MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by squigz | 2025-12-04 21:42:06+00:00
Sure, but those are still part of what I'm talking about. Someone taking the "you're with us or against us" position? Call them out on it and tell them they're doing more harm than good to their cause. Someone taking a disagreement way too personally? Try to help them take a step back and get some perspective.

Of course, there's a lot more nuance than all that - sometimes, taking things personally is warranted. Sometimes, people really are against us. But, that shouldn't be the first thing people jump to when faced with someone who disagrees - or, more commonly, simply doesn't understand - where they're coming from.

And of course, if it turns out you can't help them understand your position, then you turn to the second part of what I said - accountability. Racist uncle won't learn? Stop inviting them to holidays. Unfortunately, people tend to jump to this step right away, without trying to make them understand why they might be wrong, and without trying to understand why they believe what they believe (they're probably just stupid and racist, right?) - and that's how you end up driving people more into their echo chamber, as you've given them more rational as to why the other side really is just "for us or against us"

(I'm not suggesting any of this is easy. I'm just saying it seems to play a part in contributing to the political climate.)
by Animats | 2025-12-04 21:43:28+00:00
Oh, someone built a MIDI interface for an orchestron or band organ. Doing that for player pianos is not unusual. There are retrofit kits.[1]

An orchestron is basically a player piano with extra instruments attached. Retrofitting for MIDI makes a lot of sense. Regular piano rolls are available for player pianos. Orchestrons were not standardized, so there's not much content available.

In the SF bay area, the carousel at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has a 1894/1911 Ruth and Sohn band organ. Recent videos show that it's had a major overhaul and now runs on MIDI.[2] So they can modernize the playlist. It's amazing that thing is still running, next to the Pacific Ocean for well over a century.

[1] https://thompsonpianos.co.uk/pages/self-playing-pianos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQGtprXz0Ks
by hecanjog | 2025-12-04 21:43:40+00:00
This would make an interesting poll. I think that's possible here? Maybe with some karma threshold, I don't seem to be able to make one.

We use flask and go at work. I've been micro-framework or roll-my-own-framework most of my career. Go is new for me though, and it's grown on me enough that it's what I prefer for new web-facing projects even for little personal things.
by adolph | 2025-12-04 21:43:53+00:00
> The number of public universities is in the 3-4% range.

The National Center for Education Statistics disagrees with 3-4%.

In 2019–20, some 21 percent of undergraduates and 11 percent of postbaccalaureate students reported having a disability. . .

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=60
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-04 21:44:01+00:00
Capri 2.8i is a practical classic. You could drive it every day. Convert it to run on LPG, and you could drive it in most city centres, blast right through that Low Emission Zone, wafting out warm carbon dioxide and water vapour and (at least in theory) cleaning up some of the oily sulphurous stink of diesel bus engines.

Porsche 911 Turbo is not just dangerous, it's actively trying to kill you. The engine is at the wrong end so it doesn't handle (if you throw a dart feathers-first at the dart board, it'll try to flip round in the air so the heavy end is at the front), and the turbo lag and very "peaky" cam gives you a throttle response of <STOMP> nothing, nothing, faint whistling, WWWAAAAAAAAH WE'RE BACKWARDS THROUGH THE HEDGE.
by stuffn | 2025-12-04 21:44:13+00:00
> Complaining about egg prices comes from the camp of "I tried nothing and nothing worked".

Eggs are one of the highest protein-per-calorie, nutrient dense foods you can purchase. Up until recently it was cheaper than almost any other staple. When I was growing up (admittedly during a time everything was relatively cheap) my family ate a lot of eggs. We had spreads, we had eggs for breakfast, and eggs were incorporated into dinners in one way or another. I'm not the only one. I don't know anyone born in my cohort that didn't eat eggs regularly.

> Oatmeal is very cheap and filling

Also completely devoid of the same level of nutrition as eggs and requires supplementation.

> it's majority cereal or breakfast bars.

While true this is an education issue not a cost issue. We still have at least 3 generations of people having children that were raised in the "eggs are horrible for you" times, including myself.

> Nothing, yeah nothing, because the average person is obese here and nothing is exactly what they need for breakfast.

The average person is obese because of the relative ease of cheap, high calorie, fillers and good options being more expensive. The price of eggs increasing compounds this. However, I would wager most adults are obese because of the high calorie starbucks, fast food, and snacks. Not because of cereal for breakfast.

> A piece of fruit like the perennial classic banana for breakfast.

Demonstrably worse for you than both cereal and eggs. Once again, defeating your point and STILL demonstrating more expensive eggs makes nutritionally worse options the only option.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-04 21:45:02+00:00
Or we could go back to using software that didn't require 1 Gb to run the OS / Browser combo powerful enough to run a browser that can load "too much" javascript to enable a webmail interface.

In the 80s I ran an early SMTP / POP email client that functioned as a DOS TSR with code and data less than 64k. Granted, it was pretty crappy and was text-only (non MIME.) But there's got to be a middle ground between 64k for a craptastic text-only email client and a 1Gb OS / Browser / Webmail combo that could probably run that DOS TSR in an emulator as an attachment to a short email.
by pmdulaney | 2025-12-04 21:45:07+00:00
In this longish essay/opinion piece, the non-woke but left-of-center author waffles back and forth on whether the wokish social media gatekeepers who were in the ascendancy until recently had a net positive impact on social discourse. And such is the paradoxical nature of our present reality that such waffling is the best way of nudging forward. No confident assertion of unambiguous "truth" would serve nearly so well.
by xoa | 2025-12-04 21:45:29+00:00
A few things:

>But on the other hand, we all rally for the importance of anonymity on the internet, so it's very likely that there will be no way to find the author.

So:

1) We all rally for the importance of anonymity (wrt general speech) EVERYWHERE, before even (and critical to) the founding of America. Writing like the Federalist Papers were absolutely central to arguments for the US Constitution, and they were anonymous. "The Internet" is not anything special or novel here per se when it comes to the philosophy and politics of anonymous speech. There has always been a tension with anonymous speech risks vs value, and America has come down quite firmly on the value side of that.

2) That said, "anonymous" on the internet very rarely actually is to the level of "no way to find the author with the aid of US court ordered process". Like, I assume that just as my real name is not "xoa" your real name is not "xg15", and to the extent we have made some effort at maintaining our pseudonymity it'd be somewhat difficult for any random member of the general public to connect our HN speech to our meatspace bodies. But the legal process isn't limited to public information. If you have a colorable lawsuit against someone, you can sue their placeholder and then attempt to discover their identity via private data. HN has our IP addresses if nothing else, as does intermediaries between the system we're posting from and HN, as well as possibly a valid email address. Which can potentially by themselves be enough breadcrumbs to follow back to a person and have enough cause to engage in specific discovery against them. And this is without any money getting involved, if there are any payments of any kind that leaves an enormous number of ripples. And that's assuming nobody left any other clues, that you can't make any inferences about who would be doing defamatory speech against you and narrow it down further that.

Yes, it's possible someone at random is using a massive number of proxies from a camera-less logless public access point with virgin monero or whatever and perfect opsec, but that really is not the norm.

3) Hosters not being directly liable doesn't make them immune to court orders. If something is defamatory you can secure an order to have it removed even without finding the person in question. And in practice most hosters are probably going to remove something upon notification as fast as possible, as in this case, and ban the poster in question on top.

So no, I don't think it's a "a massive vacuum of responsibility" anymore than it ever was, and the contrast is that eliminating anonymous speech is a long proven massive risk to basic freedoms.
by jameshart | 2025-12-04 21:45:49+00:00
Eliminating time constraints is entirely reasonable. Leaving exams early is generally an option in most standardized testing systems - though usually with some minimum time you must remain present before leaving.

Taking what is currently scheduled as a three hour exam which many students already leave after 2, and for which some have accommodations allowing them 4 hours, and just setting aside up to five hours for it for everyone, likely makes the exam a fairer test of knowledge (as opposed to a test of exam skills and pressured time management) for everyone.

Once you’ve answered all the problems, or completed an essay, additional time isn’t going to make your answers any better. So you can just get up and leave when you’re done.
by Treegarden | 2025-12-04 21:45:56+00:00
I think by vibe coding he means taking these things at face value instead of rigorously looking if they are up to the standard. When coding you would rigorously look if the code is good / produces any bugs. With vibe coding, you give a prompt and just accept the output, which might be full of errors and blow up (or melt). The analogy is that, yes you can print airplane parts, but they were sloppy and just accepted them at face value instead of rigorously looking if they are up to the required (bug free) standard, ie they wont melt.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-12-04 21:46:11+00:00
>> I'd gladly pay the pet deposit and extra money per month for a pet

Maybe, but my single data point: I'm on the board for a condo corporation and even though we spend a lot of time dealing with pet policies and the damage pets (read: dogs) cause, we have a total of ZERO pets registered (and paying the monthly fee), and these are overwhelmingly owners not renters who might be excluded from having pets to begin with.
by ericmcer | 2025-12-04 21:46:34+00:00
Can we stop designing society like people won't game the system? I swear every social program or benefit or corporate relief program we roll out is designed to be exploited. In fact they use specific requirements (a doctors note, a set income level, etc.) and not direct oversight/discretion so it is even easier to game because you just need to tick the right box.
by gpm | 2025-12-04 21:47:10+00:00
And a datasheet for a (not necessarily the same) CF-ABS filament claims a HDT at 1.82 MPa of 93C: https://um-support-files.ultimaker.com/materials/1.75mm/tds/...

Something funny is going on with this material given the report is saying they measured a glass transition temperature of ~50C.
by sam_goody | 2025-12-04 21:47:16+00:00
Humans range across such spectrum that actually match all 3.

We range from being blind to having exceptional eyesight, so we are all on a continuum.

But there are various subsets, such as color or light sensitivity, far/nearsighted, better tracking of motion or text - and these have their own subsets, such as the ability to scan text quickly (or dyslexia), read a room better or see things that require training (such as the details a race driver immediately sees that you wouldn't). Someone with an issue of vision usually finds himself in a cross of these sets, borrowing tools form one to compensate for another

The same can be said for hearing, for height and weight, and for any other physical, psychological or mental property we have.

(I've always felt it odd that "spectrum" usually refers only to Autism.)
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-04 21:47:24+00:00
Three responses ago.

But yes, capitalized "Internet" refers to the "Connected Internet," of which there is only one. The first rule of SIPRnet is no one talks about SIPRnet. But if we did talk about it, the comment would likely be that it is like "the Internet" but not "the Internet."

If you spend time in academia or academia-adjacent industrial research, you sometimes hear "an internet" (always with lower case to signal it's a common noun) to describe a network of networks. But you are right... that use is not growing and if anything shrinking.
by tcdent | 2025-12-04 21:47:33+00:00
I started using Django before the official 1.0 release and used it almost exclusively for years on web projects.

Lately I prefer to mix my own tooling and a couple major packages in for backends (FastAPI, SQLAchemy) that are still heavily inspired by patterns I picked up while using Django. I end up with a little more boilerplate, but I also end up with a little more stylistic flexibility.
by vel0city | 2025-12-04 21:47:36+00:00
> doesn't mean they would turn down a company like OpenAI paying them $$$ for just the packaged chips and the technical documentation to build their own PCBs

FWIW, this was the standard state of affairs of the GPU market for a long while. nVidia and AMD sold the chips they paid someone to produce to integrators like EVGA, PNY, MSI, ZOTAC, GIGABYTE, etc. Cards sold under the AMD or nVidia name directly were usually partnered with one of these companies to actually build the board, place the RAM, design the cooling, etc. From a big picture perspective, it's a pretty recent thing for nVidia to only really deliver finished boards.

On top of this, OpenAI/Sam Altman have been pretty open about making their own AI chips and what not. This might point to them getting closer to actually delivering on that (pure speculation) and wanting to ensure they have other needed supplies like RAM.
by 1659447091 | 2025-12-04 21:47:38+00:00
The point they made about grade school, to me, points more towards early recognition now leads to more kids having a shot at top schools.

Not because they have a 'disability' or a particular type of accommodation, but because it was caught early enough and worked with by people that cared, that now they have a model for learning that better suits them. It was never an issue with intelligence, only that some of us* run into walls because the standard learning lane is pretty narrow. Crashing into those walls in grade school is likely what kept many people* from going to top colleges (or any college) -- but now that it's better understood and worked with at an early age we are seeing people show up who can do the same correct work, but do it in a way that's different.

* Im also dyslexic, but from the days that wasn't a thing in my mediocre public school. I was simply a slow reader that couldn't spell (or pronounce or "sound out" words) or read out loud, but somehow had high scores in other language/comprehension test.
by tontony | 2025-12-04 21:47:56+00:00
Secrets -- yes, it's being tracked here: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud/issues/75 Compose configs are already supported and can be used to inject secrets as well, but there'll be no encryption at rest there in that case, so might not be ideal for everyone.

Regarding questions 2 and 3, the short answers are "not at the moment" and "yes, for now", here's a relevant discussion that touches on both points: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud/discussions/94

Speaking of Swarm and your experience with it: in your opinion, is there anything that Swarm lacks or makes difficult, that tools like Uncloud could conceptually "fix"?
Time-blocking tool that creates a daily schedule from your to-dos
by lvfrm | 2025-12-04 21:48:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small web tool that takes a list of tasks and automatically generates a time-blocked plan for the day.

https://www.todolistblocker.de/

This started as a personal project. I struggle with planning paralysis — I’d spend too long deciding what to do first, and by the time I finally made a plan, half the day was gone. I wanted something extremely simple that:

doesn’t require an account, doesn’t try to manage your whole life, just turns todo list into a structured timeline

How it works:Enter your tasks, Set your working hours,Pick an intensity mode.

It generates a schedule (e.g., 9:00–9:30 Task A, 9:30–10:00 Task B…)

You can download the plan as a PDF

It’s intentionally minimal — no database, no tracking, no optimization algorithm. Just a simple time allocator.

I’d appreciate feedback on anything

Cheers.
by shagie | 2025-12-04 21:48:42+00:00
The picture of the collapsed one is at https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/7fee/live/52acf...

It would be curious to know what parts and connectors it should look like are.

And that texture on the right hand side of the image doesn't exactly look like something in a healthy engine.
by troyvit | 2025-12-04 21:48:47+00:00
The only difference is that memory prices skyrocketing is a temporary thing resulting from a spike in demand from incompetent AI megalomaniacs like Sam Altman who don't know how to run a company and are desperate to scale because that's the only kind of sustainability they understand.

Once the market either absorbs that demand (if it's real) or else over-produces for it, RAM prices are going to either slowly come back down (if it's real) or plunge (if it isn't).

People are already running tiny models on their phones, and there's a Mistral 3B model that runs locally in a browser (https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Ministral_3B_WebGPU).

So we'll see what happens. People used to think crypto currencies were going to herald a new era of democratizing economic (and other) activity before the tech bros turned Bitcoin into a pyramid scheme. It might be too late for them to do the same with locally-run LLMs but the NVidias and AMDs of the world will be there to take our $.
by lisbbb | 2025-12-04 21:49:14+00:00
I followed Indycar this past season, watched nearly every race and had planned on attending a race but then didn't make the trip. I'm not sure what Indycar is trying to be, tbh. The Indy 500 is a spectacle, the rest of the season is not nearly as interesting. There's some good racing, but F1 is more technically interesting and maybe better overall. NASCAR is boring as hell, just stage-managed bullshit like pro wrestling and I have not followed it in over 20 years.
by _jackdk_ | 2025-12-04 21:49:35+00:00
Here's a 3D version used in the creation of sparse voxel octrees:

https://forceflow.be/2013/10/07/morton-encodingdecoding-thro...

Here's an example from AWS, where lat/long pairs are put into a Z-index, which is used as a DynamoDB sort key, letting you efficiently query for items near a point.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/z-order-indexing-for-m...
by deadeye | 2025-12-04 21:49:36+00:00
Reading the comments here people seem to care more about what is "good" for the individual than what is good for the institution.

If you have learning disability that requires "assistance" at an elite university, then why can't I play in the NBA with stilts while being allowed to double dribble and travel?

Sure would be awesome for me to play in the NBA! Probably wouldn't be good for the NBA though.
by bullen | 2025-12-04 21:49:53+00:00
Maybe but in my experience a good old <100GB SSD from 2010-14 will completely demolish any >100GB from 2014+ in longevity.

Some say they have the opposite experience, mine is ONLY Intel drives, maybe that is why.

X25-E is the diamond peak of SSDs probably forever since the machines to make 45nm SLC are gone.
by j2kun | 2025-12-04 21:50:27+00:00
They claim the algorithm "discovered" the new techniques, but the methods described in section 5 do not seem all that novel to me. It smells like it could be "laundering" the literature [1] and reshuffling existing techniques. This is not inherently a bad thing, but I would hope that if it is borrowing existing techniques, the appropriate citation would eventually make it into this paper.

[1]: https://www.argmin.net/p/lore-laundering-machines
by balamatom | 2025-12-04 21:50:31+00:00
What's irrational about a bird responding to another bird's call, though?

I always figured, unlike human speech, bird song contained only truth - 100% real-time factual representation of reproductive fitness/compatibility, 0% fractal bullshitting (such as arguing about definitions of abstract notions, or endless rumination and reflection, or command hierarchies built to leak, or...).

Although who knows, really! I'm just guessing here. Maybe what we oughtta do is ask some actual ornithologists to ask an actual parrot to translate for us the songs of its distant relatives. Sounds crazy enough to work -- though probably not in captivity.

Overall I see your point, and I see many people sharing that perspective; personally, I find it rather disheartening. Tbh I'm not even sure what would be a convincing argument one way or the other.
by ericmcer | 2025-12-04 21:50:49+00:00
That seems naive, it would be like if we started dumping tons of deer food into the woods and the next year when deer are grossly overpopulated we thought "why are there so many deer now?".

Humans are as a mass dumb animals, if we give them the opportunity for individual gratification at long-term cost for the group they are going to take it immediately.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-04 21:51:04+00:00
That's largely a myth told by people with shiny new Coscast engine blocks to sell you.

They run too hot because everyone runs lawnmower-grade 95 octane petrol these days, which contributes more than anything else to liners breaking free especially with the liners being thinner on later (90s onwards) 94mm-piston engines. I do wonder if the switch from thin steel "shim" head gaskets to composite ones allowed the liners to move more?

Anyway they only break liners free completely (the infamous "dropped liner") if you run them absolutely bone dry of water until one piston expands enough to jam in the liner and start hammering it up and down, just before the engine seizes entirely.

It's cheap and easy to get the liners knocked out and the block machined to take "top hat" liners, with a lip around the top that clamps them in place, something like £1800 last time I looked.
by ThomasMidgley | 2025-12-04 21:51:17+00:00
"Also, depending on the ingredient, it makes more sense to use cups as a measurement of volume, not mass, when converting to metric."

Hmmm... What kind of cup? :-)

US "legal" cup (240ml)

US customary cup (246,6ml)

metric cup (250ml)

UK cup (170,5ml)

edit: fixed typo 150ml -> 250ml
by justinator | 2025-12-04 21:51:30+00:00
I target 5.10.1 mostly. This is for a project I started in the late 90's. It uses CGI::Application, which is less a framework and more a method lookup table converter of queries (although I built a path info convertor on top of that). It's still maintained, although before Covid, it was my livelihood.

About a quarter of a million lines of code, excluding the libraries I pull in. I'm mostly self-taught, they wouldn't even let me get a minor in Comp Sci, since I didn't have the math background (Needed Calculus, I completeled Algebra 2 in hs). Boneheaded Uni.

Raku: Second-system effect poster boy. Sensationally dysfunctional community. I think Pugs is what was actually really incredible and Audrey is probably one of the most intelligent people in... the World? Up for contention, but top 10.