MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leipert | 2025-10-13 14:02:32+00:00
Totally agree on the DAG point of view, but I would argue that for different people you need different analogies/models to make it click. I would argue that pointing towards graph theory might help people that have a formal CS or maths education, but not necessarily folks that went through bootcamps, switched from design roles, have a biology background (e.g. bioinformatics) or do statistics (e.g. in medicine or psychology)
by faxmeyourcode | 2025-10-13 14:02:36+00:00
My side project - https://macrosforhumans.com - is a traditional mobile macro tracker with first class support for voice (and soon image and text blob) inputs for your recipes, ingredients, measurements, units, etc. Kind of a neat project that may never make it too far off the ground considering I am not a mobile dev but it's been fun to build so far with the help of claude code. It's built with flutter and a fastapi backend.

In the AI macro food logging world, there's really only Cal AI which estimates macros based on an image. I use cronometer personally, and it's super annoying to have to type everything in manually, so it makes sense why folks reach for something like Cal AI. However, the problem with something like Cal AI is accuracy. It's at best a guess based on the image. Macros for humans tries to be more of a traditional weigh your food, log it, etc kind of app, while updating the main interface for how users input that info into something more friendly.

I set myself a hard deadline to present a live demo at a local showcase/pitch event thing at the end of the month. I bet the procrastination will kick in hard enough to get the backend hosted with a proper database and a bit more UI polish running on my phone. :-)

Here's a really early demo video I recorded a few weeks ago. I had just spoken the recipe on the left and when I stop recording you can see my backend streams the objects out as they're parsed from the LLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wElkvJR7I
by dylan604 | 2025-10-13 14:03:24+00:00
The very first cable weather "channel" was a large circular base at least 4' diameter (don't remember exact size, but big) that had various full size gauges on it. A camera was positioned to look down on the gauge under it. The whole table top rotated so that each gauge would continuously cycle under the camera. When you viewed the channel, you'd have to wait until the gauge you wanted to see rotated back around.
by empath75 | 2025-10-13 14:03:35+00:00
> "checking whether X is true and logging an error"

You now have some process or computation which is in an unknown state. Presumably it was important! There are lots of cases where runtime errors are fine and expected -- when processing input from the outside world, but if you started a chain of computation with good input and somehow ended up with bad input, then you have a bug! That is bad! Everything after that point can no longer be trusted, and there was some place where the code went wrong before that and made everything between there and where you caught the error invalid. And that has possibly poisoned your whole system.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-10-13 14:03:49+00:00
> f investors were taking seriously the idea that this could be "it" with AI enabling even full automation — not superhuman AI, not even a fast learner, just AI that can fully automate everything we've currently got and not be limited to the subset of desk jobs that LLMs can do OK — it would allow the economy to double in size in whatever wall-clock time period it takes for the AI to gather enough training data by simply observing human workers doing the things the AI has not yet learned to do.

This assumes that the economy and the governments will happily suffer the electricity and financial demands that Sam and co would give and the world would accept. Even if Sam's words were true, it is still a leap of faith because there is no data backing those words.

My take in late 2023 was that GPT-5 would either further push transformers into the "there is still a real chance transformers might be IT" or will become the unquestionable sign that transformers have peaked as a general technology. My take in 2024 was that the AI bubble was going to be noticed. My take in 2025 is that AI companies (other than the big ones like OpenAI) are going to struggle getting funding.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-13 14:03:58+00:00
> Finding non-fiction writers is easy because plenty of technologists

Technologists have an obvious conflict of interest, as for fiction it's not really what I'm interested in, it's like asking marlboro about the benefits of cigarettes.

Stephen King: never talks about using LLMs to write

Robin Sloan: training sets

Hugh Howey (Silo): training sets

Joanna Penn (J.F. Penn): "Write the books only you can write"

Ken Liu: "Much as the printing press changed the way we consume books, AI will change the way we consume text". A writer who talks about books as something to be "consumed" already tells you everything you need to know about them imho, aside from that they seem to say 'it's shit but who knows it might become better in the future", you'll notice even tech bros always talks about the future that never materialize. I don't see anything about writers using LLMs to write books.

Jeanette Winterson: "Humans will always want to read what other humans have to say, but like it or not, humans will be living around non-biological entities.", she already gave up as it seems

Debbie Urbanski: The only one who seem to actually use LLMs to write, I'l lgive you that

James Frey: “I use artificial intelligence because I want to write the best book possible.”, really, do I even have to say anything ?
by DisabledVeteran | 2025-10-13 14:05:32+00:00
I got tired of trying to find a good MP3 player that just worked so I created a website to function as an online MP3 player. I started adding sources for content and ended up supporting YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, Instagram, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Rumble, WSHH, Facebook and X. So now you can create playlists from all of those sources with features you would find on any decent MP3 player such as loop, repeat, etc. I also drew inspiration from YTInstant and created a real time search for content that allows you to type lyrics and song titles and it will instantly find your content. Finally, I said well while I'm at it, I might as well just recreate MySpace, so I did that too. Let me know your thoughts. https://plasas.com
by piskov | 2025-10-13 14:06:09+00:00
Kindle became a joke with discontinuation of oasis.

What we had: — aluminum build - glass front - physical bloage-turn buttons

What we got now: - plastic soft-touch that reeks of grease after a short period of time - plastic front that scratches like hell (don’t even try bringing this near sand) - no buttons

—

I love my oasis but it’s 6(?) years old. If Amazon doesn’t get their shit together, I’ll be forced to buy ”boox go”
by nyrikki | 2025-10-13 14:06:45+00:00
the set of all matrices of a fixed size are a vector space because matrix addition and scalar multiplication are well-defined and follow all vector space axioms.

But be careful of the map–territory relation.

If you can find a model that is a vector space, that you can extend to an Inner product space and extend that to a Hilbert space; nice things happen.

Really the amazing part is finding a map (model) that works within the superpowers of algorithms, which often depends upon finding many to one reductions.

Get stuck with a hay in the haystack problem and math as we know it now can be intractable.

Vector spaces are nice and you can map them to abstract algebra, categories, or topos and see why.

I encourage you to dig into the above.
by 6mian | 2025-10-13 14:06:51+00:00
When I tried to save a newly created playlist I got a 500 XHR with message: "failed to fetch user playlists: Error 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND disabled = 0' at line 4", about 2mins ago, if that help finding this is logs.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-13 14:08:11+00:00
> In-kernel implementations and/or io-uring may improve this unfortunate situation, but today in practice it's hard to achieve the same throughput as with plain TCP.

This would depend on how the server application is written, no? Using io-uring and similar should minimise context-switches from userspace to kernel space.

> I also vaguely remember that QUIC makes load-balancing more challenging for ISPs, since they can not distinguish individual streams as with TCP.

Not just for ISPs; IIRC (and I may be recalling incorrectly) reverse proxies can't currently distinguish either, so you can't easily put an application behind Nginx and use it as a load-balancer.

The server application itself has to be the proxy if you want to scale out. OTOH, if your proxy for UDP is able to inspect the packet and determine the corresponding instance to send a UDP packet too, it's going to be much fewer resources required on the reverse proxy/load balancer, as they don't have to maintain open connections at all.

It will also allow some things more easily; a machine that is getting overloaded can hand-off (in userspace) existing streams to a freshly created instance of the server on a different machine, because the "stream" is simply related UDP packets. TCP is much harder to hand-off, and even if you can, it requires either networking changes or kernel functions to hand-off.
by username332211 | 2025-10-13 14:08:21+00:00
If sociology is so much more rigorous, why aren't sociologists invading the economic field? Surely they can use their rigorous statistics to produce papers on economic matters and put the entire field to shame?

If anything, we're seeing the opposite results, where economists publish influential papers demographics, crime and social structure.

"When dealing with humans, linear regression is going to be good enough" is a huge assumption to make.
by saad-tarhi | 2025-10-13 14:08:26+00:00
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by dimal | 2025-10-13 14:08:59+00:00
> Hudson had no interest in resuming his role of pet or clown and let it be known he would suffer no more jokes or insults. There is no record of the precise offence offered, but in October 1644, Hudson challenged the brother of William Crofts to a duel. Crofts arrived at the duel brandishing a large water squirt, but his flippancy would lead to his death, as Hudson fatally shot him in the forehead.

Savage!
by walkabout | 2025-10-13 14:09:02+00:00
Yes, of course. But the bikes are the ones making the space those murder-machines operate in operate differently from how it usually does, which is inherently not great.

I’d like to see car use reduced as much as the next sane person, but I still go “ah, goddamnit” when I see a bicyclist approaching an intersection or come up on one going uphill on a twisty no-shoulder 35+ mph road.
by edmondo_por | 2025-10-13 14:09:15+00:00
I created this notebook using Marimo, a next generation Python notebook, and used Pyodide support to run it in the browser via WASM

The source code is here https://github.com/edmondop/startup-compensation-notebook

Even the notebook is rough, it provides a methodology that expose challenges in startup compensation: most startup offers do not provide sufficient upside for non-founders to leave a more secure job at a corporation. This is particularly a problem in HCOL, where engineers receive tens of inbound messages of recruiters trying to fill positions on-site.

What are your thoughts?
by holowoodman | 2025-10-13 14:09:48+00:00
German cars have always been slightly more expensive, but buyers (internal and export) thought this was a good deal because of higher (perceived) value and quality.

Nowadays quality has become an issue, where you could, back in the day, drive your Mercedes for 500.000km over a 30years lifetime, nowadays you are lucky to make it past the factory warranty. Along with quality, repairability, tuneability and parts availability and prices have worsened significantly. So German cars are no longer a safe bet on longevity and low lifetime cost, which is what drives away export customers as well as German private customers.

The only thing that has so far kept the German car industry afloat is tax subsidies towards German corporate customers: If your employer offers you a car as part of your salary, you only pay monthly taxes on a flat 1% of the sales price of the car, and for that, the employer can freely give you the car, maintenance, fuel for private and company use, all included. While the employer pays cheap company leasing rates and discounted gross fuel prices, and can offset all that whole spending against the company tax bill. So overall a good deal for employer and employee, and a huge boon to the German car industry (because practically all company vehicles have to be some German brand for prestige).

However, nowadays, the full tax deduction is only available for plug-in-hybrid and electric cars, ICE vehicles only get half the deduction. And the plug-in-hybrids will soon be classed down to ICE status. All the while German car makers struggle to offer proper electric cars at acceptable prices. All the while their plug-in-hybrids suffer from poor quality and life expectancy, expensive repairs and therefore expensive insurance and low resale value.

This means that German car makers will continue to lose their last reliable customer base.
by icsa | 2025-10-13 14:09:56+00:00
I think that there are a few critical issues that are not being considered:

* LLMs don't understand the syntax of q (or any other programming language).

* LLMs don't understand the semantics of q (or any other programming language).

* Limited training data, as compared to kanguages like Python or javascript.

All of the above contribute to the failure modes when applying LLMs to the generation or "understanding" of source code in any programming language.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-13 14:10:10+00:00
> Wrong. That only applies to LDC, or Least Developed Countries under the TRIPS Agreement, GATT 1994.

No, it's strongly encouraged for least developed countries.

> Nothing under the WTO allows China's illegal forced tech transfer/IP theft otherwise.

There is no "forced tech transfer," and we're not discussing IP theft, which is not allowed by China's IP laws. Companies are making decisions to enter into IP sharing agreements with joint-venture partners, out of their own economic calculus. They're free to refuse.

> again Tesla being the only foreign automaker operating fully independently without a JV in China.

Not true. You need to update take a refresher on this issue. Toyota is setting up its own wholly owned operations in China, for example: [0].

> BYD's electric bus business in California has been around since the early 2010s.

This is a tiny niche in the US market. Meanwhile, US auto manufacturers have had large market shares in China for decades.

> Again, this is why China has focused on LFP (effectively royalty free after 2022/2023 for export) or post-lithium batteries instead. In other word, China is likely to benefit from their R&D in post-lithium once they are commercialized and mass-produced at scale years down the road, if ever.

So you're admitting that Chinese companies are respecting foreign IP and responding by innovating in areas not covered by that IP.

> Of course they do. That's what EU's recent probe (2024/1866 and 2024/27) revealed and also why China hand them out like Halloween candies.

No, tax rebates to customers in China do not reduce the cost of cars exported to Europe. China "hands [tax rebates to customers] out like Halloween candies" because it wants to rapidly transition to EVs (and has been incredibly successful in doing so).

> China's neo-mercantile economy prioritizes national "champions," not consumers.

Yet somehow, EVs are way cheaper in China than in the EU and US, and all the local companies are engaged in continuous price wars.

> Again, China's local price or cost of production don't mean jack -- China is a non-market-economy and their local price/cost products are artificially deflated by the Chinese gov't's illegal subsidies.

Those "illegal subsidies" (a loaded term) are overwhelmingly tax rebates to consumers - the exact same mechanism that the US and many EU countries use.

> Not really. Many are awe'ed as China's illegally subsidized overcapacity floods their local market, but often conflate the two: market domination vs. tech innovation. China's competitive edge is a function of China's illegal subsidies and protectionism. No evidence to believe Chinese EV/battery producers can compete without daddy Xi's big wallet or baton to keep away foreign competition.

This is just completely out of touch with reality. I'll just say two words: BYD, CATL. It's getting to the point that European countries are talking about encouraging battery technology transfer from China.

0. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-13 14:10:23+00:00
RTK = Trimble Navigation.

Even back in 1999 prior to Selective Availability (SA) zeroing[0], fixed base station-assisted (pre-WAAS DGPS RTK) could achieve 10 mm horizontal accuracy and 1 m vertical accuracy. It was good enough that farming, mining (above ground), and earth-moving equipment could combine 2 receivers to determine tool angle and cut depth.

0. SA was an injected random error for security reasons that was constant for a local area, so it was weak security because it could be easily defeated if a fixed base station's position was known by subtracting it in the RTK receiver via DGPS update.
by myfonj | 2025-10-13 14:10:45+00:00
I've made something (probably) very similar for quick GB vs US pronunciation check that also leeches on Google's snapshot of what I believe is a licensed copy of the Oxford collection the same way the shell script does, but mine "runs in browser's URL bar" instead. It's a super tiny dataURI HTML document, intended to be bookmarked with a keyword (say, "say"):

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<title>US-GB pronunciation 2.0.2</title><body onload=x='https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/20160317/' text=snow bgcolor=black><button onfocus=click() onclick=a.src=x+i.value+'--_us_1.mp3';a.play()>US</button><input id=i placeholder=(shift+)tab value="%s"><button onfocus=click() onclick=a.src=x+i.value+'--_gb_1.mp3';a.play()>GB</button><audio id=a onplay=i.focus()></audio>

so when I do

Alt+D, "say something", Enter

then hitting Tab plays it in British and Shift+Tab plays it in US English. It uses older 2016 batch, because I totally adore the US voice in it: just listen to "music" [1] and tell it isn't pure ASMR.

(I'm afraid it just a matter of time they will prevent our mischief, though.)

[0] oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com uses the same collection. [1] https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/20160317/mu...
by tharkun__ | 2025-10-13 14:10:47+00:00
SVN was not fine. Branching took forever (all the copying). And the space that required ... In fact, lots of things took forever on large-ish repos. Remember that everything required the server and network and disk speeds were slower back then. And just a commit could destroy your work if you got stuck in a conflict resolution. So you'd have to copy all the files you changed to a backup just in case, then delete them if the resolution went OK etc.

Was it better than CVS in some way? Sure.

But git is just better in so many ways. Back in the day I used git exclusively with git-svn at a place that was still stuck with SVN and I had a blast, while everyone else didn't. I just never had any of the problems they did.

I'm not entirely sure what pain people speak of with git. I found the transition very natural. And don't come talking to me about the "weird command syntax". Some of that was specifically to be compatible / "intuitive" / what they were used to for people coming from tools like SVN.

Sure you gotta learn about "the index", understand that everything is local and that you have an origin and local copy of all the labels (also sometimes called branches or tags) you can attach to commits. That's about it for the normal and regular use that someone would've had with SVN.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-10-13 14:10:49+00:00
The social norm that we seem to be slowly stumbling into assumes a different state of affairs:

That the roadways ought to always be clear of anything but cars which are behaving normally, and that if you can keep a car in the lane then anything unusual which happens isn't the car driver's fault.

Debris, animals, children, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles, stopped cars, construction workers and their vehicles, and anything else in our complex world that may find its way into the road - these aren't visible to someone blinded by oncoming headlights at night, they don't register in the same way as a car in the peripheral vision of someone looking at their cell phone or touchscreen controls, they may not be detected by radar cruise sensors or lane centering cameras, they certainly won't register on a GPS navigation track...and in a collision, society increasingly blames the thing that wasn't ~~supposed to be there~~ *anticipated* to be there rather than the driver which crashed into the thing.

I recognize that the likely cause of this is simply the infrequency of those events. Spend a few thousand miles seeing little other than cars on the road, and it's easier for your brain to assume that cars are the only thing that can be on the road. But my skeptical, cynical, conspiracy-minded side wonders if some of this trend is encouraged by submarine marketing efforts from self-driving vendors - the problem gets a lot easier when your "autonomous" vehicle isn't at fault for hitting a pedestrian in the road and you can just follow a GPS track while sensing for 5000 lbs steel boxes following the same GPS track.
by newyankee | 2025-10-13 14:10:52+00:00
May be progress is as simple as making energy very cheap, ensuring a diverse manufacturing capability with most efficient methods while making sure 1 or 2 inputs do not bottleneck you.

Larger and bigger powers can control different parts of 'supply chain' (for lack of a better word) and make it difficult to progress without them getting a royalty. In their minds they are justified as they made progress first and others are simply copying their IP