MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neya | 2025-09-24 07:02:54+00:00
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by shiandow | 2025-09-24 07:02:57+00:00
I'm not sure if extending the Einsteind notation made this much more readable than what it is supposed to be replacing.

It doesn't help that I've read three pages of the docs in an attempt to understand and all of them just rely on examples with no real explanation.

If the best explanation of your custom notation uses examples of the supposedly less readable language it is not more readable.

Edit: Turns out there is an explanation of the notation, but it is a bit burried. I would strongly recommend skipping the first page of the tutorial.
by throwaway4302 | 2025-09-24 07:03:50+00:00
Depends on the situation

Work:

I prefer tech that is well known within the team that will maintain it. Keep the bus factor low.

Personal side projects:

It depends on my goal. Is the goal to learn a specific tech, or create a product? If my goal is a product, I choose tech that I know well. I want to focus on the product, and not spend time in google/chatgpt figuring out how to do X in Y. The product itself has so many unknowns, that I don't want to add more due to my choice of tech, otherwise I risk losing my motivation and the project ends up in limbo.

If I had to choose a single language for everything, it would be Java (or Kotlin if necessary). The eco system is solid and my productivity is easily 4x compared to other languages.

Most developers can learn to produce code in any language in days. But mastering a language and eco system takes years.
by andersmurphy | 2025-09-24 07:03:54+00:00
A "good chunk of functionality" is a mischaracterisation. I don't use anything from pro and I use datastar at work. I do believe in making open source maintainable though so bought the license.

The pro stuff is mostly a collection of foot guns you shouldn't use and are a support burden for the core team. In some niche corporate context they are useful. You can also implement your own plugins with the same functionality if you want it's just going to cost you time in instead of money.

I find devs complaining about paying for things never gets old. A one off life time license? How scandalous! Sustainable open source? Disgusting. Oh a proprietary AI model that is built on others work without their concent and steals my data? Only 100$ a month? Take my money!
by faangguyindia | 2025-09-24 07:04:20+00:00
Well if you do not inject AI features how will you gather data that comes from its inputs?

All this is an attempt of feeding more and more data to AI to make it as strong as possible.

If photos used your pics for training you can claim "i don't use any ai feature then why my photo is sent to ai"

Now that everyone has ai by default you cannot make that claim
by cbolton | 2025-09-24 07:05:55+00:00
I think his main point is about strict typing in Fortran. You can add type annotations in Julia but it's almost an anti-pattern if you don't need them e.g. for dispatch. In any case the type annotations in these examples would be quite unnecessary, unlike in Fortran (where as I understand you can at best enable implicit typing but then must use variable names with specific patterns).
by pjmlp | 2025-09-24 07:05:57+00:00
Other than comptime, it doesn't bring anything new to the 21st century.

Its safety story is basically what Modula-2 (1978) and Object Pascal (1986) already had, but now it gets done with curly brackets instead of a begin/end language.

UAF is an issue, and the tooling to tackle this issue is exactly the same that C and C++ have available for the last 30 years, give it or take it.

It will be another language to talk about, however I doubt it will ever make it into mainstream, like having platfrom vendors and console Devkits care that Zig exists.
by intended | 2025-09-24 07:06:30+00:00
This is a fear of an earlier time.

We are not controlling people by reducing information.

We are controlling people by overwhelming them in it.

And when we think of a solution, our natural inclination to “do the opposite” smacks straight into our instinct against controlling or reducing access to information.

The closest I have come to any form of light at the end of the tunnel is Taiwan’s efforts to create digital consultations for policy, and the idea that facts may not compete on short time horizon, but they surely win on longer time horizons.
by rebeccaskinner | 2025-09-24 07:07:59+00:00
Looking at my own use of AI, and at how I see other engineers use it, it often feels like two steps forward and two steps back, and overall not a lot of real progress yet.

I see people using agents to develop features, but the amount of time they spend to actually make the agent do the work usually outweighs the time they’d have spent just building the feature themselves. I see people vibe coding their way to working features, but when the LLM gets stuck it takes long enough for even a good developer to realize it and re-engage their critical thinking that it can wipe out the time savings. Having an LLM do code and documentation review seems to usually be a net positive to quality, but that’s hard to sell as a benefit and most people seem to feel like just using the LLM to review things means they aren’t using it enough.

Even for engineers there are a lot of non-engineering benefits in companies that use LLMs heavily for things like searching email, ticketing systems, documentation sources, corporate policies, etc. A lot of that could have been done with traditional search methods if different systems had provided better standardized methods of indexing and searching data, but they never did and now LLMs are the best way to plug an interoperability gap that had been a huge problem for a long time.

My guess is that, like a lot of other technology driven transformations in how work gets done, AI is going to be a big win in the long term, but the win is going to come on gradually, take ongoing investment, and ultimately be the cumulative result of a lot of small improvements in efficiency across a huge number of processes rather than a single big win.
by Frieren | 2025-09-24 07:08:19+00:00
> Huntington Ingalls is using AI in battlefield decision tools, Zoetis in veterinary diagnostics, Caterpillar in energy systems, and Freeport-McMoran in mineral extraction.

But most AI push is for LLMs, and all the companies you talk about seem to be using other types of AI.

> Failures of workplace pilots usually result from integration challenges, not because the technology lacks value.

Bold claim. Toxic positivism seems to be too common in AI evangelists.

> The fact that 374 S&P 500 companies are openly discussing it shows the opposite of “no clear upside” — it shows wide strategic interest.

If the financial crisis taught me something is that if a company jumps of a bridge the rest will follow. Assuming that there must be some real value because capitalism is missing the main proposition of capitalism, companies will take stupid decisions and pay the price for it.
by Jackson__ | 2025-09-24 07:08:52+00:00
It fails on any edge case, like all other VLMs. The last time a vision model succeeded at reading analog clocks, a notoriously difficult task, it was revealed they trained on nearly 1 million artificial clock images[0] to make it work. In a similar vein, I have encountered no model that could read for example a D20 correctly.[1]

It could probably identify extra limbs in your pictures if you too made a million example images to train it on, but until then it will keep failing. And of course you'll get to keep making millions more example images for every other issue you run into.

[0] https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/pixmo-clocks

[1] https://files.catbox.moe/ocbr35.jpg
by sltr | 2025-09-24 07:09:15+00:00
> AI was supposed to replace humans

There are really two observations here: 1. AI hasn't commoditized skilled labor. 2. AI is diluting/degrading media culture.

For the first, I'm waiting for more data, e.g. from the BLS. For the second, I think a new category of media has emerged. It lands somewhere near chiptune and deep-fried memes.
Almost perfect Y Combinator Phishing Mail
by fxtentacle | 2025-09-24 07:10:16+00:00
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which I guess is the phishing part where they steal your crypto.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-24 07:10:46+00:00
Might depend on the specific feature. If Clang is any indication I wouldn't hold out hope that (frontend?) features like lifetimes/borrow checking are easily transferable.

In any case, there is work on a Rust frontend for GCC (gccrs), but I haven't seen any discussion on whether any of the Rust-specific features can benefit other GCC frontends. Might be a bit premature for those discussions anyways since the frontend has yet to reach production readiness.
by noduerme | 2025-09-24 07:11:10+00:00
Just because something is computational doesn't mean it's deterministic. There are quantum effects and ghosts in the machine.

Also, maybe the goal of the computation isn't to generate a deterministic output. Maybe it's just to compress a lot of very random input, in a way that smooths out the noise. In this way life could be essentially random on purpose, because all the varieties of randomness are better at modeling the data (the observable universe) than a classical deterministic function would be.
by spragl | 2025-09-24 07:12:56+00:00
I think the article is a bit out of focus, but its premise reminded me about the discussions that we students had at the university many years ago. It was a popular view that the universe is a big all-encompassing computer, and everyhting happening in it is part of its computation. Not just life, but really everything. The big question was, is this computer a Turing machine? Not necessarily in the sense of a state machine and an infinite tape, but in the sense of its computational power. These days the question would be whether it is a quantum Turing machine, I guess.
by Jensson | 2025-09-24 07:12:57+00:00
The only reason we need moderation is that we have discussions, youtube videos doesn't have that feature, you can't attach a video to another persons video, but you can attach a comment here to another persons comment. I am all for moderating youtube comments for that very reason, but not youtube videos.

I would prefer if discord / reddit and similar became common carriers of forums, not messages. So discord and reddit can't control what a subreddit does and what its moderators do, but the moderators can control what the people posting there can do.

By having a common carrier forum provider anyone could easily make their own forum with their own rules and compete on an open market without needing any technical skills, and without the forum provider being able to veto everything they say and do on that forum. That is where we want to be, in such an environment HN wouldn't need to depend on ycombinator, you could have many independently moderated forums and you pick the best one.

Discord and reddit today aren't that, both ban things they don't like, it would be much better if we removed that power from them. Both reddit and discord admins allows porn and spam, their censorship adds zero value to the platform, the only thing it does is kick some political factions out of the platform which doesn't add any value to it, as I wouldn't visit those discords / subreddits anyway so they don't hurt me.

So it isn't hard to imagine how to draft such laws where all our favorite usecases are still allowed while also adding much more freedom for users and making life easier for these content platforms since they are no longer targeted by takedown request spam, it is a win win for everyone except those who want to censor.
by yazaddaruvala | 2025-09-24 07:13:11+00:00
I think one of the most important lessons in life (even as a healthy person) is realizing “motivation and action are cyclically causal”

Of course “action follows motivation” but even when not motivated “motivation follows action”.

For example, even as a healthy person I am not always motivated to go to the gym after a busy day at work which I am “so tired from”. I go dispite the lack of motivation. Unsurprisingly, I walk out of the gym feeling re-motivated and “with more energy”.
by lmm | 2025-09-24 07:14:14+00:00
> We also have a lot of TS, and at this point we are tempted to just switch to using ScalaJS on the frontend as well because of how much better the language is to use.

I did that and highly recommend it, at least for new projects - not sure that it's worth the effort of porting an existing project, but ScalaJS just works and I found far fewer rough edges than I expected.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-24 07:14:24+00:00
Not wanting to work with a racist asshole isn't cancel culture. It's common sense.

Also, this isn't a new fucking phenomenon. I remember when Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay (before everyone knew what an ass she was), and it nearly destroyed her career. Or when the Dixie Chicks dared to criticized George Bush and it did ruin their career. The same people complaining about cancel culture now we're the ones doing the cancelling then.
by wg0 | 2025-09-24 07:15:24+00:00
Sounds like blockchain all over. Reminds me of an essay from two product managers in AWS that talked to clients all over US and couldn't get any business to clearly articulate why they need blockchain.

Note: AWS has a hosted blockchain that you can use. [1]

PS: If anyone has read that essay, please do share the link. I can't really locate it but that's a wonderful read.

[1]. https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/
by talideon | 2025-09-24 07:15:54+00:00
The Python docs say it's part of the built-in standard library, not that it's literally there and in scope by default.

We learned the value of modularity decades ago. This is a sign of Fortran's age, not a good thing. Very few modern languages that aren't heavily domain-specific will have more than a bare minimum of functions in scope by default without needing to import them or a module containing them. The only relatively counterexample I can think of is PHP, and even it's grown namespaces over the years.
by varenc | 2025-09-24 07:15:55+00:00
I suspect is the source of the data: https://prdwmq.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/sanfrancisco/di...

The online tool that lets you pay a citation doesn't list the citation's address, but that one above does. It's protected with a CAPTCHA, but a very weak one that's definitely no longer effective in our current era.

My guess is the company SF hires to handles their parking citations will deploy reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare's anti-bot very soon. Though might be complicated given all the legal compliance stuff.

---

This is the company SF and many others use to handle citations: https://www.conduent.com/

brochure about their parking product: https://downloads.conduent.com/content/usa/en/brochure/total...
by random3 | 2025-09-24 07:16:09+00:00
The person seems real, unless he faked his TedX talk 2 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5HC8SR0BA or 2700 followers on LI https://www.linkedin.com/in/logan-nye/ along with the company, a cofounder etc.

The volume and breadth of publications is unreal.

e.g. Quantum Extensions to the Einstein Field Equations - 10 citations https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jhepgc2024104_362181145.pdf
by Ancapistani | 2025-09-24 07:17:36+00:00
I’m sitting here wearing a Hamilton Air Zermatt. I have a half dozen decent watches, ranging from Vostok to Rolex, and the Hamilton is the one that I wear.

At ~$1k, it’s a nice balance between “nice enough to make me smile when I look at it” and “too expensive to wear everyday”.

I have an Apple Watch Series 8 as well, and while it was certainly convenient… if just didn’t make me happy. The Hamilton does. It’s a pure luxury item for me, meant only for my only gratification.
by rascul | 2025-09-24 07:19:55+00:00
> no matter there is no regulation in most states from making a real gun to look like a toy gun so it's a totally bogus presumption

It's a federal law.

> each toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm shall have as an integral part, permanently affixed, a blaze orange plug inserted in the barrel of such toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:15%20section:...
by Wurdan | 2025-09-24 07:20:51+00:00
If you don't think this tool poses any risk to these people let's try walk through a scenario.

Let's say someone sees a parking warden they find physically attractive. They follow them for a bit and when they write up their next ticket, the stalker pulls up this app to get the officer's ID. The next day they pull up the app to see where the warden is working that day - they drive over there, and it takes them maybe half an hour to find the warden based on the lag between last-ticket-location and real-time-location. They strike up a creepy conversation and the parking warden eventually leaves, disturbed. The next day, the parking warden is working a night shift - they've been told to patrol a dark neighborhood where there are plenty of alleyways that nobody can see into...

See where I'm going with this?

Anything which allows someone to get ongoing location data for a person who they've just come across on the street is inherently a danger to the surveilled person.
by strogonoff | 2025-09-24 07:23:35+00:00
I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to make.

> Sounds about right, until the reality check. How often do you raise the problem of the incommunicability of qualia outside hacker news?

This is HN, and I was replying to a specific thought experiment posted in a comment:

> you can be objectively right about the color of the sky, but that won't save you from becoming dinner to wild animals after your people cast you out for believing differently.

That’s it.

You trying to bring into this people not complaining about it is, again, irrelevant. Most people, unless they are into philosophy, don’t tend complain about the inability to read someone else’s mind or feel what someone else’s feel. People also don’t tend to complain about the inevitability of death, the inability to go back in time, and in fact pretty much any fact of life that they cannot change. Yet, indeed, people absolutely do bring these up on regular basis in relevant philosophy-adjacent discussions and thought experiments, such as when correcting a claim that verbal labels assigned to feelings can be “objectively correct”.