MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by for_col_in_cols | 2025-09-03 20:21:31+00:00
Flock is driving the following future:

"It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us — a set of still moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our story is."

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rur...
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-03 20:21:41+00:00
> The establishment has done very little to try and address concerns from vaccine skeptics.

For decades, the argument against anti-vaccination skeptics was to try and educate them. We've put them on TV, thrown our most well-reasoned arguments against them, showed them the data and proved to them multiple times over that their arguments are wrong. We argued over and over and over again that Andrew Wakefield, a literal fraudster who kicked off a large part of things and who aimed to profit from the anti-vaccine sentiment, was wrong.

Frankly the only argument and patience I have now for anti-vaccine skeptics is extreme derision and insults. They deserve nothing and should receive zero respect.
by PathOfEclipse | 2025-09-03 20:22:11+00:00
Can you provide some links for this? A quick web search turns this up at near the top from 2024:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9700x-perform...

The benchmarks show a 10% drop in "application" performance when SMT is disabled, but an overall 1-3% increase in performance for games.

From a hardware perspective, I can't imagine how it could be physically possible to double performance by enabling SMT.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-09-03 20:23:00+00:00
> Now of course you've made so many qualifiers in your post that you'll probably dismiss this as "not production", "not robust enough", "not clean" etc

Sure, my interest is whether it’s suitable for production use on an existing codebase, ie for what constitutes most of software engineering.

But - thanks for sharing, I will take a look and watch some of the stream.
by names_r_hard | 2025-09-03 20:23:10+00:00
I am definitely an astro noob :) LV sampling was just the first idea I thought of. We could also load the last image while the next was being taken, and extract guide points from that (assuming an individual frame has enough distinct bright points... which it might not... you could of course sum a few in software). It's a larger image, but your time constraints shouldn't be tight. That way you're not getting any extra sensor heat. Some CPU heat though, dunno if that would be noticeable.

For networking, this module demonstrates the principles: https://github.com/reticulatedpines/magiclantern_simplified/...

A simple python server, that accepts image data from the cam, does some processing, sends data back. The network protocol is dirt simple. The config file format for holding network creds, IP addr etc is really very ugly. It was written for convenience of writing the code, not convenience of making the config file.

You would need to find the equivalent networking functions (our jargon is "stubs"). You will likely want help with this, unless you're already familiar with Ghidra or IDA Pro, and have both a 6D and 200D rom dump :) Pop in the discord when you get to that stage, it's too much detail for here.

There's no real list of things people want (well, they want everything...). The issues on the repo will have some good ideas. In the early days of setting that up I tagged a few things as Good First Issue, but gave up since it was just me working on them.

I would say it's more important to find something you're personally motivated by, that way you're more likely to stick with it. It gets a lot easier, but it doesn't have a friendly learning curve.
by geye1234 | 2025-09-03 20:23:13+00:00
One big problem with physicalism is that many alleged arguments in its favor are nothing of the sort. Any argument for physicalism that refers to neurological observation is invalid. Physicalism claims that all mental events can be reduced to physical events. But you cannot look at physical events to prove this. No matter the detail in which you describe a physical event, you can't use this to prove, or even argue in favor of, the thesis that all mental events can be reduced to the physical.

It's like describing the inside of a house in very great detail, and then using this to argue that there's nothing outside the house. The method is explicitly limiting its scope to the inside of the house, so can say nothing about what's outside, for or against. Same with physicalism: most arguments in its favor limit their method to looking at the physical, so in practice say nothing about whether this is all there is.
by ____tom____ | 2025-09-03 20:23:32+00:00
Really? I took an immediate dislike to it. Same for the site linked in the comments below - https://resilientwebdesign.com

It reminds me of the printing found in 200 year old books. I can't quite put my finger on what I don't like about it, but it grates. Perhaps it's inconsistent letter shapes.

Can anyone more informed comment on the font?
by neilv | 2025-09-03 20:23:36+00:00
But the same kind of self-congratulatory exclusionary clique thinking behind frat pledging, and the same thinking behind the historical attendant hazing, could still be at play?

Not necessarily because company leadership and random interviewers are mindlessly mimicking what they experienced in school, but because some ideas tend to arise from power/privilege baggery.

(Though we also now have the mimicking of other tech companies, and we could just call it that, but "frat hazing" is still a better understood term, already with negative connotations.)
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-03 20:23:58+00:00
> Also Alexandre de Moraes is crossing the line of his role responsibility (and power) a lot to go after everyone in Bolsonaro's gang.

That's a serious understatement.

The supreme court has usurped the functions of the entire government. These unelected judge-kings regularly walk all over our elected representatives in the legislative and executive branches of the government with absolute impunity. They relativize the constitution, make up laws as they go along and generally rule the country however they see fit. They are so brazen as to raise taxes. The only people who can impeach them are politicians who can't afford to make enemies out of the guys with the power to judge them for corruption.

Watching some journalist preach about "democratic maturity" in the context of Brazil is just disgusting and reprehensible. Whatever people think of Trump, he's the only one who ever did a thing about this depressing situation so I'll forever thank him for it.
by Dig1t | 2025-09-03 20:25:04+00:00
Please don’t flame me, this is an honest question.

Why is this unethical and for whom?

The vaccines work, so parents who choose to vaccinate their kids will be protected.

Parents who don’t trust the vaccine for whatever reason, they feel strongly that they might harm their child.

Isn’t it sort of unethical to force parents to inject their child with something they think is dangerous?

You’re basically asking parents to willfully harm (in their mind they think it’s harmful, I’m not saying it’s actually harmful) their own child, from their perspective why should they make that choice?

I just don’t see how this problem can be solved other than going back to square one and trying to educate people and convince them that vaccines are not harmful. The alternative is to force people to accept these injections even though people believe they are harmful, which just isn’t going to work well in the United States.
by altairprime | 2025-09-03 20:25:21+00:00
They have no fiduciary duty to react to such awareness, so it doesn’t matter if they are or not. Either they and don’t care, or they don’t realize and don’t care. The share of household wages available to spend on non-essentials is shrinking each year, so being apathetic towards such things is necessary to meet their revenue growth mandate.
by mellosouls | 2025-09-03 20:25:39+00:00
All of their arguments, however complex, all rely on poorly defined terms like "understand" "subjective experience", "what it is like", "qualia", etc.

Because they are trying to discuss a difficult-to-define concept - consciousness.

The difficulty and nebulousness is intrinsic to the subject, especially when trying to discuss in scientific terms.

To dismiss their attempts so, you have to counter with a crystal, unarguable description of what consciousness actually is.

Which of course, you cannot do, as there is no such agreed description.
by corysama | 2025-09-03 20:26:20+00:00
> Although paper handouts obviously have a pure white background, the web is better served by the use of slightly off-white and off-black colors. Tufte CSS uses #fffff8 and #111111 because they are nearly indistinguishable from their ‘pure’ cousins, but dial down the harsh contrast.

I never got this argument.

I can see an argument for "We need to reserve some headroom and footroom for Darker Than Common Black and Brighter Than Common White for occasional emphasis scenarios. Or, for differentiation from pure black/white in images and background elements."

But, I read "dial down the harsh contrast" as "We presume users have their monitor contrast settings set too high and intentionally use a reduced range to compensate for their mistake even though it costs us a bit of color precision."

Meanwhile, I might have an LCD monitor with the contrast dialed down next to an OLED with the brightness and contrast cranked up. And, even if the common case user setup is not so extreme, it still varies wildly in practice.

As a game engine developer, this is something I've had to deal with in practice for a long time... Reduced contrast range as a stylistic choice can be quite valid. But, trying to predict user viewing conditions is wishful thinking.
by tharmas | 2025-09-03 20:27:50+00:00
Trump in 2020 was such a shitty candidate that he should've been easily trounced.

So anything a lot kess than that looks to me like ”barely". Perhaps im too harsh?

I get why Michelle Obama wont run but i think she would've trounced trump in 2020 or 2024.

The democrats need to field a candidate that has her kind of appeal to beat trump.
by e1g | 2025-09-03 20:28:01+00:00
> clean/erase/undo/soft-delete/hard-delete mistakes[...] make the change tracking capable of time travel itself [...] Transitioning to an EAV

I just finished building out all of that + more (e.g., data lineage, multi-verse, local overrides, etc), also on PG. Reach out if you want to chat and get nerd sniped!
by lm28469 | 2025-09-03 20:28:16+00:00
> In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S.

It'll fit right in with the fully self driving cars we'll get in "two years" since 2012, and the manned flights to mars we'll get in "five years" since 2015

American version of capitalism and Chinese versions of socialisme seem to slowly converge, the future will be fun!
Show HN: Vischunk, explore 2D array chunking and linearization
by bytK7 | 2025-09-03 20:28:45+00:00
Hello all! I work with geospatial data infrastructure at scale, so I end up thinking a lot about how n-dimensional datasets are stored. I've been spending a lot of time writing about raster array storage and data formats with a colleague, and one hard concept to talk about and for people to understand is data linearization. It's especially hard to then communicate how different chunking and linearization strategies affect the efficiency of read access for different access patterns.

On a whim, as a backend engineer, I asked claude if a static webpage could be used to visualize this in an interactive manner, and what it spit out was pretty amazing. A few days and much iteration later, and I think what has resulted is a rather useful tool for understanding chunking, linearization, and the impacts of each on data access. So I wanted to post it, let people play with it, and see if others find it interesting and/or useful too!
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-03 20:29:00+00:00
I explicitly said “being interview ready” for me was not doing coding interviews on the whiteboard. It was being able to talk about my past accomplishments and how I would benefit the company.

Yes I am self aware enough to realize that I have been able to avoid that because I was 50 years old when I interviewed last year, with industry experience, connections and AWS ProServe.

But on the other hand, cry me a river that younger developers must prepare for coding interviews for a few months and make $160k+ straight out of school. A former intern I mentored when they were an intern and when they came back is now 25 years old and making over $200K as an SA at AWS.

I am not at all bitter. I am happy for all of the up and coming fresh college grads I met when I was there.
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-03 20:29:03+00:00
There is a formal extensional equivalence between Markov chains & LLMs but the only person who seems to be saying anything about this is Gary Marcus. He is constantly making the point that symbolic understanding can not be reduced to a probabilistic computation regardless of how large the graph gets it will still be missing basic stuff like backtracking (which is available in programming languages like Prolog). I think that Gary is right on basically all counts. Probabilistic generative models are fun but no amount of probabilistic sequence generation can be a substitute for logical reasoning.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-03 20:29:28+00:00
That is a detail which is the responsibility of the artist as a businessperson. If you give away pizza with a big stack of ad flyers, no one would complain when that business doesn't make that much money because no one reads the ad flyers all they do is eat the pizza and toss the ads.

We live in a world where said pizza shops want to force you to look at each flyer in the ad stack, but for years they didn't sit you down and make you look with your eyes, instead they just let you take the ads and the pizza and leave. They're trying to crank up the pressure to watch saying "the cooks deserve to be paid" and "you have to let us watch you look at the flyers to eat the pizza, or else you can't leave with the pizza."

Don't be fooled, if the musicians didn't want folks to listen on YouTube then they wouldn't put their music there. If you can find a way to look away from the flyers while still eating the pizza, you are not the bad person. Eat and weep for a world where we can't just exchange money for food.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-03 20:29:43+00:00
It's more complicated than that. If the transaction is over $10,000 it needs to be reported to the IRS. Dealers are often involved on the financing side directly, and their systems are just set up to require a Social Security number to put anything into the system. So because of the financing, some of these "know your customer" rules apply, and they automatically get applied to everyone as universal policy -- employees aren't allowed to use judgement to make personal exceptions. And physical IDs can be forged, whereas the existence of a Social Security number in a database can't be.

SSN's aren't perfect, you can still commit identity fraud. But high value financial transactions get safer the more you can verify about someone.
by RS-232 | 2025-09-03 20:29:53+00:00
Both consciousness and experience arise from physical means. However, they are very distinct concepts and not mutually exclusive, which can lead to confusion when they are conflated.

Sensory deprived, paralyzed, or comatose individuals can be conscious but have no means to experience the outside world, and depending on their level of brain activity, they might not even have an "inner world" or mind's eye experience.

Anything that is able to be measured is able to experience. A subject like an apple "experiences" gravity when it falls from a tree. Things that do not interact with the physical world lack experience, and the closest things to those are WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). Truly non-interacting particles (NIP) are presumed to be immeasurable.

So there you have it. The conundrum that consciousness can lack experience and unconsciousness can have experience. A more interesting question in my opinion: what is a soul?
by rhubarbtree | 2025-09-03 20:29:55+00:00
> Having too much fun turning ideas into products to care about proving a point.

This is a strange response to me. Perhaps you and others aren’t aware that there’s a subculture of folks who livestream coding in general? Nothing to do with proving a point.

My interest in finding such examples is exactly due to the posting of comments like yours - strong claims of AI success - that don’t reflect my experience. I want to see videos that show what I’m doing wrong, and why that gives very different results.

I don’t have an agenda or point to prove, I just want to understand. That is the hacker way!
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-03 20:29:58+00:00
>Things don't have to be infinite money-spinners to deserve doing.

The point here is to optimise societal benefit of the production.

I like your ideas about repairability and such. One thing in the back of my mind here is the issue in the UK where we used to lead, somewhat, in nuclear power. We stopped building new power stations and lost the ability as a nation to do so. One would want not just the 30 year old washing machine to be manufacturable, but also for tech improvements to be added in over time. One would also want to extend the manufacture from washing machines to other goods in order to extend the societal benefit. If it can't sustain personnel, then that impacts societal benefit too; as well as impacting ability to attract talent. People being able to insert a replacement control board is different to the company making new control boards that include necessary modifications for changes in the power supply system or improvements to the motors, say.

I appreciate your response, thanks.
by brabel | 2025-09-03 20:30:23+00:00
Sorry but I have heard a lot about Gleam for at least one year. Since they had a 1.0 release and ThePrimeTime [0] Youtube channel featured it (it has 175k views as of writing, for a new programming language video that's like a number 1 hit). They are being backed by fly.io and have an impressive number of sponsors[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mfO821E7sE

[1] https://gleam.run/sponsor/
by smokel | 2025-09-03 20:30:32+00:00
It's the P2305 cartridge, originally sold as "Module microsoft basic interpreter" [1], [2]. It's jointly copyrighted by Microsoft and Philips.

I have discussed this with Philips [3] a few years ago, and they were open to sharing it, but I could not find a contact at Microsoft.

[1] https://archive.org/details/20230420_20230420_1351

[2] https://www.retrocomputing.nl/p2000-basic-cartridge/

[3] https://github.com/philips-software

Edit: for reference, the startup screen shows

PHILIPS CASSETTE BASIC Versie 1.1 NL 14966 bytes vrij
by SleepyMyroslav | 2025-09-03 20:30:38+00:00
I mean my colleagues work hard to keep our build times around 3 minutes for full build of multimillion lines of C++ code that can be rebuilt and same or few times bigger code that is prebuilt but provides tons of headers. If I was constantly annoyed by build times longer than few seconds I probably would have changed my career path couple decades ago xD.

I am both hands for faster -O1 build times though. Point taken.
by 0x457 | 2025-09-03 20:30:39+00:00
It moves fast enough that the temperature delta between first and last chip isn't significant. Not too fast, though, because if the pump is running full-tilt it becomes a major heat-source itself.

> but you want it to be significant, otherwise it's less efficient.

No? You want a large delta between heat-source and water, as well as water and whatever is on your cool side. Essentially just between hot and cold sides.

Delta between heat-sources is irrelevant unless you start cherry-picking some very odd combinations.
by mrob | 2025-09-03 20:31:27+00:00
Does anybody actually use the three plate method with granite? It was originally done with cast iron, and I thought cast iron was still the standard material. The plates are covered with dye and rubbed together to find the high points, which are then scraped off, instead of being removed by the rubbing directly.

Granite is a common material for modern surface plates (and a good one because it doesn't rust and doesn't raise burrs if it's chipped), but I believe these are still made using cast iron reference plates.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-03 20:31:33+00:00
> Isn’t it sort of unethical to force parents to inject their child with something they think is dangerous?

Is it unethical to say parents should feed their kids if they believe food to be dangerous? Is it unethical to stop them from giving their kids bleach if they believe it to be a cure?

The answer is that as a society we have limits around what a parent can or cannot do for the sake of the overall well-being of their children. If a parent refuses to vaccinate their child without a very good reason why (such as other exacerbating health issues or allergic reactions), it should be treated as child abuse. Because it is.
by joshmn | 2025-09-03 20:31:37+00:00
Weird indeed: When renewing a domain registered at Gandi, you don’t have to be the account owner: “The owner of the transferred domains cannot be modified as per registry policy. The owner will remain the same after the transfer. Owners will not change for renewed products.” And later, “Please be aware that you are about to renew a domain you do not own.”

Just tried it myself.
by andrewl-hn | 2025-09-03 20:32:10+00:00
It's a language that runs on top of Erlang VM (called BEAM), similar how Clojure or Scala reuse Java VM. There are other languages that use Erlang VM, like Elixir or LFE.

Gleam is interesting because it's the first statically typed language for Erlang VM, other languages for it can have gradual typing and type hints (TypeScript-style), but under the hood they are still dynamic.

The team behind it cares about adoption so they try to do many things around the language right: they have a compiler, a package manager, a code formatter, an LSP server. So, while the developer experience may seem somewhat rough you still get a feeling of maturity. Gleam doesn't feel like someone's experiment or a toy, but rather like a language that will be around and actively developed for decades.
by harmmonica | 2025-09-03 20:32:55+00:00
Ah, nice, thanks so much for actually sticking around to reply. I mean, I get what you're saying, and I know I won't be able to convince you otherwise, but I'll repeat that structural engineering can be complex, but it's not always and a lot of it is prescriptive.

The only other thing I'll add is the ideal vs. the reality. What percent of structural projects done to single-family construction, in particular, do you think is done by engineers? I would guess it's far less than 50%. That's based on my own experience working in the industry, which I know you won't trust (why would you? Random internet guy after all). But for conversation's sake suffice it to say that I believe every time you walk into a house that's several decades old or older you're likely walking into a place that has been manipulated structurally without an engineer's stamp. And the vast majority (99%+ of the time) it's perfectly safe to be in that space.