MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-08-04 14:04:39+00:00
There must be immense pressure to see meaningful progress or incredible growth in these big AI companies after all the investments they've received.

A few months back I saw a presentation from a military historian, and one of the key lessons that I took away was that you should never go to war with unclear objectives. If you have a noble objective in sight then I think you can make the case for crunching across the finish line. But based on how these AI company crunches are described, it sound more like a death march into the fog of war, praying that they stumble on a priceless artifact to justify the journey.

There are many in the modern era who dream of becoming heroes, and there's a certain majesty in setting out into the cognitive realm in search for their Holy Grail. Just don't look back at the trail of corpses of those who got left behind.
by Shank | 2025-08-04 14:05:09+00:00
This is, quite unironically, the type of development I wish Apple would pursue for macOS. It's 2025 and focus stealing is still a topic we can have a serious conversation about. Why? "I want to use my computer without random popups accidentally eating my keyboard commands and doing things without my consent" is not /that/ unreasonable of an ask.
by immibis | 2025-08-04 14:05:09+00:00
> I have an account in hibernation that is 15 years old and truly has a huge portion of my life contained in it. It's much like OP and losing a Google account.

Note that Reddit allows you to log into a banned account and have read access. You can also edit your previously-posted comments. So log in, export everything you want, edit all comments to nonsense as a "fuck you" to Reddit (there are scripts and browser extensions to do this, because a lot of people think Reddit deserves a "fuck you") then forget about it ever again.
by erginii | 2025-08-04 14:05:22+00:00
You know that moment when you build something and think… “wait, I actually like this”? Yeah, that just happened.

I’ve made a few products before, of course, but Caldra is the one that really made me want to double down and keep creating. It’s super simple: you just chat with your calendar and email, and it does the work for you.

With Caldra, you can:

- Schedule, update, or cancel meetings without even opening a calendar app - Send and check emails just by typing what you want

No clutter. No clicking through 5 menus. Just type like you’re talking to a friend, and it handles the rest.

Check it out here: https://caldrai.com and if you think it’s cool, an upvote on https://peerlist.io/ergini/project/caldra-ai means a ton.

ps. Built with Next.js, AI SDK, OpenAI GPT-4, and Supabase.
by robhlt | 2025-08-04 14:05:46+00:00
This is already supported! KDE has a really powerful "window rules" feature that lets you configure all kinds of properties on specific windows/apps, and focus stealing prevention is one of them. Just right click the app's title bar and under "more actions" you'll see "Configure Special Window/Application Settings...". The rule configuration window isn't the easiest to use, but "Add Property" is how you can set properties on windows that match the new rule.
by sgt101 | 2025-08-04 14:05:49+00:00
It's weaponised language that pseudo academics hurl around at each other to try and denigrate the research outputs of other people. In the distant past it had a meaning which was that research was being published in small parts in order to get more academic kudos from it, but now literally all research is published this way based on the judgement of the submitter about what they can get accepted where.

In this case Loeb seems to have decided to delight in publishing out-there ideas, probably with a bit of a mission to open up debate and widen the range of acceptable topics in the field of astronomy for younger less established researchers. Basically, he's at a point in his career where he simply doesn't care what anyone things of him and his research and so he's spending credit so that if someone younger and more at risk than him comes up with a startling idea they will hopefully be more likely to share it.

I think it's a good thing, obviously a bunch of people really don't.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-04 14:06:00+00:00
You say /s, but a government issued and USPS operated e-mail service may be very profitable. In the Netherlands we have a government message system where the tax office, local counties, water companies, etc can send you 'official' messages. Thing is though, each message costs €0.25 to send. I think this is ridiculously expensive for a glorified email, but I suppose they have a lot of certifications and audits and the like. I hope, anyway.

Anyway, email itself is broken, but this system works because if it costs money to send a message, it discourages any spambot and/or misuse.
by pjcodes | 2025-08-04 14:06:00+00:00
It is so good to see everyone’s feedback to this point and I hope you understand I am still creating things based on your thinking and feedback.

Quite a number of users suggested that it makes more sense to plug in disposable income instead of your total salary, the income left after essentials like rent, groceries, and other bills, because it gives a much more realistic work hour cost of an impulse buy.

Does that make sense to everyone else and do you think the calculation inside the application should, by default, rely on disposable income instead of your annual salary?

I would also like to state that as appreciation to all users testing the application at this early stage, I will begin to award users with premium access for a week so that users are able to experience the complete version(including personalised work-hours logic) of the application, so you can just go to Settings and put in your disposable income and test the app out.

I would really appreciate your feedback on this concept to allow me to work on the idea and implement it as soon as possible.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-04 14:07:15+00:00
> The fastest we can get to around Martian orbit is 7 months.

This is not accurate. Viking got there in <4 months, and we have the technology to do it even faster, if needed. The long duration transits are often the least energy (Hohmann transfer) and that's why we use them. Planetary alignment is also a big factor.

Anyway, there are currently proposals to have probes lingering in high orbits and intercept interstellar visitors (maybe not as fast as 3I), and Rubin should give us plenty of targets when it gets online.

As an interesting tidbit, 3I was found in the Rubin data ~2weeks before it was spotted. Should be a perfect exercise in refining the discovery algorithms.
by sigbottle | 2025-08-04 14:07:17+00:00
Oh, I interpreted design documents as general things - documentation included.

Plenty of things at my current job have formal mathematical proofs backing it and it's helpful when justification is explained like that.

Invariants in networking architecture i need to carefully manage etc.

Depending on the culture some of this stuff is also needed once you get into politics land and need to present your ideas because you know it's better, no? Ig at a large company with too many business oriented minded people this line of work would fall flat
by conductr | 2025-08-04 14:07:20+00:00
I don’t feel like it’s unjustly trying to assert Bluey an unfitting credit at all.

Instead I feel like the use of “fact” here is a nod to how thoroughly this has been discussed and how common knowledge it has become, at least to anyone who knows what Bluey is, thus preemptively eliminating the need to explain what Bluey is to that part of the audience that found themselves reading an article about the art process of a show that they are unaware of in the first place. To those readers, it’s a concise cue to go do your own research if you’re lacking that context before getting too far into the article.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-04 14:07:51+00:00
Yes.

The situation with the press is far worse than you think for structural reasons, it's a bit naive that you're asking this kind of question at all.

I'm old enough that I've had an experience where an "event" (French theorists would say l' événement) happens and

-- I watch it live on TV

-- I watch it again on the evening news

-- I read about it in the daily paper the next day

-- I read about it in a weekly paper (say The Economist) next week

-- I read about it in a monthly paper (say The Atlantic) next month

And then 25-30 years later a book comes out that is meticulous researched, they looked over all the primary sources, they interviewed everyone they could, etc. The picture of l' événement that I get from that book is entirely different than the picture that I recall having at the time, some of that is drift in my memories, some of that is the failure of my meaning making at the time, some of that is errors of commission, omission, connotation and denotation on the part of the media. I take the blame for my memory (although everybody's memory drifts over time), but the media + the meaning making process are fairly considered to be a system, and it doesn't work well.

To back this up

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armies_of_the_Night

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_on_the_Campa...

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Fictions (anything by Didion!)

-- https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/News/The-Inf... (1971 book that predicted you'd be reading the news on the WWW around 1980 or so -- the author prepared a report for the RAND corporation and was really angry and bitter that the media industry didn't want to make the investments to make it happen... and thus was the origin story of a legendary critic of the media who is more famous for https://www.amazon.com/effete-conspiracy-other-crimes-press/... and https://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Monopoly-Completely-Chapter...)
by username135 | 2025-08-04 14:07:53+00:00
Big words without context will leave you confused, but it makes more sense when you read the entire summary, imo:

Plain Language Summary

We provide explanation of spectacular naturally occurring bursts of X-rays and accompanying radio emissions that are observed in association with lightning activity in the Earth's atmosphere. These burst events are commonly referred to as terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs). The core physical process leading to these events is avalanche multiplication of relativistic electrons accelerated by force exerted by electric field. In geophysical context, the electric field of sufficient magnitude and spatial extent for supporting these avalanches is generated either as an ambient field due to thundercloud electrification or produced in streamer zones of lightning leaders. These electrons radiate energetic photons (X-rays) as they scatter by nuclei of nitrogen and oxygen atoms in air. These X-rays are radiated in all directions and some fraction is radiated in opposite direction of electron motion. These particular X-rays lead to seeding of new relativistic seed electrons due to the photoelectric effect and thus strong amplification of the original avalanche. It has been established recently that these feedback effects occur on very small spatial scales, and in this work, we report the first fully time-dependent simulations of related dynamics, similarity analysis allowing better understanding of characteristics of events observed at different altitudes, and quantitative comparisons with observations.
by n4r9 | 2025-08-04 14:08:40+00:00
> Not getting insurance doesn't make this cheaper really as you'll just lose your property completely every few years

It sounds a bit like the "Boots theory" of Discworld [0].

> insurance rates are often highly subsidized by federal government and actually a really good bargain

This feels a bit inconsistent with your previous comment about living in Tornado Alley being "not exactly a bargain".

What do you think about studies like this [1] which find a correlation between economic disparity and tornado risk?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01660...
by joules77 | 2025-08-04 14:08:49+00:00
Writing and writers changing every few decade. Reacting to the output of the previous gen.

Popular shows of 80-90s avoided trauma and ambiguity. Everything was simple and morally clear.

Then there was a huge counter reaction overload where we got Anti-Heroes, Moral Ambiguity, Trauma, "Realism" etc in every other show.

As viewers got tired and yearn for hope, faith, meaning, sincerity we got another wave (Ted Lasso, Reservation Dogs etc). Similar to the writing in Bluey they takes us back to Sincerity, but much smarter since they don't avoid Trauma. And show the viewer how healing and connection happens without power struggles.

Its basically a response to cynicism and fatigue. With comfort and care.
by watwut | 2025-08-04 14:09:09+00:00
You did not went into massive debt for life for that.

One bit difference is that European system did not had first three years of college as "life experience, basically generic study without specialization, basically another high school" thing.

You picked a field and studied that one. And that was structured as five years old study. If you are in the middle, you are eligible for the same positions as those who did not study at all - because you are not qualified yet.
by ericpauley | 2025-08-04 14:09:13+00:00
Personally, I find that if a model can vibe-code the functionality I'm working on then it's not very high-value functionality. Perhaps (a) it's boilerplate (fine), (b) I'm not creating enough/the right abstraction, or (c) the code could easily be written by a junior dev. If I'm working on truly new functionality, modeling complex states and assumptions, or producing something that generalizes to many settings, the model does poorly beyond being a souped up auto-complete.

That's not to say that these models don't provide value, especially when writing code that is straightforward but can't be easily generalized/abstracted (e.g., some test-case writing, lots of boilerplate idioms in Go, and basic CRUD).

In terms of labor I potentially see this increasing the value (and therefore cost) of actual experienced developers who can approach novel and challenging problems, because their productivity can be dramatically amplified through proper use of AI tooling. At the other end of spectrum, someone who just writes CRUD all day is going to be less and less valuable.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-04 14:09:17+00:00
I completely agree with a lot of what you said! I'm not against technology in general or think that things like email aren't useful.

I think my argument is harder to make for payment processors, but in the case of email, it is preferable to not need an email address to create an account (even if it's convenient to have the option), and have other identifiers that can be used, like OAuth using an existing account or phone number, for instance.

Or, like I said, even better if you don't even need to create an account to participate in a one-time transaction (instead of a service relationship) with an entity.
by IsaacGichuru | 2025-08-04 14:09:31+00:00
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by splitbrain | 2025-08-04 14:09:37+00:00
I only got started with NixOS a couple of weeks ago and I must agree. I would never consider running Nix on my daily Desktop machine (I'm using Arch BTW). It's more work and hassle than it's worth it.

OTOH I just set it up as the base for my new DIY NAS. There it is limited to just the bare minimum of bringing the system up and providing some core services (including Samba). And for this I found Nix' declarative approach quite good. I can easily restore the root system from the backed up config alone.

Everything else will be handled by Docker compose stacks outside the Nix eco system (stored on the RAID).

https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-08/03-diy_nas_on_nixos
by Aurornis | 2025-08-04 14:09:45+00:00
The parent comment was explicitly about telling other people.

Not some imagined scenario with a nosey neighbor seeing you shuffle lab equipment into the garage under cover of darkness. That’s a scenario hatched out of watching TV shows.

Regardless, it doesn’t matter that much if the one nosey neighbor starts spreading rumors. Unlike the movies and TV, the rest of your neighbors already know that the nosey neighbor is prone to fits of imagination, speculation, and prejudice. Nothing comes of it. Go on with your life.
by benterix | 2025-08-04 14:09:52+00:00
> Who is to say our brains aren't just very high parameterized biological floating point machines? That is the true Occam's Razor here, as uncomfortable as that might make people.

I believe it's quite possible that what is happening during training is in certain ways similar to what is happening to a child learning the world, although there are many practical differences (and I don't even mean the difference between human neurons and the ones in a neural network).

Is there anything to feel uncomfortable about? It's been a long time since people started discussing the concept of "a self doesn't exist, we're just X" where X was the newest concept popular during that time. I'm 100% sure LLMs are not the last one.

(BTW as for LLMs themselves, there are still two big engineering problems to solve: quite small context windows and hallucinations. The first requires a lot of money to solve, the second needs special approaches and a lot of trial and error to solve, and even then the last 1% might be almost impossible to get working reliably.)
by gruez | 2025-08-04 14:10:00+00:00
>We conducted an experiment by querying Perplexity AI with questions about these domains, and discovered Perplexity was still providing detailed information regarding the exact content hosted on each of these restricted domains

Thats... less conclusive than I'd like to see, especially for a content marketing article that's calling out a company in particular. Specifically it's unclear on whether Perplexity was crawling (ie. systematically viewing every page on the site without the direction of a human), or simply retrieving content on behalf of the user. I think most people would draw a distinction between the two, and would at least agree the latter is more acceptable than the former.
by papascrubs | 2025-08-04 14:10:28+00:00
Better fix your about page ;)

I've dabbled in NixOS and come to many of the same conclusions. The learning and troubleshooting overhead just isn't there yet (for me). I appreciate the concept and I do think declarative configurations do have a place in the near future, especially in corporate environments. I'll probably give it another go in a year or so to see if it's gained any more polish.
by egypturnash | 2025-08-04 14:10:29+00:00
The obvious next step is for the companies offering these AI interviewers to also offer AI interviewees! They can get paid twice for a single interview, it'll be great!

For them. They'll still have to burn all the resources involved in generating two audio/video streams, and analyzing them, of course. And someone's gotta pay for that. And they've gotta make a profit on top of that!
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-04 14:10:42+00:00
> Most young people are indoctrinated extensively in the female-centric view of society deemed acceptable by polite society.

Which is what exactly?

To be frank, I wouldn't like to be an American young man nowadays, nor would I like to be an American young woman.

Everytime this kind of debate pops up on the internet, you seem to see two very vocal camps, one pushing the most absurd reactionary non sense about what men should be openly exposing the grossest misoginy I have ever had the displeasure to read and the other one barely containing its deep seated misandry. People really like to reduce this topic to a for them or against them position preferably erasing any kind of complexity in the process.

I feel like normal people have exited the discussion on this topic a long time ago and the young who live most of their social life on the internet nowadays are just exposed to what remains.
by scythe | 2025-08-04 14:10:45+00:00
>Better materials for infills

My mother is a dentist on the verge of retirement who used to fly to conferences all the time and ran a reasonably successful dental practice with about a dozen employees (and plenty of computers). She would always talk about how the new implant ceramics are not as durable as the old amalgam and they're only popular because they're white instead of gray.
by jones1618 | 2025-08-04 14:10:53+00:00
Suggestion: Describe what your app actually does and what value it brings instead of relying on people being aware of an obscure app (I've never heard of it) like OpusClip by name alone.

Here's my parody of a bad Show HN post: I've created a version of Blarg built with Trank! (With no explanation of the benefits or functions of either. Throw in AI and it will surely be the next billion-dollar unicorn!)
by mapt | 2025-08-04 14:11:16+00:00
The USPS and state DMVs should also collaborate on the novel role of identity management. Right now if you lose your phone, half of your life disappears because Google won't even log you into the email address that contains every "lost my password" redirect without 2FA on a new device. This is a bad scene. We need boring old meatspace ways to establish, re-establish, and federate our identity as a real person. Something that demands that I wait in line, that I show them a utility bill or drivers' license, that I confirm with a retina scan or fingerprint printed out on a sheet of paper that nobody else has access to. Something that is only trackable in one direction, from which you can generate a new identity if one is compromised. This is so close to the functional role of the "Credit card number" that you may as well tack bank transfer verification on there.

The One Digital Identity Service To Rule Them All is always vulnerable to mass hacking. We need to connect it with something slower, something more private, and the interface to that slow identity needs to be something that already has a branch open in the middle of nowhere.