MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tavavex | 2025-08-28 16:10:11+00:00
Can you explain how exactly that process happens? The article is still really vague about it, as are most people here. Is it about forcing yourself to hyperventilate? Or forcing your breathing to be at a certain rhythm, regardless of what the rest of your body demands naturally? And how does the music come into play here?

Also, is it dangerous? I know the human body is very sensitive to abnormal blood saturation, so I'm curious what it can do to you.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-28 16:10:25+00:00
Are you talking about C? In C it's not guaranteed whether a non existing function will result in an actual function call. As soon as an actual function call was generated by the compiler, a modern CPU is very likely to trap.

We are talking about an optimization of a language implementation here. This would be very much written in a ASM or another language were this is defined.
by pkoiralap | 2025-08-28 16:10:45+00:00
My take on fed's unaccountable power is you can't and shouldn't do anything about it and keep it that way. Because if the fed does do a good job, the economy keeps floating just fine. On the contrary, if it doesn't, its just chaos and catastrophe, that benefits no one, including the fed. So in essence, the job is to prevent disaster. Personally, I think it is a super shitty job.

Normal (voting) person is oblivious to both what the fed does and what will happen if the fed doesn't do it. All that a normal (voting) people care about, are numbers on price tags, and the fact that those numbers aren't as low as they used to be.
by camtarn | 2025-08-28 16:11:09+00:00
They could have made their own, but it's really not that uncommon for music to slowly increase in tempo. Some styles of music use it more than others - for instance, ceremonial drumming might start out extremely slow and build to a frantic climax. But it's also fairly normal for musicians who are playing live, rather than to a click, to speed up when the music gets more intense.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-28 16:11:26+00:00
I try not to get into the reasons I don't want my stuff to be ingested by genAI if that's not the topic, because it inevitably results in the conversation derailing as people argue with my reasons. But they aren't a big secret.

I don't want my stuff to get used to train genAI because I think that genAI is, on the whole, a negative for society. Not because of anything inherent in the technology itself, but because of the way genAI companies are employing and marketing it. On top of that, I resent that genAI companies have abused my trust by slurping everything up to train the models without asking or even so much as a "how do you do" (this is a different than an IP law argument).

I also think that genAI companies are increasingly abusive and manipulative and don't want to support them in any way. And the fact that they often argue about how dangerous the technology is and the great risk to humanity it presents, but at the same time are eager to develop and sell it, indicates an extreme level of ethical bankruptcy.
by PhantomHour | 2025-08-28 16:11:27+00:00
> These critiques of zirp never explain what should have been done differently.

Controversially: They don't have to. The point of this piece (and similar ones) isn't "how we should treat the next similar-to-2008 financial crisis", it's that the current desire to "RETRVN TO ZIRP" is dangerous.

Perhaps there truly was no better way to respond to the Great Recession. There's a pretty good case to be made that the recovery has been a wonderous success of modern central banking. That doesn't change the fact that ZIRP had downsides, big ones.

> If the Fed had actually made money "too cheap" inflation would have kicked in much earlier.

I'm not terribly sold on this economic theory, so do take that in mind for the rest of this comment.

One thing to consider: While there was shockingly little inflation in general goods and services, there has been pretty notable asset price inflation. P/E ratios have been steadily creeping up since 2010. The real estate market's supply-shortage has turbocharged it's inflation.

> Ultimately money is neutral in the long run.

This is true, but not particularly useful; It's a very "long" "long run". The conceit of modern central banking is to "smooth out" that long term trend, and we have many examples where (even non-modern) monetary policy can screw up a country.

The big problem with Trump's desire to hit the gas on the economy and slam interest rates into the floor is that this just very clearly does not work. At worst he'll quickly find himself in the situation Erdogan got himself, at best (that is, "best Trump seizes the fed" scenario) the US will find itself in an asset bubble economy like Japan.

And unlike Japan and Turkey, the US has a lot more to lose. Pension funds make up a sizable portion of the wealth and spending in the US. If the stock market were to take a hit similar to the Dotcom bubble crash or "Lost Decade(s)", pensions will need to be adjusted downwards, to disastrous and self-reinforcing economic consequences. (Another fun layer to this is that those pensions tend to be supplemented by real estate assets, which are not in a "true" bubble but will most certainly collapse in a steep recession.)
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-28 16:11:32+00:00
It mostly doesn't work like that even for closed source in DoD. They have to weigh the risk against the very high cost of mitigating the risk. Their resources are large but not infinite.

Even if they trust the developer they may not trust their process. There are many cases of trusted developers having their development environments compromised such that bad actors were able to insert modifications into source trees, in commits signed by the developer. Most code is not developed in anything remotely resembling a high security context.
by jibal | 2025-08-28 16:11:47+00:00
> Please never copy-paste LLM answers on a discussion forum. It's poor form to make others read generated content.

Rubbish.

> Even ChatGPT is making the same point I am "it’s widely believed by medical experts that Steve Jobs might have had a better chance

> See the keyword "might" in there? No one knows if he could have been saved, not even his own doctors can be sure.

Dishonest rubbish.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-28 16:11:49+00:00
It hasn't even proven that, it's assuming a ridiculous daily usage, and also ignoring free riders. Running a model is likely not profitable for any provider right now. Even a public company (e.g alphabet) isn't obliged to honest figures since numbers on the sheets can be moved left and right. We won't know for a other year or two when companies we have today start falling and their founders start talking.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-28 16:12:14+00:00
No, that is not my logic. It completely misrepresents my logic. My comment was not equating hype with reality, it was about the constantly moving goalposts in discussions about _autonomous vehicles_.

In fact, I am not arguing that self-driving cars are perfect or global. I am pointing out how people keep changing the definition of "solved" which makes it look like the finish line keeps moving.

We do have what parent said, it is a reality. It is also the reality that it is not perfect, but somehow the latter is made to minimize or completely dismiss the former.
by neomantra | 2025-08-28 16:12:22+00:00
Fun comment section here! As a haptics developer and psychonaut, months back I joked with Claude month about adding touch to a light and sound machine via bilateral nipple stimulation.

Like a good boy LLM it told me it was a fantastic, insightful idea and developed a very comprehensive research plan.

https://github.com/ConAcademy/biareolar-beats

So I have a Neurable headset and Adafruited up the hardware, and started on 3D printing the nipple mount. Was hoping to run around Burning Man collecting data, but like most projects it stagnated. While this is a joke (but real!), I do want to make a photic driver to accompany the Neurable.
by yesfitz | 2025-08-28 16:12:27+00:00
Do you have an example of other times the Federal Reserve has lobbied Congress to adopt a policy?

The closest I could find by searching "federal reserve asks congress" was Fed Chair Jerome Powell asking Congress to clarify the legality of marijuana[1].

I think the Fed's independence cuts both ways. They don't negotiate on fiscal policy, and the government doesn't negotiate on monetary policy (except they absolutely try to, obviously).

1: https://apnews.com/article/business-jerome-powell-congress-d...
by qrios | 2025-08-28 16:13:05+00:00
For sure an interesting calculation. Only one remark from someone with GPU metal experience:

> But compute becomes the bottleneck in certain scenarios. With long context sequences, attention computation scales quadratically with sequence length.

Even if the statement about quadratically scales is right, the bottleneck we are talking about is somewhere north by factor 1000. If 10k cores do only simple matrix operations each needs to have new data (up to 64k) available every 500 cycles (let's say). Getting these amount of data (without _any_ collision) means something like 100+GByte/s per core. Even 2+TByte/s on HBM means the bottleneck is the memory transfer rate, by something like 500 times. With collision, we talk about an additional factor like 5000 (last time I've done some tests with a 4090).
by brandall10 | 2025-08-28 16:13:11+00:00
I still own it, just go through phases of using it and forgetting about it. The biggest drawback is time as the sessions are between 10-60 minutes. In recent years I've used it to help induce sleep when I'm having issues there. It's been in storage for the last few years as I've been nomadic.

AFA a headset being able to induce the effect, the main requirement is a high lumen output, that's why LEDs are used.
by throaway920181 | 2025-08-28 16:13:26+00:00
I used GrapheneOS for about half a year as my primary phone OS. It does not scramble your GPS in any way (it has the same course/fine-grained GPS permissions as regular Android), but it does allow you to block a lot more app permissions. It's more likely that they haven't set the correct permission(s) for that information to bubble through to emergency services.

I would also be surprised if there weren't cell phone system-based fallbacks for emergency services. The carriers have a good idea of where you're at based on the towers you're connected to. There are plenty of situations where GPS doesn't work.
by mrcwinn | 2025-08-28 16:13:41+00:00
As the author seems to admit, an outsider is going to lack so much information (costs, loss leaders, etc), one has to assume any modeling is so inaccurate that it's not worth anything.

So the question remains unanswered, at least for us. For those putting money in, you can be absolutely certain they have a model with sufficient data to answer the question. Since money did go in, even if it's venture, the answer is probably "yes in the immediate, but no over time."
Discovering Flyy.js: A Simple yet Powerful Data Management Library
by amazou | 2025-08-28 16:14:57+00:00
Hey folks, if you're a JavaScript developer tired of wrestling with plain objects and arrays for data handling, let me introduce you to Flyy.js. I took a deep dive into its official site at https://flyy-js.github.io, and wow, this lightweight library is all about making your data life easier without any unnecessary fluff. No dependencies, super intuitive, and designed to help you organize, manipulate, and control your data with precision. Let's break it down based on what's right there on the site—straight from the source.

What Exactly is Flyy.js?

At its core, Flyy.js is a no-frills JavaScript library focused on data management. It introduces three flexible, enhanced data structures to handle everyday scenarios like storing key-value pairs, managing lists, or dealing with collections of objects. The goal? To give you clearer, more powerful ways to work with data than vanilla JS objects and arrays, all while keeping things simple and chainable.

It's not trying to be a full framework—it's laser-focused on data structures. Whether you're building a small app, prototyping, or just need better tools for handling user settings, task lists, or product catalogs, Flyy.js steps in to make it smoother. And the best part? It's tiny, dependency-free, and works in any standard JS environment.

The Key Data Structures: Bucket, Brigade, and Battery

The magic of Flyy.js lies in its three main structures, each building on the last for more complex needs. Here's the rundown straight from the docs:

- Bucket: A supercharged JavaScript Object for key-value storage. Perfect for single records like user preferences or configs. Get, put, cut, and transform data easily, with read-only mode to prevent changes.

- Brigade: An upgraded Array for lists of items, like tags or tasks. Methods for filtering, inserting, removing, and transforming elements on the fly.

- Battery: An array of Buckets for datasets like user lists or inventories. Inherits Brigade methods and adds object manipulation per item, with intake functions or status computations for auto-processing.

These support method chaining for fluent operations, read-only views, and data integrity features.

Documentation and Resources on the Site

The site is clean: Introduction, Installation, API docs with method breakdowns and examples, Tips for chaining and optimization. Links to GitHub for source and contributions. Feels fresh and maintained.

Why Flyy.js Stands Out

Flyy.js shines in simplicity for data tasks—cuts boilerplate, feels modern like a mini-Lodash for structured data. Integrates anywhere, great for vanilla JS or frameworks.

Wrapping Up

Head to https://flyy-js.github.io and try Flyy.js. Docs are actionable, examples practical. Streamline your data workflow today!

Happy coding!
Show HN: StreamGrid – Open-Source Multi-Stream Viewer
by lordknish | 2025-08-28 16:15:37+00:00
I’ve been working on an open-source project called StreamGrid. It’s a desktop app (Electron + React + TypeScript) that lets you watch and manage multiple streams in a grid you design yourself.

The goal is to give complete control over how streams are arranged. For example, you can set up one big “main” stream surrounded by smaller feeds, or just lay everything out in an even grid. Drag and drop to rearrange, resize on the fly, and save/load different grid setups for different use cases.

Features

Flexible layouts: create any arrangement of streams you want (2, 5, or more).

Stream management: add/remove streams, custom names/logos, save and export your setups.

Grid management (new in v1.2.0): save multiple configurations, switch between them, rename and organize presets.

Platform support: YouTube (video, live, shorts), Twitch (live with chat), HLS, MPEG-DASH, and now local video files.

Chat integration: YouTube and Twitch chats in draggable, resizable windows.

Performance: virtualized rendering for smooth 50+ stream grids, player pooling for lower memory, web workers for layout, debounced state updates, lazy chat loading.

Cross-platform: available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

What’s new in v1.2.0

Virtual rendering and player pooling for much smoother performance.

Grid management system with save/load.

Local file playback support.

Improved error handling and recovery.

Cross-platform packaging with electron-builder (NSIS, DMG, AppImage, DEB, RPM).

Try it

Download prebuilt binaries from Releases: [GitHub Releases link]

Or build from source (Node.js 18+, npm 9+).

Repo: https://github.com/LordKnish/StreamGrid

I’d be interested in feedback from anyone who’s tried building video-heavy Electron apps, or who has ideas for making the system more efficient.
by toast0 | 2025-08-28 16:15:49+00:00
I've seen lots of SSDs die suddenly (no longer visible on the bus), so I would assume that is what is happening based on the words people are using. I've yet to see an SSD fail to read only mode like they're supposed to... and there's rarely any warning, just working or dead (although I did have a couple that went from working to terribly slow while doing a large reallocation, and we replaced those rather than find out what would happen over a longer term)

That said, people use words with a different meaning all the time, and data corruption could fit as a failure.
by metadat | 2025-08-28 16:16:17+00:00
Fiendishly outlandish idea, incredibly wrong that it should even be possible for the existence of Hoshino to even have ever been a thought, yet here we are. I love it!

On a related note, have you seen the prices at Whole Foods lately? $6 for a packet of dehydrated miso soup. This usually costs $2.50 served prepared at a sushi restaurant. AWS network egress fees are similarly blasphemous.

Shame on Amazon, lol. Though it's really capitalisms fault, if you think it through all the way.
by close04 | 2025-08-28 16:16:28+00:00
This reminds me of the famous HN Dropbox comment [0]. It was perfectly correct and yet so wrong at the same time. TrueNAS is probably for the people who want the power and flexibility with almost none of the hassle. Ironically, the people who have to deal with this professionally every day probably want to leave the work at work.

Having a playground/homelab at home is one thing, but playing with your family's data and access to it can get annoying really fast.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
by glenstein | 2025-08-28 16:16:29+00:00
Agreed, I think there's a culture of overzealous "correction" with respect to historical quotations. It's not completely irrelevant that it's a conversation with an oracle or that his attitude was puzzlement in response to being regarded wisest, as contrasted with him just declaring it unprovoked.

But still, they are expressions of intellectual humility that come from not knowing and contrasting it to the attitude of claiming to know without really knowing, that essence is the same even with the "correction" and complements Asimov's essay either way. So I think "misquote" is a little strong here.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-28 16:16:31+00:00
I honestly don't think how a C++ compiler chooses to implement an object method does matter here.

It's a function belonging to an object, to which is dynamically dispatched with something I would call a vtable. To me that sounds like a classic example of OOP.

Data abstraction is a core of OOP.

This pattern can be used to implement inheritance, when it isn't here that doesn't mean its not OOP.
by elxavit0 | 2025-08-28 16:16:41+00:00
It sounds like the state I've been able to get myself into a few times when I've been super tired, and then put some headphones on, close my eyes and focus on a central light in the dark. All the while listening to edm similar to Stutter house and other binaural beats. And that's it.

The first time I did this unexpectedly was a trip. I can't do this at will, and ignored it for a long time. I've recently started trying to see if I can control into it. I come out of this in an alert and super-relaxed state when I can get into that state.

edit: Forgot to mention that those "phosphene visuals" are exactly how I know I'm in this state.
by HRLOGANIX | 2025-08-28 16:17:24+00:00
We’re rebuilding our internal dashboard on a LAMP stack (PHP views, Bootstrap, jQuery). You’ll be the UX/UI owner who makes it fast, clear, and pleasant to use - then implements the front‑end details yourself in Bootstrap/jQuery and light PHP view edits. You’re as comfortable finding rough edges and breaking things as you are polishing layouts, tables, and forms.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-28 16:17:35+00:00
True. the article also has zero basis in its estimating the average usage from each tier's user base.

I somewhat doubt my usage is so close to the edge of the curve since I don't even pay for any plan. It could be that I'm very frugal with money and fat on consumption while most are more balanced, but 1M token per day in any case sounds slim for any user who pays for the service.
by PhantomHour | 2025-08-28 16:18:19+00:00
In part it'll be Europe, though VC in the "throw money into a fire" style does/did exist.

But VCs, especially in those days, bordered on antipathy for sensible business plans. They didn't want small businesses that would turn profitable quickly and grow sustainably. They wanted something with infinite growth ASAP that they could pump-and-dump on Big Tech or IPO suckers.
by spott | 2025-08-28 16:18:41+00:00
I think this depends on how they are used.

If you are leaning on the package manager for managing things like Python, then they are really annoying.

If you are just skipping that and using something like UV, then you won’t care that LTS only has python 3.9 or similar.

If you are trying to use them interactively, then they can be annoying because everything new isn’t available. If you are using them as a server for running pre-packaged code, then they are fine.
by staticman2 | 2025-08-28 16:18:44+00:00
You seem to be confusing the Simuluation Argument with the Simulation Hypothesis.

https://simulation-argument.com/faq/#faq-2

The latter is absolutely insane creationist nonsense. Bostrom even says it can be proven by a pop up announcing we are in a simulation, which sounds like exactly the sort of thing you'd maybe expect God to do to prove the truth of the bible.

Wikipedia attributes the simulation hypothesis as having origins as far back as the "Butterfly Dream" of Zhuangzi from ancient China, not Bostrom's paper.
by tombert | 2025-08-28 16:19:00+00:00
Yeah, that's what I was referring to when I said "Hacker News Poster", and it's why I said that I know I'm the weird one. I'm not completely out of touch.

It's a little different though; TrueNAS still requires a fairly high level of technical competence to install on your own hardware; you still need to understand how to manage partitions and roughly what a Jail is and basic settings for Samba and the like. It's not completely analogous to Dropbox because Dropbox is trivial for pretty much anyone.
by k310 | 2025-08-28 16:19:19+00:00
"In the beginning," the internet was wires, plumbing.

The article is fascinating. Before the internet, I met my wife via a singles tabloid offered locally in the valley.

I'm retired now, living some 50 miles from most of my friends, and despite my digital career and daily activity when sitting on the easy chair (like right now) I pick up the phone while coffee is brewing, and see zero red dots on the home screen.

Paradise to some, I'm kind of used to it now. Seniors seem to be litter on the highways of life.

I keep busy with hobbies, chiefly piano, because one can always get better, it's satisfying (I am "wired" for music, thank you, neurons) and there's never an "I've accomplished all I can" moment. Photography has also been with me a shorter time, "only" some 55 years, and it truly is a way of seeing, being engaged with the environment, and being constantly surprised by it.

Some day, I will share. I should live so long, but I am in daily contact with my scattered family. Even if it's mostly one-way and admittedly ADHD/TLDR in the other end.

People fail to return emails and messages, use FB Messenger, which I despise, refuse to install Signal, miss discussions on zoom.

But looking at that home screen, devoid of red dots, options are open.

First order of business is setting the iPad on top of the Clavinova, because as long as I can find the reading glasses, music is a positive-definite activity.

Every day that the complex well system is working is a "no-panic" day. Had one the other day. I loaded up the portable tool kit, ready to check breakers, load limiter boxes and fuses, but there was pressure just upstream of a big valve. I popped open its cover, flipped it off and on, and pressure returned to the home, more than the day before. Why? Some obstruction?

Life is mostly low-tech, "dumb as a bag of hammers" stuff. Each morning, digital is a choice. This morning, I dabble.