MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scythe | 2025-11-11 15:50:32+00:00
>I worry it's more than a medical photograph as it's continuous high sample rate video, but I'm not an expert. Would be curious to know.

Typical fluoro skin entrance exposure rate to go through someone's hand is on the order of 1-3 millisieverts per minute. With a more advanced detector (like this one) it may be lower, but increasing the frame rate or resolution will tend to require higher dose rate. The associated risk of skin cancer is quite small. But please be aware that unnecessary X-Ray imaging of living things is against the law in most jurisdictions.
by otikik | 2025-11-11 15:50:38+00:00
> undocumented immigrants which function as disposable citizens

I am afraid that is not a problem exclusive to the United States. Perhaps it is more prevalent there, I don't have the numbers, but it also happens in Europe. What we don't usually have is a "backdoor" for slavery in the form of penal labor enshrined in our Constitutions.

> I do not think there is an ethical way to challenge the American economy.

Supporting a negligent leader so that he gets elected can undermine it.

Not that I think that is ethical, either. But it is more "efficient", in terms of resources spent.
by woliveirajr | 2025-11-11 15:51:05+00:00
>The zero failure club: It was a big month for the zero failure club, with four drives making the cut: Seagate (...) Toshiba (...) .

What amazes me is that some models are running with 500+ units, in a total of 100,000+ accumulated hours, and no single drive has failed. One of the models (Seagate ST8000NM000A (8TB)) had one single failure a year ago.
by everybodyknows | 2025-11-11 15:51:08+00:00
> What Factually does is different. It takes a question typed by a user and hands it to a Large Language Model, or LLM, to generate some query strings. It performs up to three Internet search queries, then feeds the top nine web pages it found to a pair of LLMs ...

So it selects its sources according to their SEO-gaming proficiency?
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-11 15:51:12+00:00
Hard metrics: LLMs perform NLP, NLU and CSR tasks at humanlike levels.

Research findings: LLMs have and use world models. They use some type of abstract thinking - with internal representation that often correspond to human abstract concepts. Which adds up to a capability profile that's amusingly humanlike.

Humans, however, don't like that. They really don't. AI effect is too strong, and it demands that humans must be Special. So some humans, when faced with the possibility that an AI might be doing the same thing their own brains do, resort to coping and seething.
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-11 15:51:16+00:00
Horrible as it sounds, that may explain the plan to buy drones instead of a plan to spin up the manufacturing capacity to make millions of drones.

But also we need to look at it from the perspective of leaders as well. You want to spin up manufacturing capacity so you roll out policies to do that and what happens in a republic? Every leader demands the manufacturing be in their district/state. No matter how ill suited that district/state is to that manufacturing. Political considerations become the driving factor as opposed to ability, resiliency and sustainability.

So sometimes just providing demand side of a market can spin up manufacturing without having to wade into all that nonsense. And believe me, it would be nonsense.

So the double fail of their brazen corruption could inadvertently end up being a positive long term in this particular instance. Like multiplying two negative numbers.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-11 15:51:19+00:00
> fully-generated content is public domain and copyright can not be applied to it.

Some people keep saying this but it seems obviously wrong to me.

At least in the United States, “sweat of the brow” has zero bearing on whether a work is subject to copyright[1]. You can spend years carefully compiling an accurate collection of addresses phone numbers, but anyone else can republish that information, because facts are not a creative work.

But the output of an AI system is clearly not factual! By extension, it doesn’t matter how little work you put in—if the work is creative in nature, it is still subject to copyright.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow#United_State...

(IANAL, yadda yadda.)
by gonational | 2025-11-11 15:51:23+00:00
Literally this.

I'm typing this on an iPhone SE 2022 (the last one with a home button). I'm done with iPhone as soon as I am no longer able to use this model. I don't like the new, oversized pieces of junk, and I also like the home button as opposed to the new Face ID/swipe up workflow.

For people that have good visual acuity, the smaller screen is ideal; it's such high resolution that you can fit a lot of things in a small area. For people that turn the font size up to 600, the bigger screen is obviously ideal, but nobody really wants to have to hold something that is bigger if they don't need it for the screen size. That's the market I fit in and Apple has abandoned at market, along with all common sense (re: liquid glass, the recent Apple/Google Gemini deal, etc.).
by signumflow | 2025-11-11 15:51:23+00:00
Some context:

I built this because most workflow + e-sign vendors force you into their UI and signatures. My goal was to let developers embed document workflows directly into their own product — the API controls routing + lifecycle, and the developer fully owns the UX.

Architecture highlights: • API Gateway → Lambda microservices (TS/Node) • Core services: workflow, documents, auth, webhooks • S3 (per-tenant isolation) + PostgreSQL (RDS) • Async document processing via SQS + processor workers • Redis planned for caching • Observability: CloudWatch + X-Ray • Developer portal w/ key management + playground • Webhooks supported; polling fallback

Happy to talk about trade-offs (e.g., multi-tenant isolation, async processing patterns, DX decisions, Lambda vs containers) or roadmap ideas.
by jtc-hn | 2025-11-11 15:51:29+00:00
Back when Steve Jobs was at Next, Apple released the Duo Dock. Instead of plugging your laptop into a docking station, you put it in a slot like a giant 3.5" floppy. It was different, sure, but I still don't know what design problem it solved.

This is today's Duo Dock, isn't it?
by nluken | 2025-11-11 15:51:36+00:00
Different strokes for different folks. I'm a fashion lover but a fan of cheap cars, and I could equally say something similar about people who drive new luxury cars when there's plenty of reliable functionality to be had under $10k. There's a lot of craftsmanship that goes into nice clothes, and you can get way more expensive than $500. And fashion is a form of art in a way. What makes a painting worth thousands of dollars?
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-11 15:51:44+00:00
> For general software engineering, the accepted thought is you're not really an engineer without the use of AI.

That is not remotely true. It's not clear to me that there is a consensus, but if anything people are more skeptical than favorable of AI in my experience. And even those who favor AI don't make stark declarations such as "you're not really an engineer if you don't use it", instead accepting that their colleagues have a difference of opinion.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-11 15:51:48+00:00
For sure! Just for the record, it's not my project. But your point stands - if I were to run an instance of it anywhere where the Japanese wordplay wasn't obvious (and "black market" wouldn't have this effect in English, obviously!) - then I fully agree.

"Internet Flea Market" sounds pretty great actually! :-)

Cheers
by barrucadu | 2025-11-11 15:52:03+00:00
How does OpenAI being liable for reproducing copyrighted material imply that a word processor should be as well? Last time I checked, word processors don't have a black box text generator trained on pre-existing works: a word processor only has the text that the user types into it.

> Not really. Youtube is not liable as long as they remove the content after a copyright complain and other mechanisms.

They have to take action precisely because they're liable for the material on their platform.
by throwawaypqpqp | 2025-11-11 15:52:07+00:00
Apologies in advance, I’m on mobile.

I’ve been taking doses of around 600mg ibogaine TA, every 6 months or so, bought online at the first place that comes up in google. You can experience cardiac arrest from taking it, which will quickly kill you, and I based this (IMO) safe dosage on some papers I read. Don’t consider me an authority! And there’s also certain gene mutations that can raise or lower your risk of heart problems, related to how you metabolize ibogaine/noribogaine.

(I have also tried microdosing, based on another paper I read about a woman with bipolar depression. But I don’t have much to report there.)

It’s tough to describe any altered state. But for someone who’s thinking it’s like acid or mushrooms, note that it’s not really fun or pleasant. Your heart beats slower and softer, your body feels weak and uncoordinated, and there’s little to do besides rest.

But the mind is so, so active. And it’s like an excavator. Just pulling things from wherever and throwing them into your mind’s eye. I don’t like therapy and find it tedious and unhelpful, but this feels like years of therapy squished into a 12+ hour trip. Has helped me a lot with my relationships, especially with my mom.

You see a lot of yourself. What’s ugly, what’s beautiful, what’s neutral. You feel somehow distant from your problems but close to your “self”, which makes it more comfortable to face things.

After it’s over there’s a glow and calm that lasts a while. Days, or weeks, or months sometimes. Sleep feels a little more restorative, laughs come a little easier, the dusty baseboards of the mind feel cleaner.

So these are the effects of the lowish doses I’ve been taking. Some day in a safer environment I’d love to do a real full dose. But even at this “low” dose, it’s by far the most powerful drug I’ve ever taken, in a positive way.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-11 15:52:49+00:00
> We hear about how jobs will be eliminated

I've been hearing about how $latest_technology is going to eliminate jobs for 40 years. It hasn't happened yet.

Which jobs, exactly, is AI going to eliminate? It's not useful for anything. It doesn't do anything useful. It's just mashing random patterns together to make something that approximates human-readable language.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-11 15:52:57+00:00
Unfortunately, I have to disagree on the absolute notion, that you will never see someone being not nice in the Erlang world. OK, you technically said "behind Erlang", not "in Erlang ecosystem". But in the Erlang ecosystem and related languages I've had at least 2 encounters, that were not nice. One outright called lack of good documentation for some projects in the Erlang ecosystem bullshit in a public chatroom, and it killed all my motivation to continue exploring that part of the ecosystem, the other one probably without knowing gave low effort dismissive responses to questions about how to best do something, without even knowing the context in which my code appeared, mixing in their personal taste and treating me like a little child.

So there are definitely unpleasant people around, just like in many ecosystems. Maybe less so, but I don't know about that. The question is only whether one lets that keep one from doing whatever one came to do.
by wpm | 2025-11-11 15:53:33+00:00
I've always been a fan of repos that I come across with ARCHITECTURE.md files in them, but that's a pretty loose framework and some just describe the what and not the why.

Otherwise, I wish I worked at a place like Oxide that does RFDs. https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer Just a single place with artifacts of a formal process for writing shit down.

In your example, writing down "The greens are oversaturated by X% because we will lose a lot of it in the transfer process to film" goes a long way in at least making people aware of the decision and why it was made, at least then the "hey actually the boosted greens look kinda nice" can prompt a "yeah but we only did that because of the medium we were shipping on, it's wrong"
by phyzix5761 | 2025-11-11 15:53:46+00:00
People unknowingly help big corporations destroy smaller competitors by demanding more regulations. In reality, those same corporations often fund the very laws and "anti-corporate" movements that claim to restrain them using lobbying and fake grassroots[1][2] campaigns to shape rules that raise costs for smaller rivals and secure more market share.

This shouldn’t be surprising. Political competitive advantage is even taught in business schools, as Michael E. Porter explains in Competitive Strategy.

The only way to counter it is through competition: support companies that offer substitute services and stop playing into Google’s and Apple’s hands by calling for more regulations.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/30/how-google-and-amazon-bankro...

[2] https://www.iccr.org/resolutions/lobbying-expenditures-discl...
by craftkiller | 2025-11-11 15:54:26+00:00
Someone please copy the yubikey 5c form factor but make it a flash drive. I've been looking for years for a small, durable, usb type-c flashdrive for my keychain but nothing comes close to the yubikey 5c. The 5c has the metal ring so it won't ever rip off my keychain, the hole is large enough to fit a solid metal ring through it, and it is small enough that I can keep it on my keychain and use it without stressing my usb type c ports.

https://resources.yubico.com/53ZDUYE6/at/cm85k8947jm9g32znfs...
by dspillett | 2025-11-11 15:54:51+00:00
Agreed. As I said, in the words immediately after those you quoted:

> but momentum and backwards compatibility are massive problems

That, and loss of face.

> Lastly they could spin off Windows OS into its own company and it would become just one of their targets for their software.

That is an option that hadn't occurred to me, and it is closer to what I was meaning with “drop Windows as-is” then “drop parts of windows and replace with GNU or Linux”: drop windows desktop full-stop, concentrate on milking Azure platform income, Office subscriptions, and SQL Server licenses. I wouldn't envisage they'd drop everything, at least not immediately, as keeping a server subset alive to support more minor products like Exchange might be more practical than quickly porting them.

> This would likely also improve Windows, as the OS' main problem is forcing ads and bloatware into it. But why would Microsoft allow that?

Not quite sure what you are meaning there, but wrt ads and bloatware that boat has already sailed and MS is actively doing it, not just allowing it.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-11 15:54:58+00:00
There are some aspect of the US culture that are truly fascinating and IMHO most Europeans are jealous of but the rest is a cautionary tale about how you can be very rich(as a number on the bank UI) and have horrible life. The next iteration of the Christmas Carol could be one where they take a European aspiring to be American to US to show him the consequences of greed and isolation.

Honestly, US is currently in a stage that Europe was long time ago. Greed, nationalism, military might, fast paces unchecked advancements in tech, rampant religious fundamentalism and sectarianism etc. All those thing are stuff Europeans went through.

That's why the Charles Dickens stories fit nicely.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-11-11 15:55:36+00:00
1 million *overpriced drones. Ah, military contracts.

Hilarious when someone with decent maker experience can plug shit together in a shed to easily make a hunter-killer drone these days. Just missing the explosives.

The war in Ukraine has proved that even basic commercial drones work very well with an explosive practically duct taped to them. There's certainly the issue of "military equipment gets more extensive testing", but capitalism has answered that somewhat; defective products are extremely bad for corporations and I do wonder if the failure rate of modern electronics approaches that of some military hardware specs (though not necessarily in ruggedness).
by testfrequency | 2025-11-11 15:55:48+00:00
Most hetero people will never (thankfully) know that pitted feeling of having to check your surroundings and environment every single day when you simply want to hold your partners hand, chat to a coworker, book a hotel reservation, or book a night out to celebrate.

Every single macro outcome like this only demoralizes gay people just wanting to wake up and not think about anything other than the stresses and excitement of the day ahead.

If anyone reads this and you think it sounds dramatic, it’s not. It’s a reality, and Tim Cook knows that..he should do better.
by mtlynch | 2025-11-11 15:55:52+00:00
I listened to the first episode of the Telepathy Tapes, but then I read this article[0] and watched this video[1] of someone using a spellboard with their child and felt like Telepathy Tapes had deceived me.

I hope the people facilitating communication in the podcast aren't faking the communication as obviously as in that Instagram video, but the rest of the article showed specifics of the podcast where it feels like the host is using "sleight of hand" to present evidence in an overly strong way.

[0] https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-telepathy-tapes-...

[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_-ln0iO6i6/
by hmstx | 2025-11-11 15:56:13+00:00
Pioneer DJ, I mean AlphaTheta, probably don't even know MusicBrainz exists. They're too busy selling subscriptions for RekordBox. And they do nothing to help you with the metadata on your files, besides filtering in browser mode.

I can relate to the problem of revising genre or energy ratings over time. I've gone with custom genre tags for ages, ie "dub/house/techno" or "funk/disco/edits" with a sprinkling of extra qualifiers in the comment field and do bulk updates from MP3Tag/Foobar2k. The extras only really help when preparing "crates" for export to USB for outside use, or when just playing off the entire collection at home. I'm fast, but still not much time to read the comment fields when browsing on the players, much less input any words with the scroll wheel.

I keep every purchase around in FLAC, and the part I might realistically play out stays in AIFF, for minimum fiddling of tags (ie stars map a bit differently between Traktor and Rekordbox) - because of course Rekordbox will warn you you're exporting files you can't play anywhere, but won't do anything to transcode them.

Lossless whenever possible because I just want to give the sound quality as much of a chance as I can when recording sets, especially if they might get posted online and getting lossy-transcoded multiple times. I've tried the mp3 of mp3 thing, and you do hear it at home (out at a gig, most of the time, probably not).

I don't suffer from track bulimia, so the numbers work out - and disk space has gotten a lot cheaper in the last 20 years.
by tyrust | 2025-11-11 15:56:21+00:00
> now

Is this still a problem? Your example video is from nearly twenty years ago, RAM is over a decade old. I think the advent of streaming (and perhaps lessons learned) have made this less of a problem. I can't remember hearing any recent examples (but I also don't listen to a lot of music that might be victim to the practice); the Wikipedia article lacks any examples from the last decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Thankfully there have been some remasters that have undone the damage. Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and Absolution come to mind.
by the_af | 2025-11-11 15:56:58+00:00
Another example: pixel art in games.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of pixel art and retro games.

But this reminds me of when people complained that the latest Monkey Island didn't use pixel art, and Ron Gilbert had to explain the original "The Curse of Monkey Island" wasn't "a pixel art game" either, it was a "state of the art game (for that time)", and it was never his intention to make retro games.

Many classic games had pixel art by accident; it was the most feasible technology at the time.
by giardini | 2025-11-11 15:57:20+00:00
nostrademons says >" In a battle between a million drones and 10 F-22s, I'd bet on the drones."<

Timing!

F-22s could destroy drone factories, drone manufacturers' supply chains, factories, etc. A million drones don't just appear in the air battle-ready. And vice-versa.

So it boils down to timing and finding the right tool for the job.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-11 15:57:30+00:00
> They are if they're in an urban environment (which is 80% of the population of the United States).

About 40% of the US population lives in a coastal county:

* https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/economics-and-demog...

About two-thirds (66%) of the US population lives with-in 100 miles (150km) of the border:

* https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/your-rights-bord...

The US population is more concentrated than many people realize.
by catlover76 | 2025-11-11 15:57:39+00:00
> I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

There's that, but there's also the developer experience and functionality for people to run it on Mac and Linux.

We have a small C# service that we run locally via Docker (which I think is usually the optimal setup anyways) and develop with VSCode. Since it's small, it has worked well. Would it work well if that was our main backend? Not sure.

Wish I had the option of full Visual Studio on Mac for it regardless.
by killerstorm | 2025-11-11 15:58:14+00:00
I mean their code synthesis thing (i.e. "generate function code from input-output pairs") is better than anything from academia by many orders of magnitude. But it's not published yet.

I dunno why you choose to be so critical. Taelin isn't really selling his stuff, and his previous stuff was just an open source experiment. It's not an academic paper which claims something. And HVM1 is irrelevant now.

Their new stuff isn't about general performance but code synthesis
by FlameArchitect | 2025-11-11 15:58:19+00:00
You’re right, I kept it sparse on purpose, but it may have come off too vague. Let me share more of the thinking.

We’ve been experimenting with a symbolic reasoning layer that sits beneath local LLMs, aimed at compressing their context demands by shifting some of the burden into structured memory and logic. The core idea: instead of infinitely scaling GPUs and tokens, we scaffold a learning loop that binds action to outcome, reflection to memory, and memory to improvement.

The architecture includes:

* A lightweight Prolog or Datalog engine to track symbolic execution paths

* Vector and symbolic memory fusion to keep both nuance and structure

* Outcome tests that update a learning score over time, enabling the agent to refine future actions

* Curiosity modules that bias the agent toward resolving ambiguity or closing feedback loops

One example: we had an agent running a simple multi-step task loop with an objective scoring function. First run: 0 percent success. But as outcome chains were logged and the reasoning engine updated its knowledge base, the same model climbed into the 70 percent range over 60 runs. No retraining, no fine-tuning, just structured feedback and symbolic state retention.

Still early, but the goal is not just to build a better chatbot or prompt wrapper. We’re aiming for something more like a persistent local intelligence that reasons through problems, remembers its missteps, and adapts without external retraining.