MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cxr | 2025-11-05 16:01:22+00:00
> When that solution isn't wanted, the polyfill offers another path.

A solution is only a solution if it solves the problem.

This sort of thing, basically a "reverse X/Y problem", is an intellectually dishonest maneuver, where a thing is dubbed a "solution" after just, like, redefining the problem to not include the parts that make it a problem.

The problem is that there is content that works today that will break after the Chrome team follows through on their announced plans of shirking on their responsibility to not break the Web. That's what the problem is. Any "solution" that involves people having to go around un-breaking things that the web browser broke is not a solution to the problem that the Chrome team's actions call for people to go around un-breaking things that the web browser broke.

> As mentioned previously, the RSS/Atom XML feed can be augmented with one line, <script src="xslt-polyfill.min.js" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></script>, which will maintain the existing behavior of XSLT-based transformation to HTML.

Oh, yeah? It's that easy? So the Chrome team is going to ship a solution where when it encounters un-un-fucked content that depends on XSLT, Chrome will transparently fix it up as if someone had injected this polyfill import into the page, right? Or is this another instance where well-paid engineers on the Chrome team who elected to accept the responsibility of maintaining the stability of the Web have decided that they like the getting-paid part but don't like the maintaining-the-stability-of-the-Web part and are talking out of both sides of their mouths?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-05 16:01:54+00:00
It’s an unnecessary experiment that wastes time. Kroger/Costco/Walmart/Albertsons all have 2% profit margins. These are extremely optimized, large scale businesses. No city government is going to do it for cheaper.

Which means the most prices can be lowered is 2%.

Which means the problem in food deserts is the customers are too poor.

Which means the solution is giving poor people money.

But that is not a winning political position, so we have all these nonsense proposals.
by oarsinsync | 2025-11-05 16:02:08+00:00
> Essentially the same as giving alcohol to kids at home.

Is it? A bottle of vodka, rum, wine, beer, is very obviously what it is.

A lot of these gambling games are disguised as games, that just happen to have elements that are heavily disguised to not be obviously and immediately shown to be gambling.

You and I both know what loot boxes are, but does everyone? There's nothing obviously gambling about a loot box, until you dig into it.
by 1dom | 2025-11-05 16:02:14+00:00
Your production is not my production. 5 9's of businesses don't need 5 9's, and in my experience, people who talk like they do are talking from a position of managing 1 or 2 production systems in a single domain.

My experience is that the largest regulated production systems I've run have clearly been larger and more complex than my homelab, but my homelab has been significantly more resilient, featureful and robust than many of the smaller production systems I've been responsible for outside of regulated domains.
by perlgeek | 2025-11-05 16:02:26+00:00
Yes, we still have a TUI to our core CMDB and billing. With 500+ employees, not everybody is happy with it, so we also built an API and a web app to access and manipulate the most central data.

But, we also have some power users who absolutely swear by it, and we offer some power user features for them :-)

* full readline integration, so there's a command history, Ctrl-R reverse search in the command history etc.

* tab completion for many prompts

* a generic system where outputs can be redirected to a pager, a physical printer, "wc" (word count), into a file etc.

* tabular data also has an alternative CSV representation

* generic fast-jump into menus. This works by supplying commands on the command line, and transitioning to interactive mode when the command list has run out

This is all built in-house; the first git commit is from 1997 but that was "import from CVS" and already 20k LoC, so the actual origins go back further.

It's written in Perl with no framework, just libraries.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-05 16:02:27+00:00
Yeah, no. Let me fix that:

Openness, customisation and freedom of choice are great—unless you are offering a software that absolutely refuses to allow customization and freedom of choice, and actively attempts to impose its limitations on the rest of the ecosystem[0], in which case you will get pushback.

[0] My favorite example is https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685#no1
by strogonoff | 2025-11-05 16:02:47+00:00
The models are either commercial or not. They are, and as such they monetise the work of original authors without their consent, compensation, and often in violation of copyleft licensing.

> The post-AI web was always coming

“The third world war was always coming.”

These things are not a force of nature, they are products of human effort, which can be ill-intentioned. Referring to them as “always coming” is 1) objectively false and 2) defeatist.
by Lerc | 2025-11-05 16:02:50+00:00
I'm actually ok with that if it truly serving the purpose for what a computer should be.

I think those principles would embody the notion that the same thing cannot serve all people equally. Simultaneously, for people to interact, interoperability is required. For example, I don't think everyone should use the same word processor. It is likely that blind people would be served best by a word processor designed by blind people. Interoperable systems would aim to neither penalise or favour users for using a different program for the same task.
by TulioKBR | 2025-11-05 16:02:57+00:00
4 commits, divulgação em 1 canal, menos de 10 dias.

Você diz que criação com IA não é boa, talvez você não seja bom. Você nem se quer testou.. eu inclusive vim aqui porque recebi indicação fora isso.. nada demais. Testa. Simplesmente isso, teste. Leia os componentes.. isso não é gerado nem criado por qualquer IA, você consegue criar um projeto dessa dimensão usando IA ? E você não está aqui para me dar toque, como foi o começo de suas mensagens, eu já percebi e volto a dizer você é alguém que não consegue, não conseguiu e provavelmente não está aqui para dar "toque" . Eu estou testando, tenho pessoas que testaram, cumpre o objetivo mas quem sabe e quem é foda mesmo é um brasileiro qualquer em um fórum que diz que tá dando toque de "realidade" faça me o favor né? O projeto está aí, seu preconceito claramente deixa você cego. O projeto está aí, testa. Ou você tem medo demais para perceber que algo foi criado e que você não imaginaria que fosse possível? Quais são suas criações tão fodas a ponto de dizer que as minhas são Alucinações? O que você já fez pela sua própria comunidade desenvolvedora? O projeto é livre e aberto, número de commits é de acordo com o que eu divulgo... até porque não tenho pressa. O projeto já está disponível.
by StarGrit | 2025-11-05 16:03:08+00:00
You become an expert by tinkering and experimenting.

I understand a lot about how bicycles work because I tinkered and built my own. It isn't exactly the same as hacking, but it is very similar. When you work on old bikes, motorbikes, cars you sometimes have to come up to novel solutions to problems.

The fact that you and the author can't see the similarities is exactly the issue I and others have pointed out.
by gabrielgio | 2025-11-05 16:03:19+00:00
Agree, people should understand why they are picking a language. If it is to learn new language that is fast, compiles to a binary (also fast) and has a nice onboard experience for a person coming from a interpreted language (which is the topic of thread) go fits nicely.

Rust is not always the answer just because it has "no nil exception". The correctness of Rust comes at a cost as well.
by andix | 2025-11-05 16:03:42+00:00
Until recently I helped running an old Clipper/dBase TUI application from the late 80s for a family member. We managed to run it successfully until they retired.

vDos (vdos.info) was a huge life saver for this application. It's similar to DOSBox, but more tailored to business applications. The big issue was always to find compatible printers for the old application, vDOS includes some emulation to print to any Windows printer.

There might be free alternatives to vDos, but it worked very well and is reasonably priced.

PS: we also tried to recompile the Clipper source code with Harbour to modern targets. It looked very promising, but they were extremely happy with the vDos solution, which only took 2 hours to deploy.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-11-05 16:04:14+00:00
That’s a fair point. But whether a person lives or dies should not be a function of their income.

The NHS for example today doesn’t spend infinite resources on any individual. In some cases, the decision is that the cost of treatment is not justified by the benefit.

Whether someone is a smoker is a factor in that decision: how much longer they may live, their expected quality of life. Also their lifestyle is taken into consideration when determining the order of a transplant list, etc.

But the decision is never made based on their ability to pay.
by ferguess_k | 2025-11-05 16:04:20+00:00
I workout 2-3 days a week but I don't see a need for an app for that. I don't even record what I did because it's pretty much the same every week and I only need to increase the weight maybe every 2-3 months.

Just my 2 cents. This may not be the answer you want because the question seems to target people who used such apps before.

Maybe your app could target the trainers, especially the private ones who do not have the support from a facility? They definitely need something to record their clients' progress.
by t0mas88 | 2025-11-05 16:04:36+00:00
And just to add for those that aren't pilots: When they say "reduced airspeed to V2" that doesn't mean reducing engine power, it means pointing the nose higher while thrust remains at the maximum permissable setting. You're loosing speed but climbing faster.

This can happen if you accelerated past V2 (V2+20 is normal) before the engine failure and then after the failure you slow down to V2 to get the best climb angle on a single engine plus some safety margins above stall etc.
by stavros | 2025-11-05 16:04:46+00:00
> Programs can be very close to 100% reliable when made well.

This is a tautology.

> I've never seen a calculator come up with the wrong answer when adding two numbers.

https://imgz.org/i6XLg7Fz.png

> And technically, most bugs are predictable in theory, they just aren't known ahead of time.

When we're talking about reliability, it doesn't matter whether a thing can be reliable in theory, it matters whether it's reliable in practice. Software is unreliable, humans are unreliable, LLMs are unreliable. To claim otherwise is just wishful thinking.
by ak217 | 2025-11-05 16:04:57+00:00
I actually have two more monitors, one on each side of my main one, in portrait mode :) And yes, I turn my head when I want to see them.

I'm glad the low resolution monitors work for you. I just don't want people to proclaim that everything about displays is solved - it's not. There are meaningful, physiologically relevant improvements to be made. It's been over a decade since 4k60 became the standard. A lot of younger people would really benefit from mass produced 6k120 monitors.
by isuguitar121 | 2025-11-05 16:05:02+00:00
It seems like these "discoveries" are mostly "We provided a dataset and Kosmos found the same conclusion as the scientist." This is an advancement but those datasets are not random in any sense. They were created to support a specific hypothesis which lead to the shared conclusion of the scientists and Kosmos. Discovery 7 seems to be of a different flavor in that a novel conclusion was arrived at from existing data.

I really think this is not "Autonomous Discovery". There is so much thought and science behind deriving the hypothesis and determining what experiments to do that is not captured in what Kosmos demonstrated here. It is exciting to see the reasoning capabilities and look forward to next steps but at this point a bit oversold in my opinion.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-05 16:05:09+00:00
I was lucky enough to spend some time at Radar last year. An extraordinarily talented and hard working crew (both on the dev and the market/sales sides). A billion API requests per day is not not nothing... It might even be the opposite. It's quite quite something! Hah

I know that Tim (the CTO) often posts in Who's Hiring threads here - ie https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803442

If you're considering joining a NYC-based startup that works in Rust and TS on hard and fun problems, you should more than consider them. And I am 100% not getting a referral fee to say this haha

P.S. Also may this serve as my public record of appreciation for Binh (the blog author of this piece), a friend and now ex-colleague who I (#humblebrag) originally invited to come to Radar. We originally met at the Recurse Center, another fine NYC-based institution! Binh's a superb and deeply smart fellow who fit right in at Radar. Binh, you rock!!! x
by ilaksh | 2025-11-05 16:05:15+00:00
Very interesting and ambitious project and nice design. I hope the author will be able to comment here.

I'm interested to hear about the plans or capabilities in R' or Radiance for things like concurrent programming, asynchronous/scheduling, futures, and invisible or implied networking.

AI is here and will be a big part of future personal computing. I wonder what type of open source accelerator for neural networks is available as a starting point. Or if such a thing exists.

One of the opportunities for AI is in compression codecs that could provide for very low latency low bandwidth standards for communication and media browsing.

For users, the expectation will shortly be that you can talk to your computer verbally or send it natural language requests to accomplish tasks. It is very interesting to think how this could be integrated into the OS for example as a metadata or interface standard. Something like a very lightweight version of MCP or just a convention for an SDK filename (since software is distributed as source) could allow for agents to be able to use any installed software by default. Built in embeddings or vector index could also be very useful, maybe to filter relevant SDKs for example.

If content centric data is an assumption and so is AI, maybe we can ditch Google and ChatGPT and create a distributed hash embedding table or something for finding or querying content.

It's really fun to dream about idealized or future computers. Congratulations for getting so far into the details of a real system.

One of my more fantasy style ideas for a desktop uses a curved continuous touch screen. The keyboard/touchpad area is a pair of ergonomic concave curves that meet in the middle and level out to horizontal workspaces on the sides. The surface has a SOTA haptic feedback mechanism.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-05 16:05:23+00:00
I'm going to guess that the drop-off is mostly because of the traditional pattern of fitness efforts, not so much the app. Most people who get very interested in fitness programs of any sort lose their interest in a couple of months.

But, and I think I may be in the minority here, I've never found value in fitness apps, so never used them beyond a trial period to see if they're useful to me. The reason is because they don't address any need that I have. I don't need them to motivate me (I'm already motivated), and the data is pretty and all, but in the end it doesn't inform my fitness efforts and so I begin to ignore it. That renders any app pointless.
by Someone | 2025-11-05 16:05:25+00:00
FTA: “Since 1987, JTC 1 has overseen the standardization of many foundational IT standards, including JPEG, MPEG, and the C and C++ programming languages”

Compared to ISO, RISC-V International has almost no experience maintaining standards.

Even if you think that’s isn’t valuable, the reality is that there is prestige/trustworthiness associated with an “ISO standard” sticker, similar to how having a “published in prestigious journal J” stickers gives scientific papers prestige/trustworthiness.
by chiefofgxbxl | 2025-11-05 16:05:55+00:00
Location: United States (New York State) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, React, Vue, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Nuxt, GCP, Docker, CI/CD, web extensions, spaCy Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L1kJZ3wP9RezhQvVhgEXTm6JXj9hmgG3/view?usp=sharing Email: langgb@clarksonalumni.com

Full-stack software engineer with about 8 years of professional experience. My career started out in Dept. of Defense contracting work, focusing on Python and Node applications for data processing and visualization. I then transitioned into a NYC-based startup on a small engineering team of five building a sales consulting platform, where I contributed on all aspects of the application (frontend, backend, database, GCP/deployment, CI/CD, security, Sentry, SAML/SSO, onboarding, emails, Salesforce integration, and more).

I've also built side projects, including: Vision Zero Reporting (https://visionzeroreporting.com) which earned 3rd place on Show HN and served as a panelist at the Vision Zero Cities conference; and Trash Panda (https://trashpandaextension.com/), a browser extension that removes social metrics from the web, including like counts, number of subscribers, views, followers, etc.
by gregw2 | 2025-11-05 16:06:07+00:00
I want MPP HTAP where SQL inserts/COPYs store data in three(!) formats: - row-based (low latency insert, fast row-based indexed query for single-row OLTP) - columnar-based (slow inserts/updates, fast aggregates/projections) - iceberg-columnar-based (better OLAP price/performance and less lockin than native columnar) And for SELECTs the query engine picks which storage engine satisfies the query using some SQL extension like DB2 "WAITFORDATA" or TiDB @@tidb_read_staleness or MemSQL columnstore_latency and/or similar signalling for performance-vs-cost preference.

And a common permissioning/datasharing layer so I can share data to external and internal parties who can in turn bring their own compute to make their own latency choices.
by brilee | 2025-11-05 16:06:32+00:00
Does this handle, e.g., water of hydration CaSO4 . 2H2O? states of matter H2O(g)? does it preserve subunit information, as in (C6H5)CH2COOH? Writing a parser for basic formulae is such a tiny tiny part of the actual problem... deciding the scope of what you want to handle and how is the real problem
by pflanze | 2025-11-05 16:06:35+00:00
> The behavior is all the more impressive given that the rodents hunt at night, when they are effectively blind

I can't access the paper to check if they verified it, but given there is a strong IR light, and even humans can see IR light if strong enough (and close enough in frequency, which is typically true for IR illumination for cameras), I wonder if that is true.
by severak_cz | 2025-11-05 16:06:53+00:00
Which AI did you used? It seems it's quite happy with inventing non-existing things [0] or adding nonsense to real things [1]. I like it for that - it's nice artistic demonstration about pitfalls of AI. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [3] in real life.

[0]: https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/issd/

[1]: https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/concertgebouw-orches...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...
by flyinglizard | 2025-11-05 16:06:54+00:00
It's not, and in fact it forms the basis of Hamas' strategy. When they attacked Israel in October 7th, they didn't really think they're going to win, but they were sure that the world would put the leash on Israel after enough Palestinian blood is spilled, and they could go back to normal. They were mostly wrong, this time; but the strategy of hitting and then running for the public opinion for cover has been going on for the last 50 years.
by iLemming | 2025-11-05 16:07:17+00:00
> "no non-deterministic tests"

These tests can be made determenistic. Shrinking to the minimal reproducing case, is always deterministic. Also you can [re]start the tests with the specific seed - you typically log the seed, so you can replay the exact failure deterministically - prop-based tests are stochastic by design but reproducible by capture.
by port11 | 2025-11-05 16:07:22+00:00
I have Alt, Epic, and Setapp installed. Setapp is something I had to stop paying for while unemployed, but has good stuff if you can afford it. Alt is mostly empty, but now lets you add multiple sources for more sideloading options.

Basically the market is still in an alpha stage. My next app will be on Alt just because I want to support the idea. Hopefully more apps gets on these stores, for now it's mostly nice to have for games, emulators, and some dev tools.

Apple didn't make it friction-free either, but it seems the issue is lack of user demand and/or lack of supply.
by Timon3 | 2025-11-05 16:07:29+00:00
You're getting downvoted for stating falsehoods.

> Why you’re describing isn’t a recent phenomenon. Not even remotely.

The big platforms were accessible without login a few years ago, now they're not. That is literally a recent phenomenon.

> Facebook has never allowed people read only views to their platform.

In the past, I've often looked at Facebook posts without logging in.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-11-05 16:07:33+00:00
No, I didn’t enter PII into it, just let it do math, downloaded, and printed. Wrote contact info by hand.

(The efiling never worked for me, always complained about something esoteric.)

They’re just values as far as it’s concerned. And it is dumped every October. But phone # validation up front is too much, an overstep.

Like I said, I just used it for the calc ability so a spreadsheet works as well. Bit of work the first year, then tweak.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-11-05 16:07:54+00:00
I love these guys for trying to do this. I just hope they’ve already made their money and can afford to continue doing this.

It’s every engineer’s dream - to reinvent the entire stack, and fix society while they’re at it (a world without social media, sign me up!).

Love the retro future vibes, complete with Robert Tinney-like artwork! (He did the famous Byte Magazine covers in the late 70s and early 80s).

https://tinney.net/article-this-1981-computer-magazine-cover...
by simoncion | 2025-11-05 16:08:18+00:00
> I'm not buying a new monitor with a decade-old version of DisplayPort.

With the greatest of respect, this is a deeply silly way to think of it.

The way you should be thinking of it is:

> I'm not buying a new monitor that requires DSC to run at native resolution. That's fucking garbage.

Since DP 1.4, the only thing the DisplayPort version indicates that an end-user gives a shit about is the maximum supported speed link speed. So, if all you need is HRB3 to drive a display at its native resolution, refresh rate, and maximum bit depth without fucking DSC, then DisplayPort 1.4 will be just fine. And if DSC doesn't bother you, then your range of acceptable displays is magically widened!
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-05 16:08:21+00:00
I’m not sure why you’re going down to the mat for hanging onto redundant people putting numbers in spreadsheets.

At large companies in particular, there are far too many people who simply turn their widgets - this was the entire point of the tech revolution.

Think about how many bookkeepers were needed before Excel. Someone could have made your exact same argument (but it’s just the latest gimmick!) about Excel 30 years ago. And yet, technology will make businesses more efficient whether people stand in its way or not.

Even at a small company of one or two, QuickBooks will reduce the amount of bookkeepers and accountants needed. TurboTax will further reduce that.

We will need fewer people in the future maintaining their Excel spreadsheets, and more people building the automation for those processes.

The change averse will always find reasons not to adapt - they will create their own obsolescence.

(inb4 but it’s way more expensive to pay developers to automate!)