MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Brian_K_White | 2025-09-21 20:09:21+00:00
Public facing interfaces are their own special thing, regardless if json or anything else, and not all data is a public facing interface.

If you need it, then you need it. But if you don't need it, then you don't need it. There is a non-trivial value in the smallness and simplicity, and a non-trivial cost in trying to handle infinity problems when you don't have infinity use-case.
by resonious | 2025-09-21 20:09:23+00:00
I'll be honest, I don't think I would've interpreted "demanding an AuDHD diagnosis" as "explaining the compounding of their issues in the language of western medicine". Especially if their issues are just oppression. Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding.

Western medicine is well aware of the fact that they can't treat the underlying cause of things like autism and ADHD. If you're a real patient with one of these diagnoses (or even depression), they will tell you that upfront. They're not pretending to fix anything with pills.
by w14 | 2025-09-21 20:09:41+00:00
They haven't actually built one yet. They have been selected as the preferred bidder here in the UK, but that's as far as it has got so far.

https://www.rolls-royce-smr.com/press/rolls-royce-smr-will-b...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rolls-royce-smr-selected-...
by segmondy | 2025-09-21 20:10:09+00:00
well, you believed the wrong folks

Here's from my bsky feed 8 months ago after I took LLM to advent of code with local 32b model.

‪Segmond‬ @segmond.bsky.social‬ · 8mo I can confidently say that interns and junior developers can be replaced with AI. I also believe that mid to senior devs can double their output, meaning possibly less need for developers.

I haven't looked at other industries, but I believe this applies to any work that uses computers. ‪ This is inevitable, I'm tempted to write a detailed HOWTO, but what's the point when the value unlike past techs benefits a few folks more than society as a whole? I like AI but as an individual I worry a bit about how the entire thing will play it.
by tlonny | 2025-09-21 20:10:57+00:00
The rank disrespect of somebody asking you to review something they haven't even looked at is eye watering.

I feel like AI-induced brain-rot of engineers is inevitable. Unless we see AI leapfrog into something close to AGI in the future (certainly not ruling this out), I think there will be very lucrative careers available to engineers who can maintain a balanced relationship with AI.
by thelamest | 2025-09-21 20:12:03+00:00
Addressing the hypothetical person you’re describing: car infrastructure may solve some needs, but it is in direct conflict with other needs. Give every adult a guaranteed parking space just at home and at work, and the physical space required for that alone is an unbelievable double-digit percentage of the city area. Cities are so valuable because they pack a lot of amenities and markets (including your family’s schools and workplaces) in a compact area. Place everything significantly further apart, add more concrete and noise, and you’ve lost on all fronts: safety, charm and efficiency.
by libertine | 2025-09-21 20:12:12+00:00
> They are definitely incorrect. One pop culture way of looking at this is fairy tales. Not too long ago we used to tell children that if they went into the woods they could get eaten by people who lived there and lured children into their houses.

You're probably right that in the past there were more messed up events, which had high chance of being traumatic.

But you're forgetting the role that Perception has in that equation - from the perspective of a human, a traumatic event isn't a comparison exercise to all possible events, or to past events on previous generations.

Your subjective experience is bound to your context.

In that sense, I wouldn't be shocked if there was more trauma now from the amount of stimulus were getting throughout our life, and the volume of dramatic changes we go through, and the amount of people and chaos that comes with it.

For example, we have way more accidents, and we also have higher survival rates from accidents due to safety measures, and a advanced medical care. So, many deadly events in the past became accidents now, and by consequence, a high chance of it being a traumatic event, sometimes for the victim and the family (directly or indirectly).

Not to mention that our life styles don't even allow us to process traumatic events properly.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-21 20:12:36+00:00
Kind of depends. Attending a service academy in the states is a VERY GOOD IDEA if you want to make being a military officer your career. But yes, I take your point for the general case.

However... some of the best business contacts I have came from teaching at a trade school in Texas. But I'm just selling solutions into SMEs, I'm not baby-sitting kids with VC funds.
by fennecbutt | 2025-09-21 20:12:40+00:00
Absolutely, I remember an article from ages ago about a self learning algo implemented on an fpga (I think) that could modify its own make up on a hardware level.

It ended up optimising in a way that wasn't obvious at first, but turned out to be the noise of one part interacting with another.

Aha: Here's the paper https://osmarks.net/assets/misc/evolved-circuit.pdf

And a fluff article https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits

And as per usual, Google was hopeless in finding the article from a rough description. No chance, at all. Chatgpt thought for 10s and delivered the correct result, first time.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-21 20:13:38+00:00
>Well, isn't it because kids in independent school are in the school from 8am till 6pm, including Saturdays, since the age of 9, and by the age 11 they board, and all their lives revolve around learning?

No, it's nowhere near that intense on average. And also, this sounds like it very much is about the quality of the schooling, no? But, if you're also going with 'all kids aren't equally smart', then that would suggest that the results from that stage of schooling are not necessarily indicative of how well they would do at a given university, where there's a lot less support in general.
by allears | 2025-09-21 20:13:54+00:00
I have the same model, and similar complaints. I reduced the transparency (Settings-Accessibility) and that helped, but the needless animations and other cutesy touches are annoying and distracting. I turned off the call screening, because it was condescending. Maybe if I was a busy CEO it would be useful, but I'd rather see who's calling myself without another layer in between.

All of this BS about "fresh" and "exciting" is just BS. Apple is trying hard to create a trend, but I think it's overreaching.
by oguz-ismail | 2025-09-21 20:14:04+00:00
diff --git a/sj.h b/sj.h index 60bea9e..25f6438 100644 --- a/sj.h +++ b/sj.h @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ top: return res; case '{': case '[': + if (r->depth > 999) { r->error = "can't go deeper"; goto top; } res.type = (*r->cur == '{') ? SJ_OBJECT : SJ_ARRAY; res.depth = ++r->depth; r->cur++;

There, fixed it
Show HN: OpenLine – a tiny receipt layer for agents (MCP/LangGraph ready)
by terrynce | 2025-09-21 20:14:06+00:00
• What: Given a small argument graph (nodes/edges), OpenLine returns a verifiable receipt (claim/because/but/so + guardrails + telemetry). • Why: Tracing is descriptive; receipts are normative. They make agent steps auditable & safe by default. • How: stdlib Python; MCP JSON-RPC stub; LangGraph node; schema + validator; optional signing step; GitHub Actions + Pages. Repo: https://github.com/terryncew/openline-core Demo: https://terryncew.github.io/COLE-Coherence-Layer-Engine-/nca... Would love feedback on the guard checks and the OLP schema—where should it grow?
by agentcoops | 2025-09-21 20:14:10+00:00
I'm sure there are, but I can personally attest to the quality of those two. The French one in particular is just astonishingly well-executed that I would recommend looking at it if you were interested in techniques. The "magic" of it is in the composition: each chapter, you read a little description of a new grammatical concept, you work through various related sentences with help, and suddenly you're reading a whole French text composed of those past sentences and able to answer comprehension-related questions. It just builds and builds like that to great complexity.

What always makes learning to read easier is that time is completely in your control. The principle is pretty straightforward: if you have enough time and patience, you can read anything (with a dictionary, grammar book etc) and the more you read in that language the less time it starts to take. These books basically just bootstrap the process.

I mentioned it above, but the other way is if you have a book or article you really know well in your mother tongue that exists in a language you want to learn, just patiently try and read it in that language. I think programmers actually have a bit of an advantage in this, as it's really just pattern recognition -- and it isn't that different from trying to understand a program in a language you haven't worked with before.
by somat | 2025-09-21 20:14:55+00:00
It is almost the other way around, which is to say, the same as you said but approached from the other direction. The unixen I know(linux and bsd) implemented the threading concept(shared memory execution environments) by taking their execution environment that did not share memory(the process) and having it share memory. So on at least linux and bsd(probably others but I can not say for sure) a thread is just a process that shares memory with another process.
by ivraatiems | 2025-09-21 20:14:59+00:00
I've read Wynn-Williams' book. It is astonishing and fascinating. If even half of it is truth, it's nightmarish how the leaders of Meta behave. And completely predictable that they'd try to punish its author, despite that punishment having no bearing on whether the book is out in the world (it is).

That said, the author doesn't come off particularly well, either. In her effort to excuse herself for working for Meta's leaders willingly for so long, she comes off as a painfully naive workaholic who ignores the welfare of her husband, children, friends, family, and even her own body in order to serve the whims of executives who will never care for her. Reading stories about how she, her colleagues, and even world leaders are repeatedly debased and devalued in order to please people like Mark Zuckerberg and Sherly Sandberg is deeply sad.

She doesn't deserve what's being done to her but it's hard to see how it is unpredictable.
by tpm | 2025-09-21 20:15:16+00:00
I grew up without mobile phones. Now in 2025 it's just much more practical to carry the phone with me. On the bike I use it as a bike computer and navigation, plus it's great to have for emergencies. When out in the town, any town, it's again a navigation, I can pay parking, public transport or call a taxi. And much much more. Nobody forces me to use social networks, so I don't, and I completely agree with you it sucks to see people sit in restaurants and spend most of the time looking at their phones.
by AaronAPU | 2025-09-21 20:15:16+00:00
I’m only taking issue with the idea that by having a pleasant childhood you must live a life depressively mourning it.

If you only mean to say that depressive moments are an intrinsic and inevitable one-of-many flavors of life, I’d agree with that. This is much different from what I’d consider clinical, chronic depression of course.

You don’t need to urge me to seek God, that already comes from within.
by lossolo | 2025-09-21 20:15:29+00:00
Your whole argument is a copy paste from Isreal propaganda.

They didn’t "give Hamas a victory", recognition is about Palestinians right to self determination and about rescuing a two state horizon that successive Israeli governments have all but buried. That’s exactly how the UK, Australia, and Canada framed it today: "recognition is tied to 1967 borders, a reformed, non Hamas Palestinian government, and reviving a political track", not rewarding terrorism.

And no, this isn’t "ignoring Hamas". The ICC has warrants for Hamas figures and also for Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes during this war. You can reject the court, but the warrants exist and were recently upheld against attempts to quash them. That reflects how the law sees both sides’ conduct, not some applause for Hamas.

Saying Israel "must" be acting humanely because it risked troops on the ground doesn’t answer the core allegations. International law doesn’t turn on whether an army also undertakes ground ops, it turns on starvation of civilians, collective punishment, disproportionate strikes and incitement. Those are precisely among the acts the ICC cites (starvation as a method of warfare), and why so many governments now insist the political endgame can’t be left to military force alone.

If you want to deter terrorism, you need a credible political alternative that isolates militants rather than letting them claim they’re the only ones "delivering results". Recognition (explicitly conditioned on PA reform and excluding Hamas from governance)does that, it empowers non Hamas Palestinian institutions and puts real stakes on the table for a negotiated peace. That’s not "punishing Israel", it’s trying to prevent the next October 7 and the ongoing mass devastation in Gaza by giving both peoples a political path out.

So recognizing Palestine now isn’t capitulation to Hamas, it’s an attempt to stop a cycle of atrocities that law, courts, and most of the world already recognize as intolerable and to anchor a two state outcome in something more than wishful thinking.
by wqaatwt | 2025-09-21 20:15:42+00:00
It would be as great if European and others countries put a 25% tax on all revenue Google, Facebook etc. generate in their countries.

Especially tech companies making their money from ads and such provide very little real value and just drain massive amounts of money and transfer it to the US economy.

They generally have way more employees in the US relative to how much money they are making domestically.
by bakugo | 2025-09-21 20:16:36+00:00
> I don't know at what point people were convinced that the push against immigration is some kind of billionaire plot

Much like most other leftist rhethotic, this belief is not based on any real logic. Basically, the entire process went like this:

1. Corporations want more immigration to suppress middle class wages and workers' rights

2. They run propaganda campaigns targeted at the left and their virtues ("the poor immigrants are suffering and need our help! only racist nazis disagree!")

3. Said leftists, desperate to virtue signal and avoid being seen as racist or xenophobic, immediately move to support the cause unconditionally

4. They see the world as purely black and white, good vs evil, so when they ask themselves "do billionaires want immigration?" the thought process goes "billionaires=bad and immigration=good, therefore billionaires hate immigration"
by ack_complete | 2025-09-21 20:17:02+00:00
The features in question are platform agnostic. They could temporarily disable the detouring for native ARM64 apps since the mechanism is broken on that architecture, but it's not ideal since the Snapdragon X platform is one of the main platforms for the Auto Super Resolution feature. Upgrading sequential/blit mode swap chains to flip model theoretically should be legacy, but as OP shows, it's not really as new graphics code is still being shipped without flip model support.

Note that the detouring problem is only an issue for native ARM64 programs. x64 programs running in emulation on Windows ARM64 work fine.
by rwyinuse | 2025-09-21 20:17:15+00:00
Intercity buses would be nice, and perhaps a car pool among few friends could work. Renting a car however remains very impractical for any longer trip.

Still, I'm not sure what is so bad about owning a car in a small or medium-sized city like mine. Average age of a car in my country is almost 14 years, and rising. Very few people are buying new cars, and keeping the old ones around, using infrastructure already built isn't so bad. The population is barely growing and will soon fall, further reducing need for new car-centric infrastructure. I drive less than 8k kilometers a year.
by ajross | 2025-09-21 20:17:15+00:00
This is junk science. The illustration is absolutely bonkers: https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/02/28230224/cavedoodles.jp...

It's literally a bunch of graphic design output showing clean font glyphs! Needless to say, there is no, I mean zero evidence of any kind of symbology of the fidelity being shown. You'll get a petroglyph here or there, and that's it. Stretching those across whole continents and inferring "language" is just ridiculous.

This is, like mid-tier video game art.
by agentcoops | 2025-09-21 20:18:09+00:00
Yeah, language learning is such a wild thing. I have a five month old son now and I'm just getting to see the process of language acquisition firsthand. He'll be going to early school (eventually) in Danish, but probably won't end up living here forever, so curious if it'll stick with him through life or not.

What's your mother tongue out of curiosity?

Good luck with your studies!
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-09-21 20:18:16+00:00
I do love a bit of FP. Here's the canonical Hello, World! program.

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-} {-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-} {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} module Main where import Foreign.C.Types import Language.C.Inline qualified as C C.include "<stdio.h>" C.include "<stdlib.h>" main :: IO () main = [C.block| void { system("python -c 'print \"Hello, World!\"'"); } |]
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-21 20:18:29+00:00
But didn't I just make a case (heh) that it's not only about drop fragility?

It's a cheap sacrificial shell that adds utility. My examples were non-slip and grime from a public table. Maybe add scratches and impact damage in there too because every material is susceptible to that, and avoiding them helps me resell it.

There's no way to build that into a phone. I don't want rubber non-slip bumpers on my phone or a built-in clawed up plastic shell when I can have them in a swappable shell.
by dietr1ch | 2025-09-21 20:18:32+00:00
Primary keys to what? Users wanting to get a specific piece of data will need to know some user-visible Id for that.

You can masquerade internal Ids with opaque Ids if you want to maintain a translation layer. There's also more distributed use cases that require coming up with new Ids in isolation, so they will be "exposed" anyways as you sync up with other nodes.
by ascorbic | 2025-09-21 20:18:53+00:00
Usually, yes. The overwhelming majority of mobile dev jobs are platform-specific, or are specifically for a framework like React Native.

With native mobile dev, lock-in is less of a problem career-wise, because it's a duopoly, so your chosen technology is unlikely to become unfashionable like it would if you were specialised in a particular web framework.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-21 20:19:21+00:00
The neural networks we use today have really terrible accuracy, and we tend to make them worse, not better, as having more neurons is better than having more precision. Human brains are also a mess, but somehow, they work, and we are usually able to correct our own mistakes.

Since by AGI, we usually mean human-like, that system should be able to self correct the same way we do.
by goldfish3 | 2025-09-21 20:19:30+00:00
Thank you, enlightened hacker. I will only respond to far-right gibberish with voluminous essays from now on.

I don't think that would make it any more likely to convince them, and I do not owe anyone my time for their indulgence. The best I can hope for is that they take a look in the mirror at some point, so I'll stick to that.
by kazinator | 2025-09-21 20:19:45+00:00
What is the weaponization of a memory-foam mattress?

Of a dove-tail joint in woodworking?

> Derek Amato began playing the piano magnificently after nearly drowning in a swimming pool. It happened in 2006. Ten years later, a 16-year-old soccer player, Reuben Nsemoh, began speaking perfect Spanish after being knocked out by a ball.

Tabloid bullshit.
by xg15 | 2025-09-21 20:21:09+00:00
Well, I'm sure you could build an amazing anti-procrastination app that has pluggable anti-procrastination strategies and uses the multi-armed bandit algorithm, as well as an RL-trained RNN to discover your personal, optimal schedule of anti-procrastination interventions, while automatically prompting an LLM to devise new strategies as soon as the old ones begin to lose their effectiveness and also giving you an option to post your anti-procrastination progress online and watch the anti-procrastination achievements of your friends or invite them to go on a virtual anti-procrastination quest together...
by jacquesm | 2025-09-21 20:21:16+00:00
It goes further than that: it doesn't work at all. I know quite well how to deal with hardware com ports (I've built firmware for port concentrators), it's just that the emulations do not expose working endpoints and that makes it really hard to get this going.

Qemu and Virtualbox both supply similar mechanisms that should expose the com port but I've yet to be able to input or output a single byte through an emulated com port on either. What I'll probably end up doing is first to get a hardware pass through to work and once that is reliable to move back to emulated hardware to see if there are any differences. It's funny, I expected this to be one of the easier devices but so far it has not yielded at all.