MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-11 08:24:50+00:00
> More generally, I see markup languages and the details of how they are rendered as largely orthogonal. You don’t necessarily need to invent a different markup language in order to adjust the rendering.

There’s not much to a markup language beyond how it’s rendered. If you don’t ever want to render it to something other than plain text, just write plain text however you desire. The reason for choosing a particular markup language is to express intended semantics (for plain-text and rendered use), and to render it. The semantics aspect is legitimate, so I won’t say the language and rendering are identical or parallel, but they’re definitely nothing like orthogonal. If you’re using a CommonMark pipeline, any preprocessing you do means you’re not actually writing in CommonMark, but an incompatible variant of it. You may well deem it worthwhile, but it’s no longer the same markup language.
by jcul | 2025-09-11 08:25:16+00:00
> * Human malware

That's a funny / interesting concept to think about. I'm sure I could think of plenty of corporate examples.

Though it reminds of of Kurt Vonnegut's story about the car aliens, bringing the combustion engine to earth, not realising how dangerous ideas could be to humans. I think it may have been part of Slaughter House 5, but I can't remember now.

Or a bit more sci-fi / far fetched, the virus from Snow Crash.
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-09-11 08:25:22+00:00
Thank you for your comment and we agree that saying "we’re removing legacy baggage" is more like a blank marketing statement if not backed by any real technical answers but yes, the reason for that happening is due to the state of our venture, we're still in initial stages but hopefully the case wouldn't be that for long. The last discussion that we had internally among the team was on bringing real benchmarks in comparison to the industry giants (such as Linux) in the coming few weeks.

Also you're right in one sense about how building a new kernel from scratch may not be the best way to tackle XR. But our whole point in creating this kernel was to be able to solve issues like latency and resource optimization on a completely different level and create a lively playground/environment for both software developers and hardware engineers to work on.

Basically, we're currently actively working hard towards proving the claims and fulfilling promises that we're currently making!
by whilenot-dev | 2025-09-11 08:25:44+00:00
Not the author, but to extend this quote from the article:

> Its [Large Language Models] ability to write code and summarize text feels like a qualitative leap in generality that the monkey-and-moon analogy doesn't quite capture. This leaves us with a forward-looking question: How do recent advances in multimodality and agentic AI test the boundaries of this fallacy? Does a model that can see and act begin to bridge the gap toward common sense, or is it just a more sophisticated version of the same narrow intelligence? Are world models a true step towards AGI or just a higher branch in a tree of narrow linguistic intelligence?

I'd put the expression common sense on the same level as having causal connections, and would also assume that SOTA LLMs do not create an understanding based on causality. AFAICS this is known as the "reversal curse"[0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?t=750
by paintbox | 2025-09-11 08:26:04+00:00
>Food shipments are being restricted because it's not generally accepted that you have to feed your enemies while you're at war with them.

Funny way to put it. You do not feed the enemy, rest of the world feeds the enemy. You make all effort to prevent the enemy being fed, to starve the enemy to death. Starving the enemy is generally accepted as a war crime, but Israel disagrees. Oh yeah, and enemy in this case includes infants.
by ginko | 2025-09-11 08:26:07+00:00
>Some hasty judgements were made by those speculating about the event, with some suggesting the accident “must have been the fault of the tanker crew as a highly trained naval personnel on board a modern warship with sophisticated sensors would be unlikely to make such a mistake.”

That certainly wasn't the general opinion in Norway at the time. Everyone blamed the frigate crew from the start.
by dude250711 | 2025-09-11 08:26:20+00:00
The founders decided "it had been a wild ride but all journeys come to an end" so the prices and upselling now keep increasing so that the private equity that bought them can see fast short-term gains (the only thing they care about).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777

https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/montefiore-investment...

https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/02/futureofgandi-the-adventur...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-11 08:26:29+00:00
You're on the right path! Alas, I am a heretic and think recovery codes under my approach may cause more problems than they solve. [1]

Caution may be justified when it comes to doing this for something with as wide a surface area as a Google account. For me, if I'm going to have to compromise on 2FA somewhere anyway, I might as well go full hog and get an honest to goodness keyfile.

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/digital-resiliency-2025/#wait-what-a...
by d3k | 2025-09-11 08:26:30+00:00
I totally agree with the post. The definition of a museum is "an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects", according to Wikipedia. Most of the time I do not see anything significant on these screens in museums, since equivalent content can be easily reached on any phone. Real, relevant objects are much harder to find and find a way to create interest around them. But that is exactly what makes a museum a good museum, not the screen.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-11 08:26:40+00:00
Clearly, illnesses and diseases are public health issues as are systems to manage food safety. People who don't agree with trying to find the best way to manage public health are obviously sociopathic, though that doesn't mean that everyone has to agree on particular approaches e.g. masks may or may not be effective (though they seem to have now been shown effective in masking ICE agents which is ironic).

Certain methods of dealing with public health issues have historically been shown to be incredibly effective (e.g. vaccination, milk pasteurisation etc), so it's disconcerning when there's a political movement that pushes an agenda that is clearly based on fear and not rational evaluation of the issues. It seems to me that there's a push to make the poorest sections of society become less healthy and more vulnerable.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-11 08:26:50+00:00
> or you can be extreme and reap the consequences

This part of your post is very unfortunately worded given the context. I'll try to parse this in the most generous way possible, namely that you're talking about the consequences of abortion on adults and not advocating that right wing Christians "reap the consequences" of their "extreme policy decisions" by being murdered by leftist radicals.

Anyway, you're not responding to his point: the consequences of abortion bans are born by the adults instead of the children. Instead your counter-argument is that the consequences are such that violence against the children is legitimate and not "extreme". Kirk's argument is that whatever the consequences are, it doesn't justify violence or murder of children, which is inherently extreme. You aren't rebutting his argument, just restating the left wing position in different words.

And Ceausescu was a left wing dictator.
by mnky9800n | 2025-09-11 08:26:59+00:00
Yes I feel like at least for data analysis it would be interesting to have the ability to build a data dashboard on the fly. You start with a text prompt and your data sources or whatever document context you want. Then you can start exploring it and keeping the pieces you want. Kind of like a notebook but it doesn’t need the linear execution flow. I feel like there is this giant effort to build a foundation model of everything but most people who analyse data don’t want to just dump it into a model and click predict, they have some interest in understanding the relationships in the data themselves.
by TrackerFF | 2025-09-11 08:27:29+00:00
The ships captain / commanding officer was kicked up in the system.

The officer of the watch, as is military tradition, received all the blame. But it should be said that the commanding officer was ready to take all the blame...but the court eventually found the officer of the watch to be responsible. And that is correct. When you work/serve in the military, at least in Norway, the hierarchy of responsibility is very strict. Even the lowest ranking officer can end up being responsible for a billion dollar vessel / station / etc.

The names of these people are not made public, and it is fairly simple to write your resume in such a way that it will obfuscate your role. The only people that know, are those intimately familiar with the case (from the inside), or know someone that does.

When I worked in the military, albeit in a civilian role, one of my co-workers had been a sailor on this ship around the time this happened.
by tremon | 2025-09-11 08:28:47+00:00
It means the base system doesn't support individual package updates. Similar to a docker image, upgrading to the next version requires a complete base-image upgrade. In general, it shouldn't affect your ability to add additional software on top, but it may impact how you do so (e.g. Fedora Silverblue only allows Flatpak containers on top of the base OS).
by 0xEF | 2025-09-11 08:28:57+00:00
I'm not here to defend generative AI (in fact, I'd say do not use it unless you already know the language/framework well enough to clean up the output) but we have got to stop arguing from a place that assumes humans don't produce sloppy code in equally alarming volumes.

About half of my week is spend troubleshooting old legacy code for this or that industrial automation devices and PLCs, the latter being their own animal driven by ladder logic. Regardless if it's some firmware in C, some proprietary app pounded out in some ancient .NET version or just plane old PLC programming, the amount of times I have puzzled over what the heck the original programmer was thinking is mind blowing. Prior to moving into this position, I had no idea what the crufty greybeards meant when they were griping about spaghetti code. Now I do. Stepping back through someone else's work, often done with some kind of set-it-forget-it mindset because, for some reason, people create things and ignore that the environment will eventually change, is the biggest, dumbest headache. So dumb, that about a year ago, I start practicing things like writing firmware from scratch because just starting from zero turned out to be easier than trying to fix someone's old, convoluted mess.

Most humans code crap. Some humans code very, very well and write beautiful, eloquent software as a result. Congrats to those in that crowd, but understand they are the minority. So, when we started feeding a stochastic parrot some code to teach it to do our work for use, we fed it garbage. And what happens when garbage goes in?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-11 08:29:25+00:00
I don't think that applies if one of the sides is using rational arguments and statistics. However, during the initial COVID outbreak, there was a lack of knowledge and statistics about it, so there was some element of guesswork involved (e.g. face masks may be effective as they help with some other infectious diseases, so let's try wearing them to see if that helps).
by amsv | 2025-09-11 08:29:27+00:00
Windows has supported Unix sockets since ~2017.

If this pull request is merged, libuv -> Node.js -> Electron will eventually support UDS for IPC communication on Windows.

This is perfect for, e.g. Electron UI -> Golang daemon communication without exposing a TCP port.

I'm not the author of the pull request, but I hope to drive attention to it - give it a thumbs up or give it a review!

Once it works we'll have a good cross-platform IPC mechanism for Linux/macOS/newer Windows.
by IMTDb | 2025-09-11 08:29:40+00:00
The median salary in the US is $29/hour. By definition a one hour meeting has at least two people in it; often more. So two median guys talking for an hour costs ~$60. The meeting the you really want transcripts for often contain more than one person; and often involve people earning more than the median. I'd happily ad $1 to every single one of my meetings if they get more productive.
by AIPedant | 2025-09-11 08:29:53+00:00
If you look at my comment history you will see that I don't think LLMs are nearly as intelligent as rats or pigeons. Rats and pigeons have an intuitive understanding of quantity and LLMs do not.

I don't know what "the lowest form of intelligence" is, nobody has a clue what cognition means in lampreys and hagfish.
by camgunz | 2025-09-11 08:29:55+00:00
> The purpose of debate is to challenge people's views, even if they strongly disagree, in order to convince if not participants then bystanders to change their mind.

Debates are not two parties seeking the truth together. Unless you're very, very careful and good faith, and your counterpart is very, very careful and good faith, debates are a race to the bottom of psychological manipulation. They're not contests of facts; there's no way to objectively score them; they're not good ways for participants or bystanders to learn.

Facially, they're theater. But a system's purpose is what it does, and these performances serve as a venue/foundation to hone/push messaging. You'll almost never see right-wing "debaters" go up against "big" left-wing names like an Ezra Klein or Destiny (Ben Shapiro is kind of the exception, but he's far more conciliatory with someone like Klein--he did do one with Destiny, it went pretty badly for him, so it of course became a one-time thing).

Kirk et al lose--they lose frequently! You rarely see it because they have far bigger megaphones than their victorious rivals. But have these (many) losses changed their views? No. Debates are not two parties seeking the truth together.
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by yunusabd | 2025-09-11 08:29:58+00:00
Hi HN, I've built this for use in a language learning app, but you can use it without an app, since it's based around Youtube videos.

The main idea is to give you a structured learning plan with content that you care about, to keep you engaged. I know it's hard to stay on track when learning a language, so I'm hoping this will help people stay consistent and build a habit.

I was surprised yesterday when one user entered "rugby and food" as their interest (learning French), and the first video is actually a video about rugby AND food in French. There's no limit to the breadth of content on Youtube! (Although I have to admit, it is a bit lucky that this exact video exists) https://lingolingo.app/challenge/shared/curriculum-e63c42f6

Hope you find it interesting!
by goku12 | 2025-09-11 08:30:18+00:00
I wasn't talking about intra-project searches. But Github does have a search that allows us to put constraints on the results like how web search engines allowed a decade or more ago. This feature is pretty useful that it forms a big part of sourcegraph's business. I do use Google search, but I often end up with Github search when I need to locate a specific type of project.
by x-complexity | 2025-09-11 08:30:35+00:00
7000000 reels ÷ 50 years ÷ 365.25 (days/year) = ~383.3 reels / day

Each reel being a minute long would equal to 6 hours & 24 minutes of scrolling a day.

It would be close to the most depressing world record to ever exist.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-11 08:31:02+00:00
I don't actually know what the bus factor for Tarsnap's infrastructure is. 2 is just the absolute lower bound from what I know of the company itself. It is in all likelihood much higher.

I can't read the founder's mind, but if I were them I would probably have some Kongō Gumi style designs on making it a 1000-year company just because that's a fun intellectual exercise. [1]

[1]: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/oldest-businesses-in-japan/
by SideQuark | 2025-09-11 08:31:06+00:00
Japan has strict gun control and an extremely high rate of suicide. The US has more homicides per capita by simply beating someone to death by ones bare hands than many countries have total homicide rate (check data in FBI UCR). Restricting suicides and homicides to only those with guns is a dishonest comparison when the rates without the gun restriction are more useful and flip the outcomes of the discussion. I doubt a murder by non-gun is fundamentally different to a family or society than one by a gun, or any other method.

The Obama CDC study on gun control concluded that guns are used to stop far more crimes than they are used for in crimes. It concluded that a household with a gun saw far less bad outcomes than a household without during home invasions. It concluded a lot of things that didn't sit well with the left, so after all the fanfare to make it, it was downplayed by that admin. Read it, it's quite interesting.

Think through that a bit.
by tomaskafka | 2025-09-11 08:31:39+00:00
I believe it’s rather

- schools being pressured to do “something” but being clueless about how education works - IT vendors exploiting this and happily selling them piles of digital something

The same cycle happens on political levels - “I know nothing about education, but I guess screens mean progress because everyone (= IT vendors) says so, so let’s give schools money earmarked for screens.

And of course the IT vendors happily support it by marketing and bribes.
by maxglute | 2025-09-11 08:31:57+00:00
Wait for cycle to repeat.

Nepal is a landlocked country with limited resources.

It's primary access to outside is India, a per capital poor country. It you want to be generous throw in Bhutan (too small to be useful), or Bangladesh... also poor. The side that borders PRC is on Tibetan frontier, i.e. flows is going to be geographically limited. Even landlocked neighbours of PRC like Laos what PRC props up to be hydro exporter struggles. Mongolia better. But Mongolia has 3m people. Bhutan <1m. Both can squeeze 4-6k gdp per capita by exporting resources and not having that many people. Things start breaking down when you get to 8m (Laos) 2k per capita. Nepal is 30m probably will settle somewhere similarly low income unless India/Bangladesh gets really rich to bleed over to Nepal (rising tide lift all boats). But that's unlikely in short/medium term, hence ultimately Nepal is geopolitically constrained (fucked). So if Nepalese want to be comfortably rich in Nepal, nothing left but politics and abject corruption.

For landlocked countries >10m you need to have rich neighbours (the European landlocked countries), or a shit load of valuable resources, Kazakhstan (20m), Azerbaijan (10m) + fossil. All other land locked countries over 10m without fossil are basically stuck in low-middle income. Which means politicians (including newly minted by revolution) will continue to loot and populous will continue be angry.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-11 08:32:31+00:00
Few fonts will render this nicely; the dashes are unlikely to join. Also if it does break at the soft hyphen, you’ve got an extraneous hyphen added on the first line.

If I were doing that, I’d probably use a zero-width space instead of a soft hyphen. Same break opportunity, removes the extraneous undesirable hyphen if it breaks, but introduces a new word boundary so that wordwise selection can now split your wonky dash. Therefore I suggest <span style=user-select:all>–&ZeroWidthSpace;–</span> because if you’re going to do something ridiculous you might as well embrace the ridiculosity.
by musicale | 2025-09-11 08:32:42+00:00
> But alchemy was wrong

Yet alchemists developed and refined many important chemical processes including crystallization, distillation, evaporation, synthesis of acids/bases/salts, etc., as well as many useful substances and compounds from gunpowder to aqua regia. Also various dyes, drugs, and poisons. Their ranks included the likes of Paracelsus, Tycho Brahe, Boyle, and Newton.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-11 08:33:41+00:00
You cannot make an RS latch with 2 transistors, much less a flip-flop, which is at least 50% more complex than a latch (a flip-flop differs from a latch because its state changes only on clock transitions; this is not needed for a memory, so memories use only the simpler latches).

You can make a latch with 2 transistors and 2 resistors, but resistors are more expensive than transistors in an integrated circuit, so the minimal latch has 4 transistors.

However with simple latches you cannot build a memory, because there must be a way to address them. Therefore you must add 2 pass transistors for cell addressing, thus you end with a 6-transistor SRAM cell. In the past there have been some SRAMs with so-called 4-transistor cells, but that is a misnomer, because those were 6-transistor cells where 2 transistors were passive, having their gates connected permanently to fixed potentials, making the transistors a substitute for resistors.

A 6-T SRAM cell has a few not-so-good characteristics, so for maximum performance, like in the first-level cache memory, more complex 8-transistor SRAM cells are used.

Even the simplest SRAM cell is much more complex than a DRAM cell, flash memory cell or ROM cell.

The ideal memory cell has the area of a square whose side is double the resolution of the available photolithography, because any cell must be at the intersection of a row and a column, where the row and the column must contain at least one conductor trace.

By 3-dimensional stacking of the memory cell components, some variants of DRAM cells, including the cell from TFA, may reach the ideal memory cell size.
by IMTDb | 2025-09-11 08:34:03+00:00
Our meetings often involve a mix of onsite and offsite employees. Typical setup might be CEO + CTO + a VP in a room, connected as a single zoom client to the call (either of these 3 guys depending on who got in the meeting room first), then few additional people joining remotely from home each on their own zoom instance. The guys on the meeting room are using a dedicated camera in the meeting room that captures the entire room, and has all participants in sight. Is this a setup you are trying to address; how are you able to recognize speakers in this configuration ?

Most transcript system we have tried bundle everything that is said by the onsite people as a single entity which pretty much destroys the value of the transcript; especially if people in that room disagree with each other; reading the transcript makes it feel that the onsite guys is very schizophrenic