MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vizzier | 2025-08-18 17:11:28+00:00
Not parent, but I've had good success from our Roborock Q5pro. Previously had a Ecovacs T9 aivi.

The Ecovacs died twice, each just after a year (ie just out of warranty) needing to have main board/motor replaced. The bells and whistles didn't seem to be worth it. Self emptying station barely worked in an apartment with two people with long hair. Needed a lot of disposable replacement parts (main brush, side brushes, filters). Mopping feels like a bit of a gimmick.

The much cheaper Roborock so far has been solid but we've only had it for 4 months. Mapping is marginally better (it is FAR less likely to reset the map on you which is a real annoyance). Filter is washable, main brushes need to be replaced less often. Has a better mechanism for collecting long hair off the brushes. Mop attachment still feels like a gimmick.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-18 17:11:42+00:00
you mean something filesystems do as a matter of course? Ignoring resizing them which is also supported through supporting technologies I’m not talking about partitioning a drive. You can have different applications sharing a filesystem just fine, with each application growing how much space it uses naturally as usage increases or shrinks. Partitioning and namespaces are similar (namespaces are significantly more static) in that you have to make decisions about the future really early vs a normal file on a filesystem growing over time.
by stonecharioteer | 2025-08-18 17:11:49+00:00
I was on that hill too. For years I used Sphinx and Furo to render my blog, which you can still access at https://old.stonecharioteer.com

I like the framework, but it ended up being too in the way. I am not an RST maintainer. I want to blog and get my thoughts out in the world.

I split my website to use different subdomains, and most of the posts in that old blog are now in https://tech.stonecharioteer.com which is on Hugo now. I used Claude to fix some Css annoyances with the Paper mod theme, and to migrate not only the posts from that old blog but also from the Jekyll blog that predates it.

I'm happy with the blog now, it's so out of my way that I can write without trying to figure out how to make Hugo do something like Sphinx-style admonitions. Claude is great for that. What else is there to complain about?
by zedascouves | 2025-08-18 17:12:03+00:00
I Started with actionquake (aq2). check it out.

Minh “Gooseman” Le, one of CS’s creators, was a fan of AQ2. Counter-Strike (first released in June 1999 as a Half-Life mod) built on AQ2’s ideas but refined them with better hitboxes, buy menus, maps, and more tactical pacing.

AQ2 is often described as “the bridge between Quake and Counter-Strike”.
by simianwords | 2025-08-18 17:12:40+00:00
>If you won't take it at my word that "computer doing a worksheet's of calculations automatically" is faster & less error-prone than "a human [with electronic calculator] doing that by hand", then that's a you problem.

Reality is complicated and messy. There are many hurdles to overcome, many people to convince and many logistics to handle. You can't just replace accountants with computers - it takes time. You can understand why I find it hard to believe that a huge jump like the one with software can take time as well.
by __lbracket__ | 2025-08-18 17:12:44+00:00
I'm probably not explaining this well, but I feel like writing code from scratch has the effect of making us slow down and think more deeply and more globally about what we're writing. Reading vibe code "localizes" our attention to the correctness of the code produced and clogging the processes that otherwise think about connection of this code to other parts of the system.
by shabazahmed | 2025-08-18 17:14:57+00:00
There is actually a developer setting in Instagram to stop swipe up for next reel. You can still watch reels sent by your friends but you won't be able to swipe up. You can also remove reels icon from bottom bar. If you are using MyIntsa or Revanced Instagram you can enable it (Android only). Hope it was user option too.
by lumost | 2025-08-18 17:15:12+00:00
Embedded AIs are pretty dumb as a product in my opinion. Why would the customer pay you instead of their existing model vendor of choice? Why do they have to learn your chatbox - when it's probably using a crappier model and lacks the context of their preferred vendor.

I really don't want to pay for 5 different AI subscriptions, I want one subscription that works with all my other services (which I already pay for).
by nailer | 2025-08-18 17:15:42+00:00
> Many BLM protests took place before the Biden administration existed, so some of your thesis is non-sense.

So it's partially true.

> some Democrats may have gone over the line with some statement

So you think it's true too. Glad we agree on what happened.

> Trump pardoned hundreds for violent crimes, even against police officers.

Yes, they were massively over sentenced. They deserved prison time for rioting in the capital, but not years.
by lxgr | 2025-08-18 17:16:07+00:00
On the topic of weather radar: I've been wondering what it'll take for Apple (arguably one of the most widely consumed weather services at this point!) to finally consume radar data available under open data licenses.

Some countries only make their data available commercially, but e.g. Germany does make high-resolution radar available under CC-BY 4.0, yet Apple seems to be completely ignoring all of it.
by tguvot | 2025-08-18 17:16:30+00:00
and sometimes banana is simply banana:

Hypercatabolic syndrome (HS) is a biochemical state characterized by increased circulating catabolic hormones (eg, cortisol, catecholamines) and inflammatory cytokines (eg, tumor necrosis factors, interleukin–1β), and decreased anabolic insulin effects with consequent insulin resistance. The most important metabolic consequence of HS is the skeletal and cardiac muscle protein breakdown that releases amino acids (AAs), which in turn supports indispensable body energy requirements but also reduces skeletal and cardiac physiologic and metabolic functions. HS occurs in many diseases such as diabetes mellitus, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal and liver failure, trauma, sepsis, and senescence
by richardblythman | 2025-08-18 17:16:56+00:00
This resonates. Upskilling to AI tools is perhaps the biggest problem of our day. One idea we have to tackle this problem is to bring onboarding/learning directly into the user's work environment, track struggles and offer targeted support, and create continuous feedback loops. If anyone has faced challenges with increasing activation and retention of users on pilots (or external-facing products), would love to chat and see how we can help .
by kaffekaka | 2025-08-18 17:17:00+00:00
I think that your motivation is going to burn you out.

In order not to burn out one has to start prioritizing other things higher than work, like your health or your hobbies. That means thinking: "someone wants this done and will hassle me for it, but I'm letting it go now."

Edit/addition: there will always be more things to be hassled about.
by UncleMeat | 2025-08-18 17:17:03+00:00
Why do you think that lawyers are not able to provide support for refugee applicants prior to setting foot in the US?

Do you have data demonstrating that a significant number of people end up with successful refugee status applications that would have failed had they not come here for medical purposes and where their case is abusive? Or do you consider all refugees coming to the country for any reason to be bad?

Should all medical visas be stopped? Just those for Gazans? Just those for countries that you don't like?
by viccis | 2025-08-18 17:17:05+00:00
>He estimated that light coding will cost him around $550 per month and full time coding around $1,950 per month. As an open source developer who builds for the community, "this pricing is a kick in the shins," he said.

Well maybe you shouldn't be using an enterprise AI coding toolset to do work that has historically been done for the love of coding and helping others. AI to do uncompensated labor is almost never going to work out financially like this. If it's really good enough to replace a decent engineer on a team, then those costs aren't "wallet-wrecking", it just means he needs to stay away from commercial products with commercial pricing. It's like complaining about the cost of one of VMWare's enterprise licenses for your home lab.

I will also add that it's rare these days to see a new AWS product or service that doesn't cost many times what it should. Most of these things are geared towards companies who are all in on the AWS platform and for whom the cost of any given service is a matter of whether it's worth paying an employee to do whatever AWS manages with that service.
by mr_toad | 2025-08-18 17:17:06+00:00
I’ll bite. Most of the Vikings that settled England came from Denmark and Norway. Harald was usually well-travelled even for a Viking, having being exiled to Rus, and then later returning. The number of Vikings from Scandinavia who went to Rus, served in the near east, then returned to Scandinavia then invaded England (carrying their loot with them all the way) can’t have been many.

My money, excuse the pun, is on trade. It’s not uncommon for coins from far flung realms to end up in coin hordes. For example Roman coins have been found in Celtic hordes than predate the Roman invasion of Britain by decades.
by drcongo | 2025-08-18 17:17:45+00:00
There's a couple of these in Bodmin [0], Cornwall that I've driven through a few times. It used to be traffic lights and was constant jams at each junction. I'd never seen one before when they first changed it, I approached cautiously, drove onto it cautiously, and exited pretty impressed. I do wonder what less considerate drivers are like on it though. Local residents apparently complain about it [1], but then it seems to be part of the British psyche to complain about anything new and different, especially if it's done by your local council.

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/LQ9kSNZxQwYV8S9C9

[1] https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/bodmin-round...
by noddingham | 2025-08-18 17:17:54+00:00
Because you mentioned the use case specifically, I wanted to point you to the fact that Excel has been able to convert images to tables for a while now. Literally screenshot a table from your PDF and it will convert to table. Not trying to diminish any additional capabilities you're getting from Gemini, but this screenshot to table feature has been huge for my finance team.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-data-from-...
by Uehreka | 2025-08-18 17:18:26+00:00
> CC development is not just development, not all types of development. it’s frontend JS based , and it’s backend development. Only those scenarios work.

> Try creating native desktop or mobile app and it’s like a swamp of trial and error.

I had it build an Android app and embedded code for a BLE peripheral at the same time, tailing the logs from each to debug issues. It worked great.

I generally avoid stating in concrete terms what Claude Code “can’t” do. Especially since it keeps getting new built-in features (like the ability to background shell processes and then tail their logs later) that often fix issues people talk about having had a month ago.
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-18 17:18:35+00:00
Which is ironic since Max Planck experienced a staggering amount of change in science that did not require anyone dying, took place over just a few decades here and there, and was extremely fruitful.

Born 1858, died 1947, pretty much everything known about anything changed somewhat in that time period, and he was literally part of a lot of it, and helped convince people and change their minds without them dying.

Almost like the quote is utter bullshit.
by uoaei | 2025-08-18 17:18:45+00:00
The article says that but it's overcomplicating to the point of being actually wrong. You could, I suppose, argue that the big innovation is the application of vectorization to the chain rule (by virtue of the matmul-based architecture of your usual feedforward network) which is a true combination of two mathematical technologies. But it feels like this and indeed most "innovations" in ML is only considered as such due to brainrot derived from trying to take maximal credit for minimal work (i.e., IP).
by progval | 2025-08-18 17:19:12+00:00
There are, but they each have their tradeoffs.

Proof of work and micropayments (eg. Xanadu or Internet Mail 2000) schemes solve spamming and LLM scraping, but are more expensive or more CPU-intensive.

P2P systems like FreeNet too, but they are harder to use and more storage intensive and make it easier to spy on individual users.

Tor solves UK-like surveillance laws but it's slower and makes it easier to spam.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-18 17:19:42+00:00
Just based on the first post, where they talk about their API a bit, it sounds like a system hosted on their machines(?). So, I assume AI trainers won’t be able to run it locally, to train off it.

Although, I always get a bad smell from that sort of logic, because it feels vaguely similar to security through obscurity in the sense that it relies on the opposition now knowing what you are doing.
by johnsondavies | 2025-08-18 17:19:42+00:00
The ATtiny814 is hardly an ancient chip. It's a member of Microchip's TinyAVR 1-Series that was released in 2017 and still being developed, with the 2-Series being released in 2020/2021.

Perhaps you're confusing it with the older ATtiny841 (released in 2012), which was an upgrade of the original ATtiny84.
by nebula8804 | 2025-08-18 17:19:53+00:00
The person said $1,000 a month for landscaping and $1,000 a month for house cleaning. Thats like 1/3 of my take home. Is that really normal for people?

Regarding salary, Looking at my area, unless im in FAANG seems like im making around what the site says. I feel like that expense would be too much but maybe I just didnt get into stocks or crypto as much as others have done here.
by jordanpg | 2025-08-18 17:20:19+00:00
Only briefly touched on here, but just as important as what's happening in the US, is why it's happening. This does not get enough attention.

The stated reasons, such as to "coerce universities to change their internal policies to align with the administration's priorities," understate things.

The real objective is to strip independent scientific institutions of their authority and to subordinate knowledge production to political and religious ideology.

Yes, religious ideology. If this sounds crazy; if you do not think this is happening; or if this sounds scary to you -- then you should go read up on Russell Vought and what his publicly stated objectives are. He is behind all of this. I doubt that Donald Trump knows or cares about any of it.

What is happening is absolute, complete insanity. And it has nothing to do with wokeness, antisemitism, DEI, waste, fraud, and abuse, or any of the other pretexts the Administration is using today.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-08-18 17:20:54+00:00
One thing I think a lot of people need to realize and ponder on more... is that these companies have nearly infinite resources, they have entire teams studying the psychology of how to get you to use their apps more (because they primarily chase engagement to sell your attention to advertisers).

Not only do they have well-paid experts working on getting you using their platform more often and for longer, but they also have a scary amount of metadata on hundreds of millions of people... they can pluck a person that behaves just like you out of the ether, compare their engagement trends, and apply the same algorithm to you.

The resource imbalance becomes really difficult to comprehend. It's like you're trying to avoid a pickpocket that has successfully pickpocketed millions of people, and the pickpocket has years of your behavior at their fingertips and can cross-reference it with every pickpocketing attempt they've ever attempted... oh, and they designed everything about the city you're walking in to make it easier to pickpocket you.
by sfn42 | 2025-08-18 17:21:04+00:00
That would be an enormous waste of time. 99.9% of software doesn't have to be anywhere near optimal. It just has to not be wasteful.

Sadly lots of software is blatantly wasteful. But it doesn't take fancy assembly micro optimization to fix it, the problem is typically much higher level than that. It's more like serialized network requests, unnecessarily high time complexities, just lots of unnecessary work and unnecessary waiting.

Once you have that stuff solved you can start looking at lower level optimization, but by that point most apps are already nice and snappy so there's no reason to optimize further.
by justinrubek | 2025-08-18 17:21:12+00:00
Even if you get by the legal implications, you still have to deal with building a sandcastle on a surface that wasn't designed for it. Yes, that has always been the case to varying degrees, but I think it can make a big difference, too. Factorio has a good modding scene, and it's in part because it was wholly and intentionally embraced by the developers in their engine design.
by baal80spam | 2025-08-18 17:21:16+00:00
annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-08-17

About recent events.

We are still alive and kicking. In recent weeks we’ve seen increased attacks on our mission. We are taking steps to harden our infrastructure and operational security. The work of securing humanity’s legacy is worth fighting for.

Since we started in 2022, we have liberated tens of millions of books, scientific articles, magazines, newspapers, and more. These are now forever protected from destruction by natural disasters, wars, budget cuts, and other catastrophes, thanks to everyone who helps with torrenting.

Anna’s Archive itself has organized some of the largest scrapes: we acquired tens of millions of files from IA Controlled Digital Lending, HathiTrust, DuXiu, and many more.

We have also scraped and published the largest book metadata collections in history: WorldCat, Google Books, and others. With this we’ll be able to identify which books are still missing from our collections, and prioritize saving the rarest ones.

Much thanks to all of our volunteers for making these projects happen.

We’ve forged some incredible partnerships. We’ve partnered with two LibGen forks, STC/Nexus, Z-Library. We’ve secured tens of millions additional files through these partnerships. And they are helping the mission by mirroring our files.

Unfortunately we have seen the disappearance of one of the LibGen forks. We don’t have further information about what happened there, but are saddened by this development.

There is a new entrant: WeLib. They appear to have mirrored most of our collection, and use a fork of our codebase. We have copied some of their user interface improvements, and are grateful for that push. Sadly, we are not seeing them share any new collections, nor share their codebase improvements. Since they haven’t shown commitment to contributing back to the ecosystem, we advise extreme caution. We recommend not using them.

In the meantime, we have some exciting projects in the works. We have hundreds of terabytes in new collections sitting on our servers, waiting to be processed. If you’re at all interested in helping out, feel free to check out our Volunteering and Donate pages. We run all of this on a minimal budget, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Keep fighting.
by kragen | 2025-08-18 17:22:34+00:00
It's actually very common in our own society for children to make up "secret codes" for their own use or to communicate with a single friend, and notation systems limited to a small affinity group are fairly common even in societies like ours where they have to compete with a standard written language: baseball game records, knitting notation, cross-stitch notation, chess notations, mechanical dimensioning and tolerancing, electronic schematics, shorthands, cement chemist notation, Perl, hobo signs, and so on. If you've ever worked in a company that is more than a few years old, even something as small as a diner, you can probably think of two or three notational systems used only within that company. In our society, at least, it's not just highly neurodivergent people.

I don't agree that being literate in a writing system nobody else uses is equivalent to not being literate.
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-18 17:22:49+00:00
Instead they are a transparent system that enables literal children to get addicted to gambling and valve takes a cut of every payout and they are well aware of this.

CS is not a billion dollar game. CS is a fairly unprofitable game with a giant tumor of a marketplace attached, a significant point of which is being a faux currency that escapes most currency controls
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-18 17:22:59+00:00
> This is much more pleasent. Since the program is always in a somehwat valid state as you type it, your editor is able to guide you towards the Pit of Success.

Although the subtitle was “programs should be valid as they are typed”, it’s weakened to “somewhat valid” at this point. And yes, it is valid enough that tooling can help, a lot of the time (but not all) at full capability. But there’s also interesting discussion to be had about environments where programs are valid as they are typed. Syntactically, especially, which requires (necessary but not sufficient) either eschewing delimition, or only inserting opening and closing delimiters together.
by athenot | 2025-08-18 17:23:09+00:00
I remember being on sensitive zoom calls and seeing Otter.ai join. Had to track down which person was using it, and even they were clueless as to how it got there, and the client kept rejoining despite the user trying to stop it.

I've never used this service so I don't know if the user was being particularly clueless or if some dark pattern was at play; I suspect it's probably a little bit of both.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-18 17:23:13+00:00
> This is one of those things that should be unnecessary if we all had perfect self-control,

It's like food, easier to have self control not to buy candies in the supermarket than to have self control at home when you know you have candies in the pantry.

I haven't felt the need to watch a reel since I uninstalled IG, before that I ended up scrolling here and there, not much but enough to regret the lost time at the end of the week
by freehorse | 2025-08-18 17:23:14+00:00
It is true that it is not designed to have pedestrians killed; imo it is designed to not have pedestrians at all, and everybody having to have a car to move around. This pays for both the car and the fuel (industries).

At least this is my impression from ppl who have lived in the US and told me about how it is like in some places there, have never been myself.
by xtracto | 2025-08-18 17:23:22+00:00
Hah! you should have seen me "drawing" a coffee cup that was in front of me at a drawing class: The cup was sitting there, I was seeing it and supposedly I was drawing what I saw. The teacher came and told me: Squint your eyes, draw "lights and shadows". Theoretically, I did that, but my cup just didn't look like the others haha.

The teacher then asked me for my pencil, and started doing some adjustments in my drawing. The shitty cup just became alive with some touches here and there. All I could ask was HOW ??? how did she SEE that?

The book "drawing with the right side of the brain" goes over it: A lot of who are strongly (brain) left-sided see a Cup and "abstract" away the forms, we are constatly drawing "lines" (like, drawing a sticky-figure person,a head is a circle, then body is a line, girl skirt is a triangle, etc) and just cannot actually get past that reasoning in our brain.