MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sealeck | 2025-10-01 09:42:44+00:00
> Of course Dropbox is dumb when rsync exists. Of course og Twitter was dumb when group sms existed. Of course Bitcoin is dumb because...(waves hands in all encompassing disbelief).

Twitter/Dropbox offer more convenience to people: Bitcoin offers _less_. That's why people are using Bitcoin for two things: crime and speculation. People aren't buying houses with Bitcoin, they don't use it as a store of value (because it has extreme deflation), and they aren't doing their books using BTC as the currency.

What features/improvements does Bitcoin offer over the financial system? So far, the differences to me seem to be

- It's easy (or at least possible) to get a bank transaction reversed by going to court.

- If you forget your password, your bank can reset it and you don't lose all your money.

- When you transfer money using your bank, it arrives immediately in the recipient's account. When you transfer money using Bitcoin, it takes hours. The bank checks that the name matches the bank account number beforehand.

- If you get hacked, and the hacker tries to steal all your money, your bank's fraud detection system will kick in and stop this.

- Banks are regulated, and the currency is stable. This means that you can quote a price in USD, and do your accounting in USD, whereas very few people do their accounting in BTC.

- People have faith in fiat currencies because they have state backing, which means that the central bank will intervene to maintain price stability.
by quanto | 2025-10-01 09:44:39+00:00
What a great project.

What's interesting is that action tokens are learned from video. In other words, the training dataset does not include actions like "go left" and "go right"; and these actions are learned from the pixels that moved. This means that learned actions may not map exactly to the game actions available to the user. That means we (humans) cannot necessarily use this world model to play the game.

I suspect the inferred actions probably directly correspond to human-understandable actions; and after playing with the action tokens, a reasonable human can probably guess what, say, the third action token in the dictionary corresponds to ("jump"). This is likely as game actions are sparse (in both time and action spaces) and often independent/orthogonal (in action space).
by Aromasin | 2025-10-01 09:44:50+00:00
What one might contribute to malice can normally be attributed to ignorance. I think the political class in the UK is just completely bifurcated from the public (not as much as the Tories were, but more than I though Labour would be), such that every decision senior Labour leaders are making is lauded in progressively smaller circles they keep and they're oblivious to the reality of the situation. They just don't feel the condemnation of the general public. I think current Labour genuinely thinks their popularity is higher than it is polling, and that they're doing what people want.

To caveate this, I am a Labour member (with the goal of advising tech policy such that they don't send our tech industry off a sharp cliff). I've spoken to a few in the cabinet now about growth and industrial policy, and there's no appetite for engagement outside of their think-tanks. I go to the conferences today, and in contrast to the Tory government days where the main topic of conversation was "what do people want" and "how do we gain seats in the election", it's now all navel-gazing about how "well" their policies poll (vs how well the party does, as if they're the same thing). It's baffling how out of touch the current power brokers are regarding the danger Labour are in. There's rose-tinted glasses, and then there's obsidian-tinted horse blinders.
by bflesch | 2025-10-01 09:45:41+00:00
IMO you're making a valid point, because there seems to be a disconnect between AI and tangible human benefits. The ChatGPT-as-therapy train has been nerfed after the bad publicity, and it is force-fed to people at their workplaces through copilot.

I assume if you ask normal people how AI affects their lifes they'd think about annoying callcenter menus, deep fake porn and propaganda videos, and getting homework done. Not sure if any of this is a positive experience for the mind.

It's 2025 and most speech controls for car navigation don't work, Siri is a pile of sh*t and millionaires are trying to convince us that we should either use their AI or a google which has significantly reduced the quality of their search result pages.

It's like a false choice dilemma which allows back-to-the-roots companies such as Kagi to emerge, and I'm happy about it.
by liampulles | 2025-10-01 09:46:58+00:00
I'm not in any way stopping you from having half your fun there, be my guest. I personally find internet arguments to be a waste of time most of the time, but the internet is wide enough to accommodate both camps.

I propose to you that you should be in favor of a diverse internet, that is blogs that have comments sections, blogs that have likes, blogs that have neither, and blogs that do something else. That is probably the most enriching outcome.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-01 09:47:07+00:00
Tell that to all the landlords I have met during the last 20 years, easily is not a word that comes to mind.

Only my very first rental back in January 2005 wasn't required, however I would say either it wasn't as widespread, or I was very lucky getting the flat from a university student leaving the apartment and her father (the landlord) fancying me.

Most of folks on my friends circle have similar experiences.
by lou1306 | 2025-10-01 09:48:25+00:00
I recently started to look at this the other way around. A functional paradigm allows to describe very precisely what a function does through its type. In imperative languages, OTOH, the type signature of a function (which really should be called a procedure) only gives you little information to what happens when you call it, due to mutable state, side effects, etc.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-10-01 09:48:47+00:00
> You are naive if you think just funding the government is all they wanted.

This is literally what a clean CR does. It continues funding the government.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5529740-senate-democrats...

> “We are just 14 hours away from a government shutdown. The House has passed a clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution to fund the government until November the 21st. The president is ready to sign it. Senate Democrats are standing in the way,” Thune said on the Senate floor Tuesday morning.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-10-01 09:48:49+00:00
Agents have gotten better but I believe improvements will be costly from now on. Still, I fondly remember the first interactions and to a degree they still hold true:

Me: Hello AI, could you implement a solution for <problem>?

AI: Of course! Here you are: plonk.

Me: Is that a good solution?

AI: Absolutely not! Don't you dare solve it like this, you should do plonk...
by Krei-se | 2025-10-01 09:50:10+00:00
Nah im sorry. First: Any amount is bad. DO NOT DRINK.

Second, and this comment highlights it perfectly: The more serious problem is not the wine glass per week, it's that drinkers instantly try to "put things into perspective" regarding their own consumption. There are 0 addicts that tell you their honest consumption amount and thus it will continue to rise until you are at serious health hazards.

If you enjoy tricking your brain into releasing endorphins to feel good take up sports, watch a horror movie or engage in any kind of challenge.

Alcohol is poison and will cripple you.
by derangedHorse | 2025-10-01 09:51:17+00:00
> Company scrip, community currency, hawala have all existed for centuries.

All of these have the problem of centralized and permissioned issuance, where one entity can arbitrarily inflate the supply without the knowledge or consent of others.

> Also Bitcoin is also government controlled

In what way?

> It lacks the anonymity required to protect participants

This is false and does not make it government controlled. I’ll concede that there are many ways for one to lose privacy when using Bitcoin though.

> And it does nothing to prevent the centralisation of capital

The ‘centralization of capital’ isn’t an issue Bitcoin aims to solve. One of the big problems Bitcoin solves is the unjust accumulation of capital via arbitrary issuance (IORB, RRP, loans via newly created bank deposits, etc.)
by suzdude | 2025-10-01 09:52:44+00:00
Why are you getting so upset that "conservatives" don't value the things they claim not to value? You're ignoring the core argument, instead trying to play dumb "let's define the words".

The modern GOP opposes those ideas. If you want to contend that core argument, feel free. Otherwise:

> Education versus indoctrination

It's interesting you bring that up, considering the slide in outcomes is rather intense in areas with non-public forms of irrational indoctrination.

> journalist and a peddler of agitprop ... 'journalism' in the legacy media

And yet, Fox News, the largest and most popular Legacy Main Stream media player falls, very obviously into the later description of "agitprop".

> ask your latest supreme court justice

Ah. I do not posses a Supreme Court justice. I do not presume any justice is, "my", or "your" justice. It's rather reductive to refer to someone that way, especially a person of African American descent.

> Rinse and repeat, it is the 'progressive' side which uses terms like 'my truth' and 'your truth'.

Yeah. You cannot invalidate other people's personal experiences. That's, uh, pretty basic. Empathy is unpopular with some folks right now.

> I suspect they do not represent the political opinion of the majority of their potential voter base

That's rather true for the extreme maggots running executive branch, sure.
by tpm | 2025-10-01 09:53:21+00:00
> You don't have any problems with imperialism or wars, when you're not targeted by them personally

I do. And I don't agree it's normal human behavior - normal human behavior is also to feel some empathy for people you have never met. Or even for animals.

> If the war in Iraq did not change what people in, say, South America felt about the American culture

It did. Can't speak for South America (who probably have a more balanced view already) but it definitely changed the perception of American culture in Europe.

> why is the war in Ukraine supposed to have more impact on the same people and their attitude towards the Russian culture?

Every day the news are full of Russian indiscriminately killing Ukrainian civilians, children in their sleep, the Russian society is quiet about that or even cheering, and you are asking why that should have any impact on our attitude towards the Russian culture?
by kees99 | 2025-10-01 09:53:42+00:00
O365 and gmail should be honorably mentioned as places that will deliver both inbound and outbound to/from an IPv6-only MX.

A lot other servers will not play ball here. Your self-hosted mail server, if it lacks IPv4, will not get inbound from mailgun, mailjet, github; neither will it be able to send outbound to cisco/iphmx, as well as about 90% of small servers from what I see in my logs.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-01 09:54:46+00:00
> `free(NULL);` will crash on some platforms that gcc supports, I believe.

I'm pretty certain that `free(NULL)` is part of the C99 standard, so compiler vendors have had 25 years to address it.

If your `free(NULL)` is crashing on a certain platform, you probably have bigger problems, starting with "Compiler that hasn't been updated in 25 years".
by roylez | 2025-10-01 09:55:49+00:00
The ones that I use the most are designed to reduce context switching, like:

Mutt, personal wiki (fzf searching and neovim editing) and todo (a long never ending markdown file), they all have dedicated shortcut (cmd+m/cmd+z/cmd+d) to open(switch to) their window. These applications, always reside in the first tab with stack layout. For example, I can press cmd+m to switch to mutt (or open it), and press cmd+m again to switch back to the previously focused window.

Depending on which repl is running, I can usually open up vim to edit the line with the same cmd+e shortcut, which sends C-X C-E in bash/zsh, ESC O in iex, C-O in aichat ... Also vertical split in tmux and kitty tab share the same shortcut, cmd+|.

Kitty does not have a command palette, and I use fzf to search some of my frequently used operations and make this my command palette.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 09:55:55+00:00
> Statins in trials show benefits for secondary events, but for primary protection statins don't actually work that well.

This just simply isn't true and we have massive quantities of data pointing towards protection against major vascular events - even in people that we previously would have considered as having "normal" cholesterol. The NLA and AHA has been revising their guidelines to start getting people on statins sooner and to get levels lower for a reason - it works.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
by lennertjansen | 2025-10-01 09:56:41+00:00
@btown: Biggest difference: Airweave is infra for devs, i.e., connectors, sync, indexing (semantic + keyword), and a retrieval API/MCP designed with LLMs in mind as the consumers. You bring the agent/UI. Onyx is an end-to-end search app that owns the agentic reasoning layers that orchestrates their search. You can think of Airweave as a dev tool that you would use if you were building an agentic application, where Onyx is a good example of one.

On permissioning: we default to per-user syncs that adopt the permissions of the syncing user and mirror source ACLs (e.g., Drive items a user owns or that are sharedWithMe). In practice, founders avoid leaking private docs by either (a) having each user sync their own corpus, or (b) using a centrally-scoped token limited to Shared Drives/team folders and excluding personal “My Drive.” You can also keep separate collections and only expose cross-user search behind your own checks. We’re exploring richer org-level RBAC mapping on a per-customer basis (e.g., mapping Drive/SharePoint groups to index ACLs), but the above works today.

@Weves: Thanks, appreciate it!
Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?
by mpetyak | 2025-10-01 09:58:07+00:00
I’ve seen a few talks and blog posts about GraphRAG and graph databases (mostly from companies building graph databases), and I’m curious to hear about your experiences with them in the context of agentic applications.

I get how they could model relationships between entities more naturally and help agents pull relevant context faster, but does it actually make a big difference in your project?

I’m considering trying it out, but I’m sceptical that the benefits are that much bigger than just sticking with good-old Postgres.

Where have you found graph databases really made a difference? And were there cases where you wouldn’t use them again?
by re | 2025-10-01 09:58:53+00:00
> doesn't rsync already use content-defined chunk boundaries, with a condition on the rolling hash to define boundaries?

No, it operates on fixed size blocks over the destination file. However, by using a rolling hash, it can detect those blocks at any offset within the source file to avoid re-transferring them.

https://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/node2.html
by anthonj | 2025-10-01 09:59:31+00:00
It is an overfitted model thst use WiFi data as hints for generation:

"We consider a WiFi sensing system designed to monitor indoor environments by capturing human activity through wireless signals. The system consists of a WiFi access point, a WiFi terminal, and an RGB camera that is available only during the training phase. This setup enables the collection of paired channel state information (CSI) and image data, which are used to train an image generation model"
by xoa | 2025-10-01 09:59:40+00:00
No, it's entirely true despite you weirdly canvassing this thread spouting your lies. The Republicans have the majority. They can pass any budget they want, whenever they want, with no cooperation required. They (and you) now want to hide behind the figleaf of the filibuster again despite having mostly finished it's rightful gutting earlier this year, but that too is purely a Senate rule which can be tossed with 51 votes.

So it's on the GOP, 100%. If they want minority party votes, then they need to negotiate with said minority party duh. If instead they want to govern alone (which all actions and words indicate is true) then they must govern alone.
by lennertjansen | 2025-10-01 09:59:43+00:00
1. thanks for the feedback, testing it on a smartphone and changing that asap. 2. What about the pricing do you find complex? And what would make it easier to understand for you? Just want to add that you can just get an API key by using the free developer version or local instance (API-key is shown immediately in the top-right panel). You can also create more in your org settings

and ofc, feel free to reach out if your team needs help with setup
by imiric | 2025-10-01 10:00:19+00:00
This is interesting. Is it hypervisor-agnostic?

Ideally, I would like to use something like this without being forced to use a specific file system. This is essentially what qcow2 does, and it's a shame that it's not supported by all hypervisors. But then your implementation would need to be much more complex, and implement what CoW filesystems give you for free, so I appreciate that this is possible in 600 LOCs.

Also, your repo doesn't have a license, which technically makes it unusable.
by petercooper | 2025-10-01 10:00:20+00:00
OK, but if "audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience" then the AI versions won't steal business from the actors..

Yes, I'm being facetious, the reality is that audiences will watch that stuff, just like audiences will use AI generated apps or listen to AI generated music, and SAG-AFTRA knows that.
by u_sama | 2025-10-01 10:00:21+00:00
You are most certainly Western, or if not part of the educated and Western brought elites of the Global South. But I most certainly assure you that in the other grand civilizations, the idea you expounded is the standard and just as you feel this idea is the objectively right one, in the other societies with other codes and ethics (Confucian, Vedic/Buddhist, Islamic or non Western Christian), the people living in them have as strong attachment to those ideas as you do. For you the 2 most important values are equality and freedom (deeply liberal values) which are not the same elsewhere.

You also have to understand that just as you are imposing your ideas as "objectively right", in the other societies the other side is doing the same. Thus you are making a political take because it is a value judgement on how societies should operate. You might not like it or not but not only is it a value judgement incompatible with most people in the world, but it is also part of a faction inside your own arena (left wing coded Western politics)
by Voultapher | 2025-10-01 10:00:26+00:00
> Kent lost my support in the final weeks by constantly shouting that he was a champion for his users while doing the exact opposite of what I wanted him to do.

Honestly I don't think it's just you, I'm the same boat. I find it hard to believe that the entirely predictable outcome of the current situation is what more than 1% of users wanted.
by flowsynx | 2025-10-01 10:00:29+00:00
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by babel_ | 2025-10-01 10:01:14+00:00
> on top of C.

If we're referring to the "C is a subset of C++" / "C++ is a superset of C" idea, then this just hasn't been the case for some time now, and the two continue to diverge. It came up recently, so I'll link to a previous comment on it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268696). I did reply to that with a few of the other current/future ways C is proposing/going to diverge even further from C++, since it's increasingly relevant to the discussion about what C2y (and beyond) will do, and how C code and C++ code will become ever more incompatible - at least at the syntactic level, presuming the C ABI contains to preserve its stability and the working groups remain cordial, as they have done, then the future is more "C & C++" rather than "C / C++", with the two still walking side-by-side... but clearly taking different steps.

If we're just talking about features C++ has that C doesn't, well, sure. RAII is the big one underpinning a lot of other C++ stuff. But C++ still can't be used in many places that C is, and part of why is baggage that features like RAII require (particularly function overloading and name mangling, even just for destructors alone)... which was carefully considered by the `defer` proposals, such as in N3488 (recently revised to N3687[0]) under section 4, or in other write-ups (including those by that proposal's author) like "Why Not Just Do Simple C++ RAII in C?"[1] and under the "But… What About C++?" section in [2]). In [0] they even directly point to "The Ideal World" (section 4.3) where both `defer` and RAII are available, since as they explain in 4.2, there are benefits to `defer` that RAII misses, and generally both have their uses that the other does not cleanly (if at all) represent! Of course, C++ does still have plenty of nice features that are sorely missing in C (personally longing for the day C gets proper namespaces), so I'm happy we always have it as an option and alternative... but, in turn, I feel the same about C. Sadly isn't as simple to "just use C++" in several domains I care about, let alone dealing with the "what dialect of C++" problem; exceptions or not, etc, etc...

[0]: https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3687.htm [1]: https://thephd.dev/just-put-raii-in-c-bro-please-bro-just-on... [2]: https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its...
by uncircle | 2025-10-01 10:01:15+00:00
I’ve been in an existential crisis after reading Postman and I’ve since reframed the whole dilemma thusly: one of the highest aspirations for a person is the act of creation, and the result one can often call art.

What is wrong is instead the routine consumption of art created by others in a stupor to rest from the drudgery of daily work.

Create art, don’t waste your life consuming.
by InfiniteLoup | 2025-10-01 10:01:48+00:00
>Like Kim Peek or Scott Flansburg?

Interesting cases, thanks for sharing. I didn't know what real-life inspiration the movie "Rain Man" came from. However, the two people seem to be worlds apart socially. While Peek seems to be extremely "stunted" in his social development, Flansburg appears to be coping well with his position as a speaker, which I always thought to be rather unusual for people with autism spectrum disorder.
by tfgg | 2025-10-01 10:01:58+00:00
> BTW the reporter looks like Cotten Hill if he was real, and actually fought in all those wars. I'm quite surprised they had him hosting the video. I'm curious what decisions led to this.

I hope positively surprised :) That's Paul Carter - he's a regular presenter on the BBC, particularly their tech show "BBC Click". Here's a nice interview (https://disabilityhorizons.com/2019/09/paul-carter-journalis...) he gave to Disability Horizons a few years ago about his experiences.