MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by commandar | 2025-10-03 15:59:29+00:00
I don't entirely agree there.

In a vacuum for a standalone object, a 3D mesh app like Blender can be useful for brainstorming.

Most of my CAD usage is designing parts that have to fit together with other things. The fixed elements drive the rest of the design. A lot of the work is figuring out "how do I make these two things fit together and be able to move in the ways they need to."

There is still a lot of room for creativity. My workflow is basically "get the basic functionality down as big square blocks, then keep cutting away and refining until you have something that looks like a real product." My designs very rarely end up looking like what they started out as. But the process of getting them down in CAD is exactly what lets me figure out what's actually going to work.

It's a very different workflow, and it's definitely not freeform in the same way as a traditional mesh modeling app, but CAD is for when you have to have those constraints. You can always (and it's not an uncommon pattern) go back and use a mesh modeler to build the industrial design side of things on top once the mechanical modeling is done.

ETA:

I'd also add: I'm not sure "thinking in CAD" comes naturally to anyone; it's a skillset that has to be built.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-03 15:59:54+00:00
> hardware takes a couple generations to become a serious contender

Not really and for the same reason Chinese players like Biren are leapfrogging - much of the workload profile in AI/ML is "embarrassingly parallel", thus reducing the need for individual ASICs to be bleeding edge performant.

If you are able to negotiate competitive fabrication and energy supply deals, you can mass produce your way into providing "good enough" performance.

Finally, the persona who cares about hardware performance in training isn't in the market for cloud offered services.
by warrenm | 2025-10-03 16:00:02+00:00
The valid use cases for blockchain are relatively few

The use cases where it gets applied are far more than the valid ones

As for NFTs ... there never was (and never will be) a valid use case - it does not matter if you "own" a digital asset (like an image): a screenshot of it is good enough for 99.99999...% of people, so why pay for the "real" thing?
by jfyi | 2025-10-03 16:00:04+00:00
I agree. If OpenAI isn't strategic to the US, that damn sure is Altman's current goal. The moment he can close the sale on "we have to get there before China" ad revenue won't be a concern any more.

I'd say it's a bit of a Hail Mary and could go either way, but that's as an outsider looking in. Who really knows?
by pengaru | 2025-10-03 16:00:17+00:00
Dude you're being way too hard on yourself and fixating on the wrong thing (form) as a self-imposed barrier to progress.

I'm guessing you're overweight if you're under 10 pushups. Just do what you can, do them daily, forget the form, the key at this point is to develop the habit of routine and the self-discipline to stick to doing the physical and annoying thing on a daily basis.

Beyond that focus on nutrition so your weight is reeled in, the pushups become easy when your weight is normal.
by bccdee | 2025-10-03 16:00:52+00:00
Litestream is dead simple to setup. You make an S3 bucket (or any compatible storage bucket), paste the access keys and the path to your db file in /etc/litestream, and then run

dpkg -i litestream.deb systemctl enable litestream systemctl start litestream

The fact it's so simple is my favourite thing about it.
by kspacewalk2 | 2025-10-03 16:01:15+00:00
I think if you confine the argument to England itself, it's fairly easy to defend that England has been settled by various Germanic tribes which, other than in Cornwall, have supplanted the pre-existing Celtic populations so totally that, around the time of Æthelstan, it was indeed homogenous. Of course, people at the time would consider the concept of lumping the various Germanic tribes and peoples into a "homogenous" identity rather strange, some of them being mortal enemies for centuries. But England in those days was undoubtedly homogenous compared to today. Not sure why that's a virtue in any way, but there it is.
by tantalic | 2025-10-03 16:01:26+00:00
I'm (still) very interested about this project. Two years ago, I came across this when setting up a Raspberry Pi based "home lab" Kubernetes cluster (https://github.com/tantalic/shaving-yaks). I ran into some issues (I believe all Raspberry Pi specific) and ended up going with k0s. While I am happy with k0s, I do wish Kairos worked out for me and I might have to give it a try again soon.
by intalentive | 2025-10-03 16:01:30+00:00
The complexity of the human body surely weighs in at over 1 GB.

I think of DNA analogously to the rules of cellular automata. The entropy of the rules is much less than the entropy of the dynamical system the rules describe.

The body is filled with innate knowledge. The organs all know what to do. The immune system learns to detect intruders (without synapses). Even a single cell organism is capable of complex and fluid goal-oriented behavior, as Michael Levine attests.

I think the assumption that all knowledge exists in the brain, and all knowledge in the brain is encoded by neuronal weights, is probably too simplistic.

Regarding language and vision, I think the cognitive scientists are right: it is better to view these as organs or “modules” suited to a function. Damage Broca’s area and you get Broca’s aphasia. Damage your lung and you get trouble breathing. Neither of these looks like the result of statistical learning from randomly initialized parameters.
by bawolff | 2025-10-03 16:01:45+00:00
I think a more charitable read would be they are claiming that Israel's geopolitical rivals have undue influence in certain UN organs and are using that influence to unfairly single out Israel.

Its not exactly a crazy claim. The UN is a political entity, its not above the influence of geopolitics. The former secretary general of the UN, Ban ki moon at one point (quite a while ago now) said that "Decades of political maneuvering have created a disproportionate number of resolutions, reports and committees against Israel".
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-03 16:02:06+00:00
I'd be curious if someone who understands exactly what and how they are proposing this measurement works could speak on whether it would contradict the no-signalling theorem (and so, the effect can't be real).

That is, given that destroying the correlation between two entangled particles can't be used to send information between the particles' locations, how could a measurement of whether a system contains entangled particles work? Does it just require all entangled particles to be present for the extra heat transfer to work?
by hypeatei | 2025-10-03 16:02:08+00:00
“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” the president responded. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They don’t want to see crime.” “They’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming here. And we don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street,’”

Given those recent comments, can this be anything other than a list of people for right-wing radicals to target?
by flyinglizard | 2025-10-03 16:02:17+00:00
>> Hamas is the elected government therefore women and children deserve to die

It's your own propaganda. Not mine, nor the Israeli government.

If your concern was with saving "brown people" lives, the most effective way to do so was to advocate for Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages and surrender. As it is, you're advocating for an Israeli surrender.

As it is, I openly and proudly call for Israel to win this war, decisively, with a surrender of their enemy.

P.S. Israelis are "brown people", given that most of the Israelis are of Arab origin (Jews, Christian and Muslim), about 70% or so.
by diggan | 2025-10-03 16:02:26+00:00
> LG TVs capabilities and performance from an app developer perspective is... not great.

Yet every other app on the TV seems to work just fine, with minimal latency and smooth animations. YouTube, HBO, Jellyfin, Netflix, Rakuten even the Vodafone TV application runs smoother, and it's generally the worst of the apps (sans Prime).
by ColinHayhurst | 2025-10-03 16:03:07+00:00
Mojeek can provide 40 results at a time. For example: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=apple&t=40

You can get up to 1,000 results. For example: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=apple&s=991

Up to 100 results from the API. https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

Discussed here: https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/02/are-search-engines-deleting-...

Disclosure: Mojeek CEO
by Sujimu | 2025-10-03 16:03:25+00:00
Location: Dubai, UAE Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, PowerBI, Tableau, Excel, & JIRA Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZVz7roaBt2r9pMPM1PEiCF65Lg... Email: athifasultana01@gmail.com
by warrenm | 2025-10-03 16:03:29+00:00
>How close are we to where a robot could get into a car from 2010 and drive me around?

A long way away

And here is why - driverless cars are a thing ... essentially making the car the "robot"

General-purpose robots are an amusing scifi trope, but have no practical benefit in reality

Purpose-built robots (even ones that can flex within that prupose to different applications) make far more sense (and have already been around for decades)
by throwaway2016a | 2025-10-03 16:03:43+00:00
I'm not convinced that will fix the problem. Even in situations where identity is well known such as work or school, we commonly have bad actors.

It's also pretty unpopular for a good reason.

There is a chilling effect that would go along with it. Like it or not, a lot of people use these social platforms to be their true selves when they can't in their real life for safety reasons. Unfortunately for some people their "true self" is pretty trashy. But it's a slippery slope to put restrictions (like ID verification) on everyone just because of a few bad actors.

Granted I'm sure there's some way we could do that while maintaining moderate privacy but it's technologically challenging and I'm not alone in wanting tech companies to have less of my personal information not more.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-03 16:03:44+00:00
The problem is not that lack of examples. Technically, all two hundred something countries could take example of the best one in every metric and just copy most of the stuff to make life better.

The problem is that politicians are afraid to do anything (outside of direct and indirect enrichment). No one can blame some John Doe, chief Busybody of the Busyarea, if he won't do something. Because that didn't happen, nothing to point finger at directly, except for "you don't do enough", which is generic enough to be used at anyone and so ineffective at everyone. But if he will do something and it is immediately painful to at at least some group, then he will be blamed and his opponent will do that with pleasure too.
by diggan | 2025-10-03 16:04:03+00:00
> CAD programs aren't just a different set of operations on the same data, they use an entirely different representation (b-rep [1] vs Blender's points, vertices, and polygons).

So with that in mind, there should be something that is possible to build in CAD, but impossible then to build in Blender?

I know the differences between the two, I understand they're fundamentally different, yet I seem to be able to produce similar results to others using CAD, so I'm curious what results I wouldn't be able to reproduce in Blender.

Any concrete examples I could try out?
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-03 16:04:21+00:00
> Or it could be that a single neuron in the human brain is worth 10000 neurons in an artificial neural network, and thus, the biggest part of the "secret" of human brain is just that it's hilariously overparameterized.

Being overparameterized alone doesn't explain how fast we learn things compared to deep neural nets though. Quite the opposite actually.
by CharlesW | 2025-10-03 16:04:31+00:00
In my experience, "seniors" aren't a monolith.

One of my elderly neighbors is happy with the generally-fine iOS defaults. Another elderly neighbor (I'm the "helpful computer guy" on our street, paid in appreciation, good karma, and baked goods) is a tech enthusiast, loves to play with his devices, and is no more intimidated by an iPhone than a Gen Z'er. My mom-in-law is 87, and we tried Guided Access with her but it was "too weird", so we use FaceTime's "remote control" feature if she needs help. https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/request-give-remote-con...

I'm not blindly cheerleading Apple here, beyond just noting that they're the most accessible choice of mainstream smartphones if the Apple ecosystem is the best solution for that particular elderly person and their support network.

There are several very good non-Apple options for "semi-smart" phones like the Jitterbug Smart4, as well as good old-fashioned dumb-phones with big buttons, any of which may be a better choice than an iPhone for a particular senior. My understanding is that there are many Android launcher-replacement options designed for seniors and the visually impaired as well.
by YZF | 2025-10-03 16:04:50+00:00
Israel has piled it up on the border many times during the conflict.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/gaza-food-starvati...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/07/24/un-refuses-to-cooper...

It's true that it's objectively hard to get the food from the border into e.g. Gaza city while a war is raging on. Israel has asked all civilians to evict Gaza city (basically for the entire duration of the war). Many people returned to Gaza city during the last ceasefire despite no green light from Israel. There is more food in the south and it's easier to get food into there.

There is an effort to get even more food into the south. For example World Central Kitchen is scaling up their operations there right now (with Israel's support). The GHF effort was also mostly focused on the south.

Air drops can't move in enough food. They're also dangerous.
by overfeed | 2025-10-03 16:05:00+00:00
> Don't do this

There are multiple valid branching strategies. Your recommended strategy works well[0] with evergreen deployments, but would fail hard if you intend to support multiple release versions of an app, which happens often in the embedded world with multiple hardware targets, or self-hosted, large enterprise apps that require qualification sign-offs.

0. Semver uas many issues that I won't repeat here, mostly stemming from projecting a graph of changes onto a single-dimension.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-03 16:05:26+00:00
It can be preventative against spam for when old domains expire/get sold and/or old blog service passwords get hacked.

I think about doing that sort of proactive cleanup sometimes. There's nothing quite as disappointing as seeing an old friend's blog show a new post for the first time in years only for it to be some spammer that just hacked their old password or some expired domain squatter saw RSS logs and decided to sell advertising on it or a once major blog host was sold to a Russian oligarch who purged the user database so more Russians could have good usernames (LiveJournal, lol).
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-03 16:05:38+00:00
I have given my old Sumsung to my father, who barely know how to send a mail, and enabled the ultra power mode.

What it does is restrict the phone to the home screen, you can have a maximum of 8 apps (which are all shown on the home screen) and barely anything else. He does have notification but it's only for these 8 apps.

And somehow he managed to get it working, he only make phone call, send messages and take photo. That's all.

Before I had bought him one of these senior flipflop phone. The thing was expensive, horrible and the battery was absolute crap. It died in 2 years.

My Sumsung xcover pro on the other hand, battery last 2 weeks and he is running it since 5 years without complaints.
by atombender | 2025-10-03 16:05:48+00:00
What I'd like to see is a system where a single-writer SQLite database is replicated to object storage so that you can spin up really cheap read replicas. Is anyone working on something like that?

Such a system would also require a side channel propagating WAL updates (over Kafka or similar) to replicas, so that the running replicas can update themselves incrementally and stay fresh without loading anything from object storage.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-10-03 16:06:15+00:00
Effort of setting up litestream and sqlite is less time than you spend signing up for supabase. And you can have 100 apps with their own databases for almost free (just a few cents of storage) vs 5*100 for postgres.

I love postgres but in no way is it as simple to run as sqlite (pretty sure even postgres core team would agree that postgres is more complex than sqlite).
by darkmighty | 2025-10-03 16:06:16+00:00
> graphics drivers all seem to have tweaks, settings, optimizations and workarounds for every game.

Maybe hyperbole, but I think obviously they can't do this for literally every game, that would require huge personnel resources. At least looking at mesa (linked elsewhere), only ~200 games are patched, out of what 100k PC games? So <1%.
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-03 16:06:25+00:00
Is it dangerous? I agree that people with means feel unsafe when encountering poverty but the "it is unsafe to ride the subway because there are poor people there" stuff doesn't appear to be proportionate with actual risk.

I think that one of the huge limitations of how we think about homelessness in the US is that we view it as a problem that non-homeless people encounter. This encourages a bunch of policies that make it easier for somebody to avoid ever having to see a homeless person but which do little to mitigate the suffering of a homeless person.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 16:06:41+00:00
> Nobody is shooting back.

Then from where came the rockets that were shot at Ashdod, Barnea, Nitzan, Kfar Aza, Miflasim, Saad, and Nir Am come from? This was during Yom Kippor, the Jew's holiest day.

You are invited to check that those rockets were fired from the Gaza strip. I know, I live walking distance from the strip. And you should then realize that the sources who tell you that Hamas is not shooting at Israel are using the tactic of Lies of Omission to influence your opinion.
by sershe | 2025-10-03 16:06:45+00:00
"wielded by states and capitalists to monitor, control, and discipline populations. From passports to colonial passbooks, from welfare cards to border regimes, the apparatus of identification has always been tied to domination."

Uh, what is the word capitalists doing here? All of the examples are of the states. Notably, most of the states doing those were the least capitalist of all.

In Soviet Union (and Russia) you have an internal passport that you have to carry at all times and show to the cops if asked. You need/used to need a residence permit or some other explanation to be somewhere other than your address stamped in the passport (in fact, earlier they wouldn't give rural people passports at all, so they wouldn't travel). Or btw if your photo is too old you could be taken to a police station. I have been, almost, and the only difference added by capitalism is that you could conveniently pay a bribe on the spot (it was literally the birthday I was supposed to change my photo so I got a free birthday special after some discussion)

I surrendered my internal passport with my Russian citizenship and never had "capitalists" offer me any replacement digital ID! It's jarring, what am I supposed to show to capitalist cops?!

Sure, surveillance, etc. But the author is clearly extremely biased and keeps harping on the sins of Paul to condemn Peter.
by boplicity | 2025-10-03 16:06:51+00:00
The Design of Everyday Things should be required reading for Apple's UX designers. This used to be a book that informed the core of their design philosophy. Unfortunately, that seems long gone.

If a user can't figure out how to do something, the user is not to blame. The designer is. With so many features in iOS now completely invisible to the naked eye, it's very clear who is responsible for this mess. And it ain't the users.
by NickC25 | 2025-10-03 16:07:13+00:00
Give the kid a dumb phone.

It can make calls. It can send/receive basic text messages.

The most addictive thing on that type of phone, if it can even be installed, is Snake.

Utilitarianism wins. Social media companies loose. I'm fine with that. The kid can still communicate with their parents at a moment's notice.
by johnmaguire | 2025-10-03 16:07:39+00:00
What exactly do you think happened in the US with Iryna Zarutska? I didn't get the sense that it was "intentionally downplayed because it might inflame racial tensions and divisions."

On the contrary, what I saw was that it was intentionally played up in order to inflame racial tensions and divisions.

There are over 7,150 deaths caused by handguns in the US each year. There are an additional 5,295 deaths caused by other firearms. There are 1,560 deaths caused by knives. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in...

Why was this instance newsworthy?
by saltcured | 2025-10-03 16:08:14+00:00
I know I've got a hard-earned cynical streak, but I am more worried about the mass sociological cascade. I absolutely don't worry about some ultra smart AI having malignant intent or even being enslaved by someone with malignant intent. Instead, it's the weird Tulip Mania or Salem Witch Trial risks that I do not know how to quantify.

How severely can the mass delusions and magical thinking around AI mix with other regressive social trends? I do not relish the mass effect of people deferring their decision making to glorified Magic 8 Ball devices, treating them as oracles rather than syntactic lava lamps. Will it lay waste to a generation of education, thinking, science, and policy so that society itself acts out some kind of Therac 25 or Bhopal incident at scale?
by somenameforme | 2025-10-03 16:08:29+00:00
I'd strongly encourage actually checking out his debates. There often is no real 'winner' or 'loser', but mostly just an exchange of views and perspectives. Sometimes people change their views, most often they don't. Often times one or both parties walks away with a bit more knowledge.

Here [1] is a debate between him and a professor (amongst 3 that showed up during just that event) that's on almost on our exact topic. The professor's argument was weak and his behavior quite undignified. The professor "lost" but it's not really the point or purpose of the debate. For instance here's another [2] (from the same campus tour) where not only was the crowd was much more for the professor, but the professor also formulated a far more viable argument, got Charlie flustered and made him say some things that certainly made his argument look foolish. Charlie "lost" that one, but again it's not really the point or purpose. I'd also add that Charlie still posted it, unedited.

This is how an Open Society, the sort Karl Popper spoke of, should work.

[1] - https://youtu.be/5NSdCvbhDnM?t=644

[2] - https://youtu.be/5NSdCvbhDnM?t=2448
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 16:08:38+00:00
> It is race based because if there was a jewish person living in Palestine, they could apply for and get the right to vote. A muslim person cannot.

Jews are not allowed to live in Palestine controlled territories at all(i.e. Gaza and West Bank areas A/B). This still wouldn't be race based discrimination however. Apartheid is a form of discrimination among citizens, immigration law is a somewhat separate issue. Many countries take factors into account when it comes to immigration laws that wouldn't be applied with regards to those who are already citizens. You don't see those cases of immigration law preferences being called Apartheid in general.

> The Israeli PM has said: There will never be a Palestinian state.

Israel has elections and things can change.

> If you plan to eternally occupy and dominate a people, what is the difference to Apartheid?

That's still not race based discrimination so not Apartheid.