MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by svieira | 2025-10-06 20:51:21+00:00
In brief, the thesis of this video is: 'the machine is the cycle of advertising dollars paying for "engagement" rather than anything more meaningful. This leads to optimizing for "engagement" which results in the creation of polarization rather than the polarization happening first and the unpleasantness afterwards. Notice the machine. Talk about the machine. Then we can decide what to do about it.'
by tptacek | 2025-10-06 20:51:36+00:00
I mean, if you're putting me in the same camp as Mark Dowd, I'm flattered.

What I think you're not seeing is that this isn't a SIKE vs. Lattice kind of debate; it's a Curve25519 vs. P-256 kind of debate. P-256 was never broken. Curve25519 made smart engineering decisions that for years foreclosed on some things that were common in-the-real-world implementation pitfalls. P-256 has closed that gap now, but for the whole run of the experience they were both sane choices.

That's a generous interpretation. Another parallel would be Rijndael vs. Serpent, where the Serpent advocates were all "I don't know about this Rijndael stuff seems dicy". Turned out: Rijndael was great.

But Bernstein wants you think that rather than a curve-selection type debate, this is more akin to a "discrete log vs. knapsack" debate. It isn't.
by benjiro | 2025-10-06 20:51:47+00:00
Yep, those are the original / older gen sats, that have way less capacity then the newer models. They are moving away from tons of small sats and more to larger (with longer life time) sats that have multiple times the capacity, of the combined smaller sats.

Quoting a older post i made on the subject:

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Take in account, that a lot of those are replacement sats for the first generations that they are deorbiting already. Do not quote me on this, but its a insane amount (i though it was around 2k) of the first generation that they are deorbiting. If there is a issue, its not the amount of sats in space, but more the insane amount of deorbiting StarLink is doing.

Starlink wanted to put up insane numbers, but a lot of their fights contain a large percentage of replacement sats.

And they are getting bigger ... v1.5 is like 300kg, the v2.0 mini (ironic as its far from mini compared to its predecessors) are 800kg.

So before StarLink launched 60x v1.5's but now they are doing 21x v2.0 Mini's per launch.

The technology has been improving a lot, allowing for a lot more capacity per satellite. Not sure when they start launching v3's but those have like 3x the capacity for inner connects/ground stations and can go up to 1Gbit speeds (compared to the v2's who are again much more capable then multiple v1.5s).

So what we are seeing is less satellites per launch but more capacity per sat. This year is the last year that they are doing mass 1.5 launches, its all now going to the v2.0 "mini" (so 3x less sats).
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-06 20:51:58+00:00
> They have zero standards for anything. The cars probably do poorly in crashes

That might have been true a decade+ ago, but in recent years, nearly every car coming from China makes it to the top of the Euro NCAP rankings [1]. The current top 10 standing for 2025 is:

1. Model 3 (DE) 2. Firefly / Nio 3. Smart #5 4. Lynk & Co 02 5. Polestar 3 6. Zeekr 7x 7. Togg T10x (TR) 8. IM IM6 9. Audi A6 (DE) 10. Voyah Courage

7/10 are from China. The list goes on with even cheaper models from BYD/Vinfast/etc outperforming most of the classic automakers. The Nio ET5 from 2023 is still one of the safest cars ever made, and it was evaluated right at the time the EU introduced much stricter safety regulations.

[1] https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ra...
by perching_aix | 2025-10-06 20:52:22+00:00
That post immediately came to my mind too! Do you maybe have a comparison to share with respect to the specialized compressor mentioned in the OP there?

> Grace Blackwell’s 2.6Tbp 661k dataset is a classic choice for benchmarking methods in microbial genomics. (...) Karel Břinda’s specialist MiniPhy approach takes this dataset from 2.46TiB to just 27GiB (CR: 91) by clustering and compressing similar genomes together.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-06 20:52:26+00:00
> they do not offer a clear path to citizenship for folks who have been here for multiple decades, who are productive members of society, who have obeyed (non immigration) laws and paid tax to the American government.

The question of whether it is good to give a path to citizenship for people who immigrated illegally and have lived illegally in the US for many years is a major point of partisan political disagreement in the US. There are huge numbers of people who think that it is very bad that these illegal immigrants weren't arrested and deported many years ago, and want immigration enforcement to make up for the lax polcies of previous administrations, not give a path to citizenship to people who were by law not allowed to be present in the US to begin with.

> Also, unilaterally revoking Temporary Protected Status for folks is also a bridge too far. Those were originally issued by Obama for very valid reasons - the catastrophic 2010 earthquake and later humanitarian crises.

If you think that the presence of people given Temporary Protected Status many years ago by a previous president is bad for the united states, then not only do you want your elected officials to remove this temporary protected status, you probably want your legislators to repeal the law giving presidents the authority to grant this status at all. In any case, there are many voting citizens in the US who clearly do not believe it is a bridge too far, and want the president to revoke this status and not offer it in the future.
by fragmede | 2025-10-06 20:52:32+00:00
Needing an app for every different charger's owner is terrible. They're shooting their own feet with that one. It should be as simple as a gas station. Drive up, swipe credit card, and pump watts. (To their credit, some of them are now.) What I think is a bigger problem though is that the non-Tesla options just aren't well integrated. Tesla doesn't let you use Android/Apple integration, and they have their own navigation . This is annoying to some, but their built in navigation accounts for the battery level. It tells you how much charge you've got, how much you'll have when you get there, and if it's not enough, it guides you towards all possible charging options along your route, and, knowing that, preconditions the battery for being charged when you get to the charger. This makes what infrastructure there is, way more useful. Because charging takes longer and is more sparse than gas stations, it's a necessary integration. My limited experience with non-tesla EVs says they don't have that level of integration, which is a whole problem, but I'd love to hear other's experiences there.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-06 20:53:10+00:00
Isn't Tesla Fremont widely considered a failure?

The Model S was an expensive car with a bad reputation for quality. Then in 2017 they introduced the Model 3 and their "Alien Dreadnought" automation. That significantly delayed mass production of the Model 3 and almost bankrupted the company.

Tesla turned things around by building a factory in Shanghai, and learning how to build a car from the Chinese. They then basically copied the Shanghai factory to Germany.
by moralestapia | 2025-10-06 20:54:08+00:00
>I was a prominent user and developer for Flash/Flex content

I was as well. It wasn't as bad as people describe it. It was an amazing platform, HTML5 just recently caught up.

In retrospective, Adobe should have open sourced it.

>MS's Silverlight/XAML was close

Hahahahahha, yeah sure! That tells me everything I need to know.
by red2awn | 2025-10-06 20:54:17+00:00
I am learning to write LLM pipelines using the Modular MAX inference framework. As a starting point I got GPT-2 working after reading through "The Illustrated GPT-2", Karpathy's nanoGPT codebase and existing models in the Modular repo. The MAX framework does require a lot of boilerplates and not designed to be very flexible, but you do gain awesome performance out of the box.
by devnulled | 2025-10-06 20:54:25+00:00
If you think of it more of in the context of making it easy for people other than you and your bespoke machine to bootstrap a project, that's where it really shines. The toml config is very simple for people to understand.

I use it because I want people to be able to get projects up and running quickly without having to comb through an outdated README, trying to deal with all of the different ways people like to install and use non-compiled languages, etc. Managing anything Node/Ruby/Python is all annoying.
by monster_truck | 2025-10-06 20:54:34+00:00
I've done the nomad thing from months to years. Not always intentionally! Had moved cross country anticipating a company move weeks later, then the pandemic happened and it became years. Trying to do it inexpensively will be painful, compromising on ability or quality will lead to frustraiting failures and limitations.

My loadout was very similar, though I had more clothes and music gear because I was strictly living inside. "Golfing" backpacks that are insulated are very underrated, think the capacity was closer to 15.5L. They don't really make them to accomodate 17" laptops anymore, and you shouldn't have one that big, but the extra space in the sleeve is great. Strong endorsement for American Giant! Especially the heavy zip up hoodies, running pants, and shirts, some of which I've had for almost 20 years at this point, and Oddball socks (if you have big feet).

They aren't for everyone, but the rather thin/rough gym-style towels are great as you can get 3 into the space of a normal one once you've mastered rolling your shit up and they dry quick. When your boxer briefs inevitably wear out, cutting the band off and using them to constrain other things while the leftover cloth makes for great snot/cleaning rags. Save your plastic grocery bags, they're useful for so much and compact well.

Cannot understate how much better this makes air travel. Can still be shoved under the seat in front of you. No checked bags or secondary carryons removes so much potential for bullshit. As the bag is still soft, you have to be deliberate with where you pack things or you will crush them. You'll want to consider the placement of electronics TSA is going to make you pull out, and expect secondary screening. The density of shit in the bag tends to cause this if they're still using old xray machines instead of that new 360 degree shit.

I ended up also lugging around a workstation and monitor. It was worth the logistical pain and my new limit became "fits into the trunk of a rental sports coupe", avoiding planes was worth while everything was still ongoing. I would not attempt doing this with modern Apple Silicon. Can't stand what mac os has become and there are too many caveats. Any high end ryzen laptop with an nvidia gpu is preferable. If you do anything in/with multimedia or streaming, you'll be thankful the first time you can lean on it as an encoder (and the USB 3.2 port will actually be able to handle the throughput of a Magewell USB capture card).

Hard to undersell the 'freeing' aspect. If wherever you are sucks, for whatever reason, it doesn't take much time to be packed and gone. It's not for everyone. Have met some fantastic lifelong friends from couch surfing and renting rooms listed on craigslist, which is vastly superior to AirBNB, where I encountered scams so frequently that I swore them off entirely.

It changes you, too. Once you settle again you'll realize what you really care about.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-06 20:54:38+00:00
> the tailored browsing methods already in place are the results of years of careful design and battle testing

Have you ever worked in a corporation? Do you really think that Windows 8 UI was the fruit of years of careful design? What about Workday?

> but it is bizarre that so many businesses seem to be discarding battle tested UXes for chatbots

Not really. If the chatbot is smart enough then chatbot is the more natural interface. I've seen people who prefer to say "hey siri set alarm clock for 10 AM" rather than use the UI. Which makes sense, because language is the way people literally have evolved specialized organs for. If anything, language is the "battle tested UX", and the other stuff is temporary fad.

Of course the problem is that most chatbots aren't smart. But this is a purely technical problem that can be solved within foreseeable future.
by bshep | 2025-10-06 20:55:01+00:00
The pharmacies issue is a constant problem: patient lives out of town so prescription is sent to his home pharmacy at his request, on the day of discharge he realized his pharmacy is closed and wants them sent to a local pharmacy, of course this always happens at 5pm when you are driving in traffic, the patient is angry because they want to leave but there is not much you can do. This happens very frequently, doesnt matter if you ask ahead of time for the patient to confirm the pharmacy, something inevitably happens.

The other issue is peer to peers and prior authorizations, these take up a significant amount of time and are essentially ways the insurance companies put barriers to care and reduce their costs.

I think some of your ideas could work but good luck getting anything past the politicians, some of these things would be expensive and others would be unpopular to those that donate to the politicians.
by naasking | 2025-10-06 20:55:12+00:00
> Countries are indeed fictional, and the misplaced belief that they are in some way a natural reality is a significant part of what leads people to start talking about killing each other in the name of their country.

No, people kill each other because others have things they want, countries are just a means of organizing such endeavours, but let's not go on that tangent.

The point of accepting that we all depend on fictions shows that real vs. fictional is not a meaningful measure of healthy vs. unhealthy, and the latter is what we should actually care about, not the former.

> Thinking a fictional character on your computer screen is a life relationship partner is a slip away from reality that is surely a mental illness.

You're just arguing for fictions that are the status quo as if they're "healthy" without having to do the hard work of proving they're actually healthy, or the new "virtual" thing is actually harmful.

The distinction of real vs. fiction is simply not relevant, what's healthy or unhealthy is what's relevant, but you don't get to call it unhealthy without empirical evidence to support such an assertion which is why you're trying to fall back on calling it "not real", and leaving "not real implies unhealthy" implicit. Except "not real implies unhealthy" is false.
by vortex_guardian | 2025-10-06 20:55:30+00:00
The integration of AI with Spine animation is technically impressive, particularly the auto-rigging feature which addresses a traditionally challenging task. However, I'm curious about the accuracy of the bone structure generation for non-standard characters and how often manual adjustments are necessary. Additionally, the quality of retargeting animations to varying character proportions and the diversity of the animations I can imagine must be challenging
by benjiro | 2025-10-06 20:55:53+00:00
> (They’re currently “around 260 and 310 kilograms” [2].)

v1.5 is like 300kg, the v2.0 mini (ironic as its far from mini compared to its predecessors) are 800kg.

The V3's are the one's that need StarShip to deploy. But the current launch platform can take 21x v2.0 Mini's per launch vs the 60x v1.5's they did before.

Taking in account that the v2.0 Mini's are way more capably on a kg/capacity. And the tech keeps getting better. SpaceX does not really need Starship, that is more or less a bonus at this point.
by dang | 2025-10-06 20:56:08+00:00
Related. Others?

The Nine Billion Names of God - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753679 - June 2024 (1 comment)

The Nine Billion Names of God - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478441 - June 2023 (1 comment)

The Nine Billion Names Of God (2021) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35418017 - April 2023 (42 comments)

The Nine Billion Names of God (1953) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21638526 - Nov 2019 (1 comment)
by nunobrito | 2025-10-06 20:56:33+00:00
Well, well. Kind of surprised to see this really good tool that should have been made available a longer time ago since the approach is quite sound.

When the data container is understood, the deduplication is far more efficient because now it is targeted.

Licensed as BSD-3-Clause, solid C++ implementation, well documented.

Will be looking forward to see new developments as more file formats are contributed.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 20:56:58+00:00
They (China) aren't great on upholding their regulations.. not to mention the level of subsidies and meddling that China does with their own corporations is far beyond what any nation in the world would do for the most part. From state sponsored corporate espionage to simply cornering markets, China will not compete fairly.

I'm less than convinced the solution is for the US to play the same games. I'm rather against it altogether.
by Animats | 2025-10-06 20:57:16+00:00
Here's the whole story of the Dempster Dinosaur.[1] Detailed explanation of how the clever, tough, and not too complex mechanisms that load and unload debris boxes work. Discussion of why the obvious approach with cables and winches was not very good, although it did work.

It's an insight into good classical mechanical engineering.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xs-kqJq0
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 20:57:27+00:00
> It's an expression lol

I don't like it and don't find it endearing or persuasuve.

> which is your crutch for "elections" and "third terms" being protected procedure

I'm not sure what you mean by "protected procedure". My point is just that it's blatantly obvious to everyone that Trump cannot run for a third term, and if the Supreme Court says he can, that would be equivalent to the Supreme Court saying that black is white or night is day, a bald-faced lie. I doubt they would, though.

If Trump attempted to remain in power, it would no doubt be via some kind of contrived emergency, martial law, state of "war", and not via running for election again, which nobody is going to accept, not even Republicans.

> there are currently unconstitutional Supreme Court rulings being honored

Yes, but that's true of many rulings, even before Trump took office.

> you acted - slightly arrogantly in fact - as if it wasn't a valid retort

A link is not a retort, valid or invalid.

> you falsely motioned that his link to Trump v. US wasn't complimentary to his position

No, I said that a link by itself is not an argument. The relevance and applicability of the link needs to be explained.
by xp84 | 2025-10-06 20:57:36+00:00
Agree with 95% of this. The only slight tweak id make is that the banks did err in assuming the value of the homes being used as collateral could not tank. Setting aside for a moment the reality of pretty rapid sales of the note to another entity, in general, it shouldn’t matter very much to the bank if you’re able to pay the loan back, assuming that their predictions are correct about the value of the home, and assuming as well that you don’t physically destroy it. Either they get their money or they get to sell the house and get their money.
by naasking | 2025-10-06 20:58:48+00:00
> Ai relationships are different because they don’t exist in the mind of the ai. There’s no mind there’s an architecture that does not even attempt to simulate a mind.

Even setting aside the question of AI minds, I fully accept that an AI relationship is different. How does it then obviously follow that this is bad or unhealthy for the human though? This part just doesn't follow from anything stated thus far.

The other fictions that we've normalized can be both bad and good, depending on the circumstances.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-10-06 20:59:52+00:00
>are funded with tax-payer money

This has nothing to do with profitability. DoD/War Dept contracts are "tax payer money" and shareholders are happy to have those.

>it is actually cheaper to run 10 KILOMETERS / 6 Miles of Fiber cable through the jungle

Cheaper, sure. But try getting this approved in the US through a County Planning Commission. And you did get NEPA/CEQA done too right?

>No, not rural USA. Fiber will be cheaper.

My not-that-rural town has fiber only 80% of town. Houses with city sewer/water don't have fiber
by moralestapia | 2025-10-06 21:00:17+00:00
You ignore the state of things back then.

HTML5 was new and not widely supported, the web was WAY more fragmented back then, to put things in perspective, Internet Explorer still had the largest market share, by far. The only thing that could provide the user with a rich interactive experience was Flash, it was also ubiquitous.

Flash was the biggest threat to Apple's App Store; this wasn't a conspiracy, it was evident back then but I can see why it is not evident to you in 2025. Jobs open letter was just a formal declaration of war.
by marbro | 2025-10-06 21:00:21+00:00
In the United States, the government deliberately creates a shortage of medical residencies through a longstanding cap on federal funding for graduate medical education, primarily administered via Medicare. Residencies represent the essential postgraduate training phase that new medical school graduates must complete to become licensed physicians, yet the vast majority of these positions are financed by Medicare payments to teaching hospitals. This funding mechanism traces back to the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which Congress passed amid concerns over a perceived surplus of physicians at the time. The act froze the number of Medicare-supported residency slots at their 1996 levels, effectively limiting hospitals to reimbursements for a fixed quota of resident positions without adjustments for population growth or expanded medical school enrollment. As a result, while the number of U.S. medical school graduates has surged by over 30% since the late 1990s to meet rising healthcare demands, the pool of federally funded residency spots has remained largely stagnant, creating a persistent bottleneck that prevents thousands of qualified applicants from advancing into practice each year.

This cap not only constrains overall physician supply but exacerbates shortages in critical areas like primary care and rural medicine, as hospitals hesitate to expand programs without guaranteed reimbursement. Recent legislative efforts, such as the bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act, seek to add thousands of new slots over several years, but until such reforms pass, the 1997 policy continues to throttle the pipeline of trained doctors, leaving patients with longer waits and uneven access to care.
by VonGuard | 2025-10-06 21:00:32+00:00
Been saying it for YEARS: 95% of VPNs sell your data. It's where they make their money. It's absolutely insane the push-back I get when I say this online. I get downvoted to hell and back.

Source: I bought this data from VPN companies... Hell, you can inject ads and surveys if you want!