MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gf000 | 2025-10-03 11:45:03+00:00
Parent's comparison is pretty great, but it shouldn't be "overdone". It's not really the format that's different/a problem (it's not hard to make a blender object from a CAD design - the same way an SVG can be rendered to PNG, and similarly irreversible in both cases), it's the whole design flow.

CAD uses geometry primitives with parameters and exact sizing (e.g. you draw a rectangle of this size, and cut a whole into it this and this offset from one of the corners, and you expand this shape to 3D). As mentioned this can be approximated via geometry nodes, but they are very different in "ideology".
by card_zero | 2025-10-03 11:46:04+00:00
I almost completely disagree with "everyone operates within some framework of unprovable [moral] dogmas", but I don't completely disagree. I think the potential for mind-changing debate about moral matters - some of it inexplicit, but still rational - is enormous: and that the dogmatic cores of almost everyone's moral worldviews are, in modern times, practically identical, or close enough to be compatible.

More to the point, you can refrain from being unnecessarily dogmatic. As I'm sure you do really. But that means anticipation of death, to wipe out your ideas, shouldn't diminish your will to filter them through argument or thought. It just acts as a safety mechanism against your possibly losing your grip on rationality and becoming an intransigent old nuisance, I suppose.

So the second point is that self-sacrifice is less expensive for the mortal. I guess that could be seen as a rather cold fact that a mortal person is less valuable. But immortal people could be hindered by being all neurotic about risks to their lives, if that even is how we make decisions about self-sacrifice and mortal danger (however mild - germs?) ... but I suspect that isn't a calculation we'd do, even if immortal. I suspect the basis for these decisions is something different. This makes me scratch my head, I may come back to it.

...OK, ready. This is really about a certain puzzle to which immortality is irrelevant, which is: how can we take risks at all? If you cross the street you might lose your life, and since that's everything you've got, the cost is infinitely large, so you can never cross the street.

There are numerous tangents to go on from there. If you're being objective, your value is your ideas, your relationships, and your potential to have future ideas. With the last in mind, maybe immortality does change the calculation? Maybe risk-taking for mortal people should increase with age. Well, we do tend to self-sacrifice in a crisis, and to save children preferentially (though I'm not sure why future potential should trump existing ideas in a person). And there's this "I've lived a full life, I'll be the one" trope, which really means "I'm nearly dead already, so I'm expendable." And sure, immortal people can't say that. But that doesn't have bearing on how young people can complete routine life goals such as crossing the street.

You could also claim that a decision like deciding to stay in bed is risky in itself, and that we take risky actions in order to minimize risk. But I don't think that's truly the normal way to operate.

The main thing is, we do decide to take risks somehow. We know that decision paralysis is bad: we're morally opposed to it. And this would remain true even if we were immortal and were risking the loss of much longer lives. Mortal or not, we risk all we've got, all the time, by living lives. The difference is only in an extreme self-sacrifice situation, where relative to one other younger person an immortal person would feel less disposable than an old mortal might.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-03 11:46:16+00:00
As a jew, I have never felt more targeted by anti-semitism than I have following israel's genocide of Palestinians. israel is making jews like me look bad by association, even though that association is false.

The worst part is, most of that antisemitism comes from zionists. Zealots making posts not unlike yours, frequently accuse me and my kind of being 'self-hating jews' for being insufficiently zionist. It really sucks.

As a side note, please stop repeatedly, unsuccessfully trying to conflate jews with zionists. We are not the same thing, and it is hurtful to hear you insult jews like that. It is somewhat akin to conflating all South Africans with apartheid supporters, or all Germans with nazis, except you are stereotyping based on religion, rather than national origin.
by jcul | 2025-10-03 11:46:20+00:00
That's actually a good idea.

I actually hate leaving something not compiling in the evening, it feels like things are unfinished, but it helps getting back into it. I tend to use this more when taking a break for an hour or two. But it is effective.

However leaving an intentionally broken comment sounds like a good way to get the sense of completion for the day, but have the compiler focus your attention on where you left off!
by metalman | 2025-10-03 11:46:28+00:00
theremust be balance in the use of digitised personal records that are availible to officials first, every single touch on someones info is recorded, and abuse in any form is punished, catestrophicaly. even the ticket checker, will be monitored, and if there is any discriminatory pattern to there "checking" they are prevented from any job or occupation that involves power ,and authority to prosecute. 2 no ministerial overrides,etc, without a court order 3 if the whole thing becomes unmanageble and leakes private info, it is trashed and we go back to cards

the people pushing this must face catestrophic consequences for failing to impilment a digital sytem of ID that is perfectly secure, and immune from abuse. no mights,no coulds, no excuses, no mumbling,no clauses, no public private, secure national ID, fuck with it and go to jail forever
by rafaelmn | 2025-10-03 11:46:52+00:00
You do understand that you don't replace a 100k developer and call it a day - you have to charge the same company 100k for your AI tools. No model is nowhere near close today - they are having trouble convincing enterprises to pay less than 100$ per employee. The current models do not math at all, the only way these investments work is if models get fundamentally better.
by js8 | 2025-10-03 11:47:12+00:00
I am not sure what European "leaders" expected. Many of them support Ukraine militarily in the war, so yes, EU is in fact in war with Russia, through Ukraine as a proxy.

I oppose the military support to Ukraine. I think it's responsibility of the stronger party, here NATO, to seek deescalation. I also disapprove that the military support for Ukraine was decided undemocratically, without any consideration whether this might escalate into a war. And here we are...
by rixed | 2025-10-03 11:47:23+00:00
I don't know what exemple you have in mind, but we were discussing n8n, redis, elastic search... Probably you have much more complex projects in mind?

If I go tu use, say, redis, in a way that the license permit, I don't give a single dime about the legal entity behind it. I just `apt-get install redis`. If I want to modify it for my need, I can `apt-get source redis`. When the next version of redis comes with a more restrictive license, or if features are removed, I just stick to a previous one. Maybe I fork it myself if it's really important for me. Probably, we will be many doing so, we will regroup, share our modifications and improvements. I've experienced this kind of colaborative maintenance of some dead project a couple of times in the past, and all te governance that was ever needed was a mailing list.

Now, sure, some project are more complicated. If, god forbid, postgresql or gcc were to disapear I would not trust myself, or any single individual, to maintain a private fork for long withough the quality deteriorating. But again, people would regroup, cooperate, and we will be able to figure it out.

Compare this with proprietary software, were you truly have no recourse. I've seen wonderful pieces of software in the past, that I loved an used daily, disaprear entirely because the company that produced it went belly up, leaving no alternative than to desperately run the old versions on an emulator still years after because nobody ever managed to redo something as good. And now they are gone, for good, with few people ever remembering them.

So, these are the exemples I have in mind, this is why I don't understand how one could equate fair-source with proprietary -- assuming that the restrictions tainting the "fair" software just prevent the user from competing with the software producer. The user has a ton of power with fair source compared to proprietary.
by woooooo | 2025-10-03 11:47:28+00:00
That's all well argued, but I can't get over the asymmetries of country size and the asymmetry of missile defense vs shooting the missile.

Russia wasn't supposed to be economically capable of a war this long and yet here we are. And that's a war of choice. If Iran is being attacked, they have no choices. People will find a way to make missiles underground if they have to.

And that's all before we get into political and psychological factors. How long does Netanyahu stay in power if Tel Aviv is hit every day?

(I have to note, USA vs Iran and Israel vs Iran are very different economic comparisons. It would be impossible for Israel to sustain 24/7 suppression over a country Iran's size but maybe with enough American funding its more feasible.)
by xtiansimon | 2025-10-03 11:47:38+00:00
Well. Yeah. The criticism of digital ID writes itself.

Given the US president’s inflammatory rhetoric about “Democrats” and “radical left”, this passage is an ominous prediction:

“Welfare can be rationed through digital checkpoints, ensuring that only the “deserving” poor receive aid. Policing is strengthened through biometric databases, making dissent and protest more dangerous.”

This mirrors the reasons for resisting Voter ID laws.

And given story after story written here on HN about corporations who are unaccountable for their poor data handling, given digital services routinely deny users fair resolutions for bad algorithmic actions or ambiguous “policy violations” and without human arbitration. (Ha! Or just Byzantine department compartmentalization).

If you’re not chilled by the thought of Universal Digital ID for every single bit of life’s necessities, why no? Are you team Ellison? Do you think there will be room for _you and your family_ on the Ark?

https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance...
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-03 11:47:40+00:00
Your post weirdly focuses on only the concerns of israelis, even though Palestinians are equal people with equal human rights, including an equal right to protection from israeli violence. Do you even realize that you're not treating Palestinians as humans?

> The last time Palestinians voted they quite literally elected Hamas terrorists

The last time israelis voted, they quite literally elected not only terrorists, but war criminals, criminals against humanity, and literal genociders. Obviously that's worse! Thus, israel has no moral high ground here to attack others, and should look inward and fix itself first.

> There are zero Jews living under Palestinian rule

"Palestinian rule" is not a thing at the moment: all Palestinians are currently ruled (dominated even) by a genocidal israeli military occupation that kills hundreds of innocent civilians daily.
by agedclock | 2025-10-03 11:48:11+00:00
You just need something with you name and address. Bank statements, council tax, driver license (it doesn't even need to be a full one). It doesn't need to be a utility bill, it just often is one.

If you do not have a permanent address (I didn't for many years). You just need someone with a permanent address where these things can go e.g. friend or family member or you can pay a small amount for a letter box with a key (which is what I did).
by MichaelMoser123 | 2025-10-03 11:48:17+00:00
CNN is quoting data from the Gaza health ministry, an organization run by genocidal Islamist Hamas, without mentioning its affiliation and without questioning the data. So much for objectivity on CNN and "Hacker News". There is also no mention on the food convoys that get plundered by Hamas. Just to mention: Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization in the US, since 1997 - just adding some missing background information.
by jijijijij | 2025-10-03 11:48:43+00:00
> Yes! I have spent my August learning Blender, and it's become one of my favourite pieces of software ever

Same. Started in July with the Donut tutorial and then got completely carried away in geometry nodes and automation.

Once the UI clicks, Blender is super intuitive and downright addictive to use. I realized, while I don’t actually want to work in 3D modeling for other reasons, I could totally live in Blender all day! Can’t think of any piece of software that made me feel so in love.

And don’t get me started on its capabilities. It’s even useful as a video editor and for drawing. I think the only thing it can’t do much is audio editing, but I wouldn’t be surprised if one day it’s becoming a DAW, too :D

I recommend to everyone: Learn the basics of Blender! Just dive in for a week or two. For universal creative output, it’s probably the single most powerful and useful tool you will ever encounter. Blender unlocks a whole new skill tree. I promise, you will look at the world, differently, how to express yourself, conceptualize and tackle a variety of problems. Even if you are, like me, not much interested in "graphic art", it’s so versatile for anything 3D, illustration or video. You can use it to visualize ideas for yourself or others, a 3D scratchpad, for 3D printing, illustrating math stuff, even simple physics simulations. Yes, there is a learning curve, but it’s pretty straight forward after the initial complexity shock. The UI is so thoughtful and consistent you get efficient with it very quickly. Totally worth it!

And Blender is free and open source, this skill enablement is permanent and unconditional! It’s an attestation to what’s possible.
by fhd2 | 2025-10-03 11:48:49+00:00
My thoughts exactly. So many actually useful tools could be built on top of LLMs, but most of the resources go into the no code space.

I get it though, non programmers or weak programmers don't scrutinise the results and are more likely to be happy to pay. Still, bit of a shame.

Maybe these tools exist, but at least to me, they don't surface among all the noise.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-10-03 11:48:52+00:00
I think the best is to use gymnastics rings. They aren't expensive, but you do need to attach something solid to the ceiling to connect them to (I use a piece of iron angle painted white, lagged screwed into ceiling joists). The straps are quickly adjustable and you can do a bunch of pulling exercises, including the rows. The real advantage of the rings is that they allow your wrists and elbows to change angle through the pull path which can greatly reduce the stress on the joints and feel more natural too.
by rozumem | 2025-10-03 11:49:21+00:00
Curious what your sources are for zero income tax on business income in Spain and Portugal. When I researched them a while back, I didn't see anything of that nature. Anyways, all my income would be foreign income so not sure if what you're saying would even apply to me. But, I'm all ears.

> you file your paperwork and enjoy the rights of the permit you are applying for, from get go, and it's their problem how long it takes to get done

I've experienced this in Poland. I was not allowed to leave the country while my paperwork was being processed (which took over a year) or I would not be allowed re-entry. Not sure how other countries operate.

I wholeheartedly agree EU is much better for settling long term, integrating, feeling part of a community, etc... I've had a great time in Poland and EU generally and I'd love to settle there at some point.

But presently I want a place to bunker down for one year and focus. And I found that to be difficult in EU where I'd have to keep moving every 3 months or deal with bureaucracy for a DN visa.

So far, I find Dubai to be a good fit for that time horizon. Zero income tax is a nice perk but wasn't my primary motivation. I also considered the Baltic countries, but shied away from the paperwork, language gap, and lack of a quick turnaround.
by usrnm | 2025-10-03 11:49:21+00:00
Depends on your definition of a word and how it relates to writing. It's not such a simple question, actually.

Let's consider "scheepskapitein", "Schiffskapitän" and "ship captain". All three are formed the exact same way and mean roughly the same thing, but it's customary in Dutch and German to spell it without a space and in English it's considered correct to have a space in between. Note, that there are no spaces in speech, it's simply a writing convention. So, how many words are there in this example?
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-03 11:49:34+00:00
There is a .. "new Wave" (?) .. happening around microcomputers associated with that era .. in the modern context. I think the reason this article has impact, is that this 'new Wave' of microcomputers is tangible, visible, and not just on the horizon but happening every single day, in a kind of quiet revolution/resurgence of platforms once considered 'outdated', suddenly becoming relevant again.

You can still use these machines - this holy trinity of computers still get regular software made for them - and as platforms, there is a resurgence happening.

The ZX Spectrum Next. The myriad FPGA-based consoles that allow full access to entire "retired architectures". The Apollo A6000 'next-gen Amiga' .. all of these new 'hobbyist systems' fulfil the original need that the 'trinity' systems proposed. There are, literally, hundreds of different ways to get a modern reproduction of the 'second wave' systems.

So I imagine a day, in the not too distant future, that really useful applications are released for the 'next-gen 8-bit hobby microcomputer' systems. Put a well-fitted Apple II environment in a wrist-watch, and watch the devs arrive .. ;)

By way of example, I have in my (admittedly extensive) retro computing collection, an Oric-1/Atmos system that was used consistently, every single week for 40 years, to record motorbike club membership details, statistics, visit logs, and so on. For 40 years that system was doing its job as an on-site membership database and fuel log. That it was offline and only physically accessible was a feature, not a bug.

I think there are plenty of other places that the modern, new-school 'retro-' microcomputers can find their setting - just a little bit above embedded, perhaps, side-wise to the mobile, and very definitely competing alongside desktop in terms of active user experience.

Not to mention, all the 'new retro consoles' are an awesome market for games and entertainment, of course ..
by diziet | 2025-10-03 11:49:40+00:00
The A100 SXM4 has a TDP of 400 watts, let's say about 800 with cooling etc overhead.

Bulk pricing per KWH is about 8-9 cents industrial. We're over an order of magnitude off here.

At 20k per card all in price (MSRSP + datacenter costs) for the 80GB version, with a 4 year payoff schedule the card costs 57 cents per hour (20,000/24/365/4) assuming 100% utilization.
by CamelCaseName | 2025-10-03 11:49:51+00:00
Except they can't.

Europe is struggling with soaring energy costs and a lack of alternatives. Whether it's red tape or unfortunate geography, Europe cannot afford to turn off the Russian gas tap.

A benevolent US would see this and find ways to bridge the gap for Europe and lower its energy costs, further choking Russia.

A less benevolent US would see this and encourage it to continue, weakening both parties and sowing internal feuds within Europe.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-03 11:49:53+00:00
>Everyone is so pissed at each other. Let have a World War. This time it will surely resolve all of the issues. If not, some subsequent Civil Wars will do the trick.

Nobody needs/wants war. That's never the solution to our problems.

OP isnt even correct. Japan has loads of crisis level problems, but the 'ruling party' would win the election if it happened today.
by robinsonb5 | 2025-10-03 11:50:53+00:00
You'd think, wouldn't you? But in some regards they still feel less responsive than the desktop of a sub-10MHz machine from the 1980s.

(I'm not kidding - the tight coupling of quadrature-based mouse counters and hardware sprite mouse cursor - bypassing all the wireless, serial / PS/2 / USB encoding and decoding we have today - and on-screen gadgets being drawn and redrawn in the input subsystem's context without messages having to trickle through a ten foot long pipeline of frameworks and UI toolkits, all gave a sense of immediacy, of "having the computer's full attention", that's rare to find in today's world of janky semi-functional web apps.)
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-03 11:51:05+00:00
It probably isn’t accurate to classify it as working and relaxing, in the way we humans see “going to work”. I’ve never worked with a service dog but I have with “working” dogs. They almost universally enjoy and prefer working to “relaxing”. The reason people need to take their dogs on long walks and play with them in the park is really to simulate working. Dogs like tasks, focusing and following a leader, and having a structure of being a pack member fulfilling whatever goal.
Show HN: InstaLogic – online math/programming competition
by KwsAti | 2025-10-03 11:51:11+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re organizing InstaLogic, a fully online competition to spark curiosity in math, logic, and computing for younger students (ages 7–11). We’ve run it in Poland before (18k+ participants last year); this time it’s open worldwide. We believe it’s one of the largest three-stage competitions of this kind for this age group.

You can try it here: https://instalogic.org

Everything is online and free to join.

We’d be grateful for suggestions on where to share this to reach more students, teachers, and parents.

Also, we’d appreciate feedback on our tasks, both the logic and the wording.

Schedule: * Stage 1 (Oct 1–28, 2025): story-based logic & math puzzles. Join anytime during this window.

* Stage 2 (Dec 6, 2025): beginner-friendly programming.

* Stage 3 (Mar 14, 2026): more challenges and a simple educational assembly language we built for fundamentals.

PS: Teachers and parents are welcome. You can register a class or a single student, or your child; Stage 1 is drop-in friendly (join anytime between Oct 1–28).
by piskov | 2025-10-03 11:51:32+00:00
That’s some far fetched piece (based on what is above the paywall).

For jets argument you must first understand where Kaliningrad is: something akin to Alaska for US — open the map to see what European countries are invariably in between.

Even if they crossed momentarily the air border (though there was no objective visual proof from either side, which is why the story died), supersonic jet is not like crusing at 20 mph: if you sway for several seconds you can easily graze some border. It is unprofessional but not impossible.

As for a few drones: the key word is undentified.

Yet the piece is titled: Europe is under Russian Attack. Meh
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-03 11:51:50+00:00
I am. It is a semantic difference. Single entities get referred to by a single word. If you use a word group to describe it, it means you don't consider it a single "thing", but a "system" described by the relations of single "things".

The composed word also has a specific meaning that the same words with space between doesn't. For example "das rote Kraut" – "red herb" and "das Rotkraut" – "red cabbage". Also suppose "red cabbage" was grown in abnormal conditions, so it doesn't have the color pigments, it is still "red cabbage", but not "red" "cabbage". This is awkward to state in English, but no problem in German.