MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon291 | 2025-11-12 02:25:22+00:00
No not at all. I is just something that behaves as if it is equivalent to negative one (that is, the additive inverse of the multiplicative identity) after combining it with itself in some way. We commonly call this multiplication. If such a thing comes with another operation called addition that behaves similarly to addition and multiplication (i.e. form a ring), then they will behave like i. Geometrically, multiplication by I can be seen as a 90deg rotation of a 2d vector. Complex numbers are simply 2-d coordinates (or rather, they are isomorphic to 2-d coordinates). Nothing special really. Easy to measure with a protractor and ruler.

In general there are many algebraic rings with an element that, when multiplied by itself, produces the additive inverse of the multiplicative identity.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 02:26:05+00:00
> They see the profit being made, and they're not even getting drops of it.

Doesn't google routinely contribute to ffmpeg? Certainly there's a lot of commits from `@google.com` email addresses here: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-12 02:27:10+00:00
Can confirm. I used to write software for them.

The issue with LEDs, is very pure colors. That’s actually a bit of a problem, with film scanners. You need a smooth curve, and it needs to extend out a bit. You don’t want areas of color being missed.

The Coolscans had a light color response (think the “levels” screen, in Photoshop) that looked like three steep hills, with minimal overlap, but they were able to make them wider than a “pure” LED. Coherence is a feature of LED lighting.

Most previous light sources used filters over a white light, and they looked “sloppier,” with a lot more overlap, so there was more coverage. We had to correct for the unusual color coverage of LEDs.
by mh- | 2025-11-12 02:27:27+00:00
Agree with all of the rest of your points, but a legitimate 220/130 is something that a typical doctor's office does observe* on occasion, so that (by itself) wouldn't have made them think their instrument was faulty. Some of those people would even be outwardly asymptomatic, as strange as that seems.

* those people would be considered to be in a hypertensive crisis, and sending you for emergency care would be the right thing to do, normally.
by trhway | 2025-11-12 02:28:15+00:00
>The invasion of Ukraine has shown that future conflicts will use up weapons at a very high pace.

That has been shown even in WWII. And the war was won by US/UK/USSR specifically because their mass production of weapons were several times higher than Germany/Japan/Italy.

The war in Ukraine actually haven't yet reached the levels of weapons use of WWII. (for example 500K-1M/day artillery shells in WWII vs. 20-60K/day in Ukraine war)

These days i so far see only China capable and ready to produce weapons, say drones, at that scale. And i so far don't see anybody, including Anduril with their anti-drone systems, able, or even preparing, to deal with 1M/day (my modest estimate of what China would unleash even in a small conflict like say for Taiwan) of enemy drones. No existing anti-drone systems/approaches are scalable to that level, and we can only hope that something new is being developed somewhere in top secret conditions, and that is why we don't know about it.
by marssaxman | 2025-11-12 02:28:42+00:00
There definitely is a market for such vehicles:

http://www.exarmyvehicles.com/offer/tracked-vehicles/tanks

https://mortarinvestments.eu/ArmouredVehicles

https://miltrade.com/pages/military-vehicles-for-sale-in-eur...

https://tanksales.co.uk/sales/

Ten or fifteen years back, I had an ambition to buy such a vehicle and drive it around at Burning Man. I eventually settled for a deuce-and-a-half, which caused enough struggle and frustration that I'm glad I never actually bought a tank.
by nick238 | 2025-11-12 02:29:23+00:00
From my time working at a Fortune 100 company, if I ever mentioned pushing even small patches to libraries we effing used, I'd just be met "try to focus on your tickets". Their OSS library and policies were also super byzantine, seemingly needing review of everything you'd release, but the few times I tried to do it the official way, I just never heard anything back from the black-hole mailing list you were supposed to contact.

Yes, I've also worked on OpenStack components at a university, and there I see Red Hat or IBM employees pushing up loads of changes. I don't know if I've ever seen a Walmart, UnitedHealth, Chase Bank, or Exxon Mobil (to pick some of the largest companies) email address push changes.
by orochimaaru | 2025-11-12 02:29:26+00:00
I think “minuscule” is an understatement. I knew of 2 teenagers who were hospitalized for myocarditis - both healthy and played sports at high school. Compared to that I know of no one who has had issues with the polio, norovirus, hib, hepatitis, etc. Even the often “dreaded” mmr is ok. I’ve known of kids having sustained reactions to mmrv.

I think general aches and chills were not an issue. But myocarditis and blood clots should be looked at and not brushed under “minuscule”
by jacquesm | 2025-11-12 02:29:40+00:00
Another series that really helped me was Leventhal's assembly language series. The problems in the books were relatively simple but they gave you a hold on one CPU if you already knew something about another and they served as instruction set reference as well (which were ridiculously hard to get here in Europe, and I don't mean those little cards but the full data sheets).

Between that and a book on parsing I managed to cobble together an assembler and an editor together with a friend.

Oh, and in the list of machines I forgot the ST, the first machine that I had with a megabyte of RAM.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 02:30:39+00:00
To be clear, what does relicensing to AGPL do here? Does the AGPL include licensing terms that forbid filing bug reports without also including code patches? Or does it just make ffmpeg that much less appealing to projects and cut off the steady stream of contributions that it has gotten from google since 2009? https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/search/HEAD?pg=3;s=...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-12 02:31:27+00:00
I'm torn on this, probably because either extreme isn't an end all solution. Companies stuck in beauracracy need this advice. Companies stuck in tech debt need to avoid this. But as of now in tech, one of these are clearly rewarded more often, so I get why the article is made as such.

For the other extreme, the largest issue I've seen is integration. You make two different systems with no plan on how they integrate. Neither team really takes the time to make them talk properly. That's where some agreed upon architecture helps.
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-12 02:32:34+00:00
I have been working out something a bit different.

Continuity of existential being is the root of morality.

Essentially morality demands the preservation of embodiment and continuity of existential being. Thus violating the embodiment of others is BAD and conserving the continuity of being is GOOD. And from this, we may obtain a basis for objective morality.
by echend | 2025-11-12 02:32:37+00:00
I think this is good that I should prove it, I now about 80 percent of anything in internet now days is fake, but can you find any scam project that offers real test demo (send me email and I send you a link pixelstreaming front-end in which you see real-time streaming and can talk to avatar EchenDeligani@gmail.com) or any zoom call so I can walk you through the project, or any one which specialy focuces on persain language
by orangecat | 2025-11-12 02:34:21+00:00
Google did more than what is "strictly legal or required", and what they did was submit a good and valid bug report. But for some reason we're mad because they didn't do even more. Why?

The Copenhagen Interpetation of Ethics is annoyingly prevalent (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QXpxioWSQcNuNnNTy/...)
by Freedom2 | 2025-11-12 02:35:06+00:00
Agreed. Some forget that the US has this beautiful great thing called freedom of speech, meaning that some can express to like things, as well as dislike things! It's not uncommon to find stickers among laptops where some are excited for environmental safety and conservationism, and some are for Tesla / Palantir and the values and ethos that they want to perpetuate across the globe.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 02:37:00+00:00
Google contributes to ffmpeg on a fairly regular basis https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/search/HEAD?s=@goog...

No it's not "unreasonable" to ask for patches along with bug fixes, but it is unreasonable to be mad if they don't. They could just not file the bug reports at all, and that is an objectively worse outcome.
by stanfordkid | 2025-11-12 02:37:16+00:00
Whoever wrote this article probably has little more than a cursory or highly aesthetecized understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy. It feels like they just related his idea of value-creation to a bunch of pre-conceived purportedly “bad things” like lack of social cohesion.

Most of his work deals with the psychological and historical origins of morality/philosophy, as well as how it might change as a result of herd dynamics. This doesn’t mean he thinks AI destroying morality or mediating it is a good thing or that some Nietzschian “ubermensch” needs to create a universal AI morality. His whole point is that morality is not universal truth but comes in flavors (master vs slave morality). He doesn’t really even think truth or egalitarianism/democracy has any inherent value (all ideas this article seems to negate).

In my opinion the biggest Nietzschian idea we can pontificate on in relation to AI is the concept of “The Last Man”, which describes Nietzsches prophesized end state of humanity in the post death-of-God era — men just want to be safe, satiated, and friendly to each other (which we are in):

“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. Formerly, all the world was mad,’ say the most refined, and they blink. We have invented happiness, and they blink"
by dehrmann | 2025-11-12 02:37:58+00:00
https://www.cvs.com/learn/health/vaccines-immunizations

> *FOR FREE FLU SHOTS & 14 NO-COST VACCINES: Select vaccines at no cost with most insurance. Eligibility varies by patient and insurance plan. Eligible patients will not pay any copayments unless otherwise required by their plan, including Medicare Part B. Availability varies by state based on regulations...

That doesn't sound like it's free if you're uninsured. Or at least that don't advertise that.
by goharHN | 2025-11-12 02:39:31+00:00
I built a full content creation system , where you can find the trending questions we made from user comments from social media . User can generate full scripts from the content ideas and then can make video with manual editor within website or can use ready made templates of video to make the video of that content. You can also schedule and post on multiple platforms. I haven't launched it yet, but the waitlist is open , I will give free access to early users. I made this to solve my problem of not making the content on social media and have no time .
Show HN: Zylo – AI "Vibe-Coding" system that builds websites from a prompt
by rhettjull | 2025-11-12 02:39:49+00:00
We built Zylo because most website builders make you think in templates and layouts — not in feelings or intent.

Zylo lets you “vibe-code” your site: you describe what you want in natural language — “a clean modern landing page for a marketing agency with a cosmic purple theme and bold hero text” — and Zylo generates a full site structure, text, imagery, and layout in seconds.

Under the hood, Zylo combines a custom Next.js code generator, visual editor, and AI styling model that learns from thousands of design patterns. You can regenerate sections, swap moods (e.g. “more futuristic” or “more minimal”), or dive into code instantly.

We’re currently in the early stages with a free trial — anyone can sign up and start building in minutes. We’d love feedback from designers, developers, and indie hackers on what feels intuitive (and what doesn’t).
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-12 02:40:11+00:00
No, it was gutted by what I said it was gutted by. The price of labor I include in workplace regulations but I could have called it out on its own too.

If corporations could not have moved operations offshore to exploit workers and the environment in other countries for lower cost, then they would not have. They were permitted to.

Where the old "labor costs did killed it" canard really falls over is when you look at primary industry and things that physically can't be packed up and moved off shore in western countries. Mining, farming, forestry, fishing, things like that. Traditionally a lot of those industries have had high labor input costs too. They miraculously didn't all fall over like manufacturing though.

Labor costs are a cost, same as compliance with other workplace regulations and environmental laws of course. They are not the reason manufacturing was offshored though, they are the reason that corporations bribed treasonous politicians to allow this offshoring to occur with no penalty. As I said.
by wwarner | 2025-11-12 02:40:27+00:00
holding my nose reading this. if scientific progress killed god, it seems unlikely that meaning would emerge from more ramblings of the same kind that gave rise to him in the first place. we have learned to disbelieve in miracles and to be skeptical of novelty, that change is excruciatingly slow and its cause is failure, pain and death. nature and the feelings that nature has given us should be our philosophical guide posts.
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-12 02:41:09+00:00
I came up with “the emergence of the potential of existential being.”

Consider emergence as that which produces a potential greater than the sum of parts, such that the potential would not exist otherwise.

A newly emerging potential is the actual purpose of “orchestration”.

To break it down further, if we consider “information” as a “vector” then through process and work all systems provide vector transformations.
by Seb-C | 2025-11-12 02:41:20+00:00
Thanks for the insights. I have been in technical leadership positions in the past, but disliked the management part. I think that the other dilemma is that I don't like big companies, as I've only had negative experiences and I get frustrated because even the most tiny thing can take forever to be done.

> it’s very likely you haven’t mastered all layers of the stack - you maybe have mastered the parts you’ve come across though.

I was meaning that in the context of web dev. There are certainly other areas I don't know much yet.

> Would you include Linux kernel development, program proofs, HPC , math-oriented software, compilers, firmwares, fpgas, database internals ( I mean, writing a full database engine ), big iron infrastructure , actual research etc in the list of things you’ve mastered?

Definitely not (except partially a database engine), but I'd definitely like to move down the stack. I like systems programming, low level stuff and optimization problems, so that's maybe the main area that I should explore (and also one of the reasons I like game dev). Translating that into an actual job might be harder thought.
by beeflet | 2025-11-12 02:42:03+00:00
it is the general lifestyle of self-expression which does. The kind of person who expresses themself through "be gay and do crime" stickers does not seriously threaten the system through crime. Totally individualistic self-expression acts as a release valve for frustrations against the system. It attracts narcissists, who counteract any meaningful goals.

In the old world, when you got a tattoo or something it showed you were a member of a community of people who knew each other. A society of people who were organized and could precipitate some change. In the new world, you get a tattoo or something to signal you are a member of a demographic.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-12 02:42:12+00:00
Yes, this is absolutely part of it. Even if you had unlimited funding, unlimited trained workers, and a defect free, perfect weapon/product design, the urban planning regime would force you to spend 12 years in consultations before you could put one shovel in the ground to build the factory. Through p it all they would be trying to negotiate the size down and down and down until it finally was a factory the size of a single-family house.
by anon291 | 2025-11-12 02:44:44+00:00
X*X + 1 = 0 is a fundamental statement on an algebraic rings behavior with the additive and multiplicative identities and the additive and multiplicative group operations. Namely, it says that the ring contains an element that when multiplied by itself is equal to the additive inverse of the multiplicative identity . Plenty of rings have such an element. You can complete any ring with such an element and call it whatever you want. The use of the term imaginary for it is incredibly unfortunate. There's nothing strange or mystical about it. It's very real. In fact the rational complex numbers are more real than the non complex real numbers
by georgemcbay | 2025-11-12 02:45:13+00:00
MAUI was horrible when I tried using it about a year ago, tons of bugs, pretty iffy comms/support from the MAUI team as to timelines when things might get fixed, etc.

Eventually dumped it and moved to Kotlin Compose/Multiplatform, which is just so much better at achieving a similar goal (though, obviously, without being part of the .NET ecosystem).
by saagarjha | 2025-11-12 02:45:19+00:00
> Why is Google deliberately running an AI process to find these bugs if they're just going to dump them all on the FFmpeg team to fix?

This is called fuzzing and it has been standard practice for over a decade. Nobody has had any problem with it until FFmpeg decided they didn’t like that AI filed a report against them and applied the (again, mostly standard at this point) disclosure deadline. FWIW, nobody would have likely cared except they went on their Twitter to complain, so now everyone has an opinion on it.
by SabrinaJewson | 2025-11-12 02:45:40+00:00
This comment contains a lot of false information. I’m first going to point out that there is a model of Lean’s type theory called the cardinality model, in which all types of equal cardinality are modelled as the same set. This is why I say the types have no useful distinguishing characteristics: it is consistent to add the axiom `Nine = Unit` to the type theory. For the same reason, it is consistent to add `ℕ = ℤ` as an axiom.

> So a Nine type with a single constructor is indeed isomorphic to Unit but it's not the same type, it carries different syntactic and semantic meaning and the type system preserves that.

It carries different syntax but the semantics are the exact same.

> Type theory is usually intensional not extensional so two types with the same number of inhabitants can have wildly different structures

It is true that type theory is usually intensional. It is also true that two types equal in cardinality can be constructed in multiple different ways, but this has nothing to do with intensionality verses extensionality – I wouldn’t even know how to explain why because it is just a category error – and furthermore just because they are constructed differently does not mean the types are actually different (because of the cardinality model).

> Cardinality is a set-theoretic notion but most type theories are constructive and syntactic, not purely set-theoretic.

I don’t know what you mean by this. Set theory can be constructive just as well as type theory can, and cardinality is a fully constructive notion. Set theory doesn’t have syntax per se but that’s just because the syntax is part of logic, which set theory is built on.

> most type theories don't enforce full parametricity at runtime

What is “most”? As far as I know Lean does, Coq does, and Agda does. So what else is there? Haskell isn’t a dependent type theory, so it’s irrelevant here.

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Geniune question: Where are you sourcing your information from about type theory? Is it coming from an LLM or similar? Because I have not seen this much confusion and word salad condensed into a single comment before.
by manquer | 2025-11-12 02:46:06+00:00
There are certainly features and use cases where gstreamer is better fit than ffmpeg.

My point was it would be hard to imagine eschewing ffmpeg completely, not that there is no value for other tools and ffmpeg is better at everything. It is so versatile and ubiquitous it is hard to not use it somewhere.

In my experience there usually is always some scenarios in the stack where throwing in ffmpeg for a step is simpler and easier even if there no proper language binding etc, for some non-core step or other.

From a security context that wouldn't matter, As long it touches data, security vulnerabilities would be a concern.

It would be surprising, not that it would impossible to forgo ffmpeg completely. It would be just like this site is written Lisp, not something you would typically expect not impossible.
Show HN: Real-time 4D Julia set navigation via gamepad
by BanditCat | 2025-11-12 02:46:39+00:00
I've written Atlas, a GPU scripting language that eliminates the boilerplate of managing textures and uniforms. Here are some demos including 4D fractal exploration with gamepad controls. Press 7 to see the Julia set, and try reloading if you see rectangles/it glitches. Documentation: https://banditcat.github.io/Atlas/index.html *requires approximately an RTX 3080.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-12 02:47:01+00:00
I've thought a bit about this since you made the comment, and I think your point about education in particular has a lot of merit. I would normally dispute how you phrased your last sentence, but I've noticed this decline in how boys perform in school, and also noticed that the teaching profession is highly gendered. Thanks for the discussion, you've given me a bunch to think about.
by scoofy | 2025-11-12 02:48:04+00:00
>Do you see why this might actually be seen as increasing public trust in local LEOs who aren't participating in human rights abuses?

> And can you see why not condoning those abuses gets the populace on "our" side?

I’m not sure how this is relevant. I’ve repeatedly noted my concerns with some of the enforcement. My only point is that nullification — effectively by definition — raises the stakes for potential conflicts.

> in January 2025, what actions was Chicago taking that were "actively preventing [immigration] law from being enforced"? And what actions do you see municipalities engaging in today that are "actively trying to prevent [immigration] law from being enforced"?

I mean, I think sanctuary city laws are clearly problematic. I obviously appreciate the benefits that accrue in the short term, and it’s an odd equation when approaching the problem from a shot vs long term perspective when it comes to harm reduction, but we’ve clearly gotten to the point where the general population wants something done that is incompatible with maintaining those policies. Yes, there are trade offs. We very rarely offer the same luxury to other violations.

> And if you were in charge, what would you do instead? Keep in mind, as a mayor or police captain or whatever, you cannot tell Greg Bovino what to do. You can assist him, but his use of force policies are different than yours, and you cannot make him or his officers follow your directives.

If I were in charge, I would have been voted out of office long ago. The fundamental problem here is two political sovereigns in a fistfight.

But suppose I were somehow in charge of the state govt, the first thing I would do is what Scott wiener did in CA, and pass state laws requiring all law enforcement to show their faces in my state. The feds have authority on immigration, but they don’t have immunity to state laws where the 10th amendment applies.

If I were the mayor, yes, I would be asking the police to assist in enforcement wherever they can, with their cameras on, recording everything.