MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2025-04-15 08:56:40+00:00
> I'm more concerned with YouTube owning all of social video. Movies are on a dozen streamers. Social stuff is on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and X. But video essays, independent animation, educational content, cultural critiques, music, video podcasts, trailers, gameplay, research, news - anything long form, serious, interesting - it's all trapped on YouTube as the only distribution platform. And they'll keep getting bigger with no possible alternative due to network effects.

Yes, but: despite all of us adblocking them, this is all supported by their ad revenue.

The discovery effect is simply too powerful. I can't really see a way out of this because people are not going to go back to paying for media. Possibly the only way is something like the increasing control of social media from the EU forcing a separate EU Youtube, which might include things like the French TV rules forcing a certain amount of content to be in French, plus control over foreign disinformation influencers.

(you know what the only other social video platforms are with millions of users? Bilibili, xiaohungshu etc.)
by artdigital | 2025-04-15 08:59:08+00:00
Same here, 2.5 Pro is very good at coding. But it’s also cocky and blames everything but itself for something not working. Eg “the linter must be wrong you should reinstall it”, “looks to be a problem with the Go compiler”, “this function HAS to exist, that’s weird that we’re getting an error”

And it often just stops like “ok this is still not working. You fix it and tell me when it’s done so I can continue”.

But for coding: Gemini Pro 2.5 > Sonnet 3.5 > Sonnet 3.7
by AngryData | 2025-04-15 08:59:14+00:00
It does take considerable energy to capture and store that carbon when it is only a small fraction of the atmosphere. Trees may not be as energy efficient as us building a dedicated process for it, but growing trees is basically free and it isn't like we are lacking land area to do so. Farmland utilization has been dropping for many decades all across the globe, and even if that didn't happen we would still be very far from running out of suitable tree growing land since trees can grow everywhere but the harshest deserts.
by delusional | 2025-04-15 09:00:36+00:00
I don't think people are appreciating the nuance of what you're saying. Most of what you are saying isn't accurate for netflix style streaming, which would actually be more aptly called "video on demand", but is very applicable to "live streaming" in the sense of live sporting events or news broadcasts.

Video-on-demand is perfectly implementable on top of BitTorrent. As you say, there are some latency pitfalls you'll have to avoid, but that's nothing you can't hack yourself out of.

Livestreaming is a different beast. As you say, the problem with livestreaming is that everyone needs the same content at the same time. If I spend 200ms downloading the next 500ms worth of content, then there's nobody to share it with, they all spent the 200ms doing the same. BitTorrent relies on the time shift that is allowed between me downloading the content and you requesting it. If you request it before I've got it, well I can't fulfil that request, only the guy I intend to get it from can.

If you wanted to implement something like that, you would probably pick a tree of seeders where the protocol would pick a subset of trusted nodes that it would upload the content to before then allowing them to seed it, and the have them doing the same recursively.

That would obviously introduce a bunch of complexity and latency, and would very much not be BitTorrent anymore.
by duozerk | 2025-04-15 09:00:53+00:00
There is no "intelligence" in LLMs; they're text predictors. As far as I can tell the whole LLM technology has limited applications in entertainment and that's about it. "Hallucinations" (even that term is problematic, as it suggests there's an actual consciousness/person, or the seed of one, there) as well as other "failures" - in fact features inherent to how the tech works - make it irrelevant for basically all other use cases.

Tech as an industry already had an atrocious reputation but the moment the insanely stupid "AI" bubble pops I suspect it'll get much worse. Ultimately it's pretty deserved, though. At this point the bullshit is so strong one almost wishes for a new AI winter.
by bazoom42 | 2025-04-15 09:02:19+00:00
The Bible, like any “real” mythology is full of inconsistencies and contradictions and unanswered questions. In contrast, a literary “mythology” created by a single author can be logically and tonaly consistent.

I think Tolkien appeals to people because it has the feel of mythology, legend and ancient history, but still is a literary creation which satifies modern need for logic and modern morality.
by mrheosuper | 2025-04-15 09:03:19+00:00
> If a wifi password is required to make full use of the device, I will return it.

By that logic, you will not buy any "smart" devices

A camera doorbell, in your example, need wifi password so that it can stream video.

A smart lightbuld need wifi connection to change brightness or color.

Without wifi connection, it will lose a part of functionality
by beeforpork | 2025-04-15 09:06:17+00:00
It is not a waste.

(1) It is still an interesting topic, because in this case, it has world-wide consequences.

(2) Many of the problems of the world can only be solved if people are convinced that those are important problems. You need to fix people's closest problems first, like their bread and perceived security. Each individual has just one life, I wouldn't say it's selfish to want an OKish life, and only then think about what's best for the human race.

(3) Most of the right voters were convinced (and might still be) that they were doing what is good for them. But it isn't. They voted wrong, they were tricked against their actual will.

(4) This is not a singular event. The same may happen somewhere near or around you maybe sooner than later, so analysig how it happened, which groups exactly voted against their own advantage, and how to make the consequences clear and understandable beforehand, and how to prevent it in general -- all this is important.

Not wasted resources at all. The opposite. We need to remember that this is not a boring news topic.
by westurner | 2025-04-15 09:06:20+00:00
Related issue: secured DNS must downgrade/fallback to unsecured DNS because of captive portal DNS redirection (because captive portals block access to DNS until the user logs in, and the user can't log into the captive portal without DNS redirection that is prevented by DoH, DoT, and DoQ).

Impact: if you set up someone's computer to use secured DNS only, and their device doesn't have per-SSID connection profiles, then they can't use captive portal hotspot Wi-Fi without knowing how to disable secured DNS.

"Do not downgrade to unsecured DNS unless it's an explicitly authorized captive portal"

IIRC there's a new-ish way to configure DNS-over-HTTPS over DHCP like there is for normal DNS.
by AngryData | 2025-04-15 09:06:55+00:00
Ehh if you are just going to bury it kiln drying wouldn't really be that helpful. Wood in open air will dry out pretty well just sitting for two years. Commercial wood is only really kiln dried so that nobody has to store it for a year or two first and they can sell it before as much of it warps and twists due to being cut while green which makes less of it able to be sold. With a large enough pile, even if it is left uncovered, only the top couple logs or boards will get wet from the rain and if a small percentage of it rots or grows some fungus, well it wasn't there to get built into other things anyways so it doesn't matter.
by roenxi | 2025-04-15 09:07:02+00:00
We're dealing with the sum total of everything, if the true nature of things is that there are a finite number of supernovas I'd be surprised. The real shock is how small the number of supernovas is and how young everything seems to be in the known universe (the age of the observed universe is estimated at maybe double digit billion years).

These are tiny numbers given that we're quite possibly dealing with infinity in both time and space. I judge it one of the stronger arguments in favour of the universe being constructed (or, more likely, there is a lot out there we can't see). If god built a universe numbers like 1 supernova a century make some sense for artistic value.
Show HN: SupaSniffer – Test Supabase RLS
by PranaFlux | 2025-04-15 09:08:11+00:00
Many startups use Supabase as a backend. I made this tool to enable to check anonymous access to tables using the anon key.

Just input your supabase entry point and your anon key to get an overview.

Fun fact, Supabase publishes the swagger of your db for anyone to see! (which is what makes this tool possible)

Excerpt of a sample output:

--- Table/View Test Summary --- [!] Potential RLS Leaks Found (Anonymous SELECT succeeded): - prices (19 rows accessible) Sample row: {"id": "price1", "product_id": "prod_QaZYMRtZiLaFiX", "active": true, "description": null, "unit_amount": 100, "currency": "usd", "type": "recurring", "interval": "month", "interval_count": 1, "trial_period_days": 0, "metadata": null} - products (19 rows accessible) Sample row: {"id": "price1", "active": false, "name": "One", "description": null, "image": null, "metadata": {}}
by LeonM | 2025-04-15 09:08:26+00:00
> I then left and the company later got acquired by Level 3 so I don't know exactly how it evolved

It just struck me that there are probably plenty of large media companies that use all sorts of proprietary video streaming products for distribution that we've never heard of, simply because the tech isn't available to consumers.

Media companies are generally pretty secretive about their tech (Netflix being the exception to this rule), so there isn't much to be found about this. The piracy community (because, let's be real here) also won't be interested in a non-free (speech and beer) streaming solutions like these. So that's probably why there is just very little public information available.

But if you use paid digital TV products (Eurosport being a perfect example here) then you are probably already using all sorts of P2P streaming protocols you've never heard of.
by ben_w | 2025-04-15 09:08:45+00:00
The algorithm of business development in the web era is A/B testing (and its cousin, multivariate testing). It is a still genetic algorithm, even though the "genome" of a website is not measured by base pairs of nucleic acids. And the algorithm is used to optimise the consumption of our mental resources — our attention is what it "metabolises" into money.
by xienze | 2025-04-15 09:09:03+00:00
> before somebody had the bright idea to add "docker compose substitite" to its ever growing list of responsibilities.

systemd itself isn’t acting as a docker-compose substitute. Podman simply translates unit files containing docker-esque configuration (image name, volumes, etc.) into plain systemd unit files that contain (among other things) an ExecStart line that starts the container with the proper arguments.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-15 09:09:29+00:00
> How does the geographic context explain how the US was (apparently) an excellent fit for passenger rail until the 1920s-1930s, but not anymore?

Simple answer: Cars and aeroplanes and gov't money for both, and lack of gov't money for passenger trains.

> Even in Japan, where you can ride the bullet train all the way from Kyushu to Hokkaido, almost anyone would book a flight for that unless they really hated flying.

To be clear, the purpose of a bullet train between Kyushu and Hokkaido isn't to serve end to end. Rather, it is to serve region to region: Kyushu to Osaka/Kyoto, then Osaka/Kyoto to Nagoya, then Nagoya to Tokyo, and Tokyo to... Sendai(?). Honestly, I don't know why Japan is wasting money to build the bullet train to Sapporo, Hokkaido. It will never get enough passengers to make economic sense. After 800-900km of distance, it hardly makes sense to ride a bullet train. Get on a short flight instead. (Tangent: We really need electric aeroplanes to service these 90 minute routes in most countries.)
by lifestyleguru | 2025-04-15 09:09:31+00:00
> Shein biggest thing is actually AI/ML. As far I remember, what they really invested is on the service per see. Shein gather data from consumers on internet, on what's the latest trends/art, and just create clothes.

Few years ago there was a trend in online ads showing t-shirts and hoodies with "realistic" print ons of animals, optical illusions, mazes, etc. Realistic only on photos or rather renderings. Felt like some form of brainrot. It was all Chinese clone shops or outright scams. Luckily the trend is dead now.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-15 09:10:30+00:00
Yes, exactly. You're being facetious but I don't go to my metaphorical priest for opinions on the best fashion. I don't go to a shaman for financial advice. And I don't trust a king telling me my kid is fine as she's clearly not breathing. We had centuries of specialization to not rely on one all knowing person for everything. Through TV it's not even like you can consult such people anyway.

I'm not even entirely convinced most actually trust the administration. I've just seen enough people who'd rather die than ever admit they were wrong. Not much you can do at that point of fatal pride.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-15 09:12:55+00:00
JSLinux runs any disk image reachable over the network. You can find the Alpine sources over at https://github.com/alpinelinux. The Fedora sources are over at https://src.fedoraproject.org/. I don't think the script to package the pre-built images is documented somewhere, but it's all standard Linux you can install yourself in a virtual machine if you want.

The Windows 2000 sources are probably leaked somewhere on Github, or you could apply for a job with Microsoft maybe. I managed to get ReactOS to boot in JSLinux once by installing it into a standard QEMU image and splitting the image into chunks as required by the emulator code. You need quite a fast CPU to run a full, modern OS at acceptable speeds, though.
by koonsolo | 2025-04-15 09:12:57+00:00
What have you done already? Have you joined the protests? Have you co-organized protests? Have you helped out the opposition? Go out there, connect to like minded people, see how you can help, get your hands dirty.

A country doesn't belong to the majority, it belongs to the ones willing to fight for it.

US is not my country, it's yours. But not if you're not willing to defend your rights and values. If you stay passive, others will decide for you.

Edit: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ April 19.
by p00dles | 2025-04-15 09:13:05+00:00
Is this what tools like Nextflow or Snakemake aim to do? I don't know, and I'm genuinely curious, because I'm starting to work in bioinformatics and doing different parts of an analysis pipeline in R and Python seems common, and, necessary really if you want to use certain packages.

I'm wondering if I should devote time to learning Nextflow/Snakemake, or whether the solution that you outlined is "sufficient" (I say "sufficient" in quotes because of course, depends on the use case).
by timeon | 2025-04-15 09:13:27+00:00
> European car commuter rates are almost identical to USA's.

Do you have source for this? I believe this could be true now but I find this kind of arguing dismissive and missing the point.

I'm not from environment you have described. Still remmeber people in my East European corner were able to easily commute to work by bus/train without car. However since they got richer they adopted American commuter patterns more and this led to deterioration of public transport outside of urban areas.

No wonder people get "touchy" because you are not really arguing for those who are not "young healthy well-paid tech workers". But against them. It is not about just ditching the cars but changing whole design of living around the need of cars - which is the point that actually started this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43666410
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-15 09:14:03+00:00
>Harvard funds them with the money it gets from grants.

The grants fund students regardless of views. Yes they can use their endowment (I think) it's quite massive but the point is the government attacking universities for what a small amount of students say which is wrong.

It's also quite hypocritical considering views on free speech and "big government"

"Shutting down free speech will destroy our civilization." - JD Vance

>it really doesn't seem prudent to grant visas to people who hate our country and everything it stands for.

Why? In the case of attacking Israel that's not even our country? What if they hate the current government?

What is "our country" to you because most probably hate the government, a very common attitude for many inside the country.

If they hate our values of freedom then punishing them only says that those freedoms aren't that dear to us because we're willing to compromise.

The rest of your comment is Facebook level of like "If you don't like it leave". I do think your other comments are professional so I hope we can move back

>they should be quite relieved that they won't need to come here
by sublimefire | 2025-04-15 09:14:06+00:00
My thoughts as well. Microsoft is just one of the companies, Google is no better either. Any OSS component could be bought and made non free, any free project provided by Google etc could change the licence and prevent you from using it, similar happened recently.

I think it is great that people use GitHub as it has a low barrier of entry, if anything happens the stuff can quickly be moved elsewhere. Until then we can piggyback on the free platform. Using some other company does not make it immediately safer anyway.

The challenge here is more about archiving, especially those rarely used repos. In any case GH is safe as MS is focussing more on AI now and they do not have a good alternative to GitHub to think about turning it off like Skype yet.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-15 09:14:21+00:00
If you host your own OS image that auto-starts a browser that runs JSLinux and a config file like https://www.bellard.org/jslinux/alpine-x86.cfg, you can create such a link yourself. CORS may be your biggest enemy, there's no reason JSLinux can't do what you're proposing (albeit extremely slowly).
by vanschelven | 2025-04-15 09:14:54+00:00
I think the reasons mentioned in the article are to be taken seriously (unlike some of the other commenters here). Historically, Microsoft has shown itself as "not an ally to Open Source" to put it mildly. And there is a real tie-in to Github-the-platform (issues, workflows, etc) despite the fact that git repos themselves can be migrated away trivially (by design).

Having said that, the alternatives they mention aren't realistic. Precisely those things that make GitHub dangerous, are the things that make it worth choosing. In particular: network effects, issue tracking and PRs.
by docdeek | 2025-04-15 09:15:30+00:00
>> "The transatlantic alliance is over," an EU official told the newspaper, which reported the commission "is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.”

The US has been spying on government officials from the EU - sometimes with the help of other EU member states - for years. [0] What is surprising is that despite knowing this to be the case, the EC is only now supplying burner phones and devices. States may have allies, but their own national interests will always come before those allies.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...
by listenallyall | 2025-04-15 09:15:54+00:00
You actually believe that not a single woodworker said to himself, there are only so many wealthy people, I might do better if I make some chairs from cheap wood in a hurry, not doing so much polishing or ornamentaion, and I can make twice as many and sell to the not-so-rich people? You really don't think that existed?
by InDubioProRubio | 2025-04-15 09:16:51+00:00
The problem is- they are not anti-racist honest. You are either nurture or nature, but if its all nurture, they refuse to discuss that part, compare those parts, work out the problematic parts and compose better societal models. They just idealise, bigott stay quiet and adverse engage only with those who respond civilized. Its all lies and damned lies and statistics.
by senko | 2025-04-15 09:17:26+00:00
In case it wasn't clear, I'm using "OCR" in my comment above for "reading and interpreting textual documents provided as images", not as a reference to a specific tech such as Tesseract.

In the app, I am, in fact, using AI/ML tech and I'm saying it's very accurate for my use case, as a counterpoint to the parent comment which says AI works in 1% cases, maybe.

But since you brought it up, this workflow works better than the supposedly "99.999999% right all the time" traditional code (traditional OCR tools).

Hope this clears it up.
Tell HN: Proton is reading and filtering incoming mail
by reactchain | 2025-04-15 09:17:41+00:00
This seems relevant to privacy-conscious folks here:

I just tried to use my existing ProtonMail account as a backup for my Gmail account. Instead of receiving the verification code, I got an email in my Proton inbox that says:

"Your Proton account is currently restricted from registering on third-party services"

Meaning that proton is actively reading (and filtering) mail from certain flagged accounts. Otherwise, how do they know my account just received a matching email from Google with a verification code?

This is not particularly surprising for most providers, but I was not expecting it from Proton. What's the point of all the encryption claims?
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-15 09:18:23+00:00
> The trains don't make money

This is untrue. From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio ... look at all the entries in Japan where ratio >= 100%. It is a lot. This one is bonkers to me (JR Central Rail: 245.95%), but easily explained by owning and operating one of the busiest bullet train routes in the world between Tokyo and Osaka.

And, this does not include all of the (profitable) real estate projects these companies use to further increase ridership!
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-15 09:19:03+00:00
It's an appealing idea, but surely there'd be insurmountable problems with the distance/time involved for any part to communicate to another part? It'd be like trying to run a computer with a clock that takes millions (billions?) of years to make a single tick. I just don't see that it's at all feasible and that's without even trying to guess as to how different parts can change behaviour depending on its environment (one commonly used requirement of "life").
by boomlinde | 2025-04-15 09:19:20+00:00
> I'm wondering what makes you feel confident about the use of linked lists in all of those components.

Of all of those mentioned I literally looked up their source repositories up and searched for obvious indicators like "linked", "list", ".next" or "->next" and then verified that I was indeed looking at one or more linked lists. Where does your confidence come from? Oh right, you already mentioned it: it's based on your experience of the projects you've worked on.

The rest of your reply is just moving goalposts, mind reading and a glaring category error. Get back if and when you have something useful to add.
by muzani | 2025-04-15 09:19:30+00:00
The real news for me is GPT 4.5 being deprecated and the creativity is being brought to "future models" and not 4.1. 4.5 was okay in many ways but it was absolutely a genius in production for creative writing. 4o writes like a skilled human, but 4.5 can actually write a 10 minute scene that gives me goosebumps. I think it's the context window that allows for it to actually build up scenes to hammer it down much later.