MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danabramov | 2025-10-04 13:28:40+00:00
I tried to make a pretty extensive case for it at https://overreacted.io/open-social/#open-social, I'd suggest reading it with an open mind to form an opinion. I think there's quite a few interesting aspects there, like apps being able to "piggyback on" data from other apps.

I wouldn't call AT a "reinvention" of the web, personally I see it as a minor bump that codifies some conventions that let apps interoperate while keeping the source of user data outside those apps. New products can be started from data of other (even defunct) products and remix it. That's pretty powerful.
by kevincox | 2025-10-04 13:29:51+00:00
FWIW. We saw this and I started experimenting. A simple case of copying our production database locally a few times. About 1 in 4 times the local database was corrupted after running it. I also experienced very strange command line parsing bugs and different behaviour depending on the name of the local database file.

So I would treat sqlite3_rsync as more of a demo than a stable product right now.

Litestream provides near-real-time offsite replication and point in time recovery, which sqlite3_rsync won't do on its own. You could probably build a litestream-like product based on sqlite3_rsync but it probably won't be as fast or as efficient on storage.
by specialist | 2025-10-04 13:29:52+00:00
No, I do not.

I also know that policy and legislation cannot be moved forward without them. Realpolitik.

Further, there may be an opportunity to mix-up the current coalitions. Checkout the "Montana Housing Miracle". NIMBY vs YIMBY is old vs young, not right vs left. With the reactionary nativists crashing the economy (again), the business members of the current ruling coalition are getting grumpy. Let's drive a wedge between the trogs and the merely greedy. Again, Realpolitik.

I also demand some kind of plan or strategy to address lack of housing and climate crisis. From experience, advocacy is easier than opposition. If not Abundance, then what's the plan?

Lastly, we are completely out of time. Land use and housing are the biggest (missing) components of any USA strategy for addressing climate crisis. I, the most left-wing person you're ever likely to meet, no longer have the luxury of partisanship. So I don't care how the things we need get built.

If we survive until 2050 (and beyond), our kids (and grandkids) can carry on the revolution.
by coldtea | 2025-10-04 13:30:00+00:00
>Why hasn't evolution turned the dial up another couple of notches?

Because evolution doesn't care about us beyond reproduction age (after which is when most cancers occur, especially considering that historically that age was between say 16 and 35).

Or even better phrased, because evolution doesn't care or plan at all, it's a blind mechanism.

If a local minimum is ok, we'll stay there for as long as some environmental or other evolutionary pressure gets to move us further.

Cancer wasn't a big issue for most of our existance as species, especially with lower life expectancies, more active lifestyles, zero obesity, zero pollutants, etc.

In evolutionary terms, modern lifestyles are not even a blip, especially post-industrial ones which don't even register.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-04 13:30:41+00:00
Sure, no problem, I actually had this conversation with somebody a few months ago. He's an Israeli Arab, not a Gazan Arab, but they are both Sunni Muslims. The conversation was in Hebrew, though I often speak with Arabs in Arabic as well. I spend much time interested in their culture and language - Israelis and Westerners know almost nothing about them.

Firstly, legal authority lies only with God. Not with man, as in Jewish and Christian societies (his comparison, not mine, and yes he mentioned Christians for some reason even though his town does not have Christians). There is no decision of man about what is permitted and what is not - even if the majority in a democracy want it. Allah has revealed what is good and just for man, even though he emboldened man with other desires and temptations.

Another problem with democracy in Arab society (not Muslim society as the previous paragraph dealt with) is how would voting even work. Two women's votes would be needed for every man's votes. He specifically said that this is an Arab problem, not a Muslim problem. And he says that women should not vote anyway, nor should children whose father is still alive, because they can only vote for who the father or husband says. Secret voting does not change that.

Another problem is Jews will manipulate the voting, or the results. Or any voting results the party doesn't like, will be blamed on Jewish intervention. I think he means Israeli intervention but those are his words.

That's just from some store owner I was talking to. You can choose to decide that he doesn't represent anybody. But he is a Sunni Muslim who lives a half hour drive from Gaza city.
by mg | 2025-10-04 13:32:14+00:00
Hey, cool to meet someone who went down a similar avenue. BubbleRings also looks like a real fun startup.

It used to be a form without typeaheads for years on Gnoosic too.

I never manually fixed typos, but I have put quite some work into making the system figure them out on its own. For example by asking people "Hey, you entered 'The Beatled' which sounds a lot like the popular band 'The Beatles'. Could it be you meant 'The Beatles'?" and then offering buttons for yes/no etc.
by frumiousirc | 2025-10-04 13:32:49+00:00
> What we really need is a way to fetch walled garden and rss content into a maildir, and then our mail clients will do the rest.

Inspired by your comment I tried blending together rss2email, Maildir, notmuch and gnus. While it all "works" the RSS feed content comes through in markdown'ish (?) markup. The flowers are out of the garden but they are all a bit wilted.
by navar | 2025-10-04 13:33:47+00:00
I believe it's because the way you measure things in RL, each episode only tells you whether it was good (say reward +1) or bad (say 0 or negative reward), it does not tell you anything about the trace that was produced to get the outcome. This reward is the only thing measured to produce your gradients. Hence why the amount of info in it is O(1).

This is in contrast to more "supervised" forms of learning where you could get a loss for each token produced (e.g. cross entropy loss), and where you'd get, as a consequence O(number of tokens) information into your gradients.
by mallowdram | 2025-10-04 13:33:54+00:00
I develop copyright material from the letter and the images that I've both sold to studios and own myself. Copyright lengths are there to prevent the shareholder class from rapid exploitation. Once copyright declines to years not decades, shareholders will demand that be exploited rather than new ideas. The public conversation is rather irrelevant as the layperson doesn't have a window into the massive risk, long-term development required to invent new things, that's how copyright is not a referendum, it's a specialized discourse. Yes the idea of long-term copyright developed under work-for-hire or individual ownership can be easily summarized. License, sample, or steal. Those are the windows.
by agentcoops | 2025-10-04 13:34:08+00:00
Same. I note in-advance that I'm not sure whether you yourself are referring to use of LLM tools in your research or rather the results of your own domain specific application of deep learning etc -- here, I assume the former.

I feel like the common refrain of most LLM success stories over the past year is that these tools are of significantly greater help to specialists with "skin in the game", so to speak, than they are to complete amateurs. I think a lot of complaints about hallucinations reflect the experience of people who aren't working at the edge of a field where they've read all the existing literature and there simply aren't other places to turn for further leads. At the frontier, moreover, the probability that there exists a paper or book that covers the exact combination of topics that interests you is actually rather low; peer discussions are terrific, but everyone is time-starved.

Thus I find the synthetic ability of LLMs to tie together one's own field of focus with those you've never thought about or are less familiar with to be of incomparable utility. On top of that, the ability to help formulate potential hypotheses and leads -- where of course you the researcher are ultimately going to carry out the investigation or, in the best case, attempt to replicate results. Conversely, when I'm uncertain of my own conclusions, I often find myself feeding the best LLM I have access to the data I reasoned from to see whether it independently gets to the same place. I'm not concerned about hallucinations because I know there's nobody but me ultimately responsible for error -- and, at the fringe of knowledge, even a total fabrication can inspire a new (correct) approach to the matter at hand.

I think if I had to succinctly describe my own experience it would be that I never get stuck any more for days, weeks, months without even a hint of where to turn next.

Related, there's an ancient Palantir blog post (2010!) that always stuck in my memory about a chess tournament that allowed computers, grandmasters, amateurs and any combination of the above to enter [0]. At that time, the winning combination turned out to be amateurs with the best workflow for interfacing with machine. The moral of the story is probably still true (workflow is everything), but I think these new tools for the first time are really biased towards experts, i.e. the best workflow now is no longer "content neutral" but always emerges from a particular domain.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120916051031/http://www.palant...
by thechao | 2025-10-04 13:34:27+00:00
Assuming approximately 0 commercials in 1920 with a runtime of 110 minutes -> 140 minutes. I'm trying to decide if there's 30 minutes of commercials, or not? I'm thinking about the standard sitcom (TV) commercial density which is a 23-24m show with 6-7m of commercials (25–33%). So... 30m seems in range?
by dotancohen | 2025-10-04 13:34:50+00:00
> First problem: not Israel's to give.

Why not? It was part of Mandatory Palestine, lost to Jordanian occupation in the war for independence, and in 1967 recovered by Israeli forces in the same manner that Jordanian forces took it in the previous war. It had a Jewish population for the past 3,000 years, the only exception being the 19 years that the Jordanians held it because the Jordanians ethnically cleansed the area upon conquering it. At what point in this timeline do the Israelis lose claim to the area, or what have I misrepresented in the timeline?
by ath3nd | 2025-10-04 13:36:48+00:00
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power"

Is a quote often wrongly attributed to Mr. Fascism Benito Mussolini himself, but whoever said it had made a damn good point. Be aware that what you are seeing now fits the exact and precise definition of fascism.

It's amusing seeing the US descend so quickly in pure unadulterated fascism and the amount of denial and attempts to sugar coat it or window dress in places like HN. Then forums like this will go dark, and next thing you know, the brownshirts from the modern Gestapo/Stasi/ICE would be knocking on your door.

Make no mistake about Google and Apple: moderating anti fascist apps or content is abetting fascism (that applies to HN mods as well).
by sokoloff | 2025-10-04 13:38:08+00:00
Theoretically possible? Maybe (but still an extremely slim chance).

Practically possible? No. People (and countries) own land. Raw materials for robots comes from land. Energy for robots consumes land. Farming food requires massive inputs beyond just the land and energy (but also needs those).

I don’t imagine we’ll get to a world where my great-great-great^20-grandkids can hold out their hand and have a plate of steak and potatoes (or the then-equivalent) placed into it for free, anytime they want.

The expense of production and on-demand delivery of just a simple plate of steak and baked potato will not ever get to zero. If we can’t even get that simple of thing for free, I don’t believe in a world without the notion of money.

Expand that to even better dining, vacation, and leisure/recreational activities and I think the argument becomes even more solid that some form of rationing/limiting will be in effect and there will be a unit/notation of ration and trade that will be indistinguishable from money.
by danabramov | 2025-10-04 13:38:20+00:00
>why do I want a global login? that sounds like hell.

You can still have many distinct identities if you want to, the point is just that you also don't have to for cases when you want to have shared data flowing and interlinking between apps.

>How is websockets better than XHR in this case?

Websockets are used for retransmitting changes from millions of repositories to a bunch of apps that want to aggregate over that data and create app-specific indexes. I'm not sure what XHR has to do with that or how it helps there. Have a look at the data stream: https://pdsls.dev/jetstream?instance=wss%3A%2F%2Fjetstream1....
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-10-04 13:38:31+00:00
From: https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/10/03/iceblock-blocked/

> Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments.

Apple should not be able to decide which apps their customers are allowed to use. It's one thing to make decisions about which products are allowed in your store, and quite another to unilaterally ban software from what is many people's primary computer.

There should have always been a side-loading switch. It doesn't have to be easy to find, it just needs to be available in the event of an emergency. Any possible security arguments to the contrary pale in comparison to the importance of maintaining a free society.

We live in a digital age, and software is a form of free expression. We would not (I hope) find this situation acceptable for eBooks, and we should not find it acceptable for software.

I am horrified that Google has decided to move in the same direction on Android, and I urge them to reconsider before it's too late. Right now, these apps can still be sideloaded on Android phones, so to be honest I don't care that much what Google does with the Play Store. But what happens next year?
by pxoe | 2025-10-04 13:39:32+00:00
This "but it's too hard to implement" excuse never made sense to me. So it's doable to make a system like this, to have smart people working on it, hire and poach other smart people, to have payments systems, tracking systems, personal data collection, request filtering and content awareness, all that jazz, but somehow all of that grinds to a halt the moment a question like this arises? and it's been a problem for years, yet some of the smartest people are just unable to approach it, let alone solve it? Does it not seem idiotic to see them serve 'most advanced' products over and over, and then pretend like this question is "too complex" for them to solve? Shouldn't they be smart enough to rise up to that level of "complexity" anyway?

Seems more like selective, intentional ignoring of the problem to me. It's just because if they start to pay up, everyone will want to get paid, and paying other people is something that companies like this systematically try to avoid as much as possible.
by cozzyd | 2025-10-04 13:39:57+00:00
I mean much of gnome shell is written in JavaScript. But of course GTK is C.

Does Fyne have bindings to other languages? A search for fyne python gave some hilarious AI slop from Gemini suggesting pip install fyne, but the fyne python package is something completely different and unrelated. The nice thing about GTK is it can be used from virtually any language (QT a bit less so but still a lot)
by maxdevai | 2025-10-04 13:40:21+00:00
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by chiph | 2025-10-04 13:40:32+00:00
None of the cards I have today have embossed numbers on them. Which I like as they don't leave an imprint on my wallet's leather. But to use one back in 1995 the clerk would have to hand-write all the numbers and expiration date[0] on the credit slip. A process that is fraught with error.

[0] After looking it up in the booklet of known bad cards that was mailed to the store, or calling their card processor's phone number to check.
by kenjackson | 2025-10-04 13:40:57+00:00
I mean actually breakdown exactly where the spending is going and then show the cuts.

You can say “cut salaries in half” about any industry. You could say it about software engineers. But just because you say that doesn’t mean it’ll work out well for the industry. Non-minimum wage salaries should be market driven. I doubt you could just cut salaries in half and keep a reasonable work force.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-04 13:41:36+00:00
Glad to see Tom's blog on HN - as usual a great write up. A number of us have been chatting about this for several months now, and the take is fairly sober.

Meta commentary but I've grown weary of how commentary by actual domain experts in our industry are underrepresented and underdiscussed on HN in favor of emotionally charged takes.
by illuminator83 | 2025-10-04 13:44:02+00:00
The wealth gap widening is quite independent from AI being involved. A natural progression which was always happening and continues to be happening. Entil some sort of catastrophe reshuffles the cards. Usually a war or revolution. The poor simply rising up or a lazy and corrupt ruling class depriving their country of enough resources and will to defend itself that some outside power can take it.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-04 13:45:17+00:00
> Discussing this topic with you is impossible because you have committed to spreading Israeli state propaganda regardless of what the actual facts of the situation are.

If I have stated something infactual, point it out. I can back up every fact that I've stated.

> If you are unmoved by the children being savagely blown apart by Israeli rockets because you equate that with some Arab states bad-mouthing Israel

You are correct that I don't use emotional strategy in my arguments, nor am I swayed by emotional arguments. I stick to facts. And if you did too, you would recognize that one third of the Hamas rockets fall back into the Gaza strip and kill Palestinians as well. If you were to read the Palestinian Telegram channels like I read, you would have seen the recent little girl being destroyed by an IED that was placed to attack Israeli soldiers. The Muslim culture considers all killed to be martyrs, no matter whose hand killed them. The Western media treating this as if Israel killed every martyr is disingenuous. If you really cared about Palestinian lives, you would recognize that Hamas is also a major factor in killing Palestinians today, and that Hamas could end this entire war by returning the hostages any minute.

> then I fear nothing will ever convince you that Palestinians are human.

How many Palestines in Palestine have you talked to in the recent past? I talk with them almost weekly: face to face, and online. In English, in Arabic, and in Hebrew, in their own towns. You'll see in my past posts that I quote them often, both in defence and in opposition to the state of Israel, and both in defence and in opposition to the Palestinian cause.

> Have a good day and if you have kids, give them a hug and be glad they don't live in Gaza.

Thank you, I hug my children and like you said, I am glad that they don't live in the Gaza strip.
by PedroBatista | 2025-10-04 13:45:58+00:00
I would be OK if they swapped it with a cucumber or a banana.

Why even get mad at this point? It's an "asset" like any other product. They bought the rights. I feel people in general are becoming "rational" actors too, by just ignoring the product if they don't like it.

At the end of the day, yes it's funny and stupid. Who cares? ignore them.
by robinsonb5 | 2025-10-04 13:46:12+00:00
Vivado offers some embedded debugging and logic analyzer infrastructure, which allows you to tap into signals within the design and monitor them from the PC. (For instance, the Memory Interface Generator will report its initialisation status to the PC and if something failed it will tell you what). This is done over JTAG, and Vivado will only support that when using a select few JTAG dongles.

If you're happy to create your own debugging infrastructure (which isn't that hard - almost all FPGAs have at least two dedicated IR scancodes specifically for user applications) then you can use any JTAG dongle supported by OpenOCD.
by Bender | 2025-10-04 13:46:32+00:00
It sounds like they were providing more than testing ipv6. I'm not apposed to putting up a test site if it only has to work with browsers. I would imagine something as simple as 2 DNS records A and AAAA references to 2 images. Just 2 png/gif stickers that say "IPv4 works!" and "IPv6 works!" and placeholders that show what is expected. Would more be required?
by dgs_sgd | 2025-10-04 13:46:40+00:00
Until recently I had only ever been to one baseball game.. saw the Jays when I was 10. I remember falling asleep at the game because it was so slow and boring, and never really watched baseball after that.

But in the last couple years I’ve seen the Mets and Phillies multiple times, and it’s now one of my favourite sports to watch thanks to the pitch clock increasing the pace of the game. I’d be really curious to see data on how many new fans the league got after the change.
by chiph | 2025-10-04 13:46:56+00:00
I'm starting to run into that and I'm not even retired yet.

Mom uses a stylus with a conductive rubber tip to operate her Pixel. Which shouldn't be necessary.

With regard to learning to use a new release - since Apple (and no one else either it seems) ships a manual with their pocket computer these days, they need to have a group of people creating videos that explain how to use it.

Of course, if you can't get past the OOTB setup, that might of of minimal use...