MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by withinboredom | 2025-08-25 07:08:49+00:00
I'm pretty sure I still owe t-mobile money. When I moved to the EU, we kept our old phone plans for awhile. Then, for whatever reason, the USD didn't make it to the USD account in time and we missed a payment. Then t-mobile cut off the service and you need to receive a text message to login to the account. Obviously, that wasn't possible. So, we lost the ability to even pay, even while using a VPN. We just decided to let it die, but I'm sure in t-mobile's eyes, I still owe them.
by lanternfish | 2025-08-25 07:09:32+00:00
In a mathematical sense - absolutely. You can dual halting problem against many very tangible qualities - like whether a (proved) statement is true or false. A (large-n) halting program is closer to an instantly halting program not just because n is always closer to 0 than inf, but because 'large n halting' and 'instantly halting' are ontologically similar in a way they just aren't with unhalting programs.
by robin_reala | 2025-08-25 07:09:34+00:00
While the above site is great for measuring with a modern contrast algorithm (it’s the current algorithm for the yet-to-be-released WCAG 3 accessibility standards), it’s worth bearing in mind that the WCAG 2 algorithm is somewhat different, and a legal requirement in many markets / industries. You can check your colours against that with a tool like https://www.siegemedia.com/contrast-ratio, although there are many more.
by haberman | 2025-08-25 07:11:31+00:00
Ha, I don't know much about Dolby Atmos and spacial placement. But from prior experience I'm somewhat skeptical about what this kind of clever DSP can do for choral music.

For example, when I learned about convolution reverb, and how it should theoretically be able to simulate the unique reverb pattern of any room, I was initially excited about the possibilities. But after trying it I was underwhelmed.

That said, I'm open to being convinced. If you know of any compelling demos of this kind of spatial placement, I'd be interested to see.

I had not heard of Nonsuch Palace, despite having a passing interest in Henry VIII and certainly a large interest in Tallis! Is it thought that Spem was performed there?
by PeterStuer | 2025-08-25 07:11:53+00:00
Will depend on the country I guess. Over here road markings around (former) roadworks often are literally swept across the lanes (when they use some temporary yellow adhesive lane marking stuff), or stay painted on long after the works have finished.

In both cases, while mostly obvious to the human driver, following the lane markings would send you straight into the opposite lane.
by mwpmaybe | 2025-08-25 07:12:19+00:00
I suspect that's a very slimmed-down .config and probably only e.g. `make bzImage`, versus something like a Debian kernel .config with modules, headers, etc. A full Ubuntu kernel takes quite a bit longer on my 5950X, which is admittedly quite a bit slower than a 9950X but still no laggard. I'll time it and update this comment later...

ETA: After dropping caches it took 18m40s to build Ubuntu mainline 6.16.3 with gcc-14 on my 5950X, with packages for everything including linux-doc, linux-rust-lib, linux-source, etc. I'd expect the same operation to take about 11m on a 9950X.

It's also not clear whether OP used Clang or GCC to build the kernel. Clang would be faster.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-25 07:12:56+00:00
As someone reaching 50 years old, we always had such indies, we used to call them bedroom coders, and distributions came in tapes, floppies in magazine covers, shareware CD-ROM and DVD-ROMs.

Maybe it only got visible to the consoles generation around the time of XBLA arcade, and even that was already predated by PS Yaroze and PS2Linux efforts.

Before Unity, we had SDL, Ogre3D, SFML,... but naturally all of those require more coding skills than engines designed with UI workflows in mind.
by ivape | 2025-08-25 07:13:44+00:00
He’s saying it’s bubbly because he can’t get good prices to buy out startups. He’s a buyer, first and foremost. No one wants to have to pay $20bn for some of these companies. They don’t believe it’s a bubble on any level, and I do think anyone in involved sees it as an infinite investment until the very end of the world (not kidding). It’s the end-game for software tech, especially if you are willing to be humbled by what stuff like Genie3 will become.

There is absolutely nothing else left to invest in when it comes to software development, this is it.
by Piyushkashyap | 2025-08-25 07:14:59+00:00
ost businesses try templates, scripts, and lead magnets… …and still end up with an empty calendar.

Why? Because the real problem isn’t the lack of ideas — it’s having no system that actually books meetings.

That’s why we’re launching a 7-Day Sales Agent Pilot:

Day 1 — we set up your own sales agent (live in 30 minutes) Next 7 days — it generates leads, follows up instantly, and books appointments Outcome — 2–3 qualified meetings, and a working system you keep

This isn’t a demo. It’s your first working sales agent.

We’re opening a handful of pilot slots this week.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-25 07:15:07+00:00
I don't understand why you see these as either-or propositions. It's important that I parent my children to understand the dangers of alcohol, and it's also a good idea that it's illegal for my local grocery store to sell them any, and neither of these are contradicted by the fact that they'll be able to find some if they really want to. Norms and friction matter.
by uncircle | 2025-08-25 07:15:17+00:00
I always wondered if in the US people take pills by the handful as they are commonly portrayed in movies and TV. I am pretty sure I have seen represented a person with an heachache fill their palm with 10 pills of clearly marked Tylenol bottles, and somehow always gulp them down with no water.

To this day I wonder if it’s artistic choice or that’s how people take pills over there. Would explain a few things.
by MrGilbert | 2025-08-25 07:16:06+00:00
Nice one! Although it seems that the engineers at the different browser vendors are committed to remove XSLT due to reasons outlined here [1]. It's a shame these Discussions got so heated, but that's just the nature of the internet, I guess.

[1]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-318...

//Edit: Rephrased "PRs" to "Discussions".
by MikeTheGreat | 2025-08-25 07:16:11+00:00
For what it's worth I've tried that (here in WA state, in the US) and most colleges (including mine) don't have a test proctoring center. Occasionally you'll find one but the center will frequently will only proctor tests for their own college (i.e., it's not public service - it's just for that college).

So here in WA, USA there's definitely a system for this. If you don't mind sharing - where do you live? Have you used this proctoring-for-other-colleges system? How do you know about it?
by rustystump | 2025-08-25 07:17:07+00:00
I dont buy the misinformation/propaganda argument as the past was far far worse on all fronts in that regard than today. Additionally, most platforms are highly censored and curated being the exact opposite of free flow of information.

I think the let people decide for themselves is the best option as any alternative is by definition tyranny/control and why the parent quote is so spot on.
by torginus | 2025-08-25 07:17:13+00:00
> In capitalism everybody specializes in something, retailers in trading, logistics in storage and transport and producers in producing. The most efficient way to improve all that is to have vertically integrated business where you do all of the above.

I don't agree with this, merging completely unrelated activities into one company isn't good or efficient - it's only a good idea because the perverse incentives disappear, which exist, because the big powerful fish (the retailers who monopolize access to markets) can dictate the terms for small and divided fish (the producers who produce the goods).

This is endemic in the system, and very hard to fight against.

It's also incredibly prevalent in the field of software engineering as well - if I create a best-in-class open-source tool, I won't see a dime of return on it (maybe very little), even if a huge cloud provider build a product on top of it that makes billions (this has happened too many times to count).

If I do the same thing in the confines of a big company, the end result wouldn't look like capitalism at all - lets say I do the same good work, but someone has an even better idea or executes better on it - in a free-market system if somebody were to come up with a better tool, they would just announce it, and people would be free to move to it - in a corporate setting, it would be seen as redundant, a waste of money, and an organizational red flag to run 2 separate parallel teams.

It'd be great if there existed a system that rewarded individuals and organizations according the value they bring to the table. However at the very mention of 'intrinsic value', capitalists break out in hives and call you a Marxist.
by Xantier | 2025-08-25 07:18:10+00:00
I find the context forge quite nice from IBM. I used a few approaches they've implemented within my Ctxpack context management solution as well.

I think the agentic use cases aside, the client side of MCPs are still lacking quite a bit and would need to mature to be able to catch up to the spec. I feel a lot of use cases exist outside of fully automated agentic approaches, since we can't really rely on LLMs yet to produce at a human level.

The underserved cases rely a lot on prompt and resource management at the moment. Being able to iterate and share those across teams to provide easy starting points to delegate tasks is something I feel would be workable for the current iteration of AI assisted work, outside of pure software engineering.

Hopefully other clients join VS Code Copilot to allow more varied approaches than just simple tool calls here. I think Copilot's approach on prompt and resource management isn't quite the best approach either though. It is still early days for MCPs in general so i think we'll see a lot of experiments in this space.
by indirect | 2025-08-25 07:18:49+00:00
I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear in the post, but the part I think is interesting is not that tmpfs and SSD bench at the same speed. I am aware of in-memory filesystem caches, and explicitly mention them twice in the last few paragraphs.

The interesting part, to me, was that using the vfs crate or the rsfs crate didn't produce any differences from using tmpfs or an SSD. In theory, those crates completely cut out the actual filesystem and the OS entirely. Somehow, avoiding all those syscalls didn't make it any faster? Not what I expected.

Anyway, if you have examples of in-process filesystem mocks that run faster than the in-memory filesystem cache, I'd love to hear about them.
by sneak | 2025-08-25 07:18:59+00:00
I feel like people seem to forget that an HTTP request is, after all, a request. When you serve a webpage to a client, you are consenting to that interaction with a voluntary response.

You can blunt instrument 403 geoblock entire countries if you want, or any user agent, or any netblock or ASN. It’s entirely up to you and it’s your own server and nobody will be legitimately mad at you.

You can rate limit IPs to x responses per day or per hour or per week, whatever you like.

This whole AI scraper panic is so incredibly overblown.

I’m currently working on a sniffer that tracks all inbound TCP connections and UDP/ICMP traffic and can trigger firewall rule addition/removal based on traffic attributes (such as firewalling or rate limiting all traffic from certain ASNs or countries) without actually having to be a reverse proxy in the HTTP flow. That way your in-kernel tables don’t need to be huge and they can just dynamically be adjusted from userspace in response to actual observed traffic.
by zapnuk | 2025-08-25 07:19:00+00:00
Yes, thats the problem. Prosecuting crimes on the internet is near impossible due to the restrictions and often anonymity. Thats why we rely on platform providers to help us, the public.

Facebook, Youtube and others put in effort to take down illegal content.

4chan only does the bare minimum such that they don't gain too much relevancy in the public eye.

UK or other countries may decide that 4chan doesn't to enough and ban it because of the help of 4chan in faciliating the spreading of illegal content.

So again, where is the difference between 4chan which hosts/spread illegal content and other sites where we're fine with banning them?
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-25 07:21:07+00:00
European manufacturers all decided to focus on higher costs vehicles after Covid-19 because margins are slightly higher and they make more on the financing. They have intentionally deserted the entry market.

Now, sales numbers are starting to plummet so I fully expect to see them blame everything from regulators to China unfair exports rather than admit it’s just a normal consequence of their own strategy.

Add to that that most of them have intentionally not taken the shift towards electric and away from diesel that the regulation forced on them, you get a pretty bleak picture. But, on that point, it seems that Germany will as usual cave in and drag the whole EU down with them so they might have been right.
by smarm52 | 2025-08-25 07:21:52+00:00
So, when do they start inserting ads?

Imagine splicing in an ad of the content creator shilling for Pepsi into a video.

That leads to customized "in media" ads, and ads that are "targeted" at users by having their favorite Youtubers be unwitting mouthpieces for advertisers.

I look forward to the eventual deepfake of a person of color spouting ad copy for right-wing fascists.
by imoverclocked | 2025-08-25 07:22:17+00:00
Still calling me insane and saying, “people like you.” Hmm.

You didn’t call out anything substantive in my previous comment so I’ll assume those points are not disputed.

As to the profitability of Starlink:

> Starlink is projected to generate between $11.8 billion and $12.3 billion in revenue in 2025, according to analyses from Quilty Space. This projected growth is driven by increasing subscriber demand and significant government contracts, particularly with the U.S. military.

You’ll likely find similar when looking up SpaceX profitability in 2025.

So, again, these things only exist because of the US government.

Do we agree on this yet or do we need to delve further somehow?
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-25 07:23:03+00:00
A cool thing about CHIME is that they focus after the fact, by the way they process the data.

A nice overview talk can be found here[1], which also goes into the objects it detects such as FRBs.

CHIME is also used to detect millisecond pulsars, and is part of the NANOGrav[2] pulsar timing array, which measures very low frequency gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes and such.

[1]: https://pirsa.org/22100067

[2]: https://nanograv.org/15yr/Summary/Timing
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-25 07:24:43+00:00
I don't mean to be cynical, but I don't think these points matter as much as you think, at least not in practice. The hardest part of a proof is working out the intermediate steps; joining them up is often trivial, even for a student. So even if it works out a few good steps or finds an effective theorem to apply, and does so only every one in a hundred prompts, the time savings can be significant.

I should know, I've been using LLM thinking models to help brainstorm ideas for stickier proofs. It's been more successful at discovering esoteric entry points than I would like to admit.
by MikeTheGreat | 2025-08-25 07:25:10+00:00
I'm curious what the live video stream captures. Is it you, your desk, and several feet around you (i.e., enough to confirm that there's nothing else near you)? It seems like they need enough to do ongoing, real-time confirmation that your workspace keeps matching the still images you sent in.

FWIW the 'privacy' concern is often voiced by students who find the test proctoring intrusive. On the one hand I agree it's intrusive but on the other hand it seems reasonable for the short-ish amount of time (several hours) that they'll be taking the test.

I'm guessing that some fraction of the students complaining about privacy genuinely object to the privacy issues, some folks may object to having to pay a fee for the oversight, and some fraction are objecting in an attempt to get the oversight removed so they can cheat. I'm sure there's overlap, and other reasons that I haven't thought of.

The scalability problem(s) comes from the need to have a human watching each student take the test. The more people each watcher needs to watch the less effective they'll be, but the lower the watcher-student ratio is the more expensive it will be. Especially since a good fraction of the students won't cheat (so you'll be paying people to watch students not cheat for several hours).
by aurareturn | 2025-08-25 07:25:55+00:00
Yep. Agreed. He said this to knock down price on AI startups for acquisition and to stop the ballooning talent war costing hundreds of millions.

It’s so painfully obvious but so many AI doomers use it as evidence.

He doesn’t want a talent war with Meta and Apple. And Meta has responded by signaling a truce in the talent war by saying they’re freezing AI hiring.
by Aidevah | 2025-08-25 07:26:21+00:00
That Byrd is very nice! The individual voices came across very well on my IEMs.

I'm used to reverb as well, and the complete lack of reverb in these recordings still sound a little weird to me, as if they are singing in a closet. But even in the 15th and 16th century vocal polyphony was likely performed (often?) in places other than the resonant nave or choir of a large church. I read that aristocratic (or ecclesial) patrons would have singers perform in private chambers, and performance of votive masses at a private chapel to the side of main space in the church would have very different (and quite dry) acoustics.
by xelxebar | 2025-08-25 07:26:28+00:00
Frustratingly, attempts to discretize space invariably run into problems with relativity, since they effectively impose a preferred frame of reference. I.e. you can impose a minimum distance, but relativistic length contraction means that observers measure different minima and in different directions.

Apparently, under some of these models, this implies that the speed of light ends up depending on wavelength, lending them to empirical tests. My understanding is that these discrete space models have failed to line up with experiment, at least within the limits of measurement.
by zipliners | 2025-08-25 07:26:38+00:00
Allow/deny list is more descriptive. That's one good reason for using those terms. Do you agree?

In reply to your argument, the deny list (the actual list, apart from what term we use for it) is necessarily something negatively laden, since the items denied are denied due to the real risks/costs they otherwise impose. So using and embracing the less direct phrase 'black' rather than 'deny' in this case seems unlikely to reduce negative connotations from the phrase 'black'.
by vanderZwan | 2025-08-25 07:27:04+00:00
Aside from a few criticisms that others have already raised I think this is quite a nice introduction to OKLCH and how to use them in CSS.

With that out of the way, I'd like to go on a tangent here: can anyone explain the modern trend of not including publishing dates in blog articles? It stood out to me here in particular because the opening sentence said that "OKLCH is a newer color model" and the "newer" part of that sentence will get dated quicker than you think. The main site does mention a date, but limits it to "August 2025" so this seems like a conscious choice and I just don't get it.

[0] https://jakub.kr/
by xg15 | 2025-08-25 07:27:44+00:00
Completely off-topic: I find it odd that we easily use this argument for humanoid robots (and also self-driving cars), but handicapped people are still bound to wheelchairs and have to constantly fight to change the environment and make it wheelchair-accessible.

If we applied the same logic, there should be a massive effort to ditch wheelchairs and build exoskeletons instead.
by noduerme | 2025-08-25 07:27:51+00:00
Were those videos? No. Did they depict sex acts? No. It's qualitatively different. I was raised in an extremely liberal household full of Playboy mags, looking at photos of naked women since I was 5 years old. The violence of what is today mainstram porn would have been extremely fringe, and probably impossible to find outside an underground video group for sadists. I have no real problem with kids looking at nudes. That is not this. Porn has pushed itself into dementia chasing shock value. Seeing a blowjob photo was something a child could encounter in the early 90s, maybe a very sophisticated child with very early access to all the dark shit on the early internet. If you spent hours figuring out how to find one. But maybe you'd see one or two. Seeing a woman being gang raped, choked and beaten, "consentually"? That's a new problem. It is a real problem, and it doesn't matter whether it's shown to a child on a website or on a home VCR, it's enormously corrupting and there absolutely is a societal harm in allowing it to happen. The question is how to prevent that harm without depriving adults of their rights and liberties, not whether such a thing is harmful to a child's future ability to form healthy relationships.
by bigiain | 2025-08-25 07:28:00+00:00
For anyone wondering how to do this (like me from a month or two back).

Here's a useful tool/site:

https://bgp.tools

You can feed it an ip address to get an AS ("Autonomous System"), then ask it for all prefixes associated with that AS.

I fed it that first ip address from that list (43.131.0.0) and it showed my the same Tencent owned AS132203, and it gives back all the prefixes they have here:

https://bgp.tools/as/132203#prefixes

(Looks like roguebloodrage might have missed at least the 1.12.x.x and 1.201.x.x prefixes?)

I started searching about how to do that after reading a RachelByTheBay post where she wrote:

Enough bad behavior from a host -> filter the host.

Enough bad hosts in a netblock -> filter the netblock.

Enough bad netblocks in an AS -> filter the AS. Think of it as an "AS death penalty", if you like.

(from the last part of https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/06/29/feedback/ )
by rand846633 | 2025-08-25 07:28:17+00:00
I find your tone commendable, and I hope I can extend you the same courtesy of being respectful while disagreeing.

The idea that a company offering food in some capacity can be seen as generous is, at best, confusing and possibly naïve. A company does this because it expects such a policy will extract more work for less pay. There is no benevolence in the relationship between a company and an individual — only pure, raw self-interest.

In my opinion, the best solution is not to offer benefits at all, but simply to overpay everyone. That’s far more effective, since individuals then spend their own money as they choose, and thus take appropriate care of it.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-25 07:28:34+00:00
No. We’re talking about colours way beyond the ranges of human perception.

For this specific gradient, see https://oklch.com/#0.7017,0.3225,328.36,100 and https://oklch.com/#0.86644,0.294827,142.4953,100, and look at the Chroma panel, see how far out of our screen gamuts they are (even tick “Show Rec2020”, which adds a lot of chroma around blue–green and magenta–red), and try to imagine the colours between the lime and magenta (in either direction). The red direction is probably the easier to reason about: there’s just no such colour as a light, bright red. You can have bright or light, but not both. (Its 3D view can also be useful to visualise these things: you’re building a straight-line bridge between two peaks, and there’s a chasm in between.)