MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-19 04:09:50+00:00
It is more likely that a given anime is used as advertising for a light novel/manga series than it is for the entire thing to be faithfully adapted. Just off my the top of my head, shows I've watched that are never, ever going to get animated conclusions: Grimoire of Zero, 86, Kemono Jihen, Drifters, High School of the Dead. Might seem short, but I'm lucky in that my tastes tend towards big-name shounen stuff and anime originals that either lurch towards a conclusion over a decade or were written from the beginning to be one or two cours, respectively. For less-well-known series, seinen, shoujo, etc... Well, I hope you enjoy S1.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-19 04:11:29+00:00
A related video series showing many places around the world in the 1900s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UhDuKZ2OQ

There's a lot of really interesting things to see there besides the sites themselves. The obvious one worldwide is that this is before the mass commercialization of clothing + planned obsolescence of such, which seems to have a very negative outcome.

But one thing not so visible that's really interesting to see is how simultaneously stern everybody looks with no fake smiles or hidden gazes. People were willing to just stare at something or somebody odd. But that sterness is regularly belied by things like a couple of guys in their 40s happily putting on a fake fight in front of the camera, falling on their asses, and just basically playing around like school boys having a great old time - a far rarer site now a days.
by BirAdam | 2025-05-19 04:11:31+00:00
The current state of AI doesn’t fit Apple at all. This was hinted at in the article multiple times, but Apple likes to ship stuff that’s elegant and proven. Recent models run well for me in LM Studio and produce compelling results, but they’re not ready to be trusted, they make many mistakes, and I wouldn’t want my phone to be run by one. As noted in the article, most people inquire how to turn AI stuff off…
by OutOfHere | 2025-05-19 04:12:01+00:00
Higher education that is not a part of a PhD program is effectively obsolete. You don't need to pay to learn. In the past, technical textbooks could be difficult to digest and understand, but now LLMs can dumb it down to one's level. Demonstrating your open source projects and contributions based on their star count, essentially a proxy for their impact, is better.
by lblume | 2025-05-19 04:13:05+00:00
Yes. It might sound counter-intuitive or even ironical but the next logical step is to make the type system more, not less expressive and to add completely dependent types. Every language already has them to the extent of Array<T, N> (or T[] & { length: N }, or a recursively defined Tuple<T, N>), but having true flow- and value-dependent types would allow for more concise and expressive code.
by simplesocieties | 2025-05-19 04:13:08+00:00
Tailscale has made all of their client source code available for anyone to view so if you want to confirm that you’re not sending unencrypted data or keys through their servers you’re more than free to do so.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

I think there is some merit to setting up wireguard (e.g. you want more devices than what Tailscale offers for free, or their servers become unreliable for some reason)

But people who push the “scarey boogeyman will look at your data” with Tailscale are either technically illiterate or overly-paranoid.
by mikepurvis | 2025-05-19 04:13:57+00:00
I use a pull-down honeycomb shade with a basement window that's behind my TV:

https://www.amazon.ca/Persilux-Blackout-Cellular-Protection-...

It's a total blackout, though it definitely benefits from the window being deeply inset; on a typical bedroom window at midday I expect a bunch of light would find its way around that.
by taejavu | 2025-05-19 04:14:13+00:00
Forgive my ignorance - at what point does electromagnetic radiation not count as light? Because it seems obvious to me that since our bodies are warm, and heat is a form of EMR, then of course we radiate "light". But also, things that wouldn't be described as warm still do this - all matter in the universe emits EMR, does it not?

Would someone be so kind as to clear up my long-held misconceptions?
by alexliu518 | 2025-05-19 04:14:26+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m one of the developers behind https://capalyze.ai, an AI-powered tool that helps small teams analyze their data using natural language — no code, no templates.

The idea came from conversations with indie e-commerce sellers and creators who had _tons_ of data (spreadsheets, reviews, exports from marketplaces) but lacked the time or tooling to make sense of it.

With Capalyze, you can:

1. Ask questions like _"What are the most common complaints in these reviews?"

2. Paste or upload product data and get a summary of pricing trends

3. Generate charts, compare columns, or extract keywords — just by asking

It works best with your own datasets right now (CSV, Excel, etc.). Web scraping isn’t live yet— we’re actively building it, and you can follow our updates if that’s important to you.

We’ve tested it with early users in e-commerce, real estate, and content — and the feedback has been super helpful. One user called it “ChatGPT with a purpose.”

We’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community:

1. Is the interface intuitive?

2. Are the responses helpful and explainable?

3. What would make this more useful for you?

Here’s the link: https://capalyze.ai Happy to answer questions and chat more about how we built it (multi-model backend with OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, plus a simple orchestration layer).

Thanks!
by decimalenough | 2025-05-19 04:14:28+00:00
The article casually mentions a "notorious" 775 AD event which I'd never heard about (insert relevant XKCD here), so here's Wikipedia:

The event of 774 had no significant consequences for life on Earth, but had it happened in modern times, it might have produced catastrophic damage to modern technology, particularly to communication and space-borne navigation systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_carbon-14_spik...

Interestingly, the identification of the cause of the 775 AD event with a huge solar flare came from the same researchers as this story.
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-19 04:14:41+00:00
They still do Blu-ray releases with suspiciously obvious art fixes. My intuition is that the model/merchandise market is also a lot bigger than it used to be in the early 2000s (thanks in part to Haruhi). 3D/higher quality printing and hig-fidelity digital crafting probably played a big role there.
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-19 04:16:09+00:00
No. Lacking solid evidence, that's one for the philosophers among us.

As a sniff test: if a simulation is good enough, then from inside it you can't determine real or simulated. If not, then maybe 'glitches' could be detected, or a kind of jailbreak is possible.

But even if: why would the fundamental mechanics of our universe not look/behave like a computation? And "behaves like" != "is".
by codekansas | 2025-05-19 04:16:15+00:00
Vast majority of BOM is actuators, although for low volume if you need to CNC a bunch of stuff that can hike the price as well. You can use exotic sensors but they're not particularly necessary. It's a death by a thousand cuts thing with many of the humanoids you see out there right now - hence our approach, which is to get the hardware cost down as much as we could and then start building the software to make up for it
by mikepurvis | 2025-05-19 04:16:26+00:00
Can you? I should give it another try. I remember giving it a look a few years ago and it looked like a considerable amount of the setup was going to take place through a web GUI and then be persisted in its internal database. For a server I have to maintain over time, I'd rather things be as stateless as possible so that the cost of doing a scripted redeploy is basically zero.
by JohnBooty | 2025-05-19 04:16:36+00:00
I think status signaling is fascinating.

Veblen goods are the most simplistic and superficial form of intentional status signaling and yes, the world would be much better off without them.

Other kinds of status signaling are more interesting and more subtle. If I talk about my weekend softball team, I'm not doing it to impress anybody, but it unavoidably does convey some things about my status.

It tells you I almost certainly have a car, I have leisure time, people like me enough to at least tolerate me on their team, that I have a few hundred dollars to spend on gear/fees, and that I have some basic level of physical coordination/strength/ability. It also strongly hints that I grew up middle class or higher because middle class+ kids are the most likely to have learned the game as kids and continued with it as adults.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-19 04:18:12+00:00
> In my experience, the majority of the fraud is legal

DOGE was never concerned with legality.

> Charging the DoD $400 for a toilet seat is an absolute fraud --- but perfectly legal if they agree to pay it

Sure. But we didn't find evidencde of this. In part because DOGE didn't bother with our military-industrial complex.

I'll grant that part of our government hasn't been certified clean or dirty. But the fact that DOGE was unable to find these $400 toilet seats practically anywhere, save, perhaps, for in USAID, is a clean-sheet record most enterprises would aspire to.
by Guestmodinfo | 2025-05-19 04:18:35+00:00
Yes I am an Indian and based in India. Everyone loves remote work here though ppl go to offices also but we are extremely family oriented ppl and tied to our ancestral properties. So remote is awesome. I have even more suggestions that for 2 months you can offer your services as an introductory offer at 1000 rupees and then after two months when enough ppl have joined you can switch it up to 20k rupees especially for the 0-2 years experience bracket because lots of computer science students looking for placements. Just please include more n more companies for that bracket.
by nprateem | 2025-05-19 04:18:46+00:00
There's s knack to seeing auras. You need to soften your focus and kind of look more with peripheral vision than in the centre.

It's pretty easy to see the layer closest to the body. It's kind of like a bright outline about 1cm thick.

The layer with colours is further out and I've only ever seen it once. It was rad though, 10cm apple green flames appearing to shoot off my body as I moved my eyes around.

Certain lighting conditions make it easier, eg slightly dark environment with a backlit subject.

Anyway cue the downvotes from the overly analytical people here. As with all things meditation, the more you try the less you'll experience.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-05-19 04:19:28+00:00
Obsidian answers one of the key questions I asked these days of tools that I use, “Can I walk out of this easily and seamlessly?”

The best tools are the ones that get things done and get out of the way. When the time comes, you can walk out of Obsidian easily without being a hostage in any format.

The few plugins that I use are the ones I can walk out too and live without it. I love the idea of spending extra time to learn the details, shortcuts, and be able to use a tool natively without the help of plugins or extreme configurations that it takes hours/days to deviate too far away from the original configurations.

I wrote an article for me to remember it in future. https://brajeshwar.com/2025/obsidian/
by decimalenough | 2025-05-19 04:20:24+00:00
The story is about scientists establishing that over 10,000 years ago, there was a spike in carbon-14 production that's higher than anything previous recorded. Figuring this out was already complicated enough (see actual study below), but going from that into modelling what kind of flare could have produced this is a whole new level of speculation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2...
by poulsbohemian | 2025-05-19 04:21:46+00:00
True - but my alma mater (midwest liberal arts school) has had a CS program since the 1970s and added programs like data science over the past decade, plus always had a 3+2 engineering partnership with another school. In the small PNW town where I now live, the liberal arts college added a CS program a few years ago plus also had a 3+2 engineering partnership for decades. So my point is - even for those students who wanted to do something STEM related, these liberal arts schools started augmenting their programs a long time ago.
by Herodotus38 | 2025-05-19 04:22:15+00:00
I haven't seen it mentioned yet with CTRL-f and I haven't used Anki in a while, but has there been work put into modifications in Anki or other programs using spaced repetition along with interleaved practice to also see if that improves studying.

Interleaved practice explainer: https://openlearning.mit.edu/mit-faculty/research-based-lear...
by ggm | 2025-05-19 04:23:03+00:00
Solvable by VMs and the right kind of USB-to-<thing> connectors? I read in HN last year of German tank dependencies on floppies being bypassed by USB stick replacements with the right kind of interface glue.

A friend exploring the joys of S100 bus computing said there are ways to re-purpose Rasberry Pi GPIO pins to emulate a few old bus technologies.

The airline industry are past masters at mothering old tech in, all those dot matrix printers at the gate have to be driven somehow, the old IBM mainframe links which drove them are being emulated by tn3270 style attachment boxes which can be driven over TCP/IP. (or something)
by decimalenough | 2025-05-19 04:24:14+00:00
The title is misleading. As the article itself notes, "Large flagship universities—blessed with strong academic reputations and high-profile sports programs—continue to boost local economies".

It's the second and third-tier institutions located in economically depressed areas, like the one profiled here (Western Illinois University’s Macomb campus), that are suffering. After all, why would you fork out a lot of money for a diploma that's worth little and won't even connect you with local job opportunities?
by xitang | 2025-05-19 04:28:05+00:00
Thanks, this is very helpful context. Totally agree that remote is awesome for folks who like to spend more time with family. Are there any other job sites or tools that you have used for job search or you mainly have to look at each company's career page?

More and more US companies are expanding globally to places like India, Canada and Europe, so there will be more opportunities oversea.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-05-19 04:29:17+00:00
Very commendable but I never got the hang of reading score and playing. Even if I could manage some bars, it never stuck. I will definitely try again.

However, meanwhile I am learning the basic skills - starting with chord progressions in different keys (and as a side effect learning different scales) - and I am able to enjoy learning and playing music without the stress and anxiety of sight reading.

I have found a teacher (online from London) who follows this harmony first approach - and it has really changed the game for me.

Different approach and journey - but the destination is probably the same.
by anon-3988 | 2025-05-19 04:29:34+00:00
I don't get what you are trying to say here? Yes, memes are arts however foreign it might be to older folks. To your second point, you know about Frozen because everyone else also watches that. We are about to lose that if there are 1 million variations of "Frozen"-esque movie that people can watch.

I don't think have an AI partner that is trained from zero from childhood to adulthood with goals such as "make me laugh" is too far fetched. The problem is you will never be able to connect with this child because the AI is feeding it insanely obscure, highly specific videos that matches the neurons of the kid perfectly.
by sargstuff | 2025-05-19 04:29:43+00:00
IPv6 addresses are typically written in canonical text representation recommended by RFC 5952[0].

1) Regular expression / seamingly lost art of sprintf formatting are some methods to normalize 001:db8::2:1 to something usable for sorting aka 2001:db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002:0001. Perhaps restoring to rfc 5952 format when printing sorted results.

2) Modify hex to 'sortable utf-16 characters', modify back post sort[1]

3) avoid utf-8 / utf-16 issues, use relevant python libraries to handle ipv4/ipv6[2][3],[4]: ip2n < file | sort -n | n2ip

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[0] : https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5952

[1] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5797369/unix-sort-utilit...

[2] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75522231/how-to-sort-ipv...

[3] : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/convert-ip-address-to-integer-...

[4] : https://ipfind.com/blog/how-to-convert-ip-address-to-integer...
by adamcharnock | 2025-05-19 04:34:10+00:00
> A relation should be identified by a natural key that reflects the entity’s essential, domain-defined identity — not by arbitrary or surrogate values.

I fairly strongly disagree with this. Database identifiers have to serve a lot of purposes, and natural key almost certainly isn’t ideal. Off the top my head, IDs can be used for:

- Joins, lookups, indexes. Here data type can matter regarding performance and resource use.

- Idempotency. Allowing a client to generate IDs can be a big help here (ie UUIDs)

- Sharing. You may want to share a URL to something that requires the key, but not expose domain data (a URL to a user’s profile image shouldn’t expose their national ID).

There is not one solution that handles all of these well. But using natural keys is one of the least good options.

Also, we all know that stakeholders will absolutely swear that there will never be two people with the same national ID. Oh, except unless someone died, then we may reuse their ID. Oh, and sometimes this remote territory has duplicate IDs with the mainland. Oh, and for people born during that revolution 50 years ago, we just kinda had to make stuff up for them.

So ideally I’d put a unique index on the national ID column. But realistically, it would be no unique constraint and instead form validation + a warning on anytime someone opened a screen for a user with a non-unique ID.

Then maybe a BIGINT for database ID, and a UUID4/7 for exposing to the world.

EDIT: Actually, the article is proposing a new principle. And so perhaps this could indeed be a viable one. And my comment above would describe situations where it is valid to break the principle. But I also suspect that this is so rarely a good idea that it shouldn’t be the default choice.
by throwaway290 | 2025-05-19 04:34:52+00:00
If the solution means hardware DRM vendor must know your legal family tree, I'm out;)

But seriously in ideal world

- subscription offers like adobe will be outcompeted by better one-time sale indie software

This aint happening unless indie devs can reliably make enough money and are protected

- indie dev can open source their stuff in case they quit the business/retire (unless their kids take over and keep billing api working) or for people who can't afford it.

Projects did it because you couldn't just take someone's xcode project and publish it. But now with now alt stores you can

So yeah Epic push for alt stores kills both of the above, all because they want to shave a cent more from each microtransaction they lure your kids into
by somenameforme | 2025-05-19 04:36:31+00:00
Burn out and body damage from trades is not really factually based, especially not compared to something like software. You can actually quantify this. For instance the median age of a construction worker is 42. [1] In some states it's pushing near 50.

By contrast in software there is extreme defacto age discrimination. I don't think it's usually real age discrimination but simply companies don't really value experience in software much, and so somebody with many years years of experience is often seen as less desirable than somebody with little to no experience, but who you can pay a far lesser wage to. Whatever the reason, the point is that software is, for most, going to be a relatively short-lived career.

I can't find a good source for the data on the age of developers, though there are a million blog style or Q/A posts bemoaning the increasing difficultly finding a job as developers age. The Stack Overflow survey [2] is probably not representative, but matches observation at least, with a median age in the younger side of the 25-34 bracket. And that brief window of time you have in software is after you [typically] spend 4 years in college, and then spend however many years paying off your college debt before you finally get to enjoy your full salary.

And obviously I am speaking big picture here. There are people who have a catastrophic injury in the trades and live the rest of their life on disability from age 22. And there are software developers still coding at 50. But these are rare exceptions, and not the rule in either case.

[1] - https://www.nahb.org/blog/2023/06/age-of-construction-workfo...

[2] - https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/developer-profile#demog...
by wodenokoto | 2025-05-19 04:36:47+00:00
I think it’s important to note that the original SRS algorithms are not for learning. They or for remembering or “not forgetting”.

The system assumes you have already learned the fact (for some unclear to me definition of learned)

Most users inserts new words in the hope that repeating them in anki will help them learn. It does to some extend, but it is not quite the right tool.

So for example, in Japanese, simply remembering how to read a word out loud is a task in and of itself. If you put words in context (which in language learning makes sense) the learner will quickly start to recall the meaning of the word based on the look of a sentence.

For a learning system this open up a lot of issues to solve. The best attempt I’ve seen was a web app that gave you full sentences and you clicked the characters word you didn’t understand and based on that it would give you different sentences.

There are two problems with that website: I don’t remember what it was called and it used google translate from 10 years ago. The second could be improved by expanding the corpus and use LLM to form sentences for the learner.
by Guestmodinfo | 2025-05-19 04:37:43+00:00
I have personally used LinkedIn and naukri.com but linked serves too much job spam. I'm applying to same companies again n again and no way to remove the job postings i don't like. Linkdin is a job spammer i feel. Naukri.com I haven't used for ages. I like your job aggregator because I can go to each company through your portal and then keep track where all I have applied to. Just don't become a job spammer. Be you. I'm an online tutor looking to transition to SWE or maybe getting more tutoring roles and I see urbanpro.com which is a student aggregator for tutors offers their services at 10k rupees that's why I feel that 20k rupees anyone can give if you only offer more n more companies willing to pay in rupees and 0-2 years of experience.

I have sent your aggregator to one SWE friend who has recently gotten a job and always seeks remote work. He said he feels underqualified for all the job postings. So if you can include jobs that don't have such daunting expectations then you can mint a lot of money in India
by pjmlp | 2025-05-19 04:38:18+00:00
Might be, but then don't expect any language runtime, or compiler toolchain, that is written in C++ to be taking pull requests written in Rust anytime soon, including Rust own compilers, the GCC ongoing support effort even more so, and that was my whole point.

Regardless of how easier it is to make mistakes in C++ versus Rust.
by madduci | 2025-05-19 04:40:36+00:00
Many of the principles and also the example provided for PED cannot be mapped easily through an ORM library and AFAIK Java JPA doesn't handle it too.

Why does it matter? I have seen that many developers rely totally only on the code to manage entities on the database, instead of relying on prepared statements and pure SQL queries. This obviously opens a door for poor optimisation, since these Entity Management libraries don't support certain SQL capabilities.