MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rightbyte | 2025-12-13 13:41:20+00:00
> We should be clearer on what it means.

In this occurrence I mean "distract the kids with something such that they don't hurt them self, fight or destroy stuff so the parent can do X" such as doing the disches or resting.

Not like, great at raising the kids in some moral sense. In which YT etc is terrible.

I cheat on fancy restaurants and might hand the kids some screen (not YT) to give us a chance to finnish the meal. Stuff like that, but overused.
by Adrig | 2025-12-13 13:42:14+00:00
I don't know about life-changing but to me there are two major benefits that get me really interested:

- Augmenting CLI with specific knowledge and processes: I love the ability to work on my files, but I can only call a smart generalist to do the work. With skills if I want, say, a design review, I can write the process, what I'm looking for, and design principles I want to highlight rather than the average of every blog post about UX. I created custom gems/projects before (with PDFs of all my notes), but I couldn't replicate that on CLIs.

- Great way to build your library of prompts and build on it: In my org everyone is experimenting with AI but it's hard to document and share good processes and tools. With this, the copywriters can work on a "tone of voice" skill, the UX writers can extend it with an "Interface microcopy" skill, and I can add both to my "design review" agent.
by nvmind2 | 2025-12-13 13:42:19+00:00
I worked for a company that was beautifully run with great, smart, hardworking people, led by someone that had been with the technology since the beginning. We almost immediately got acquired by a public company that used different technology that saw us as a threat, and the founders were retained long enough to see their company and workers basically trashed into a mediocre state.

This is a very common story from what I understand, whether the intent is either “if you can’t beat them, buy them!” or even if it’s just to grow.

In Kodak’s case, I wonder if both those that saw it as the future and those that saw it as the end wanted to support and control it.

Also, it never ceases to amaze that some of the best things and the most dangerous things are (1) not those that you planned on and (2) involve someone bending and breaking rules to persue a passion project.
by Akasazh | 2025-12-13 13:42:31+00:00
I think the title doesn't really give a good impression of the contents of the article.

The article spends most time on evolution Sacks' homosexual identity and struggle with sexuality and repression.

His uncertainty and melancholical bouts maar him question his own work and make the author conclude him 'putting himself in his work'.

However very little evidence is presented. Most insinuated about is 'awakenings' yet even in that case it's hard to reach conclusions.

The author plays of his perennial self-doubt as aan admission, but there's very scant evidence about him actually making up stories.

I'm not saying his method is our isn't flawed, it's just that the title belies the story. The struggle with his sexuality is the main subject and only small bits are about his uncertainty of his work.
by sltkr | 2025-12-13 13:42:37+00:00
> Edit: looks like it's because BMP supports 1-bit packed pixels and PNG doesn't. The file sizes are almost identical

That's nonsense, PNG supports 1-bit pixels just fine, and the resulting file is a lot smaller (when using ImageMagick):

$ file unifont-17.0.03.bmp unifont-17.0.03.bmp: PC bitmap, Windows 3.x format, 4128 x 4160 x 1, image size 2146560, resolution 4724 x 4724 px/m, 2 important colors, cbSize 2146622, bits offset 62 $ magick unifont-17.0.03.bmp unifont-17.0.03.png $ file unifont-17.0.03.png unifont-17.0.03.png: PNG image data, 4128 x 4160, 1-bit grayscale, non-interlaced $ wc -c unifont-17.0.03.* 2146622 unifont-17.0.03.bmp 878350 unifont-17.0.03.png 3024972 total
by neuroelectron | 2025-12-13 13:43:27+00:00
A huge shortcoming with this setup is that rats don't just see in front of them, they see all around them. The screen right in front of his nose doesn't really simulate his environment the way it does for a human. Luckily doom has command line options for screens on the left and the right. But I imagine a lot of his awareness comes from what's above him.
by mcphage | 2025-12-13 13:43:37+00:00
> The rules of abelian groups guarantee that these identity sandpiles must exist, but they tell us nothing about how beautiful they are.

This has causality backwards—being a group requires an identity element. You can't show something is a group without knowing that the identity element exists in the first place.

In fact, a good chunk of how this article talks about the math is just... slightly off.
by nicoo_nicoo | 2025-12-13 13:44:04+00:00
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by notpushkin | 2025-12-13 13:44:34+00:00
I wouldn’t go as far as saying they’re being assholes. Fedora is a nice project after all. It’s just a bit sad to see the asymmetry here, especially since Fedora is so much more well known than FEDORA.

A sibling commenter is right though: the Legal page is linked from the footer, I was looking in the wrong place.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-13 13:45:15+00:00
It's not that Amazon is irreplaceable, but sometimes it's the best option by far depending on where you live and what you're looking for.

I'm in Austria (not Australia) and local retail prices are infamous for being 25% to 100% higher than in neighboring Germany for the same stuff because of cartel behavior of local retail industry.

Buying from amazon Germany means I can get the same prices as Germans (with +1% extra for higher Austrian VAT) for the same goods.

I'd love to give up Amazon in favor of local stores but local cartels are just as bad or even worse.

So to fix the Amazon problem you need to fix the competition problem first, which is caused by players other than Amazon too.
by scosman | 2025-12-13 13:46:01+00:00
Offline smart TVs are great. As long as they support wake over CEC, they are close enough to a dumb display connected to an Apple TV.

I let my latest LG TV on the network, but block internet access at the router. HomeKit integration (Siri turn off tv), Chromecast, Airplay, and other local services all work, without the ability for it to phone home.
by cromniomancer | 2025-12-13 13:46:04+00:00
VNC over SSH tunneling always worked well for me before I had Apple Remote Desktop available, though I don't recall if I ever initiated a connection attempt from anything other than macOS...

erase-install can be run non-interactively when the correct arguments are used. I've only ever used it with an MDM in play so YMMV:

https://github.com/grahampugh/erase-install
by lapcat | 2025-12-13 13:47:31+00:00
> While I agree that entering a dark alley shouldn't result in ill effects, if ill effects happen in said dark alley it is still worth the discussion to remind people to stay out of dark alleys in today's day and age (or until the root problem, whatever it is, is improved).

This is not a dark alley. It's the main street. It's the world we live in. iPhone has more than half the market share in the US and well over a billion users worldwide. Moreover, Apple, Google, and Microsoft collectively monopolize consumer operating systems on both mobile and desktop. Try going into a retail store and buying a computing device that is not running iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows. That's the reality for most people.

The dark alleys are the non-mainstream options that hardly anyone knows about.
by eigenspace | 2025-12-13 13:47:47+00:00
People claim that they cancel trains to try and preserve the statistics, but there's not really any evidence of it.

The actual reason is that if a train is too late, it will conflict too much with the other scheduled trains and there's simply no room for it. Keeping the delayed train will just cause more delays for other trains on the same route, because German trains are scheduled with very high frequency.

E.g. where I live in Cologne, there's typically a high speed train every 20 to 30 minutes to Frankfurt. If one train is delayed by 30 minutes, then suddenly you have two (ore more) trains right on top of eachother heading to the same destination, both on very very congested lines that theyre simultaneously trying to do repairs and expansions to.

Those are the sorts of situations where it makes sense to just cancel the train, not because of metrics but because of actual track constraints.

The main thing people dont understand about Germany's train system is the scale of it. The network is physically very large, but also very densely packed, and has very frequent trains.

For instance, here is the map just of the regional (non-high-speed) trains between cities in my state of Nordrhein-Westfalen: https://karteplan.com/deutschland/land/nordrhein-westfalen/s...

It looks more like a circuit board than a traditional transit map. That's why this problem is so hard to solve and will take a long time and a lot of investment before it improves.
by kacper-vstorm | 2025-12-13 13:48:08+00:00
Hey HN, I built pydantic-deepagents after getting frustrated with existing agent frameworks. Most work great for demos but break down when you need agents to actually do things: work with files, break complex tasks into subtasks, or handle long conversations without blowing through token limits. This framework extends pydantic-ai with the stuff I kept rebuilding across projects:

Multiple backends: in-memory, filesystem persistence, Docker sandbox for isolation, or composites mixing them Built-in toolsets: TODO management, filesystem ops, subagent spawning, skills system with markdown prompts File uploads: mount files and let agents process them (e.g., analyze a CSV) Structured outputs via Pydantic models - no more JSON parsing headaches Auto-summarization for long conversations to stay under token limits Human-in-the-loop confirmation for sensitive actions Streaming support

Quick example:

from pydantic_deep import create_deep_agent, create_default_deps from pydantic_deep.backends import StateBackend

backend = StateBackend() deps = create_default_deps(backend) agent = create_deep_agent() result = await agent.run("Help me organize my tasks", deps=deps)

For type-safe outputs, just pass a Pydantic model as output_type and access fields directly on result.output. Install: pip install pydantic-deep (add [sandbox] for Docker support) Demo video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hqgXkbAgUrsKOWpfWdF48cqaxRh... Chat app example with streaming: https://github.com/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents/tree/main/e... Docs: https://vstorm-co.github.io/pydantic-deepagents/ Repo: https://github.com/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents MIT licensed, 100% test coverage. Would love to hear what features you'd find useful, or what's missing from your current agent workflows.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-13 13:48:38+00:00
Kodak should have ruled the digital imaging space. Instead, they collapsed.

A lot of it was because the film people kneecapped the digital folks.

Film was very profitable.

Until it wasn't.

The company that I worked for, was a classic film company. When digital was first getting a foothold (early 1990s), I used to get lectures about how film would never die...etc.

A few years later, it was as if film never existed. The transition was so sudden, and so complete, that, if you blinked, you missed it.

Years later, I saw the same kind of thing happen to my company, that happened to Kodak.

The iPhone came out, with its embedded camera, and that basically killed the discrete point-and-shoot market, which was very profitable for my company.

When the iPhone first came out, the marketing folks at my company laughed at it.

Then, they stopped laughing.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-13 13:49:08+00:00
I live between central London and a smaller European city, the competition is generally much much worse.

Sure, for every individual item there might be a better better local option. I'd have to spend time finding that, then go through the terrible order process and hope their delivery service isn't utter shit. Oh, and yeah, half the time they'll probably block my order because I'm using a non-european card.

Just being able to use Amazon for almost everything starting from bottled water and toilet paper saves me immense amounts of time. I can generally trust that the stuff I order reliably arrives at the concierge, which isn't a given.

And FWIW, most of the time I've shopped around, Amazon has been cheaper or essentially the same price. Doesn't really matter to me, but it is a plus. I'd happily pay more for a more convenient service, but in this case it seems I'm usually paying less.
by noitpmeder | 2025-12-13 13:49:19+00:00
Thanks for all the info!

I'm a front office engineer at a prop firm -- always interesting to get insight into how others do it.

We have fairly similar parallels, maybe with the exception of throwing new exchange connections to the dedicated networking group.

Always love watching their incident responses from afar (usually while getting impacted desks to put away the pitchforks). Great examples of crisis management, effectiveness and prioritization under pressure, ... All while being extremely pragmatic about actual vs perceived risk.

(I'm sure joining KCG in August of 2012 was a wild time...)
by delichon | 2025-12-13 13:49:28+00:00
> But they’ll stop choosing the train, and over 20 years you’ll find that everyone has moved to private vehicles or alternate transportation methods.

This is a country with a $2.68 per gallon gas tax, compared to $0.51 on average in the US (€0.60 v. €0.11 per liter). This is partly justified as nudging people to use less carbon intensive transport. That nudge works a lot less well when the lower carbon alternative is painfully worse than your car.

https://brilliantmaps.com/gas-petrol-taxes-us-ca-eu/
by locallost | 2025-12-13 13:49:38+00:00
Because it's technical and an advanced form of technology which appeals to tech people and where normal people have an "irrational" fear of it. And also IT and conversely HN is full of people who have trouble fitting in and pride themselves on being rational, and have made it a career and lifestyle of going the other way as everyone else.

Which is fine, except putting hopes into a technology that has failed repeatedly for 60 years is in itself irrational.

HN would do itself a favor if it learned the lessons of "worse is better" and applied it to, well, almost anything. In this case, a moonshot to advance nuclear globally might bring realistic results in 10-15 years. By that time the world will already be decarbonized by renewables as it's already happening. At best nuclear might be that last missing piece to get to 100%, but even this I would no longer bet on. There is already insane growth in undeveloped countries which will push demand even further. Renewables are ridiculously cheap.
by _flux | 2025-12-13 13:50:42+00:00
Doesn't this just move the bucket: which processes should the OS grant access to that API?

In any case, if the purpose is to make a backup of the system, it seems the possibility to read all and every file as original as possible seems rather critical, in particular if we want to take advantage of e.g. content-based addressing -based deduplication in the backup application. And we in any case want to restore that backup to an empty computer, so there really are no places to hide the encryption keys in such a way that they cannot be read from the backup.
by xtiansimon | 2025-12-13 13:51:23+00:00
Nightmare.

The stories of online-only service failures are legion. And yet if you can get face to face support, even one person can do so much. The gap is infuriating.

I didn’t notice, do you have a Brick and Mortar Apple Store you can visit? I can’t help thinking this as I read the post.

Of course this is not a physical hardware issue. Where a store employee could just hand you, say, a new phone. This is on the level of getting a slot on Tim Cook’s day planner, though I imagine the person with the ability to fix this is an underling many levels down Cook on the org chart.
by stephen_g | 2025-12-13 13:51:53+00:00
From other comments explaining the kind of scams running at the moment, one possible scenario is that the card may have been taken, tampered with by a scammer (and the code recorded), and then placed back in the supermarket, with the scammer waiting until the OP purchased it and it was activated at the checkout.

Perhaps between the scammer redeeming it and the poster then trying to redeem by entering the same code, the scammer’s account was flagged and then the OP’s account terminated along with the scammer for using the same code (even though the OP had done nothing wrong).
by zeeZ | 2025-12-13 13:52:05+00:00
I've been told that since the privatization, the funding was split between DB paying for maintenance while the state provided funds for replacement and new lines. Allegedly this provided an incentive to let things deteriorate until they needed replacement.

Projects are planned, coordinated and funds allocated far in advance, so if the government can't agree on a budget and projects are shelved or canned, restarting the process causes a significant delay.
by phire | 2025-12-13 13:52:06+00:00
The 512Mb RAM die actually embedded into the same RP3A0 package as the CPU (it's the exact same CPU die used in the Raspberry Pi 3). So the stock is exactly the same world wide and linked. and I'm pretty sure the RP3A0 chips are packaged outside of China and would need to be shipped in for this.

Besides, China's RAM manufacturing is reasonably new, and only makes DDR4 and LPDDR4, not the older LPDDR2 which the RP3A0 uses.

But yes, they would have known LPDDR2 was EOL. It was EOLed 6 years ago, before they even launched the zero 2 (which they only introduced because the BCM2835 chip used by the original Zero was EOL), so it's not exactly clear why they are launching the CM0 now.

What makes the most sense to me is that they are currently developing a new chip, that will be a more-or-less drop in replacement for the RP3A0. If it's drop-in, then the design work on the CM0 won't be wasted.

Which would give us some clues on what the RP4x chip is, and it's current status (close enough that they know it will arrive before they run out of RP3A0 chips for the Pi Zero 2, but far enough away to bother launching the CM0 now, as long as the supply is limited).

This RP4x chip presumably needs to have low enough power/costs to fit the Pi Zero 3 budget (so quad Cortex-A725 cores?), while also using modern memory, LPDDR4 if not LPDDR5 to push the EOL out as far as possible. Since the Raspberry Pi 3 depends on the same EOL LPDDR2 memory, this theoretical RP4x chip will probably be used for a product refresh there too (and lowering their costs, as a bonus).
by queenkjuul | 2025-12-13 13:54:03+00:00
Every company's priority has always been "make more money above all," it's just that once upon a time some of them beloved that treating their workers and customers well was a part of that goal. History has shown them that wasn't really necessary.

And don't think for a second the US federal government couldn't do a huge amount of damage to anyone it feels like by way of its financial regulators. In general it's better for the US government if Apple continues to exist, though.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-13 13:55:02+00:00
This isn’t a solution for many people.

And in fact, a prohibition is never a solution, it is a reduction in solution options

And this advice takes into account exactly zero aspects of the particular problems a given person may have to solve, besides “problems with Apple”, in a world where most people have “problems with X” for each of the few large ecosystems.

Freedom of choice would mean for N choices, being able to make, well, N indepointed choices. N may be a very large number given how many things people do.

For an ideal world of compatible modular technologies, N choices is easy.

But our technology world is highly non-modular, centralized at many levels, and full of incompatibilities and dependencies of various kinds and costs. Including important dependencies involving the choices of other people we interact with, or very specific tools or resources.

So no, “Don’t buy Apple” is not better advice, it is just bad random generic advice, without knowing a lot more about any particular situation.

Like what someone writes books about.
by notpushkin | 2025-12-13 13:55:31+00:00
Yeah, I believe this is correct from the legal standpoint, and as long as both parties are okay with it, it’s alright with me.

My point is: Fedora is a great project, but it’s also so much more popular than FEDORA (I assume a lot of HN readers haven’t even heard about this second one before). It would be nice to mention them in just a tiny bit more prominent way – say, at the bottom of about page. But it’s really not a big deal either way.
by noitpmeder | 2025-12-13 13:56:34+00:00
Off the cuff, id expect this leads to less improvement than you might think. The vast majority of orders, especially orders arriving in sequence close to one another, are likely on a small set of extremely liquid symbols, and usually all for prices at or near the top of the book for those symbols.

Happy to discuss more, might be off the mark... these optimizations are always very interesting in their theoretical vs actual perf impact.
by krapp | 2025-12-13 13:57:02+00:00
The part of craft that can be replicated mechanically is the least interesting and valuable part of art.

This is what AI art supporters fail to understand because few if any of them actually practice the craft they emulate. They tend to only work with code and algorithms for which there is no fundamental human expression involved. They assume that because apart from rote intellect and memory the human experience is meaningless in regards to coding as they are acting merely a means of inputting instructions into a machine, that the human experience is equally meaningless for all creative endeavors.

However the value lies not in the technical aspects of craft as an end (which, mind you, no AI is actually good at yet) but as a means of expressing the human experience of an artist and their relationship to the viewer. That dialogue isn't something an LLM can replicate because by definition humanity isn't something an LLM can experience. And even if perfectly mastered on a technical level, it wouldn't have the same value as human expression just as a skillful forgery doesn't have the same value as an original.
by systemtest | 2025-12-13 13:57:02+00:00
Last time I had to go somewhere in Germany I used a Flixbus instead of their "high-speed" trains. The fact that I was willingly subjecting myself to a Flixbus, not because of price but because of reliability, really tells you something about the state of trains in Germany.

For Americans: Flixbus a cheap bus service which is often used by people who are not really bothered by social norms.
by mongrelion | 2025-12-13 13:58:04+00:00
This brings back good memories.

When I was in college I didn't have my own computer so I relied on the Windows machines from the library.

That's when I discovered Slax and Puppy Linux [1] and all its different variants. Such a beautiful thing to boot into these pendrive distros and discover the world of Linux through them without altering the host system.

Good times.

[1] https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/