MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by araes | 2025-08-01 22:31:52+00:00
With a quick search online, here's a list of the donation links for the 21 states that are currently listed as "Red" (based on 270toWin.com). It's kind of a Googlish reply.

Some are a little difficult because they're kind of fractured, like Missouri is a St. Louis link, Texas is an Austin link, Tennessee is a Nashville link, so its challenging to tell if your donation is going to the state in general or just the local town PBS. (May want to check specifically if you're targeting a specific market). Most tend to be statewide portals. However, you seem like you want to support PBS, so here's some links.

Alabama (https://donate.aptv.org/aptv/donate), Alaska (https://alaskapublic.org/support), Arizona (https://azpbs.org/support/), Georgia (https://www.gpb.org/support), Idaho (https://idahoptv.pledgecart.org/home?campaign=1FF20990-A386-...), Kansas (https://donate.kansascitypbs.org/kcpbs/donate), Kentucky (https://ket.secureallegiance.com/ket/WebModule/Donate.aspx?P...), Louisiana (https://lpb.secureallegiance.com/lpb/WebModule/Donate.aspx?P...), Mississippi (https://donate.mpbfoundation.org/mspb/donate), Missouri (https://www.ninepbs.org/support/), Montana (https://donate.montanapbs.org/kusm/donate), Nebraska (https://donate.nebraskapublicmedia.org/alleg/WebModule/Donat...), North Dakota (https://www.prairiepublic.org/support/), Oklahoma (https://www.pbs.org/donation/?station_id=edf8065c-f56a-42f7-...), South Carolina (https://www.pbs.org/donation/?station_id=50ac3de0-09e0-43db-...), South Dakota (https://sdpb.pledgecart.org/donate/home), Tennessee (https://donate.wnpt.org/wnpt/donate), Texas (https://donate.austinpbs.org/austinpbs/donate), Utah (https://donate.nprstations.org/upr/support-upr?gad_source=1&...), West Virginia (https://afg.secureallegiance.com/wvpb/WebModule/Donate.aspx?...), Wyoming (https://donate.wyomingpbs.org/kcwc/donate)
by abdmjd | 2025-08-01 22:32:04+00:00
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by throw1289312 | 2025-08-01 22:32:19+00:00
This article focuses on the learning aspect of The Bitter Lesson. But The Bitter Lesson is about both search and learning.

This article cites Leela, the chess program, as an example of the Bitter Lesson, as it learns chess using a general method. The article then goes on to cite Stockfish as a counterexample, because it uses human-written heuristics to perform search. However, as you add compute to Stockfish's search, or spend time optimizing compute-expenditure-per-position, Stockfish gets better. Stockfish isn't a counterexample, search is still a part of The Bitter Lesson!
by cafard | 2025-08-01 22:33:04+00:00
At some point around 2015, I looked around and noticed that the young (< 35) all seemed to know Python, and that only the middle-aged and older (> 45) seemed to know Perl. I decided that future work, where I had an option, would be in Python. There were a couple where I hesitated, but they are gone.

At the beginning of the transition, I had to look up Python idioms for what I knew in my fingers in Perl. Over the last couple of years, when it made sense for a one-off in Perl, I would omit semicolons, omit braces, count on significant indentation. Can I still write Perl? Yes, and not badly, but not as fluently as before about 2018.
by sloaken | 2025-08-01 22:33:33+00:00
Being out of work is very stressful. It is important to keep up your emotions.

1) Set up a schedule. Do not doom scroll jobs. Limit searching to 2 to 3 hours MAX a day.

2) Get exercise. A regular scheduled DAILY is best.

3) Study / learn something. Ideally have a theme or plan. It is useful for the interview question of 'So what have you been doing the last 6 months'. Yes looking for a job, but they want to hear you are doing something.

4) Reach out to see if there are job hunting club in your area. They could help identify something you might be doing wrong. 'Well I think a hawaiian shirt is my favorite' :)

4 b) if you know others looking, set up a weekly meeting to encourage each other and provide a sense of stability.

5) Join toastmasters. Trust me on this, it will help immensely in the interview.

6) Make an itemized list of what your job requirements are. What are you not willing to compromise on.

6 b) after 3 months, look at that list and decide what needs to go. It broke my heart to move, but it was what I had to do.

7) Volunteer. Preferably in person as it is a GREAT way to network. If you are a techie, you could do some opensource project, but volunteering still in person is much better.
by selivanovp | 2025-08-01 22:33:43+00:00
Wrong.

1 country in the world won't make you safe from wars. There's a reason why military was and is separated from police. Just think what's going to happen when your soldiers start to kill citizens.

1 country in the world tend to degrade to dystopian regime, and it was researched by multiple books authors, and actually a modern day USA is a good example of a regime on the path to dystopia.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-01 22:34:37+00:00
I'm burning well over 10 millions tokens a day on free tier. 99% of the input is freely availzble data, the rest is useless. I never provided any feedback. Sure there is some telemetry, they can have it.

I doubt I'm an isolated case. This Gemini gig will cost Google a lot, they pushed it on all android phones around the globe. I can't wait to see what happens when they have to admit that not many people will pay over 20 bucks for "Ai", and I would pay well over 20 bucks just to see the face of the c suite next year when one dares to explain in simple terms there is absolutely no way to recoup the DC investment and that powering the whole thing will cost the company 10 times that.
by jadowdl | 2025-08-01 22:35:04+00:00
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by kstrauser | 2025-08-01 22:35:45+00:00
A great way to address those concerns would be to look at the reputation of the person being questioned, who in this case is the editor of Linux Journal. That doesn't prove he'd never use AI, but it does mean it's not some random blogger trying to sell their reputation for cheap karma before anyone notices.

But really, I don't care. I'm far more annoyed with people racing to cash in with "this looks like it was written by AI" on every. single. post. Yeah, we get it. It does not make the accuser look more clever or insightful. It makes them look like a pest.
by dh2022 | 2025-08-01 22:36:10+00:00
Seriously I wish we could split the country. Let the deplorables live by themselves un-vaxxed, with guns, religion and all of their other non-sense. And let us normal people live by ourselves with science and compassion.

(Unfortunately this will not happen. Because two things will have to be split: national debt and the nuclear arsenal. Heavy Sigh…)
by throwaway81523 | 2025-08-01 22:36:41+00:00
IIRC Erik Demaine was also homeschooled, skipped college, got a very early PhD, and joined the MIT math faculty as a teenager (he is a full professor there now). Johnny von Neumann OTOH went through a "normal" secondary education partly because his parents wanted him to have traditional social exposure to kids his age while he was growing up. His math training was very accelerated though, and he had professional level research publications at 17.
by throw310822 | 2025-08-01 22:37:15+00:00
Yes, minors are expected to be unable to understand, especially in regards to sex.

Adults are considered able to navigate sex & relationships and should take responsibility for what they do and what they don't do. There might be exceptional cases (e.g. cults) but I still think that public accusations of abusive behaviour in adult relationships, when they come with such delay, should be put under the utmost scrutiny.
Tell HN: Gemini CLI is buggy; use at your own risk
by prmph | 2025-08-01 22:37:25+00:00
Gemini CLI has many bugs, and today I encountered a new class of bug.

I installed it on a new machine and logged into it, asked it to work on a certain file with same name as another file on my original machine, and somehow (I don't even understand how this has slipped past QA) it was using the content on the first machine instead of actually reading the file on the new machine.

Also, it once kept using an old version of a file I had updated by hand, despite me asking it several times to re-read the file.

Sounds like something not ready for serious use.
by nosey1906 | 2025-08-01 22:37:28+00:00
I wrote a breakdown of Sparks & Honey’s 2019 “Precision Consumer 2030” report (created in partnership with WEF & presented at Davos). It explores how mood, diet, stress & sleep data are being funneled into a market-shaping infrastructure through health/wellness platforms. The original document’s full of things most people think are speculative, but were already mapped out 5+ years ago. Would love feedback or pushback on how realistic this trajectory actually is.
by TomConWork | 2025-08-01 22:38:05+00:00
I don't really know how to convince people besides the meme where you say a bunch of horribly offensive words that no llm would could ever write. I mean, I could do it but im not sure how Hacker News mods would like it. It seems that people are gonna believe im an LLM or this is LLM slop no matter what out of principle due to the claims so theres probably nothing I can say to convince you anyways. Thats fine, this post existing was the whole point, It doesn't matter to me if internet commenters want to be jackasses about it.
by bbartlomiej | 2025-08-01 22:39:06+00:00
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by pxc | 2025-08-01 22:39:29+00:00
This feels way less annoying to use than ChatGPT. But I wonder how much the effect is lost when the tool does many of the things that make models like o3 useful (repeated web searches, running code in a sandbox, etc.).

For code generation, this does seem pretty useful with something like Qwen3-Coder-480B, if that generates good enough code for your purposes.

But for chat, I wonder: does this kind of speed call for models that behave pretty differently to current ones? With virtually instant speed, I find myself wanting much shorter answers sometimes. Maybe a model whose design and training are focused on concision and a context with lots and lots of turns would be a uniquely useful option with this kind of hardware.

But I guess the hardware is really for training, right, and the inference-as-a-service stuff is basically a powerful form of marketing?
by ilc | 2025-08-01 22:39:35+00:00
Ex-Datahand user, current Svalboard user: (Disclaimer, I work on their firmware as a volunteer, they send me hardware.)

The designer was 100% dependent on his Datahand, now he uses a Svalboard.

When I got sent my first Svalboard, it was so close feel wise that my old muscle memory came back instantly and I started complaining that the layout wasn't the same as the old Datahand Dvorak layout. I ended up doing a faithful port of that layout, then ever time evolved it to the layout I use today.

If you doubt, order a test cluster. You'll see how close it comes.

On the discord some users are willing to meet-up with people to let them try a board in real life.
by habitue | 2025-08-01 22:39:42+00:00
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by jacobzweig | 2025-08-01 22:40:31+00:00
Awesome breakdown of the challenges of indoor navigation! One thing I was curious about... given that many modern phones now have UWB radios built in, was UWB ever considered as part of the solution stack? From what I understand UWB can get to sub meter accuracy, and I know it's used in several sports applications where precise tracking is really critical.

Is the constraint more about infrastructure (installing anchors, device compatibility, power) or something else that made you lean towards WiFi + SLAM fusion instead?
by estebanrfp | 2025-08-01 22:40:34+00:00
GenosDB isn’t aiming to replace TigerGraph, Neo4j, JanusGraph, Dgraph, or ArangoDB in traditional server-side workloads. It takes a different direction: • Runs entirely in the browser (no backend) • Clients are the source of truth • Peer-to-peer sync via WebRTC • WebAuthn + RBAC for authentication • Local storage via OPFS • Lightweight bundle

It targets edge-native, local-first, and real-time apps, not centralized graph clusters.

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by jorams | 2025-08-01 22:41:37+00:00
> If you assume that YAML 1.2 is the default, you don't need that nasty %YAML header.

Indeed the YAML 1.2 spec says a document without a YAML directive should be assumed to be 1.2[1]:

> A version 1.2 YAML processor must accept documents with an explicit “%YAML 1.2” directive, as well as documents lacking a “YAML” directive. Such documents are assumed to conform to the 1.2 version specification.

It's only the YAML 1.2 spec that says it's a superset of JSON. The YAML authors weren't aware of JSON when publishing version 1.1[2]:

> The YAML 1.1 specification was published in 2005. Around this time, the developers became aware of JSON. By sheer coincidence, JSON was almost a complete subset of YAML (both syntactically and semantically).

> In 2006, Kyrylo Simonov produced PyYAML and LibYAML. A lot of the YAML frameworks in various programming languages are built over LibYAML and many others have looked to PyYAML as a solid reference for their implementations.

> The YAML 1.2 specification was published in 2009. Its primary focus was making YAML a strict superset of JSON. It also removed many of the problematic implicit typing recommendations.

The middle paragraph there is the reason this is a problem people keep running into: Most implementations are based on LibYAML, which is an implementation of YAML 1.1 that does not really support 1.2[3]. Indeed the last example from the post doesn't actually work for me on Ruby 3.4.4 with LibYAML 0.2.5. It produces the exact same output as the one before it.

[1]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#681-yaml-directives

[2]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#12-yaml-history

[3]: https://github.com/yaml/libyaml/issues/20
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-08-01 22:42:25+00:00
This is one point that has irked me.

The real narrative problem is that relying on "science" as truth.

Science has been weaponized by all sides it is incredivly easy to manipulate research into a narrative. But the left's media empire is by far the most effective at doing this and with heavy left bias in academia it's a corrupt system.

Data has a priority say in everything we do but dropping context and information then calling everyone dumb for not "trusting the science" is propoganda. The response of the left is to simply call everyone who denies today's science as ignorant.

This is how you get climate deniers. Weaponize science and unsuprisingly you get countless people who stop believing ANY politically angled research.

Not sure how much you've spent in academia but modern science is nasty buissness. Incentive structures are completely warped.
by godelski | 2025-08-01 22:42:39+00:00
Sure, it is logical. But that doesn't mean it is a good reaction. Certainly it doesn't help make the problem go away.

Don't confuse "logical" with "correct" or even make the false notion that there is a "correct" reaction. The "right" reaction depends on your goals, short term and long term.

But defeatist attitude results in a tragedy of the commons situation. It's social debt. Think of it like a mess. Messes are easiest to clean up right after they occur. But as time goes on, it becomes harder to clean. If everyone is doing their share of their work messes are very manageable. But if people don't do their share, then it must be picked up by everyone else, right? I think most of us have been in a situation where we've had to clean up "everybody's" mess (if you haven't, you might be that asshole leaving that mess). The defeatist attitude is like that person grumbling "it's too big of a mess, we'll never clean it up." Well... not with that attitude. If the mess needs to be cleaned up, it needs to be cleaned up. Either you help or you make it worse for everyone else.
Ask HN: Is "messaging systems specialist" a real job title or niche?
by pella_may | 2025-08-01 22:43:17+00:00
I'm curious if "messaging systems specialist" is an actual profile people hire for or if it's usually just part of a broader role like backend, devops or platform engineer.

Has anyone here worked in roles focused mostly on Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, NATS or similar systems? I find the whole topic fascinating, but wondering if it is a viable niche to specialize in or is it better to keep it general as part of platform/backend/cloud work?
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-01 22:44:42+00:00
It feels like the rant of someone upset that their decades of formal logic approach to AI become a dead end.

I see this semi-regularly: futile attempts at handwaving away the obvious intelligence by some formal argument that is either irrelevant or inapplicable. Everything from thermodynamics — which applies to human brains too — to information theory.

Grey-bearded academics clinging to anything that might float to rescue their investment into ineffective approaches.

PS: This argument seems to be that LLMs “can’t think ahead” when all evidence is that they clearly can! I don’t know exactly what words I’ll be typing into this comment textbox seconds or minutes from now but I can — hopefully obviously — think intelligent thoughts and plan ahead.

PPS: The em-dashes were inserted automatically by my iPhone, not a chat bot. I assure you that I am a mostly human person.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-01 22:45:24+00:00
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23849364/

Results: An estimated 8,250,914 (95% confidence interval [CI] 7,149,074-9,352,755) knife-related injuries were treated in US EDs from 1990 to 2008, averaging 434,259 (95% CI 427,198-441,322) injuries annually, or 1190 per day. The injury rate was 1.56 injuries per 1000 US resident population per year. Fingers/thumbs (66%; 5,447,467 of 8,249,410) were injured most often, and lacerations (94%; 7,793,487 of 8,249,553) were the most common type of injury. Pocket/utility knives were associated with injury most often (47%; 1,169,960 of 2,481,994), followed by cooking/kitchen knives (36%; 900,812 of 2,481,994).

Children were more likely than adults to be injured while playing with a knife or during horseplay (p < 0.01; odds ratio 9.57; 95% CI 8.10-11.30).

One percent of patients were admitted to the hospital, and altercation-related stabbings to the trunk accounted for 52% of these admissions.