MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ErrantX | 2025-10-04 08:26:46+00:00
Yep you are completely correct; people don't realise how complex the chip is - it has what you'd legitimately recognise as an operating system! It can also be reprogrammed over the wire, if your chip and pin is taking a bit toooo long that might be what's happening.

Your correct on the risk spread. I wasn't confident last night (I'm not totally versed on the terminals) but looked it up. As I understand if you choose to accept offline only payments then you accept the risk of the transaction failing. If it's the issuers choice they own the risk.
by the_other | 2025-10-04 08:26:54+00:00
I think you’re putting too much weight on cost (time, money), and not enough weight on “quality of life”, in your analysis.

For sure, we can shop faster, and (attempt) research and admin faster. But…

Shopping: used to be fun. You’d go with friends or family, discuss the goods together, gossip, bump into people you knew, stop for a sandwich, maybe mix shopping and a cinema or dinner trip. All the while, you’d be aware of other peoples’ personal space, see their family dynamics. Queuing for event tickets brought you shoulder to shoulder with the crowd before the event began… Today, we do all this at home; strangers (and communities) are separated from us by glass, cables and satalites, rather than by air and shouting distance. I argue that this time saving is reducing our ability to socialise.

Research: this is definitely accelerated, and probably mostly for the better. But… some kinds of research were mingled with the “shopping” socialisation described above.

Admin: the happy path is now faster and functioning bureaucracy is smoother in the digital realm. But, it’s the edge cases which are now more painful. Elderly people struggle with digital tech and prefer face to face. Everyone is more open to more subtle and challenging threats (identity theft, fraud); we all have to learn complex and layered mitigation strategies. Also: digital systems are very fragile: they leak private data, they’re open to wider attack surfaces, they need more training and are harder to intuit without that training; they’re ripe for capture by monopolists (Google, Palantir).

The time and cost savings of all these are not felt by the users, or even the admins of these systems. The savings are felt only by the owners of the systems.

Technologgy has saved billions of person-hours individual costs, in travel, in physical work. Yet, wemre working longer, using fewer ranges of motions, are less fit, less able to tolerste others’ differences and the wealth gap is widening.
by solarwindy | 2025-10-04 08:27:14+00:00
How about a narwhal spacewalking from the ISS, with Earth visible below (specifically the Niger delta)?

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/f3860a8a-2c7d-404f-978b-e...

Requesting an ‘extravagantly detailed’ version is quite impressive in the effort, if not quite the execution:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/f969805a-2635-4e30-8278-4...
by Kon5ole | 2025-10-04 08:27:51+00:00
One of the many surprising things on that list is that paperboys still exist!

I thought printed papers were all but dead even in the US and can't recall the last time I saw a stand or store where I could buy one. They faded away unceremoniously, like phone booths.

That there is enough money in it to motivate kids to get up in the morning still today I would never have guessed.

Also astonishing are the size and presence of the various fees! Around here a 5 dollar fee for invoicing is the highest I've seen, and it raises eyebrows even among the Mercedes/BMW crowd because everyone knows it doesn't cover any actual additional costs, so it's basically a scam. A way for companies to say "interest free" while still collecting interest.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-10-04 08:28:32+00:00
I absolutely want this arrangement for developers. We need to grow up as a profession, and take responsibility for the consequences of our actions.

This isn't the 90s anymore. Today there's practically nothing you can do in the modern world without interacting with software. Buying food, going to the hospital, travelling, communicating, voting, going to school, using anything electrical, anywhere. Our society is completely dependent on software at this point. The fact that there's no professional ethics code with the appropriate oversight for the development and maintenance of software is utterly insane.

The points you bring up about the Hippocratic Oath are important problems to solve, rather than reasons not to try.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-04 08:30:19+00:00
> Password managers and authenticators don't give you any means of passing your official data in an authoritative way.

The desire to pass "official data" from someone outside of the entity you're directly interacting with is the design flaw. Stop having that.

> Where ZKPs are used (eg for proof of age over 18) you're describing exactly what the proposal seems to expect.

I suspect that it isn't, because the only systems that actually work in terms of privacy correspondingly can't provide you with any way to identify someone if they're anonymously providing proof of age to anyone who asks, and then it would only take one person to set up a service to do that for everyone. Whereas if you can catch someone who does that you've just proven that the privacy protections aren't real.

> The system provides for an auditing service to ensure this doesn't happen without user consent.

You're suggesting that someone is going to audit something that happens inside of every private company. That's either going to be a box-checking exercise with zero effectiveness or a massively expensive ordeal that only compounds the problem by expanding access to include a set of government auditors -- or both.

The only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead. If you don't want corporations to have your private information, you can't give it to them and then try to stuff the cat back into the bag. You have to prevent them from having it to begin with.

Laws requiring them to collect it are the opposite of that.
by hypercube33 | 2025-10-04 08:31:18+00:00
I had a LaserJet III my dad got before I was born in the 1980s and it still worked when I got rid of it, even on Windows 10. PCL4 generic drivers worked just fine as well (they work on anything I'm pretty sure) and toner was $15 it just was gigantic and felt like it was going to blow the breaker when it printed
by n4r9 | 2025-10-04 08:31:30+00:00
Hi! If I remember rightly, you can run contraction hierarchies but stop short of the full contraction, and use the core vertices as "hubs"?

Hope you don't mind but I took a little look at your posting history and saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954120

I've been researching this lately, as we've recently implemented traffic patterns in our routing model and are just now working on live traffic updates. The easiest way to adapt our existing code looks like Customizable Contraction Hierarchies. There's a really nice review paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10519 . The technique is to apply nested dissections to build a "metric-independent" hierarchy based purely on connectivity, which gives a decent quality of contraction regardless of transit times. Is that what you mean by decomposing the network into "cells"?
by teiferer | 2025-10-04 08:31:31+00:00
"permanently"

"ever again"

For good reason, modern law systems rarely issue punishments that last a lifetime. People can and do change, and something stupid (and illegal) you did 30 years ago shouldn't be held over your head today. These are rare cases for the absolutely worst crimes. For anything else, you receive a punishment, be it money or months/years in jail, and after that, you deserve a chance to live a life without ongoing punishment. Beyond knowing what you did, and remembering the punishment, which for most people is already a burden heavy enough.
by lukan | 2025-10-04 08:33:10+00:00
Well, sort of we still are, there are competitions to build concrete boats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_canoe (also a thing in europe)

But not as commercial products. Because concrete is just not the best ship building material, you only use it if you either want the challenge (as a student) or you simply don't have anything better at hand.
by 0points | 2025-10-04 08:35:33+00:00
There's a metric ton of them by now. Here's incomplete notes from a couple of years ago:

### kaitai - https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct - https://github.com/kaitai-io/awesome-kaitai - http://formats.kaitai.io/dos_datetime/index.html

### Hexinator / Synalyze It! - Universal Parsing Engine - Hexinator is freemium version of Synalyze It! - https://github.com/synalysis/Grammars/blob/master/bitmap.gra...

### quickbms - http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms.htm

## multiex - http://multiex.xentax.com/

### Game Extractor by WATTO - http://www.watto.org/game_extractor.html

### 010 editor templates - https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/templates/

### hex fiend templates - https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/tree/master/templates

### malcat - has some form of binary templates - https://malcat.fr/

### Andys Binary Folding Editor - http://www.nyangau.org/be/be.htm

### winhex templates - https://www.x-ways.net/winhex/templates/index.html

### TRiD - file identifier - TrID is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. - https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

### GNU file - https://github.com/file/file

### Noesis - Noesis is a tool for previewing and converting between hundreds of model, image, and animation formats. - http://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?content=inc_projects.php... - https://github.com/RoadTrain/noesis-plugins - https://github.com/RoadTrain/noesis-plugins-official

### Ninja ripper - extract individual models from DirectX 3D games, while they are running - https://ninjaripper.com/

### Unpakke - http://www.nullsecurity.org/unpakke

### Camoto online-only universal game modding tool - https://moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Camoto - https://camoto.shikadi.net/
by ben_w | 2025-10-04 08:35:35+00:00
> But solar/wind wont meet unbounded energy demands.

Solar: 23,000 TW-years/year, every year until cosmological time passes and the sun's luminosity noticably changes

Fossil: 900 coal + 240 petroleum + 215 natural gas = 1,355 TW-years total, and then it's gone forever

https://www.iea-shc.org/data/sites/1/publications/2015-11-A-...

The only source that could ever beat a genuinely unbounded demand, is if we somehow figure out how to tap the dark energy which is causing the universe to expand.

In the meantime however, photovoltaics would get us all of the way to a Kardashev type three civilisation; humanity is currently 0.73 on that scale, it's an exponential scale with a factor of 1e10 between each integer.

> It doesnt meet current energy demands.

Tomorrow is not today.
by thenaturalist | 2025-10-04 08:36:16+00:00
Well, in the one thing you are right is that obviously with the one private enterprise that is OpenAI, information is not public.

But so while you sure want to sound authoritative you are just as much speculating as I am.

And to re-iterate, professional financial industry analysts from major banks, PE funds, career investors, as well as now Jeff Bezos, as Sam Altman before, are all speaking of a bubble and raising warnings.

Furthermore, there is public information out there of publicly traded companies which engage with OpenAI. And there is a clear trend observable that they're seeking alternative means of financing compared to public markets to fund these endeavors, effectively obfuscating their spend.

Pair that with studies from MIT, IBM, McKinsey and so forth that there is hardly any ROI in enterprise AI projects, failure rates are above 90%.

You're welcome to draw your own conclusions from this, but I'd rather suggest you not lecture others about how they interpret publicly available data while you build your entire argument on "nobody (including me) knows anything".
by jinnko | 2025-10-04 08:36:25+00:00
I had a similar experience, i.e. strict keto for 9 months and fully came off meds with no signs of UC or asthma. UC came back after around 2 years and I don't remember how long before I had to start asthma meds again. I can no longer do keto though, each time I try I get palpitations now after around a week.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-04 08:37:53+00:00
> What I am wondering is what benefit does it bring in practice. Single-threaded program with shared-ptr's using atomics vs shared-ptr's using WORDs seem like a non-problem to me - e.g. I doubt it has a measurable performance impact.

I mean, the blog post basically starts with an example where the performance impact is noticeable:

> I found that my Rust port of an immutable RB tree insertion was significantly slower than the C++ one.

And:

> I just referenced pthread_create in the program and the reference count became atomic again.

> Although uninteresting to the topic of the blog post, after the modifications, both programs performed very similarly in the benchmarks.

So in principle an insert-heavy workload for that data structure could see a noticeable performance impact.

> Atomics are slowing down the program only when it comes to contention, and single-threaded programs can't have them.

Not entirely sure I'd agree? My impression is that while uncontended atomics are not too expensive they aren't exactly free compared to the corresponding non-atomic instruction. For example, Agner Fog's instruction tables [0] states:

> Instructions with a LOCK prefix have a long latency that depends on cache organization and possibly RAM speed. If there are multiple processors or cores or direct memory access (DMA) devices, then all locked instructions will lock a cache line for exclusive access, which may involve RAM access. A LOCK prefix typically costs more than a hundred clock cycles, even on single-processor systems. This also applies to the XCHG instruction with a memory operand.

And there's this blog post [1], which compares the performance of various concurrency mechanisms/implementations including uncontended atomics and "plain" code and shows that uncontended atomics are still slower than non-atomic operations (~3.5x if I'm reading the raw data table correctly).

So if the atomic instruction is in a hot loop then I think it's quite plausible that it'll be noticeable.

[0]: https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf

[1]: https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/07/06/concurrency-co...
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-04 08:38:27+00:00
Just be careful as the counterfeit FTDI chips can have bad internal regulators etc. (Usually those small Red UART and GPIO breakout hobby PCB.)

Usually better to use the vendor supplied JTAG tools, or build your own with known good silicon. Recovering FPGA hardware is always a mixed bag of what IP and documentation is available to bring up the board. Looks like nice silicon though. =3
by nixass | 2025-10-04 08:39:18+00:00
> That's great, but the writing is still on the wall if Toyota doesn't get serious about electric cars.

Toyota is following national direction where natural resources are scarce, including generating electricity. It's actually government's idea to chase hydrogen as a viable alternative to dyno juice.

>With their current trajectory Toyota is headed at 1000mph directly towards being the next Blackberry, Kodak, Nokia or Blockbuster.

Lol absolutely not. Toyota is well positioned with their hybrids while also having EV in the pipeline. Have in mind that great majority of world population has no viable means to charge their cars either reliably, cheaply or at all. Hybrids make great sense in great majority of use cases.

> Currently Tesla is the iPhone to Toyota's Nokia and they're going to have to work very hard very soon to turn that around or their company will die.

Oh FFS
by alexhr | 2025-10-04 08:39:59+00:00
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by lion__93332 | 2025-10-04 08:40:40+00:00
Sora 2 has been gaining attention as a new AI video generation tool, and I recently had the chance to try it out through sora2ai.online. While the technology is impressive in many ways, it’s important to highlight some of the limitations that users might encounter.

Strengths of Sora 2

On the positive side, Sora 2 makes video generation accessible to more people. It is easy to get started, and the overall workflow feels smooth compared to other AI tools I’ve tested. For anyone curious about experimenting with AI-generated content, Sora 2 definitely lowers the entry barrier.

Current Limitations

However, after spending some time with the tool, I noticed several drawbacks that could affect the overall user experience: • Lack of control over video length At the moment, Sora 2 does not allow precise control of video duration. This means you can’t decide whether your output should be 10 seconds, 30 seconds, or longer — the system handles it automatically, which can be frustrating if you have specific needs. • Watermark on generated videos Every video produced by Sora 2 comes with a visible watermark. While understandable for a tool that is still being tested, it limits the usability of the content for professional or commercial purposes. • Blurry visuals One of the biggest issues is that many generated videos look blurry. The lack of sharpness and fine detail makes the results feel unfinished and not suitable for high-quality projects.

Sora 2 is an exciting step forward in AI-powered video generation, but it is still in an early stage. If you’re just experimenting for fun or exploring what AI can do, it’s worth a try. You can check it out at sora2ai.online.

That said, if you’re looking for polished, production-ready results, you may find the current limitations — such as the watermark, lack of control over length, and blurry visuals — to be deal-breakers.

Like many AI tools, Sora 2 will likely improve over time. For now, it’s best to approach it as a preview of what’s coming in the future rather than a fully mature solution.
by dist-epoch | 2025-10-04 08:41:16+00:00
There is not one Electron. There are multiple, they release a new version every month or so.

Some apps, like VS Code, update very quickly to the latest one. Others more rarely. So now you need to keep multiple shared Electron versions, and track dependencies and who uses what version.

And it's quite likely that everyone of your Electron using apps will be on a different version, so now you are back to square one.
by Mentlo | 2025-10-04 08:42:41+00:00
RAG still needs model training, if the models were to go stale and the context drifts sufficiently, the RAG mechanism collapses.

Sure, those models are cheaper, but we also don’t really know how an ecosystem with a stale LLM and up to date RAG would behave once context drifts sufficiently, because no one is solving that problem at the moment.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-04 08:42:57+00:00
I worked at a health care tech company in Silicon Valley that actively defrauded medicare. When the medicare inspectors came the owner's daughters had a bunch of their friends from college (who didn't work there) sit at computers and pretend to be working, then they told the inspectors all these random people were registered nurses and full-time employees who were helping patients (and thus being billed for). It was a total sham.

I reported it and quit but they managed to stay in business and keep getting government contracts.

One of the disgruntled doctors from that company made a whole website about some of their fraud: https://hiller.whitecollarcrooks.com/

They also bragged to us about how one of their daughters was dating a Glassdoor exec and had him take down all their bad reviews.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-04 08:43:07+00:00
> This required a lot of business analysis and software development - and people had to realize what this code was doing

Too many people are trained to not rock the boat and not ask questions. I'm always "that guy" in pretty much every meeting I'm in. Some people like me, but many don't. It's tough. On the occasions that all my questions are already answered or I have nothing more to say it's obvious how relieved people are. It would be so easy to just be a yes man and please people all the time, but I just can't. It's easy to see how selecting for people who aren't like me would lead to an organisation that is essentially psychopathic.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-04 08:45:09+00:00
I am extremely pessimistic on this. Hamas has accepted multiple ceasefire and peace plans so far. The last time this happened Israel bombed Qatar. There was an actual ceasefire this past spring that all parties that Israel intentionally broke.

The only real question here is what should the US do if Israel fails to agree to a complete elimination of hostilities within the week? At this point everything else is irrelevant.
by tobias3 | 2025-10-04 08:45:16+00:00
So it is regulatory arbitrage. I think many of the critics never contested that crypto is good for doing crime. The critics just also think that either those crimes should continue to be prevented via the financial system or the financial system should be deregulated for all without a crypto backdoor.

A Money Market Fund gives you interest if you are able to access it.

This is kind of a pattern:

1. There is some regulation that is inefficient ( e.g. taxi medallions, KYC, copyright protection ...)

2. New technology comes about which allows startups to claim that they have invented a new area that should be regulated differently

3. Turns out (2) is not true and new technology can easily be mapped to existing regulation but it would look bad for the regulator to take away the punchbowl

4. There is some down-turn (bubble pops) and the regulator takes away the punchbowl OR investors have accumulated so much money/power that they corrupt the government to have new rules for their businesses
by anematode | 2025-10-04 08:46:42+00:00
Besides the potential typo noted by another comment, I'd also note that the benchmarks are on a WebAssembly compiler, which has already gone through the LLVM wringer and thus undergone many high-level optimizations, including those reliant on alias analysis (which Cranelift is quite conservative on, iirc). I'd also imagine that the translation from LLVM IR to WASM discards some useful information that the LLVM backend could otherwise have used to generate better assembly.

That's not to say Cranelift isn't a fantastic piece of tech, but I wouldn't take the "14%" or "24%" number at face value.
by phartenfeller | 2025-10-04 08:46:54+00:00
That's probably their strategy of handling 402 Payment Required[1]. They want to become the platform over which auctions for AI crawlers buying rights to use content take place.

Scary if it works out their way and Cloudflare becomes an even bigger giant.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Sta...
by thrown-0825-1 | 2025-10-04 08:47:00+00:00
Many (likely a majority) of crypto users are "normal" in that sense too, they just want to transfer funds and don't care about concepts like decentralization or privacy.

I attended DevCon and few other crypto dev events this year for work, and it was hilarious how few actual products were present.

I hope that AT / Bluesky doesn't fall into this same trap of iterating over the details of a protocol vs shipping apps that people actually want to use.

For me personally a slightly less toxic twitter isn't that app, but when something comes along that is I'll likely setup a domain for AT.