MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-04 21:02:10+00:00
That sounds like it'll still be too big. When it comes to phone screens nowadays, it is the width, not the height, which is the problem. It's physically impossible for me to use my phone (Nokia XR20) one handed, as my thumb isn't long enough to reach the far edge of the screen. So if the new iPhone is getting wider, odds are it'll be too big to fit in the hand even if the height is similar to the iPhone 4.
by msukhareva | 2025-10-04 21:02:49+00:00
OpenAI urgently needs to make money. Its most valuable product isn’t the LLM - it’s the users. The company has now set up an efficient way to track your behavior online and sell that data to marketers. The setup might look harmless - a tiny UTM parameter - but it can reveal a lot about you and can ultimately influence what you’re shown in the chatbot and what information is transferred to third parties.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-04 21:02:55+00:00
In general, the Microchip CDC driver was free to use.

"The CDC class has been implemented in Windows (since Windows 98), macOS and most Linux distributions. Since Windows 10, no extra information has to be given in the start-up sequence as the operating system now has a generic driver that will be used for CDC. To support older versions of Windows (Windows 7 and earlier), provide an .inf file that associates with the correct driver."

However, these will not support the high-speed bit-banged JTAG mode FTDI chips can perform with the right driver. =3
by bayindirh | 2025-10-04 21:03:09+00:00
Canon tried with some Bubblejet printers, like BJC4300. It needed three passes per line (R,G,B) slow and lower quality.

I think also it was expensive, since I wanted to get it, but failed to find it.

OTOH, a 10 year old HP multifunction can scan things at 600DPI in acceptable quality and detail, in a very reasonable amount of time.

If you want to go compact, but fast, there's Kodak Alaris' "i" series scanners which can scan both sides at the same time. Scan time is ~4 seconds per double sided A5 page at 600DPI, and less than a second for ~200 DPI.

That thing zips, but is not cheap.
by solid_fuel | 2025-10-04 21:03:59+00:00
The court isn't complacent, the conservative justices know exactly what they're doing. They are operating under the belief that once a president from the other party gets elected again, they will still have the old rules to fall back on.

But the ultimate truth of power is that the bounds are whatever you can get away with. Both the republicans in congress and the supreme court are burning every shred of legitimacy they have left in letting Trump get away with his crimes. I am certain the standard will suddenly change when a democrat gets elected again, but the court has set itself up for a perfect "now let him enforce it" moment.

Student loan forgiveness gets blocked by the courts but the administration is allowed to block funds allocated by congress with no push back? Well, that's the new standard. I certainly won't complain much if the next democrat in office starts doing the same thing. If the republicans didn't want the president to have that power, they should do something about it.
by InTheArena | 2025-10-04 21:04:34+00:00
Let me guess, without reading. This is a salvage title, not a car in perfect order.

IIRC, Tesla is willing to reconnect, but only after a really expensive evaluation of the car. It's too risky putting a really big lithium batter up to a really big charger otherwise.

"Fred Lambert, the editor-in-chief of Electrek, a news magazine about electric vehicles, said he's heard of at least one other case where a car with a clean title was labeled "salvage" in Tesla's system and blocked from supercharging. "

ahh. Eletrek is trying to spin up this story again.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-04 21:05:19+00:00
> With sublight velocities achievable today, I recall it would only take around a million years for a Von Newmann probe to cover the entire galaxy. Such a probe is quite conceivable, so why isn't there more evidence of such probes everywhere?

What are the incentives to build and deploy such a thing though? We as a civilization fail to fund things that have a ROI of more than a few years, how are you going to fund something that pays off after a million year?
by Zak | 2025-10-04 21:05:36+00:00
I think the problem is last time someone really tried was the iPhone mini, which launched during the peak COVID lockdown era when a lot of people were using their phones at home on the couch rather than carrying them out in the world.

A little earlier or a little later and they might have been a bigger hit. There's likely room in the market for one or two small phones if they're otherwise-competitive.
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-10-04 21:06:08+00:00
Just like humans... we are not so good at hard number crunching, but we can invent computers that are amazing at it. And with a lot of effort we can make a program that uses a whole lot of number crunching to be ok at predicting text but kind of bad at crunching hard numbers. And then that program can predict how to create and use programs which are good at number crunching.
by toast0 | 2025-10-04 21:06:30+00:00
> Q: If your server(s) is/are offline for a few hours, why would you "lose messages"?

They said...

>> Email is supposed to be resilient to down time (retries, trying each MX record, etc.) but I found that large mail providers tend to just bounce and walk away.

I take that to mean that if your server isn't availble to receive the mail at the time it is first offered, it won't be retried later. That wasn't the case (for most mail) when I gave up on self hosting 10 years ago, but it's plausible.
by edlebert | 2025-10-04 21:06:40+00:00
It’s confusing, but the “salvage” label here has nothing to do with the title, which is clean in this case. It’s a label used is by Tesla - which means it’s not allowed to use super chargers due to safety concerns. They don’t want a janky Tesla causing serious injury. Honestly it’s a good policy by Tesla and will help incentivize owners to get quality repair work.
by mh- | 2025-10-04 21:06:41+00:00
I agree with this, but given how much of the value of EVs is tied to the accessibility of a charger network, it seems like this really needs to be reported on the title somehow.

Even if Tesla is the only one doing this right now, I'm sure it'll be a thing in the future with other manufacturers and a proliferation of 3rd party repairs.
by InTheArena | 2025-10-04 21:06:43+00:00
"The term "salvage" was a complete shock, but a deeper dive into the CARFAX vehicle history report, which he didn't pull until after the sale, uncovered a "minor accident."

Photos of the damage made it look more than minor, and a Tesla technician told him the repair work as shoddy.

"It was bad enough where they flagged it," he said. "
by theothertimcook | 2025-10-04 21:06:48+00:00
Unihertz hardware and software are pretty crap, no warranty, no updates.

Likewise the HMD feature phones, the gimped and locked down s40+ OS is just so bad as to be almost unusable, simple things like in-line conversations for text messages, absolute dogshit UI and sound quality for mp3 playing and even calls.

It’s a shame boot2geko and KaiOS just kind of flopped because a proper open alternative would be cool.
by imiric | 2025-10-04 21:06:56+00:00
Politics in the workplace is exhausting. I refuse to play these games, which is probably to my own detriment.

I shouldn't need to promote and sell my ideas to anyone. I'm paid to provide my skills and ideas, and if the people around me don't find them valuable, that's on them. I'd rather move on to places that do value them, than engage in politics.

> Some program of work will be funded whether you do this or not. However, if you don’t do this, you have no control over what that program is.

Why would I want control over that?

I share my technical opinion, and it's up to the team or higher-ups to decide which direction to go in. Besides, who says that my opinion is correct, anyway? It should be held to the same level of scrutiny as anyone else's.

This idea that engineers should constantly push for their ideas to be implemented, and to take on projects with the highest visibility, is incredibly toxic. It leads to a culture of obsession over KPIs, OKRs, and other pointless metrics, where people prioritize work that looks good on their record when it's time for a promotion, rather than doing work that has a positive impact on the product, no matter how small. It's all a theater, and I refuse to have any part in it.
by Veedrac | 2025-10-04 21:07:00+00:00
Because clearly what Acemoglu did was look at current AI systems, noted that they are pretty good at providing contextually relevant information to people, dumped it in the ‘provides contextually relevant information to people’ economic bucket, and then painted a future of _what if that, but slightly more people were involved?_ in the context of their current pet political peeve.
by EasyMark | 2025-10-04 21:07:03+00:00
I don't care. The world is a dangerous place, we make it safer by promoting freedom and education and goodwill and faith in people, not by growing the police state. We do know for a fact however that in the near future anything "think of the children" or "just looking for criminals" ultimately gets turned against all of us as the government grows and grows without limit, our rights will become fewer and fewer with the encroachment. It's not "panic" or "exaggeration" it has happened all through history of nation-states.
by nonconstant | 2025-10-04 21:07:21+00:00
If you are building a painkiller not a vitamin, then Ruby and Rails ecosystems are great to build for. Existing businesses earning billions and news startups that choose pragmatism. Join the community to learn what the pains are. I’ve been surveying news Ruby startups and sharing results at conferences to learn what’s is the missing open source and tooling that we should build, see for ex https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/startups-on-rails-in-past-p...
by stared | 2025-10-04 21:07:33+00:00
Though, it kind of works that you keep adding blogs and blogs, until it turns out that RSS feed is mess. Maybe no clickbaits or ads, but still density of posts I want to read goes down.

Do you know any good solution, where there is collaborative filtering or RSS (bonus points for open, tweakable algorithm) + some AI with custom prompt to give me top recommendations?

Something where I am in the charge of the algorithm, not the other way around.
by DennisP | 2025-10-04 21:07:37+00:00
One approach is to give each variable a probability distribution. The greater our uncertainty about possible values, the wider the bell curve.

Drexler and colleagues did that, and found "a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively). ’Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
by TrnsltLife | 2025-10-04 21:07:39+00:00
In a non common law marriage state you can probably have a wedding, say your vows, and live as man and bride. Consult a lawyer for local gotchas.

France has the legal status of living in concubinage, so man and concubine. Pretty much the same as live-in girlfriend.

Some terms that could work: Man and bride Concubine Wedded/conjugal/nuptial state/union This is my wedded bride. This is my wedded man. etc.
by aquaticsunset | 2025-10-04 21:08:00+00:00
No, it was a clean title. Tesla decided it was "salvage" according to their own measures. I can imagine a scenario where a poorly done repair absolutely can make rapid charging a dangerous thing. But I would feel extremely swindled if this wasn't disclosed ahead of time.

And how does Tesla know repairs have been made after a minor accident? Or do they just yank your access to the network whenever they want and demand money to have it "recertified"?
by hoistbypetard | 2025-10-04 21:08:18+00:00
I remember feeling like the color ribbon was so eye-wateringly expensive that we bought *one* and kept it in a zip lock bag except when we wanted a color print. Usually from The Print Shop. I was young (aged 10 - 15), and it probably wasn't really that expensive. My parents were willing to help with equipment, but we had to pay for consumables ourselves. So any ink, floppies, telephone fees for dialing into BBSs were on us, and we were as stingy about them as you'd expect from kids with limited opportunities to earn money.
by larkinrichards | 2025-10-04 21:08:22+00:00
Article says "photos of the damage made it look more than minor"

Sounds like buyer was scammed.

> The term "salvage" was a complete shock, but a deeper dive into the CARFAX vehicle history report, which he didn't pull until after the sale, uncovered a "minor accident."

> Photos of the damage made it look more than minor, and a Tesla technician told him the repair work as shoddy.
by dlubarov | 2025-10-04 21:08:49+00:00
Claims of famine citing the UN/IPC are normally appeals to authority, whose convincingness depends on the credibility of the authority.

The UNWatch article isn't that - you can easy verify their points yourself. I.e. by IPC's own definition and Hamas' own casualty data, we're about three orders of magnitude short of meeting one of the requirements of a famine. IPC is just ignoring their own definition and declaring a famine anyway.

For other evidence of lies from UN officials, this one from the head of OCHA was rather blatant: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/debunked-un-off...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-04 21:09:56+00:00
It's more aggregated experience over time. These issues often don't surface in the short term but instead show up over time with bugs in implementations in particular browser versions and whatnot. In some cases data just gets wiped and in others it gets corrupted, and with no server component and any backups stored in the same medium as primary storage you're left without recourse.
by EasyMark | 2025-10-04 21:10:41+00:00
I disagree and think it is very reasonable and very possible. Don't put up cameras everywhere, don't put up listening devices everywhere, don't allow the government to buy this information from corporations. There should be a clear line drawn between me or you or a bar putting up a camera and the government gaining access to that data. It's not hard, it really isn't. Saying what you're saying it just trite and not looking at what is possible.
by anotherpaulg | 2025-10-04 21:11:06+00:00
I really like LLM+sympy for math. I have the LLM write me a sympy program, so I can trust that the symbolic manipulation is done correctly.

The code is also a useful artifact that can be iteratively edited and improved by both the human and LLM, with git history, etc. Running and passing tests/assertions helps to build and maintain confidence that the math remains correct.

I use helper functions to easily render from the sympy code to latex, etc.

A lot of the math behind this quantum eraser experiment was done this way.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/entangled-pair-quantum-eras...
by myguysi | 2025-10-04 21:11:41+00:00
> Really... how data flows through your program is actually a separate graph structure, and how HTML elements are organized in your program is another separate graph structure we try to graft into the first one and that creates a mess.

My team migrated away from Redux and for over a year I’ve been unable to pinpoint why I’ve been longing for it again. This has hit the nail on the head for me. Redux (and other “global” state management solutions) allowed me to decouple the data graph from the UI graph. When a UI event is triggered, an action is dispatched and then the data graph takes over. This makes the UI graph extremely simple - render UI and dispatch actions - but these days we’re mixing state with business logic, event handling, API calls, rendering UI, styling, etc. This is very much a problem of our own making that could be solved by a different architecture, but yeah… thanks for clarifying this feeling for me.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-04 21:11:49+00:00
> The state-run public authority would act as an alternative to private sector development, which the bill’s sponsors say has failed to create enough affordable homes to keep up with the state’s growth, citing the current housing shortage, rising rents and surging homelessness

Hmm, that seems a bit contradictory and circular: government makes it hard to build --> market reacts to that with higher prices --> government blames private sector --> government decides public housing with a bunch of regulations needs to be built?

Obviously there are certain localities like NYC that probably require something like this due to limited physical space but the bill[0] is at the state level. It seems like it'd be better to focus on de-regulation rather than something like this state-wide.

0: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8494
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-10-04 21:12:01+00:00
While I thought this was a pretty good read, I didn't really feel like it answered the question in the title: "was it worth it"?

First, this post was from 2024, and as another commenter mentioned, it doesn't look like Helios Companies (www.helioscompanies.com) is a going concern anymore. That's not that surprising - the change in the interest rate and VC funding environment killed off lots of unprofitable fintechs that were originally funded in 2021 or earlier.

I'm not saying money is the end all and be all, and this guy certainly got a lot out of it. But assuming this company is now defunct and he didn't get any substantial payday out of it, would he do it again knowing what he knows now? When you think about it, we all have relatively very limited time in our careers - while VCs can fund 100 different companies with the expectation that 95% will fail, workers don't have that luxury. Putting in 5+ years of lots of late nights and blood, sweat and tears can be tough if the outcome isn't a winner.

So I'm left wondering if the author feels like it was still worth it.
by lerno | 2025-10-04 21:12:15+00:00
This release adds shebang support, and simple generic parameter inference (which doesn't have that much use in C3 compared to languages that have per function/type generics, rather than generic modules). There are some conveniences, like in-place compile time concat with `+++=`. And of course that slices and arrays of types with an implemented `==` overload can now be compared as well.

There are plenty of fixes, but still half of what was in the 0.7.5 release.

Next version will focus on stdlib additions.

Some older post on C3:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569724

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108980

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32005678

Here are some interviews on C3:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8VDRJqXfc

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rS8MVZH-vA

Here is a series doing various tasks in C3:

- https://ebn.codeberg.page/programming/c3/c3-file-io/

Repository with link to various C3 resources and projects:

- https://github.com/c3lang/c3-showcase

Some projects:

- Gameboy emulator https://github.com/OdnetninI/Gameboy-Emulator/

- RISCV Bare metal Hello World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAJxx6Ok4E

- "Depths of Daemonheim" roguelike https://github.com/TechnicalFowl/7DRL-2025
by mustaphah | 2025-10-04 21:12:24+00:00
I was affected some time ago, and I can't emphasize enough how important it is to reach out to the people you were in touch with, just for a simple "sorry to hear the news."

I really appreciated the folks who did reach out - some of whom I honestly didn't expect to. But I was deeply disappointed that others I've worked more closely with didn't bother. I was already in shock, and that just made things worse.

Hard to imagine; you don't really get it until it happens to you - hopefully never.
by Razengan | 2025-10-04 21:12:42+00:00
The fact that it was America and not Japan that came up with something like the iPhone and started the smartphone boom makes me certain about parallel universes.

Japan LITERALLY [could have] HAD smartphones before smartphones: The Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable! IF ONLY they had phone functionality! Or better internet support and messaging/social apps out of the box.

Millions of people all over the world had a DS or PSP. If only they could have also used them as phones…

WHY WHY WHY
by raspasov | 2025-10-04 21:12:57+00:00
It is the fastest laptop CPU in the world right now, by a decent stretch.

128GB PC laptops are not very cheap either, if you want a decent one, like a ThinkPad.

Here’s a 7000 USD ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 workstation:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-04 21:13:40+00:00
No magic is necessary to understand that carbon & silicon are not equivalent. The burden of proof is on those who think silicon can be a substitute for carbon & all that it entails. I don't buy into magical thinking like Turing machines being physically realizable b/c I have studied enough math & computer science to not be confused by abstractions & their physical realizations.
by EasyMark | 2025-10-04 21:14:49+00:00
It really isn't though. Sure I can't go and buy a full auto AR15/AK47 without a special license. However it's pretty easy for me to go buy semi-auto version of that which can also do a lot of damage. There are a few red flag laws like in Texas but they are easily gotten around by private trade, and that's true for most "Red" states. Often no waiting period either if you go to an actual store. It really varies a lot state to state.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-10-04 21:16:22+00:00
Consider the size of the time step in a numerical integrator of some chemical reaction equation, if it gets too big the prediction will be wrong and your chemical plant could explode.

So too big times steps cannot be used, but constant sized steps is wasteful. Seems good to know the integrator can never quietly be wrong, even if you have to pay the price that tge integrator could crash.
by solid_fuel | 2025-10-04 21:16:25+00:00
It's confusing to me because charging money is implied - "we are going to have to somehow make money" - but not actually stated, and then it jumps past the revenue structure into sharing money with "rightsholders".

It has left me wondering if, instead of just charging users, they would start charging "rightsholders" for IP protection. I could see a system where e.g. Disney pays OpenAI $1 million up front to train in recognition of Mickey Mouse, and then receives a revenue share back from users who generate videos containing Mickey Mouse.
by barthelomew | 2025-10-04 21:16:44+00:00
Yep! Datalog syntax for Z3 is pretty neat! We used SMT [1] in our grammars paper because it allowed the most interoperability with solvers, but our technique also works with PROLOG; as tested our at the behest of reviewers at NeurIPS. I would assume that this should also work with datalog [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20047 [2] https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/master/datalog/dat...