MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cmehdy | 2025-11-11 04:26:38+00:00
If that's any help I personally found this attitude with a company called Dygma, specifically with their Dygma Defy keyboard.

They have tons of Youtube videos answering basically every question one could have, and the keyboard is substantially larger with more keys which means less wizardry getting used to these kinds of keyboards. Example: which keyboard to buy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8FeBPREzZA

I might end up buying smaller keyboards in the future if I lean more into the whole "modifier keys to do crazy stuff", but for now I'm extremely satisfied with the no-bullshit comfortable solution that the Defy offers me, and I do not care one bit about not using this or that custom firmware. It just works and works well.

Keyboards like the one in OP are definitely not for people who dont know much about split kbs, or who don't know what ortholinear and columnar and home row modifiers and QMK and ZMK mean.

If Dygma seems too corporate, too expensive, or too locked down of a firmware for you, the Glove80 and the Moonlander would probably be the best picks/search terms.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 04:26:42+00:00
> people reading can read it

Which is why screenshots help, for the reasons I gave

> people reading can copy and paste it

Why? If there's something like a user ID or error code that the person needs as text, I'll paste that separately. Stuff I include in a screenshot is for understanding, not copying and pasting.

> and people searching can actually find it.

Which is what the message text around the screenshot is for. Which actually includes the relevant keywords, not random tabular data or lines of code which just add noise to search.

> Anybody wanting to look at the actual text in context won't be doing it in the chat, but will rather be opening the file of interest in the appropriate tool, and examining it that way;

Except when they aren't/can't. The whole point of screenshots is for when they can't access something easily that way, which happens for a million different reasons.

> anybody stuck reading the text only in the chat is probably on their phone or something and will be best served by being able to easily see all of it.

Which is what images make far easier to read without being messed up.

> For reading purposes, the question of screen width is best left to the reader. They will have the window set to their preferred width, possibly limited by screen size. If the text has to wrap, so be it.

No it's not. Wrapping destroys indentation and alignment. It's not "so be it", it goes from readable to literally unreadable. I can't change the width of my phone or a lot of viewing areas. I can always scroll an image horizontally though.

> It's better that than having to try to squint at your 3713x211 screen grab on an iPhone (portrait orientation).

Which is why zooming and panning exist. I don't know where you're getting something silly like 3713 pixels though. But if that's the width of some massive table whose layout needs to be preserved, then so be it.
by ralph84 | 2025-11-11 04:27:05+00:00
Yeah he’s not quite Jack Welch level of dissonance between reality and his fanboys, but he’s hardly some superhero for profiting from the great financialization of the US economy. He made sure his book got bailed out during the GFC. He cheered on Wells Fargo while they opened up a bunch of fraudulent accounts. And so on.
by monocularvision | 2025-11-11 04:28:21+00:00
You see the reading “the press” as meaning some organization of people. You take it for granted that the freedom of the press applies to a business entity like the NYT and also to an individual blogger or any other person creating a publication.

The idea that people can come together to form cooperative groups and can use those to exercise rights through the idea of personhood is such a normal and legally settled idea.
by Moomoomoo309 | 2025-11-11 04:28:29+00:00
One just came out. Only one on the market I know of. It's called the Unihertz Titan 2, and I'm typing this comment on one. It's got a blackberry style keyboard and runs pretty close to stock android. I recommend swapping their default keyboard out with swiftkey, though the default one isn't terrible - swiftkey just gives me a few conveniences like emoji suggestions. It has play services, so it works.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-11-11 04:29:07+00:00
I have found that it's incredibly hard to get successful entrepreneurs to acknowledge that a lot of their success is down to luck. I think it's got something to do with the Protestant Work Ethic - that if they were smart and worked hard then they "deserve" their wealth , but if they just got lucky they don't "deserve" it. So acknowledging that luck played an important part in their success gives them bad feelings, and they don't want to feel bad.

Conversely there's a lot of unsuccessful entrepreneurs who blame bad luck entirely for their failures. There's a lot of "I didn't deserve that. I worked hard, I made smart decisions. I should have succeeded".
by cammil | 2025-11-11 04:29:31+00:00
Screenshots preserve exactly what the user sees, and for this reason i believe they are the best format for evidence. They also preserve their look when your messaging software starts doing funny things with it. They are immune to accidental edits. They are reliable in the sense that if the original source ever changed, no one would argue that you didnt see what you saw with a screenshot. They wont degrade when the content of a url changes.

We do use screenshots extensively, but alongside links and copied text when necessary
by ModernMech | 2025-11-11 04:30:55+00:00
I dunno, I think you're trying to split hairs if top 20 isn't "very popular".

But I don't think the comparison you're trying to make works, because then isn't now.

In general, in order to convince someone to leave their current tools, you have to not only be better but a lot better. As in, you need to offer the entire feature set of the old tool plus something else compelling enough to overcome the network effects (ecosystem + years of experience + job prospects) of the prior environment.

So when C++ came on the scene, they had to compete against ~20 years of accumulated legacy systems and language history. Rust had to compete with 50 years of legacy systems and language history.

Moreover, developer expectations are a lot different today. Back then, C++ was what, a compiler and some docs? Python was an interpreter and some docs? Maybe an IRC channel? Today, it's not enough to reach 1.0, you also have to deliver a package manager, robust 3rd party library ecosystem, language server tooling, a robust community with support for new devs, etc. So timescales for language development are getting longer than they were back then.

Also, I don't know why you've chosen "very popular" as a metric. Very popular isn't something a language needs to be, it just needs to be big enough to sustain a community. Being top 20 within 10 years is certainly in that realm. You can see that other language communities have existed for longer and are much smaller. And anyway, the entire developer population today is much larger than it was back then; you can have a small percentage of all developers but still large enough to be robust. I don't know the math, maybe someone can figure it out, but I wouldn't be surprised if 1% of developers today is inflation adjusted to like 10%-20% of developers in 1996. So Rust is probably as big as it needs to be to sustain itself, it doesn't have to be a "very popular" language if that means being in the top 5 or whatever the threshold is.
by Animats | 2025-11-11 04:31:06+00:00
> From reading that, I'm not quite sure if they have anything figured out. I actually agree, but her notes are mostly fluff with no real info in there and I do wonder if they have anything figured out besides "collect spatial data" like imagenet.

Right. I was thinking about this back in the 1990s. That resulted in a years-long detour through collision detection, physically based animation, solving stiff systems of nonlinear equations, and a way to do legged running over rough terrain. But nothing like "AI". More of a precursor to the analytical solutions of the early Boston Dynamics era.

Work today seems to throw vast amounts of compute at the problem and hope a learning system will come up with a useful internal representation of the spatial world. It's the "bitter lesson" approach. Maybe it will work. Robotic legged locomotion is pretty good now. Manipulation in unstructured situations still sucks. It's amazing how bad it is. There are videos of unstructured robot manipulation from McCarthy's lab at Stanford in the 1960s. They're not that much worse than videos today.

I used to make the comment, pre-LLM, that we needed to get to mouse/squirrel level intelligence rather than trying to get to human level abstract AI. But we got abstract AI first. That surprised me.

There's some progress in video generation which takes a short clip and extrapolates what happens next. That's a promising line of development. The key to "common sense" is being able to predict what happens next well enough to avoid big mistakes in the short term, a few seconds. How's that coming along? And what's the internal world model, assuming we even know?
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 04:31:29+00:00
> Readability is on the eyes of the final user, they are free to use whatever narrow column width they prefer.

For plaintext sure. Not for code or tabular data. It destroys indentation and destroys column alignment and interleaves parts of rows. It's a horrid mess.

> When was the last time a computer shipped without a monospace font?

When was the last time I have to read something in a font I can't control that is forced to be proportional? Oh, constantly. Literally all the time.

> Are you complaining about GMail's rendering maybe?

Yes, and messaging clients, and chat clients, and everything unless it has actual dedicated code blocks that render with a horizontal scroll bar. Which are the exception as opposed to the rule.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-11 04:31:43+00:00
Predictive power alone doesn’t equal causal understanding. The paper models news and opinion spread as physical processes that may (over)fit observed data, but it never establishes why these patterns occur. No counterfactuals, no intervention logic, no identification strategy. As causal inference work (like Stefan Wager's) makes clear, explanation demands more than correlation. Treating human communication as node-to-node contagion might predict past outcomes, but it misses the purposive, context-driven nature of choice. So while the model captures statistical regularities, it lacks the causal rigor needed to claim genuine understanding of human behavior.

I'm assuming you've never predicted things in practice for a living? e.g. as a quant trader? Quants have something called a "deflated sharpe ratio" since p-hacking / overfitting historical data is such a common thing and results in losses when projected into the future.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-11 04:32:38+00:00
>Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless. Whether you are religious or not, it’s hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior.

>I write this as one who has been thoughtless countless times and made many mistakes but also became very lucky in learning from some wonderful friends how to behave better (still a long way from perfect, however). Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman.

>I wish all who read this a very happy Thanksgiving. Yes, even the jerks; it’s never too late to change. Remember to thank America for maximizing your opportunities. But it is – inevitably – capricious and sometimes venal in distributing its rewards.

>Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better.

God speed, dearest Oracle of Omaha.
by nis0s | 2025-11-11 04:33:06+00:00
For the U.S., the time is perhaps already here as people being fired are unable to find employment. It makes sense to tax the $250K or more earners to fund UBI. The cost-benefit analysis of shifting spending revenues from high income earners to low to middle income earners works out in favor of low to middle income earners. That is to say, if more people have more money to spend in the economy, you’ll see better prospects for overall GDP growth versus if only high income earners are spending.

Relying on high income earners to sustain the economy almost always results in a bubble burst because of how their resources are spent. The fundamental question is really what are people selling and buying. Low to middle income earners buy goods and services which serve a broader swath of the market (high volume, low value), while high income earners lean more towards goods and services which are found in niche spheres (low volume, high value).

Even if the U.S. just taxes the H1Bs to fund UBI for citizens, it could offset a lot of economic damage experienced by local populations due to globalization. Perhaps the H1B tax should “stick” for at least 10 years post-naturalization to balance lost revenues from the naturalization process. Moreover, it might even make sense to tax jobs offshoring to pay for UBI. The market is addicted to itself, so it will find some way to thrive, regardless.
by lubujackson | 2025-11-11 04:34:22+00:00
As an engineer and artist, I think a better comparison is painting -> photography. It took quite a while for photography to be considered an art, since it removed so much of the creative control from the artist. But it replaced them with new and different skills, particularly the value of curation.

Some skills, like framing, values, balance, etc. become even more important differentiators. Yes, it is much different. But as long as humans are in the loop, there is an opportunity for human communication.
by cjohnsonpr | 2025-11-11 04:34:38+00:00
We built a searchable registry for AI agents and MCP servers, powered by an open protocol called ADP (Agent Discovery Protocol). The problem: AI agents are proliferating but there's no standardized way to discover them. You can't search for "agents that can query PostgreSQL" or "payment processing agents" and get ranked results with trust metrics. What we built:

Semantic search using vector embeddings (all-MiniLM-L6-v2) to find agents by capability Trust infrastructure: verification badges, health monitoring, security scoring (0-100), user reviews Open protocol: ADP v2.0 defines a standardized manifest format (like package.json for npm, but for agents) Multi-protocol support: REST, MCP, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket

How it works: Agents publish ADP manifests at /.well-known/agent.json: json{ "aid": "aid://example.com/my-agent@1.0.0", "name": "My Agent", "capabilities": [{ "name": "query_database", "description": "Execute SQL queries", "input_schema": {...}, "output_schema": {...} }], "security": { "certifications": ["SOC2"], "data_policy": "zero_retention" } } Registry crawls these manifests (or accepts direct registration), generates embeddings, and makes them searchable. Tech stack:

Backend: FastAPI + PostgreSQL with pgvector Frontend: Next.js 14 Search: Sentence transformers for embedding generation Deployment: Nginx + PM2

Current status:

51 agents indexed (ChatGPT, Claude Code, Gemini, major MCP servers) API at /v1/agents, /v1/search, /v1/register Open source ADP spec

What's interesting technically:

Federation design: Any organization can run an ADP-compliant registry. Agents aren't locked to our platform. Trust without centralization: Security scores aggregate multiple signals (certs, uptime, reviews) but agents control their own manifests. Semantic search on capabilities: Not just keyword matching—understanding what agents can actually do.

Known limitations:

Health monitoring is on-demand, not continuous (working on background jobs) Security scoring is relatively basic (need more sophisticated threat modeling) Federation protocol is planned but not implemented yet Limited to agents that publish manifests (can't auto-discover arbitrary APIs)

Why this matters: As agentic AI becomes more common, we need discovery infrastructure. Right now, finding agents requires GitHub searches or word-of-mouth. This is like trying to find websites before search engines existed. Live demo: https://agentic-exchange.metisos.co ADP spec: https://github.com/metisos/adp-protocol API docs: https://agentic-exchange.metisos.co/develop
by gnarlouse | 2025-11-11 04:34:59+00:00
This article has me thinking about “the human capacity to outthink nature and the scalability of this.” The wheel is sort of the first time I think man outthought nature: Nature is inherently bumpy and noisy, rolling is certainly a great form of locomotion, but it’s not reliable. When man figured out how to make long tracts of flat land (roads), we outthought nature. In some sense you could argue that our entire tranjectory through science and technology, supported by the scientific method, is another example: nature sort of sucks at persisting high level pattern intuition between one generation to the next, basically anything beyond genes.

I keep going back and forth on whether I think “super-intelligence” is achievable in any form other than speed-super-intelligence, but I definitely think that being able to think 3-dimensionally capably will be a major building block to AI outthinking man, and outthinking nature.

Sort of a shitpost.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-11 04:35:00+00:00
Right on. I really loved Minecraft in the early days, but I think it's changed a bit since then, so I focus on Luanti (MineTest is the name most people know, I think) these days. But yes, I'm a big fan of both Minecraft and Counter-Strike. You have good taste. =) I understand that MineCraft is taking steps to deobfuscate its source a bit, to embrace modding a bit more. I was excited to hear that! The early days with Bucket were a real hack based on decompiled sources, IIRC.

Agree with you about discussing things online with others being kind of crazy; I first ran into the internet in the late 90s, and the ability to find others based on interest was amazing. But as you said, always a measure of faith involved (that they are humans somewhere that are like us and have similar interests). As a guy that makes a lot of choices that put me in a minority, I find that online is often the only place I can actually meet someone with my interests, though I've gotten quite used to this. I would say I run into someone IRL with my interests once every 10 years or so.

My kids and I have tons of discussions about all this, and I've been chatting with them about this entire thread for a couple of days now, getting their thoughts and explaining the counter-points that people are offering (I try to steelman opposing views if I'm really passionate about the topic). It's been a fun exercise, both in putting my ego aside a bit, and also stepping into others perspectives. I'm not sure I know anywhere else online I could have conversations quite this way.

Again, thanks for reply. Hope to chat again in future threads. =)
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-11-11 04:35:11+00:00
Why people are triggered by Nintendo? They did a lot of innovation, and most people just lift their ideas and claim it as theirs, mainly trying to profit from it. Patents are there for a reason, to protect your intellectual ideas.

If we think beyond Nintendo for a moment and take a look at Lies of P, that game is the epitome of blatant stealing of ideas. Using Pinocchio, and lifting FROM's timing based approach and the whole system mechanics 1:1.
by harry8 | 2025-11-11 04:35:26+00:00
It's not a poker position. It is everything.

At 95 you're a lot closer to the end of everything than the start, your body is really giving up and it is exceedingly difficult to enjoy anything much.

The speculation is that buffet would likely give up his entire wealth and have his expertise wiped to wind back his biological clock 70 years. Would he? I don't know, ask him maybe.

What can you do with $100m at 95 you would actually enjoy? Again ask him. Or any elderly friend or relative. It is unlike to be a fun conversation, at least in my experience.

At 25 if you have a windfall of only $1000 you've likely got some ideas!
by hekkle | 2025-11-11 04:35:39+00:00
I'm surprised they can't just put a filter on the digital versions to achieve a similar look and feel to the 35mm version.

It is clear that the animators factored in the colour changes from the original media to 35mm, so it seems a disservice to them to re-release their works without honouring how they intended the films to be seen.
by com2kid | 2025-11-11 04:35:53+00:00
> An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont.

My father was a laborer and he was incredibly proud of every project he worked on to build the city he loved.

He was exceptionally proud the day I drove to my first day of work at Microsoft, along a road he helped pave.

We should all aim to build things we can take pride in.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 04:36:01+00:00
> or make it so that you need to scroll left and right

That's the point.

If have an ASCII table that is 150 character columns wide, I'm sending you a screenshot so that you can scroll left and right, rather than have everything end up in a jumble of interleaved overflowing lines that turn into unreadable spaghetti.

This is a feature, not a bug. Not everyone is opening the message on a full-width monitor.
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-11 04:36:19+00:00
> Being supportive of Ukraine on social media will not raise any eyebrows.

There is no bias and shades of gray when you talk about who attacked whom in Ukrainian war...

> It used to be that being critical of Trump attracted no lashback.

Ah yes, except that literally the CEO got fired totally no pushback,

>>in this case on one side there is a jihadist organization

> There's that Islamophobic trope again.

You can personally attack me all you want but at least read what jihad is first. Islam != jihad.

> This is not a war on Hamas. Hamas is nearly irrelevant. It is a racist war on Arab civilians, with Hamas used as the excuse to commit genocide.

This can't even begin to compute.

You aware that Israel has a lot of Arab Muslim civilians who live in peace, work and own businesses, enjoy social security and all? I guess Israel is really bad at killing Arab civilians because they are right there under their nose

You know how many food trucks were authorized by Israel to enter Gaza (a lot of them were diverted by Hamas but still) to feed civilians, the same civilians you are saying Israel wants to kill? If you don't know here enjoy: https://app.un2720.org/tracking/arrived

There are facts of human rights violations by IDF and then there is parroting propaganda about ethnical cleanse. Why are you excusing the crimes of one side and call rapists and murderers "irrelevant"? why do you say other side commit genocide if they cause civilian casualties fighting terrorist militia that hides in comfy tunnels it built for own protection under hospitals and residentail buildings?

IDF are no goodies but if you want to make call out IDF for doing bad stuff during war you really hurt your ability to do it in the eyes of other people by being so biased for the other side that you make up fantasy. If BBC told its journos off for doing exactly this sort of stuff then they are totally justified...

> This has nothing to do with white guilt.

There's a lot of white colonialist guilt around this issue.

> If somebody didnt mention race but denied the Holocaust what would they be?

They would be what commonly known a Holocaust denier. A racist can deny Holocaust happened but Holocaust denial is not racist outside of context.

Anyway I think IDF and Netanyahu did a lot of things they should be investigated for. But if I wanted to convince people about this I would not put what's happening next to Holocaust. Why? Because then somebody who knows a few facts will not believe my other statements.