MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by schlauerfox | 2025-09-05 16:11:39+00:00
All these comments and no Steinmetz mention. The original papers he wrote applying the transforms to electrical engineering work are so genius and simplifying for the craft, and he's such a nicer person for one of the founders of the field of EE. Also the origin of that old story about $10 for hitting the machine with a hammer $9990 knowing where to hit it, from what I can gather.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-05 16:12:00+00:00
There's been many many cases where ICE has been confused about what VISAs allow and don't allow. Eg. Hearing of cases where people from my home country were sent home when asked on entry "why are you coming to the USA?" and they answered for "work". Immediate deportation despite the VISA explicitly allowing that.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-w...

This is definitely going to have effects for other companies in the USA. Eg. TSMC in the USA is currently being bootstrapped by a Taiwanese workforce. A similar raid there would just shut down the whole TSMC in USA project. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/50...
by a3w | 2025-09-05 16:12:07+00:00
Meta Language is shortened to ML. Great language, and even fathered further ML dialects.

Machine Learning is shortened to ML, too.

This posting is about "Why ML needed Mojo", but does not tell us why the license of Mojo is garbage.

M. Learning as an example of compute intensive tasks could have been the Rails moment for Ruby here, but seems like Mojo is dead on arrival — it was trending here at hackernews when announced, but no one seems to talk about it now.

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(I like em-dashes, but not written wit any AI, except for language tools spellchecker)
by jrm4 | 2025-09-05 16:12:15+00:00
Yeah, as grumpy op, I should slow down and give your ideas more credit.

Very optimistically -- what you're saying is correct. There is a best case scenario in which Stripe et al observe all of these already working and perhaps popular financial use-case things (perhaps to compete with bigger banks or just because they see/believe it as the future) and encourage adoption.

I'd bet this won't much happen, but I really do hope I'm wrong.
by latchkey | 2025-09-05 16:12:28+00:00
I want to live in a world where responsible, law abiding citizens can use their money however they choose.

In the US, we already have credit scores, a system meant to reflect some sort of trustworthiness. Right now, it mostly determines your interest rates and access to capital. But why not extend that trust to granting people more freedom in how they use their funds?

If I want a large loan from my bank, I’m forced to provide endless paperwork and deal with people, despite having a great credit score. In DeFi, I just post collateral and instantly borrow against it. No gatekeepers, no conversations.

These limitations become even more obvious if you’re a nomad or frequent traveler. Suddenly you’re not just facing your local government, you’re up against borders and layers of extra regulation.
by nickdothutton | 2025-09-05 16:12:44+00:00
At home I had an 8-bit so played around with CP/M and BBS'ing trying to gather shareware (software was too expensive for a kid of course). My first serious experience of "big systems" were VAX 6000 (1GB RAM in 1991!). I'm reminded that many of the useful concepts of that system, some of which you list.. never made it into Unix. One of the reasons I stuck with Solaris for so long later is because it had a few of them.
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-05 16:12:45+00:00
Appreciate the thorough concise reply.

I did hear about the hiding of anonymous users’ IPs in passing as I was looking into the .onion URL for Wikipedia concept. I was looking at stuff like TorBlock and thinking that they’re so close and yet so far from having a Tor accessible view or subsite. It could be a special view like the .m mobile views, or something. It could be made to work, but it would take some doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Torblock-blocked

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock

If one can implement that, a read-only mode for Tor users would seem fairly straightforward.

Once while randomly walking around in the Sunset district of SF, near the Internet Archive iirc, I bumped into someone who claimed to be a legal counsel of Wikipedia/Wikimedia with a business card to match. I don’t have many Wikipedia contacts besides, alas, but I am already a user, though I don’t post much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AspenMayer

Found my old account, as it were. Then I tried to edit my user page and discovered I have an IP block due to using iCloud private relay and/or a vpn. And that block prevents me from editing my own user page. That’s where this policy is going too far, imo. It’s my user page! I can see how even that feature could be abused, but come on. I know it’s not your personal policy, it’s just frustrating.

The issue seems one of institutional support and momentum more than a technically difficult problem to solve, especially if the Tor version were read only. I think it is just a shame that the issue has low awareness. Then again, I bet more folks associate Tor with bad actors than good or merely desperate ones, which is an earned reputation when it comes to bad actors on Tor. I don’t know how fair that is, but that’s the way it is currently. If only we could have a profile option to enable Tor access and then folks could get a unique .onion URL that proxies to a backend Tor read only connection to Wikipedia/Wikimedia? I think that could be done, but impetus is lacking, I suppose.

In a lot of ways, Tor can seem like a solution looking for a problem, at least for legitimate use cases that don’t involve law violating and/or antisocial behavior. It’s a shame that a bad reputation can hold Tor back from doing more good. I think Wikipedia is the single most important and impactful site that could benefit the world and all Wikipedia users simply by adding a .onion version, even if it has the same policy on blocking open proxy access and Tor access from edits. Read only is better than the status quo where Tor use is risky but necessary to access the site, as the alternative to that is no access at all.

I’m a working journalist, so I’ll have to make an effort to edit this Wiki user page while maintaining opsec, because I’m not turning off my vpn or private relay, or any other security features on my end of the connection. I respect Wikipedia/Wikimedia, but I have standards, and sources, to protect.
by jimt1234 | 2025-09-05 16:12:47+00:00
Boomers are the worst. When I was young, the older generation (Boomers' parents, my grandparents) was more inclined to vote Democrat, primarily to protect social security and labor unions, not necessarily for themselves, but for future generations. They grew up without any of these protections, so they knew how bad things could get. But ever since the Boomers stopped being hippies, their attitude was, "Fuuck everyone else. I'm getting mine." And, IMHO, Reagan was just a symptom of the real problem: Boomer selfishness.
by riku_iki | 2025-09-05 16:12:57+00:00
It could be, it looks like there was some versions misalignment:

The maps syntax is only supported starting from v3.0.0. The "proto2" in the doc is referring to the syntax version, not protobuf release version. v3.0.0 supports both proto2 syntax and proto3 syntax while v2.6.1 only supports proto2 syntax. For all users, it's recommended to use v3.0.0-beta-1 instead of v2.6.1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50241452/using-maps-in-p...
by parpfish | 2025-09-05 16:13:10+00:00
yeah, but those aren't the guys i'm thinking about. i'm not thinking that it's a startup model where every employee gets equity. it's more of a law-firm model where once you prove your worth, you get to become a partner.

so it's for guys like mahomes (in a couple years) or rodgers (a few years ago) that are first-ballot hall of famers that have become the face of the franchise.

- management can't rebuild while paying their huge contracts. - they've already earned a ton but they'd love one more shot at a championship, so they'd glad trade some salary-now for equity-later if it means some young talent could get onto the team next to them - this also saves some of these guys from the same of having to take a paycut and admitting they're past their prime - fans would love to see their guy hanging out in the owners box ten years later
by todotask2 | 2025-09-05 16:13:10+00:00
As much as I’d like to switch to Podman, I’m using Vite inside a container and need to monitor file changes on the host folder. It doesn’t detect them, and polling isn’t ideal. Does anyone have tips I might not know about yet?

But Apple Container is another option with direct IP network support on macOS Tahoe, not possible with macOS Sequoia.
by duxup | 2025-09-05 16:13:12+00:00
The As are "professional" but they're so mismanaged that they're playing in a minor league stadium in Sacramento.

I guess it is fitting that the, uh, less good organizations will reach for AI to save them.

It will be interesting to see what data they use. If AI tells you to do something crazy, do you do it? Do you tell AI "yeah but he said his arm is sore after yesterday" and see what the AI thinks?

If it's just basic baseball stats the other team will know your moves, granted in baseball that's less of an advantage but it still could be a problem.
Show HN: Applications of DNA Foundation Models
by tinymagician | 2025-09-05 16:13:14+00:00
DNA models have been chalked up to be pretty useless but I think that's not true. I sketch out reasons why I think they are useful. Feedback and comments welcome. High-level takeaways:

1) a Prime Intellect like RL environment for biology can unlock a lot of value for DNA models, but first needs to be built 2) like most deep learning models, data is king. Curating high quality low sample size task specific data to fine tune a general dna model is the clearest path to realizing value here 3) Specific applications I find interesting are CAR T promoter design, AAV gene therapy regulatory element design, reassigning variants of uncertain significance, bridging the variant to function gap, and biosecurity (details for each one in the post) 4) This is an early technology and the potential exists for two main reasons: a) we have a lot more DNA sequencing data than protein data, b) DNA contains more information than proteins. So if protein models like AlphaFold and ESM can unlock new medicines and discoveries in biology, the possibility for DNA models are orders of magnitude higher
by trgn | 2025-09-05 16:14:02+00:00
Can somebody eli5, im an amateur. How does the transform know the frequencies of the output. Do you have to specify a number n, and then it decomposes it into n frequencies. Or do you give it a list of frequencies, and then it decomposes the coefficient or amplitude or something for each?

I guess what i want to know, in the examples it always shows like 3 or 4 constituents frequencies as output, but why not hundreds or a million? Is that decided upfront /paramtetizable?

The article isn't helpful, it just says something like "all possible frequencies".
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-05 16:14:27+00:00
I was just listening to 1981 song/poem "B Movie" by Gil Scott Heron about electing Ronald Reagan and found it sadly very timely.

> The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia

> They want to go back as far as they can--

> Even if it's only as far as last week

> Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards
by jacquesm | 2025-09-05 16:14:30+00:00
How resilient is a nation state? This is a question I keep asking myself. I was kind of surprised how the USA bounced back from Trump I. But I really wonder if there is going to be a similar recovery this time around. The amount of outright destruction is overwhelming. So, you raid the Hyundai facility. And then in a few years time you wonder why foreign companies no longer want to invest into factories on US soil. The knock on effect of all of this stuff is enormous and the consequences are going to be many years in the coming. And yet, it all just happens, there is no meaningful pushback against any of this.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-09-05 16:14:33+00:00
> The LLM, with its single-token prediction approach, follows up with a suggestion that much more closely follows the user's desires, instead of latching onto it's own previous approach.

Maybe? How would we test that one way or the other? If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last few years, it’s that reasoning from “well LLMs are based on next-token prediction, therefore <fact about LLMs>” is a trap. The relationship between the architecture and the emergent properties of the LLM is very complex. Case in point: I think two years ago most of us would have said LLMs would never be able to do what they are able to do now (actually effective coding agents) precisely because they were trained on next token prediction. That turned out to be false, and so I don’t tend to make arguments like that anymore.

> The people behind the agents are fighting with the LLM just as much as we are

On that, we agree. No doubt anthropic has tried to fine-tune some of this stuff out, but perhaps it’s deeply linked in the network weights to other (beneficial) emergent behaviors in ways that are organically messy and can’t be easily untangled without making the model worse.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-05 16:14:41+00:00
I saw the one in Houston and it's quite fascinating. Not particularly unsettling unless you find bugs unappealing. Enjoyed the engineering for the device. Very cool and it looks cool too.

At first sight, it looks like some modern art piece but then you see the plaque that it's not an electronic clock (it has LEDs which made me think it was) and then it's cool!
by dawnerd | 2025-09-05 16:15:28+00:00
Thrift stores are .99 to 2.99. The local library has a for sale section with a massive selection of music. Ranging from .49 on up. Ebay is good for more rare albums but there's so many shops selling them also for dirt cheap free ship, to the point where I don't even know how they profit.

I've also had amazing luck going to estate sales and just asking if I can buy them all out. The last one I paid under 10 cents a cd. People just want to get rid of their 'old tech no one uses anymore'.

Most people realistically are listening to the same music multiple times over multiple months. If you listen to a different album every day you do kinda fall outside of the norm and ya, that would probably make streaming a better choice.
by prmoustache | 2025-09-05 16:15:41+00:00
I've transported large stuff with my bike mind you, including furnitures and a small tree (in a trailer) and 20 miles is smaller than my longest commute on my bicycle which was 24miles each way.

And that was without electric assist. When I look at the low average speed and time spent in car when I use one in an urban area, it just doesn't make any sense in most cities.

But the safety issue is another story though. Every time I relocated I took that parameter into account before choosing a new place.
by nine_zeros | 2025-09-05 16:15:47+00:00
> "I'm not voting because <strange expectations about other people doing it for me>." sounds absolutely absurd.

It is a mistake on the younger generation's part to expect sanity from elders - this is the reality that they are not taught as kids. That's why we have geriatric pedophiles ruling the country. And this will not change because the geriatric pedophiles are trying their hardest to destroy education in large swathes of the country.

> We're on our second Trump administration now, but someone assumed someone else would vote the way they wanted for them?

Yes, because that someone was likely a kid 8 years ago - literally could have been 10 year olds. They don't have the knowledge, education, experience that a 70 year old boomer has. And the 70 year olds are making sure the misinformation continues so that the newly minted 18 year old votes against their own interests.

This is literally the southern republican playbook. You don't need to buy my argument. You only need to accept that boomers have sabotaged for far longer before the 18 year old even had a chance to cast the first vote.
by wrsh07 | 2025-09-05 16:16:17+00:00
> This insane list of restrictions is the result of unprincipled design choices and bolting on features after the fact

I'm not very upset that protobuf evolved to be slightly more ergonomic. Bolting on features after you build the prototype is how you improve things.

Unfortunately, they really did design themselves into a corner (not unlike python 2). Again, I can't be too upset. They didn't have the benefit of hindsight or other high performance libraries that we have today.
by touisteur | 2025-09-05 16:16:32+00:00
Yes Linus has been ranting for decades against O_DIRECT saying similar things (aka better hints on pages and cache usage).

The notorious archive of Linus rants on [0] starts with "The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances". It gets better afterwards, though I'm not clear whether his articulated vision is implemented yet.

[0] https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/o_direct.html
by arp242 | 2025-09-05 16:16:49+00:00
So buy the desktop kit if that's what you want: https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-5-desktop-kit-us/...

Many people don't want/need all of it, and they can buy just the board without paying for stuff they don't need.

This is not a deception. Stop spreading misinformation.
by techbrovanguard | 2025-09-05 16:16:51+00:00
i used protobuffers a lot at $previous_job and i agree with the entire article. i feel the author’s pain in my bones. protobuffers are so awful i can’t imagine google associating itself with such an amateur, ad hoc, ill-defined, user hostile, time wasting piece of shit.

the fact that protobuffers wasn’t immediately relegated to the dustbin shows just how low the bar is for serialization formats.
by coffeecoders | 2025-09-05 16:17:01+00:00
I think that’s the real distinction: the Pi isn’t interesting as a "cheap desktop", it’s interesting because of GPIO + the huge ecosystem of HATs, sensors, and weird little projects.

If you just want a small, cheap computer, x86 boxes are better in every way.

But if you want something you can hook wires to, fry once in a while, and find 20 blog posts about someone doing the same, Pi still has a niche that’s hard to replicate.

All I’m saying is that Pi projects can get really expensive if you want to do anything beyond a basic install like Pi-hole and leave it as-is. Even simpler projects - say, connecting a motor or a servo require additional components like a power module or distribution board, which quickly adds up.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-09-05 16:17:11+00:00
Buy, maybe not. Not buy, absolutely.

“Don’t judge a book by its cover” is a quaint phrase probably from when all books looked the same. But if the title and cover don’t convey what the contents are about, someone who may have liked it won’t even open it.

This is an indictment of the publisher given a bookstore full of books, not of a “lazy” reader.
by mcphage | 2025-09-05 16:17:21+00:00
> you can absolutely make a tree-like structure in SQL in a variety of ways: adjacency lists, nested sets, closure tables, etc.

That's kinda the problem—rather there being 1 way to make a tree-like structure in SQL, that works correctly, there's a lot of ways to do it, and they all have different tradeoffs, and they're all a bit obnoxious.
by Mrcontent08 | 2025-09-05 16:17:43+00:00
“What fascinates me about this Stripe + stablecoin integration is less about the underlying blockchain, and more about the actual behavior change it can trigger in businesses.

For example, in markets like Latin America, stablecoins aren’t just ‘faster payments’—they’re an escape hatch from broken financial infrastructure. That makes them feel less like a new technology experiment and more like electricity or the internet: invisible, but transformative.

The interesting question to me is: what happens once small/medium businesses start building on top of this instead of just using it for payments? Could we see the same pattern as the early web—where it started as “publishing pages” but turned into entire industries?
by zettabomb | 2025-09-05 16:17:50+00:00
>And how does this apply here?

How does it not? The service was advertised with API access previously, and now that access has been severely limited in the middle of the service period.

>Did you read what's the offer or the license of it because it looks more and more like you did not.

I read it just fine, and I understand it just fine.Clearly you have a different interpretation, one which I strongly disagree with.

>To take your words "It looks like you have no idea what you are talking about."

I never said that, so now you're just making stuff up. No more point in discussing the matter if you cannot stay grounded in reality.
by serf | 2025-09-05 16:18:48+00:00
> I was kind of surprised how the USA bounced back from Trump I.

what'd we bounce into? what did we bounce back from? what effects are you talking about specifically.

I work in aerospace and the sentiment was exactly opposite. People cheered both Trump elections and were dead terrified of a blue win ruining contracts and business.

I don't ask because I am overtly political, I ask because I think it's fascinating that both sides seem to think we're a stone's throw from the apocalypse.. which very much seems to be projected onto the voter base on purpose..
by ideashower | 2025-09-05 16:19:07+00:00
Completely agree. I jumped back in recently for some electronics work and was surprised to learn that the Raspberry Pi imaging tool allows you to set the root user, WiFi SSID, and hostname right when you're imaging the tool. You never need to connect it to a display like the old days! Makes onboarding a device for a specific purpose super easy. Been using mine to work with a simple LED matrix from Adafruit. But I am sure I will be acquiring more for all kinds of random projects in the time to come.
by mothballed | 2025-09-05 16:19:07+00:00
Visa just gives the officer the option to let you in. He can deny you entry virtually at will. CBP officer is god at the border. I have been temporarily denied entry even as US citizen, until they checked with their superiors for a few hours and found out they could not in fact do that.

Odds are they just wanted that person gone and the real reason can't be spoken out loud.
by dathinab | 2025-09-05 16:19:17+00:00
in my experience (at least rootless) podman does enforce resource limits much better/stricter

we had some similar issues and it was due to containers running out of resources (mainly RAM/memory, by a lot, but only for a small amount of time). And it happens that in rootless this was correctly detected and enforced, but on non rootless docker (in that case on a Mac dev laptop) it didn't detect this resource spikes and hence "happened to work" even through it shouldn't have.
by tekkk | 2025-09-05 16:19:18+00:00
The fundamental problem in my mind is the mixing of binary and text content. An optimal solution would separate them, allowing systems like Git do the versioning. But separating the tightly coupled parts into own files would also be annoying sharing/management wise.

Base64:ing the images into strings, like one could do with html, would probably not be ideal for compression. As a matter of fact, text-files as such would not be ideal compression-wise.

So I suppose if binary-format cant be avoided, SQLite would be as good as any other compression format. But without built-in collaboration protocol support, like CRDT, with history truncation (and diverged histories can always fall back to diff) I dont think it'd be good enough to justify the migration.