MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 23:03:34+00:00
> If someone managed to be offended by them that's more their problem than mine.

That can be a healthy attitude outside of work. People love personality.

But at work, that's not a healthy attitude. You're there to work together, not to be uncompromising in expressing yourself. Your stickers are probably fine, but I can also imagine plenty of musical artists that would certainly be offensive (and rightly so) to some people, whether for their lyrics or for their criminal behavior -- and then the attitude of "that's more your problem than mine" is not gonna fly.
by culi | 2025-11-11 23:03:53+00:00
It's simply not a priority. The Bugzilla has been open for 9 years. At one point the assignee of the bug simply stopped logging in and it took 7 months for the autonag to bother people. There simply aren't enough people asking for it. And the fact that it's a Chrome-exclusive feature means it's gonna take a backseat to features that Chrome AND Safari implement but are lacking in Firefox.

There actually was some massive progress on it 3 months ago and it looks like they just need testing now but, again, it's just not a big priority

> a big boost for performance (date pickers often load 100s of locales and translations)

The native date/time pickers work great across all 3 major browsers in my experience. The use-cases for type="week" and type="month" are simply a lot less common.
by dgoodell | 2025-11-11 23:04:42+00:00
I think we use the same PPBE process at NASA. Many of the systems and procedures that NASA uses are are defense-derived. If it's anything like what we do, then it's a total mess and we mostly just go through the motions with it, knowing it doesn't actually reflect reality and it's kind of a waste of time for everybody.

However, it's risky to assume that scrapping a crappy system will result in things being better. The current shitty system was almost certainly the result of scrapping and replacing something else that had some problems.

Anyway, hopefully this works well, because we'll probably end up copying it at NASA.
by rgovostes | 2025-11-11 23:04:43+00:00
Emphasizing a central concept/theme is common with Japanese brands, restaurants, events, etc. The translation is often slightly peculiar.

For example the Osaka Expo theme is "Designing Future Society for Our Lives". Or the retail store f.k.a. Tokyu Hands says, "Our concept is 'Create your own life in your own way with what is available within reach.'"
by superkuh | 2025-11-11 23:05:08+00:00
We won't know any actionable detail till about 1 hour before it arrives at Earth. That's when interplanetary coronal mass ejections actually have their magnetic field orientation and intensity measured by ACE and other satellites far out at the L1 lagrange point: https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/ace-mag-swepam-24-hour...

If you see the red line on this plot^, the interplanetary magnetic field, be more than -10 nanotesla for about 4 hours then there's a good chance of lower than normal latitude aurora. Negative means the magnetic field is pointing downwards out of the ecliptic plane of the solar system and this is the most energetically favorable orientation for reconnecting CME magnetic field lines with Earth's magnetic field lines and letting solar particles/energy in.

It can be 20nT positive (upwards) magnetic field with intense density and high velocity but still be a non-event aurora-wise just because energy is delivered to the Earth's ring currents at 10x slower rate than if it's pointing downwards.

None of the WSA-ENLIL or related predictive models take into consideration the magnetic field orientation of iCMEs because it's really hard to know from remote observations. They can be thought of as warnings to pay attention to the ACE L1 measurements.
by jrflowers | 2025-11-11 23:05:52+00:00
No. People create art as a form of expression and other people enjoy it because it resonates with them. Nobody that’s inclined to artistically express a thought or feeling is going to give up on creativity because maybe somebody that isn’t really interested in creating art might be able to type words into their computer and spit out something vaguely similar.

That aside, humans are necessary for making up new forms and styles. There was no cubism before Picasso and Braque, or pointillism before Seurat and Signac. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone argue that if you trained a diffusion model on only the art that Osamu Tezuka was exposed to before he turned 24 it would output Astro Boy.
by shadowtree | 2025-11-11 23:06:03+00:00
There is a whole avalanche of AI "artists" hitting streaming.

A really cool one is "Camelogia Music Lab" on YT (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukhXIInQsJrnQwwciw-zuQ), which posts full albums of "bands" that never existed in various eclectic styles like Algerian 70s funk jazz.

The future of music is WILD.
by GabrielTFS | 2025-11-11 23:06:34+00:00
Full (immediate) disclosure, where no time is given to anyone to do anything before the vulnerability is publicly disclosed, was historically the default, yes. Coordinated vulnerability disclosure (or "responsible disclosure" as many call it) only exists because the security researchers that practice it believe it is a more effective way of minimizing how much the vulnerability might be exploited before it is fixed.
by tom_alexander | 2025-11-11 23:06:41+00:00
That's already the case. I run a quantized 70 billion parameter llama 3.1 model on my framework 13 inch laptop. Only cost ~$300 to get the 96GB of ram (which I purchased for unrelated non-AI reasons before the AI boom). It certainly isn't fast, but it is fast enough. I run it via vulkan compute using llama.cpp with an anythingllm web interface in front of it.
by runjake | 2025-11-11 23:06:43+00:00
With the caveat of Apple Intelligence is disabled, I believe it is that good and that's how I generally use it: with reckless abandon. And it does a great job. YMMV.

I believe that with AI turned off, it's not using LLMs for autocorrect -- or at least not the new Apple Intelligence LLM junk.
by parpfish | 2025-11-11 23:06:43+00:00
i get preplanning big picture architecture or strategy, but i CANNOT plan out the actual code i write. i'm not sure if i just develop deficient mental models of the codebase, but my process for figuring out what to build is to just sit down and build it. my process is very iterative. lots of stubbing things out and working backwards (if i need this function to return an X, it needs args A and B which means it might be better as a method for this class over here...)

the only way i could come up with a precise plan for how the code needs to change is to just build the thing.
by rekabis | 2025-11-11 23:06:47+00:00
I would agree with the vast majority of your sentiment.

Unfortunately, biology and evolution has seen fit to make the sexes noticeably different, for which some amount of “division of labour” makes absolute rational sense.

And the flip side of the problem involves a majority of women demanding “the patriarchy” when they overwhelmingly choose men who are taller, stronger, wealthier, and in more prestigious positions than they themselves are.

You will rarely ever see a female CEO or well-paid female member of upper manglement date and marry a younger male barista who makes a tiny fraction of what they do, but flip the genders and it happens all the time.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-11 23:06:56+00:00
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 11th (local time) that Meta, OpenAI, xAI and others are enduring complex financing structures to fund AI investments.

The most notable case is Meta's giant data center project 'Hyperion' under construction in Louisiana. The project uses a combined finance structure that blends private equity (PE), project financing and corporate bonds, which the market calls "Frankenstein finance."
by mattmanser | 2025-11-11 23:07:05+00:00
This should be called bad advice about dates every developer should avoid.

ISO 8601 does NOT work with future dates. It does not work with cross border appointment booking.

ISO 8601 only works for dates and times that have already happened.

I have 20 years, have worked with apps that relied on future and past dates, have used date pickers since 2005 and would still hesitate to give advice about what is an incredibly complex problem that entirely depends on your use case.
by simonw | 2025-11-11 23:07:21+00:00
I tried an experiment like this a while back (for the GPT-5 launch) and was surprised at how ineffective it was.

This is a better version of what I tried but suffers from the same problem - the models seem to stick close to their original shapes and add new details rather than creating an image from scratch that's a significantly better variant of what they tried originally.
by ivirshup | 2025-11-11 23:07:30+00:00
Since Steve's famous turtle neck was from Issey Miyake and he wanted everyone at Apple to wear an Issey Miyake vest as a uniform [1], I think he might have been into this. This is also the man who launched the iPod sock.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116769827/the-story-of-steve...
by itsoktocry | 2025-11-11 23:07:50+00:00
You asked for a source. I gave you one. It had multiple lies in it. You didn't even open the link.

Now you are pretending that someone can't go on YouTube and find more lies about the vaccines from the likes of people like Rachel Maddow. People have assembled long clips, it's a meme.

"Nuggets of truth", my lord, pure delusion.

"But but but what about some hypothetical scenario where the president didn't lie?"

We will never know, will we?
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-11 23:08:25+00:00
> Testing blood pressure after a shot seems weird.

I was at the Dr last week and my first BP reading was 154/95, a second reading a few minutes later was 141/89. The doctor asked for one more reading before I left.

The medical assistant gave me my vaccines and then took my BP, 130/81 right after a Hep B and COVID vaccine. I told the tech that needles didn’t bother me at all, she believed me after she saw my blood pressure :)
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-11 23:08:46+00:00
>- the virus naturally evolving to a less-lethal state

This "effect" is massively overblown. Covid still attacks the same receptors with are all over the body and still causes damaging inflammation. Grandma getting COVID is still terrifying, just like it's always been terrifying when they get the flu. Meanwhile my mom has permanent heart damage from Covid. Not the early strain either.

The vaccines have been a huge help but more generally, everyone developed some amount of immunity, even people who are anti-vaxxers. It's just around now, and our body's have had to adapt to fighting it off all the time. It's endemic. "There's a second version of virulent seasonal respiratory (but not just that) infection now" isn't exactly a great outcome.

Primarily what happened is we learned better treatment, so it isn't so deadly even when you have it bad. Ventilation is much rarer for example.

Covid hasn't gone away. How can you possibly think that? I know like ten people who seem to catch covid (tested, not just random diseases) multiple times a year now.

Instead a lot of people with strong ideological reasons to believe it's not a big deal insist on ignoring it's everpresent negative effects. Including our current presidential administration.
by asa400 | 2025-11-11 23:08:49+00:00
People think management sucks at hiring good talent (which is sometimes true, but I have worked with some truly incredible people), but one of the most consistent and costly mistakes I’ve observed over my career has been management's poor ability to identify and fire nuisance employees.

I don’t mean people who “aren't rockstars” or people for whom some things take too long, or people who get things wrong occasionally (we all do).

I mean people who, like you describe, systemically undermine the rest of the team’s work.

I’ve been on teams where a single person managed to derail an entire team’s delivery for the better part of a year, despite the rest of the team screaming at management that this person was taking huge shortcuts, trying to undermine other people’s designs in bad faith, bypassing agreed-upon practices and rules and then lying about it, pushing stuff to production without understanding it, etc.

Management continued to deflect and defer until the team lead and another senior engineer ragequit over management’s inaction and we missed multiple deadlines at which point they started to realize we weren’t just making this up for fun.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-11 23:09:04+00:00
Definitely a lot of cybersecurity stickers, but that aside, I see many, many different opinions, positions, and preferences represented in those stickers.

There's a laptop with multiple Amazon stickers, a laptop with Google Cloud stickers, and another laptop with a "There is no cloud, only other people's computers" sticker, and various self-hosters. There are people with local stickers from many different countries. There are people who care about repairability, people who care about reproducibility, people who have nostalgia for specific technologies, people who would love less of specific technologies, Windows fans, Apple fans, Linux fans, Intel fans, IPv6 fans, heavy metal fans, Pokemon fans, Simpsons fans, television fans, Vim users, tabletop gamers, cycling fans, shoe fans, coffee fans, tea fans, anti-AI people, pro-AI people, anti-blockchain people, pro-blockchain people, people who like to layer stickers, people who like to carefully arrange stickers.

Among the politics alone, there are many many opinions expressed, and I'd bet the owners of those laptops could have vigorous political arguments about the right way to do things.
by tsoukase | 2025-11-11 23:09:08+00:00
Choline and it's more active similar, acetylcholine, is present in wide areas of the central nervous system. Definitely this is a correlation not implying anything about any mechanism. Especially because they didn't try to test giving choline to the same subjects. At the moment you cannot hack pathological stress with food. Maybe only a mild one and the effect will be indistinguishable from placebo.
by OxO4 | 2025-11-11 23:09:33+00:00
FWIW, some "smarter" machines (e.g., [0, 1]) support taking three readings with a minute pause in-between and then spit out a single reading.

[0] https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/716808/ [1] https://www.withings.com/us/en/bpm-connect
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-11 23:10:52+00:00
I am probably at 50k-60k image generations from various models.

It is just very hard to make any generalizations because any single prompt will lead to so many different types of images.

The only thing I would really say to generalize is every model has strengths and weaknesses depending on what you are going for.

It is also generally very hard to explore all the possibilities of a model. So many times I thought I seen what the model could do just to be completely blown away by a particular generation.
by bborud | 2025-11-11 23:10:55+00:00
Gore Tex is a good example of a material that, on its own, doesn't actually work as well as the marketing would have you believe. For instance it stops breathing when it gets wet. And then the whole rationale is gone. It means your perspiration condenses on the inside and then you become wet and cold. Most gore-tex jackets will not even work for my bicycle commute since it rains all the time here. Much less riding my bike in the forests or mountains.

Technical garments are not just down to what materials are used, but how the garment is designed to manage moisture and heat, and how you combine it with other garments and reconfigure it as needed.

I spend a lot of time outside in anything from heavy rain to -25C cold. Often in stormy conditions. I often engage in prolonged physical activity, which means I perspirate a lot. Often followed by rests. If you do not dress properly, so you can manage moisture and heat, best case is that your jacket will start to smell like a homeless dog. Worst case, you freeze to death (yes, that happens when tourists don't know how clothes work).

If there is any miracle material it is wool. No synthetic material even comes close. But then again, that's not an outer layer. It's what you wear for the inner and middle layers. And it does that job unreasonably well.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-11-11 23:11:01+00:00
Just like reading one good article is the same.

Before LLMs I was studying distributed AI training/inference. I read hundreds of sources for this blogs, book chapters, papers, reddit posts anything and everything.

If you think you understand a system via a single article or chatgpt session that's a you problem.

LLM is just giving you a weird mixture of the same content you got before with a random chance of it being different every time.

Ask it again, in a different way over and over. Eventually you will see between it's arbtrary lines. It is MASSIVELY faster at performing this task than before.
by gh02t | 2025-11-11 23:11:23+00:00
Slightly easier/less mains electrical work required is to just use a smart plug of some sort, and there are multiple options you can put your own firmware on (e.g., Sonoff supports ESPHome).

One caveat about this most people don't know is that most basic fans with a fully mechanical switch always order the speeds from High to Low, so that if you for instance want to turn it on to Low you have to briefly go through High (and Medium). This is on purpose, to briefly supply higher current to the motor for it to start spinning. Some fans might not like it if you start them from an external switch in low, especially larger ones with heavier blades. This also applies to the one in the article, but you can sequence things in software if you have full control of the fan speed, too.
by culi | 2025-11-11 23:11:43+00:00
> for tens of millions of years, wood didn’t rot.

I love this story and have repeated it to many people because of how wonderfully it sparks the imagination. Unfortunately, this theory simply doesn't hold up to modern evidence. It turns out we've had white rot fungi as long as we've had lignin

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-11 23:11:48+00:00
> btw you think they ever clean those devices?

Maybe? Do they clean the shelves? Arm-to-arm contact isn't exactly a big threat.

> you think healthy people go to pharmacies?

Yes. Of course. Those free blood pressure machines are generally found in drug stores that have a small pharmacy section. The vast majority of people there are there because they're shopping. There are probably more people who come in to buy mascara than people who come in because they're sick. If you're sick, someone else goes to the pharmacy for you.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-11 23:12:18+00:00
All those date pickers that don't give you the ability to type a date in as plain text just plain suck.

Airline websites are particularly awful for this.

I made a C# datepicker a long time ago that allows both textual and gui input. Anything parseable as a date is accepted in the text field - it even recognizes partial strings like "3/23" for March 23.

I used to create software for rapid data entry, so I know a thing or two about efficient UI. Maybe I should open-source it.
by qwerpy | 2025-11-11 23:12:56+00:00
I’m happy with mine after a year and a half. Haven’t had issues with the wiper and I live somewhere that rains a lot. Do you have complaints from real world experience or is it just the cosmetics you’re unhappy about?

The only real downside isn’t even the truck itself, it’s the random hostile people on the street. On the bright side I’ve turned it into a ongoing “how to deal with bullies” teaching moment for my kids :)
by XorNot | 2025-11-11 23:13:23+00:00
This is what I do with my dehumidifiers.

It's been working so well I was actually surprised one night when the dehumidifier in the bedroom turned itself on from the automation (which I have set to do after dark if humidity is higher then 70%).

It had been within tolerance for ages and I just hadn't had to even think about it.
by mrandish | 2025-11-11 23:13:26+00:00
Yes, this was my first thought too. I haven't used a hardware text terminal since the 80s so maybe I don't get where the TFA is coming from? It starts out by stating "This post is part 6 of a multi-part series called 'the computer of the next 200 years'". Given that context, why is the focus on the evolution of 1980s VT100-type protocols? I'm at home and there are over a half dozen different devices within 25 ft which come standard with an HTML browser. Sure, modern browsers have some incompatibilities at the edges but if you're in need of a multi-decade, platform agnostic, lingua franca then W3C minimal baseline HTML/CSS + ECMAscript seems like the obvious winner (with no viable second place really).

Don't get me wrong, I'd be quite interested in a vintage computing discussion on the evolution of VT-100/220 etc terminal protocols. There were some interesting things done into the 90s. That's actually what I clicked in expecting. Of course, those were all supplanted by either XWindows (which I never got to use much) or eventually HTML/CSS. And if we're talking more broadly about structured page description languages, there's no shortage of alternatives from NAPLPS to Display Postscript.
by imiric | 2025-11-11 23:13:52+00:00
I dread reading these articles written by people who perceive the command-line interface / terminal / shell to be this archaic system, and propose "modernizing" it by cramming whatever UI/UX they're most familiar with.

The last thing a command-line terminal needs is a Jupyter Notebook-like UI. It doesn't need to render HTML; it doesn't need rerun and undo/redo; and it definitely doesn't need structured RPC. Many of the mentioned features are already supported by various tooling, yet the author dismisses them because... bugs?

Yes, terminal emulators and shells have a lot of historical baggage that we may consider weird or clunky by today's standards. But many design decisions made 40 years ago are directly related to why some software has stood the test of time, and why we still use it today.

"Modernizing" this usually comes with very high maintenance or compatibility costs. So, let's say you want structured data exchange between programs ala PowerShell, Nushell, etc. Great, now you just need to build and maintain shims for every tool in existence, force your users to use your own custom tools that support these features, and ensure that everything interoperates smoothly. So now instead of creating an open standard that everyone can build within and around of, you've built a closed ecosystem that has to be maintained centrally. And yet the "archaic" unstructured data approach is what allows me to write a script with tools written decades ago interoperating seamlessly with tools written today, without either tool needing to directly support the other, or the shell and terminal needing to be aware of this. It all just works.

I'm not saying that this ecosystem couldn't be improved. But it needs broad community discussion, planning, and support, and not a brain dump from someone who feels inspired by Jupyter Notebooks.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-11 23:13:55+00:00
The Federal Reserve runs FedNow instant payment rails in a utility/cost recovery model, as they were directed to do by Congress. With FedNow, you can move money, up to $10M at a time, for less than a nickel. Credit card rails are fighting to maintain their skim on the economy. Rewards help them have unsophisticated consumers fight to keep interchange fees higher. Walmart is going to roll out pay by bank shortly in their app to bypass credit card rails, where consumers can make instant payments right from their deposit accounts to make payments, saving Walmart ~$1B/year in interchange fees. Others will follow, the incentives to do so are too great to ignore above a certain volume.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750373 (citations)

FedNow Is Live - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491 - July 2023

This is the equivalent of UPI in India and Pix in Brazil. The US is just late, as always, to the future, and incumbents are fearing extinction due to progress that makes their existence unnecessary.