MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by busymom0 | 2025-11-05 17:29:46+00:00
It really is a very simple setup. I basically had an old Intel based Mac mini from 2020. The intel chip inside it is from 2018). It's a 3 GHz 6-core Core i5. I had upgraded the ram on it to 32 GB when I bought it. However, the ollama only uses about 5.5 gigs of it. So it can be run on 16gb Mac too.

The Qwen model I am using is fairly small but does the job I need it to for classifying headlines pretty decently. All I ask it to do is whether a specific headline is political or not. It only responds to me with in True or False.

I access this model from an app (running locally) using the `http://localhost:11434/api/generate` REST api with `think` set to false.

Note that this qwen model is a `thinking` model. So disabling it is important. Otherwise it takes very long to respond.

Note that I tested this on my newer M4 Mac mini too and there, the performance is a LOT faster.

Also, on my new M4 Mac, I originally tried using the Apple's built in Foundation Models for this task and while it was decent, many times, it was hitting Apple's guardrails and refusing to respond because it claimed the headline was too sensitive. So I switched to the Qwen model which didn't have this problem.

Note that while this does the job I need it to, as another comment said, it won't be much help for things like coding.
by thwarted | 2025-11-05 17:29:54+00:00
Acquiring the skill to fly through such interfaces is equivalent to learning to play a musical instrument, where the desired attention (taking cues) and action (body/finger movement) becomes second nature. Such skill and interfaces are, unfortunately, not viewed as similarly valued as playing a musical instrument, and such visual presentation of the TUI is thought to be "difficult" to use, and they do take learning and effort to achieve that level of mastery. Meanwhile, the interface to traditional musical instruments, while there's been some changes and improvements, have stood the test of time and remain attractive to a lot people who want to make music. Many of the claimed "improvements" that GUI interfaces have over TUIs look in some cases, to me, like busy box toys created for toddlers (this is how I feel about the Windows Ribbon menu widgets). Once something becomes second nature, it's not "I'm putting my fingers in this position" it is "I want to play an A after this series of other notes".
by BeetleB | 2025-11-05 17:30:04+00:00
Summary:

"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% because of substitution, and undermined California’s progress in meeting its zero-emissions vehicle target."
by bigyabai | 2025-11-05 17:30:17+00:00
The ground is already lost. Apple can't prove that their monopoly is worthwhile, and none of their detractors are willing to renege. The "issues they see in different ways" ultimately boils down to one objectionable product (the App Store) that Apple is unwilling to part with.

Apple can fix this issue without excess complexity. They are the ones demanding fragmentation and disparity as a result, allowing alternative app storefronts has always been a one-size-fits-all solution.
by bluGill | 2025-11-05 17:30:44+00:00
Problem is for the first month of lessons it is not joy, it is hard frustrating work where you sound bad and know it. Even when you are good lessons often are pushing you to do hard things and so they are not pure joy.

My son has been taking violin for years, is really good, and loves it - but most of his practice time is still really hard pieces that need a lot of practice of the hard parts (stitching between 5th and 2nd position...) and he would prefer to sit down at the piano (he stopped lessons years ago) and play an easy piece.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-05 17:31:47+00:00
Mine doesn't. I know just a handful of things about my great grandparents. Things I do know about my family history didn't come from oral traditions but rather records placing my ancestors in places.

Even from what I know of my parents, I'm sure I've forgotten or misremembered a bunch of stories that they've told me about their lives. I couldn't reliably retell more than a handful of stories.
by xethos | 2025-11-05 17:31:57+00:00
> things like primarily designing the interface for a touch screen, despite PC touch screens not really taking off.

That was actually an absolute godsend using the Pinephone, and IMO laid the groundwork for the Librem 5 (and modern Linux-on-Mobile interfaces) to take root. I do not believe PostmarketOS would be doing as well as it is if they didn't have apps that play nicely with touch.

You don't use it, and you don't appreciate it, and that's fine. I'd say it most defintitely has a place though, without even touching on the chicken-and-egg bit about touchscreen / mobile Linux not taking off vs Gnome pushing for touchscreen / adaptability before it goes mainstream
by kragen | 2025-11-05 17:32:46+00:00
I wonder if it's obsolete now that we have things like Wasm. I mean, in some sense, it's nothing new—the UCSD p-System, EUMEL, and Dijkstra's THE offered the same safety much earlier, just at a punishing performance cost.

Also, though, you could imagine a system that protected the hard disk from corruption without having to be involved every time the CPU accessed RAM. For example, you could warm-boot into a trusted executive every time you wanted to flush the I/O queue to the hard disk. Rebooting would reload the executive code from the disk and set a "supervisor" bit on the disk interface, which the trusted executive would clear before yielding control back to the untrusted user program.
by jcoby | 2025-11-05 17:32:56+00:00
> What software today do people recommend as an alternative to Sketchup?

onshape (web; free to use unless you want to protect your designs) and fusion (autodesk; free license available) are both really popular right now. they work differently than sketchup. i never really made friends with sketchup but the parametric modeling system used in fusion and onshape clicked with me and i really enjoy using them.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-05 17:32:58+00:00
>is there not a stronger solution

Equality under the law is the solution.

The reason criminals dress up as cops, be they local cops or single issue fedcops (e.g. ICE) is because they wanna kick in a door and it's the only profession where a small team kicking in a door is considered normal by the populace so it's the one they want to dress up as. If you just wanna be somewhere it's easier to pretend to be a plumber or whatever.

If you make that door kicking of a criminal-ish sort just as illegitimate when the cops do it as when anyone else does it the problem evaporates. Cops, especially in small numbers and out of uniform, shouldn't be kicking in doors as part of "business as usual". That's the kind of thing that they know they're gonna do in advance, so they should bother to show up in several squad cars, have a warrant, and heck, have a lawyer on a Teams/Zoom call ready to explain the warrant.

If anybody could put a bullet in anybody who forces entry without producing a warrant without fear of state reprisal (i.e. if normal self defense rules for whatever state you're in apply) there'd be almost no value in pretending to be a cop for the overwhelming majority of crimes people pretend to be cops for (home invasions, mostly).

But the FBI will never advocate for that solution because at the end of the day they too are more equal animals.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-05 17:33:17+00:00
> There used to be an icon in the browser URL bar when a site had a feed, but they nuked that too.

This is actually a feature of Orion[0], and among the reasons why I believe it to be one of the most (power) user-oriented browsers in active development.

It's such a basic thing that there's really no good reason to remove the feature outright (as mainstream browsers have), especially when the cited reason is to "reduce clutter" which has been added back tenfold with garbage like chatbots and shopping assistants.

[0]: https://kagi.com/orion/
by mmooss | 2025-11-05 17:33:24+00:00
> the root problem is not incompetence, it's that half of America wanted exactly this, for a second time now.

That is the same psychology I described in the GP: Instead of looking in the mirror and figuring out what they need to do better, they blame outside forces. It's victim psychology - powerless, someone else's fault, etc.

Your group failed; people didn't vote for it because you are well-known quitters and whiners and victims - and losers; you're ok with losing and quit when it happens - and you conduct shitty politics as a result. Who votes for that? Who even can stand to listen to it - it's sickening, depressing, disheartening.

The right wing says, 'we believe in X and we won't be stopped no matter what; we will never give up'. That gets votes. That gets things done.

Get out of bed, stop crying, and get to work. That you still hold on politically with this victim psychology shows how bad the right wing's message is. Never give up, never even talk about it.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-05 17:33:40+00:00
That's good to hear, I wasn't familiar with Maestro at all. But it doesn't do anything to address the proliferation in form factors. I can get nice aftermarket head units from a couple of different Chinese vendors for one of my cars, but they had to be specifically designed for that exact application. I ended up adding wireless CarPlay to that car's original head unit with an ugly internal/external adapter solution. It works well enough, but it was a pain to install. Hopefully similar hardware can be made available to GM customers in the future.

For the other car, though... no way, no how. It is stuck with what it has. Its touchscreen is a nonstandard size, seamlessly integrated into the dashboard, and not used by any other cars AFAIK. Fortunately it's also pretty good. It supported wireless CarPlay from day one, and it isn't from a manufacturer that relies on fracking its own customer base for $20/month. Safe to say nobody will be building an aftermarket replacement for it.
by nicoburns | 2025-11-05 17:33:51+00:00
> There are already a number of 5K, 6K, and 8K monitors on the market. They’re just not selling well. Between difficult software support for scaling legacy apps, compatibility issues with different graphics cards and cables, and the fact that normal monitors are good enough, the really high resolution monitors don’t sell well.

They're available, but they never seem to have become a mass-market product at mass-market prices. The cheapest 5k monitor is at least double the price of the cheapest 4k monitor. And it was more like 4x until recently.

You're probably right that we're starting to hit the point where people don't care though.
by eks391 | 2025-11-05 17:33:55+00:00
Sometimes you need to take a step backward to go forward. By 'going back' to allowing third party stores and apps, you have introduced competition, and realistically, one of them becomes the defacto one that is easy for both developers and users. On my android, I have lots of sideloaded apps that come from different sources, however since F-droid allows you to connect lots of 'stores' to it, I only have one app store app, as I have connected 5 app repositiories to F-droid. This is a huge win, because most of my apps come from F-droid, but there are those few that require different repos to get, as well a the few that I can install without a store at all, by just installing the APK I grabbed from the official site. Apple's store could allow these features, but since it undermines their anti-competitive practices, law has to come in to temporarily inconvenience you, so that your and everyone else's lives can be better. It'll just take some time though, because Apple goes out of their way to conform to new regulations as minimally as possible, to the point of completely missing the point of the regulation when possible.
by davisr | 2025-11-05 17:33:57+00:00
I'm hearing you say, "don't waste your breath because change is not possible." And there you have your self-fulfilling prophecy.

To quote someone who lived before me: don't accept the things you cannot change. Change the things you cannot accept.

And the no-JS ship has not sailed. Government websites require accessibility, and at least in the UK, do not rely on JS.
by technothrasher | 2025-11-05 17:33:58+00:00
Jove was the big editor on campus at the University of Rochester back in the very early 90's, mostly because Jonathan Payne, who wrote it, attended the school. When I got there I pushed for Joe adoption because it was a simpler editor for the less geeky undergraduate users to use. Pico never really was a phenomenon there at the time.
by refulgentis | 2025-11-05 17:35:12+00:00
With a fuzzy graph, what the essay shows, we plug each point into a recipe, the equation, and see how badly it fails. Big failure → dark region (like a bitter taste). Small failure → light region (almost right). It’s just showing the raw mistake you get after plugging in x and y.

With a signed distance function, instead of looking at the recipe’s mistake, we measure how far the point is from the perfect curve—like pulling out a ruler and measuring the nearest distance to the “correct” line.

It always has units of length and behaves nicely (positive outside, negative inside, zero on the curve).

So the fuzzy graph is about “how wrong is the equation here?”

A signed distance function is “how far away from the exact solution am I?”

They’re related ideas (both start from equations written as something = 0), but they’re not the same thing.

Reasonably, I ask myself: "but isn't dark region far distance and light region close distance?"

Sitting with that:

In the fuzzy graph, we’re coloring by equation error—how badly the equation is satisfied at each point.

In a signed distance field, we color by actual geometric distance to the curve.

Those two numbers aren’t the same unless the equation is written in a very special way. If you multiply an equation by some huge factor (say, multiply everything by 1,000, or divide by something small), the shape of the solution curve doesn’t change—distance hasn’t changed—but the equation’s error suddenly becomes 1,000 times larger (or smaller). That would completely change the shading in the fuzzy graph while leaving the real distances untouched.

Signed distance is measured with a ruler (pure geometry). The fuzzy graph is measuring algebraic error (how close the formula comes to zero). Both can get lighter near the curve and darker away from it, but they’re doing it for different reasons, so they’re not interchangeable.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 17:35:15+00:00
I'm not sure if he can do that. I feel like eminent domain needs to be performed by a governor or federal. People need to remember that a Mayor isn't a "president of city that can do whatever he wants".

I'm pretty radical myself and I also just don't think it's necessary. There's more than enough unusued buildings to rebuild upon or renovate than a need to seize property. Even a place as dence as NYC still has a lot of land to utilize.
by flyinglizard | 2025-11-05 17:35:37+00:00
Practically all non-rocket terror attacks on Israelis originate in the West Bank, so I'm not sure what your point proves. Israel operates in the West Bank daily to prevent those (with considerable success). In the West Bank during 2024 alone, 27 Israelis were murdered and 308 injured. Hardly peaceful coexistence.
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-05 17:35:54+00:00
They may agree on the existence of the problem, but they... don't agree on the solutions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic...

Douthat: I think you would prefer the human race to endure, right?

Thiel: Uh ——

Douthat: You’re hesitating.

Thiel: Well, I don’t know. I would — I would ——

Douthat: This is a long hesitation!
by emodendroket | 2025-11-05 17:36:04+00:00
Even if I take the more expansive possible interpretation of “body” typically applied to vehicles, the propeller on the back of it isn’t part of the “body” and the “body” of a submarine is rigid and immobile.

Is this an intellectual exercise for you or have you ever in your life heard someone say something like “the submarine swam through the water”? It’s so ridiculous I would be shocked to see it outside of a story intended for children or an obvious nonnative speaker of English.
by kiwicopple | 2025-11-05 17:36:08+00:00
impressive work jmo - thanks for open sourcing this (and OSI-compliant)

we are working on a challenge which is somewhat like a homomorphic encryption problem - I'm wondering if OpenPCC could help in some way? :

When developing websites/apps, developers generally use logs to debug production issues. However with wearables, logs can be privacy issue: imagine some AR glasses logging visual data (like someone's face). Would OpenPCC help to extract/clean/anonymize this sort of data for developers to help with their debugging?
by bluGill | 2025-11-05 17:36:31+00:00
Most of the social of screens is when you get to a place without them you have something common to talk about. "how about [local sports team]", "what did you think about [whatever happened on latest soap opera]", "lets pretend I'm [some character on cartoon]". It is all shorthand for we have something in common and can skip getting to know each other.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-05 17:36:34+00:00
> You move your eyes, not your head. Plus or minus 20 degrees is a trivial amount of eye movement.

Maybe this varies a lot between humans, because I'm trying the experiment, and any closer than 24 inches requires physically moving my head to comfortably read text in the corner of the 32" display.

Even at 36" it's fatiguing to focus on a corner of the display solely through eye-movement for more than a few seconds.

> Your requirement to comfortably see everything with minimal eye/head movement is atypical

I don't think it's by any means an uncommon requirement. Movie-watchers want to be able to see the whole screen at once (with the exception of some intentionally-over-the-top IMAX theatres), gamers want to be able to see their radar/heath/ammo/etc in the corners of the screen. I'd like to be able to notice notifications arriving in the corner of the screen.
by znpy | 2025-11-05 17:36:38+00:00
In Poettering’s defence: his software worked/works.

It’s a big change but it wasn’t pushed at early stage: he had a working implementation. No fluff, no bs. After fedora first and rhel later, other distributions followed but nobody’s getting sabotaged or prevented from working on other init systems.

Don’t even get me started on gnome though, and their progressive dumbing down of gnome as a desktop environment…
by akshayshah | 2025-11-05 17:37:21+00:00
Rapid is excellent. It also integrates with the standard library's fuzz testing, which is handy to persist a high-priority corpus of inputs that have caused bugs in the past.

Testing/quick is adequate for small things and doesn't introduce new dependencies, but it's also frozen. Many years ago, the Go team decided that PBT is complex enough that it shouldn't be in stdlib.

Here's a small example of a classic PBT technique used in a very practical Go project: https://github.com/connectrpc/connect-go/blob/cb2e11fb88c9a6...
by froh | 2025-11-05 17:37:32+00:00
I to this day think the move from dsssl to xslt was the biggest mistake in the SGML to XML evolution.

they went from a clean scheme based standard to a human-unreadable "use a GUI tool" syntax.

st text serna was a wysiwyg XML FO rendering editor: throw in call stylesheets and some input XML, wysiwyg edit away

but xslt didn't take off nor did derived products.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-05 17:37:44+00:00
> That said, if you’ve been on the other end of frequent attacks from haters, it’s understandable that you might be overly sensitive to it!

Speaking mostly from personal experience, I don't know how the community at large is felling about it, but for me my reaction and experience has been the opposite. The more I come across haters, the less impact each one have on me, because I've seen it before, already know it not to be true, and don't have any needs to engage with any of it again. It's like the more it occurred, the more desensitized I got to it.

Being falsely accused of things you know to be untrue felt really difficult at first, but forcing myself to be more confident in me really helped to not let that get to me and be able to move past it easier.

More on topic, it's really easy to misjudge what is a "campaign" and what is someone feeling semi-strongly about something but writing really "convincingly" about it and what is someone just throwing a off-hand comment perhaps hastily formulated. We don't always know the intention, but we immediately jump to our first guess about the intention, but sometimes people are just casually pointing out stuff without actually having strong feelings about them.
by binhrobles | 2025-11-05 17:38:06+00:00
Ah I appreciate this so much Greg!

The skewed street number distribution / Tantivy example in this blog post was the issue we had spent a lunch++ spitballing ideas around. Had to keep it concise for the blog post, but there were a few different fun ways we tried to resolve that and it was super helpful to have your thoughts at the time. xoxo

And definitely shout out Recurse Center!
by homamg | 2025-11-05 17:38:13+00:00
The web you knew is gone. Search engines no longer send clicks, AI agents now decide what people see, buy, and believe.

This isn’t just another shift in digital marketing. The web itself is becoming the backend, and AI is emerging as the new operating system. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity aren’t just tools—they’re the new interface to the internet. The zero-click web is here, and your customers may never reach your website again.