonderful dentist but really had to get myself in shape and brush 2x and really floss correctly. Anyway, that toothpaste also helped compared to only stannous fluoride paste.
by mothballed | 2025-08-16 17:38:57+00:00
Almost half the world is children, elderly, or disabled. The first two have reduced capacity to run a business and the latter have reduced earning capacity to obtain the business.

Once you consider maybe half of all humans even have the chance to become owners, even if it means building something out of nothing, you don't have such a bad chance of being in the 50% of the 50%. Bad luck happens, but if you can avoid divorce/illness/drugs/laziness there is a very good chance you could own something to make you an owner-capitalist even if it is just a hot dog stand in Timbuktu.
by Amezarak | 2025-08-16 17:39:05+00:00
It's really wild. I wonder what trees we'll have left!

Besides the famous case of the chestnut:

Dogwoods are being wiped out, mostly gone in some areas, disease originating from Asia: https://henderson.ces.ncsu.edu/2021/03/native-dogwoods-long-...

Sassafras trees wiped out by Asian beetle causing laurel wilt: https://www.lsuagcenter.com/articles/page1685633928383

American elms largely wiped out by Dutch elm disease (also actually originates from Asia) https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/pathogens-an...

Others in this thread have talked about the threats to ash. It's very disheartening, but I guess it's the inevitable price of globalization.
by algo_lover | 2025-08-16 17:39:39+00:00
The only thing I feel is 2nd hand regret for Woz. What if he didn't cash out? What would his net worth be today?

I am so caught up in the rat race, that I can't even understand what Woz want's to say, or what makes him happy. I only feel sad for him.

But if you think about it, I actually feel sad for myself. If I were in Woz's position with ~$20m or so and had missed the Apple cash cow (assuming $500m at the very least), how would I react? Would I live my entire life with regret and remorse? Would I be bitter?

Huge props to Woz for figuring out what makes him happy and doing exactly that.
by mgh2 | 2025-08-16 17:39:59+00:00
He was a great designer with low business acumen (without Jobs).

His realm at Apple began crumbling when he executed a flawed strategy for the Apple watch launch as a fashion item, instead of a technology product geared toward health (Fitbit was 1st). It costed Apple 25M, and seemed like buying advertising from influencers (similar to 23andme launch).

I usually value this youtuber's insights, but he has recently been reaching the wrong conclusions: https://youtu.be/JUG1PlqAUJk?si=_Y87UQGdhIo92a7r&t=469
by tfourb | 2025-08-16 17:40:19+00:00
I trust Tesla's data on this kind of stuff only as far as a Starship can travel on its return trip to Mars. Anything coming from Elon would have to be audited by an independent entity for me to give it an ounce of credence.

Generally you are comparing Apples and Oranges if you are comparing the safety records of i.e. Waymos to that of the general driving population.

Waymos drive under incredibly favorable circumstances. They also will simply stop or fall back on human intervention if they don't know what to do – failing in their fundamental purpose of driving from point A to point B. To actually get comparable data, you'd have to let Waymos or Teslas do the same type of drives that human drivers do, under the same curcumstances and without the option of simply stopping when they are unsure, which they simply are not capable of doing at the moment.

That doesn't mean that this type of technology is useless. Modern self-driving and adjacent tech can make human drivers much safer. I imagine, it would be quite easy to build some AI tech that has a decent success rate in recognizing inebriated drivers and stopping the cars until they have talked to a human to get cleared for driving. I personally love intelligent lane and distance assistance technology (if done well, which Tesla doesn't in my view). Cameras and other assistive technology are incredibly useful when parking even small cars and I'd enjoy letting a computer do every parking maneuver autonomously until the end of my days. The list could go on.

Waymos have cumulatively driven about 100 million miles without a safety driver as of July 2025 (https://fifthlevelconsulting.com/waymos-100-million-autonomo...) over a span of about 5 years. This is such a tiny fraction of miles driven by US (not to speak of worldwide) drivers during that time, that it can't usefully be expressed. And they've driven these miles under some of the most favorable conditions available to current self-driving technology (completely mapped areas, reliable and stable good weather, mostly slow, inner city driving, etc.). And Waymo themselves have repeatedly said that overcoming the limitations of their tech will be incredibly hard and not guaranteed.