MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goo | 2025-09-12 07:35:12+00:00
Almost perfect. Inspirational.

It just needed to create a little box you can drag around when you click on nothing, like OS desktops have.

So here's the snippet to do that, toss this in the console and live the dream:

(() => { let startX, startY, box, dragging = false;

const style = document.createElement('style'); style.textContent = ` .___selection-box { position: absolute; pointer-events: none; border: 1px dashed #2b76d6; background: rgba(43,118,214,0.12); z-index: 999999; } `; document.head.appendChild(style); function onDown(e) { if (e.button !== 0) return; // left click only startX = e.pageX; startY = e.pageY; dragging = true; box = document.createElement('div'); box.className = '___selection-box'; box.style.left = startX + 'px'; box.style.top = startY + 'px'; document.body.appendChild(box); e.preventDefault(); } function onMove(e) { if (!dragging) return; const x = e.pageX, y = e.pageY; const left = Math.min(x, startX); const top = Math.min(y, startY); const width = Math.abs(x - startX); const height = Math.abs(y - startY); Object.assign(box.style, { left: left + 'px', top: top + 'px', width: width + 'px', height: height + 'px' }); } function onUp(e) { if (!dragging) return; dragging = false; console.log('Selection rect:', box.getBoundingClientRect()); box.remove(); box = null; } window.addEventListener('mousedown', onDown); window.addEventListener('mousemove', onMove); window.addEventListener('mouseup', onUp); console.log(" Selection enabled. Drag with left mouse button. Check console for rect.");

})();
by genewitch | 2025-09-12 07:36:05+00:00
i run it in 4GB of RAM; it does OOM every quarter or so, i've had to restart it 3 times this year. I assume there's something i am doing inefficiently with it, but i suspect it's related to logging. Feels like it OOMs quicker the more i use it, but that's just a hunch.

it probably wouldn't hurt to cron-job a sighup and reissue the start command once a week.
by voidUpdate | 2025-09-12 07:37:01+00:00
Well it's good to see they are showcasing examples where the model really fails too.

- The second one in case 2 doesn't look anything like the reference map

- The face in case 5 changes completely despite the model being instructed to not do that

- Case 8 ignores the provided pose reference

- Case 9 changes the car positions

- Case 16 labels the tricuspid in the wrong place and I have no idea what a "mittic" is

- Case 27 shows the usual "models can't do text" though I'm not holding that against it too much

- Same with case 29, as well as the text that is readable not relating to the parts of the image it is referencing

- Case 33 just generated a generic football ground

- Case 37 has nonsensical labellings ("Define Jawline" attached to the eye)

- Case 58 has the usual "models don't understand what a wireframe is", but again I'm not holding that against it too much

Super nice to see how honest they are about the capabilities!
by bell-cot | 2025-09-12 07:37:16+00:00
> Notably, because the challenge does not include its own javascript solver, even a smart crawler isn’t going to solve it automatically. If you include the solution on the challenge page, at least some bots are going to use it.

Why not add a fake js solver, which includes an incorrect solution?

(Yes, once they've fallen for this, I might be tempted to start serving them the bitrotted versions of my pages:)
by imtringued | 2025-09-12 07:37:19+00:00
I hope nobody listens to lunatics like you. Fixed point sucks. Who on earth wants to analyze every single algorithm for its numerical stability? If you work with FPGAs, then converting a known to be working algorithm to fixed point is one of the most time consuming things you can do and it eats DSP slices like crazy. Every square or square root operation will cause a shiver to run down your spine because of the lack of dynamic range.

Edit:

For those who want more context:

https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/494103077/WPMC22_Ko...

Here is a big fat warning:

>There is one important downside though, which relates to the fact that designing fixed-point algorithms is a significantly more complicated task as compared to similar floating-point based algorithms. This fact essentially has two major consequences: >1) The designer must have an extended mathematical knowledge about the numerical characteristics of the algorithms, and >2) The development time is in some cases longer than for equivalent floating-point systems.
by lrvick | 2025-09-12 07:39:11+00:00
Hardly. I run a b2b tech company in silicon valley, frequently travel the world, and have a fairly active social life.

No essential services ever -require- a phone. Just say it is against your unspecified religion and watch them fall over backwards to create alternatives for you.

It is always hilarious to watch someone at a theme park or restaurant produce a paper map or menu just after saying they no longer exist moments earlier.

If I travel overnight my only tech is a tiny laptop to work on the go, but when it is closed it is off, and not able to notify me.
by quitit | 2025-09-12 07:39:19+00:00
This is the central point that is always missed on this forum.

These are features that apple are dedicating a huge amount of resources to. Tim Cook frequently talks up the importance of artificial intelligence as the future. Apple Intelligence is a tentpole feature of new iPhones, it has heavily influenced their advertising, and takes prime position in their marketing materials.

Withholding these features, even for just 6 months, is harmful to Apple. Especially when Apple appear weaker in the category, and competitors are frequently releasing AI products.

However here you'll read a byzantine concoction on how this is acshually a 4D anticompetitive chess move.
by bambax | 2025-09-12 07:39:37+00:00
Their economic model is also based on trying to come up with new content all the time (hence podcasts), because once people realize they mostly listen to the same songs over and over again, they will resent the cost of a subscription.

This is the main difference between video and audio. One rarely watches the same movie or show more than once (it can happen, and there are people watching Succession or Friends on loop, but they're a minority). But we often listen to the same songs / artists and like the familiarity of it.

Subscription for music is not just detrimental to the artists: it's fundamentally a bad deal for users.
by lproven | 2025-09-12 07:39:44+00:00
IMHO a summary a few paragraphs long of a decade of events in a complex industry must simplify matters.

Sure, there was overlap. Lots of overlap. You highlight one. Novell bought SUSE, but that was after Cambridge Technology Partners (IIRC) bought Novell, and after that, then Attachmate bought the result...

But you skip over that.

I think as a compressed timeline summary, mine was fair enough.

It is really important historical contact that KDE is the reason that both Mandrake and GNOME exist, and it's rarely mentioned now. Mandrake became Mandriva then died, but the distros live on and PC LinuxOS in particular shows how things should have gone if there was less Not-Invented-Here Syndrome.

I don't think "well, actually, this happened before that" is as important, TBH.

No?
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-12 07:40:46+00:00
Because neither the shareholders or the userbase cares about this. Apple has a captive market who accepted this limitation for over 10 years and thee won't switch to Android because of that issue.

Entification will only continue from here on both parties since they've achieved duopoly status, so as a customer you can only pick the lesser of two evils.
by rtpg | 2025-09-12 07:41:25+00:00
bun installs are fast, but I think they might be so fast and concurrent they cause npm to really get confused sometimes.

I end up hitting 500s from npm from time to time installing by bun and I just don't know why.

Really wish the norm was that companies hosted their own registries for their own usage, so I could justify the expense and effort instead of dealing with registries being half busted kinda randomly.
by lproven | 2025-09-12 07:42:17+00:00
I thought I spelled it out clearly.

Let me emphasise the executive summary:

1. KDE was first.

2. KDE used to enjoy significant corporate backing.

3. Because of some companies' actions, mergers and acquisitions, etc., other products gained ascendancy.

4. KDE is still widely used but no longer enjoys strong corporate backing.

5. Therefore KDE is going it alone and trying something technologically innovative with its showcase distro, because the existing distro vendors are not.

The KDE Linux section of this recent article of mine spells out my position more clearly:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/kde_linux_and_freebsd...
by rashunain | 2025-09-12 07:42:32+00:00
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by throw310822 | 2025-09-12 07:42:48+00:00
I would understand that but in the end we're going to spend enormous amounts of money to buy most of our weapons from the US and each on its own. In fact, just by integrating our militaries we could increase our strength and keep the expenses at the current level. The impression is that all this, including cutting ties with Russia (who is selling us the gas now?), is done to the benefit of the US rather than ours.
by Agraillo | 2025-09-12 07:42:50+00:00
It's a great aspect to evaluate (fiction books/movies), thanks for mentioning it. I think it's much easier to use as an evaluation tool than techniques like the apple example. One of the tests, for example, is to recall a book that you have never seen a movie adaptation of and try to remember the characters and scenes. For me, in these cases (when I try to recall), the characters appear faceless, while places are more detailed, but they usually remind me of some real places I have encountered before in my life.

It's interesting that if non-aphantasia people are so common, I wonder why so few paintings have scenery based solely on imagination. I even remember asking a person who paints (not in the context of this condition) how hard it was for him to paint something not directly before his eyes, but from imagination, and why he didn't do it more often. I recall that he definitely did this (painting from imagination) rarely or not at all, and the question really puzzled him
by Lisheng | 2025-09-12 07:42:54+00:00
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by voidUpdate | 2025-09-12 07:43:12+00:00
I absolutely do. For example, when I'm playing D&D, or listening to a podcast of other people playing D&D, I can "see" a fully realistic view of what is happening in my head. With the apple test, I can see a nice red apple, with the little vertical orange streaks, three blue dots arranged in a triangle, and I can rotate the apple in my head and have the dots move as you would expect from a real apple. I have a very vivid imagination
by bigyabai | 2025-09-12 07:43:30+00:00
Sadly, me too. We must share the fun-hating gene, or somesuch.

It's not a bad website either, the layout is really well done and it sells the branding. I just don't trust it to be accessible, as I only ever click through sites to find text content. Something about it feels like putting a Christmas tree in your bathroom for the sake of branding.
by reify | 2025-09-12 07:44:04+00:00
we can see where this is going, they have a history

In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model.

In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.

In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Evernote. The acquisition was concluded in January 2023. In July 2023, Evernote laid off all of its existing staff and announced it would relocate to Europe to be closer to Bending Spoons' headquarters.

In January 2024 , it acquired the assets of New York City-based mobile app developer Mosaic Group from IAC Inc.; subsequently, Mosaic's entire workforce of 330 staff members was laid off.

Also in July, the company agreed to acquire the Dutch file transfer service WeTransfer, then announced in September they were laying off 75% of the company's workforce.
by elygre | 2025-09-12 07:44:06+00:00
> You're legally required to let me opt out of that cookie. Unless it's essential to the site functionality, in which case you don't need the banner at all.

Isn't it even simpler: Unless the cookie is used to track, you don't need the banner? For example, a cookie used to remember sort order would not require a cookie banner, I think.

(It's not about cookies. It's about tracking.)
by dingdongditchme | 2025-09-12 07:44:41+00:00
I went through several emotions reading this article.

It has to be said, that I probably have the habit of most people: skim the title, skip to the comments, skim the article, skip back to the comments, and maybe if I am intrigued enough (as I was this time) read the article.

Well, the more I skipped back and forth the funnier it became. Realized it wasn't the UK started trying to find that abandoned feral children apartment and what not. Then I decided to the read the whole article when a depressing thought mixed with indignation hit me.

The article reads like the following llm prompt: "translate this article from BILD to english make it short and funny" voilá. I still hold the Guardian in a little higher regard than other online media, but this ended up being a small gut punch. But I had fun, thanks chatgpt.
by mohsen1 | 2025-09-12 07:45:28+00:00
I'm furnishing a new apartment and Nano Banana has been super useful for placing furniture I want to purchase in rooms to make a judgment if things will work for us or not. Take a picture of the room, feed Nano Banana with that picture and the product picture and ask it to place it in the right location. It can even imagine things at night or even add lamps with lights on. Super useful!
by GistNoesis | 2025-09-12 07:46:01+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic : allows you to have some thing which is integer math but works like floats. It's integer operations and bit shifts so really fast.

The limitation is the minimal quantization level. But for a 3d engine let's say your base increment is nanometers. Then you set your maximum dimension let's say 1000km. You only have to be able to represent number up 10^20 so 64-bit fixed point number is good enough.

Do everything in 128-bit fixed point numbers, and float are no more problem for anything scientific.
by defrost | 2025-09-12 07:46:36+00:00
Tangentially I was reading various retrospective accounts of Buckley V. Vidal, back in 2015 Gordon of Politico had this to say of Buckley (and Vidal):

Despite political differences, the two men seemed cut from the same cloth: Their mid-Atlantic speaking accents were haughty, their demeanors were aloof, they exuded breeding and education. However, for each, these airs had been cultured; they were not born into the Eastern establishment, and didn’t have the usual New England prep school backgrounds (though each did attend elite academies, Buckley at Andover and Vidal at Exeter). Vidal came from Oklahoma and Tennessee stock and was raised in the U.S. Senate where his blind grandfather served, developing a political education by reading aloud to him the Congressional Record and other necessary documents. Buckley’s family was wealthy, but nouveau, their Catholicism keeping them outside the WASPish circle of their Connecticut bluebloods neighbors. Tutored from an early age, Bill went on to Yale while Vidal opted not to pursue college—each angling for his own route of attack on the culture’s dominant forces. Vidal published his first book in 1946 but became an enfant terrible with The City and the Pillar in 1948, a novel that dealt unapologetically and sympathetically with a homosexual protagonist. Buckley published his first book three years later, God and Man at Yale, a controversial attack on an institution that he proclaimed was leaning too far left, promulgating communism, and attacking religion. Their positions staked, we can look back and see these polar opposites being slowly drawn toward each other.

The Fight That Changed Political TV Forever

Half a century ago, William Buckley and Gore Vidal brilliantly castigated each other on air. It’s been downhill ever since.

~ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/04/william-b...
by lproven | 2025-09-12 07:46:56+00:00
Being #2 with tens of millions of users is OK, you know. It doesn't mean you've failed.

Sure it's less popular. It came in under 20 years ago, competing against an entrenched superpower that was already nearly 30 years old back then. It's done pretty well.

The Google Apps for Business bundle has outsold by far ever single FOSS email/groupware stack in existence, and every other commercial rival as well.

Notes is all but dead. Groupwise is dead. OpenXChange is as good as dead. HP killed OpenMail.
by breakingcups | 2025-09-12 07:47:32+00:00
I was about to say the same. Having lived mostly in Vue land, this quote felt astounding to me:

"The React team themselves have made it clear: runtime CSS injection will always be slower than statically extracted styles. They recommend using <link rel="stylesheet"> for static styles and inline styles for dynamic values. That's the future."

I thought this lesson was already widely learned since the jQuery days.
by ojosilva | 2025-09-12 07:47:43+00:00
Which is unfortunately a problem for AI trained on Zig, it makes some AI-assisted Zig coding more challenging, like Q&A and code-completion. It's sad that this glass-ceiling has been enacted for new languages and frameworks, not a deal-breaker at all, just that suddenly there's this penalty on time-to-deliver on anything Zig. But then... the same issue exists when hiring good programmers for lesser-known tech.

There'll probably be a strategy (AEO?) for this in the future for newcomers and the underrepresented, like endless examples posted by a sane AI to their docs and github for instance so it gets picked up by training sets or live, tool calling, web-searches.
by dwroberts | 2025-09-12 07:47:58+00:00
> Remember that uncanny valley between 1KB and 25MB? The problem isn't the sizes—it's that Second Age systems force you to choose between two bad options: inline the data (killing performance) or store pointers (breaking governance). Spiral eliminates this false choice. We store 10KB embeddings directly in Vortex for microsecond access, intelligently batch 10MB blocks of images for optimal S3 throughput, and externalize 4GB videos without copying a single byte. One system, no compromises.

No compromises but isn’t ‘externalising’ a large video the equivalent of storing a pointer in the first example? Can’t really see any other way to understand what that means (it goes to an external system and you store where it is)
by vunderba | 2025-09-12 07:48:13+00:00
Hi Isharmla, the giraffe one was a tough call. IMHO, even when correcting for perspective, I do feel like it managed to follow the directive of the prompt and shorten the neck.

To answer your question, all of the evaluations are performed manually. On the trickier results I'll occasionally conscript some friends to get a group evaluation.

The bottom section of the site has an FAQ that gives more detail, I'll include it here:

It's hard to define a discrete rubric for grading at an inherently qualitative level. To keep things simple, this test is purely PASS/FAIL - unsuccessful means that the model NEVER managed to generate an image adhering to the prompt.

In many cases, we often attempt a generous interpretation of the prompt - if it gets close enough, we might consider it a pass.

To paraphrase former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, "I may not be able to define a passing image, but I know it when I see it."
by eptcyka | 2025-09-12 07:48:48+00:00
I had a similar experience. It was a dark summer night, 03:00 o'clock. Me and my partner were semi-asleep when suddenly a loud noise from the kitchen wakes us up. It sounds eerily electro-mechanical. And then some seconds later, it happens again. And again. And again. We had no pets, no one else living with us, so we were concerned someone had broken into our apartment in the middle of the night. I mustered up the courage to enter the kitchen. There are no people there, not even a small animal. I turn on the lights and confirm that. But I see the lid of our bin is open. It was a stupid purchase from costco, this household bin with an automated lid that used a depth sensor. Turns out, there was a slug walking all over the sensor. This is how we figured out we had a big hole somewhere under the kitchen furnishings that was a source of slugs. We moved away in less than a year, but boy was it not fun to think about the slimy mess that may have been left on the countertops.
by nurettin | 2025-09-12 07:49:05+00:00
There are indeed missing steps and I won't claim to reinvent society in one hn thread, /but/ I am just saying that there needs to be real life consequences for being a shitty student. Is that email coming from EDU?

Submit a complaint to the university. Just make an email template and fight back. It takes a minute to find the student affairs or dean's email. Surely there will be one person in the entire institution who cares.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-12 07:49:19+00:00
I want to remind everyone here that Cisco in 1993 was $1, right before the dotcom boom. It peaked at $77 or 77x higher in March 2000 with a 200 P/E ratio. Nvidia is at 50 right now.

After the bubble burst, Cisco was at $17 in 2001, still 17x higher than before the boom and 2x 1997.

Is AI bubble peak? Is it 2000 or is it only 1997? The difference is immense.

The point here is that AI valuation can grow multiples more from here. And even after it bursts, it may still be bigger than in 2025.
by Zobat | 2025-09-12 07:49:56+00:00
I think it's quirky enough to be amusing, maybe even better that it's from "another" country.

Pre internet age I worked in a store where one "unlucky" guy out of reflex asked the king of Sweden for identification when buying with a credit card (fully aware of who was in front of him, it was a toy store and the king used to shop there once a year for Christmas). A colleague told the story at dinner, the colleagues father worked at an evening news paper and wrote a small blurb about it. The following two days news papers from (literally) around the world tried to get an interview with the guy.

Anything can become international news.
by Turboblack | 2025-09-12 07:50:04+00:00
according to the statistics of our service (static hosting) for retro sites - most people (now there are more than 800 registrations) were invited personally, the rest were brought by the hand from the Internet annual statistics showed that I left 1300 links on thematic forums, and we have an average of 50 to 100 hosts per day, just. how can this be increased?