MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iLemming | 2025-09-07 16:10:12+00:00
AFAIK Janet is not "much simpler to interface with C++". Janet has good FFI for C, but not for C++ directly. Janet's native FFI system is designed specifically for C libraries. C++ has name mangling, classes, exceptions, and other features that Janet's FFI cannot directly handle. The process would be similar to using C++ libraries from any C-based language, which is far from straightforward.

Jank, if my understanding is correct, in comparison has direct C++ interop. Jank treats C++ as a first-class compilation target rather than a foreign interface.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-07 16:10:21+00:00
That’s a nice story, but completely ahistorical; MVC was not originally a distributed architecture but an architecture for local desktop GUI apps. While it was later applied to client/server apps, that isn’t its origin (and even in that context it was never equivalent to the 3-tier model, which you can easily note by all three of M, V, and C being represented by backend components in web frameworks like Rails—the View being the backend component that renders what is sent to the frontend in that version.)
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-07 16:10:23+00:00
I don't know. Personally I'm just extremely disillusioned about both parties so even picking between Vance and Newsom doesn't even registe as picking the best of two evils. They both seem useless and out of touch with reality.

To be fair, I know the least about Newsom, having never lived anywhere near California and well California doesn't exactly have any better a reputation than Florida or Texas do in my book. So I'll have to tune in late 2027 if he gets the nod. Assuming Democrats survive 2026 because frankly the party is at death's door and I don't know how Newsom is new growth. We already rejected one Californian.
by xp84 | 2025-09-07 16:10:25+00:00
Books are printed in very large quantities, and there isn't infinite warehousing space for them "just in case." Surplus books just get sent straight to recycling all the time to make room for new books. I would be surprised if while this project was running, it represented even 10% of the daily books being destroyed. It's just never been practical to save every book printed forever.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-07 16:10:42+00:00
It's also a bit too unserious for me these days. There's always this stupid bs stuff like "my partner and I stopped having sex for 3 months and it improved our lives". That kind of crap belongs in Cosmopolitan not in a decent paper. They still have insightful stories at times but it's hard to wade through all the crap.

I stopped supporting them during the Brexit negotiations because I was sick of hearing those entitled conservatives complain that they couldn't get from us (EU) what they knew they could never have because it was just the rules.

But I recently came back to it after seeing a link to it somewhere but it seems such a hollow shell of what it was now.
by howenterprisey | 2025-09-07 16:11:13+00:00
My thesis is that Wikipedianon's comment implies Wikipedia editors (specifically, "well-known" editors and "admins") doxx each other all the time, but that's hilariously wrong. Doxxing mostly comes from assholes outside the community, such as those who post on Wikipediocracy.

Yes, on-project doxxing gets OS'd but it also results in discussions and bans which can be reviewed. And from those you can easily determine that it's truly rare.

When I said to go to the forums, that was unfortunately unclear wording; I meant it's trivial to verify that Beeblebrox didn't doxx anyone in his postings.
by bratwurst3000 | 2025-09-07 16:11:38+00:00
allways set cost alarm and max spending. AWS has great tools to controll costs. You could have blocked this with good config but I understand its confusing and not super apparent. IMHO there should be a pop up or sth asking " you want to stop the instance the moment it costs anything?"

its so easy to get billed a ridicules amount if money
by westurner | 2025-09-07 16:11:45+00:00
Aren't the visual cortex and auditory cortex already shown to be hierarchical, though LLMs with a fixed topology aren't really ?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41905326 :

> From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105068#40107537 re: cognitive hierarchy and specialization :

>> But FWIU none of these models of cognitive hierarchy or instruction are informed by newer developments in topological study of neural connectivity;

- Cortical columns

- The brain is at most 11D: 11 Dimensional

"Two-dimensional neural geometry underpins hierarchical organization of sequence in human working memory" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02047-8 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42084285

"Hierarchical Reasoning Mode" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702554

"Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain" (2025-07) https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888

> Abstract: [...] The key to our proposal is what we call the “Thousand Brains Theory”, which posits that every cortical column is a sensorimotor learning system. Columns learn by integrating sensory input over multiple movements of a sensor. In this view, even primary and secondary regions, such as V1 and V2, can learn and recognize complete 3D objects. This suggests that the hierarchical connections between regions are used to learn the compositional structure of parent objects composed of smaller child objects. We explain the theory by examining the different types of long-range connections between cortical regions and between the neocortex and thalamus. We describe these connections, and then suggest the specific roles they play in the context of a heterarchy of sensorimotor regions. We also suggest that the thalamus plays an essential role in transforming the pose between objects and sensors. The novel perspective we argue for here has broad implications for both neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

Is self attention sufficient to model a Hierarchical Recurrent BNN?

A better VEP Visual Evoked Potential test for pediatric ophthalmology - to tell whether and how well infants can see - could be one practical external benefit of further study of neural topology of the optic nerve and the visual cortex
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-07 16:12:28+00:00
It'd be cool to see a nice UI (like this) atop something a little better built out & defined like systemd-nspawn. Like Quadlet for containers, Nspawn for VMs is a nice base with tons of great capabilities & very standard management patterns. There's nice .nspawn files and drop ins, where config lies, and (semi) standard paths for mounts and machines. Having that stable standard base would raise my interest & confidence a lot.

This recent guide covers a ton of nitty gritty, down to baking your own vm images & doing everything by hand. But by half way through, it builda to using the nice machinectl cli that is the real meat of the experience. https://quantum5.ca/2025/03/22/whirlwind-tour-of-systemd-nsp...
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-07 16:12:36+00:00
Amazon is currently permissive which splits opposition, this won’t always be the case, they will tighten the screws eventually as they have done in the past in other areas. Amazon because it’s so broadly used undermines the utility of chargebacks, you can do it but it’ll be a real hassle to not be able to use Amazon for shopping. A lot of people will just eat the costs, is Amazon knows this they will force the situation more often because it’ll make them more money.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-09-07 16:12:42+00:00
> If the current admin would cure cancer, HN and the media would find reasons why cancer was not so bad.

Uh, the reason is easy. Think of all the poor people who have legitimate reasons to distrust or fear the government. Now those poor victims, understandably, won't trust to get their cancer cured by the current admin. They should have contracted the cure to a non-partisan/non-political institute to not re-victimize those people. Now the rich and powerful will get the cure and the poor will not. /s
by yowlingcat | 2025-09-07 16:12:57+00:00
This isn't a great answer to the overall issue (which I agree is a ridiculous dark pattern), but I've used Privacy.com cards for personal projects to hard spend at a card level so it just declines if it passes some threshold on a daily/weekly/monthly/lifetime basis. At work, I do the same thing with corporate cards to ensure the same controls are in place.

Now, as to why they're applying the dark pattern - cynically, I wonder if that's the dark side of usage/volume based pricing. Once revenue gets big enough, any hit to usage (even if it's usage that would be terminated if the user could figure out how) ends up being a metric that is optimized against at a corporate level.
by da_chicken | 2025-09-07 16:13:30+00:00
I mean, I understand why it does that currently. It's because query results are always relations (tables), and relations are defined as an unordered set of records. By definition you can't use row order meaningfully in a relation, and by extension row relationships. So it duplicates the t1 rows in order to show which records from t1 correlate to the records in t2.

However, the issue is that relations are great inside the RDBMS, but they are not necessarily the best presentation of data outside the RDBMS. MS Access, as maligned as it is, has been able to display subsheets in a collapsible hierarchy [0] for decades at this point.

Really, there should be a way to tell the RDBMS to output data as hierarchies based on the join without having to jump through the, quite frankly, completely ridiculous subquery syntax bullshit that JSON and XML formatting currently requires. Even if it only works in 95 out of 100 cases; even if you have to manually tell the query somehow what the key fields are to agglomerate based on. It should be way easier than having to stitch strings together like you're still using printf() for everything at all times.

[0]: https://www.fmsinc.com/free/NewTips/Access/SubdatasheetName....
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-07 16:15:00+00:00
As a rule, non-LTE watches upload data over Bluetooth to the app (offline), which then relays that to whatever cloud service once there’s a connection. If you don’t want the second part, install Gadgetbridge and have your pick of the supported devices[1] (keeping in mind that that support not a boolean but rather feature-per-feature, so check the details).

[1] https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/wearables/
by gundmc | 2025-09-07 16:15:06+00:00
Yeah, you're right! The answer is definitely misleading at best. It would be better if the sentence "This method was a major component of a copyright lawsuit settlement that Anthropic paid in September 2025." was removed.

I'm sure this method _did_ come under discussion in the lawsuit & settlement, but as you pointed out the settlement itself was only about pirated works.
by chongli | 2025-09-07 16:15:38+00:00
I'm Canadian so I can't speak to the issues surrounding the USPS.

However, in Canada we remain in the midst of a long work-to-rule strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) against Canada Post (CP). The biggest issue in this strike is that there is a very wide gap between what CUPW is demanding (in terms of pay increases, protection of workers, maintenance of routes) and what CP is offering.

CP had been losing billions of dollars (even prior to the strike) and the situation continues to worsen as consumers lose confidence in the reliability of CP's parcel service, due to the strike. CP wants to close a lot of post offices, complete the phase-out of door-to-door postal service in favour of community mailboxes (which are already in use for more than half of households), and even reduce delivery frequency to less than 5 days per week.

I actually support these cost-cutting measures by CP because I, like many other Canadians, receive almost zero useful mail by post these days. Almost all of the mail I receive is advertising (junk mail), with the few exceptions being bills and statements from banks and the like (the latter of which ought to be phased out to fully electronic since I only bank through mobile apps anyway).

And so I'm left wondering what exactly is the public good in the postal service anyway? It seems more like a subsidy for a handful of advertisers and banks as well as a jobs program for postal workers. I send actual letters by mail so infrequently that I wouldn't mind paying $10 to send one by courier. But that isn't even within the space of proposals (shutting down CP completely)!

The most extreme proposal would be for CP to eliminate door-to-door service (community mailboxes only) and to switch to weekly delivery only, instead of daily. That would not affect the vast majority of Canadians in the slightest. The only ones who would be truly affected are those with mobility issues (disabilities or the elderly) who are unable to walk down the street to the community mailbox. Fortunately, there is already a service in place for providing mobility assistance to these people!
by wiether | 2025-09-07 16:16:10+00:00
> The clunkiness of the software is a feature to me.

Yes!

But it seems they are getting more and more in the _smartwatch_ territory.

It took me more time than I wanted to disable any kind of notifications on my new Enduro 3. And a few weeks ago, with the latest update, I got the "morning thing" and "evening thing" enable automatically, so I had once again to get back in the settings to disable them.

Previously with the Fenix I set a watch face, activities screen and I hadn't to change a thing for years. It just worked as a watch and an activity recorder. Exactly what I want from this kind of device.
by troupo | 2025-09-07 16:16:35+00:00
And you should read replies to those replies, including yours.

Nothing in the current AI world is as predictable as, say, the medicine you can buy or you get prescribed. None of the shamanic "just one more prompt bro" rituals have the predicting power of physics laws. Etc.

You could reflect on that.

> But anyway you think LLM is just coin toss

A person telling me to "try to read comments" couldn't read and understand my comment.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-07 16:16:44+00:00
“am I hot or not” is a great paradigm for many things, is it porn or not etc. 3 buttons are perfectly sufficient for getting this information from the users for rating systems in general. This is not a rating system as samples are labeled from actual test results.

AFAIK Netflix got rid of their 5 star rating as the signal over 2 stars wasn’t worth the mental overhead from users having to decide between a 4 and a 5. Also star rating are culturally dependent so you have to normalize for that effect. In general it’s a total hassle.
by xp84 | 2025-09-07 16:17:13+00:00
> Why do device manufacturers refuse to support this configuration?

My theory is that it checks boxes for "sEcUrItY."

There aren't enough enthusiasts who know the first thing about computers or security to be a market for any mass-market hardware, so they're designed for the proverbial "grandma" to be able to plausibly use. Therefore, you can't ask them to establish, remember, and maintain the secrecy of any credentials.

Therefore, they either need to make the devices permissively trusting on the LAN (which IoT devices got a lot of criticism for a few years ago) or they need these fluffy login methods that introduce dependencies: Usually they require email for forgotten-password recovery, SMS for a "sEcOnD fAcToR", and of course, because it would confuse people if the control only worked on the LAN without integrating into a home hub, they need every device to connect directly to the cloud and therefore for the app control to go through the WAN. Or at minimum, the LAN<->LAN communication is only permitted by possession of a JWT or similar that's been recently authorized by the cloud server.
by cj | 2025-09-07 16:17:23+00:00
Gemini in general is extremely fast, compared to ChatGPT 5 Thinking.

It also seems to excel at things ChatGPT 5 Thinking isn't good at. Simple things like "Here's a screenshot of text, please transcribe it" - ChatGPT 5 Thinking will spend 2 minutes and still get the results wrong, while Gemini Pro will spend 20-30 seconds and transcribe everything perfectly.

Obviously that's just 1 use case, but as someone who previously used ChatGPT exclusively, I'm increasingly impressed by Gemini the more I use it. Mainly due to the much faster thinking times that seem to provide equal or better results than GTP 5 Thinking.
by elaus | 2025-09-07 16:18:02+00:00
This is becoming a problem for me: I like to use LibreChat to interface LLMs (Gemini, GPT-x), because it allows me to pay by usage (instead of 20+ USD per month) and keep a (tiny bit) more of the data under my control.

But the offerings of ChatGPT or Google's AI Studio surpass the feature set of LibreChat by a lot. It used to be just a "better" system prompt, but now it's a lot more.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-07 16:19:04+00:00
> You're attacking a strawman.

You are defending a criminal.

- it is not normal for the military to be sent to cities and locations that are run by political enemies to round up people

- putting people in concentration camps (that's what they are) is not normal.

- deporting people without due process is not normal

- using the military for policing duties is not normal

You're a lawyer. All of this should horrify you.

The USA was on the right path with decreasing immigration by making its neighbors more wealthy. Guess who ended that? The Trump regime creates problems which then only the Trump regime can solve, which is a game older than politics. And you're falling for it, hook, line and sinker.
by scottbez1 | 2025-09-07 16:19:08+00:00
This used to be true but was adjusted with a correction to the internation postage rates. These days things like AliExpress have stopped using local postal delivery and instead use their own local logistics partners for last mile delivery, and it's surprisingly still just about as cheap.

I'm guessing these last mile deliveries are gig workers, considering I seem to get deliveries from people in unmarked personal vehicles nowadays.

The US is already far behind the economies of scale of Chinese production, and has higher labor costs and higher regulatory costs (both good and bad), so it's fundamentally not possible to compete on price alone, regardless of any postal treaty issues, which, again, are not a huge factor these days.

The new logistics services have been pretty interesting, and don't bode well for UPS/FedEx who have been content to focus only on large packages and charge ridiculous fees for a long time without innovating.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-07 16:19:17+00:00
I wonder why? Presumably this information doesn't come for free, and Apple spends money to put this sensor in.

Is it a backup if the magnet for closed lid detection fails? Is it some kind of input for the brightness sensor or True Tone? Is it for warranty investigation, that if the hinge breaks they can figure out if it was physically pushed too far, or was repeatedly slammed open and shut like a toy?
by sungam | 2025-09-07 16:19:28+00:00
Thanks for your comment. The main motivation for me in developing the app was that lots of my patients wanted me to guide them to a resource that can help them improve their ability to recognise skin cancer and, in my view, a good way to learn is to be forced to make a decision an then receive feedback on that decision.

For the patient I think the decision actually is binary - either (i) I contact a doctor about this skin lesion now or (ii) I wait for a bit to see what happens or do nothing. In reality most skin cancers are very obvious even to a non-expert and the reason they are missed are that patients are not checking their skin or have no idea what to look for.

I think you are right about the incidence - would be better to be a more balanced distribution of benign versus malignant, but I don't think it would be good to just show 99% harmless moles and 1% cancers (which is probably the accurate representation of skin lesions in primary care) since it would take too long for patients to learn the appearance of skin cancer.
by the_af | 2025-09-07 16:20:26+00:00
Life doesn't always find a way. Mass extinctions are a thing. Even human cultures & ethnic groups have disappeared without a trace.

The South Korean population time bomb is a completely different thing to America in the 2010 changing.

Have you read what people who study demographics currently believe about South Korea. An informed opinion is really needed to discuss this, this is not about "feelings".
by bithead | 2025-09-07 16:20:27+00:00
When I was on the team migrating datacenters, we got ahold of tcpdump.exe which didn't need winpcap presumably because it was staticly compiled under cygwin - I'm fairly certain someone didn't write the entire thing including winpcap from scratch.

It was nice because getting anything approved by the windows sysadmin group was like changing the tire on a moving truck.

It was more than a godsend, because when a windows server was plugging into "the wrong vlan" we could just give them the tcpdump command to capture a CDP/LLDP packet and tell us which switch and port the box was physically connected to.
by plorkyeran | 2025-09-07 16:20:46+00:00
One of the surprising things about visiting the mountains to do various outdoor activities in nature is how often the air quality is worse than it is at home in an urban area. A big part of this is that "home" is the SF Bay Area and we have consistent winds blowing inland from the ocean, which blows our air pollution to other people (and the air gets noticeable worse when this doesn't happen), but also the air quality is often shockingly poor in rural areas. Wood stoves, diesel generators, and the like in spots where the pollution gets trapped can do a lot even with low density.

On average the air quality is worse in cities than in rural areas, but at least in the United States the difference is smaller than you might expect. In countries that do not take urban air pollution seriously it gets very bad, of course.
by kens | 2025-09-07 16:21:24+00:00
Early core memories were woven by hand, but IBM rapidly automated the process. (Since most computers from the 1950s to early 1970s used core memory, there was a lot of demand.) However, IBM later found that it was cheaper to have the memories assembled by hand in Asia. For detailed information on core memory, see the book "Memories That Shaped an Industry".

Core rope is different from core memory and much rarer. Core rope is essentially ROM, using much larger cores with wires going through or around a core, storing 192 bits per core. Core ropes were hand-woven (with machine guidance) for the Apollo Guidance Computer.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-09-07 16:21:50+00:00
1. At certain levels, one has to meet your peers for lunch and dinner. Makes it harder for them to say no.

2. Could not care less about “climate issues.” A better reason for video conferencing is to avoid airports and especially dealing with border control clowns asking the same silly questions every trip, and the McDonald’s rejects called TSA.