MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-23 03:26:23+00:00
You can _definitely_ learn enough garage band to make a simple loop! It's very easy to set up, actually - at least on desktop, and I'm sure it's similar enough on the mobile app.

You can mark a section on the timeline to loop, and if you record when you're in that state, it'll just continually record to that same section of track. You can also set it up to do a metronome count in before actually recording. So, if you can manage to stay on time for 2 or 4 bars in one go, you can just record some quarter note strums into your phone mic - bang, perfectly serviceable loop for practice.

You can even start out with just a loop of a single chord to get a sense for how different notes sound against it in context. When that gets boring, do a little I-V or I-IV loop and try to notice the change in feel of different notes in, say, the major pentatonic scale for the root note. Then try a twelve bar blues, and then, ya know, whatever. It's a lot of fun, I'll often just toss out a quick loop and noodle if I've got ten minutes between meetings or a long build or something.
by justinator | 2025-10-23 03:26:24+00:00
Bikes have very efficient transmission systems, so outside of extremes you can pedal at an efficient amount of torque for the rider regardless of say: hitting a big hill. This is doubly so for e-bikes that assist in the pedaling.

This is more akin to a hybrid car, who's gas engine could generate electricity, but in the case of this e-Bike from Rivian, why would you do that? The electric motor is significantly more powerful than a person's legs, outside of the Pro Peleton.

Watch anyone on a Class 3 ebike: they're not pedaling. The bicycle drivetrain is just there to get around regulations, like having a license.

Rivian isn't known for making hyper-efficient electric vehicles. Rivians are MANLY trucks made to do MANLY truck things, like go fast! and go through tires faster!
by ggm | 2025-10-23 03:26:56+00:00
I notice (perhaps wrongly? my bias showing?) that the closer successful court action looks, the more Tesla changes web terms to reflect nuance in what things like "FSD" mean.

"ready for autonomy features" (or something similar) is massively different to "will run FSD, and will drive itself" (or something similar, the view people took from what they read, when they paid extra for a feature set)
by wisty | 2025-10-23 03:27:39+00:00
OTOH the nocevo effect is real.

If you tell prople guten intolerance is a thing, you will cause some people will feel real pain. https://theconversation.com/your-gluten-sensitivity-might-be...

If you tell people trauma is probably no big deal in most cases but to seek help in the unlikely event that it does cause more issues then maybe that's better?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-23 03:28:37+00:00
This isn't a solution either. Not sure why you think it is. Here's how I name files, just as an example:

Meditationes de Prima Philosophia - GTNB•0023306 (2007) - Descartes, René (aut) Meditations on First Philosophy - 9780203417621 (2013) - Descartes, René (aut); Haldane, Elizabeth (trl); Ross, G. R. T. (trl) & Tweyman, Stanley (edt,wfw)

Where and how should I put a URI in there, especially considering that they at minimum need the colon (:), which is a problematic character in filenames on NTFS/HFS/APFS/XFS? They're not exactly disallowed, but they create a resource fork or some shit and so it doesn't behave as you would expect. If Standard Ebooks just started numbering their books, then I'd slap the STBK• in front of the number and use that. They're not in Worldcat, or I could use OCLC numbers (but it shouldn't be other people's job to keep the catalog of their own books).
by ggm | 2025-10-23 03:29:05+00:00
> HIV can stay in the body for life by hiding inside the DNA of infected cells. This makes it hard to completely remove the virus, even with strong treatment. In this study, researchers explored whether HIV hides in different ways depending on where in the body the infected cells are found.

where "are found" is, and where "is" is, are different. If they mean ONLY found, despite exhaustive testing, thats quite different to "we looked under the lamppost (brain) because thats what we had (post mortem) to look at"
by colechristensen | 2025-10-23 03:29:53+00:00
>The larvae would hatch prematurely thinking it was spring and be killed by another freeze before they could get a foothold.

This happens in Minnesota which can have really intense mosquito seasons. If you have a few very warm early spring days followed by a good freeze, especially if this happens a few times, you'll have a year with barely any mosquitos instead of swarms.
by proc0 | 2025-10-23 03:30:22+00:00
Right, I can see how using an agentic system like that would go a long way. However there is a distinction between using AI models directly, and architecting a system in the context of this conversation, because it means the limitations of the models are being overcome by human engineers (and at scale, since this is hard outside of enterprise). If the models were intelligent enough this would not be needed.

So my claim of knowledge bases still stands. An agentic system designed by humans is still a system of knowledge bases that work with natural language, and of course their capability is impressive, but I remained unconvinced they can push the boundaries like a human can. That said, maybe pushing boundaries is not needed for the majority of applications out there, which I guess is fair enough and what we have now is good enough to make most human engineering obsolete. I guess we'll see in the near future.
by codedokode | 2025-10-23 03:30:30+00:00
The article is written to mislead the reader, like a propaganda piece, instead of using neutral language, for example:

> Cryptomus’s Vancouver street address was home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which were physically located there.

That's absolutely normal - in US many companies are not located at the address they are registered at (for example, to pay less taxes).

> These platforms were built for Russian speakers, and they each advertised the ability to anonymously swap one form of cryptocurrency for another,

Russians are not subject to Canada laws.

> They also allowed the exchange of cryptocurrency for cash in accounts at some of Russia’s largest banks — nearly all of which are currently sanctioned by the United States and other western nations.

US "sanctions" are merely a local regulation and do not apply to Russia or other countries. The article tries to present it as if sanctions were an international law (but there is no such things as universal international law).

> anonymity or “proxy” providers

Internet anonymity is almost an universal human right.

> anonymous SMS services

What's wrong with this? Should we fill a visa application before sending an SMS?
by wisty | 2025-10-23 03:31:06+00:00
OTOH the nocebo effect is real.

If you tell people gluten intolerance is a thing, you will cause some people will feel real pain. https://theconversation.com/your-gluten-sensitivity-might-be...

And when it comes to stuff that's all in your head anyway, what's the difference between a real disorder and a psychogenic one?

If you tell people trauma is probably no big deal in most cases but to seek help in the unlikely event that it does cause more issues then maybe that's better? It's like they say on the legal disclaimer on Tylenol in Australia - if pain persists see a doctor.

And while I'm couching my words a lot because I don't want to play fake internet doctor, the other side of the argument is also likely not too competent medical opinion.
by laserbeam | 2025-10-23 03:31:33+00:00
It’s really hard to parse both the announcement (too much hyperbola) and the article (too technical), however as I understand it, this is what quantum computing should be good at. Not at making classical algorithms faster, but at simulating quantum physics experiments. This is a good direction and I find it more plausible than “we factored numbers faster”.

This SHOULD be the main application of the tech. It’s hard to tell if it is because authors can’t do science communication, they can apparently only do sales.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-23 03:31:36+00:00
> I have to contact various groups in the company- the cost center folks to get an approval for spending the money to get the SaaS, the security folk to ensure we're not accidentally leaking IP to the outside world, the legal folks to make sure the contract negotiations go smoothly.

I guess I was assuming (maybe wrongly) that you are an engineer/developer of some sort. All of that work sounds like manager work to me. Why is an IC dealing with all of that bureaucratic stuff? Doesn't they all ultimately need your manager's approval anyway?
by lukan | 2025-10-23 03:31:52+00:00
WebRTC I use since many years and would miss it a lot. P2P is awesome.

WebUSB I don't use or would miss it right now, but .. the main potential use case is security and it sounds somewhat reasonable

"Use in multi-factor authentication

WebUSB in combination with special purpose devices and public identification registries can be used as key piece in an infrastructure scale solution to digital identity on the internet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebUSB
by sivers | 2025-10-23 03:32:23+00:00
Whoa. How weird to see this on the HN front page. It's so not ready yet. I'll write up more about it some day soon.

For the big idea, see https://sive.rs/pg

I really took Rich Hickey's "Simplicity Matters" talk to heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

I've been making PostgreSQL-centered web apps for 9 years that way, by having PostgreSQL just return JSON. Then the "controller" (Ruby or whatever) parses the Mustache or ERB template with the JSON and returns HTML to the browser.

What I'm doing differently now is having PostgreSQL parse Mustache templates directly!

So now the controller just has to pass in the HTTP params, give it to the PostgreSQL function, and it returns HTML ready to return in the HTTP response.
by davorak | 2025-10-23 03:32:37+00:00
> now a guy claiming direct correlation with trauma based on what you went through for some seconds/minutes right after you born? feels like some Freud and their charlatans type of shit not "soft science"

Dave Asprey made the claim according to the article not the author of the book. The only evidence I see in the article linking the claim to the book is at the end:

> Where then could Dave have gotten this idea that he has trauma from an experience he couldn’t possibly remember? Probably Bessel van der Kolk.

Which is pretty much nothing.

The article does not go into why I should care what Dave Asprey thinks or does not think on trauma. For all I know it is a cherry picked example of a bad opinion disconnected from the book and typical scientific opinion.
by al_borland | 2025-10-23 03:35:18+00:00
I think the key is to just make the best service. For the masses, privacy and security aren’t selling points. Make the core product great, and then it happens to also be privacy respecting FOSS.

Of all the FOSS software that has made inroads with the masses, none of it has been due to it being FOSS or the privacy. People don’t use VLC because it’s FOSS, they use it because a video file didn’t play in the player they had, and VLC played it without and fuss.

Solve problems users have. They don’t see not being FOSS as a problems. So yes, make FOSS, but don’t expect that to be your headline feature. Like it or not, very few people actually care.
by dang | 2025-10-23 03:35:34+00:00
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it a great deal (I'm not just talking about the current thread, but a clear repeated pattern with your account), and we've already asked you not to. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
by strken | 2025-10-23 03:35:50+00:00
You need to separate physical trauma from psychological trauma. There's no debate that getting hit in the head or having explosives go off nearby can cause physical brain damage. That's empirically proven (at least in animal models) and so obvious that it's hard to argue against.

What I'm unclear on is the details: is physical trauma a necessary factor in shell shock as it was understood a century or more ago? Is that shell shock the same thing as the combat stress reaction and/or post-traumatic stress disorder? Is PTSD an amalgamation of two different things that aren't the same? To what extent does suggestion worsen the physical vs psychological sides of PTSD? Is suggestion the only thing that causes shell shock, the CSR, and/or PTSD in the absence of physical damage? Etc.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-23 03:36:05+00:00
"You may want to enable earlyoom, so your whole server doesn't go down when a service goes bananas."

Another option is to run BSD to avoid the Linux oom issue

For example, I'm not using Hetzner but I run NetBSD entirely from memory (no disk, no swap) and it never "went down" when out of memory

Looks like some people install FreeBSD and OpenBSD on Hetzner

https://gist.github.com/c0m4r/142a0480de4258d5da94ce3a2380e8...

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-freebsd-on-hetz...

https://web.archive.org/web/20231211052837if_/https://www.ar...

https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/freebsd-openzfs-via-...

https://www.souji-thenria.net/posts/openbsd_hetzner/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220814124443if_/https://blog.v...

https://www.blunix.com/blog/how-to-install-openbsd-on-hetzne...

https://gist.github.com/ctsrc/9a72bc9a0229496aab5e4d3745af0b...

If it is possible to boot Hetzner from a BSD install image using "Linux rescue mode"^1 then it should also possible to run NetBSD entirely from memory using custom kernel

Every user is different but this is how I prefer to run UNIX-like OS for personal, recreational use; I find it more resilient

1.

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/troubleshoot...

https://blog.tericcabrel.com/hetzner-rescue-mode-unlock-serv...

https://github.com/td512/rescue

https://gainanov.pro/eng-blog/linux/hetzner-rescue-mode/

https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/getting-started/rescu...

ChromeOS has an interesting approach to Linux oom issues. Not sure it has ever been discussed on HN

https://github.com/dct2012/chromeos-3.14/raw/chromeos-3.14/m...
by aetherspawn | 2025-10-23 03:36:14+00:00
A good takeaway is to separate different domains for different purposes.

I had prior been tossing up the pros/cons of this (such as teaching the user to accept millions of arbitrary TLDs as official), but I think this article (and other considerations) have solidified it for me.

For example

www.contoso.com (public)

www.contoso.blog (public with user comments)

contoso.net (internal)

staging.contoso.dev (dev/zero trust endpoints)

raging-lemur-a012afb4.contoso.build (snapshots)
by int_19h | 2025-10-23 03:36:47+00:00
Larry Sanger is famously mad at Wikipedia for a very long time now because they wouldn't allow his pseudoscience on it. Later on that also extended to his (increasingly far right) politics.

Ironically, the supposedly-censored Wikipedia has a lengthy article covering all of it including Sanger's accusations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
by beached_whale | 2025-10-23 03:37:00+00:00
I don't trust GM or any other automaker to even download my contacts. I don't want any online experience from them in my autos either. CarPlay/Android auto as a compromise as I already entrust my phone with PII works. Plus it isn't limited to the imagination of an industry that has got shown to get bored with cars the day the next model is released and is ok with things like not updating GPS data or having charging a lot for that.
by dlubarov | 2025-10-23 03:37:56+00:00
Cites what findings? They don't quote the opinion at all, except for one vague observation. You can read the opinion yourself here [1].

Reminding Israel about its obligations is not a finding of breach. It's more like that ICJ language from a prior opinion reminding Israel about its obligations under the genocide convention [2]. That obviously doesn't constitute a finding that Israel breached those obligations, though that didn't stop the various anti-Israel disinformation outlets from misrepresenting it as such.

[1] https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/196...

[2] "Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission ..."
by bcoates | 2025-10-23 03:38:15+00:00
Yes, I was hoping to see some actual insight on this Domestic Manufacturing Miracle but it seems to just be "if you build it they will come"

This flies in the face of the more than one person I know personally that tried to take stranded US based manufacturing assets and turn them into something with a future. So far, no luck

I still believe there is upside in this space over the next decade or so but I haven't met anyone who's won in a repeatable way yet.
by dang | 2025-10-23 03:38:18+00:00
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've broken the site guidelines very badly in this thread. Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669994 are the kind of thing we ban an account for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
by xp84 | 2025-10-23 03:38:41+00:00
Naming things in that manner hasn’t proven to be a good idea over the years.

When you have 2 of something and one is safe/better and the other one is known to be problematic, you give the awkward name to the problematic one and the obvious name to the safe/better one. Noobs oughtn’t to be attempting the other one, and anyone who is mature enough to have reason to do it, are mature enough to appreciate the reason behind that complexity.
by zZorgz | 2025-10-23 03:38:56+00:00
Just my feedback - I've personally found jj more complex for simple projects. Like if you have a non-collaborative repo where you push to main most of the time after making a series of commits, in jj you have to keep updating a bookmark before pushing it and there's no one command to do both.

If you have another machine on main without any outstanding changes and you want to pull the latest changes that is probably also two steps (git fetch + new?)

That said, I've been liking jj quite a bit for more mature / collaborative projects. It has been a learning experience. (don't enjoy updating bookmarks for PR branches though; jj encourages rewriting history which is not my favorite choice for code review branches; I often work in repos that squash-on-merge).
by orliesaurus | 2025-10-23 03:39:07+00:00
As someone who has been experimenting with AI ‑powered command‑line helpers, I think adding interactive commands to the Gemini CLI is a logical step, but it won’t be useful unless the underlying model is reliable for basic tasks. Several people here noted that Gemini sometimes refuses to read files outside the project directory or mishandles newlines; those sorts of inconsistencies undermine trust.

In a world where you have 100 options, trust is of utmost importance. The CLI’s integration with node‑pty and the ability to stream pseudo‑tty output into mini‑terminal viewports is clever, and I’d love to see that layer documented or open‑sourced so other tools can build on it. I see this feature as something you’d use for short‑lived tasks like running a quick script, checking a log, or doing a one‑off database query. For longer editing sessions I’d still use a real terminal multiplexer and editor. If Google can fix the reliability issues and make the API for interactive sessions open, that would be hella good for everyone!
by soramimo | 2025-10-23 03:39:47+00:00
> You'll understand why a neutral third party is wary of both.

Oh I can understand this, yet my conclusion stands that China (CCP) is and remains a threat to democracy woldwide (which is my original point).

You are not disputing this, correct? (if anything, you're drawing an equivalence to the US, which I disagree with, but doesn't refute the conclusion on the original point)?
by thayne | 2025-10-23 03:40:05+00:00
Firefox and Safari also use the list. At least by default, I think you can turn it off in firefox. And on the whole, I think it is valuable to have _a_ list of known-unsafe sites. And note that Safe Browsing is a blocklist, not an allowlist.

The problem is that at least some of the people maintaining this list seem to be a little trigger happy. And I definitely thing Google probably isn't the best custodian of such a list, as they have obvious conflicts of interest.
by dang | 2025-10-23 03:40:34+00:00
That's true, but you can stop posting to HN from that place.

Edit: I feel like I should give you a more fulsome response, so here goes:

I understand the frustration. I feel it too, even apart from HN making me feel it as part of my job. But I've had to learn some lessons about this, such as:

1. It doesn't help to assume the position of the-one-who-is-not-stupid. Doing that is supercilious and just means you'll contribute to making things worse.

2. Far better is to accept that, as one is human, one shares in all the qualities of being human, including a full complement of stupidity.

3. I forget the third lesson!
by rekenaut | 2025-10-23 03:40:35+00:00
Potentially a much greater filter is going from unicellular to multicellular life, no? If it likely took billions of years to get from unicellular to multicellular life on Earth, and only (hundreds of) millions of years to get to life that can conduct spaceflight, then perhaps microbes wouldn’t be the best way to attack this problem (I’m assuming you’re talking primarily about unicellular microbes, of course).
by yorwba | 2025-10-23 03:41:33+00:00
You don't have to use the same token dictionary for input and output. There's things like simultaneously predicting multiple tokens ahead as an auxiliary loss and for speculative decoding, where the output is larger than the input, and similarly you could have a model where the input tokens combine multiple output tokens. You would still need to do a forward pass per output token during autoregressive generation, but prefill would require fewer passes and the KV cache would be smaller too, so it could still produce a decent speedup.

But in the DeepSeek-OCR paper, compressing more text into the same number of visual input tokens leads to progressively worse output precision, so it's not a free lunch but a speed-quality tradeoff, and more fine-grained KV cache-compression methods might deliver better speedups without degrading the output as much.
by abound | 2025-10-23 03:42:03+00:00
This should be pretty straightforward to do with an IMAP <-> IMAP syncing tool, like mbsync [1]. You'd run it periodically in the background to sync the remote IMAP to Stalwart's local IMAP server, and Stalwart can then automatically serve that via JMAP, doing the translation internally.

I was originally thinking you'd need to go remote IMAP <-> maildir <-> Stalwart IMAP, which would be really complicated, but I think the IMAP <-> IMAP should work fine.

[1] https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html
by mark_l_watson | 2025-10-23 03:42:23+00:00
Written by VPs of sales from Anthropic and OpenAI?

Where this article fails the worse: in my experience smaller local models are not often used in agentic tasks that involve code execution so much of the otherwise OK points don't apply. Also, when I have played with, for example, the Agno agent library with local models, I have the application code print/display any generated Python code before execution, and local sandboxing is not difficult to do!

Local models and embedded models excel at data transformation, NLP tasks, etc.

Especially with agentic browsers like OpenAI Atlas, Comet, etc., there are real security concerns. Probably more of a concern that running local models.