MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seec | 2025-09-11 22:31:19+00:00
I'm glad I'm not alone thinking this.

Much of the renewable price/cost calculation is plain wrong because we have offloaded the cost to other countries (who gladly still use fossil fuels).

On top of that there is the problem of maintaining a real economy inside the country, to benefit people actually living in said country. I believe most of HN don't care because they get paid to make stuff that is sold globally and they profit from that. They can't understand that not everybody can do that and you need to create value inside of the country so that they can share/benefit from that value creation.

I also have access to solar generation statistics in the middle of France and they make no sense without the generous subsidies and electricity generation purchase from the provider. But plenty are profiting from that so of couse they are happy about it.
by Sparkle-san | 2025-09-11 22:31:58+00:00
Perhaps the background tasks are ones with obvious solutions? I use Claude code to write boilerplate terraform for me as I know what it should look like and I often don't want to write it myself as it is not novel or exciting. I could see the argument that I batch a couple of these out to AI, focus on something more complicated, and then come back later to essentially code review them or make necessary adjustments.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-11 22:32:22+00:00
I think a lot of it is just tribal mysticism. One gets used to their preferred devices, and then they mentally imbue them with positive qualities, conjured out of their own imagination/biases. There was an article[1] a while back where the author was complaining that Android apps feel "inert and rigid," and lack "comfort, fun, and panache." Like, really? How is anyone expected to compare one app's "panache" with another one's? You're just used to one ecosystem's apps, and other people are used to another ecosystem's apps.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34611552
by saltcured | 2025-09-11 22:32:37+00:00
Hmm, is this "car(ing) about distance between specific points" something that would matter if we were going to operate in reverse and splat something at each point to render the triangle?

I think that sort of splatting is how I intuitively think about this problem, and likely where I went wrong in thinking there would be a distortion of the density function. I'm not confident whether this actually matters though. Would it still approximate the same distribution regardless of what splat shape is used...?
by eightysixfour | 2025-09-11 22:32:48+00:00
No, because theism is missing the first premise. The equivalent would be:

- We have observably seen and reproduced god bringing someone back from the dead - We can find no other explanation for this thing coming back from the dead - It was likely god who brought this thing back from the dead, but we want more data

The first premise has never happened, there is not any equivalence...
by const_cast | 2025-09-11 22:33:25+00:00
This is my reality too and the taskbar takes some stuff down with it.

Also the taskbar is just broken in general. It'll pull tons of apps behind the '...' button even though there's plenty of room on the taskbar and it'll also put fake apps that aren't actually open on the taskbar.

Also no vertical task bar. Come on Microsoft.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-11 22:33:29+00:00
You interpreted that word correctly. But I would say that part of "proper access" is that it needs to meet basic interoperability levels. That much is Apple's job, and it's not a very big job.

I'm not asking for them to do any work beyond that level for non-Apple devices. If those devices need to run fancy code to make the feature work, that fancy code isn't Apple's job.

(But if the feature just needs to listen to the microphone feed, then I do expect it to work out of the box with any headset. (The firmware updates they're doing to older airpods are not clear evidence one way or the other whether it actually needs on-headset support.))
by stoobs | 2025-09-11 22:34:47+00:00
I'm pretty sure these are cherry-picked out of many generation attempts, I tried a few basic things and it flat out refused to do many of them like turning a cartoon illustration into a real-world photographic portrait, it kept wanting to create a pixar style image, then when I used an ai generated portrait as an example, it refused with an error saying it wouldn't modify real world people...

I then tried to generate some multi-angle product shots from a single photo of an object, and it just refused to do the whole left, right, front, back thing, and kept doing things like a left, a front, another left, and weird half back/half side view combination.

Very frustrating.
by foofoo12 | 2025-09-11 22:35:34+00:00
I found out recently that I have aphantasia, based on everything I've read. When you tell me to visualize, I imagine. I don't see it. An apple, I can imagine that. I can describe it in incomprehensibly sparse details. But when you ask details I have to fill them in.

I hadn't really placed those three dots in a specific place on the apple. But when you ask where they are, I'll decide to put them in a line on the apple. If you ask what color they are, I'll have to decide.
by bsoles | 2025-09-11 22:35:54+00:00
Dijkstra's paper "On the cruelty of teaching computing science" makes a different distinction that is worth reading about. CS work as in developing algorithms, etc.; and "software engineering" in the sense of solving problems with software that create more problems. His words, not mine...

But his latter take always reminds me the authorization/authentication mess that we are all in right now.
by const_cast | 2025-09-11 22:36:00+00:00
The window manager in windows is horribly buggy and extremely slow. Lots of animation flickering and snapping for seemingly no reason. Try maximizing Firefox while a video is playing and watch the animation - or, usually, lack thereof.

Wayland is, by far, the best windowing system I've ever used. No dropped frames, ever. Its actually kind of uncanny, it feels like you're using an iPhone.
by TheDong | 2025-09-11 22:37:24+00:00
You said "no cost to developers", that part's not true. you're of course right that it's not really enough money to be relevant though.

The more cogent argument is that if apple doesn't want to spend money making their phone work with smartwatches, they do not have to make it work with smartwatches.

They want it to work with watches so users buy the phone.

If they want it to work with _only_ their watch, then sure, they make more money, but they also harm the user and market in the long-term by making it so competitors aren't on an even playing field.

Do you just kinda believe anti-competitiveness doesn't exist?

Should apple be allowed to make it so you can't communicate with android users at all to increase sales (which they already more-or-less did)? Should they intentionally make it so you can't play the music you purchased on non-apple devices by breaking "iTunes for windows"?
by bryan0 | 2025-09-11 22:37:28+00:00
hah the model should get extra credit for discovering this!

> Now I understand the situation perfectly! The issue described in the problem statement is a real bug that was already identified and fixed in later versions of pytest. Since we're working with pytest 5.2.4, we need to apply the same fix.

https://gist.github.com/jacobkahn/bd77c69d34040a9e9b10d56baa...
by selcuka | 2025-09-11 22:37:41+00:00
Fair point, but not mentioning the socio-economic level of the top 100 countries in that list is also disingenuous. For a fairer comparison with similar countries; the per capita rate is 5.763 (!) for US, while it is 2.273 for Canada, 1.148 for UK, or 0.854 for Australia.

Even if it was as low as Canada, for example, 11,989 of the 19,796 people who died last year might still be living today.

If you think that those extra deaths are acceptable, and that guns have nothing to do with that, then I don't believe I can change your mind.
by imiric | 2025-09-11 22:37:50+00:00
From the README:

> Scheme/Lisp should not be forced onto the user. It's error-prone and harder to read by humans, compared to Rust/TOML/Lua/...

I get the argument of preferring TOML over a Turing-complete language for configuration, but to claim that Rust is easier to read than Scheme, or that Lua is less error-prone, is... interesting, to say the least.

I saw similar comments in the linked issue that tracks the proposal. I think people object more to functional programming and S-expressions than to Scheme itself, which is a shame. There's a lot to be gained and learned from Lisps once you get over that initial reaction.
by Hansenq | 2025-09-11 22:39:05+00:00
$500B current valuation (Sep 2025)

Nonprofit equity stake will exceed $100B

So the OpenAI nonprofit will control ~20% of the OpenAI PBC once the conversion is done. This says nothing about different share classes that determine control (the nonprofit will likely still have control of the PBC due to higher power voting shares). The biggest question is how much equity in the PBC Microsoft will get.
by junon | 2025-09-11 22:39:45+00:00
I think you are missing a lot of information I've posted elsewhere in this thread and the original HN post. I didn't minimize anything; I would hope most agree that if anything I've maximized the message as much as I possibly could to prevent further damage.

1. My email client does the validation of certain integrity and security checks and shows a checkmark next to senders that pass. Since npmjs.help was a domain legitimately owned by the attackers, it passed.

2. The link in the email lead to their site at the same domain, most likely performing a MITM between my browser and npm's official servers.

3. You're arguing semantics about "scheme". Please try to understand what I'm attempting to convey: The URLs appeared to match the official npm's site. There was no <a href> trickery. Once I had it in my head (erroneously) that .help was fine, nothing else about the attack stood out as suspicious when it came to the URL or domains.

4. Emails themselves are not MITM attacks, no. I didn't respond to an email with my credentials. I would never do that. But that isn't what I've ever claimed to have happened.

5. The URLs being similar or identical to npm's isn't how they technically achieved the MITM. The URLs being similar was to avoid arousing suspicion.

Hopefully that's explanatory enough.
by creer | 2025-09-11 22:40:04+00:00
That's fair. (Heading off topic:) My take on that saying is that I make art when the inspiration strikes. So I am often caught carrying a minimal amount of stuff but noticing something and wanting to play with it. My very mediocre 1st gen iPhone SE is indeed absurdly far in capabilities from my serious camera - but historically there have been far worse cameras. (And it has never been quite the same since I replaced the battery and I annoy my friends by tapping the phone so it will auto-focus.)
by degamad | 2025-09-11 22:40:46+00:00
Loaning or renting (registering) amount to the same thing for the purposes of the the public suffix list: because the *public* can create entries under github.io, you cannot assume that alice.github.io and eve.github.io are controlled by the same entity, so you should not share alice.github.io's data (e.g. cookies) with eve.github.io.
by kristianp | 2025-09-11 22:41:16+00:00
Interesting that the proposal is for low-level intrinsics as well as a non-processor-specific api: > Our plan is to take a two-level approach: Low-level architecture-specific API and intrinsics, and a high-level portable vector API. The low-level intrinsics will closely resemble the machine instructions (most intrinsics will compile to a single instruction), and will serve as building blocks for the high-level API.
by fhdkweig | 2025-09-11 22:41:40+00:00
I'd also like to point out that people don't think about calories when they eat. They are thinking about their hunger. But for 50 years they've been told "carbs and whole grains are good for you". So they eat carbs which spike the blood sugar followed by spiking of insulin. A few minutes later both crash, which makes them hungry and they go back for more food which is carbs.

It is impossible to not overeat with that mindset. First they have to learn that fatty and fibrous foods will make them feel full all day. My go-to comfort food is ice cream. I was thrilled when I discovered https://rebelcreamery.com/ , which they sell at my local grocery stores. I can eat about 700 calories and a bit of psyllium fiber and be full for the whole day. It is the primary way I lost weight.
by jquaint | 2025-09-11 22:41:55+00:00
For me, the success is having a simple way to prompt an Agent AI to modify my NixOS desktop and get live feedback.

It can use the above MCP to search NixOS options and packages for me and make recommendations and edit the actual files, rebuild, etc.

It can then use nix flake check and other commands to verify the work it does actually did what was expected.

Even if there is still a bad result from time to time, I find this pretty valuable!
by foofoo12 | 2025-09-11 22:42:21+00:00
Ask people to visualize a thing. Pick something like a house, dog, tree, etc. Then ask about details. Where is the dog?

I have aphantasia and my dog isn't anywhere. It's just a dog, you didn't ask me to visualize anything else.

When you ask about details, like color, tail length, eyes then I have to make them up on the spot. I can do that very quickly but I don't "see" the good boy.
by lgrebe | 2025-09-11 22:43:13+00:00
Jetzig reads funny in german something like "now-ish"

Jetzt = now [1]

German adjective suffix: -ig [2] The German suffix -ig attaches to nouns, verbs and even adverbs. Given this flexibility, it ranks among the most common adjective endings in German. You can use -ig words to express that something is a certain way or happens a certain way. traurig: sad, sadly wässrig: watery knackig: crunchy, crispy abhängig: dependent, addicted geizig: stingy

[1] https://de.pons.com/übersetzung-2/deutsch-englisch/jetzt [2] https://www.lingoda.com/blog/en/german-adjective-suffixes/
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 22:43:19+00:00
They are free to do that but they need to deprecate the feature for their own devices as well.

Apple is not required to develop or maintain any feature against their will. The DMA is not written like that, it is much more objective and industry-agnostic.

The EU demands that features implemented in the OS to be used by Apple accessories must be made equally available to competing accessory vendors.
by nullocator | 2025-09-11 22:45:25+00:00
I don't think this is a fair question. Answering the question you asked to someone else: It's hard for me to personally know how I'd react in such a situation. I'd like to say that I'd do everything possible to stop one person from killing another even if (lesser) violence is required to do so, and I think that's okay. But I think it's equally likely that I could be afraid or unsure of how to react in such a situation and therefore fail to act which is also okay I think? Not everyone wants to be or can be a hero or a statistic.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-11 22:45:58+00:00
Unfortunately, adults in western nations are unusually susceptible to harm-blindness. This is the inability to differentiate between actual, tangible harm - and things that simply make adults grumpy or uneasy.

Historically, the two highest risk groups have been people in authority and people in the the news industry.

Contact with certain environments has been shown to sharply amplify the effects of harm-blindness. Most notably, contact with computer networks is particularly detrimental to vulnerable adults. Here they commonly lose all sense of proportion and exercising sound judgment is all but impossible.

For everyone's safety, high risk adults are strongly encouraged to avoid these spaces.
by neya | 2025-09-11 22:46:51+00:00
I discovered something insideous after being in the iOS ecosystem. Apple still slows down iPhones, but not in the way you think - every year around their iPhone launch schedule, like clockwork, my iPhone 14 Pro Max slowed down just enough to make me think it was ageing, but not enough to suspect - after a lot of tests, it turns out, the reponsitivity of the touch was being reduced in software. So, the "smooth" iOS polished animations feel a bit laggy, but not enough to raise eyebrows. But, this is not even the worst part. I casually - out of pure coincidence discovered that Apple actually reduces the camera's clarity around their new iPhone launches. Particularly low-light performance. I thought I was being paranoid, but I'm a photographer and the hotel I walked across everyday in the evening had these beautiful hanging creepers which combined with golden lighting, always provided a pleasant sight. So, I loved taking pictures of it randomly until one day I noticed that regardless of the camera mode, the noise was insanely high and the pictures suddenly looked like they were taken from an old Android phone from 2015. I cleaned the lenses, had no cover, etc. I copied the images to my computer and the difference was clearly visible.

After a little bit digging, it turns out, I wasn't the only one. A lot of people had complained about the lagginess around iPhone launch dates. This is an old graph from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

This is actual data from Google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...

You can clearly see a spike in as recent as September 2025. But, the camera data was the last straw for me. As a photographer who paid $1000+ for the iPhone Pro Max - supposedly their latest and greatest phone of the time, only to get screwed over by greed 2 years later, I had enough.

I sold the iPhone at a loss, got myself a Samsung Note and I actually took pictures of the same hotel again and the difference was stark. That really told me everything I needed to know about Apple's ethics. In contrast, I also have a Samsung S10+ from ages ago and it still functions flawlessly. The trade off clearly is privacy with the Android eco-system, but until we have a decent Apple alternative that's also privacy focused, I'm forced to accept this trade off.

Funnily enough, my iPad and Macbooks never get slowed down, even if it's 5+ years. It's only for the iPhones. I guess they view the iPhone as fast fashion or something, but the ethical component is not acceptable to me.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-11 22:47:05+00:00
> Has anyone else built something similar?

I made my own lisp. It used to have a recursive interpreter but I recently finished converting it into a register/stack machine that's essentially a modified version of the Explicit Control Evaluator from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

https://github.com/lone-lang/lone/blob/master/source/lone/li...

Now I'm thinking about converting it into a CESK machine which I believe is a proper stack machine. Modifying the SICP machine has proven difficult due to the loose stack discipline. I'm told register machines are faster but keeping track of all those ad hoc pushes and pops is turning into a nightmare.

> What features would you add to make it more useful?

The neat part about all these machines is how the stack itself turns into some sort of code. You push some state indicating what you want the machine to do next. Then you set it up so that it evaluates a value. When it's done, that value just flows into whatever the next computation step is.

Making a copy of the stack and wrapping it into a callable that just plugs that value in is how first class continuations are implemented.
by seec | 2025-09-11 22:47:21+00:00
Electricity self-sufficiency is only realistic when: your needs are quite low, you own a house, you have capital to invest for both panels and storage, your heating is not electricity dependent (so most likely fossil fuel or wood, which isn't better)

Yet, most people live in cities, with plenty of appartement or shared houses where most of the requirements are just not feasible. And the trend isn't going in reverse.

So yes, YOU, may have your own individualistic solution but clearly, it's not something that is suitable for most people. Considering you do not have a real horse in the race, you should quit arguing and enjoy your own egotistical "solution" and let people who want to live collectively decide what's best for them.
by a_paddy | 2025-09-11 22:48:16+00:00
By that logic where is the Christian homeland? Jesus was born in Bethlehem, does that give all Christians a right to displace the people who live there?

Similarly the Irish are famous for being ethnically a Celtic people. The Celts originated in Hallstatt, Austria, so does that entitle any Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scot or Welsh person to turn up and settle on the shores of the Hallstätter See?

All humans trace their origins back to Mesopotamia, can we all claim some land in Iraq too?
by Talanes | 2025-09-11 22:49:25+00:00
>I just posted a talk by Seymour Papert from 1991 where he said that kids were on computers or Nintendo for 6 hours at a time, which surprised me that even then they were "addictive." He notes that poetry, music, Shakespeare aren't "addictive" in the same way.

He doesn't make any claim as to the addictiveness of poetry, music, or Shakespeare: he pointed out that we use different language to describe childhood compulsions for one activity than we do for another.

My own anecdotal experience on the topic is that I was such a voracious reader as a child that it was a problem in much the same way I see people today complain about kids in screens. I'd hide personal books behind textbooks while I ignored classes, hide under the covers with a flashlight to stay up all night reading, the works.
by fakedang | 2025-09-11 22:50:14+00:00
Human thinking is also Markov chains on ultra steroids. I wonder if there are any studies out there which have shown the difference between people who can think with a language and people who don't have that language base to frame their thinking process in, based on some of those kids who were kept in isolation from society.

"Superhuman" thinking involves building models of the world in various forms using heuristics. And that comes with an education. Without an education (or a poor one), even humans are incapable of logical thought.
by mrlongroots | 2025-09-11 22:50:19+00:00
I think Palantir is highly misunderstood.

As a technology, it is just database joins. It is just that they are able to pull in data from everything from S3 to SAP to ArcGIS, and provide analytics, visualization etc. on top to provide global visibility into any system.

The visibility can be "show me all illegal immigrant clusters" or "show me bottlenecks and cost sinks in CAHSR construction".

When we offload the moral impetus for society from politics to technology, we also squander control. Tech is tech and can be used for both good and bad. It is not that a strategy that aims to cap downsides by preventing the proliferation of technology is inherently bad, but it is doomed to fail. The evidence for dysfunction is not the existence of Palantir but in the failure of the watchdog layer of society (also called the government).
by HaZeust | 2025-09-11 22:50:31+00:00
>"And if they don't, it should be the courts that decides if they should be penalized, not a lone armed civilian."

And what happens when the courts are to no longer be trusted for impartial or otherwise reasonable verdicts? We use randomness to control corruption in courts through the likes of juries, but First Amendment civil cases are almost always bench trials decided by a judge, or motions via summary judgement. Not juries. What's our fallback and our "check" there?