MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xfactorial | 2025-08-26 20:21:17+00:00
For what i know, IBM R&D is truly a marvel in terms of Innovation, but one thing is “we managed to Create a process to make xyz” and another is, indeed, putting it together at scale.

5 nanometer was something they worked on, but it was TMCS the one who actually made it happen.

Perhaps this is a good chance to put to work some of that research using AMD Manufacturing.

Let’s see how it goes.
by robocat | 2025-08-26 20:21:49+00:00
> politics has more than one axis.

The "political compass" has two dimensions: left/right horizontally and authoritarian/libertarian vertically.

Unfortunately "political compass" is also for the quadrant memes: https://en.meming.world/wiki/Political_Compass (which has some good commentary on the compass and great examples).

And there's the Nolan Chart: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart which is even more confusing. The word "liberal" is not used in New Zealand much, although perhaps the US meaning is taking hold. Also centrist here is unclear so the Nolan Chart makes no sense to me.
by danny_codes | 2025-08-26 20:21:58+00:00
Seems like the correct solution would be to just eliminate tariffs entirely then.. why shoot yourself in the foot by reducing trade when you can.. just not do that?

The irony is this comes from the conservative movement, who are purportedly neoliberal economists.. but then completely disregard a central plank of neoliberal theory.

consistency is low on the MAGA priority list
by bcrosby95 | 2025-08-26 20:22:21+00:00
Like the other commenter mentioned, you can upgrade the 13". It's pretty common for laptops to come in two classes: smaller with a focus on portability and larger with a focus on performance.

There's a reason why a lot of us sat on the sidelines and were looking forward to the 16". There is no slippery slope here, the differentiated product lines 100% make sense.

Edit: there is another class I could see making sense - desktop replacement. Those chassis' tend to be pretty chunky because they put desktop parts into a laptop. Think 10 lb laptop with a battery that lasts 20-30 minutes. But I'm not sure if the market is large enough for them to pursue it.
by pcaharrier | 2025-08-26 20:22:28+00:00
>You believe way too much in the system.

Who me? I assure you I don't.

In the particular case I described above there were some factors about who the person was that make me pretty confident the police were wanting to sniff around for something juicier (though because of his situation, even the accusation of domestic violence was going to be enough to ruin certain things for him, even if nothing ever came of it). That's SOP for many things where, for example, certain departments train officers to use traffic stops as pretexts to "elevate" the encounter to a felony arrest. They don't care that the guy failed to come to a complete stop at that stop sign, but they like their chances of getting consent to search his vehicle and finding (or, in the egregious cases, planting) something else.

Edit: I see that you weren't replying directly to me. Sorry about that.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-26 20:22:58+00:00
I would say the goal is probably securing a conviction for the crime the detective believes took place: Closing the case is not inherently enough, and while there are some, I doubt most investigators sleep well at night that they convicted someone they think is innocent.

Our standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and ideally in a working justice system, judges should be throwing out any evidence which is prejudicial. So your detective has a general motive to find as much evidence as possible, overwhelming evidence, ideally, such that after all legal challenges have been passed through there is still enough evidence left on the table to concretely prove a case.

Obviously there's a lot of places our justice system can and does break down, but it is generally designed on the concept everyone involved in prosecution and defense should work to create the best possible case for their understanding.
by not_your_vase | 2025-08-26 20:23:25+00:00
I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but unfortunately this is nothing new - pretty much every software gets rewritten all the time. They reach about 80% of the features of the obsoleted originals before they would be abandoned for something shinier.

There was even some expression coined a few years ago, but the exact wording escapes me... "attention-deficit-teenager-developer-syndrome"? Something like that...
by scott_w | 2025-08-26 20:23:55+00:00
> The thing is, we can sit here on HN thinking we’re so clever

This was the precursor to the statement you objected to. It seems pretty central to my point: we only have access to public data and have no experience leading any military campaign. I’m willing to have a discussion to learn more but I’m ultimately going to trust that military people are looking at drone warfare in Ukraine and still trust the F-35 to be good value for money.

> based on compromises and several decades in advance.

Using drones in war has been a theoretical possibility since at least 2010, so I believe it’s definitely factored into their thinking.
by crote | 2025-08-26 20:24:06+00:00
From your first link:

> Does CBP require an aluminum certificate of analysis to be filed at the time of entry? > > At this time, CBP does not require an aluminum certificate of analysis to be filed at the time of entry. CBP, however, >>> can <<< request the importer to provide an aluminum certificate of analysis if CBP needs one to ensure compliance with the entry requirements pertinent to the item being imported.

In other words: they usually trust people to file their paperwork correctly, but reserve the right to demand lab reports when they suspected foul play. Filing lab paperwork in advance is not needed, however.

As mentioned in Olimex's blog post: US customs is now starting to ask everyone for a Certificate of Analysis. Paperwork isn't enough anymore, even when it is an obviously harmless product which has been imported many times in the past without any issues. If you can't hand over a lab report, it's not getting in.
by echelon | 2025-08-26 20:24:18+00:00
Even worse, that type of chronic inflammation might cause premature death. Or cancer. Or other disease states.

> “In the back of my mind, I kept thinking that if we could produce this type of light immune activation in other people, we could protect them from just about any virus,” Bogunovic says.

This sounds terrifying. There's a reason our bodies do not regulate like this.
by parsabg | 2025-08-26 20:24:36+00:00
I built a very similar extension [1] a couple of months ago that supports a wide range of models, including Claude, and enables them to take control of a user's browser using tools for mouse and keyboard actions, observation, etc. It's a fun little project to look at to understand how this type of thing works.

It's clear to me that the tech just isn't there yet. The information density of a web page with standard representations (DOM, screenshot, etc) is an order of magnitude lower than that of, say, a document or piece of code, which is where LLMs shine. So we either need much better web page representations, or much more capable models, for this to work robustly. Having LLMs book flights by interacting with the DOM is sort of like having them code a web app using assembly. Dia, Comet, Browser Use, Gemini, etc are all attacking this and have big incentives to crack it, so we should expect decent progress here.

A funny observation was that some models have been clearly fine tuned for web browsing tasks, as they have memorized specific selectors (e.g. "the selector for the search input in google search is `.gLFyf`").

[1] https://github.com/parsaghaffari/browserbee
by 1-more | 2025-08-26 20:24:40+00:00
> to force/encourage the manufacturing of goods in the US, rather than importing them.

There are two mutually exclusive stated goals. One is, as you said, onshoring tech manufacturing to the USA [1]. The other stated goal is to eliminate income tax and replace it with income from tariffs [2][3]. To play these out on their own terms: if the first goal succeeds, then import volume would drop, and total tariff income would be too low to replace income taxes. If the first goal fails, then tariff income would be high enough to replace income taxes. IDK I haven't done the napkin math and I suspect neither have they.

[1]: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-his-tariffs-...

[2]: https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-proposes-abolishment...

[3]: https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371514396112

Going with Fox Business links to avoid accusations of bias.
by petercooper | 2025-08-26 20:24:47+00:00
Plus ça change! I started out in the "new media" industry in the late 90s and worked with a variety of "web designers" who didn't know how to code HTML or work with Web technologies at all, let alone upload anything. They had a good idea of the limitations but broadly "designed" things and handed them off to programmers to actually implement.

Lest anyone doesn't believe me, there was a BBC drama called Attachments which had a lot of London new media sceneish stuff going on in it and their team worked in a very similar way to real ones I was on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2rEFvlKA3g (NSFW as most post-watershed shows in 2000 were..)
by brokencode | 2025-08-26 20:24:49+00:00
They design much more in house than any other smartphone brand, except maybe Samsung.

CPU, GPU, neural processor, image signal processor, U1 chip for device tracking, Secure Enclave for biometrics, a 5G modem (only used in the 16e so far)…

They don’t manufacture the chips in house of course. They contract that out to TSMC and other companies.
by IAmBroom | 2025-08-26 20:25:06+00:00
A verbose rewriting of an instance of "No True Scotsman".

If you use a legally described title, such as lawyer, MD, OD, electrician, or (in some US states and Canada) engineer, you either have the exact qualifications, or are committing fraud.

If you call yourself an unregulated title, such as web developer, rocket scientist, or landscaper, well, that's just like your opinion, man. And market forces will react; maybe by hiring you; maybe by spreading the word you don't deserve the title.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-26 20:25:42+00:00
Lately I've noticed a social trend, where whomever you critique for The Current Mess, someone else is afraid that indirectly lifts justified blame from another group. Maybe that just reflects how we humans have limited capacity for attention and outrage, and there's too much to fix at once.

For example, the split between:

1. The willfully-culpable Republican party.

2. The inept/uninspiring Democratic party.

3. The lazy/clueless non-voters.

I'm not sure how to solve that problem... maybe arguing over prioritization is necessary.

________

P.S.: For something more-actionable, how about this: Many problems exist, individual humans aren't built to consider them all simultaneously and coequally, be kind to well-meaning allies that are focusing on a particular piece.
by timr | 2025-08-26 20:27:03+00:00
> So again, to be clear: You're saying multiple post offices around the world are wrong? Are they acting in unison?

Well, I don't keep track of what post offices around the world are doing, but if they're not following the rules that I just showed you, then yeah, they're wrong.

It wouldn't be the first time that bureaucratic organizations get things wrong.

> The EO doesn't mean shit as much as how things are enforced.

You really need to step back from the keyboard.
by ljosifov | 2025-08-26 20:27:08+00:00
Plenty of excellent comments about the companies - e.g. Apple vertical closed mobile 1st, while Microsoft horizontal open desktop 1st; decades of work by many thousands of people went into optimising many tiny advantages, aka tricks - but can't help but think back of pre-history. Where Intel was always more-is-more, while ARM was always less-is-more. Intel was winning for the longest time. Never expected to see non-x86 competitive single core integer performance tbh. And in the pre-pre-history, one generation further back, tiny 6502 1MHz and mostly totally 8 bit only, could about keep up with Z80 4MHz and his almost-aspiring-to 16 bit registers. Always made me wonder somewhat - "whut, how come??"
by qingcharles | 2025-08-26 20:27:17+00:00
What happens once these residential IPs end up on CSAM or terrorism or IP infringement lists?

I ran a proxy in ~1996 so students could MUD from restricted uni shells, but one weekend I went to visit my parents and there was a knock on the door and a smartly dressed man interrogated me about a plot to assassinate Clinton. (he was Special Branch sent on behalf of the Secret Service and FBI)
by jzelinskie | 2025-08-26 20:27:45+00:00
After reading about the recommendation system breakthrough[1], I'm more curious about just how much we're leaving on the table with classical algorithms. If you raised the amount of money being funneled into quantum computing and spent it purely funding classical algorithm research, would you be better off?

[1]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alte...
by mrs6969 | 2025-08-26 20:28:01+00:00
I don’t know if this will make anything better.

Internet is now filled with ai generated text, picture or videos. Like we havent had enough already, it is becaming more and more. We make ai agents to talk to each other.

Someone will make ai to generate a form, many other will use ai to fill that form. Even worst, some people will fill millions of forms in matter of second. What is left is the empty feeling of having a form. If ai generates, and fills, and uses it, what good do we have having a form?

Feel like things get meaningless when ai starts doing it. Would you still be watching youtube, if you knew it is fully ai generated, or would you still be reading hackernews, if you know there not a single human writing here?
by alsetmusic | 2025-08-26 20:28:14+00:00
(Also not OP, so this is not speaking for them but speaking to the documentation.)

The more accurate answer is that Paul wrote (or was supposed to have written) a bunch of letters documenting his travels. The book of Acts (christian bible) also documents his travels. Note that multiple of the Pauline epistles are widely recognized to be forgeries written in his name.

The time of the other apostles post-New Testament is mostly accounted as tradition rather than written record. I'm not saying all, I'm saying most. I do not pretend to be an expert. There's no map to be made of the travels of Thomas, for example. Only the idea that he reached India (and maybe some other details that I'm leaving out). Or Jame-the-Just, who, as far as I can tell, might have gone to Rome but didn't travel the Mediterranean. The reason for his conversion has little to nothing why this is interesting (to me, to scholars, to people who aren't of the faith).

I've been reading a ton about the first two centuries of christianity for a couple of years and this is my current understanding. It's an exciting topic if you're a history nerd. Especially if you're an atheist who wants to better understand the formation of the dogma that you might have been taught as a child.

Apologies for stomping on your reply / reasoning. I don't agree with your answer. No harm intended.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-26 20:28:21+00:00
US size in international trade does not match the size of its consumer economy. When the US cuts it's own dick off, trade between everyone else compensates.

The EU is the top trading partner for 80 countries. By comparison, the US is the top trading partner for a little over 20 countries. The EU is the world’s largest trader of manufactured goods and services.
by bena | 2025-08-26 20:28:23+00:00
No. Meta is spending $10B to build its largest data center in rural Louisiana.

I guarantee you that a lot of that $10B will be spent out of state. This is yet another corporate handout with the thin veil of "technology investment" Louisiana loves.

Myth: It has computers, therefore we are investing in technology and hi-tech jobs.

Fact: This will be built by out of state contractors, staffed by mostly out of state workers, and far less than anyone expects or claims. And will essentially transfer local resources out of the state while making those resources more scarce for residents.

Louisiana let EA run their QA from here to severely underpay people and pay fewer taxes. They courted IBM to do the same with Salesforce jobs. And now Meta gets to exploit the state to enrich another out-of-state corporation.
by pcaharrier | 2025-08-26 20:28:56+00:00
>Is that cutting corners? It sounds more like trying to break the law so they could find _anything_ to throw at the guy.

In my experience, yes, in many cases it was more laziness than something nefarious. Police often have a theory of the case in their head that just doesn't make it onto the affidavit. Things that seem obvious to them after investigating the case for some length of time are not as obvious to someone seeing it for the first time on a search warrant affidavit. Fishing expeditions happen, no doubt, but let's also remember Hubbard's corollary to Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system." They get in a hurry, don't read the affidavit with fresh eyes, and forge ahead anyway because they're under pressure to close cases quickly. Not that that's a good thing, but it's distinct from people who are intent on just breaking the law and violating people's rights.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-26 20:29:02+00:00
Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with Asimov at all, I just think his characterization of physics as constituting knowledge is overly enthusiastic. Like, yes, its clear physics constitutes knowledge of some sort, but I think its much less knowledge of what things actually are than Asimov might be prepared to entertain.

The reason I raise the point is that its at least conceivable that we could have found ourselves in a world where physics discovered a fundamental ontology of the universe. Eg, maybe we could have discovered that quantum fields could be consistently described at all scales and thus we could more definitively say "yes, Virginia, the universe is composed of quantum fields." But we did not find this. Quantum Fields are widely understood to be effective descriptions of some unknown phenomenon which may not even resemble anything which makes intuitive sense with the rest of the way we think about physics. And all of that is to say nothing about quantum mechanics or quantum gravity.

This isn't a trivial observation. We seemed to know more and more about the ontology of the world up to and perhaps slightly after the annus mirabilis. Simply establishing that atoms existed was a sort of ontological climax which then unraveled into a flaccid denouement as quantum mechanics and then QFT and the inability to formulate quantum gravity cast deep doubt on what things are even made of or whether its even possible to conceive of things at all. I stress again, this might not have happened. I can imagine some possible world where t'Hooft like cellular automata were somehow confirmed and the question of ontology was well and truly put to bed or at least for any but the most extreme philosophical skeptics.
by throwanem | 2025-08-26 20:30:09+00:00
Someone afraid he's seeing commoditized the labor he sells by it, apparently. Past that I wouldn't really know, having only read the article.

For example:

> A web developer possesses applied expertise in the workings of the web[.]

> If you’d like my definition, I guess that heading is the closest I care to get. Nitpick it as broad, if you like; that’s somewhat on purpose.

So invited, I accept, only to immediately disappoint: the definition here isn't broad, nor indeed anything else, but facially incoherent.

What does it even mean to "possess applied expertise?" Is that double verb meant to denote, as when taken literally it does, "knowing how to do the thing that inheres in knowing how to do something?" Or is this sudden explosion of semantic complexity a symptom of the author's lack of success in reconciling his own doubts to himself? Which seems to you more likely?

edit: Then again, in the author's own colophons he describes himself variously as some combination of "frontend," "design[er]," and "engineer," though he is always very clear on his employer. Given he thus reveals a preference directly against describing himself by the term he defends, I now regard this article as likely sucker bait: why bother competing against people you can cozen into opting out on their own? And of course every fool loves to mistake a wall of punctilious typography for wisdom.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-08-26 20:30:23+00:00
Even aside from the advisability of the tariffs -- it turns out there might be a reason that tarrifs haven't usually been imposed with like weeks notice, after months of back and forth, with no real advance implementation planning on the government's part and not enough time or reliable info for anyone else to do so either?

It is very strange to me that the government seems to be going for maximum shock and uncertainty on the US economy. Again, apart from the advisability of the actual tarrifs, they could have been implemented in the usual way to allow people to plan for them (and possibly give feedback on them), but they were not.
by hluska | 2025-08-26 20:30:57+00:00
Short term yes. But (this isn’t a defense of tariffs), the concept is that this will spur on domestic production in raw materials. So with this example, if there is a domestic source of copper it wouldn’t be subject to tariffs at all. In theory only, well balanced tariffs would make it cheaper to import US sourced raw materials for use in US bound products. In practice, I don’t think anyone knows what’s involved in doing that.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-08-26 20:31:07+00:00
I've written extensively about this previously here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/16fu7o0/comment/k03...

I've also used C# at a VC-backed, SV startup (raised $8m seed). It was fantastic and we were able to move very fast on the backend. The tooling is stable and much better to work with than TS IMO. It wasn't any harder to hire for, IME. We had two very junior engineers (college grads) who were able to pick it up pretty easily as it has a strong resemblance to TypeScript these days[0]

I am in the process now of spinning up C# at a series-C YC startup so we'll see how it goes. The team started in JS and moved to TS 3 years back. Now TS is showing its rough edges (lack of runtime types, poor-man's ORMs that all have issues, complexity of TS ops at scale (multiple build chains, tooling, breaking changes, lack of standard libs (it was a bit of a quirk to me that DB transactions between Drizzle and Prisma didn't work -- then I realized that they don't have a common transaction layer))).

C# is very, very underrated and I can understand why more startups don't use it, but more startups should definitely give it a look.

[0] https://typescript-is-like-csharp.chrlschn.dev/