MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Orange1688 | 2025-06-02 13:58:21+00:00
I used to read paperbacks a lot. Now, I almost exclusively read on my Boox Tab Ultra, which I got used for ~300€. It's rather expensive when compared to regular eInk devices, but I feel that it is worth it for me to be able to take notes in the margin with the physical pencil that comes with it - just as I used to do in physical books.

That being said, given that high quality eInk readers can last for many years, it has come out cheaper for me to get this rather expensive device when factoring in the price of ebooks vs physical books. Also, I read a lot of literature in the public domain, which is of course entirely free to download.

If you read frequently, get a reader.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-02 13:59:24+00:00
Unless they are executable and part of the language tooling like SPARK, Dafny and co, I see little value coding an abstract model, that might be validated in theory, but hardly anyone will be able to cross-check if the manually written language ZYX code actually maps to the validated model.

And then there are the code changes, which most likely devs aren't going back to the formal model to validate them, before applying the new set of changes.
by keiferski | 2025-06-02 13:59:37+00:00
It’s not that you’re completely wrong or anything here, but the simple counter example of other unique directors that also progressed / changed their style over time kind of disproves the idea that this is some inherent aspect of filmmaking.

And certainly I’m glad he’s making movies and I enjoy them (as I said in the initial comment.) That doesn’t mean I need to celebrate every single thing he does and refrain from film criticism.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-02 13:59:39+00:00
> In the generous interpretation of 'middle'. Ukrainian reports tend to be a lot closer to the truth than Russian reports, but they do still have some bias

Sure. But the solution isn't to interpolate Russian and Ukraininan claims, as the former have been proven time and again to be complete fabrications. Instead, a good M.O. is to take Ukraininan claims with a grain of salt until corroborated by either open-source or third-party analysis.
by madcaptenor | 2025-06-02 14:00:06+00:00
Since 3 dB is so nearly 2.0, you can derive that series by taking small powers of two, say from 2^(-4) to 2^5 or 2^6:

0.0625, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, (64)

and then multiplying everything by factors of 10 to get it between 0 and 10:

1, 1.25, 1.6, 2, 2.5, 3.2, 4, 5, 6.25 (or 6.4), 8
by incomingpain | 2025-06-02 14:00:06+00:00
>where conservative advocates maintain it suppresses free speech and censors right-wing content—something professional fact-checkers vehemently reject.

Definitely proven to be occurring.

>The quality and accuracy of AI chatbots can vary, depending on how they are trained and programmed, prompting concerns that their output may be subject to political influence or control.

https://www.trackingai.org/political-test

The political bias by AI seems rather left wing. Bing copilot is shockingly far left. I conclude the misinformation will be thus biased.

Grok is mentioned 10 times in the article. Yet it's one of the least biased. Perhaps the article should have been done against bing copilot?

All of these AI combined probably produce a billion fact checks a day, they will get some wrong.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-06-02 14:00:18+00:00
As long as I can remember there have been 3 lines in “Show Original”: SPF, DKIM, DMRARC.

Google does have newish (early 2024) policy regarding messages purporting to be from domains which lack a DMARC policy statement. But this is about mail delivery, not the Show Original UI feature. It’s possible they have been only slowly ramping up implementation or perhaps your domain was previously under the threshold but is now over.

https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentica...
by thechao | 2025-06-02 14:01:15+00:00
I'll double-reply, since I think people might also appreciate this... there's a pretty easy way to find the square of 2-leading-digit numbers (and square-roots, too.)

Direct square: 54^2 = (50 + 4)^2 = 2500 + 2 * 50 * 4 + 4^2.

Direct square-root: 3800 = (61^2=3721) + r ~ (61 + (3800-3721)/(2*61) = 61 + 79/122. To check: (61 + 79/122)^2= 3,800.419. You can estimate the "overhead" by noting that 79/122 ~ 2/3 => (2/3)^2 = 0.444.

Of course, my grandfather would've just used a slide-rule directly.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-06-02 14:01:23+00:00
Completely false about personal projects. The median github repo was crap long before genai. The superstar open source libraries often have high quality, but it is a steep cliff after that. Anybody can push to pypi or npm and I've seen so much crap there too that I was tempted to install after a search, until I looked into the code. That's what genai is trained on.
by elif | 2025-06-02 14:01:24+00:00
Yes this. Tennenbaums and Zisou were still primarily narrative fiction which allowed the actors to really be the spotlight, which let the characters really come alive.

In Budapest, French and Asteroid it felt increasingly like the actors were too confined to fulfilling an aesthetic for them to come alive or for the actors to shine.

Apologies in advance for sounding controversially critical, I can't help but be reminded of AI art where its trying so hard to look a way that it stops being something you want to look at.
by BearOso | 2025-06-02 14:01:31+00:00
You refer to it as Wolverine syndrome, but I also remember it with TMNT and Leonardo. With the cartoon version, they made all the foot clan robots to get around it. It's also quite the shock to read the original comics and find out the turtles love beer, and Leonardo stabs and kills the shredder (permanently) in something like the first issue.
by devilbunny | 2025-06-02 14:01:59+00:00
YMMV. My wife used at least five Kindle second-gen devices. Every one of them failed, all but the last one under warranty.

Both our Kindle third-gen devices are still chugging along happily. We only use them for reading outside - indoors, we both use tablets. But in sunlight, you need that e-Ink.
by esskay | 2025-06-02 14:02:03+00:00
For the UK the Kindle's still the cheapest option at the moment.

Mine was £94 here: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4079659

Searching around for the pocketbook it's not sold in the UK but on their German store the cheapest model looks to be the 'Basic Lux 4 Ink Black' for €109 so seems the most price comparable.

The Kobo is more expensive though, the cheapest model is the Clara black & white edition and costs £129.99, at which point you may as well get a Kindle Paperwhite kids* as those are only £10 more.

*All kindle kids editions are the same as the non-kid versions, but come with a case, charger and extended warranty, there are no hardware or firmware differences.
by mtalantikite | 2025-06-02 14:02:10+00:00
I mean hey, if you want to walk around like that by all means. Maybe it's my ancestral Muslim side coming out, but I just feel dirty without cleaning myself afterwards.

Also, the water isn't that cold, even in the dead of winter here in the north east. And if you can't aim from that close I'm not sure what to tell you!
by sabslikesobs | 2025-06-02 14:02:13+00:00
Great little to-the-point writeup. Thanks! This is helpful for me choosing my own small-scale stack, which I've been having trouble with lately.

One major difference is that I'm currently hosting a bunch of very small apps off the same hetzner box just by myself, and I'm using Docker Compose instead of something like Hatchbox (or another bring-your-own-PaaS like Coolify or Dokploy, which are both less specific than Hatchbox). I'm not running any production-level apps, though; maybe Hatchbox would provide better stability/teamwork?
by jcranmer | 2025-06-02 14:02:27+00:00
There is no solution, much less one that is portable across different Unixen.

The core problem is that, because of the ability of filesystems to effectively contain other filesystems within them, the number of bits to uniquely identify a file within a filesystem is not a constant number across different filesystem types. It's a harder problem on Linux because Linux is also full of filesystems that aren't really filesystems, where trying to come up with a persistent, unique identifier for people to use is a lot more bother than it's really worth.
by Zak | 2025-06-02 14:02:30+00:00
That's not an entirely unreasonable take, though sideloading apps is still fully available on Google-approved Android and it is not on iOS.

I only have one or two apps I actually want to use that required a SafetyNet bypass. I don't think it's people like us Google is targeting with that though; the main goal as it seems to me is to ensure an OEM won't be successful marketing a phone that funnels less money to Google.
by tyrellj | 2025-06-02 14:02:36+00:00
I got lost in the weeds following links for a bit. Had not heard of LFSR before, which I think is odd, and then onto some other things like Subleq and OISC. I've at least seen other OISCs before, it might have even come up on hn around x86 mov, I'm not sure. I really regret not taking more hardware/electronics courses in college.
by hermannj314 | 2025-06-02 14:02:50+00:00
I guess the point is that the ~slaves~ paid laborers that built the pyramids were "useful", but the people that told them what shape to build were "valued"?

Tools are useful but ultimately can be thrown in the trash. Valuable things must be preserved and treated with respect. Strategic thinkers and VCs are treasured, but workers and ICs are dispensable.

This is just a lot of words to imply a moral hierarchy around social class.
by donatj | 2025-06-02 14:03:14+00:00
Back in I want to say around 2012, maybe earlier I got some sort of eReader for super cheap, less than $30. As I recall it had some sort of non-backlit color LCD, similar to the GBA but easier to see. It was ok in direct sunlight but not great.

It was exceedingly incapable. Could only open a very limited number of formats if I recall, laid them out very poorly. I'd wanted to try to convert my collection of CBZ comics into some format it's color screen could display, but there was no way without intensive manual editing to make them readable on its roughly 4 inch screen.

Insanely slow and most of all unpleasant to use. I used it a handful of times before it went in a cabinet. Years later I threw it out, I almost always try to resell things or give them away, but I genuinely didn't think it was worth anyone's time.

My ideal device for reading disappears in my hand, and that is something that my kindles achieve. I have never seen a cheap eReader that can achieve this. I've heard good things about the Kobo devices but I've never used one.

Update: I found the order and it was a Kobo ER430 and I got it for $19.99 on Woot. Well I hope Kobo has improved! They'd almost have to.
by vel0city | 2025-06-02 14:03:23+00:00
What I'm talking about is a lot of those terminals supported tap to pay well before Apple Pay became a thing. The infrastructure was there, the technology was there, you could use it if you cared to do so. Most people just didn't know it was even an option. Google Wallet supported tap to pay years before Apple Pay was even announced. Tap to pay credit cards existed years before then. Nobody gave a shit about the technology until Apple announced Apple Pay and suddenly it became a big deal for vendors to actually check if their POS systems had it enabled or not.

I remember using Google Wallet years before Apple pay existed. When Apple Pay was announced so many cashiers thought they didn't support tap to pay credit card transactions despite me using it at those locations for years. What was really annoying was a lot of vendors turned off the feature while they "investigated" supporting Apple Pay, and didn't turn it back on for another year or so after they slapped the Apple Pay logo on the exact same terminals.

Nobody cared until Apple did it.
Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog?
by nelsonfigueroa | 2025-06-02 14:03:32+00:00
Hi HN. There was a thread a couple of years ago where people shared their personal blogs and I really enjoyed it. I haven't seen a thread like that since. This is the one I'm talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081. Could we do something like that again?

I'll start with mine: https://nelson.cloud

I also want to share some of my favorite blogs:

- https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/

- https://crankysec.com/

- https://ludic.mataroa.blog/

- https://jvns.ca/

- https://xeiaso.net/

- https://coryd.dev/

- https://ntietz.com/blog/

And here are some resources I use to discover new blogs:

- https://indieblog.page/

- https://minifeed.net/welcome

- https://theforest.link/

- https://blogs.hn/

- https://ooh.directory/

- https://personalsit.es/

- http://biglist.terraaeon.com/

- https://250kb.club/

- https://512kb.club

- https://1mb.club
by weinzierl | 2025-06-02 14:03:50+00:00
These posts always fill me with strange mixed feelings.

As someone who grew up in the country without even access to a library, the monthly computer mag was my only source of info and my escape from the world I was in. So there certainly is a good deal of positive nostalgia and sadness.

On the other hand it feels kind of outlandish that some of these magazines survived until this day. The last time I bought a mag was probably more than a quarter of a century ago
by pksebben | 2025-06-02 14:04:20+00:00
This reminds me of the story of Frank Lorenzo, union-busting airline exec who effectively fabricated the story of how airlines were all "struggling" as businesses to force government support of anti-union practices. It's a bit of a tangent, but the talk page on his wikipedia is one of the more fascinating fights between editors and paper doll accounts I've ever seen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_Lorenzo
by doix | 2025-06-02 14:04:33+00:00
I try to spend around 500-1.5k USD on renting a place to live in, depends on the country I'm in. Around 200-500 USD on food for two people (again depends where we are). Anywhere between 0 and 500+ USD on "activities" - ski lift passes, hiring a car, permits to go hiking, access to tourist sites, etc.

Every 2-4 months, I spend some money to go to the next country, could be anywhere from $20 for a bus to $700 for long distance flights.

I don't really buy things anymore, I have everything "I need" for a comfortable life, anything more at this point would just be annoying, I only buy to replace. I buy new shoes every 1-2 years and usually for $200+. I think nice shoes are worth it.

> What things would you like to do or have but can't because you don't have the money?

I think I would need an insane amount of money to make meaningful differences in my life. My partner has a "weak" passport, so being rich enough to "buy" one for her would be nice. Other than that, being able to buy a house or getting a pilots license would be nice.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-02 14:05:06+00:00
> loss of awacs can be compensated with satellite and drones. its no big deal

One can compensate for the loss of AWACS with satellites and low-flying drones in the way one can compensate for a sprained ankle with crutches. See the recent Pakistan-India skirmish, which Pakistan appears to have won on account of sensor fusion powered by its AWACS.
by tingle | 2025-06-02 14:05:42+00:00
Chap. CCCLXIV. — On the Judgment of Painters.

When the work is equal to the knowledge and judgment of the painter, it is a bad sign; and when it surpasses the judgment, it is still worse, as is the case with those who wonder at having succeeded so well. But when the judgment surpasses the work, it is a perfectly good sign ; and the young painter who possesses that rare disposition, will, no doubt, arrive at great perfection. He will produce few works, but they will be such as to fix the admiration of every beholder.

Leonardo da Vinci, "A Treatise on Painting.", p. 225

https://archive.org/details/davincionpainting00leon/page/224...
by setgree | 2025-06-02 14:05:58+00:00
I'm in Kensington with two roommates in an old house. It's definitely a great deal but if you are willing to live with roommates in a somewhat uncool area, similar deals are definitely possible: https://streeteasy.com/for-rent/nyc/price:3000-4000%7Carea:3...

For instance, here's $3500 for a 4 bedroom/1.5 bath that's on a quiet street but near a lout one https://streeteasy.com/building/171-east-8-street-brooklyn/3...
by pjc50 | 2025-06-02 14:06:04+00:00
> public education system and public library network

Public libraries do pay reader royalties.

I don't know, I've been on the side of weaker copyright; Aaron Schwartz was driven to suicide, sci-hub is one of the most blocked sites on the Internet. But now it turns out that IP is simply a matter of power. There isn't really a difference between sci-hub / libgen and the scraped training databases other than having money, which suddenly means the rules don't apply.
by greedo | 2025-06-02 14:06:08+00:00
It's much, much more collaborative than that. The role of a producer can be limited to managing the financial side of the production. Or they can be involved with coordinating the production itself. The director has the most say over what is shot, how it's edited, what the score should be like. A good producer can help make a film excellent, but if you have a bad director, or the "wrong" director, then nothing the producer does will fix that issue.

Of course there are also Executive producers who are far far up the financial food chain of a movie, and sometimes these titles are also just vanity plates for the production.

As an example of the value of a good/great producer, look at Gary Kurtz. He was essential for both Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, but wasn't part of the team for Return of the Jedi. In my opinion, that's one of the reasons that ROTJ is the worst of the three films. Lucas didn't have someone pushing back against his worse tendencies.

For an example of the wrong director, look no further than Rogue One. While it's very difficult to sus out what was wrong with Gareth Edwards directing, Tony Gilroy was brought in to fix the film. Both are appropriately quiet about what the changes were, what was re-shot (simple professional courtesy), but the result is a film that (while I love it) is just slightly off.
by fusionadvocate | 2025-06-02 14:06:19+00:00
Robotics is more accessible than ever. The tech is here to build almost anything you want. Dream big! We can now buy cameras for a couple dollars, microphone arrays, sensors, motors and drivers. 3D printers are everywhere, stock components also available.

Or 'manage your expectations', download ROS and build another mediocre turtle bot powered by some Nvidia Teraflop chip (if they allow you to boot their sdk), and spend a year learning "abstractions" defined by other people for other projects.
by chasd00 | 2025-06-02 14:06:49+00:00
Most of my money is spent on mortgage, property tax, electricity and then food (including eating out). I’m married with two teenage boys so food is a decent chunk of change. Money left over is spent on family vacations in the summer, savings for college and retirement, and extracurricular things for the boys like piano, boxing lessons, and GPUs (heh my youngest has expensive taste in hardware). I have a couple hobbies, high power rocketry and competitive pistol shooting, that consume maybe $200/month on average.

I don’t really spend a lot of money on “things” per se. Mostly tools, materials, and other consumables for my hobbies.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-06-02 14:07:06+00:00
My point is that the IP is also valuable. So why aren't the owners of the IP taking that IP and leveraging it into valuable properties on other media? I can only think of a tiny number of examples where this happened.

This wouldn't even require them to give up their YouTube streaming business, because it's not like YouTube is forcing creators to sign exclusive streaming deals (are they?)
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-02 14:07:07+00:00
Can’t speak for others but the bizarre Android fork Fires run is a big part of what makes me rule them out.

That, and I have an Android tablet that was ~$250 when new that has various aspects about it that are somewhere between awful and underwhelming, and I can’t imagine a $30 Fire tablet to be any better in that regard, subsidized or not. That said my tolerance for electronics being bad in any capacity I feel on a day to day basis is low.
by t55 | 2025-06-02 14:07:36+00:00
yeah, RLVR is still nascent and hence there's lots of noise.

> How can these spurious rewards possibly work? Can we get similar gains on other models with broken rewards?

it's because in those cases, RLVR merely elicits the reasoning strategies already contained in the model through pre-training

this paper, which uses Reasoning gym, shows that you need to train for way longer than those papers you mentioned to actually uncover novel reasoning strategies: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24864
by sfmike | 2025-06-02 14:08:11+00:00
trello has gotten worse and worse actually could charge for features like n8n and more extensibility. Its gotten the opposite of kanban and zen where I just want clean cards it forces weird views and panels and overlays and difficult to find boards now it wants you to switch to other atlassian products from trello as a priority on the left over just trello unfortunately its the classic indie product amazing then eaten by Private equity until just crumbs are left and its just an acquisition vehicle until it turns rotten and shut down as a cost saver.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-06-02 14:08:13+00:00
> The article said that it handles drops of internet connections fine.

I ... don't think it does? It states the exact opposite at least twice:

> Just because you have a presentation open and loaded, doesn’t mean you can present it. If you are offline when you actually click Present, it will barf.

> Once you are presenting, you can click to “download” the presentation to be available offline – but be careful not to close the tab or it will undownload!
by HelloMcFly | 2025-06-02 14:08:45+00:00
I think your “simple counter” might be a bit reductive. Artistic evolution can take many forms, but it doesn’t have to take every form, not every distinctive filmmaker needs to reinvent every aspect of their art to demonstrate creative growth.

My point wasn’t that Anderson should be exempt from criticism, just that his growth may register differently because of the kind of storytelling he’s committed to. The evolution in his work often plays out less in surface-level aesthetics and more in structure, emotional depth, and thematic complexity. He clearly enjoys working within a consistent visual language, but that doesn’t mean he’s artistically “stuck”. Critique is always valid, and I think it’s also worth asking whether we’re tuned into the kinds of shifts that matter most in his particular creative vocabulary.