MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattlondon | 2026-01-16 08:47:43+00:00
Discs might be fine but good luck reading one with your kids iPhone.

Yes sure there are probably arcane ways to do it (and your 25 year old CD drive is probably going to die before the discs, assuming you still have a computer that it can connect to...IDE anyone?), but is the OP trying to archive their works, or are they trying to make them easily accessible? They say they want a website so I guess they want something simple and easy to read, and not some equivalent of a dusty archive box locked away in a storage facility somewhere.
by ivell | 2026-01-16 08:48:04+00:00
> one course of SAINT can cost roughly from $16,000 to over $30,000

Wow. For something that's not invasive, reusable machine using just EM pulses, that's very expensive!

Is the construction or maintenance cost of the machine that high? Or are highly trained doctors needed to operate the machine? What is driving the cost?

I hope there is more to it that just greed.
by dwaite | 2026-01-16 08:48:42+00:00
I imagine it is like becoming a supplier for McDonalds.

The penalties for not delivering on timelines and production goals, and the scale being requested can mean substantial changes to your business. I remember a friend whose company was in talks with Apple telling me that there was some sense of relief when the deal fell through, just because of how much stress and risk and change the deal would entail.

However, a missing component could put tens of billions of dollars of revenue on the line for Apple. It is easier to say that any supplier Apple picks has to then quickly grow to the scale and process needed - and failing to do that successfully could very well be a fatal slip for the supplier.

Even in the iPod days, Apple often would invest in building out the additional capacity (factories) to meet their projected demand, and have a period of exclusivity as well. This meant that as MP3 player demand scaled up, they also wound up locking up production for the micro HDD and flash ram that competitors would need.
by davedx | 2026-01-16 08:49:23+00:00
Think Google has done a pretty good job at that actually! Consider their various enterprises that weren't killed:

* Search/ads

* YouTube

* Android/Play, Chrome, Maps

* Google Cloud, Workspace

* Pixel, Nest, Fitbit

* Waymo, DeepMind

* Google fiber

They're not a conglomerate like Alibaba but they're far from a one-trick pony, either :)
by bhasi | 2026-01-16 08:51:08+00:00
I've been to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest in Inyo County, CA where the Methuselah tree lives. Though I didn't get to see that specific tree because the sun was fast setting and I wasn't prepared to hike around in darkness, I had a pretty amazing experience being the presence of 4000- and 5000-year old trees.
by argsnd | 2026-01-16 08:51:22+00:00
“publishing them on the App Store” was intended as (perhaps imprecise for you) shorthand for all of these distribution issues.

You very much can develop Safari extensions on Windows or Linux because they use largely the same APIs as Chrome extensions as I already mentioned. Any differences are well documented. The only thing you need a Mac for is, again, distribution. If not for that it’s really not that different to developing a website that will open on Safari without access to an Apple device.

Once upon a time Apple had a separate Safari extensions website where they allowed extension developers to publish or sign extensions after registering for free as they recognised these barriers. They could either be distributed on Apple’s extensions gallery or you could distribute the files yourself.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-01-16 08:51:49+00:00
From wikipedia: ” An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.”

As with covid, individual actions are not enough to stop the spread of the epidemic. You need vaccinations, health education, public policy etc. not just individual actions, so ”go dancing” and ”talk to people” doesn’t quite cut it.

Seems strange to me that at this site from the whole internet people don’t seem to see the connection between the raise of new technologies and lonelines (with a host of other mental health/social issues). And therefore this is the one problem the nerds don’t seem to be able to solve…

I cannot either, but I think we need to start looking at technology from a point of view of public health. Some sort of sociology/medical studies on the effects of computing on human body/mind and society.
by aeneas_ory | 2026-01-16 08:53:37+00:00
"Still on Claude Code" is a funny statement, given that the industry is agreeing that Anthropic has the lead in software generation while others (OpenAI) are lagging behind or have significant quality issues (Google) in their tooling (not the models). And Anthropic frontier models are generally "You're absolutely right - I apologize. I need to ..." everytime they fuck something up.
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 08:54:43+00:00
> Go ahead, call me a prick, but you're a good customer, and I know you'll keep buying.

Your overconfidence might set you up for disappointment, just like those US states who are begging Canadians to buy their booze. I understand that you're emotional, and it's fine - no need to call anyone a prick.

> We didn't loot your data. You gave it freely in exchange for the extremely convenient services that are built on it.

That's incorrect. Both Facebook and Google uploaded smartphone contact books of their users to their servers when it still was possible. There was no user consent to provide list of all contacts plus phone numbers. Now both have walled gardens and fight against other companies scraping their data.

> You can buy a map book and put it in your car and navigate the old way.

There are many other options.
by mrngm | 2026-01-16 08:54:43+00:00
This.

It seems your project is at a really early stage. Almost none of the links on the page work, which is too bad, because it could have provided more background information on your goals and wishes. The only thing that seems to work is login through Google, which is a bit much for a demo site.

What's going to be the edge above the already excellent https://bgp.tools ?
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-16 08:55:00+00:00
Does anyone else feel like we are moving in the wrong direction?

Like every discussion I’ve seen about childcare takes the 1950s as the baseline for some reason. Like being a housewife in the 1950s sucked and it was unfair that the women had to do it and the men didn’t have to. Like people don’t explicitly say this, but this is what it boils down to.

And being a housewife in the 1950s (or 1970s or whatever) did suck. But why did it suck?

It sucked (and still does) because of the breakdown of the extended clan. A long time ago there would be a ton of family very close by to mutually spread the load.

So why did clan breakdown happen, and can we reverse that instead of pushing further and further into more and more atomization? I don’t really see that being discussed, it’s just like “1950s house wifing bad” and the analysis stops there.

One thing people are going to say is that family members are too different from each other now, or that they have economic incentives to scatter. Well, can we make them stop becoming so different? Can we delete the economic incentives? Etc.
by duskdozer | 2026-01-16 08:55:19+00:00
I think the way this thread went is a perfect illustration of why people just "don't want it" - you started off talking about alternatives that were anonymous, and now you're talking about digital ID for "security" or even UX. Because that's how things have gone in practice.

Privacy-respecting, free, even technically superior options are regularly overlooked in favor of invasive and locked down options. See how often phone 2FA is forced "for security" when generic TOTP authenticators or passkeys could do better. Also see how specifications around passkeys are being set up to eventually squeeze out free implementations in favor of Google and Apple.
by aw1621107 | 2026-01-16 08:56:06+00:00
I believe GP is talking about -fbounds-safety [0, 1]. From my understanding this will cause the compiler to emit an error if it can't figure out how to bounds check a pointer access at either compile time or run time. You then need to either add appropriate annotations to provide the missing information or otherwise restructure the code to satisfy the compiler.

[0]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html

[1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafetyAdoptionGuide.html
by elric | 2026-01-16 08:56:51+00:00
> Seems strange to me that at this site from the whole internet people don’t seem to see the connection between the raise of new technologies and lonelines (with a host of other mental health/social issues). And therefore this is the one problem the nerds don’t seem to be able to solve…

It doesn't seem that strange that a website with a few thousand geeks isn't able to solve a global phenomenon by commenting on an article.

HN is a place for discussion. It seems unreasonable to expect world changing outcomes.

I suspect the "think global, act local"-motto applies here. You can certainly make a local impact by "going dancing".
by dgxyz | 2026-01-16 08:57:48+00:00
The battle I am fighting at the moment is that our glorious engineering team, who are the lowest bidding external outsourcer, make the LLM spew look pretty good. The reality of course is they are both terrible, but no one wants to hear that, only that the LLM is better than the humans. And that's only because it's the narrative they need to maintain.

Relative quality is better but the absolute quality is not. I only care about absolute quality.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-16 08:58:26+00:00
> the left cant even fight

New York and California have enough GDP, weapons factories and in-state fissile materials to make a civil war at least interesting. They’re also both primed to let a foreign army looking to intervene land on their shores (or, more likely, air strips).

In repression, guns and muscles count. In a civil war, they’re about as effective as Maduro’s guard was.
by swores | 2026-01-16 09:00:32+00:00
Maybe I'm being dense, but could someone kindly explain to me the "Web App" example on that Sprites page?

"30 hours of wake time per month (~5 concurrent users avg), averaging 10% of 2 CPUs and 1 GB RAM"

Does that mean it would sit available but using 0% when there's nobody on the site, and just bill for usage when web traffic is causing the server to do work? So if the web app went a month with no visitors it would cost nothing (except for the file storage fees)?
by mdemare | 2026-01-16 09:00:37+00:00
That's why they should be phased, and not too steeply.

If they're phased, e.g. at 30% (for every additional €1 you earn, benefits decrease by €0.30), you have the problem that when you are applicable for several of them (e.g. for children, child care, chronic illness, etc.), the benefit reduction adds up as well, so you're quickly back at an effective marginal tax rate (EMTR) of 90% or even over 100%.

You'd think that it wouldn't be beyond the capability of our society to declare that "the EMTR shall be at most 70%" at any point in the income curve, and do the math to make it work, but apparently not.
by torginus | 2026-01-16 09:00:42+00:00
I meant exactly what the parent-comment pointed out - that C can't be parsed without a symbol table. Like the example on wikipedia:

A * B;

Which either represents a multiplication or a pointer of type A* to B, depending what the symbol table looks like. That means parsing C is impossible without these hacks, and you need to basically parse the whole file to build up this information.

A lot text editors which only support grammars can't parse this properly, there are a ton of buggy C parsers in the wild.

The issues that led to this were completely avoidable, and many languages like Pascal (which was more or less its contemporary), Go or Rust did avoid them. They don't lead to the language being more powerful or expressive.

Calling it the 'worst' might be hyperbole, but given how influential C-style syntax has become, and how much C code is out there, these issue have affected a ton of other languages downstream.
by mid-kid | 2026-01-16 09:01:36+00:00
~€25, Moondrop Chu 2 headphones. Really good quality for the price, with a bit of care have lasted me for ~3 years now. When one side was going quieter, I could unscrew and clean it. The clear plastic cord is yellowing now unfortunately, will try to buy a new one.

~€80, Anbernic RG35XXSP: Handheld games console that runs (mostly) open source linux distros. Reinvigorated my retro gaming on the go when the OG consoles are too inconvenient to carry around and emulating on a phone just feels bad. Having syncthing on-device means I'll never lose my saves again, and putting new games on it is as easy as dragging and dropping on my PC.

~€5, Mini media keyboard from aliexpress (just any, really): It works like garbage, but I never realized how badly I needed a remote with access to all of the MPV shortcuts for when I hook up my laptop to the TV.
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 09:01:48+00:00
It's a weak argument that Europeans are legally bound to forever buy iPhones "designed in california" because they used to buy them in the past.

Other US companies like Tesla massively lost market share already, whole US states are begging for Canadians to buy booze.

In light of current crises created by the US, why do you think it goes any different for the rest of the US tech companies? The goodwill is used up.
by vvolhejn | 2026-01-16 09:02:33+00:00
Václav from Kyutai here. Yes the original naming scheme was from Les Miserables, glad you noticed! We just stuck to Alba because that's the real name of the voice actor that provided the voice sample to us (see https://huggingface.co/kyutai/tts-voices), the other ones are either from pre-existing datasets or given anonymously.
by tannhaeuser | 2026-01-16 09:03:25+00:00
> No standardized strings

> ISO "strings" are just atoms or lists of single-character atoms (or lists of integer character codes) [...]. Code written with strings in SWI-Prolog will not work in [other] Prolog.

That's because SWI isn't following ISO (and even moving away from ISO in other places eg. [1]).

ISO Prolog strings are lists of character codes period. It's just that there are convenient string manipulation-like predicates operating on atom names such as sub_atom, atom_concat, atom_length, etc ([2]). You'd use atom_codes to converse between atoms/strings or use appropriate list predicates.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/prolog/comments/1089peh/can_someone...

[2]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/docs/libreference.html#string...
by baud9600 | 2026-01-16 09:04:57+00:00
I’m loving the comments here. But I confess I exoected a ‘social technology’ solution to the problem!! Like “casserole” in the UK, which connects people in a neighbourhood with others who need food and a visit. You make a casserole and take it round. I’ve not seen this in person but it seems like a great application of tech to help ward off loneliness… You could easily extend this to “dog friends” or “cat friends”, where you’re connected with someone who’d like you to visit them and bring your dog or cat for an introduction and a pat
by physicsguy | 2026-01-16 09:06:29+00:00
I've been to San Francisco twice with work.

The last time was in 2018. I caught a Muni bus, the drive drove past someone at a stop who was in a wheelchair and was signalling to be picked up, another passenger challenged the driver, and the driver shouted something like "I don't want no cripple pee pee-ing on my bus"
by cachius | 2026-01-16 09:07:22+00:00
PolyMarket bets are becoming ever more problematic the wider it gets known, carrying the manipulation incentives from stock markets into every bettable aspect of society.

> Total garbage. Spread by a $9bn company with a 1m-follower account, a post viewed by 4.5m people. Pure disinformation for financial gain, with serious consequences for actual human lives.
Shashank Joshi - @shashj - Jan 12 - https://x.com/shashj/status/2010766014829478393
by redbell | 2026-01-16 09:07:23+00:00
I'm a big fan of this project! I've been following it for years now. It was submitted a couple of times to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088777
by Gibbon1 | 2026-01-16 09:08:04+00:00
There is the C.A. Thayer which is a restored lumber ship.

https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/c-a-thayer.htm

The ship they found "measures about 92 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Experts estimate its cargo capacity was 300 tons"

The C.A. Thayer is 219 feet long, 36 feet wide and carried 453 tons.

Random off hand thought is the big difference between these two is the Thayer was longer. A problem I've read with long wooden ships is the flexing can open the seams between the planks to open up requiring the crew to bail water.

Off Orford Ness she sprang a leak
Hear her poor old timbers creak
Pump you blighters, pump or drown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFgAeXA0dJM
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-16 09:08:36+00:00
I will separate this into expensive, still has a cost, and "free"

Expensive:

Car meetups and car modding

Horse based activities (learning to ride etc is group based)

learning a craft (ie blacksmithing, knitting circles, ceramics)

Swordfighting of various styles (east/west/modern/renaissance/polish drunk people in armour)

Warhammer

Cost, but not as much:

local hackspace

local cycle club

Local running club

Local team sports (real football, basketball, baseball, tennis, 5-a-side)

local choir (secular)

Amateur dramatics (highly recommended, darling.)

Free, but with connotations

Scouting adult leader

Local environmental people (ie park maintenance )

Animal shelter

charity shop

local choir (religious)

local organised religion

local political party organisation
by SFGWisdow | 2026-01-16 09:08:47+00:00
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by kamaal | 2026-01-16 09:08:48+00:00
>>I have to admit that writing Prolog sometimes makes me want to bash my my head against the wall

I think much of the frustration with older tech like this comes from the fact that these things were mostly written(and rewritten till perfection) on paper first and only the near-end program was input into a computer with a keyboard.

Modern ways of carving out a program with 'Successive Approximations' with a keyboard and monitor until you get to something to work is mostly a recent phenomenon. Most of us are used to working like this. Which quite honestly is mostly trial and error. The frustration is understandable because you are basically throwing darts, most of the times in the dark.

I knew a programmer from the 1980s who(built medical electronics equipment) would tell me how even writing C worked back then. It was mostly writing a lot, on paper. You had to prove things on paper first.
by vvolhejn | 2026-01-16 09:09:58+00:00
Václav from Kyutai here. Thanks for the bug report! A workaround for now is to chunk the text into smaller parts where the model is more reliable. We already do some chunking in the Python package. There is also a more fancy way to do this chunking in a way that ensures that the stitched-together parts continue well (teacher-forcing), but we haven't implemented that yet.
by IceDane | 2026-01-16 09:10:09+00:00
I thought the same thing.

I, too, am a big fan of prolog and have (at least) yearly binges where I write a lot of it for fun and profit (and some frustration), but I do not consider myself to be an expert. But even I can see that the author has what I would consider a pretty basic understanding of prolog. Which makes it even more surprising they are writing a book that uses prolog.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-16 09:10:10+00:00
> To be clear; I don't consider GPL to be completely free software.

Well, yeah. I think we agree. That's why I said it is transactional - you get software in exchange for any future potential improvement you make to it.

It's a transaction.

MIT is not transactional, it's charity - you get software without having to trade anything for it.

If people make their software MIT or GPL, they should not complain when it is used in a way that they are unhappy with. With MIT, it can be used in almost any way the user wants, including closing it off, and depriving the community of improvements.
by brap | 2026-01-16 09:10:28+00:00
This seems to be where it’s at right now, we can’t seem to make the models significantly more intelligent, so we “inject” our own intelligence into the system, in the form of good old fashioned code.

My philosophy is make the LLMs do as little work as possible. Only small, simple steps. Anything that can be reasonably done in code (orchestration, tool calls, etc) should be done in code. Basically any time you find yourself instructing an LLM to follow a certain recipe, just break it down to multiple agents and do what you can with code.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-01-16 09:11:50+00:00
I'm not sure why human reaction time is relevant here, since what I'm talking about isn't the time it takes me to respond to a stimulus but the time it takes the computer to respond to a stimulus.

I do do still have both computers set up side-by-side (legacy data from an old business), and the keyboard in question was a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 (the calculator button wasn't a proper key, it was one of those squidgy extra keys so beloved of multimedia keyboards, so not as fast to operate as a proper key.)

Anyhow, the point (arguably hypberbolic as it may have been) wasn't about reaction time per se, it was about the older calculator app - and by extension much of the rest of the OS - being a much simpler and less bloated piece of software, and running it on faster-than-contemporaneous hardware makes for a sense of immediacy which is sorely lacking in today's world of web apps.

I'd be very interested to know to what that 300ms "threshold of perceptible delay" applies. You might not notice a window taking 300ms to open - but I'd be willing to bet that when you're highlighting text with the mouse or dragging a slider, you'd be very aware of the UI lagging by nearly 1/3 of a second.
by physicsguy | 2026-01-16 09:11:54+00:00
I don't really think people understand it, it's quite hard to explain and on paper it just sounds like the person is wrong.

The maths for one child for me works out at ~£10k childcare bill without the free childcare vs ~£4000 with free childcare + tax free childcare (for three days a week). Even that doesn't sound too bad but it's the combination of that, the loss of personal allowance and the fact I still have a student loan that means the actual number of how much I have to earn to break even on losing it is something like £30k more than the actual cut off.
by ben_w | 2026-01-16 09:12:48+00:00
> Illegal immigration is a crime against public order

I'm horrified anyone thinks this way.

I've heard it suggested that psychopaths simply treat everybody the way normal people treat the outgroup. My outgroup is everyone who has dark triad personality, not foreigners legal or otherwise.

And even if you're set on this, look at what work is done today by undocumented immigrants in the US, and ask yourself how many Americans will starve if this happened.