MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Thorrez | 2025-10-04 21:31:07+00:00
If I'm choosing between 2 products on the market, if I pay for the higher quality product, that's going to increase that company's revenue. That will either allow them to pay the existing engineers more, or hire more engineers. The lower quality product won't get my revenue, and thus won't be able to do that.

More revenue -> company grows

Less revenue -> company shrinks
by saghm | 2025-10-04 21:31:25+00:00
Yeah, this seems to me to be comparable to something like `/usr/bin/env` or even agnostic language package managers like asdf in terms of trying to provide an abstraction over having to manually define where to find the toolchain to use for a given script. There's a pretty well-established pattern at this point of alternate takes for common CLI tools being written in Rust that bring something interesting to the table at the cost of compatibility with the older existing tool, so even if this one might or might not pan out into being useful for enough people, I think it's totally reasonable to try to come up with a new way of doing things.

It's also not incredibly uncommon for people to run scripts that they haven't written themselves (like via the almost universally reviled but still somewhat common `curl <...> | bash` installation pattern). It probably would be better if things didn't get installed like this, but if it's going to happen, it might be nice to have the scripts written in something less annoying than shell so that the authors could at least use the same language for the installation script that they do for writing the software itself.
by iancmceachern | 2025-10-04 21:31:39+00:00
My experience from going to giants games is that people leave when they want, not when the game is over (unless it's a nail biter). Same with arriving.

I will say, our personal experience and the comments of many fellow fans. The games seem more engaging, fun, and it's easier to be present and attentive for the whole game. That mentality and experience makes for better attendance in future games and a general attitude of "its worth the time".
by jt2190 | 2025-10-04 21:31:39+00:00
That’s only a problem if your goal is to keep on doing the same old web apps the same old way, just delegating part of the program logic to WASM which, I agree, will be more complicated. But if you’re going to use WASM why limit yourself to using the DOM and JavaScript? Why not use a programming environment that lets you use more sophisticated tools?
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-10-04 21:32:11+00:00
Whilst this is true; its also worth considering:

If Apple did not stay in the Chinese market they will very quickly have a competitor appear in that market that will then threaten other markets. Arguably, there are already Apple competitors in it and Apple's position keeps them from occupying a space that quickly leads to competing with Apple globally.

China is generally viewed as a unique market and capitulating to the Chinese government may lead to capitulation to the US, but not to any other nation as they are incomparable.

The UK market will neither create an Apple competitor nor will it provide enough scope to allow existing competitors to meaningfully grow.

Capitulating to the UK government will lead to many other countries requiring similar capitulations.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-04 21:32:25+00:00
> ...memory safety is simply table stakes these days.

Is there like a mailing list Rust folks are on where they send out talking points every few months? I have never seen a community so in sync on how to talk about a language or project. Every few months there's some new phrase or talking point I see all over the place, often repeated verbatim. This is just the most recent one.
by blackbear_ | 2025-10-04 21:33:13+00:00
The purpose of a PhD is not to train people for "appropriate jobs". PhD students perform a large part of academic research, and while most of it is grunt work and produces incremental results, some brilliant people end up discovering a gold nugget and carrying their field forward many times over.

Innovation is hard, most ideas do not pan out, and most people aren't made for it. It really is a number's game: to stay competitive and innovative as a country you need enough people pushing against the frontier, including taking bets that are too risky for the private sector.
by semiquaver | 2025-10-04 21:33:37+00:00
> Will some kind of magic turn these AIs into independently acting agents once they get smart enough? I doubt it

This could just as easily be reworded circa 2016 or so to “will some kind of magic turn a large collection of matrix weights into something that seems to understand language at a human level after being exposed to enough of it?”

We don’t know squat about how intelligence or consciousness actually work, so those are effectively magic as well, yet they clearly exist in humans.
by troupo | 2025-10-04 21:34:03+00:00
> What I'm curious is why the platforms don't adapt to how the developers have found works best?

Because standards committees are also made out of people. They have their own agendas, experiences, biases, company loyalties etc.

And in the past ten or more years all standards have been taken over by a very small number of very prolific people from Google. Prolific as in: writing dozens and hundreds of specs and having their fingers in all standards.
by ninkendo | 2025-10-04 21:34:11+00:00
I’d agree with everything you’re saying if the cost of inspecting the car for rejoining the network wasn’t $2000. It should be a relatively simple inspection/test of the relevant systems and should cost 1/10th that.

Also, if the vehicle is flagged by Tesla as being salvaged, it should be made obvious somewhere in the vehicle, in the same vein as a check engine light, or more realistically an error message on the UI screen. It should not be a surprise to the driver that the car won’t charge (let alone an unsuspecting buyer.)
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-04 21:34:45+00:00
>It does, though, and the article I linked explains what actually happens:

And I disagree with your analysis. That's not an attack on you or The Guardian for that matter.

While there certainly are programs as you mention, there are (and have been for decades) others that do not seek to reunite people with support systems -- rather they just want those pesky homeless people gone.

Out of sight, out of mind and all that.
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by kaushikbokka | 2025-10-04 21:35:46+00:00
The RL ecosystem is maturing— verifiers are standardizing how we build and share environments. However, as it grows, we need observability tooling that actually understands RL primitives.

Running RL experiments without visibility into rollout quality, reward distributions, or failure modes is a waste of time.

Monitor provides live tracking, per-example inspection, and programmatic access—see what's happening during runs and debug what went wrong afterward.
by saghm | 2025-10-04 21:35:56+00:00
I wonder if the mistake might stem from Go using a subcommand (i.e. `go run`, which might appear resemble `cargo run` or `dotnet run` at a glance) compared to providing the ability to run a "script" as a top-level command, which tends to be more common with interpreted languages (`node`, `python`, `irb`, `bash`, `lua`, etc.)
by stared | 2025-10-04 21:36:01+00:00
Maybe it is one way to go.

But I had a similar though with newspapers. There are quite a few I like. Yet, there are more articles in one that I can read - especially when I want to have other sources as well. So yeah, if there were only a handful of good blogs, it would be the case. But there is a long tail of interesting stuff there.

Anyway, even for the Hacker News, I would like to filter a bit, so to have feed like the hackernewsletter (which I like a lot), but profiled more to my tastes.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-04 21:37:14+00:00
A big part of his job is being a stock promoter. He is raising funds at a 500 billion dollar valuation, so it clearly works. Promise the moon (or Dyson sphere) is a proven way to generate hype and stay in the limelight.

It's not that crazy from a futurism perspective. If we become an interplanetary civilization, we will probably have things like this run our compute. I just wouldn't spend money investing in that future today...
by wmichelin | 2025-10-04 21:37:49+00:00
This seems unnecessary if we can run imports from functions, right? This feels like a layer of indirection and a potential source for confusion. Rather than implicitly importing a library when the variable is first used, why don't you just explicitly do it?

Edit

> A somewhat common way to delay imports is to move the imports into functions (inline imports), but this practice requires more work to implement and maintain, and can be subverted by a single inadvertent top-level import. Additionally, it obfuscates the full set of dependencies for a module. Analysis of the Python standard library shows that approximately 17% of all imports outside tests (nearly 3500 total imports across 730 files) are already placed inside functions or methods specifically to defer their execution. This demonstrates that developers are already manually implementing lazy imports in performance-sensitive code, but doing so requires scattering imports throughout the codebase and makes the full dependency graph harder to understand at a glance.

I think this is a really weak foundation for this language feature. We don't need it.
by troupo | 2025-10-04 21:37:50+00:00
> That said, it only became available across all major browsers in March of 2022, and still isn't supported by some minor browsers.

And the only reason it suddenly reappeared in 2022 was because browsers want to get rid of alert/prompt dialogs.

The spec was (and probably still is) so riddled with issues that it never went anywhere for 10 or so years, and Chrome at one point argued it should be removed.

> This would be valid but the very MDN article they link literally starts with

People involved with HTMX play really fast and lose with anything that doesn't fit their conclusions hoping no one will call them out.
by saila | 2025-10-04 21:37:55+00:00
How it is "luxury" to want to address large scale crimes such as wage theft, price collusion, corruption, unequal access, and institutional racism/classism that are major underlying factors in street crime, including the lack of enforcement you mention here? From a nerd perspective, it's seems obvious that addressing underlying causes is beneficial to all of us. In fact, it seems likely that it's the only thing that will work in the long run. Policing might also be necessary in some cases, but it's not going to fix our long-standing social issues.
by lukan | 2025-10-04 21:38:18+00:00
"but it does indicate that an abundance of cheap housing/buildings makes culture thrive."

Not on its own, though. Plenty of abandoned/underpopulated cheap places in europe that do not thrive. But it certainly is beneficial.

(in the case of Berlin, there was for example a special effect, that all germans living in west berlin did not had to go to the army (to not having to shoot their relatives in east berlin) - so lots of counterculture people evading the army came to Berlin and they created culture)
by philbo | 2025-10-04 21:38:30+00:00
Does he though? Honestly I haven't seen it.

I've been through the last ~10 or ~15 posts on his Medium this evening, to check. Sentence-by-sentence I don't see anything that goes beyond "what if". Can you share some of the quotes you have in mind?

I think this is an interesting phenomenon, because it seems that lots of people throw personal insults at him (not saying that's you btw) without addressing the meat of whatever they're reacting to.

And lest we forget! One of the founding essays [1] of this very website discusses it: if you're slinging ad hominem attacks or personal insults around, you're by definition losing the "argument" (not that I think this qualifies as an "argument").

[1]: https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
by supermatt | 2025-10-04 21:38:56+00:00
You mean like FISA, EARN IT, CLOUD act, PATRIOT act, LAED, etc, etc in USA?

And let’s not forget the proposed 2025 VÜPF amendments in Switzerland (that’s where you are from,right?): user identification, mandatory metadata retention, removal of e2ee, etc for any service with over 5k users. They make even the UK proposals sound tame!

But sure, bash the EU some more over a proposal that hasn’t been passed..
by nico_h | 2025-10-04 21:38:57+00:00
iPhone 4 was a beautiful piece of hardware, but it felt indulgent. Just too heavy (it’s still my second favorite iPhone design). The iPhone 5 and 5S were a better compromise in terms of performance and design per gram. I contend they were the peak of utilitarian industrial design. Plus lightning port, and touchid on the 5S. Maybe the finest example of the “naked robotic core” that you stuff in the case of your choice.
by mustaphah | 2025-10-04 21:40:47+00:00
> RSS is actually already familiar to you if you have ever subscribed to a newsletter [...]

RSS is far better than a (digest) newsletter; you can browse individual posts at your own pace, keep some unread for later, and revisit them across sessions.

With newsletters, you either read the whole thing in one sitting or leave the email unarchived forever.

If only every newsletter had an RSS feed. But of course they don't - can't show you ads!
by smj-edison | 2025-10-04 21:41:16+00:00
Yeah, @Rochus is right. Once the action has passed the escapement, its entire point is that you lose all control, else you'd get thudding, reversing the point of the fortepiano's innovation.

That's not to say us pianists have other tricks up our sleeves though. Staccato, slightly delayed playing, damper pedal (which is not just binary but continuous), slower release of key (because you can slowly apply the damper giving it a slight ringing effect), tempo changes, and other techniques get you quite a broad range of feeling. It doesn't however mean that timbre is orthogonal to volume--they are coupled by velocity.

Also, this post doesn't go into methods, so I worry about lack of ABX testing, whether it's a single note or a piece, whether they could see the pianist, etc. Perhaps they addressed that in the paper that they'll publish...

Edit: another thought: why is this even using subjective listeners? You can just measure velocity and run an FFT to see whether they can make a timbre separate from volume and velocity.
by mhb | 2025-10-04 21:41:26+00:00
Though the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group seized parts of Walikale territory only a few months ago, residents of this corner of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo say their lives have been transformed.

“They are here, and we have no choice but to live with them,” said a local resident. “They sow terror so that they will be listened to."

Walikale is one of several territories the M23 has been fighting over during a nearly four-year insurgency that has displaced millions of people, echoing the devastating wars that blighted DRC in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
by leakycap | 2025-10-04 21:42:05+00:00
perhaps you overlooked the literal first line?

> The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services.

If you read further, or click the FT link, you'll see the UK is now demanding access to encrypted iPhone backups.

ADP is not relevant beyond the history; the UK is not doing anything with ADP but I understand the confusion if you don't know that "iPhone iCloud backup" is a separate service for iPhones.
by immibis | 2025-10-04 21:42:34+00:00
Violence is a law of nature and a law of human history. Voting was created as an alternative to violence - I think most of us have forgotten that. Voting allows us to achieve similar results as the former solution (killing powerful people who abuse their power), but without anyone actually having to die.

It's not surprising that if voting stops working as an alternative to violence, the world goes back to violence. And if that happens, whoever starts first has the advantage of surprise.

Game theory is the most powerful force on the planet, and it sucks.

According to HN moderators, this is a bad comment and I should be punished for posting it.
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-10-04 21:42:42+00:00
I'd be very curious to see the desperate state you are talking about.

For physical infrastructure, there are certainly less well maintained areas and historical policies causing issues, but I'm not aware of any areas that are structurally/physically unsafe.

There are 'rougher' areas, places where theft is more likely but very, very few areas that are genuinely unsafe to walk through. The only ones I'm really aware of are two very small areas in London (basically 2-3 buildings) and certain kinds of traveller camps.

For pretty much everything else, it seems to be on par with other European nations - generally behind the Nordics of course.

Share the videos - I'd love to understand where you are coming from.
by neilv | 2025-10-04 21:43:07+00:00
2010 Motorola Defy (107mm x 59mm, 118g, IP67).

I loved the hardware, but it had some awful "value-added" Motoblur software atop Android that seemed to put Motorola in the loop on Internet communications, where it didn't belong.

And unfortunately the Defy was locked down against alternate firmware. So I got a Samsung i897 Captivate (122.4mm x 64.2mm, 118g), and found a nice alternate firmware Android fork for it.

Currently, after various phones that didn't work as well, or that were creepily invasive (e.g., iPhones, vendor Android), I'm currently using GrapheneOS Android firmware, with Pixel 7 hardware.

Plus a case sufficient to let it likely survive a drop. The result is a bit of a brick, which beats up my trousers pocket, looks dumb, and sometimes causes chafing. I've started experimenting with not carrying a phone at all again, and it's a bit of a relief, though occasionally I miss a photo.

(But it's not the same as walking phone-less before. Everyone and their dog has now set up networked surveillance cameras, feeding centralized data fusion of the current regime. So you're arguably being tracked even more now, phone-less, than when you used to walk around enjoying the benefits of your earlier phone.)
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-04 21:43:24+00:00
When voting is made ineffective by design, such as via gerrymandering, what other recourse do you propose remains for citizens?

Official authorised protests in designated zones away from areas that would inconvenient for politicians?

Making jokes about the people in charge in public forums such as late night TV shows and then hoping the regulator doesn’t threaten to require the termination of your job as a precondition for government approvals?

What exactly can ordinary people do that is effective at reigning in autocracts?
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-04 21:43:28+00:00
The only reason you have voting booths is because someone in the past threatened someone else and made them agree to a democratic process. These threats to privacy are a threat to free speech and therefore a credible threat to democracy and personal liberty. By implementing these policies, politicians are guaranteeing violence. By all means try to change things peacefully, but in my opinion the current crop of politicians (especially outside the US) don't care so much what you think about their awful policies.
by Seralbla | 2025-10-04 21:43:56+00:00
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That’s how Mindbit was born. It’s a free app where you can:

Create short, dynamic courses with AI.

Ask AI questions about any lesson.

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I’m a solo developer, and the hardest part of this journey hasn’t been the code — it’s been the discipline to keep improving Mindbit, even when I didn’t know if anyone would care.

Along the way, I’ve learned something powerful: People who learn how to use AI have huge advantages in today’s world.

So far, the feedback has been really positive, and I’m now focusing on growing the community of learners who want to use AI to truly improve themselves.

If this resonates with you, I’d love your feedback or ideas. Check out Mindbit on Google Play or at mindbit.online .
by estebank | 2025-10-04 21:44:09+00:00
If you have

let a: u8 is 0..100 = 1; let b: u8 is 0..100 = 2; let c = a + b;

The type of c could be u8 in 0..200. If you have holes in the middle, same applies. Which means that if you want to make c u8 between 0..100 you'd have to explicitly clamp/convert/request that, which would have to be a runtime check.
by drnick1 | 2025-10-04 21:45:02+00:00
I think the following is a better guide for someone looking for a complete setup that includes an IMAP server and that can be used with regular email clients like Thunderbird:

https://workaround.org/ispmail-bookworm/

I set up my own server more or less following the above guide, but eschewed the database in favor of plain text files. I wanted to keep things simple since I am the only user, but the above guide should scale to big enterprise setups.
by godelski | 2025-10-04 21:45:07+00:00
> It doesn't make money.

It makes someone money. And the "great thing" about government money is that when you lose it it doesn't come out of your pocket!

Honestly, we should treat these people like we would with any other employee wasting money. They need to justify their expenses. I don't mean with just words, I mean data. Words aren't enough. I can claim all day that painting this red dot on a ceiling with my special paint that costs 10 cents to make and $10k to install just right is an effective solution to stopping terrorists, pedophiles, and even cancer but words aren't proof. And except for the utmost security concerns, this data and justifications should be public. Otherwise there is no accountability.

People often say they don't trust politicians. I'd like to see those words be reflected in actions. It seems we only don't trust certain politicians. And it seems we hand over all trust as soon as they claim they are protecting children and fighting terrorists. I'm sorry, but what class of people are we finding in the Epstein list? Last I checked he wasn't hanging around low class people with no political or monetary influence. So why do we let them use that phrase like some cheat code?
by pstuart | 2025-10-04 21:45:21+00:00
I'm working on a project that is based on blockchain for the key purpose of making the data on it effectively available to all to add to and to consume -- basically providing a public utility for the data hosting.

It's not a path to riches (I can see a possible lifestyle business out of it), it's about giving people new opportunities.

I've been chewing on this for years and only now that Claude has shown up do I have a partner to help me make this work.

I do have some experience working on blockchain for a startup (non-ICO) that helped inspire me, but the experience itself bordered on being PTSD-inducing. The people I worked with were True Believers of Crypto, but the product we were building used crypto solely to tell their investors it was a blockchain company -- not that their product leveraged it at all.
by epolanski | 2025-10-04 21:46:04+00:00
Not gonna lie.

This ai craze makes me think that:

- there's not much of a moat long term in inference hardware (can't comment about training)

- the models themselves are a commodity that can be swapped any day

- the products are coming but not at the pace one thought. It's been 3 years since Chatgpt launched and we still have no decent service where I can inject documents and ask questions.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-04 21:47:45+00:00
> I hope Apple tell the government where to shove their requests

They complied with the previous request, and stopped because the US government pressured the UK government because they didn't want US nationals to also fall victim to reduced security.

I'd love to see Apple stand up this time, but given their history I don't think it'll happen beyond a miffed comment on a blog somewhere.