MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by isk517 | 2025-09-15 20:01:41+00:00
Just constantly repeat 'in-demand' until the dumbest executive at every major company is forcing some LLM product into every part of the operation in order to 'remain competitive'. I've seen first hand how useful AR can be for actually real world work by enhancing a flesh and blood human being's ability to do their job and the best device on the market is still the 6 year old Hololens 2. Microsoft just completely abandoned it in favor of something that most of the time says you the trouble of having to type something into a search bar.
by robenkleene | 2025-09-15 20:02:10+00:00
> I do feel that one of the interesting things to happen to software in recent years is how most super-popular native applications (most of those developed by Apple) have nosedived in quality, while web applications have done a tremendous job maintaining their quality. Many web experiences are now superior to native experiences, certainly due to nosediving native quality, but also I suspect because the web has always standardized on one stack, HTML/CSS/JS, and we get to reap the benefits of 30+ years of startlingly stable infrastructural consistency.

I'd be curious which apps you'd consider the best examples of this high quality experience? The only web app I even think is worth commenting on is Figma, which is easily the best web app I've ever used, but an app I'd only rank as mid-tier overall. VS Code is the closest analogy, VS Code is clearly a great app overall, in that it solves it's need very effectively, but its not an app I exudes quality the way the apps listed here do https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252567 (as an example of how VS Code doesn't exude quality, note how when VS Code loads it's UI elements for the first time, each element pops in separately, instead of the entire UI displaying instantly and simultaneously, this creates the impression of the app struggling to display its textual UI). I think Figma is slightly worse than VS Code, mainly because it's a web app, which presents all sorts of problems inherent to the platform, e.g.:

- Conflicts between keyboard shortcuts with the browser/web app split

- Bizarre tacked-on native-app affordances (e.g., breaking the back button and high-jacking the right-click contextual menu, both to essentially disguise the fact it's a web app?)

- Poor fit with the URL overall as a UI element (e.g., what does the URL mean when you're knee-deep in a single component in a larger document?)

In summary, the web's core UI elements just don't seem fit well with desktop use cases. I can understand web apps being a nice compromise, e.g., collaborating on Google Docs/Figma is a good practical fit (the web helps with a lot of the challenge of collaborating on the same doc). But they never feel pleasant or high quality to me.
by duffpkg | 2025-09-15 20:02:40+00:00
In it's location the solar is very effective, the 4kw is the actual generation rather than a label rating. 100% full sun, no shade, no clouds. The array typically generates over 20kw per day. The house is pretty efficient and the weather is very nice both summer and winter. This is not an area with a harsh winter or summer.

Shade and clouds of any kind, even very minor, have a HUGE effect on the production of a solar array.
by keyringlight | 2025-09-15 20:03:59+00:00
There's historical examples too, years ago people were pissed when Apple and U2 force downloaded their newly released album onto everyone's iPhone/Pod, and there's also the reverse where some highly anticipated game release will have servers overwhelmed by demand. It's hard to see any organic desire for AI in the general public, a new model releasing doesn't cause a wave of interest.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 20:05:00+00:00
> city-run buses are absolutely socialist organizations

I agree totally.

As for the military, I'm not so sure. As far as I know every military is run by a state. A private army is generally called milita. A military is also not really providing value to the people, but rather providing value to the government, sometimes over the people. Mandatory public military on the other hand might qualify for that term.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-15 20:05:35+00:00
> The stock is kept afloat by the promise of FSD- a tech that's been "almost there" for years and every year becomes closer to being easily reproducible by every manufacturer

To the extent this is true, Waymo is miles ahead. And Tesla is losing ground on this to other competitors very quickly. Even Amazon's Zoox appears to be making lots of progress.

That said, memestocks are by definition irrationally valued. They have more in common with BTC than they have in common with, say, GM stock...
by loeg | 2025-09-15 20:05:45+00:00
Early x86 prefetcher would fetch two adjacent cache lines, so despite a 64 byte physical size, in practice adjacent lines would cause false-sharing. This is mostly historical, though it's relatively common to use a 128 byte line size on x86, still. E.g., https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/main/folly/lang/Align... (Sandy Bridge was a 2011 CPU). (Clang's impl of the std version of these constants uses 64 for both on x86: https://godbolt.org/z/r1fdYTWEn .)
by rickydroll | 2025-09-15 20:06:03+00:00
My solution would be using trade schools to run a homeowner electrician's program, teaching folks basic safety, measurement, and mechanics of what they would need do the work safely.

A program like this shouldn't take more than a weekend to cover all the issues including a Hands-On lab. A second weekend could be added for ground mounted solar setups.

I'd be willing to pay a couple hundred bucks get such a ticket.
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-15 20:06:32+00:00
Let’s talk about it. What are “left wing issues” and what are “right wing issues”?

We can probably agree on what an issue is. But I’m not sure we have any idea what right wing or left wing are.

How far right is right wing? And right of what, exactly? What about the left? Where is the center point?

Here’s a fun one. To whom belongs the issue of racism? Is that a right wing issue or a left wing one?

It’s neither of course. It’s a human issue. And you have victims of racism across the entire political spectrum who care deeply about it. Yet discourse would have you assume it’s a “left wing” issue, when it’s anything but.
by ziml77 | 2025-09-15 20:06:57+00:00
Memory training taking minutes on AMD systems isn't unusual. On my desktop with a 7800X3D and 64 GB of RAM, I get scared whenever the system needs to do the training again. Because it just sits there at a black screen for a couple minutes while it does the training. I have to just wait and hope that it's doing something and not that my system is dead.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-15 20:07:06+00:00
Why are you afraid of hydrogen? Compared to the lithium ion batteries or even the LPG or petrol for a generator hydrogen is very safe. It's a common misconception that hydrogen is dangerous. You can stick a flame into pure hydrogen and nothing will happen. It's only if you mix with oxygen that it becomes dangerous, but because hydrogen is lighter than air it's going to dissipate very quickly if you have a leak in your container (unlike e.g. Gasoline fumes)
by bob1029 | 2025-09-15 20:07:07+00:00
> Understanding. Judgment. The ability to see how pieces fit together. The wisdom to know what not to build.

It's really hard to get an LLM to assist you when you don't know the right questions to ask. If your vision and convictions about the world are not strong enough, one plausible hallucination can take you into Narnia for an entire week.
by hinkley | 2025-09-15 20:07:38+00:00
I still believe there must be space in the universe for an ethical ad network that makes you less money but anyone caught fucking with your readership gets banned. There’s a bunch of sites that would appreciate a little supplemental revenue but just don’t use ads at all because it’s so scummy.

It just has to be better than selling your nonprofit’s contact list to other nonprofits.
by jsiepkes | 2025-09-15 20:07:40+00:00
> Ghostty 1.3 will continue the focus of making Ghostty the "best existing terminal emulator" by shipping the last remaining major missing features to achieve parity with other popular terminal emulators. Namely, we plan on shipping scrollback search and scrollbars for 1.3, at a minimum.

Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?

I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...
by mbesto | 2025-09-15 20:07:44+00:00
I would definitely get EG4 over Expert Power for the reasons posted by other commentators.

Example kit:

https://signaturesolar.com/complete-off-grid-solar-kit-eg4-6...

Add in a 15 kWh module and it's roughly the same price with better customer service, reliability, less parts, etc.

However, I would just get an EG 18k PV, 45 kWh of EG5 batteries and 11.4 kW of solar panels from signature solar and that would cost you $18.5k
by dawnerd | 2025-09-15 20:09:05+00:00
And how are these companies measuring engagement? If they make it easy to accidentally click one of their "AI" buttons, does that count? Like in Clickup they put AI features on basically every single view they could and its incredibly easy to click one of them as their UI slowly loads from all the other third party junk they've added in.

It should be a huge red flag if companies have to force stuff on users.
by kazinator | 2025-09-15 20:09:11+00:00
> shared under CC0

I dispute that you have the right to put blatantly generated stuff under a license of your choice.

It was produced by ripping off countless copyrighted texts scraped from the Internet and used without permission.

If you actually wrote the book yourself and got Claude to correct some grammar errors and such, that would then be different. The result would still be influenced the aforementioned texts, but in such a way that it is overwhelmingly a derivative of your own text.
by logicalmind | 2025-09-15 20:09:17+00:00
You are again resorting to tribes. This is a tactic used to unite people against a common enemy. In reality, no person should be completely liberal or completely conservative. Most people have mixed views on different topics. For example, would you argue that the current "Conservative" government is fiscally conservative? A true fiscal conservative would have major issues with some of the current fiscal policies. But due to tribalism, they go along with their team because the "other side" would be worse.

It's only when people become tribal that the positions no longer matter. They devolve into the thinking that no matter what their tribe does is the right thing to do. And anything the other tribe does is the wrong thing. That is the problem in today's politics. I would further argue that it is the tribalism that leads to political murder that you speak of.

I consider myself to be in no tribes and make my decisions on what I think is best for me and my family. And from that standpoint, I'd wouldn't mind hearing what specific liberal policies that you think are resulting in overt violence and murder. Because in my opinion, irrational people combined with tribalism is what leads to the violence you're referring to. I mean, irrational people commit violence without even belonging to a tribe. Adding the tribalism just gives them more "enemies".
by ackfoobar | 2025-09-15 20:09:24+00:00
Asked for numbers, got a link. Let's see.

They can manufacture 80 GWh a year. To get through dunkelflaute with moderate renewable percentage we need tens of TWh. Not to belittle Tesla, but that's 3 orders of magnitude difference.

Are you changing your mind or can you give me numbers to change mine?
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-15 20:09:32+00:00
If it's anything like my slice of the southwest, what works there may not work for a majority of Americans.

Even when it gets very hot in the day(100+), the nights almost always drop down to 63 or less. Meaning if you have a well sealed house you can suck up cold air during the night and ride it out in the day and have very low cooling costs. Coupled with low humidity from an arid environment means you can also let the house get hotter before it feels like it is time to turn on the AC.
by Rohansi | 2025-09-15 20:09:34+00:00
> The same as having lots of FLOPS on paper doesn't necessarily mean you'll get to use all that compute, if you're waiting on memory all the time.

The opposite case is also possible. You can be compute limited. Or there could be bottlenecks somewhere else. This is definitely the case for Apple Silicon because you will certainly not be able to make use of all of the memory bandwidth from the CPU or GPU. As always, benchmark instead of looking at raw hardware specifications.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 20:10:00+00:00
I use the term to describe the need and moral entitledness of modifying language as a reaction and treatment to injustice and to the intended normalization of every sexual practice existing.

As such I don't see these two examples as contradicting.

One side uses woke (awake) as acting to the world in "ingesting" it in language, while the other side thinks of being awake in seeing that the world doesn't actually work that way. They both think they are "awake", they just disagree how and what "the world" is.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-15 20:10:10+00:00
You only read the first line of the summary. This is the juicy bit:

> The LLM alone scored 16 percentage points (95% CI, 2-30 percentage points; P = .03) higher than the conventional resources group.

Basically they setup the experiment as a control group and a LLM-assisted group. There was no difference between the two groups and that is what was reported in the top level finding that you quote.

Then they went back and said “wait, what if we just blindly trusted the LLM? What if we had a third group that had no doctor involved — just let the LLM do the diagnosis?” This retroactively synthesized group did significantly better than either of the actual experimental groups:

> The LLM alone scored 16 percentage points (95% CI, 2-30 percentage points; P = .03) higher than the conventional resources group … The LLM alone demonstrated higher performance than both physician groups, indicating the need for technology and workforce development to realize the potential of physician-artificial intelligence collaboration in clinical practice.
by mistercheph | 2025-09-15 20:10:56+00:00
One can argue about the difficulty of overcoming network effects to make mediums of exchange viable until the cows come home but that's orthogonal to the issue GP raised and ultimately impossible to predict.

As a counterpoint to the rhetorical impossibility of a challenger overcoming an incumbent (in almost all subjects this is true, despite challengers in the world regularly overcoming incumbents), exchange rates indicate markets are positive about the network effect threshold being overcome, since if it is impossible to overcome, the value of all cryptocurrencies combined is approximately 0.
by soraminazuki | 2025-09-15 20:11:03+00:00
> Most don't know anything about it.

Yes, thanks for confirming what I wrote... Uh, wait a moment, what? Most Linux users know nothing about systemd? Are we talking about the same Linux, the OS whose main users are developers and sysadmins?

> even after it has a hard dependency on an IBM AI

What are you on about? Nothing of the sort has happened.
by jprotopopov | 2025-09-15 20:11:16+00:00
Yes, indeed, libc behavior (at minimum) is defined by the standard itself, and the compiler has to ensure that the library is functional. I have explicitly acknowledged it in my comment above ("this is my problem as a compiler developer").

Here I am not speaking about the compiler optimizing based on known libc behavior, but libc "specializing" based on assumed compiler behavior. Which is, again, absolutely reasonable -- both compiler and libc typically go hand in hand. However, as my compiler "parasites" on the existing libc implementations, I would have preferred that such assumptions would be validated to the extent it is possible at compile time, preferably with some graceful failure.

Glibc provides quite profound libc part even to non-GNU C-compatible compilers, but in some places it might fail silently and disruptively.

I am deeply thankful to all developers of libc implementations for Linux and BSD systems, and I am in no way accusing anyone or demanding anything. In the project's README I explicitly note, that any standard library function not being usable will be treated as a bug in Kefir itself. In the above rant, I just expressed a mere wish that some things could be a bit smoother.
by xp84 | 2025-09-15 20:11:42+00:00
There seems to be a great deal of paranoia about what data is collected by Google, so I checked[1]:

> What does using the Google Fonts Web API mean for the privacy of my users?

> The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data. The use of the Google Fonts Web API is unauthenticated and the Google Fonts API does not set or log cookies. Requests to the Google Fonts Web API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com. Font requests are separate from and don't contain any credentials sent to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.

> When I embed Google Fonts in my website via the Google Fonts Web API, what data does Google receive from my website visitors?

> When end users visit a website that embeds Google Fonts, their browsers send HTTP requests to the Google Fonts Web API. [ snipped details of how HTTP works and headers like referrer ]

> For clarity, Google does not use any information collected by Google Fonts to create profiles of end users or for targeted advertising.

(There's also an answer to what they do that is different than statically hosting: [2])

[1] https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

[2] https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy#what_are_the...
by twotwotwo | 2025-09-15 20:12:32+00:00
The tech was surely locked down long ago if they're close to announcing, but just putting the dream out there that AV2 makes next-gen image compression more practical. AVIF's very effective at maintaining OK quality at low bitrates, but encoding at high quality on CPU (something like the common ~2bpp JPEG) was very slow. I think that slowed down adoption and was one of the reasons JXL still had a niche. Progressive mode would help for images too.

Another great thing JXL has is lossless recompression of .jpg files, which is a smaller improvement than a whole new format, but much easier to deploy. Saving 22% beats saving 0%. Harder, of course, to see how that one would connect to any of AOMedia's other priorities.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-15 20:12:35+00:00
Github Pages' "soft" bandwidth limit is 100 MB. I typically use 300-500 GB per month at Netlify, so I'm over Github's limit.

I actually don't even want a free option. I want to pay a vendor that cares about keeping my website online. I'm fine paying $20-50/mo as long as it's bounded and they don't just take my site offline if I see a spike from HN.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-15 20:12:39+00:00
> Then I do disagree with you. Dismissing the ingredients needs an actual reason they're bad, not just a way to replace them.

> If you were only saying it's possible to replace them with simple ingredients, that would not be a dismissal of the ingredients themselves.

I don't understand what you mean by "dismissal". When I'm "dismissing" them it is in the context of "you don't need these to make delicious cakes competitive with the box goods." And the reason I'm dismissing is because of availability to a home cook.

It's fair to point out the parent comment was talking about the fear of chemicals in the foods, not a concern I share. I was more writing in terms of whether or not you actually need these ingredients to be successful baking.

I'd further say that, especially with food, there's no strict "bad/good". The ingredients are simply different. While it does impact the final outcome, you likely won't taste much difference if you used canola oil or corn oil in a recipe, for example. Does that make corn or canola bad/good? No, they are just different ingredients that accomplish the same goal. With that in mind, availability becomes a much more important thing to consider. So I can dismiss the need for xanthan gum for a home cook because I know that potato starch will fill the same role while being easy to find in the store. It's more available, not better.
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-15 20:12:46+00:00
I'm a pretty average programmer/ex-programmer/hn-commenter in this context. I have never programmed in Haskell though in college I programmed with the language "fp" that is naturally functional.

I can tell this is article is about a common, wide debate in CS; should languages have "strict" structures like type class or loose structures like "objects". This related-to but not the same as the debate on whether to have pure functional languages or ad-hoc imperative languages.

I know in programming practice, everything ad-hoc has won but programming language "theory", everything strict has won.

Now in this context, I understand the post as advocating a certain kind of loose data typing with the strict-world of Haskell. Which I'd imagine won't make any ideologue happy. But seems like an OK contribution to the debate.

To add my own takes on everything, as hners must do, I think the strict structures of functional programming have quite a bit of merit for various purposes. BUT - they aren't intuitive/the-easy-way-to-everything-once-you-know/etc. AND they aren't a way to solve the software crisis.
by hbarka | 2025-09-15 20:12:48+00:00
The Powerwall solar controller prioritizes the home before sending surplus to the grid. And in the home, the controller will send power direct to any running load first, then to the Powerwall battery. Any spillover then goes to the grid. It’s very dynamic. I would go with the algorithm to “capture the rain into my rain buckets the moment I can” because the rain could stop. Solar irradiance is unpredictable.
by sergiotapia | 2025-09-15 20:12:54+00:00
I signed up to OpenAI, verified my identity, and added my credit card, bought $10 of credits.

But when I installed Codex and tried to make a simple code bugfix, I got rate limited nearly immediately. As in, after 3 "steps" the agent took.

Are you meant to only use Codex with their $200 "unlimited" plans? Thanks!
by withinboredom | 2025-09-15 20:13:47+00:00
It helps to actually be able to read the diffs of its proposals/changes in the terminal. The changing from tabs -> spaces on every line it touches generally results in unreadable messes.

I have a pretty complex project, so I need to keep an eye on it to ensure it doesn't go off the rails and delete all the code to get a build to pass (it wouldn't be the first time).
by rincebrain | 2025-09-15 20:13:59+00:00
I assume GP's point is that the farms rely on being able to pay below minimum wage (IIRC at least some places have carveouts in minimum wage laws for farm labor, not just tipped workers), and that's part of why it's so difficult to find replacement workers.

The lack of mentioning that in a story about the economic impacts of this seems like a deliberate choice to garner more sympathy than "I want to pay people $2 an hour to work" might otherwise. (That is a made up number, I did not go dig up the relevant PA pay rates.)