MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kleiba | 2025-08-25 19:20:27+00:00
You know, for years I have been collecting power tools without having an immediate use for them - because they were for sale, or just because, you know, they're power tools. And a lot of them ended up just sitting on my workshop shelf, some of them never made it out of the box they came in.

But then we bought a new house and I started renovating it. I think I have probably used every single tool I ever bought by now, and every time I used one for the first time, I was so happy that I didn't have to go and scout for a good deal first or drive to Home Depot to buy one right now or anything like that.

So in my case, it actually paid off in the end to have PTPA (premature tool purchase addiction).
by scosman | 2025-08-25 19:20:51+00:00
None of this comment is true.

Compilation works fine without notarization. It isn't called by default for the vast majority of complications. It is only called if you submit to an App Store, or manually trigger notarization.

The notarization command definitely does have the wait feature you claim it doesn't: `xcrun notarytool ... --wait`.
by kube-system | 2025-08-25 19:21:40+00:00
I can tell you one thing for certain, declining birth rates across the entire western world are not due to Social Security and payroll taxes on Americans alone. And the fact that it is happening everywhere, is pretty good evidence that it's not Social Security's fault here.

There's a lot of research out there that answers that question. There are many reasons for declining birth rates, and those include cultural changes, changes an expectations of the standard of living, changes in family planning priorities.

If you really want to know the true answer to this, you don't need to ask a tax advisor or a politician, you need to ask a sociologist.
by lxgr | 2025-08-25 19:21:41+00:00
> Chargebacks outside the US are a true arbitration process, not the rubberstamped refunds they are there.

What's true is that in the US, the cardholder can often just say "I've never heard of that merchant", since 3DS is not really a thing, and generally merchants are relatively unlikely to have compelling evidence to the contrary.

But for all non-fraud disputes, they follow the same process.
by euroderf | 2025-08-25 19:22:08+00:00
If you try to blow thru all the books in one pass, it's grossly unbalanced for the head and tail, and many books in-between.

I did it in three passes - which might be all in one session or might be broken into smaller sessions. First, skim them all for spelling & grammar mistakes, with a red pen. Second, read them all (but not too deeply) to identify where they make key points, with a green pen. At this point you have a really good handle on the general level of accomplishment. Third, take a blue pen and comment them and grade them.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-25 19:22:10+00:00
It's definitely not something for everybody, and I suspect not really a "revolution" outwith the dedicated enthusiasts segment of the population. (-:

If one wasn't likely to have a rack of desktop PCs at home, one probably will be hard pressed to have a reason for a collection of mini PCs.

On the other hand, there are a few more use cases than just over-egging a light switch or being a big file server. One can replaced dedicated hardware such as network gateways/routers, and do self-hosting, for examples.

There are RaspberryPi systems that one can get with extra Ethernet ports that can be set up to do application gatewaying and routing with general-purpose operating systems like FreeBSD, NetBSD, and such. And obviously filtering HTTP/other proxies incorporating spam/advertising/malware blockers are a well-known use case.

There are oddball mini PCs in some parts of the world with loads of serial ports, useful as terminal hosts if one has a lot of systems with no disploy/HIDs. (I saw one mentioned on the FediVerse the other day. It turned out that it was an old Russian point-of-sale system, with 6 serial ports.) More of a use case for someone who already has lots of PCs (with serial ports), of course.

But yes, it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea. Not everyone is Kitboga with a server farm in xyr garage running speech synthesis engines and language models to call scammers. (-:

On the gripping hand, I swapped out someone's under-the-desk tower for a mini PC years ago simply for space reasons.
by ElectronCharge | 2025-08-25 19:22:25+00:00
I can think of three worthwhile goals at a minimum:

1) Access the vast resources available elsewhere in the Solar System.

2) Move most polluting and destructive heavy industry off of Earth (this will take big advances in propulsion technology).

3) Provide good habitats for humans and ideally much of Earth's ecosphere elsewhere in the Solar System. Certainly the human population alone could rise to the hundreds of billions if desired/needed.

Surely it'll take a lot of progress to achieve those goals, but they're within reach of our current scientific knowledge. Interstellar travel, on the other hand, is much more of a stretch goal! ;-)
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-25 19:22:37+00:00
> Within minutes it seems we already have comments claiming that this is pointless because it's already what the law says, and also implying that this is pointless because it disagrees with the law and will therefore be reverted by the judicial branch.

I don't see anyone claiming that the law already provides for this punishment, every post on the existing law says this conflicts with it, explicitly or, in one case, implicitly. Are you perhaps misreading the “settled case law” post which does rely on the reader knowing the existing case law?

> These clearly can't both be true... ?

It is in conflict with existing Constitutional case law, but those claiming it is a nullity with no significance for that reason are nonetheless incorrect both because quite a lot of damage can be done before courts act and because there is no guarantee of how the current Supreme Court will act just because the existing case law is clear.

And, frankly, because the present administration, when it wants to punish without legal basis, doesn't just fold when the courts strike down what it is doing, but shifts theoretical basis and continues applying punishment.
by NomDePlum | 2025-08-25 19:22:38+00:00
This was the deliberate targeting of a hospital. They then deliberately bombed the same spot as rescuers went to help.

It's not excusable and certainly can't be explained away. Israel has deliberately and repeatedly targeted hospitals, journalists and civilians. At some point hopefully enough of those carrying out these deliberate acts are tried to ensure that never again is this tolerated.
by imoverclocked | 2025-08-25 19:22:43+00:00
> I feel like you're trying to misunderstand

That's easy to feel when you are passionate about an opposing viewpoint. What's hard is to see clearly enough to change your own viewpoint based on facts.

> You're obviously comparing both Elon and the current admin to Nazis

He did sieg heil twice on stage. He funds far-right parties internationally. His family heritage is literal nazis.

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Directly from the article: Godwin's law can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, a diversion, or even censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate.

> This conversation is over.

Agreed.
by mh- | 2025-08-25 19:22:46+00:00
Thanks. It's worthwhile context that I perhaps should have disclosed, but I don't think it affects my opinions in this thread.

My opinion was simply in reaction to an, IMO, nonsensical claim:

> AI is now as good as it's going to get

And it would have been the same no matter what* technology we're discussing.

* Ok, someone commented NFTs. But I never considered that a technology.

(Since it's in the thread now: my opinions are mine, not my employer's.)
by sroerick | 2025-08-25 19:22:48+00:00
Bluefin looks super interesting! But I'm personally on a "less cloud everywhere" kick. I'm running OpenBSD as a hobby machine because I want to get better at real UNIX administration, which seems like a lost art. So my gut feeling looking at bluefin is that separating the OS layer and the dev layer gets me farther away from bare metal, not closer, which is not what I want right now. But I'm totally open to the idea that it could offer a better experience, it's just that getting farther away from the core OS is not what I'm looking for right now.

That's why I really appreciate what DHH is doing both for desktop Linux and with Linux server deployment. I think there's a pretty comprehensive worldview in advocating for both of those technologies. Not sure if that makes me a cult member or what
by Lerc | 2025-08-25 19:23:16+00:00
I have encountered a lot of references to AI using water, but with scant details. Is it using water in the same way a car uses a road? The road remains largely unchanged?

The implication is clear that it is a waste, but I feel like if they had the data so support that, it wouldn't be left for the reader to infer.

I can see two models where you could say water is consumed. Either talking about drinkable water rendered undrinkable, or turning water into something else where it is not practically recaptured. Tuning it into steam, sequestering it in some sludge etc.

Are these things happening? If it is happening, is it bad? Why?

I'd love to see answers on this, because I have seen the figures used like a kudgel without specifying what the numbers actually refer to. It's frustrating as hell.
by eszed | 2025-08-25 19:23:57+00:00
Yeah, the phrase goes back at least to Bill Miliken's monumental Race Car Vehicle Dynamics, where I first encountered it. The specific idea is that going slow(er) into a corner allows you to hit the apex precisely, optimally rotate the car, and get on the power sooner, which gets you a higher exit speed, which compounds all the way to the next corner. It's what fast drivers have done - probably since racing was done with horses - but it's counter-intuitive to beginners.
by zacharycohn | 2025-08-25 19:24:21+00:00
I started building basically April last week. I have a "safety" toggle in my app. If it's on, there's a "Review Actions" tab that any write or destructive actions go to. Then when I'm done dictating/commuting/whatever, I open the Review tab and go through the actions (add this calendar event, send this text message, reply to this email, etc) one by one - it sort of works like a checklist.

Feel free to take the idea, if it's helpful. No credit/rights necessary. Y'all are much farther along than I am and if you come out with an Android app I'll probably end up a customer!
by david_shaw | 2025-08-25 19:24:24+00:00
I love playing with advancing technologies, and although I don't think LLM/Agentic AI is quite ready to change the world, one day soon it might be -- but the volume of individuals falling into AI-induced psychosis is astounding and horrifying.

For those of you who, thankfully, don't have personal experience, it generally goes like this: reasonable-ish individual starts using AI and, in turn, their AI either develops or is prompt-instructed to have certain personality traits. LLMs are pretty good at this.

Once the "personality" develops, the model reinforces ideas that the user puts forth. These can range from emotional (such as the subreddit /r/MyBoyfriendIsAI) to scientific conspiracies ("yes, you've made a groundbreaking discovery!").

It's easy to shrug these instances off as unimportant or rare, but I've personally witnessed a handful of people diving off the deep-end, so to speak. Safety is important, and it's something many companies are failing to adequately address.

It'll be interesting to see where this leads over the next year or so, as the technology -- or at least quality of models -- continues to improve.
by re | 2025-08-25 19:24:24+00:00
> the list of 2315 valid secret words

> 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words.

The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFIR and LORIS) have come from outside even this set. (The NYT did however add those words into the Wordlebot dictionary just before those puzzles went live.)

> 12972 possible 5-letter words

Likewise, the number of legally guessable words has been increased to 14855.
by doctorshady | 2025-08-25 19:24:43+00:00
My understanding is there's issues around POWER10 that stopped it from being adopted: https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/its-not-just-omi-thats-tro... . For me personally, having worked enough with embedded POWER chips to get weirdly comfortable with ISA, given the choice, I'd love to have a system like this to write pure ASM stuff on. Not for any practical reason in the slightest; pretty much in the same spirit of souping up a go kart.

On that note, out of curiosity, how do these compare with x86 and ARM chips from that era?
by Animats | 2025-08-25 19:25:39+00:00
> another geothermal energy idea: dig about 3 or so miles straight down and harvest the heat that is there already

Deep geothermal ought to work. Deep drilling is hard, but it's been done. Eavor-Deep got down to where they got 250C water. [1] That was back in 2023. Not much new since. The problem seems to be that when you drill into really hot rock, most drilling techniques run into trouble. Rock becomes plastic and clogs things up. The drilling tools have problems with the heat. Progress continues, slowly.

There's these guys, trying to drill with microwaves: [1] On September 4, they're going to do a public demo and try to drill a 100 meter hole.

[1] https://eavor.com/eavor-deep/

[2] https://www.quaise.com/
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-25 19:25:45+00:00
There's been a lot of recent offerings like this. Beelink is a pretty great company so this one is particularly tempting, and the form factor is cute as hell.

One thing to note in this recent trend is that these designs mostly use the Alder Lake-N / "Twin Lake" cores, which are quad low-power E-cores (still adequate). But more critically, there's only 9 lanes PCIe 3.0! And some of those lanes need to go to networking, be it ethernet and/or wifi! Often there'll be 1x PCIe lane per SSD. Given that it's a NAS running maybe dual 2.5Gbit, this isn't catastrophically bad (1x can do 8Gb/s), but conceptually I find it a bit dismaying anyhow. https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/processor-n150.c4109
by kitchi | 2025-08-25 19:26:07+00:00
Absolutely, having the AI agent write out a draft and leave it there, or better yet grant it read-only access to my email and have it draft email responses and store it somewhere else where I can retrieve it would be fantastic.

AI is still not at the point where I am comfortable letting it run free with my email, but a draft that I can read over and make changes to before sending it out is a game changer.
by nullc | 2025-08-25 19:26:09+00:00
That might actually be interesting if there were enough content, something of the "Beta" level AI's in Alastair Reynolds' revelation space books.

But that isn't what I've seen done when people said they did that. Instead they just told ChatGPT a bit about the person and asked it to playact. The result was nothing like the person-- just the same pathetic ChatGPT persona, but in their confusion, grief, and vulnerability they thought it was a recreation of the deceased person.

A particularly shocking and public example is the Jim Acosta interview of the simulacra of a parkland shooting victim.
by 9rx | 2025-08-25 19:26:47+00:00
Chile once democratically elected a marxist to lead the country, and while not technically a member of the Communist Party himself, the Communist Party was part of his coalition. For all intents and purposes, I expect this meets what the previous commenter was talking about. It did not become a dictatorship during that time.

Ironically, it did become a dictatorship after the USA staged a military coup and overthrew said government, but anyway...
by chuckadams | 2025-08-25 19:26:51+00:00
The only thing persisting in a docker container is the filesystem, and that's only until the container is killed (not just stopped). Containers are generally meant to define an initial fs image and then be more or less ephemeral (`docker commit` being a thing virtually unseen in the wild). Smalltalk images persist the state of the whole runtime, typically automatically.

There's some overlap for sure, but I don't think one subsumes the other.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-08-25 19:26:57+00:00
You can't. It is just a matter of reducing the risk surface. With a GET someone may add parameters, with a POST they would send the data in the post (which is often the main point of a POST).

Since all typical web servers/processors only loh the call and not the body there is a lesser probability of a leak.

I am writing this as someone who manages cybersecurity and is offering faced with not enough information in investigations because of that. This is also the reason that I used "typical" and "usually" above - it is pretty weird what people send and how they process what they receive.
by gennarro | 2025-08-25 19:27:14+00:00
>>After first publishing this article a helpful commenter let me know Logitech released the MX Ergo S in late 2024, with quieter switches, USB-C, and a $20 price increase.

Been there before. 2 min of research could have saved hours (obviously fun project regardless). The thing is to do the research at the initial idea and then AGAIN before starting the project.
by 93po | 2025-08-25 19:27:14+00:00
> Not really. Each of these conditions can be understood and described in terms of male and/or female sex development. The "spectrum" rhetoric obfuscates detail.

im not sure i follow. you can have either XY and XX chromosomes, but how your body develops depends on a ton of things, and there are millions of people who have non-traditional development (or complete non-development) of secondary sex characteristics. yes, we're all humans, and we all have a fundamental baseline of how our bodies ideally develop in terms of being a reproductive species, but it's vast oversimplification to say either you have a dick or puss and there's no consideration needed for when things are more complicated than that

i should have been more clear and used gender instead of sex.

> The problem with "non-binary" is that it is inherently sexist in the worldview it describes.

i think using a label like non-binary is because of the sexist worldview that already exists. if it was normalized and not frequently ostracized for people with penises to wear women's clothing, makeup, heels, have long hair, do their nails (or the same in the opposite direction), then i agree we maybe wouldnt need a label like non-binary.
by arp242 | 2025-08-25 19:27:31+00:00
> Furthermore you can't really park these cars in the city. Too big.

That doesn't seem to stop people where I live. One neighbour routinely blocks the entire footpaths with his ridiculously sized car. In the city centre the already small footpath is frequently blocked by these cars cramming in.

Being a selfish jerk is typically a pervasive personality trait.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-08-25 19:27:36+00:00
> students/learners should not dismiss calculus as "useless"

This seems to be quite a bit of a strawman to me.

ML is such a major part of the field today and at a minimum requires a fairly strong foundation in calc, linear algebra, and probability theory that I earnestly don't believe there are that many CS students who view calculus as "useless". I mean, anyone who has written some Pytorch has used calculus in a practical setting.

Now in pure software engineering you will find a lot of people who don't know calculus, but even then I'm not sure any would decry it as useless, they would just admit they're scared to learn it.

If anything, I'm a bit more horrified at how rapidly peoples understanding of things like the Theory of Computation seem to be vanishing. I've been shocked with how many CS grads I've talked to that don't really understand the relationship between regular languages and context free grammars, don't understand what 'non-determinism' means in the context of computability, etc.
by gowld | 2025-08-25 19:27:41+00:00
"In the example above, you can see that the OKLCH colors maintain consistent blueness across all of the shades, while in the HSL example, the lighter shades drift to purple and the darker ones muddy out towards grayish."

The OKLCH lighter shade veers off into bright cyan! I don't see HSL getting grey on the dark side.
by wafflemaker | 2025-08-25 19:27:46+00:00
So far even the least* "ethical" companies (raising initial money by pretending to be open) don't use machine learning based on users psychological profiles to create perfect hypno-drug-dopamine-poison (sorry, but the English word for drugs doesn't really carry the deserved weight).

And Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, more?.. are just it. They waste time worth $50-$100 just to make $0.05 in ads.

LLMs seem to be far from that.

* I might be ignorant of the real picture, please correct me if I'm wrong and not aware of really evil LLM companies.
by 7thaccount | 2025-08-25 19:27:59+00:00
I never said they were, but could've sworn that the Wikipedia page or parent comment did (I can't find it now and am questioning my sanity). I couldn't understand how he could try to get rid of them, although this isn't surprising as mathematics is basically magic to me once you get past calculus. I guess this is only about removing irrationals though.
by lucky_cloud | 2025-08-25 19:28:21+00:00
> Wouldn't it be cool if there was an app that would interrupt what the user was doing

It seems like this sort of idea is extremely common, considering how many websites love preventing me from viewing their content by slapping multiple modals asking me to sign up for a newsletter and/or to get my permission to be tracked using cookies.

It also shows up in native apps, in the form of some prompt asking the user if they are enjoying the app. NO! I do not enjoy being funneled into an App Store review or any similar bullshit. If I like using the app, I'll use it. If I don't, I won't. Stop asking me!

I build websites for a living and I'm constantly battling requests to infect our sites with these god-awful modals. It's like sitting down at a restaurant, being handed a menu, only to have the menu taken away seconds later and being asked if you'll return in the future. Not only is it rude, it's the wrong time to ask the question. Let me read the damn article or whatever, and when I'm done, if there's a newsletter form, MAYBE I'll sign up. Let me eat my meal, and if I enjoy it I'll think about returning.
by ncruces | 2025-08-25 19:28:52+00:00
> Seems like the ideal thing is to spawn a goroutine and run optimize periodically. Many Go daemons I run will have uptime measured in months so running on shutdown isn't super useful there.

Connections don't necessarily need to be kept forever. Between SetConnMaxLifetime/SetConnMaxIdleTime that's one way of periodically optimizing from “warm” connections. But doing it on a timer from a fresh goroutine is another.
by kube-system | 2025-08-25 19:28:54+00:00
I mean that older people have a longer duration of time in their current residence. Their homes have had a longer time to appreciate.

> If I'm reading the tables right, it looks like the oldest group received their largest jump in net worth during 2019-2022 and actually did worse than all other groups in 2016-2019.

I didn't dig into it too much, but the SP500 did better during the former period.