MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-02 14:50:08+00:00
Have you tried buying a Windows computer recently? Add Microsoft to your list of companies where it's nearly impossible to go without having a registered account. At least in the western world.

It's a different story in other parts of the world. Chinese brands like Beelink and Minisforum still sell Windows 11 PCs that provide you with a local account. That's because their primary market is located in a jurisdiction that has historically allowed PC users to engage in mass piracy without legal consequences, for better or for worse. Old Windows 10 installs are also not going away any time soon.

While you can install whatever software you like on a standard Windows 11 PC, the lack of a software signing certificate from Microsoft require users to fight the built in browser, SmartScreen, and Windows Defender before they can run your software. The end result is closer to Apple and Google than people realize.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-09-02 14:50:24+00:00
That is good, but is too little too late.. We need to stop weapons, munition and other "defense" products making their way to Israel.

The entire west is complicit to a contemporary genocide, the entire west is complicit to a degeneration of the very concept of humanity itself.

Yet we pride ourselves as the champions of human rights.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-02 14:50:26+00:00
I love these little “reveals” of “secret architecture”. A lot of cities have them: the Minneapolis Skyway; underground cities in Toronto, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago; Boston’s Emerald Necklace.

I think that’s a secret to continued, healthy city development, especially in an era increasingly marked by climate change and a rejection of car culture: how far can a pedestrian safely go within a controlled environment (climate controlled or controlled access, like a park system) in a city? Whenever I look at rankings of cities, I notice a consistent trend where cities with these sorts of features consistently rank higher than those without, because to build and maintain them requires cooperation between stakeholders rather than competition, and cooperation is at the heart of a healthy community.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-02 14:51:38+00:00
> [0] I won’t say the weakest of their tools because youtrack exists.

I realized something shocking while nodding along to your observation: they are a dev-tools company, and made their own issue tracker, but I still have to populate every single field, by hand, when reporting a bug against one of their products. But they have total control over the content emitted by RubyMine > About in order to package up the "what, exact, release and platform is the user on". Ironically, I could file that as a YouTrack against the YouTrack product if I enjoy spitting into the wind
by raudette | 2025-09-02 14:51:59+00:00
No one has mentioned Calgary's inter-office skyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15

10 miles/16 km.

I've actually never been, but saw it featured in a CanCon movie, waydowntown, where a group of office workers wage a month's salary as to who can stay inside the longest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-09-02 14:52:08+00:00
It's been a really long time since I last used RubyMine as well, but one of my complaints back then was that it didn't help much when trying to debug code that made heavy use of metaprogramming. Maybe capabilities have improved since then. Despite that limitation, RubyMine still provided a far better debugging experience than what could be achieved through the default ruby debugging tools.
by Someone | 2025-09-02 14:52:09+00:00
I think that’s because of the last phrase in this provision in the DMA (article 13.4 in https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...):

“The gatekeeper shall not engage in any behaviour that undermines effective compliance with the obligations of Articles 5, 6 and 7 regardless of whether that behaviour is of a contractual, commercial or technical nature, or of any other nature, or consists in the use of behavioural techniques or interface design.”
by laotze | 2025-09-02 14:52:59+00:00
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by bluGill | 2025-09-02 14:53:14+00:00
Nothing to do with motorists. When the weather is "bad" (cold, hot, rain...) it is uncomfortable go go outside and so a way to travel that isn't at street level is desired. Since there is an underground subway system why not just go down the the basement of the building you are in to access it instead of walking outside?

It is nice for motorists, but it is useful even if there are no cars.
by duiker101 | 2025-09-02 14:53:17+00:00
That was a long time ago. In 2014 they took a bite of the poisoned apple and received 40 mil. I can imagine that's where the rat race began, till they sold to this MediaLab company in 2021.

I can imagine anything of value, both culturally and technologically, is just being squeeze for any possible penny.
by NoGravitas | 2025-09-02 14:53:23+00:00
You need to join an organization that is doing more than activism theater. This is surprisingly hard to do. For one thing, because of COINTELPRO infiltrating leftist groups, there have been a couple generations of activists who have never known anything other than activism theater. For another, our hyperindividualized society tends to disincentivize collective action.

It's probably easier to find an organization doing good work in one area than one looking at the whole picture, so if there's an issue you particularly care about, you should probably compare the leading organizations focusing on that issue.
by bluesroo | 2025-09-02 14:54:10+00:00
I’d agree that most humans are not pathological power seekers; however I believe that’s exactly why we end up with successful pathological power seekers.

Like the world is learning with nukes, you cannot rely on the powerful for mercy. You can only rely on the powerful to grasp for more power and the only way to stop them is to yourself be as strong as possible.

If a utopia ever exists, it will only be because of a stalemate arms race (see: no nuclear powers have had an open war). Peaceful utopia is otherwise too easily disrupted by a single asshole with a big stick.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-09-02 14:54:10+00:00
The 100 miles "border zone" is where all this can occur. It's a very contentious issue (considering 2/3rds of the pouplation and cities are within the zone).

The ACLU is very interested in this issue on 4th Amendment grounds but they have not had much luck with it in the last decade. Lots of cases but it's still not a settled issue.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
by amirkabbara | 2025-09-02 14:54:27+00:00
Most AI systems today rely on vector search to find semantically similar information. This approach is powerful, but it has a critical blind spot: it finds fragments, not context. It can tell you that two pieces of text are about the same topic, but it can't tell you how they're connected or why they matter together.

To solve this, everyone is engineering context, trying to figure out what to put into context to get the best answer using RAG, agentic-search, hierarchy trees etc. At Papr we tested almost every option that exists. These methods work in simple use cases but not at scale. That's why MIT's report says 95% of AI pilots fail, and why we're seeing a thread around vectors not working.

Instead of humans engineering context, we've built a model to predict the right context. Our model ranks #1 on Stanford's STARK benchmark that measures retrieval in complex real-world queries (not useless needle in a haystack benchmark). It's also super fast because it's predicted in advanced, which is essential for a ton of use cases like voice conversations. Try it out on papr.ai, our open source chat app or use papr's memory APIs to create your own experiences with papr.

We've also developers a retrieval loss formula and show that Papr's memory APIs get better with more data. Not worse like other retrieval systems today. A similar pattern to LLMs - the more data the better.
by DonsDiscountGas | 2025-09-02 14:55:05+00:00
Zuckerbergs AI "strategy" seems to be to make it easy for people to generate AI slop and share it on FB thus keeping them active on the platform. Or to give people AI "friends" to interact with on FB, thus keeping them on the platform and looking at ads. It's horrifying but it does make business sense (IMHO) at least at first glance.
by neutronicus | 2025-09-02 14:55:25+00:00
Fair perspective.

Honestly, for me the joy of life was front-loaded. Childhood was great, lot of stress and alienation since, with joy taken where I can find it but not a typical condition. My almost-six-year-old seems to be loving childhood as well, so I hope that even if things go really pear-shaped for civilization in the next couple decades he'll regard having lived as a net win.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-02 14:55:26+00:00
Less than 1% of an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia.

The other 99+% is all of the lossy knowledge that isn't even in encyclopedias in the first place.

Including going much, much, much deeper than e.g. Wikipedia in many areas. So there it's not "lossy" -- it's effectively the opposite, i.e. "super resolution".

And very, very little of what I look up using LLM's is anywhere in Wikipedia to begin with.
by netcan | 2025-09-02 14:56:00+00:00
>the problem is that in order to develop an intuition for questions that LLMs can answer, the user will at least need to know something about the topic beforehand. I believe that this lack of initial understanding of the user input

I think there's a parallel here for the internet as an i formation source. It delivered on "unlimited knowledge at the tip of everyone's fingertips" but lowering the bar also lowered the bar.

That access "works" only when the user is capable of doing their part too. Evaluating sources, integrating knowledge. Validating. Cross examining.

Now we are just more used to recognizing that accessibility comes with its own problem.

Some of this is down to general education. Some to domain expertize. Personality plays a big part.

The biggest factor is, i think, intelligence. There's a lot of 2nd and 3rd order thinking required to simultaneously entertain a curiosity, consider of how the LLM works, and exercise different levels of skepticism depending on the types of errors LLMs are likely to make.

Using LLMs correctly and incorrectly is.. subtle.
by rasikjain | 2025-09-02 14:56:08+00:00
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by HDThoreaun | 2025-09-02 14:56:13+00:00
> The Palestinians didn't start the 'war of Independence'

yes they did. The jews were ready to accept the UN plan.

> They didn't start the 1967 war, that was Israel.

Youre right about this one

> They didn't occupy South Lebanon

This was in direct response to attacks from hezbollah

> or the Golan Heights.

Agreed israel did syria very dirty

> They didn't assassinate multiple government officials in Lebanon and Iran

By government officials you mean terrorists who directly contributed to ki9lling israeli civilians

> They weren't the party who broke dozens of internationally brokered ceasefires

Yes the palestinians absolutely did this
by canucker2016 | 2025-09-02 14:56:19+00:00
The winters are variable.

Some years they vacillate between -10C and 4C causing ice to melt to water and then refreeze, nature's jackhammer to any surface cracks in the asphalt road resulting in a city budget line item for "springtime pothole fixing".

Once in awhile, the temps will drop to below -20C for several days/weeks. Not as bad as midwest USA/Canadian prairies winters requiring a heater for your car engine block, but going outside is laborious and painful for long periods.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-02 14:56:22+00:00
> Shopify, Stripe, and GitHub

Yeah I mean Facebook, Wordpress, Wikipedia... but are you going to start a new project in PHP today? I bet all of them wish they weren't using Ruby. (Well probably not because they'll attract devs that love Ruby, but you get the point...)

Anyway in terms of concrete numbers the best thing I've found is to look at Github PRs/projects/stars. This site is really cool: https://madnight.github.io/githut/

Ruby was quite popular at the start of the chart in 2014 when it was more popular than Java! But gradually waned until about 2020 where it seems to have stabilised at "not very popular", just behind PHP.

Go and Typescript seem to have taken its place, which makes sense because they're both much better languages.
Show HN: Android guitar looper app for creating seamless practice loops
by ralph_sc | 2025-09-02 14:56:25+00:00
I’m a developer and hobby guitarist, and I built a small Android app to help with practicing.

I always wanted to make a cross-platform native app in C (C99), and this is my attempt. I started on macOS and then moved to Android. The hardest parts so far have been JNI integration and handling permissions. The GUI is custom and rendered with OpenGL ES.

The app records seamless, bar-perfect loops with a precount click, so you can strum chord changes and improvise over them.

Happy to answer questions or get feedback.
by sigio | 2025-09-02 14:56:31+00:00
Most banks here (nl) give you a dumb coincell battery powered code-calculator, either with or without smartcard access to your banking-card. Basically some form of TOTP or challenge-response system.

Those devices have no network, no connectity, no gps, and no interface besides a tiny 7-segment lcd display and some 0-9 buttons for pincode entry.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-02 14:56:34+00:00
This reminds me of my favorite special form in common-lisp: `the`. https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_the...

(the fixnum (compute-my-fixnum-value))

This specifies that the value in the form in the second argument is of the type specified by the first argument. One might assume that this is what other languages call `assert`, and it can be; your compiler / interpreter can be configured to assert if it detects a mismatch between the two.

... but the spec actually specifies that if they don't match, the behavior is undefined. `the` is also an opportunity for the compiler to throw away some dynamic typechecking logic; essentially, it's a chance to paint racing stripes on the implementation so it goes faster at the cost of risking undefined behavior.
by orwin | 2025-09-02 14:57:30+00:00
That's where I'm extremely opposed to conservatives/reactionaries of my country: they identify some issues correctly imho, but we're in total disagreement of the root cause, and thus on how to solve it.

To me, the US have way to much influence, and it's destroying us.

Its NGOs would never have qualified as NGO here (Thorn is only an example), yet we let them lobby as if they weren't weird, dark money adjacent groups. Worst, the Atlas network and all its foundations/schools are definitely culturally USian, yet they try (and succeed) in redefining Europe culture (the 'please think about the children' is definitely from there) and importing US culture wars we never cared about until the late 2000s. Europe and the EU is slowly turning into the US, our governments allow it, and I think that we should pump the brakes, fast.

I like the US, I like people there, but I don't want my country to become a satellite of the US.
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-02 14:57:40+00:00
> I think you may have a different idea of what IQ is than me. I’m simply interested in some way to consider the raw horsepower of a given brain.

Entirely possible, and if that is all you want to use the metric for, then I have no qualms with that. I just get very leery about using the metrics for policy. In my state, for example, IQ <= 69 immune from death penalty and an IQ >= 70 makes one eligible (assuming a 1st degree murder conviction). I know there has to be a cut-off somewhere, but I do not think the tests are accurate enough to demonstrate a large difference between scores in that range (same on the other tail end too).

> Scientists aren’t inherently trying to answer the most useful questions, just the ones they find interesting enough to research.

Fair enough.

> intelligence is simply too complex multifaceted, or maybe it’ll simply turn out to be like BMI, where it’s only applicable to populations of sufficient size.

I still hold such views despite reading plenty of the research. IQ certainly measures something, but I am not entirely certain we fully understand what we are looking it. Plenty of low/moderate correlates. From what I can honestly tell, it appears that IQ is a great predictor at the speed of which one learns, but coincidentally, that does not predict domain mastery.

For example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602... (Though, I do not agree the finds are "significant" -- those r^2 are brutal)

> Of course things like grit and training and emotional stability and socioeconomic status and… matter just as much in terms of how well we can use that engine/brain.

Well, thank you for being rational. It's quite rare these days.

> I think it was a study in 2012 in Neuron(?) that was considered the death knell for the IQ test as we see it today.

Ah! I know which one your talking about. Yes, that was a blow, but I think the field is chugging along just fine.

> this test would be more physical than mental

I have once considered how awesome this would be too. I think Sternberg, a field-famous psychologist, is working on something physical, albeit not in this realm. I believe he wants to create some kind obstacle course/escape room like measurement, if I am not mistaken. I was pay-walled a while back, so I couldn't quite tell what the paper was fully about.
by Stranger_X | 2025-09-02 14:57:49+00:00
Some of the most memorable conversations in life happen by accident—on a train, in a café, or with a stranger online. But most of the internet has moved away from that. Everything is optimized, curated, and filtered.

We built StrangerMeet to bring serendipity back. You press a button, you meet someone real—text, voice, or video. No feeds. No followers. Just a moment in time.

Sometimes you laugh. Sometimes it’s awkward. Sometimes you meet someone worth continuing with. That’s the beauty of it: you never know.

Curious—does anyone else here feel like we’ve lost randomness on the internet?
by el_benhameen | 2025-09-02 14:58:10+00:00
I don’t disagree that you should use your doctor as your primary source for medical decision making, but I also think this is kind of an unrealistic take. I should also say that I’m not an AI hype bro. I think we’re a long ways off from true functional AGI and robot doctors.

I have good insurance and have a primary care doctor with whom I have good rapport. But I can’t talk to her every time I have a medical question—it can take weeks to just get a phone call! If I manage to get an appointment, it’s a 15 minute slot, and I have to try to remember all of the relevant info as we speed through possible diagnoses.

Using an llm not for diagnosis but to shape my knowledge means that my questions are better and more pointed, and I have a baseline understanding of the terminology. They’ll steer you wrong on the fine points, but they’ll also steer you _right_ on the general stuff in a way that Dr. Google doesn’t.

One other anecdote. My daughter went to the ER earlier this year with some concerning symptoms. The first panel of doctors dismissed it as normal childhood stuff and sent her home. It took 24 hours, a second visit, and an ambulance ride to a children’s hospital to get to the real cause. Meanwhile, I gave a comprehensive description of her symptoms and history to an llm to try to get a handle on what I should be asking the doctors, and it gave me some possible diagnoses—including a very rare one that turned out to be the cause. (Kid is doing great now). I’m still gonna take my kids to the doctor when they’re sick, of course, but I’m also going to use whatever tools I can to get a better sense of how to manage our health and how to interact with the medical system.
by canucker2016 | 2025-09-02 14:58:10+00:00
The route has several 180 degree turns. see https://www.bougebouge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/captur... [edit: pic is shown at the bottom of https://www.bougebouge.com/en/shop/events/5km-bougebouge-tor... page]

Plus, like any other person using the PATH, the runners got lost along the way.

see https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/torontos-underground-5k...
by latexr | 2025-09-02 14:58:24+00:00
Except that’s not what I’m saying at all. If anything, the “type of comment that has been killing HN” (and any community) are those who misunderstand and criticise what someone else says without providing any insight while engaging in ad hominem attacks (which are explicitly against the HN guidelines). It is profoundly ironic you are actively attacking others for the exact behaviour you are engaging in. I will kindly ask you do not do that. You are the first person in this immediate thread being rude and not adding to the collective understanding of the argument.

We are all free to agree with one part of an argument while disagreeing with another. That’s what healthy discourse is, life is not black and white. As way of example, if one says “apples are tasty because they are red”, it is perfectly congruent to agree apples are tasty but disagree that their colour is the reason. And by doing so we engage in a conversation to correct a misconception.
by nucleardog | 2025-09-02 14:58:29+00:00
Nothing running for days, but sometimes a half hour or so. When the process kicks off it starts a trace, but individual steps of the process create separate spans within that trace (and sometimes further nested spans) that don't run the entire length of the job. As the job progresses, the spans and their related events, logs, etc all appear.

I think this does highlight, to me, the biggest weakness of OTel--the actual documentation and examples for "how to solve problems with this" really suck.