MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jashmota | 2025-09-25 23:56:18+00:00
You've touched one of my favorite things to think about. I think about this a lot. There will always be people who enjoy fully analog cars/planes/watches over alternatives. I think that doesn't define the whole market. How many of new joinees are we seeing in this industry? Would you rather have a functioning back because you operate these remotely or go to site and sit in one of these and have a broken back by 50s? This is leaving out the fact that remote operation could save lots of lives. In our launch video we did put together some of the news clips on it: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O8i-flywheel-ai-waymo-f...
by lumost | 2025-09-25 23:56:23+00:00
Part of the challenge is that machines are significantly different. The radiologist’s statement that an object measured from two different machines is the same and has not changed in size is in large part judgement. Building a model which can replicate this judgement likely involves building a model which can solve all common computer vision tasks, has the full medical knowledge of an expert radiologist, and has been painstakingly calibrated against thousands of real radiologists in hospital conditions.
by kjs3 | 2025-09-25 23:56:56+00:00
Yeah, always good to read it. He goes into some detail about a hypothetical VAX-based x86 killer, tho some of it is "when I had beers with the guys designing the VAX..." reminiscing.

Comp.arch was something really special. Guys like Mash, John McCalpin, Bob Colwell, Eugene Maya, Mitch Alsup, Terje Mathisen...folks who really, really understood computers, what the real tradeoffs are, did actual homework instead of guessing, and were generally able to discuss the issues without being jerks. Good times.
by redbell | 2025-09-25 23:58:22+00:00
Here's the announcement from Atlman: https://x.com/sama/status/1971297661748953263

Quoted from that tweet:

> It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates.

At this point in time, I'd say: bye privacy, see you!
by SouravInsights | 2025-09-25 23:59:19+00:00
I just signed up for the early access!

So far I have used Resend, Sendgrid, Loops (for a person throw away project so don't have good exposure) but I found Resend the most easiest, convenient and straightforward. Especially their React Email library made it so easier to compose emails using React components. I really love that. Back then we had to manually craft HTML emails, worry about inline styles, and constantly test across different clients, which was a pretty painful process compared to how smooth it is now with React Emails.

One key part of my workflow is validating emails before sending so I'm not blowing up my bills or getting labelled as spam. And since Resend doesn’t support that natively, I'm currently having to use Emailable’s API to check if addresses are actually deliverable. Having that built-in would be a huge plus. And I know it's not usually something that email providers should care about but it would be so much better if Cloudflare makes this a native offering.
by pedrosbmartins | 2025-09-25 23:59:21+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Neutral networks are pretty good statistical learning tools, and in this kind of application you'll need some stochastic learning, regardless of using a laptop or a supercomputer. It's not like they used an LLM to predict the simulation steps. If you read the paper, they seem to use a simple fully-connected 5-layer neural network architecture, which is a completely different beast from, say, trillion parameters transformers used for LLMs.
by jashmota | 2025-09-26 00:00:24+00:00
I totally agree, what I meant was if we only do CANbus retrofit, we would really limit ourselves in how compatible we are. So we have to focus on doing the right kind of retrofit really well. CANbus retrofit is easier and we've done that many times before. Especially because my cofounder Mahimana used to work in self-driving company and worked on this and single-handedly built out their current ML data and eval pipeline.
by captainkrtek | 2025-09-26 00:00:27+00:00
It does happen:

https://sfist.com/2024/05/14/waymo-now-under-federal-investi...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-closes-probe-int...

Similarly for Cruise: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-16/woman-ge...
by icedchai | 2025-09-26 00:00:56+00:00
Yes, that sounds right. There were roughly 400 to 500 people near the end, if I remember, so $5M monthly burn is in the right ball park. This was over 15 years ago when salaries were much less. Usually waste in one area, like office space, means waste in other areas. So, yeah, the office space alone wouldn't buy much time. You'd need a whole change in attitude.
by antognini | 2025-09-26 00:01:28+00:00
The music is notated as if there had been no detuning so that you can use the natural finger positions. (For example, a note that is notated as a C would actually sound as a B.) The trade-off is that it makes some of the intervals look wrong, but you do get used to it.

Bach's 5th cello suite also uses this technique where the A string is tuned down to a G. (The technical term is "scordatura.")
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-26 00:02:09+00:00
In my usage, the story is for myself first and foremost. Telling the story helps keep me organized and helps me remember what I've done and where I'm going. I don't need to know that I fixed a typo in a comment, I need to know what the changes are overall doing.

Sometimes I go down a dead end, reverse out, and leave a comment about why a different approach would be a dead end. I (and others) don't need a record of the work I did on that path, just the synthesis (an explanatory comment)

There are multiple systems for structuring commits, but the commit message body content approximates to the same in all of them. The classic advice is https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess... , but I find https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ useful for looking at the oneline log

To address this point:

> To checkpoint units of work as individual perceives them, helping them deal with interruptions (which include running out of work day).

Yes, commits can be used like this! But once you have a chunk of work ready for review, cleaning up the commit log/history, grouping related changes, and describing them is useful for maintaining the software.

I don't like squash merges personally, though they have their merits. But regardless, I would copy the commit subject/body content into the PR message, which then puts everything into the PR commit also, so technically the granular commits are less relevant when one merges, but occasionally are still useful to refer to
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-26 00:02:34+00:00
The FTC and his war on corporations was a failure none of the lawsuits went anywhere and it made the environment worse for startups. Now VC funding is nowhere near the level it use to be outside of large AI companies because large tech companies are squeamish of acquisitions - lLimiting the path to successful exits.

What they are doing now is hiring out all of the people they want from startups and leaving the undesirables in a lurch and decimating VCs investments - Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all used this playbook.

The problem with “administrative changes” is that they can easily be undone.

And he didn’t “protect women’s healthcare” at all. The red states are still seeing women die because doctors are afraid to perform abortions when the life of the mother is in danger and blue states aren’t - the status quo.

The very reason that Biden is an inconsequential President was because everything he did was easily undone between his lack of willingness to step aside even though he and everyone else knew he should and trying to do things through executive orders.

The Supreme Court is another symptom of old people not retiring when they should, dying on the bench allowing a Republican President to nominate replacements.
by reneberlin | 2025-09-26 00:03:09+00:00
If you can do it with one eye and have a steady hand - yes, maybe. Tell us how it went and where you ordered the starter kit, please. /s

Ok, the obvious question was left out: Why?

And typically these kind of questions land in ChatGPT and not HN these days. I am not aware of a big Biomodder-Scene in here, but i could learn otherwise. Let's wait for other answers.

The eyes are not part or your body like the other parts. the eyes are an outward grown part of your brain. Anything infecting your eyes or ears is very dangerous for your brain.

Seriously, the eyeballs are such a precious thing to mostly any human, that the idea of opening or modding an eye is a psychological barrier people don't even want to think about even when handled by proven specialists.

Any Chatbot will advise you to do not even think about that, because you will at least ruin your eyesight or brain without professional procedure.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-26 00:03:19+00:00
One thing that really disgusted me about DOGE is that we did have a very successful reduction in the scope of the federal bureaucracy 30+ years ago, the National Partnership for Reinventing Government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Rei... . But we didn't want a thoughtful, respectful plan for reducing the scope of government, we wanted a WWE bomb thrower.

Side note, I think Al Gore was one of the most effective politicians of the last 50 years who wasn't president and he got tons of shit for it: 1. He never said he "invented the Internet", but he did give critical federal support to the Internet in its early days when he was a Senator, and technologists who actually know what they are talking about credit him with this, 2. He implemented the most successful reduction in the federal bureaucracy since WWII, 3. He conceded the 2000 election for the good of the country - he did not foment an uprising to try to fulfill his narcissistic supply, 4. He made many people aware of the dangers of climate change (though this may have admittedly backfired as some people interpret anything that comes from a Democratic voice as a "liberal hoax").
by jsheard | 2025-09-26 00:03:22+00:00
They're calling this a stablecoin but AFAICT there's no direct mention of blockchains or decentralization or anything else along those lines, have we wrapped all the way around to using crypto nomenclature to talk about plain old centralized ledgers?

Not that I'd complain about one less pointless blockchain in the world, it's just funny.
by jashmota | 2025-09-26 00:03:35+00:00
This is a great idea - I would dig into this. I disagree on AI not winning here. Support crew mostly work on eliminating blindspots for operator. Yes you can eliminate blindspots with cameras and a 7inch TFT screen, but those are small, don't work great in direct sunlight. The current solution not being 10x better is why they still fallback to having those crew members. I genuinely believe we will change that.
by nunez | 2025-09-26 00:03:51+00:00
lol they're STILL doing this.

As of the time this was written, if you go through the order flow for anything, at any price, the first shipping option will be "get one-day shipping FREE with Amazon Prime", wrapped in a huge CTA. Between that and checkout is a "are you sure?" nag screen where they tell you all of the benefits of going Prime.

I don't shop at Amazon nearly as much as I did in past years, but I was shocked to see how challenging it was to voluntarily pay for one-day shipping because of all of this!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 00:05:39+00:00
The product page [1] is the most vaporware-y that I’ve seen in a while.

That said, they’re emphasising speed. (“Instant.”)

That seems to preclude using a major, public blockchain. (On the other hand, they don’t talk up privacy.)

[1] https://netdollar.cloudflare.com/
by inerte | 2025-09-26 00:05:47+00:00
I really don't think what's stopping micropayments is the technical ability (or even business deals) to do so. Stuff like that have been talked about and tried for more than a decade, it never caught on.

Anyway, I don't know? I would go somewhere else. Maybe I would just walk outside? It's not like what I get from HN is essential to anything I do in life.
by krapp | 2025-09-26 00:06:12+00:00
“We terminated these channels as it’s still against our rules for previously terminated users to start new channels,” according to the company. “The pilot program for terminations that many people have been referencing this week isn’t available yet and will be a limited pilot program to start. We’ll have more on how the program will work, who is eligible, and how creators can access it soon.“
by bfg_9k | 2025-09-26 00:06:21+00:00
> 2) Citizens here may be significantly less armed, but the same is true of government officials, and even law enforcement is significantly less armed. It kind of evens out, unless military gets involved, but at that point all bets are off - no different than in the US.

I don't think that's a correct comparison. If shit ever did hit the proverbial fan, you can bet that any US military walking around an American city would be constantly worried about getting a lead injection from any Tom, Dick or Harry who's got a firearm.

I don't think the same can be said for the vast majority of European cities (assuming the military gets involved).
by erentz | 2025-09-26 00:07:22+00:00
From real world experience as a patient that has had a lot go wrong over the last decade. The problem isn’t lack of automation, it’s structural issues affecting cost.

Just as one example a chest CT would’ve cost $450 if done cash. It costed an insurer over $1200 done via insurance. And that was after multiple appeals and reviews involving time from people at the insurance company and the providers office including the doctor himself. The low hanging fruit in American healthcare costs is the stuff like that.
by stanislavb | 2025-09-26 00:07:32+00:00
This drama saddens me in two different ways. First, the community has always be very friendly on the whole and lacking similar negative drama. On the other hand, Shopify has always been pinpointed as a good example how Ruby can shine. The being on the "evil" side this time... that's sad and disappointing. I've tried figuring out why they might act in this way. My personal explanation - they are too big and rich, and want to have more tight control over the tech that's their drive-horse.
by k310 | 2025-09-26 00:07:36+00:00
Personally, I keep old cameras because they still work (the Hasselblad) or the lenses can be used with the latest camera (Nikon-Z with FTZ) I did optical engineering, so they have special meaning.

I keep some mac minis for linux (when I get the time), one old imac to manage the music on ancient ipods that don't seem to be manageable with newer computers, the Cube, because there ain't nothing like it [0] and the IMSAI that is too much trouble to ship even to computer museums, and certain ones, no CHM of Mountain View in particular, don't think it "classy" enough to take. No computer superhero autographed it, I guess.

I have lots of electronic parts and hardware bits that I don't think I'll ever need.

I found over the last 10 years alone, that I spend most of my time just USING computers, with the piano and photography. What I have done is the best guide to what I will do, and need, moving forward. Piano alone could take all my time, but it's for fun/enjoyment, not an obsession or profession.

Everything is under review for the next move.

TBH, in terms of "wasted space" furniture is still more of an issue.

[0] When the capacitive power switch dies, I guess that goes. unless there's an easy hack that I missed. No, I don't intend to turn any computers into fish tanks.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-26 00:08:04+00:00
It's a point of pride to fight tooth and nail arguing a wrong point. I worked with a guy who out right admitted that he will argue with you even if he knows he is wrong. It's not a discussion, its a fight they must win. They will die on their hill of macho pride. THEY MUST DEFEAT YOU.

Smart people admit they are wrong and learn, then move on for the better. The stagnant macho person will never learn anything and just wants status quo in perpetuity, so long as it benefits them.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 00:08:16+00:00
> we need a central bank that can provide everyone with a direct account to stop all the banking speculation. That’s the instant transactions I want

Hard nope from me post Trump. We don’t need the President having potentially unregulated and direct visibility into and access to every American’s bank account.

(And no, it’s not currently the case. The FBI still has to e.g. request records, a process which creates friction and the potential for pushback or whistleblowing.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-26 00:08:32+00:00
If anything, I get upset at how naive the left is, how they think that “this isn’t who we are”, and how out of touch they are. They try to play fair - the right plays to win.

Right now, the governor of California is trying to meet Texas gerrymandering with its own. But liberals are clutching their pearls with “two wrongs don’t make a right” and arguing about things like this in their committees

The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/dnc-mee...
by pstuart | 2025-09-26 00:08:34+00:00
Well, the President of the Heritage Foundation (the ones behind Project 2025, which is the playbook they're following) has said: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-...

They call it a revolution. They keep using that word, I do not think it means what they think it means.
by 1659447091 | 2025-09-26 00:08:47+00:00
> Again what did he do?

Inflation Reduction Act [0][1]

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act [2][3]

CHIPS and Science Act [4]

He worked to use our tax dollars to spur re-investment in America. From factory construction and utility jobs to grid resilience and innovation. Not to mention that zero to few Republicans voted for these, yet they are the largest benefactors. Texas massive growth spurt in Green energy can thank Biden, but they won't even though they are happy to take the infrastructure investments and enjoy the cheaper energy and jobs. I'll just be happy if I dont have to deal with another Great Texas Freeze.

Also, and even though, the coal mining communities didn't vote for him he made sure to single out investment specifically to coal communities "it announced $428 million in grants for 14 projects in coal communities, creating 1,900 jobs and leveraging $500 million in private investments."

Those also include tax reform (to collect from super-rich tax evaders, expire the deep corporate tax cuts etc) and prescription drug reform to lower prices among other things like investing in green energy projects for low income communities. He brought investment back into this country without sucker punching our allies.

Imo, that's what my tax dollars are for, for reinvestment back into building this country -- not to give rich business friends that donate meme coins to a family account extra large tax cuts or giving bonuses for rounding up brown people (including US citizens - google if you want links) and empower a federal immigration force to throw out any integrity and character they had before being told to make a spectacle.

Anyway there is a lot in there is you care to read up on it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act#Projec...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
by speakfreely | 2025-09-26 00:08:52+00:00
But the equipment is operated by a person, and the diagnostic report has to be signed off by a person, who has a malpractice insurance policy for personal injury attorneys to go after.

The system is designed a nanny-state fashion: there's no way to release practitioners from liability in exchange for less expensive treatments. I doubt this will change until healthcare pricing hits an extremely expensive breaking point.
by singpolyma3 | 2025-09-26 00:09:22+00:00
If there is only useful information in the commit message "once in a blue moon" it means someone isn't writing good commit messages.

The number of times I look at a change and all I can think is "why did they/I do that" is very very often. Having the answer to that question available saves re learning the lesson that led to the change.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-26 00:09:24+00:00
"Attention is All You Need" is a research paper published by google in 2017 that led pretty directly to the AI/LLM boom we have today.

Sometimes the pipeline between SOTA research is longer than you want, but it doesn't mean that publishing research or doing research should be discouraged.

I rather appreciate that google is willing to show their work, and throw money at things that might make the world a better place without a clear path to profitability.

For all their faults, their willingness to support pure research isn't one of them.
by soraminazuki | 2025-09-26 00:11:34+00:00
> because a tenant does something you personally find disagreeable

You do realize that the said tenant is massacring an entire population as we speak, right? Framing that as just something that's "disagreeable" is one hell of a euphemism.

The absolute bare minimum one can do is to not actively provide the technical means to carry out this atrocity, yet you claim it's only moral to do the exact opposite. This neoliberal fantasy that it's moral and good for society to let powerful corporations do whatever it wants is an absurdity not even worth refuting. But it's downright cruel and tone-deaf when it's used to justify taking part in an officially approved genocide.
by 0x1ceb00da | 2025-09-26 00:11:54+00:00
> A safe section of code that panics unexpectedly might preserve memory safety invariants but hork the higher-level logical invariants of your application

The usual way of dealing with this is to use impl Drop to cleanup properly. Resources are guaranteed to be dropped as expected on panic unwinds. Eg the database transaction rolls back if dropped without committing.

> Imagine an attacker who can force a panic in a network service, aborting his request but not killing the server, such that the panic on his next request grants him some kind of access he shouldn't have had due to the panic leaving the program in a bad state.

You need to be more specific. Why would the web server be left in a bad state because of such panics (in safe rust). All the memory will be cleaned up, all the database transactions will be cleaned up, mutexes might get poisoned, but that's considered a bug and it'll just cause another panic the next time someone tries to lock the mutex.
by herval | 2025-09-26 00:12:19+00:00
> And after you're done it's pretty straightforward to massage it into a coherent series of commits

Why waste time? Just squash and merge, you have a single commit and it WORKS. Intermediate messages disappear and you have a single, atomic rollback point on your main branch

> You can allow intermediate commits to e.g. fail the tests, and add a tag to your main/master after each merge. Then you know that only the tagged commits are guaranteed to be fully functional.

OR… squash and merge. Block merging with tests and compilation passing

For anything in tech, there’s the frictionless way and the busywork way. Both of your examples are busywork that’s completely unnecessary if you just… squash and merge

The best process is the process nobody needs to remember to do shit for it to work