MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by altairprime | 2025-09-19 00:39:28+00:00
Well, no, they still won’t be taxed for miles driven per year like gas vehicles are. Not yet, anyways! Probably two or three years left on that watt-o-mobile owner loophole (that Priuses have been exploiting for years, but with far less road damage per mile traveled due to being hybrids). Or maybe less if the feds starve California of transportation funding in petulance at whatever.
by layer8 | 2025-09-19 00:39:34+00:00
You have to already have a good understanding of the concept that is meant by “list” here, in order to make sense of that sentence. And even then it might not be clear that the list would be used to represent the recipe.

This does almost nothing to explain what a “list” is in the CS sense. Teaching material needs to show how a list could be used for a recipe, and from that the student might begin to form a first incomplete understanding of what a “list” is.
by defrost | 2025-09-19 00:40:32+00:00
FWiW Carr won't even (yet, at least) be bought to testify before the Oversight Committee despite his comments that were clearly in breach (regardless of whether they had influence in the decision to suspend).

See: Republicans Kill Attempt to Subpoena FCC Chair After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/republicans...

and other sources.
by kiratp | 2025-09-19 00:41:04+00:00
So much negativity.

I’m just excited that our industry is lead by optimists and our culture enables our corporations to invest huge sums into taking us forward technologically.

Meta could have just done a stock buyback but instead they made a computer that can talk, see, solve problems and paint virtual things into the real world in front of your eyes!

I commend them on attempting a live demo.
by underlipton | 2025-09-19 00:41:56+00:00
I would not be surprised to discover that much of the rest of the company is collapsing because of the amount of resources that have to be poured into AI. There's precedence for this: look at how many game studios have fallen to, "Let's make an MMO!". Even in cases where it succeeds (Square Enix) and becomes a money-printer, most of the rest of the business suffers; because it's the cash-cow, nothing - nothing - is more important than keeping it running (including the judicious production of the last half-dozen games in two of SE's flagship franchises). It's easy to imagine Google diverting and squeezing resources, trying to first catch up and then stay ahead in the LLM AI race, leading to terminal enshittification of Search, and then YouTube, and now Gmail.
by Teleoflexuous | 2025-09-19 00:42:24+00:00
There's a simple explanation that isn't 'prerecorded'. I'd be very happy to accuse Meta of faking a demo, but that's 1) just a weird way to fake a demo and 2) effect that has easier explanation.

You ask AI how to do something. AI generates steps to do that thing. It has concept of steps, so that when you go 'back' it goes back to the last step. As you ask how to do something, it finishes explaining general idea and goes to first step. You interrupt it. It assumes it went through the first step and won't let you go back.

The first step here was mixing some sauces. That's it. It's a dumb way to make a tool, but if I wanted to make one that will work for a demo, I'd do that. Have you ever tried any voice thing to guide you through something? Convincing Gemini that something it described didn't happen takes a direct explanation of 'X didn't happen' and doesn't work perfectly.

It still didn't work, it absolutely wasn't wi-fi issue and lmao, technology of the future in $2T company, it just doesn't seem rigged.
by jfengel | 2025-09-19 00:43:10+00:00
I was transferring through Barcelona and I didn't intend to spend any time there, so I had done absolutely no research on it.

But the connection was late so we were put on a bus tour of the city, starting with the mountains outside it. The bus let us out at an overlook with a view of the city, which looked more or less like any other far off city.

And then... what the holy hell was that Thing dominating the skyline? It didn't even look real. I had to refocus my eyes just to be able to actually see it.

I never did get to go inside, but we drove past, and the driver explained the history of Sagrada Familia. As bizarre as it was from a distance it's even weirder up close. It looks like something by HR Giger. I dare not imagine what's inside.

I will have to go some day.
by F7F7F7 | 2025-09-19 00:43:12+00:00
For anyone who wants to write a best selling book:

"The OSS* Playbook: Turning Free Users into Engineers and back into Paying Users"

This now sounds like the best way to scale adoption heading into 2026.

Sidenote: Payload spending years setting themselves up for a Vercel acquisition only to be acquired by Figma is still my surprise OSS of the year.
by matt1 | 2025-09-19 00:44:28+00:00
Impressive project, especially for a day's work!

My site, https://www.emergentmind.com, is similar, though I'm two years in :)

I've found Gemini 2.5 Flash is the best model in terms of speed/cost/quality. Pro is great as well, but probably not necessary for most chat-with-paper functionality.

I'll add too that building an AI layer on top of arXiv is a deep, deep rabbit hole depending on how far you want to take the project. Drop me a note if you want to chat more about my experience with it.

Regardless, thanks for sharing this!
by trhway | 2025-09-19 00:44:51+00:00
>Nvidia is fabless and has concentrated supplier and geopolitical risk with TSMC.

East India Company has been conducting continental wars on its own. A modern company with $4T valuation and a country-GDP-size revenue and possessing key military technology of today and tomorrow wars - AI software and hardware, including robotics - can successfully wage such a continental war through a suitable proxy, say an oversized private military contractor (especially if it massively armed with drones and robots), and in particular is capable of defending an island like Taiwan. (or thinking backwards - an attack on Taiwan would cause a trillion or two drop in NVDA valuation. What options get on the table when there is a threat of a trillion dollar loss ... To compare - 20 years of Iraq cost 3 trillions, ie. 150B/year buy you a lot of military hardware and action, and efficient defense of Taiwan would cost much less than that.)
by al_borland | 2025-09-19 00:44:56+00:00
> Just get text-to-speech to slowly read you the recipe.

Even this feels like overkill, when a person can just glance down at a piece of paper.

I don’t know about others, but I like to double check what I’m doing. Simply having a reference I can look at would be infinitely better than something taking to me, which would need to repeat itself.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-19 00:45:27+00:00
Felt like the best example of a true believer. I'd say a similar, but less clear version, would be Dario Amodei vs Sam Altman. I don't agree with either, but Dario comes across as a true believer who would be doing AI regardless of the current trends, whereas Sam comes across as a chancer who would be doing cryptocurrencies if that was still big, or social media if that was still the next big thing, evidenced by the fact that he did both of those but they didn't stick so he moved his focus on.

Jobs would have been doing consumer computing hardware whatever happened. Apple in the early days wasn't the success it is now, he was fired and went and started another company in the same space (NeXT).
by tremon | 2025-09-19 00:46:08+00:00
There is no way to answer that question, period. Neither the term "psychology" nor the term "sociology" is defined in the text (and the terms are used in union, not constrasted), so to have any hope of answering at all you need to apply knowledge not found in the text, which is expressly prohibited.

(edit to add:)

This is just regular poor-quality language model output. The language model is trained on data where the phrase "based on the provided text" makes a common appearance between a text segment and subsequent questions, but the model has no knowledge of the very specific, limiting meaning of that phrase: it limits the following question to assess reading comprehension only, not general knowledge.

So no, I don't think this is a minor bug that's easily fixable: a pure language model will always associate key signaling phrases with the wrong type questions, because it has no concept of (didactic) mode. It basically considers all phrases ornamental instead of purposeful.
by khamidou | 2025-09-19 00:46:44+00:00
Part of the reason you're seeing pessimism about box is because the stock has barely kept up with inflation. Their IPO price was 23.23 USD, now it's at 32.30. That's 39% of growth while inflation over 10 years is 36%.

So sure their CEO is passionate and on CNBC but the business is clearly not doing that great
by derefr | 2025-09-19 00:46:55+00:00
> One of the wildest claims in there is the one that the north of Italy is more developed today because it was part of the Holy Roman Empire while the south wasn’t. About a thousand years separate these and he finds effects still.

I would note that the north and south of Italy have very different geography and climate. Which can be upstream of all sorts of things, culturally. The geography of Italy's two halves support different types of economic activity; and the social realities of living within these different economies, naturally evolves into major differences in culture. (Compare/contrast: the differing cultures of coastal vs midwestern America. Now imagine that split with a few thousand more years for the divergence to take hold.)

History happens once; but geography is always affecting a nation, all throughout its evolution. So if you're looking for reasons that two sub-populations within a country might have noticeable differences today, differing geography is going to be the "horse", while history is more of the "zebra."

That being said: geography can also constrain history.

Southern Italy is almost entirely coastline, in a part of the world where, for much of the last ~2000 years, everyone was constantly invading everyone else by sea. Northern Italy was relatively-more immune to amphibious assault, as its capitals could be situated more inland. (Rome itself — the exception that proves the rule — was located in south Italy, but was defended from amphibious assault mostly by the Roman Empire's huge naval home-fleet being docked to the southern-Italian coast; not by anything inherent to its location. Once the Roman Empire itself went away, big rich cities in southern Italy suddenly became juicy targets for conquest and/or sacking.)
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-19 00:47:19+00:00
FYI it isn’t a cathedral. A cathedral is not a type of building, but the seat of the bishop (“cathedra” meaning “seat”). It is a common misconception that a cathedral is a grand church, since many cathedrals are, in fact, grand. Check out the Co-Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Juneau, Alaska to see a modest example.

Sagrada Família is, however, a basilica which is a title of honor bestowed on churches by the pope.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-19 00:48:27+00:00
Ironically this makes the lands in the east more wild, because nobody goes into them, because they're so boring. There's also some quite large areas of Eastern state land that're really far from most people, and they're not tourists destinations, so they only get a few locals.

But the comparison between West and East gets crazier. In the West, people'll drive for an entire day just to get to one specific remote area. Whereas in the East, some untouched forest could be an hour and a half away and "that's too far." You could walk through a forest which is actually 3 different forests in a half hour, whereas out West it's just miles and miles of the same desert or mountain.

We don't really know how to appreciate nature unless it's a majestic overlook.
by soraminazuki | 2025-09-19 00:49:19+00:00
> hackers who are also publishing things the administration does not want you to know

As much as I'd like to tell you otherwise, whistleblowers have consistently been treated terribly even before we all were even born.

Yes, the situation is worse now in all sorts of ways, but it was already rock bottom when it came to the treatment of whistleblowers.
Ask HN: What are examples of awesome open source project websites?
by RossBencina | 2025-09-19 00:49:46+00:00
Often when an open source project is discussed here on HN there is a conversation around the project's website. Criticisms and suggestions for improvement get raised. In that spirit, could you name examples of awesome open source project websites? -- websites that hit all the key requirements for new and returning visitors. For extra points, please explain why the website is awesome.
by frontfor | 2025-09-19 00:54:50+00:00
I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt the same. There are so many edge cases to the incredibly broad and outdated classification of the world in terms of “north” (rich) and “south” (poor), the terms have lost all meaning. They don’t account for the fact that countries rise and fall. It speaks to the human penchant for short term black and white thinking.
by kimixa | 2025-09-19 00:54:56+00:00
ATI/AMD open source linux support has been blowing hot and cold for over 25 years now.

They were one of the first to actually support open source drivers, with the r128 and original radeon (r100) drivers. Then went radio silence for the next few years, though the community used that as a baseline to support the next few generations (r100 to r500).

Then they reemerged with actually providing documentation for their Radeon HD series (r600 and r700), and some development resources but limited - and often at odds with the community-run equivalents at the time (lots of parallel development with things like the "radeonhd" driver and disagreements on how much they should rely on their "atombios" card firmware).

That "moderate" level of involvement continued for years, releasing documentation and some initial code for the GCN cards, but it felt like beyond the initial code drops most of the continuing work was more community-run.

Then only relatively recently (the last ~10 years) have they started putting actual engineering effort into things again, with AMDGPU and the majority of mesa changes now being paid for by AMD (or Valve, which is "AMD by proxy" really as you can guarantee every $ they spend on an engineer is $ less they pay to AMD).

So hopefully that's a trend you can actually rely on now, but I've been watching too long to think that can't change on a dime.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-19 00:55:06+00:00
Related:

Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video] (109 points, 7 months ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974882

Ketamine Found No Better Than Placebo for Depression in Unique Experiment (36 points, 2023, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37968542

Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope (183 points, 2023, 266 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37948938

I Tried Ketamine to Treat My Depression. It Was Terrifying (42 points, 2022, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34763642
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-19 00:55:48+00:00
No you can just book a ticket like with all the others. Always buy a ticket online. Otherwise you'll be stuck in a queue. The Sagrada stopped doing on the spot visits because the queue was getting too long and Battló did as well. Only at la pedrera (or casa Milà as it's really called) can you still buy a ticket on site. But I wouldn't. You're just wasting your time waiting while all the prebooks go ahead of you.

Battló is the best one for me by far. I love the organic shapes and the light well and the soft wood etc. Wow
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-19 00:56:38+00:00
A surprisingly large percentage is used in industry, more than residential even: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37985/umfrage...

Regarding nuclear, the electricity companies didn't want to continue after they had already prepared to shut down the reactors. Maintenance was deferred, people let go or reassigned, etc.
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-19 00:58:08+00:00
How many sites offer this?

I was chuffed a ways back to find a JSON endpoint at the NYTimes.

It was, unfortunately, rather stale.

(It's also since vanished and/or I cannot recall the correct URL. The obvious ones, <https://www.nytimes.com/JSON> and <https://www.nytimes.com/json> don't work. There is a dev portal however: <https://developer.nytimes.com/docs/archive-product/1/overvie...> FAQ: <https://developer.nytimes.com/faq>.)
by kragen | 2025-09-19 00:58:18+00:00
I agree that static and especially gradual typing add complexity, but it's a very much smaller amount of complexity than we're talking about here, so in fact it is very common to encounter dynamically-typed scripting languages that are much more complex than some languages with excellent type systems.

I think you can implement a Hindley–Milner type checker in about a page of code, not the 2000 pages of code you're talking about.

I'm not sure what you mean by "complete". H–M is complete in the sense that it's decidable and doesn't leave any holes: programs that check statically are guaranteed not to have type errors at runtime. It handles higher-order functions and parametric polymorphism (generics) out of the box, it doesn't suffer from null pointers, and it can even handle mutability. And it's fully inferrable. There are various extensions to make it more expressive (GADTs, typeclasses, subtyping, linearity, tagged arguments) but even the basic HM system is already a lot more powerful than something like the type system of C or Java 1.7.
by paulhodge | 2025-09-19 00:58:26+00:00
Pnpm 10.x also has a feature to disallow post-install scripts by default. When using Pnpm you have to specifically enable a dependency to let it run its post-install scripts. It's a great feature that should be the standard.

Yes if someone compromises a package then they can also inject malicious code that will trigger at runtime.

But the thing about the recent NPM supply chain attack - it happened really quickly. There was a chain reaction of packages that got compromised which lead to more authors getting compromised. And I think a big reason why it moved so quickly was because of post-install scripts. If the attack happened more slowly, then the community would have more time to react and block the compromised packages. So just slowing down an attack is valuable on its own.
by shirro | 2025-09-19 00:59:56+00:00
Yep, living in a de-industrialised, undiversified economy, second most southern in the global north I can only wish by kids had access to a Singaporean education.

Regional politics is complicated. Australia needs to be in the ASEAN group. We have common interests in regional security and stability and have complementary capabilities and resources. But its convenient to label us as outsiders and characterise us as imperialists or American agents (which sadly we sort of are but give us some options). Doesn't matter that we are right here and 20% of our population originated from the asian countries to the north of us. For some reason we are on the imperialist side.
by dhosek | 2025-09-19 01:00:12+00:00
I’m doing a nerdy Catholic project that calls for attending Mass at churches all over Chicago (https://www.dahosek.com/category/catholic-nerd-pilgrimage/) and one recent church had an east-facing wall that was entirely stained glass that was quite a dramatic effect during a morning Mass. The right combination of architecture, geography and weather can do some amazing things.
by zrobotics | 2025-09-19 01:00:29+00:00
Eh, they certainly weren't celebrities in the same way, that would only be possible with modern broadcast media. But people like the pope, kings, and dukes would be pretty close. I would expect the average medieval peasant would know who the pope (or popes, depending on the date) were, and at the least who their king was, as well as the relevant nobles for their village. And I wouldn't be surprised if they knew who the neighboring kings and nobles were. A peasant from the Iberian peninsula might not know who the king of Poland was, but they would likely know who the French king was and likely who was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

And medieval people definitely built monuments to themselves. A great example is Battle Abbey [0]. The official reason it was built was as penance for William the conqueror killing so many English, but there is definitely a strong case to be made that building such a grand abbey was in 0art to signify the new Norman rule and to remind people of who was in charge. They weren't venerating the architect, but it was very clear to everyone who paid for the abbey and William remained very much linked to the structure. That would have been one of the most impressive buildings for a very large area, even it's ruins remain impressive nearly a millennium later. It's a religious building, but it was even at the time very much linked to a secular ruler (inasmuch as the rulers of the time were secular).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Abbey
by jorvi | 2025-09-19 01:00:45+00:00
> No, there's an auto-hiding dock built-in. Pressing the Super key acts like better version of Apple's Expose feature: it shows the windows you have open, auto-opens the dock, and focuses the application launcher search bar so you can just start typing and launch an app.

So, not a Dock.

People don't want their whole desktop to fly everywhere and zoom out when they just want to quickly switch or launch an application with the mouse. They just want to mouse over the bottom of their screen and click.

Same for launching an application via keyboard / doing a calculation / finding an emoji. People just want something akin to Spotlight (think uLauncher on Linux). Something lightweight that pops over and allows them to quickly do the thing, without a lot of visual clutter happening and then happening again in reverse.
by zenoprax | 2025-09-19 01:01:37+00:00
Agreed. I think the word "disorder" in DSM terminology is commonly misunderstood/trvialized by lay people. Being forgetful, sad, or tired is just part of life. If it becomes your whole life then you likely need help but an orderly life will contain pain, joy, pride, shame, boredom...

We are always at risk of medicalizing discomfort. Allowing oneself to be miserable for a while can be therapeutic alongside patience, forgiveness, and compassion.

Edit: after a re-read I noticed that she says she feels most of the symptoms daily a year later. That does feel pretty disruptive on its own but the definition is a bit tautological in that case.

Regardless, what she's going through sounds really hard.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-19 01:01:41+00:00
Google are well-known, like Meta, for making products that never achieve any kind of traction, and are cancelled soon after launch.

I don't know about anyone else, but I've never managed to get Gemini to actually do anything useful (and I'm a regular user of other AI tools). I don't know what metric it gets into the top 2 on, but I've found it almost completely useless.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-09-19 01:02:51+00:00
But many of us have several sources of news, and we use HN explicitly because it is not another outrage-based social news aggregator. I don’t want to see HN turn into Reddit.

I flagged this post as well. I don’t think HN needs political commentary on news unless it is particularly insightful. It’s explicitly against the guidelines. I didn’t flag Paul Krugman’s article today because, while political, it wasn’t just a political news softball. This doesn’t add much to the world’s overall understanding at this point.

Does reading the 6th article about Kimmel today change the fact that “democracy is literally being dismantled?”