MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mock-possum | 2025-09-03 16:05:29+00:00
One of my favorite childhood video games is 8 Eyes for the NES - after beating each boss, the player character sits down with them at a table, and a little skeleton butler walks over and serves them tea. The little scene plays over and over and over, you and the defeated bad guy, sitting at the table, sipping tea, while a skeleton wanders over and offers a periodic refill.

I always thought that was nice.
by pixelmonkey | 2025-09-03 16:05:36+00:00
I just want to say "thank you." I run Magic Lantern on my Canon 5D Mark III (5d3) and it is such awesome software.

I am a hobbyist nature photographer and it helped me capture some incredible moments. Though I have a Canon R7, the Canon 5d3 is my favorite camera because I prefer the feel of DSLR optical viewfinders when viewing wildlife subjects, and I prefer certain Canon EF lenses.

More here:

https://amontalenti.com/photos

When I hang out with programmer friends and demo Magic Lantern to them, they are always blown away.
by meganvs | 2025-09-03 16:05:39+00:00
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by dfox | 2025-09-03 16:06:10+00:00
My experience with Dell is that they are not that focused on selling enterprise support (at least compared to HPE), at most they will push for bundling hardware (cables, cable trays, front covers, PERC...) that you do not really need in order to get better volume discount.

Price-wise I don't see a meaningful difference between Dell and SuperMicro (or even "non-traditional" server vendors like Asus and Gigabyte).
by taylodl | 2025-09-03 16:06:25+00:00
Bill Gates also famously said we'd never need more than 640K RAM! /s

Personally, my timeline horizon for technology planning is five years. I've already said that I see AI "replacing" 5% to 10% of developers during that time period via improved developer productivity. People are already estimating that number at 3% with the technology we have right now, today.

Past 5 years is anyone's guess. If we don't develop AGI then we probably won't make much more productivity gains. As such my take on this is Bill Gates is saying we won't have AGI for the next 100 years. I have no means of verifying that statement - but I don't see it happening within five years.
by hosh | 2025-09-03 16:07:03+00:00
There is a form of delegation that develops the people involved, so that people can continue to contribute and grow. Each individual can contribute what is unique to them, and grow more capable as they do so. Both people, and the community of those people remain alive, lively, and continue to grow. Some people call this paradigm “regenerative”; only living systems regenerate.

There is another form of delegation where the work needed to be done is imposed onto another, in order to exploit and extract value. We are trying to do this with LLMs now, but we also did this during the Industrial Revolution, and before that, humanity enslaved each other to get the labor to extract value out of the land. This value extraction leads to degeneration, something that happens when living systems dies.

While the Industrial Revolution afforded humanity a middle-class, and appeared to distribute the wealth that came about — resulting in better standards of living — it came along with numerous ills that as a society, we still have not really figured out.

I think that, collectively, we figure that the LLMs can do the things no one wants to do, and so _everyone_ can enjoy a better standard of living. I think doing it this way, though, leads to a life without purpose or meaning. I am not at all convinced that LLMs are going to give us back that time … not unless we figure out how to develop AIs that help grow humans instead of replacing them.

The following article is an example of what I mean by designing an AI that helps develop people instead of replacing them: https://hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-building-ai-tools-backwards...
by WalterSchulz | 2025-09-03 16:07:36+00:00
Support for anamorphic lense ML has for ages: 5:4 (1.25); 4:3 (1.33); 7:5 (1.4); 3:2 (1.5); 5:3 (1.66); 9:5 (1.8); 2:1 (2)
by larodi | 2025-09-03 16:07:40+00:00
I'm interested in using all kinds of devices for streaming live video from live (think music) events via OBS with minimal effort. Current setup is with a device (just an old iPhone can do) which provides WiFi connectivity, then another (or the same device) runs DroidCAM which them streams into a nearby laptop with OBS (typically capturing the audio needed) and this is then sent to wherever we decide (twitch, RSTP, etc). We've tried this setup with as many as three droidcam phones, and it is just fine on... a legacy MacBook Pro with Intel + 1500MB Iris card.

So ideally I'd imagine getting a second-hand 600D or 200D and having a similar setup. We did have a setup (previously) where a GoPro or mini-HDMI campera is captured and then processed by a RBPi 2/3/4, but this seems an overkill compared to the DroidCAM Setup.

And, of course, the optics on the 600D/200D are expected to be much more correct than those on an iPhone or similar phone/mobile device.

Thanks for your kind attention.
by Kranar | 2025-09-03 16:08:04+00:00
C++ compilers are not required to be deterministic and in practice are not, at least as far as "same source code produces same observable behavior". Things that can introduce non-determinism include the order in which symbols are linked, static variable initialization, floating point operations (unless you use strict mode, which is not mandated by the standard), and this is ignoring the obvious stuff like unspecified behavior which is specifically defined as behavior which can differ between different runs on the same system.

Also correctness guarantees? Hahaha... I'll pretend you didn't just claim C++ has correctness guarantees on par with other languages, LLVM or otherwise. C++ gives you next to nothing with respect to correctness guarantees.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-09-03 16:08:07+00:00
> All you have to do is hire customer support who is empowered, knowledgeable and actually cares

Those people you have to pay, because they can do well in other positions. But paying them contradicts the goal of minimizing cost.

I'm not saying there isn't an opportunity to invest in top notch customer service as a product differentiator, but it's probably a safer bet to have barely-existing support and lower the sticker price.
by overfeed | 2025-09-03 16:08:51+00:00
> As a species we are so not ready for this tech.

On the contrary - it's the tech that's not ready for general availability.

Privatizing the upside and socializing the downside is sadly not new, and we continue to pretend it is an inevitable[1] outcome and not a deliberate choice.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857
by ashton314 | 2025-09-03 16:09:02+00:00
Compilers use heuristics which may result in dramatically different results between compiler passes. Different timing effects during compilation may constrain certain optimization passes (e.g. "run algorithm x over the nodes and optimize for y seconds") but in the end the result should still not modify defined observable behavior, modulo runtime. I consider that to be dramatically different than the probabilistic behavior we get from an LLM.
by ajross | 2025-09-03 16:09:05+00:00
> Granted, I only end up at google on other people's computers or on some fresh install where I haven't configured search yet.

Which is exactly my point. A bunch of people doing that to conform with the shibboleth identity of the phone in their pocket and then posting strong opinions about the product they don't (or at least claim not to) use is an echo chamber and not a discussion. You only get the upvotes in these threads if you conform.

HN is supposed to be better than that.
by gradientsrneat | 2025-09-03 16:09:10+00:00
> Is Chinese propaganda what makes it to the front page of HN nowadays?

Yep. Because USA is a country which still ostensibly has free speech norms in its society, so you could get human rights commentary one day, foreign propaganda another day (even though the federal Trump government arrests political opponents), where meanwhile many human rights movements are banned in China. As the Soviets would say in the early 20th century, "And you are lynching Negroes". False equivalence is the bread and butter of authoritarian propaganda. By equating the two, we may fail to distinguish right from wrong and slide further toward authoritarianism.
by mock-possum | 2025-09-03 16:09:24+00:00
Man this might be unfair of me but I find that “rabbit food” attitude intolerably childish. Why the fuck should ‘cold’ or ‘orange’ or ‘soup’ be disqualifying attributes as far as a succulent meal goes - ignorance of toasted carrot ginger soup is the only thing I can think of, and I have so very little patience for ignorance of food.

Stop being a baby and put it in your mouth already for chrissake. You might learn something.
by no_wizard | 2025-09-03 16:09:33+00:00
Threads broke the record within 5 days of launching, surpassing ChatGPT adoption, has less pressure from competitors, and Threads very likely makes money for Meta.

On the other hand, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has more intense pressure from competitors, isn’t making any money, and costs are still rising for its operation.

I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that it’s the “fastest growing consumer product ever” and “revenues are like super exponential” as it’s demonstrated repeatedly that OpenAI has yet to turn a profit or even meaningfully dent their burn rate
by achillean | 2025-09-03 16:09:57+00:00
Shodan also has built-in detection for some of them. For example, you can search for "product:ollama" (https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Aollama). Or if you have access to the tag filter then simply "tag:ai" (https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=tag%3Aai).
by animex | 2025-09-03 16:10:18+00:00
The pivot is likely because there's more VC dollars there.

It is a handy AI-cli for any terminal. I've been using the "terminal" app for a few months and found it was a very competent coding tool. I kept giving feedback to the team that they should "beef up" the coding side because until Claude Code this was my daily driver for writing code until Opus 4. The interface still is a bit janky because i think it's trying to predict whether you're typing a console command or talking to it for new prompt (it tries to dynamical assess that but often enough it crosses the streams). Regardless, I highly recommend checking it out, I've had some great success with it.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-03 16:12:01+00:00
Nothing upper-middle class people love more than worshiping dead black Americans, while treating their descendants like dangerous parasites. They were so cool, such genius! I can't wait to be the authority on them, and make more on redefining them than they ever saw in their lives, or to buy the new product that no black American makes a dime from.

One day, every black American will be gone, and all that will be left of them are statues that everybody holds in very high regard.
by sokoloff | 2025-09-03 16:12:04+00:00
By the time detergent and water reaches the bearing, you've already lost. There is a seal that prevents that from happening and when that seal fails, the bearings will be not far behind.

It is a grease-lubricated bearing; 60°C detergent-laden water would be slightly worse than 30°C detergent-laden water, but neither is helpful.
by ajross | 2025-09-03 16:12:31+00:00
Again, if your system is "incorrect" having been stopped and snapshotted like that, it is also unsafe vs. power loss, something ZFS cannot save you from. Power loss events are vastly more common than poorly checkpointed database[1] events.

[1] FWIW: every database worth being called a "database" has some level of robust journaling with checkpoints internally. I honestly don't know what software you're talking about specifically except to say that you're likely using it wrong.
by rafaelmn | 2025-09-03 16:12:42+00:00
OK but that's something that's beginning to happen in the US versus the default of authoritarian regimes - my point is that is not "pretty much the same" as OP put it.

You might get physically attacked by some neanderthal if you're openly gay in public in the west, and in some middle eastern countries you get stoned on a public square - but hey we all unwind and have some fun when we can, so it's pretty much the same ?
by nbraga | 2025-09-03 16:13:03+00:00
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by underlipton | 2025-09-03 16:13:29+00:00
You're talking about a social contract. That's something that barely exists, these days. The problem here is as much timing as expectations. It is difficult to tell if you're signing on with a chop shop until you're suddenly on the block. I would rather we dispense with the games and people be upfront. Companies don't want that, because they can market it as stability while reserving an edge over both their employees and competitors (the same with many benefits). If what I described becomes the norm, employees lose that sense of stability, but they gain an edge in that businesses can no longer hold it over their heads.

Let's be clear, though, that it's not actual stability: it's a sense of stability, and it's often false.
by SebastianKra | 2025-09-03 16:13:33+00:00
> Never had issues with the HTML

https://github.com/aurelia/binding/issues/108

> I never used Webpack

That has little to do with Aurelia, and Aurelia itself integrates with Webpack: https://github.com/aurelia/webpack-plugin

> The cool part is Aurelia stuck to web standards, and those “weird mechanisms” were basically polyfills

I could agree that Aurelia looks like you’re sticking to standards¹. If you don’t think about it, then everything kinda works 90% of the time.

But when you actually try to understand what goes on behind the scenes, like you can with React and Angular, there are just so many footguns, especially around composition and reactivity.

Even simple things like passing optional props² or detecting if a <slot> is occupied involved depressing amounts of reverse-engineering.

I’ve heard that Aurelia 2 supposedly fixes many of my issues, but I believe the core idea is beyond fixing. React, Solid and others have more powerful approaches that require fewer concepts to understand.

¹ Although there are still tons of custom concepts and syntax to learn.

² https://github.com/aurelia/templating-binding/issues/106
by Yizahi | 2025-09-03 16:13:58+00:00
You may be surprised, but in entrenched and widespread cases if ONLY fines are used, they almost do nothing to curb bad "something". Did war on drugs in USA teach us nothing? Or extremely common cases of speeding all across the globe in places which invite people to speed and where only fines (via cameras) are used to prevent it? It doesn't work. Some famous cameras across the globe, even in the law abiding EU countries, rack up tens of thousands of infraction per month, and it happens for years and years.

On the other hand, rebuilding a road to physically slow down cars, work even without extreme fines. Providing a complex set of prevention, therapy and replacement activities for the drug users also mostly works.

Same with carbon tax, but worse - drugs or even speeding in cars are non essential. Emitting industries on the other hand often are essential. So they have even less incentive to close or downsize if fined. Instead they will do anything to continue while being taxed. Maybe they employ shifting production elsewhere, maybe bribe officials, maybe just hike prices and pray that their monopoly position will keep them in business. Point is, it won't reduce actual emissions.
by ashton314 | 2025-09-03 16:14:18+00:00
Undefined behavior does not violate correctness. Undefined behavior is just wiggle room for compiler engineers to not have to worry so much about certain edge cases.

"Correctness" must always be considered with respect to something else. If we take e.g. the C specification, then yes, there are plenty of compilers that are in almost all ways people will encounter correct according to that spec, UB and all. Yes, there are bugs but they are bugs and they can be fixed. The LLVM project has a very neat tool called Alive2 [1] that can verify optimization passes for correctness.

I think there's a very big gap between the kind of reliability we can expect from a deterministic, verified compiler and the approximating behavior of a probabilistic LLM.

[1]: https://github.com/AliveToolkit/alive2
by jon_north | 2025-09-03 16:14:20+00:00
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Show HN: [C++] Y-fast trie – fast sorted associative container
by kinbote | 2025-09-03 16:14:40+00:00
Just published a C++ implementation of a sorted associative container over y-fast trie data structure:

https://github.com/vaganov/y-fast

Y-fast trie operations take amortized O(log log M) time (note: M denotes the maximum capacity, not the size). Although constant factor in O() is rather large, it only takes reasonably large size to outperform standard binary search trees (performance tests with plots attached). Certain conditions apply, like CPU architecture and index bit representation efficiency.

Feedback, issues and any collaboration are welcome.
by jon_north | 2025-09-03 16:14:54+00:00
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by mrweasel | 2025-09-03 16:15:29+00:00
Denmark. To be fair I haven't rented an apartment in 15 years. My understanding is that the rule still are: If you don't pay, you get a 14 day warning, if you don't pay within those 14 days, your lease can be terminated the next day. Assuming that you then refuse to move, the landlord can have the bailiff (not sure if that's the right word) kick you out.
by Ray20 | 2025-09-03 16:15:37+00:00
> What's wrong with that?

The absence of a clear objective boundary of what can be taken and what cannot.

And without such a boundary, such a practice could be quite widespread, with the poorest and smallest actors being the first to be subjected to it, simply because it is easier to take from them and they do not have sufficient influence on the distributing bodies. This is like theory of building socialism 101