MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by necovek | 2025-09-11 06:26:55+00:00
Not at all my point to "catch" you, just to demonstrate that some of the claimed benefits are not really there.

We all make typos regardless of the editing format: for some cases it might be better to go with these "semantic line breaks", for others not so much.

While an interesting thought experiment, it should be obvious that claims are not objectively true.

Perhaps a full-on scientific study is in order? :)
by rkomorn | 2025-09-11 06:27:20+00:00
So I think I'm, at best, only partly right.

Wikipedia says the pilot was filmed in March 2001, and production began in July 2001, so the broad strokes of the show were maybe mostly written prior to 9/11, but most of the actual filming likely happened after (which means writers also had time to rewrite at least some things).
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-09-11 06:28:24+00:00
Absolutely did not advocate for lynching and killing trans people like 50s and 60s.

Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Trans people must be stopped, for the children!

We all know what his words mean, the veil is thin enough that even a moron would understand it, and thick enough that the law protects him.

if you can’t correlate the exposure of the public to such comments with the rise in violence against LGBT people, I’d recommend some self-reflection and asking yourself what the consequences are if you are wrong.

Hopefully you are capable of feeling empathy towards others.
by bendoy | 2025-09-11 06:28:24+00:00
I just Doomscrolled 1878 meters and killed 3482 monsters. How far can you get?

Great game! Few impressions of the gameplay - Way easier on laptop compared to mobile; the monsters still spawn at the bottom of the viewport so you can camp at the top much further away on a laptop - The game almost gets easier the more powered up you get. To make it more challenging you could consider speeding up the lava at the top
by TFYS | 2025-09-11 06:28:25+00:00
I wouldn't call people working for a salary rich, which most of the people in those groups are. They pay plenty of taxes and many of them probably support funding public services as well. I meant the actually wealthy, who use their political power to reduce those services and the taxes they need to pay. They don't help fund them unless they are forced to, and currently they are not because the political power of their wealth has become larger than the political power of regular people.
by shubhamjain | 2025-09-11 06:28:45+00:00
> The primary counterargument can be framed in terms of Rich Sutton's famous essay, "The Bitter Lesson," which argues that the entire history of AI has taught us that attempts to build in human-like cognitive structures (like embodiment) are always eventually outperformed by general methods that just leverage massive-scale computation

This reminds me Douglas Hofstadter, of the Gödel, Escher, Bach fame. He rejected all of this statistical approaches towards creating intelligence and dug deep into the workings of human mind [1]. Often, in the most eccentric ways possible.

> ... he has bookshelves full of these notebooks. He pulls one down—it’s from the late 1950s. It’s full of speech errors. Ever since he was a teenager, he has captured some 10,000 examples of swapped syllables (“hypodeemic nerdle”), malapropisms (“runs the gambit”), “malaphors” (“easy-go-lucky”), and so on, about half of them committed by Hofstadter himself.

>

> For Hofstadter, they’re clues. “Nobody is a very reliable guide concerning activities in their mind that are, by definition, subconscious,” he once wrote. “This is what makes vast collections of errors so important. In an isolated error, the mechanisms involved yield only slight traces of themselves; however, in a large collection, vast numbers of such slight traces exist, collectively adding up to strong evidence for (and against) particular mechanisms.”

I don't know when, where, and how the next leap in AGI will come through, but it's just very likely, it will be through brute-force computation (unfortunately). So much for fifty years of observing Freudian slips.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man...
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-09-11 06:29:23+00:00
Picat the language is pretty cute but the really impressive part of Picat to me is their CP solver.

It's one of the best in recent years, despite using just eager compilation to SAT rather than lazy clause generation or another fancy hybrid technique.

It went against the grain by using encodings with smaller size that have poor propagation properties (like encoding numbers into binary with adder circuits) but then threw all sorts of compiler tech at the problem to optimize the circuits as much as possible.

It paid off it sure seems like.
by ironman1478 | 2025-09-11 06:30:01+00:00
You could read the links I posted to see the consequences of extreme policy decisions, like very wide bans on abortions. You can either meet people where they are and try to work with them, or you can be extreme and reap the consequences.

It's not like the people of Romania were then or are now woke lefties. Charlie Kirk would've loved Ceausescu.

Also read this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s%E2%80%931990s_Romanian...
by fwipsy | 2025-09-11 06:30:47+00:00
I concluded years ago that I'm not time-constrained, I'm energy-constrained. I couldn't explain it in terms of neurochemistry, but it's clear empirically that for me at least, willpower or mental focus is a resource which can be depleted, and work takes most of it. To me, the best way to use those 52 hours is not achieving things but caring for myself/restoring willpower, which means some blend of socialization, exercise, and relaxation.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-11 06:30:55+00:00
D.C. legalized recreational marijuana under local law by initiative, including, explicitly, gifting, but as I understand it requires a license to sell it, and the licensing system hasn't been set up. The buy something else and get gifted weed is a workaround for that, but it probably only works because the District government itself sees the problem as being its delays in getting the regulatory and licensing set up, not because it is necessarily actually compliant.
by ggm | 2025-09-11 06:30:57+00:00
I'm going to call this an own goal draw.

* US: alienated a trade partner building out onshore replicant that is needed for strategic goals.

* KR: used intermediary employment agencies who cheaped out on some paperwork for temporary labour roles.

(This assumes nobody is lying about what happened, noting one KR person detained is now said to have had a valid work visa, not expired or anything dodgy)

On balance I tend to the KR side. The interventions are self destructive and performance art of a cruel kind.

I also have selfish concerns that my unpaid event in the US for 2 days, which is emphatically not employment but is given a per diem and required me to register with the IRS for bilat tax treaty rules is now a flag at the border, despite having ESTA. ESTA says it can apply to temporary business conducted in the US. It is not "just for tourists". My work is volunteer, community benefit doing an HSM dance in a D.C. You would think these guys were covered. I think I'm covered, well.. I did think.

Who knows any more? If you'd asked me 12 months ago would 400 Koreans working temporarily to build and turn on a factory in the US get arrested I would have said no. They were there to train locals. They were there for america's benefit.

I'm probably going to ask the key ceremony organisers for a letterhead invite, clarity I am not employed, and some legals to call if this goes totally tits up.
by almost | 2025-09-11 06:31:19+00:00
Wasting time is absolutely glorious. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't or shouldn't.

Or as Kurt Vonnegut put it "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different"

(That being said if Tik Tok is making you sad delete that shit right away. Wasting time is glorious but feeling depressed sucks.)
Show HN: Node.js Beyond LeetCode
by freakynit | 2025-09-11 06:31:53+00:00
Most interview prep for Node.js is either trivia ("what does `this` mean here?") or algorithm puzzles you’ll hardly ever use in production.

I put together a repo of real-world Node.js questions: things like handling backpressure in streams, building a mutex with async/await, per-user concurrency limits, graceful shutdowns, caching strategies, etc.

It’s meant both for interview prep and as self-practice for engineers who want to get better at solving actual system-level problems.

Contributions welcome if you’ve run into tricky Node.js challenges yourself.

Repo: https://github.com/freakynit/nodejs-beyond-leetcode
Ask HN: Gen-Z toppled the government. Precedents to guide the next steps?
by xj | 2025-09-11 06:33:51+00:00
On Sep 8–9, Nepal's Gen-Z led protests brought down the government in less than 2 days, ending years of frustration over corruption, nepotism, and even a sudden social media ban.

Explainer video (by @sabi_shifty): https://www.tiktok.com/@sabi_shifty/video/7548336154102222094

Now, Gen-Z is leading the formation of a new government, but there's a real risk that the same corrupt forces could seep back in. At this crossroads, what historical precedents can help guide the next steps and prevent a revival of the old system?
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-11 06:34:51+00:00
I have a multi-tier system.

Chezmoi manages stuff that's in my /home - configurations, scripts in ~/bin/ etc. It also installs a bunch of applications with a runonce_ -script both on Linux and MacOS.

Ansible makes sure the correct system-level packages are installed, things in /etc/ are set up the way I like etc. There's a bunch of overlap with the packages installed by ansible and Chezmoi - but I run `chezmoi update` multiple times a week an I can run it on any computer I'm on. Ansible is for Big Things.

Then I have an opentofu setup that manages a bunch of docker containers, keeping them as stateful as possible.

For daily simple things, I can just edit any config file, add it to chezmoi and push it to git. Then on any machine I can `chezmoi update` and everything is synced.
by snthpy | 2025-09-11 06:34:53+00:00
One missing feature is Windows Explorer Shell integration for File Hash checks, e.g. for downloads. Hopefully it won't be too much longer until this lands: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/57#issuecommen...

I found OpenHashTab to be a good tool for this in the meantime: https://github.com/namazso/OpenHashTab
by jjani | 2025-09-11 06:35:15+00:00
The philosophy espoused by the stickied comment is based on the idea that it doesn't matter what the deeds of the person in question were; it's about the concept.

Whether that philosophy is one I'd personally agree with, I'm not sure. But it's certainly one that doesn't match the idea of applying it to one but not the other - that's an entirely different philosophy. Which one is more valid is something we could discuss for many hours, and I'm sure we'd still end up with many, many different views.
by Fezzik | 2025-09-11 06:36:15+00:00
I think of ‘mass’ in the context of defining groups of things as just ‘a lot under the circumstances’. A mass gathering for an NFL game is 100,000 people; a mass crowd for a high-school JV basketball game is probably 100; a mass crowd for a 1 year old’s birthday is maybe 50. It’s relative to what is expected under normal circumstances. 4 people being shot or injured is a lot because nobody should be shot or injured.
by YZF | 2025-09-11 06:36:41+00:00
Most people in the top 0.1% are quite rich. There are quite a few CEOs and founders of large companies that are billionaires from income they got from those companies (and paid taxes on).

Maybe you need to give me more examples. Who are "actually wealthy" people in Canada who do not pay any taxes whatsoever and contribute nothing to the local economy/country? e.g. they avoid paying GST or HST, they avoid paying property taxes, they don't pay capital gains taxes?

I do agree that some rich people (and also not rich people) campaign for a smaller government and less taxes. I don't think that's an unreasonable position. There is a sweet spot for taxation and taxes in Canada are quite high. It's not a zero sum game (e.g. we have people leaving Canada to go to lower tax countries like the US).
by empiko | 2025-09-11 06:37:17+00:00
Bibliometrics in science is just an unworkable approach in general, and IMO it causes more harms than not. Research is one of the least suitable human activities that you can possibly try to quantify, yet the entire scientific establishment runs on these metrics by now. I more or less believe that this strategy hinders scientific progress, as it pushes researchers into more and more risk-averse behaviors.
by disposablese | 2025-09-11 06:37:50+00:00
I applied for two separate roles around 2–3 years ago. I’ve always really liked your product, and I enjoyed talking to one of your developers. However, since your team was primarily used Ruby at the time and that’s not my main language it wasn't the best fit back then.

That said, I’m still very interested and was wondering if there might be any opportunities for a technically hybrid roles (Developer Advocate, Customer Success Engineering, Support Engineering) on a part-time basis.

To be upfront: I currently have a full-time position, but I’m looking to contribute during weekends and around 2–3 hours on weekdays, totaling around 20–25 hours per week.
by matrix87 | 2025-09-11 06:38:10+00:00
> but my USB-C port is failing

I'm having the same issue with my pixel 8 (along with the screen randomly turning green out of nowhere, so I have to "ground" the display to get it to work again)

In general the 8 feels a lot more cheaply made than the 6

I agree that the android UX is better than apple (or at least, it makes more sense to me). But I'd consider moving to iphone for build quality alone
by ropable | 2025-09-11 06:38:51+00:00
I don't disagree that commuting by bicycle can be hazardous, but the major risks to cyclist safety are cars, trucks and other cyclists (mainly e-bikes). Pedestrians, potholes, bollards, etc. are no worse than an inconvenience most of the time. You just don't build up enough speed to cause that much damage in a busy city due to a fall or colliding with a pedestrian. OTOH, even the mildest collision between a bike and a car is generally a Bad Time for the cyclist.

Source: me, who commutes by bike daily through a capital city.
by joshribakoff | 2025-09-11 06:39:26+00:00
I let them know today — when i laid on my horn while passing a Waymo stopped at a green light blocking the left turn lane — with its right blinker on.

Re: Tesla, this company paid me nearly $250,000 under multiple lemon law claims for their “self driving” software issues i identified that affected safety.

We all know what happened with Cruise, which was after i declared myself constructively dismissed.

I think the characterization in the article is fair, “self driving” is not quite there yet.
Show HN: AI Image Editor with Natural Language Commands
by azqsxw11011 | 2025-09-11 06:39:50+00:00
Most photo editing requires learning complex software. I wanted something that works conversationally - just describe what you want: "remove the background", "make the sky more dramatic", "change the car to red".

How it works: - Upload images - Type editing instructions in natural language - Get edited results in 15-30 seconds - Supports batch processing and multiple variations

Some example edits: - "Remove the person in the background" - "Replace the sky with a sunset" - "Make this look vintage" - "Change all blue objects to red" - "Add dramatic lighting"

Current traction: - Free tools available (background remover, upscaler and more) - Premium editing features

Questions for HN: 1. What's your experience with natural language interfaces? 2. How do you balance feature complexity vs simplicity? 3. Any thoughts on freemium vs usage-based pricing for AI tools?

Free trial for testing. Would love feedback from the community!
by zakeria | 2025-09-11 06:40:25+00:00
That’s a fair question. You’re right that on paper a uGMM neuron looks like it “costs” ~3× an MLP weight. But there are levers to balance that. For example, the paper discusses parameter tying, where the Gaussian component means are tied directly to the input activations. In that setup, each neuron only learns the mixture weights and variances, which cuts parameters significantly while still preserving probabilistic inference. The tradeoff may be reduced expressiveness, but it shows the model doesn’t have to be 3x heavier.

More broadly: traditional graphical models were largely intractable at deep learning scale until probabilistic circuits, which introduced tractable probabilistic semantics without exploding parameter counts. Circuits do this by constraining model structure. uGMM-NN sits differently: it brings probabilistic reasoning inside dense architectures.

So while compute cost is real, the “fair comparison” isn’t just params-per-weight, it’s also about what kinds of inference the model can do at all, and the added interpretability of mixture-based neurons, which traditional MLP neurons don’t provide - it shares some spirit with recent work like KAN, but tackles the problem through probabilistic modeling rather than spline-based function fitting.
Ask HN: So its about marketing not the idea
by chetansorted | 2025-09-11 06:40:49+00:00
After 2 years dwelling in the indie hacking and buildinpublic. I realize that it's about marketing and not the idea. You can even sell peanuts online if you crackdown marketing. So what is the real use of all the apps? I think every app in the niche has value that it's more than enough to achieve what user wants to do.

I can pinpoint 100 habit tracker apps literally doing the exact same thing but able to make money.

What are your thoughts? Do you agree?
by xingwu82 | 2025-09-11 06:41:31+00:00
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by abustamam | 2025-09-11 06:41:57+00:00
Sorry, upon re-reading my comment, I communicated my thought incorrectly.

My intention was to point out that the not-mass shooting overshadowed the mass shooting in the news. Obviously both are bad, but 3 people dying in a single shooting incident is worse than 1 person dying in a single shooting incident, yet the 1 person dying is the one that gets the news coverage.
by hwwc | 2025-09-11 06:42:47+00:00
SEEKING WORK - Remote (global hours) | USA

Email: hwchen [at] hwc.io github: github.com/hwchen linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walther-chen-5b87a512/

Backend/systems/data engineer. Some notable projects include: - OLAP service for US census data (Rust + Clickhouse) - SQL query metadata extractor and pipeline (Rust + Python) - Bioinformatics pipeline (Python -> Rust)

Most comfortable working in Rust or better-C languages (Zig, etc), where efficient usage of resources is a priority.

Especially strong at the greenfield/prototype stage on small teams. Also happy tracking down stubborn bugs in complex systems.

I've worked remote for many years, both sync and async, with colleagues across many timezones.
by carloshmccarlos | 2025-09-11 06:45:22+00:00
Real-time text clipboard tool that lets you create unlimited messages per workspace and sync them instantly across all devices. No sign-up required – just create a room and share the QR code.

Key features:

Sub-500ms real-time sync Multi-message workspaces with editable titles Auto-expiring rooms (24 hours) for privacy Works on phones, tablets, and computers Glassmorphism UI with dark/light mode
by qcnguy | 2025-09-11 06:45:22+00:00
People who are scared award power to leaders, and leaders use that power to advance their social agenda rather than merely try and solve the problem that scared people. It was ever thus.

Public health is not a technocratic field where there's always clearly one right answer. It presents itself as deciding on things that may hurt individuals but help the collective, and so it naturally attracts collectivists. In other words it's a political field, not a medical one. That then takes them into the realm of sides.
by jjani | 2025-09-11 06:45:37+00:00
The most common reasons among those who did not express disappointment:

- They'd want the very same thing to happen if the roles were reversed: foreign companies in Korea bringing in hundreds of people on questionable visas

- The companies knew exactly what they were doing, that it was illegal and that they were at risk. This had been coming for some time. Cases had been starting to pop up of those trying to do multiple consecutive visa runs (blatant abuse, but often instructed by these same companies) being denied.

- The employees who get sent on these business trips are often privileged and rich, so some take pleasure in seeing them not get away with something for once.

- Korean young MAGAs who love the concept of deportation and the current US gov
by MKuykendall | 2025-09-11 06:45:59+00:00
GPU/CUDA: Yes, but disabled by default for faster builds. To enable: remove LLAMA_CUDA = "OFF" from config.toml and rebuild with CUDA toolkit installed.

Rust library: Absolutely! Add shimmy = { version = "0.1.0", features = ["llama"] } to Cargo.toml. Use the inference engine directly:

let engine = shimmy::engine::llama::LlamaEngine::new(); let model = engine.load(&spec).await?; let response = model.generate("prompt", opts, None).await?;

No need to spawn processes - just import and use the components directly in your Rust code.
by zakeria | 2025-09-11 06:46:40+00:00
Thanks - That's correct, the Gaussian mixture parameters (mu, sigma, pi) are learned as functions of the input from the previous layer. So it’s still a feedforward net: the activations from layer x determine the mixture parameters for the next layer.

The reason the neuron’s output is written as a log-density Pj(y) is just to emphasize the probabilistic view: each neuron is modeling how likely a latent variable y would be under its mixture distribution.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-11 06:46:52+00:00
There is no need to convince. It's probably diplomatic language/misunderstanding by the journalist.

U.S export controls have a foreign direct product rule. If your product directly depends on US IP/tech then US export controls apply to you too. ASML's EUV machines depend on a lot of U.S ip and tech. These range from patents from the EUV consortium days, all the way to today where a lot of the components are designed or patented by the US (intel, ibm, applied materials, lam, KLA, [1]). Thus, export controls apply whether netherlands likes it or not.

In EUV litho, the strategic I.P - and what IP is a strategic chokepoint is subjective, so IMHO - is 50% EU, 40% U.S and 10% Japan. More than enough for FDPR.

See ECCN 3B090 (2022) for lots of extra restrictions placed beyond this, specifically targeting semicon manufacturing exports to PRC, such as the presumption of denial clause.

[1] and cymer. Altho they were acquired by asml their IP remains san diego based aiui.