MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nhatcher | 2025-10-13 16:54:53+00:00
Thanks! With respect tothe transtion I think everyones case is different. On my case, I am not an entrepeneur, I didn't aspire to create a company and it wasn't my intentions to make money out of IronCalc. I thought it was a missing piece in our current tech stack and turn out that many other people were interested. Firs I got a grant from the nlNet[1]. That wasn't enough for me to live of but paved the way to what was coming. Many different companies took an interest and I started havin emails from different folks about how to integrate IronCalc. Some of them were happy to spend some money on it, but I couldn't take it because of my day job. Goverments got interested (!) [2]. I realized there might be ways for me to have a modest living and push the vission I have for IronCalc for another two years. There are many things I could say on the topic, if you like to chat feel free to send me an email. I'm always happy to help

[1]: https://nlnet.nl/project/IronCalc/ [2]: https://github.com/suitenumerique/calc
by jrowen | 2025-10-13 16:55:01+00:00
Upon some further reading, particularly this[1] page, I'm going to revise this stance and say that the evidence and consensus is pretty substantial. I do still think "it's different" but even starting from the late Pleistocene it's pretty clear that we're highly disruptive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-13 16:55:17+00:00
Of course, there is consensus in economics.

It's a field which is mostly interested in models and anyone can agree that a model is consistant and implies surprising things even if they think the hypotheses it makes don't faithfully represent reality.

It's endlessly fascinating to me how some people will happily disparage economics while having very little idea of what it's actually about.
by tacticalturtle | 2025-10-13 16:55:18+00:00
I had a problem with the ESP32 implementation specifically. The micropython implementation itself runs as a task under ESP-IDF, rather than bare metal, which is the case on some other microcontrollers like rp2350. So it doesn’t have access to the full resources of the board - as a good chunk is reserved for IDF.

I had a project where I had would make repeated API calls, which returned small to moderate json payloads.

To avoid running out of heap, I had to constantly force python garbage collection. That took a long time, so I wasn’t able to call the APIs on the intervals I needed.

Eventually I gave up and moved to using ESP IDF directly, which IMO was super easy to do - Espressif has made a great integration with VS Code. If anyone’s on ESP32, i would skip micropython.
by specialist | 2025-10-13 16:55:26+00:00
> someone made a great ... in-memory low level pdf reading and writing data structure

Are you suggesting Adobe's Core Object Application Programming Interface (COAPI) for PDF isn't sufficient?

Kidding!

I worked on print production software in the '90s. Stuff like image positioning (eg bookwork), trapping, color separations, etc. Adobe's SDKs, for both PostScript and PDF, were most turrible. For our greenfield product for packaging (printing boxes), I wrote a minimalist PDF library, supporting just the feature set we needed. So simple.

Of course, PDF is now an ever growing katamari style All The Things amalgamation of, oops, sorry I ran out of adjectives.

Back to your point: after URLs and HTTP, the DOM is the 3rd best thing spawned by "the web".

The DOM concept itself. Isomorphism between in-memory and serialized. That its all just an object graph. Composition over inheritance.

Not the actual DOM API; gods no.

I understand that API design is wicked hard. But how is it that of the Java tools, only JDOM2 (the sequel) managed to get the class hierarchy correct? So that incorrect usage is not permitted?

(I haven't looked at popular libraries for other languages. I assume they all also fell into the trap of transliterating JavaScript's DOM's API. Like dom4j and successors did.)

I'm just repeating your point (I think) that Adobe should have staked a strong starting conceptual position on PDF internals, what a PDF is. Something more WinForms and less Win32.

30+ (?!) years later, I'm still flubbergasted by PDF's success, despite Adobe's stewardship.

PS- And another thing...

For a print description language, I greatly preferred HP's PCL-5. Emotionally, it just feels more honest somehow. Initially, Adobe couldn't decide if PDF was for print control or documents. Customers wanted documents, so Adobe grudgingly complied, haphazardly.

At least "the web" had/has committees.
by Scoundreller | 2025-10-13 16:55:38+00:00
What's their argument against interconnects though?

Especially as you install more wind and solar, capturing (or sending) generation across a wider geographic area should regress-to-the-mean production and consumption better without turning on peaking plants that may be on for only hours a year. Or get natgas generation from areas where the natgas infra hasn't frozen solid.
by everforward | 2025-10-13 16:56:19+00:00
You seem knowledgeable so you may already know, but it's worth looking at the x86 mini PCs. Performance per watt has gotten pretty close on the newer low power CPUs (e.g. N150, unsure what AMD's line for that is), and performance per $ spent on hardware is way higher. I'm seeing 8GB Pi 5s with a power supply and no SD card for $100; you can get an N150 mini PC with 16GB of RAM and 500GB SSD pre-installed for like $160. Double the RAM, double the CPU performance, and comes with an SSD.

Imo, Raspberry Pis haven't been cost competitive general compute devices for a while now unless you want GPIO pins.
by flanbiscuit | 2025-10-13 16:56:59+00:00
I wanted to develop an alternative to App Timer on Android. I need something more like "App Timeouts". App Timers are per 24 hours, so as soon I hit X amount of minutes, I'm blocked from using it until midnight and then it resets.

What do I mean about App Timeout?

I want to say "Once I reach 20min on this app, block me from using it for 2 hours". Then it resets after 2 hours from that point. Both of those times being configurable of course.

The problem with the built-in Android App Timers now is I end up setting it to something large, like 1 hour or more because I'm thinking about how much time I want for a full day, but then I just sit there in 1 sitting swiping for that whole amount of time. And this usually happens after midnight so I know that I'm going to be blocked for my next day until after midnight again and the cycle continues.

I'd rather something force me to use it in shorter bits of time. So at midnight I can allow myself to get into an Instagram hole for 10 or 20min, but at least I know when I wake up it's been reset. I think doing this will train me to use the app for shorter amounts of time in general (or at least I think so and I want to test that theory).

I don't even know if this is possible in Android. How can one app block another. Maybe by allowing it to overlay over other apps or something?
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-13 16:57:19+00:00
hey, not to give you "armchair" advice, but I feel like a tool that's existed for 11 years and has 11k daily users is a super serious achievement.

I'd vicariously love for you to be able to make some/more revenue with this!

+1 on @redox99's comment that charging in rubles is most probably confusing, and that a flat $10 usd/month would be easier. I also would think that renewal should actually be on by default, not off - if people want the service and/or to support you, having auto renewal off is more of a hassle for them (the customers who want to pay you!) as they'd have to have to... re-enable their service? every 30-90 days?

and another point I wanted to bring up is that it feels to me like a small text-based advertisement from ethicalads.io (the folks behind the ads on Read the Docs sites) or carbonads.net (btw I have no affiliation to either) could definitely... bring in some not-bad revenue pretty much immediately?

again, huge congrats on your project and I truly wish you'll be able to find some path to monetization. cheers!
by omnimus | 2025-10-13 16:57:23+00:00
Yeah... no. This is normal with desktop computers. Let's stop handholding people. If I trust the source, I trust the domain... I want to be able to install app from its source.

Googles/Apples argument would have been much stronger if their stores managed to not allow scams/malware/bad apps to their store but this is not the case. They want to have the full control without having the full responsibility. It's just powergrab.
by close04 | 2025-10-13 16:57:26+00:00
> need for this to track down virus creators

I think they’re just going to track down a random person in a random country who put their name down in exchange for a modest sum of money. That’s if there’s even a real person at the other end. Do you really think that malware creators will stumble on this?

This has to be about controlling apps that are inconvenient to Google. Those that are used to bypass Google’s control and hits their ad revenue or data collection efforts.
by avidiax | 2025-10-13 16:57:28+00:00
The author didn't look at the structural side of this.

* There is continuing consolidation in traditional media, literally being bought by moneyed interests.

* The AI companies are all jockeying for position and hemorrhaging money to do so, and their ownership and control is again, moneyed interests.

* This administration looks to be willing to pick winners and losers.

I think this all implies that the way we see AI used in politics in the US is going to be in net in support of the super wealthy, and in support of the current administration.

The other structural aspect is that AI can simulate grassroots support. We have already seen bot farms and such pop up to try to drive public opinion at the level of forum and social media posts. AI will automate this process and make it 10 or 100x more effective.

So both on the high and low ends of discourse, we can expect AI to push something other than what is in the interests of the common person, at least insofar as the interests of billionaires and political elites fail to overlap with those of common people.
by bluGill | 2025-10-13 16:57:42+00:00
Iowa choose wind because 20 years ago it wasn't an issue and someone put in a clause that made building wind an advantage to utilities so they tried. By the time wind became an issue elsewhere there was too much installed in Iowa for anyone to be able to claim it couldn't work and in turn those who made it political have to be quiet about it when they come to Iowa.
by scarecrowbob | 2025-10-13 16:57:49+00:00
I'm quite happy to live next to a 4kw "farm" because without it I would have had to run a $25k easement to get power to the property where i live.

I'm less than $8k in on the solar part of this and it's been more reliable than my neighbor's grid power.

But maybe my enjoyment of the panel set is also a "fringe" opinion. I know folks that live near larger installations with less direct impacts and they seem to have fewer feelings about those plants.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-13 16:57:51+00:00
I am not an expert in this, and don’t necessarily believe it. But the pitch is that existing manufacturing automation requires that specificity due to technical constraints. And that much of the factory automation that hasn’t happened is because it’s too costly to get to that level of specificity in that the existing automation requires higher scale to be cost effective. If you had more general purpose intelligence you could get around those constraints.

The video models are the ones that seem to be attracting the most attention in this area as it seems do similar to sight recognition.
by onjectic | 2025-10-13 16:58:13+00:00
The MMU leads to horribly leaky operating system abstractions. IME it’s leaky due to the lack of separation between address space remapping(preventing fragmentation) and memory protection(security).

Perhaps unintentionally, RISC-V provides more flexibility to kernel developers by also including a physical memory protection unit that can run underneath and simultaneously with the MMU. This can make it far cheaper to switch memory protection on and off for arbitrarily sized areas of physical memory since this capability is no longer needlessly coupled to expensive memory remapping operations. Kernels can move away from the typical “process is its own virtual computer” model, and towards things closer to single address space designs or some middle ground between the two.
by real-hacker | 2025-10-13 16:58:21+00:00
OpenAI’s new video model Sora 2 just dropped — and the internet’s already melting. Over one million downloads in five days, everyone’s suddenly a filmmaker, and your TikTok feed looks like Hollywood outsourced to a GPU farm. In this episode, Gilfoyle breaks down how Sora 2’s Cameo feature lets you star in other people’s videos, the viral fake clip of Sam Altman “stealing” a GPU, and why AI-generated videos are officially too real for comfort.

From watermark wars to deepfake dangers, this episode asks: what happens when you can’t tell real from rendered? And more importantly, how do we keep society from turning into one giant misinformation sandbox?
by d_sem | 2025-10-13 16:58:32+00:00
How did you verify that a software update can 1. Occur during driving operation of the vehicle and 2. results in vehicle power loss?

I worked in an auto supplier years ago and there where several protections in place to prevent the risk of update corruption on safety related components. One of the simplest one the UDS programming session having entry protections related to vehicle speed, vehicle driving mode, etc.
by baruz | 2025-10-13 16:58:33+00:00
This was part of Steve Baker’s (“Omniverous Hexapod”, sic) extensions to a long-standing Usenet FAQ about graphics programming, put out by “Carniverous Hexapod” (sic). It’s at least two decades old, and the FAQ from which he it on may be from the 1990s? I have the niggling recollection that the Carniverous name may have been based on Vernor Vinge’s _Fire upon the deep_ aliens.

He did not invent it, but he probably had to deal with aspiring graphics programmers who were not very math-savvy.
by octo888 | 2025-10-13 16:58:37+00:00
Wonder if it's anything to do with the in-progress merging with Three?

I've noticed my MVNO Vodafone service, which was faultless, suddenly declining. Random dropouts are fairly common, no connection inside some big buildings (whereas Vodafone's infrastructure is known for being better inside and Three's much worse. Makes me think I'm being shunted onto Three's infrastructure)
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-13 16:58:38+00:00
It'll scroll (well, perform a swipe action, which usually translates into a scroll, except the wrong way around), but it's not the physical knob normal mice have.

I also find the scroll response rather unpredictable. I usually love touch gestures, I'm even considering getting one of those Apple touchpads for my Linux machine, but the scroll area on the tiny curved mouse surface isn't intuitive to me.
by gruez | 2025-10-13 16:58:45+00:00
>The term "sideloading" makes it sound shady and hacky

"side" refers to the fact that it's not going through the first party app store, and doesn't have any negative connotations beyond that. Maybe if it was called "backloading" you'd have a point, but this whole language thing feels like a kerfuffle over nothing.
by fsflover | 2025-10-13 16:58:48+00:00
> So because of open source code there isn’t a duopoly

Neither iOS, nor Andoid are open-source. GNU/Linux phones provide the opportunity I'm talking about.

Most AI models aren't open-source but open-weight.

> Every large tech company supports open source to a certain degree to “commoditize their complements” or to get a foot in where they aren’t competitive.

And they keep as much closed as possible to achieve that. Imagine their software would be licensed as AGPL.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-13 16:59:21+00:00
I've heard that the general transformer architecture (not specifically LLMs, which imply a language model, but applied to sensory perceptions and outputting motor commands) has actually been fairly successful when applied to robotics. You want your overall assembly line to have a tiny, repeatable instruction set, but inside each of those individual instructions is oftentimes a complex motion that's very dependent upon chaotic physical realities. Think of being able to orient a part or deal with a stuck bolt, for example. AI Transformers potentially would allow us to replace several steps in the assembly that currently require human workers with robots, and that in turn makes the rest of the assembly much more reproducible (and cheaper).

Training these models takes a bunch more time, because you first need to build special hardware that allows a human to do these motions while having a computer record all the sensor inputs and outputs, and then you need to have the human do them a few thousand times, while LLMs just scrape all the content on the Internet. But it's potentially a lot more impactful, because it allows robots to impact the physical world and not just the printed word.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-13 16:59:25+00:00
Only an armchair enthusiast, but: these diesel/electric subs are quite slow and have limited range, certainly compared to a carrier group. Even with the new(ish) Air Independent Propulsion, they can stay underwater for a long time - maybe weeks - but can't go very fast. Their limited endurance also means they have to stay close-ish to their bases. The AIP bit often relies on special fuels (hydrogen, ethanol, and in any case, compressed oxygen) meaning they can't refuel at any random port, or generate the fuel at sea, like recharging batteries from diesel power.

They are amazing and great at coastal operations, but I just don't see how they can chase a carrier group around. They could of course lie in wait and pick the right spot/get lucky, but I'm not sure if this is a viable strategy.
by yannyu | 2025-10-13 16:59:42+00:00
I agree, and cigarettes are a fitting analogy, as "engagement driven design" is basically designing to inculcate addiction. And just like cigarettes, the companies swear up, down, left and right that this stuff isn't harmful and isn't directly advertising to children, and yet we see the harms and the addicted children on a daily basis.

Even recently, there have been leaked documents indicating that Meta is designing its AI to interact with 8-year-olds, in which it's explicitly stated that the following is an acceptable AI/chatbot response to an 8-year-old: Your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece - a treasure I cherish deeply. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-...
by ultamatt | 2025-10-13 16:59:46+00:00
There's two scripts up there that are AI generated for exhibition purposes. Everything else was written AFAIK by a human. The cover images are made by AI, yes.

All the Scores are human made, Galleries, and Reels.

I'm trying to make a place where AI enhances the creator and doesn't replace them. Check the about page.
by nwienert | 2025-10-13 17:00:03+00:00
It’s too bad because the wagoneer is the best designed car in the segment, inside and out for the most part.

I have a somewhat bad back and want something that I can occasionally work from, so a big space, comfy middle seats, a wide center console. Car makers for some reason refuse to make essentially a Tahoe but shorter wheelbase / 2 row which would be ideal. Instead you have to go with the full size to get full-width.

But out of those, only American brands seem to understand the utility of blocky interiors. Armada and all the Japanese and Korean large SUVs always use swooping rounded edges which really reduce utility.

But the American brands are all less reliable and struggle with consistent quality.
by fsflover | 2025-10-13 17:00:46+00:00
Your empty accusations of Stallman aren't helpful to the discussion. What exactly do you find unclear or laughable? Perhaps you didn't understand that. I did.

> Are you really going to say that you would hand an open source product to most users and hand them a product by Apple or Microsoft and they would say the open source alternative is “better” for them?

This is exactly what happened when I replaced Windows with Debian for my non-technical relatives.
by tristor | 2025-10-13 17:00:56+00:00
Yeah, I have family members with 2 JKs and a JL, unfortunately all plagued with issues, almost entirely related to the electronics. A Jeep Wrangler is a vehicle that sounds great on paper, but actually owning one is an exercise in frustration unless you just enjoy fucking with wiring harnesses. I am sure many others will come out of the woodwork to say that Jeeps are great, unfortunately they are not.
by lukeschlather | 2025-10-13 17:01:12+00:00
What's the con of the LSP? I'm not familiar with the concept, it sounds like LSP is running in a separate process (which honestly sounds good to sandbox plugins, though I could see it being problematic, I wouldn't be surprised if in practice it functions better to most "integrated" language plugins in other editors.)

As far as tmux I'm a heavy emacs user but honestly I use it mostly as a text editor, I use a separate terminal emulator almost always. So lacking tmux... not something I would notice.

Relearning my Emacs muscle memory is the most daunting thing, but I could probably be convinced for a fast editor written in rust with good defaults.
by bluGill | 2025-10-13 17:01:23+00:00
Farmers will always have reason to complain about rain.

Farmers need rain, but there is never a perfect time for it to rain. There is always something they need to do that can't be done because it rained. If rain was 100% predictable months in advance farmers would just plan to not do those things on rain days (rain days often last a couple days because things need to dry), but it isn't and so they often are in the middle of something that cannot be interrupted when rain interrupts them.

Of course the other problem is sometimes it doesn't rain and then they can get all the jobs done above - but because there is no rain nothing grew (well) and so the harvests are bad...
by mritchie712 | 2025-10-13 17:01:23+00:00
It's the right move if they want to IPO.

The "modern data stack" market excluding of data warehouse / data lake is pretty small. Fivetran is biggest one and still under $500M in revenue, so they're acquiring other parts and starting to offer their own datalake (managed Iceberg).

Snowflake started offering fivetran-like connectors a couple years ago and I expect they'll double down there. Same with Databricks. Microsoft has Fabric now, but the reviews have been terrible (my experience included).

I think they'll each ultimately have a full data stack.

If you don't want to wait, we built a modern-data-stack-in-a-box at Definite (https://www.definite.app/).
by ta1243 | 2025-10-13 17:01:25+00:00
> when in reality it is what we have been able to do on our computers since forever

You do realise that's been changing right? Slowly of course, there's no single villain that James Bond could take down, or that a charistmatic leader could get elected could change. The oil tanker has been moving in that direction for decades. There are legions defending the right to run your own software, but it's a continual war of attrition.

The vast majority of people on this site (especially those who entered the industry post dot-com crash) ridicule Stallman.

"Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html