MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by water-data-dude | 2025-06-30 05:04:53+00:00
I loved my SanDisk Sansa. It had a specific category for audiobooks, and there were a lot of quality of life things - features that wouldn’t matter when you were listening to songs but that made listening to books on tape way better.

- If you held the fast forward button it would slowly increase the speed it fast forwarded. Not something that matters with a 2 minute song, but it really matters with an hour long audiobook section.

- If you went to listen to something else but then you came back to the audiobook, it would open with the section you’d been listening to highlighted, and if you selected it it would pick up where you’d left off. If you accidentally skipped forward you could back out, move back to the previous section, and it’d do the same thing - starting where you’d been.

- On top of that, you could add more storage with microSD cards!
by danpalmer | 2025-06-30 05:05:35+00:00
This may be their thinking, but if so I feel that would be down to bad training.

In my experience the Apple TV skews hard towards those who have a lot of Apple products. It's priced far higher than the rest of that market. Most people buying an iPhone are buying a Fire stick or a cheap smart TV. I'd bet most people buying an Apple TV have an iPhone and a Mac.

It would be like going into a Burberry store and shopping for replacement buttons for your $3000 coat.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-30 05:05:36+00:00
I'll run ESXi 7 Enterprise Plus on a 2x 7402 96 thread, 512 GiB lights-out manageable system with 16 TiB of SSD and 140 TiB of HDD (in a 4U JBOD dual path SAS enclosure) at home until the wheels fall off. Attached UPSes have environmental monitoring including temperature and humidity.
by andsoitis | 2025-06-30 05:06:22+00:00
> Cancer treatment is largely useless

Cancer treatment effectiveness has improved substantially, with many treatments now achieving high cure rates or significantly extending survival.

Highly effective treatments:

Surgery remains the most curative treatment when cancer is localized and can be completely removed. Complete surgical resection often leads to cure for early-stage solid tumors.

Chemotherapy can be curative for several cancers, particularly blood cancers like leukemias and lymphomas. Some testicular cancers and certain pediatric cancers also respond extremely well to chemotherapy alone.

Radiation therapy achieves excellent local control and can be curative, especially when combined with surgery or chemotherapy. It’s particularly effective for head and neck cancers, early-stage lung cancers, and certain brain tumors.

Revolutionary newer treatments:

Immunotherapy has transformed outcomes for melanoma, lung cancer, kidney cancer, and others. Some patients with advanced disease achieve long-term remissions that were previously impossible.

Targeted therapies work exceptionally well when tumors have specific genetic mutations. Examples include imatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia (transforming a fatal disease into a manageable condition) and HER2-targeted drugs for breast cancer.

CAR-T cell therapy has achieved remarkable results in certain blood cancers that failed other treatments, with some patients achieving complete remissions.

Combination approaches:

Modern treatment often combines multiple modalities - surgery plus chemotherapy plus radiation, or immunotherapy plus targeted therapy. These combinations frequently outperform single treatments.

Current limitations:

Some cancers like glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer still have limited treatment options, though research continues. Metastatic disease remains challenging, though increasingly manageable as a chronic condition rather than immediately fatal.
by edanm | 2025-06-30 05:06:28+00:00
> The source is one of the biggest Israeli newspapers, by the way.

I think that's a bit misleading. Per Wikipedia, it has a ~5% readership, as opposed to the bigger papers that have a ~22% readership. It is one of the older and most established papers though, that is true.

Anecdotally, I don't think Haaretz is very widely read among the "average" populace, though I think it has a lot of cachet in intellectual (and of course Leftist) circles.
by a-dub | 2025-06-30 05:06:59+00:00
i thought all the cool data driven robotics stuff was like reinforcement learning from sensors that track moving effectors in the real world with online retraining that mimics the sensorimotor experimentation that is observed during the developmental phases of real neurobiological systems?

so you just kinda let it run for a while and it bumps and squirms around until it stands up or whatever.

seems also the future for real ai?
by HaZeust | 2025-06-30 05:07:19+00:00
Well, with that in mind, have you noticed the problems you speak about going down in life? Was I right about the core of what a social problem is - and how it can be fixed?

You're 100% correct to talk about your criticisms still, but you read as if it was still a problem in your everyday life, so I gave a suggestion more apt to that scenario. It didn't translate well, I apologize!
by hx8 | 2025-06-30 05:09:14+00:00
Except mechanical watches fail all the time. The sapphire glass shatters, or a strong impact disrupts the movement, or a user doesn't screw down the crown and water enters the device. They require expensive regular services.

Rolex has a long history of being a tool watch, and mechanical watches can be used in a lot of neat ways, but I would never want to depend on one in a life or death situation without fully understanding a backup plan.
by masklinn | 2025-06-30 05:09:31+00:00
> You could argue the same thing (forcing kwargs) for all Python functions/methods, although, that would make using your APIs very annoying. The `__init__` method for dataclasses are just another method like any other.

While that is self evident at a technical level, it is not quite so from a clarity / documentary perspective: “normal” functions and methods can often hint at their parameters through their naming but it is uncommon for types, for which the composite tends to be much more of an implementation detail.

Of course neither rule is universal e.g. the composite is of prime importance for newtypes, and indeed they often use tuple-style types or have special support with no member names.
by ArneVogel | 2025-06-30 05:10:24+00:00
Hej, I made FisherLoop[1] to learn Swedish. FisherLoop are interactive audiobooks where I use TTS with word level timestamps to highlight the words as they are spoken. This helps me pick up on pronounciation and grammar in a, for me, natural way. Additionally, I added flashcards from the books + word lookup. I am adding new books right now. If you have any requests: public domain books, which are around one hour reading time let me know :)

I am using cerebras for book translations and verb extraction and all LLM related tasks. For TTS I am using cartesia. I have played around with Elevenlabs and they have slightly natural sounding TTS but their pricing is too steep for this project. Books would cost a couple of hundred euros to process.

[1] https://www.fisherloop.com/en/
by vishu42 | 2025-06-30 05:12:28+00:00
Hey guys, I can't stop thinking about this idea. So I have 6 years of exp as cloud and devops engineer which means I have spent a lot of time doing ci/cd and stuff. And ci/cd usually runs on cloud which has a cost associated with it. Now i was thinking what if company can utilize the compute of the machines they give to employees to carry out such tasks like ci/cd. Simply put, companies should be able to run ci/cd on employees machines and reduce their spendings. WDYT? if anyone interested we can work on it together.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-30 05:12:33+00:00
What I have said is that for this kind of home users external HDDs are obviously the right solution as long as the total amount of stored data is not much more than 100 TB.

For some threshold in the hundreds of TB range, magnetic tapes become cheaper, despite the huge price of a tape drive, while offering additional advantages, e.g. higher sequential reading and writing speeds and higher reliability.

Moreover, when computing the size of the stored data, one should take into account that the useful data size, after data compression, should be multiplied with 1.05 or 1.10, because you should add redundancy with a code able to reconstruct the data when only a small part of it is corrupted, then you should multiply by 2 or by 3, because any long-term archives must be stored as duplicated or even triplicated on different HDDs or tape cartridges, which are preferably kept at different geographical locations.

Only with such precautions you can be pretty certain that no data loss will occur after many years of data storage, reaching a reliability comparable with that of printed paper.
by eastbound | 2025-06-30 05:12:39+00:00
There is a sociologic experiment to do with “The revolution eats its children”.

For as long as I’ve seen Bill Gates donate to all causes that would please the most leftist proponents, the only reaction I’ve seen was indifference/hate.

It’s a sociological reality: Nothing pleases a mob. On one side, leftist characters always end up in a situation where they were not left enough, which, in revolutionary environments, justifies their termination. In France when the left was elected the president was described as “a capitalist, simping for billionaires”. On the other side, if you are rich and perform acts promoted by leftism, such as donating your entire salary, increasing your employees by 30% a year, or like Bill Gates, donating your entire wealth for the world’s hunger and health before your death, your actions are construed as malevolent, probably there’s a “get rich” scheme behind it for Bill Gates, or probably “you had to treat your employees bad if you had to increase their salary.”

For a good person, there is no winning. But we have countless counterexamples of bad people liked by the same population. A lot, lot, lot of people reach this conclusion by their 40ies. After all, it’s not “spine” that people should have, but just mutual love, including some from the bottom to the top.

And perhaps it explains the current trends.
by geoctl | 2025-06-30 05:13:42+00:00
Thank you really for your kind comment. Most of the links regarding how Octelium works, the quick management and installation guides, the examples (e.g. API/AI/MCP gateways, etc...) were actually included in the README itself. However, most of the criticism was supposedly coming from the terms used in the README. I was already assuming that the users are somewhat familiar with zero trust and zero trust architectures. Maybe that was the problem.
by intended | 2025-06-30 05:13:43+00:00
>why does government have to be involved.

>Taxes

If you have taxes, you already have a system which redistributes wealth to places that society requires, so government is already involved.

So the question becomes how the government is involved.

In any system with competing interests, a no holds barred contest favors the most willing to maximize their advantages. Wealth even concentrates even in video games.

To ensure a system where there is some degree of fairness between humans, to ensure that your position in society is not locked in to your inherited fate, or even to ensure that fewer taxes are taken from workers, you need the power of a shared government.

Also: The American position is usually to have no trust in government, which is encouraged by having a right wing media sphere that is dedicated to inserting as much distrust into the system as possible.

So by default in an American context, it’s hard to conceive of a government with high trust, and the default is to never give money to it.
by Volundr | 2025-06-30 05:13:52+00:00
I see the mindset you describe and I think it also hurts the ability to get feedback. People who don't feel strongly enough to want to be a roadblock if everyone else agrees will tend to silence themselves. Multiply this by the whole team and you get proposal -> crickets -> "if there are no objections I guess we move forward?", even though the whole team actually has reservations.

If there's someone on the team who really truly vehemently disagrees with a direction, the team would be well advised to give serious consideration before overriding that veto, but for normal soft-disagrement we really should normalize the idea that we don't need unanimity to more forward.

You'll never convince me spaces are better than tabs, but I consent to using them anyway.
by maxglute | 2025-06-30 05:14:41+00:00
AFAIK JP doesn't trawl, they're big on transhipment, i.e. PRC, TW, SKR, Spain does stuff off Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and there's shadiness with moving haul to JP transhipment reefers (big fridge boat) i.e. offload catch so they can fish in region longer, JP basically launders, they're part of the IUU ecosystem. Also trawling all the way over in Ecuador / Peru reports are basically weasle words for saying mostly legimitately fishing in international waterx - the reports will have most DWF ships just outside of EEZ, and small % of which may pop in with AIS drama, because there's always going to be bad apples.

Bad apples usually measured by AIS disabling events... in which case, pre US propaganda drive against PRC I think worst culprits (highest proportion of ships/time) was Spain, something like 15% of activity obscured, then US with high single digits, then TW, slightly higher than PRC, I think 5%. US gets a pass because it's mostly in North West Atlantic aka, US backyard... which well, US just has a big ass EEZ backyard vs PRC has essentially smallest EEZ relative to country size, so PRC _has_ to fish on commons/highseas/international waters (including near countries EEZs where the catch is). Not much info on JP or SKR except SKR is in all the places PRC/TW/SP is in, and have all the shady forced labour issues, so hard to believe they don't also have AIS misbehavior. IIRC some other interesting tidbits is AIS disabling behaviour also sorted by ship type... and the types of ships that have worst/longest AIS disabling are tuna longliner... implicating JP.

But the otherwise TLDR is ever since US thinktanks decided to hammer PRC IUU to the exclusin of everyone else (read US allies/partners), PRC DWF somehow grew 10x and AIS behavior exploded... but even then it's dumb shit like PRC is 80% of fleet off XYZ country EEZ but responsible for 90% of AIS anomolies, i.e. marginally worse.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-30 05:15:37+00:00
> EU offers up to 10k EUR subvention for electric cars and with that in mind you can get something like BYD Dolphin for slighly less than 20k EUR. Which is mind blowing.

BYD Dolphin? MSRP for that car where I am is at 2.99m JPY(17k EUR, 20k USD). You guys are getting screwed.
by andrewrn | 2025-06-30 05:15:50+00:00
I am working on a tool that lets you create data visualizations with prompts.

When I was in college I really hated searching through all the excel and google docs menus to add trendline, change colors, gridlines, etc (and sadly I didn't have the agency to learn matplotlib or seaborn). I figure others might hate this too, and it would be so cool to have csv + prompt -> exportable svg chart
by marifjeren | 2025-06-30 05:16:35+00:00
Here is some unsolicited advice on clarity.

Pick one or two descriptive phrases per subject. If you need more sentences, that's okay.

For example:

> Octelium, as described more in detail in the repo's README, is simply an open source, self-hosted, unified platform for zero trust resource access that is primarily meant to be a modern alternative to corporate VPNs and remote access tools.

->

"At its core, Octelium is a modern alternative to VPNs. Unlike traditional VPNs, it assumes a zero trust security model. Octelium is open source and built to be self-hosted. The README describes many other use cases and features."
by astrange | 2025-06-30 05:17:27+00:00
Still do. The $10 USB-C dongle is better than many audiophile DACs. After all, it has a bigger R&D budget than the entire industry.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...

The trick here is that people just think whichever one is loudest sounds best. The iPod might be able to drive high-impedance headphones better than a phone too, since the phone is pretty limited there. You can always get an amp.
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-06-30 05:17:57+00:00
Thank you - glad you liked it and thanks for sharing your impressions and feedback; helps me understand what the users like.

> Dunno about the trigrams though, mostly it's on the "token group" level for me - either the upcoming lookahead feels familiar or it doesn't, and I don't much get bothered by the specific letters as much as "oh I don't have muscle memory on that word, and it's sadly nestled between two easy words, so it's going to be a patchy bit of alternating speed".

Could you elaborate a bit on this part - not sure I fully follow.

The trigrams/bigrams is mostly to help the user discover if there are some patterns that really slow them down or have a lot of mistakes. This is something I wanted that I didn’t see in any other apps.

This also what we use under the hood for SmartPractice weak point identification. We look at what the most relevant character sequences (for example the ta sequence is way more common than za) are and what the user struggles with the most. This is just one of the weak points we use in the user weakness profile.
by toast0 | 2025-06-30 05:18:36+00:00
> Seriously, I understand the difficulties of batteries and such with EV's and that's likely part of why the Slate is designed this way.

In 2000, Ford had an EV Ranger, and Chevy had an EV S-10. Neither with great range, of course. It should be easier to do with modern batteries. Attach the batteries to the frame under the bed, put the bed on top, all engineering problems solved.
by adityaathalye | 2025-06-30 05:18:36+00:00
1. A general-purpose Bitemporal Data Schema using SQLite (for storage) and Clojure (for data processing).

I'm trying to see if I can "get away with it": no schema migration, no fixed views, one tenant per DB, local-first-friendliness.

The general approach is "Datomic meets XTDB meets redplanetlabs/Rama meets Local First". Conceptually, the lynchpin "WORLD FACTs" table looks like this:

| tx_id | valid_id | tx_t | valid_t | origin_t | entity | attribute | value | assert | namespace | user | role | |--------+----------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------+-------+--------+---------------+------+------| | uuidv7 | uuidv7 | unix ms | unix ms | uuid7 | adi | problems | sql | 1 | org.evalapply | adi | boss |

2. "Writing for Nerds"

A workshop I've been experimenting with, using willing friends as guinea pigs. To help people remove friction from being able to "spool brain to disk". The sales-y part is here, with more context / explanation about what it is about and what it is not about: https://www.evalapply.org/index.html#writing-for-nerds
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-30 05:19:05+00:00
> America seems to be suffering the same fate

Not uniformly. New York's LIRR (90 to 95% [1]) and Metro-North (99% [2]) feature on-time rates that rival the Swiss (93% [3]).

[1] https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/pdf/report-9-2025.pdf

[2] https://wpdh.com/metro-north-on-time-reliability/

[3] https://reporting.sbb.ch/punctuality?=&years=1,4,5,6,7&scrol...
by dheera | 2025-06-30 05:19:42+00:00
> Buy a house now. It's usually cheaper since apartments (in expensive metro areas) are often tantamount to setting money on fire. :o)

Not really. I live in an expensive area. I pay $4K+/month in rent for a nice apartment, and livable, nice houses here cost $3M+ which is over 700 months worth of rent.

1. The math doesn't work.

2. I don't have 3 million dollars.

3. I'm not going to fall into the stupid American trap of borrowing money to buy shit I can't afford just to stay poor and handcuffed to some bank. If I'm going to buy something that costs 3 million dollars I better have 3 million dollars in cash. That's how I roll. That's how I buy my car, computers, and my groceries. Make money -> spend money. Fuck borrowing. I don't do that shit.
by the_arun | 2025-06-30 05:19:54+00:00
Don't want to discourage you. I've these questions:

1. Are you targeting startups or enterprises?

2. Do you foresee savings in the range of millions with this approach?

3. What if the ci/cd pipeline takes > x mins? should the laptop be turned on stayed connected to network during this time?

4. In an enterprise, a typical ci/cd pipeline get connected to other dependent services - eg. security pipeline (even 3P) etc. Now, every developer needs to onboard to those services?
by namibj | 2025-06-30 05:20:03+00:00
Huh? I thought the Slate body panels are fiber reinforced Polypropylene, basically a cheaper somewhat less intense performance sibling of that ultra tough fiber reinforced nylon that power tools are made of since about that battery tool manufacturer war really took off?

Yeah, there's a frame underneath, but the panel itself shouldn't even really care about tanking a shopping card, it's main weakness is how soft the PP is to sharp objects...
by motorest | 2025-06-30 05:20:44+00:00
> It is exactly this "lulled into complacency" that I rail against when most people cite that line. Far too many people are trying to shut down down dialog on improving code (not just performance) and they're not above Appeal to Authority in order to deflect.

Your comment reads like a strawman argument. No one is arguing against "improving code". What are you talking about? It reads like you are misrepresenting any comment that goes against your ideas, no matter how misguided they are, by framing your ideas as obvious improvements that can only be conceivably criticized by anyone who is against good code and in favor of bad code.

It's a rehash of the old tired software developer cliche of "I cannot do wrong vs everyone around me cannot do right".

Ironically, you are the type of people Knuth's quote defends software from: those who fail to understand that using claims of "optimization" as a cheat code to push through unjustifiable changes are not improving software, and are actually making it worse.

> "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back." Is practically on the same level.

This is the same strawman. It's perfectly fine to be curious. No one wants to take the magic out of you. But your sense of wonder is not a cheat code that grants you the right to push nonsense into production code. Engineers propose changes based on sound reasoning. If the engineers in your team reject a change it's unlikely you're surrounded by incompetent fools who are muffling your brilliant sense of wonder.

> If you're careful to exclude creeping featurism and architectural astronautics from the definition of 'optimization', (...)

Your comment has a strong theme of accusing anything not aligned with your personal taste as extremely bad and everything aligned with your personal taste as unquestionably good that can only possibly be opposed if there's an almost conspiratorial persecution. The changes you like are "improving code" whereas the ones proposed by third parties you don't like suddenly receive blanket accusations such as "creeping featurism and architectural astronautics".

Perhaps the problems you experience, and create, have nothing to do with optimization? Food for thought.