MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jphelan | 2025-06-26 18:07:46+00:00
Congrats! I'm happy to suggest some ideas. This is near and dear to me so I've got a lot to say lol. I think when beginning French the most helpful services for beginners relate to pronunciation and language comprehension because that is the "secret trick". Seriously, I recommend giving pronunciation/comprehension a lot of attention at first. There are only like 10-20 new sounds (plenty of resources to find the list if you search IPA French https://www.frenchcourses-paris.com/french-lessons-in-paris/... find one that clicks for you) so don't worry that it's too much even though I know it's hard and looks cryptic at first. I think most people end up mis-learning to read French like it's funny English then they will never have a good experience and certainly won't be able to have a conversation. I had the same experience with Chinese where if you don't learn tones at the start then it will always be miserable. For example in Chinese you can ask for dumplings and people literally just hear you saying sleep unless you add the right inflection (like the way we make a statement a question vs a demand).

In terms of the exact resources for pronunciation - The Fluent Forever guy has a good anki deck for $12 (I bought it and I'd recommend it - just have patience and know he tends to over explain IMHO but the cards are linked in there and they're great) https://blog.fluent-forever.com/chapter3/ and I'd recommend finding your own favorite YouTube videos to explain how to pronounce the French R and nasal sounds. I would try watching some YouTube in French just to wet your beak. Know that it's frustrating to not yet have good comprehension but keep at pronunciation/comprehension and you'll get there.

I recommend making Anki cards for like the top 100 and then the top 500 words, and include images and sounds (Anki strengths).

I'd suggest to have a goal of understanding some rewarding things like children's T.V. (Bob l'éponge) or language learning YouTube (Easy French) - really fun. Then after you master some early words and feel like you have a "French ear" jump in and do some "early reader" kinds of book (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/short-stories-in-french-for...) because that will be really rewarding and reenforcing.

I also recommend jumping in to italki probably earlier than you feel comfortable (or this app, as it continues to improve!) and doing some community conversations in just an unstructured way. Just be ready to try a couple people and find someone you like. If you can travel to France I think that is probably best, too! You'll be very happy that you've got a good "R" at this point.

I think at that point you're ready to look at the A1/A2/B1/B2 test content and learn it on your own pretty easily or work with a structured tutor. It should be chill and not too challenging at that point.
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-26 18:08:02+00:00
So many are awful, though. I’ve had sixt bill me €2000 for a new door, despite me having a video of it showing no damage when I dropped it off at their (closed during what were supposed to be open hours) location, I’ve had europcar decide to close early, leaving me with no car after arriving at the airport on time, and I’ve had dollar give me a car that broke down before it even got out of the lot - and you’ll never guess who they decided was responsible.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-26 18:08:29+00:00
Somethings really screwy with on-device models from Google, I can't put my finger on what, and I think being ex-Google is screwing with my ability to evaluate.

Cherry-picking something that's quick to evaluate:

"High throughput: Processes up to 60 frames per second on a Google Pixel, enabling real-time, on-device video analysis and interactive experiences."

You can download an APK from the official Google project for this, linked from the blogpost: https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery?tab=readme-ov-file...

If I download it, run it on Pixel Fold, actual 2B model which is half the size of the ones the 60 fps claim is made for, it takes 6.2-7.5 seconds to begin responding (3 samples, 3 diff photos). Generation speed is shown at 4-5 tokens per second, slightly slower than what llama.cpp does on my phone. (I maintain an AI app that inter alia, wraps llama.cpp on all platforms)

So, *0.16* frames a second, not 60 fps.

The blog post is so jammed up with so many claims re: this is special for on-device and performance that just...seemingly aren't true. At all.

- Are they missing a demo APK?

- Was there some massive TPU leap since the Pixel Fold release?

- Is there a lot of BS in there that they're pretty sure won't be called out in a systematic way, given the amount of effort it takes to get this inferencing?

- I used to work on Pixel, and I remember thinking that it seemed like there weren't actually public APIs for the TPU. Is that what's going on?

In any case, either:

A) I'm missing something, big or

B) they are lying, repeatedly, big time, in a way that would be shown near-immediately when you actually tried building on it because it "enables real-time, on-device video analysis and interactive experiences."

Everything I've seen the last year or two indicates they are lying, big time, regularly.

But if that's the case:

- How are they getting away with it, over this length of time?

- How come I never see anyone else mention these gaps?
by jeffbee | 2025-06-26 18:08:52+00:00
The "killing" started way before AI summary was launched, and the killing was done by the sites themselves, by turning themselves into garbage factories churning out slop (human slop!) that nobody wants to read. Look at this graph and tell me when Google AI Summary launched: https://x.com/YujieChen/status/1932566121846354228/photo/1
by codingdave | 2025-06-26 18:09:15+00:00
> You can’t sign up. You get invited - by someone who’s already in. And once you’re in, you can co-host, explore, and help shape the culture.

Then why are you marketing it and seeking members? Invite someone.

Besides, if you want to build gated communities, that is your business, but this seems like a really odd thing to be promoting as an app... and definitely is not a legit "Show HN", as they are supposed to be something we can actually try, and then discuss with the creator.
by rambambram | 2025-06-26 18:09:22+00:00
I built and use HeyHomepage.com daily for the same reasons. I love having a list of all kinds of websites (mostly 'dev blogs' from all you guys and gals!) which in it's essence is a list of bookmarks to homepages. I throw RSS techniques against it and it becomes my replacement for social media. I call RSS therefor 'Really Social Sites'. No ads and the quality of the content is completely up to me selecting the right websites to follow.

I see only one post from one feed at a time. If I want the next, I click a button labeled 'Next random post' and it gives me the latest post from yet another feed. I only get the first two lines of a new post and then read the full article on the website if I'm interested. There's something to say for paying hommage to a fellow internet user who put work in building a website... I want to read your post on your website or homepage.

Expanding on this list I also published (parts of) this list as a sort of blogroll, or shared list. This shared list is viewable and clickable in the browser for regular internet users, and downloadable as an OPML file so RSS users can import the websites that I like and 'endorse'.

Also expanding on this list, I built some functionality called Newspaper which automatically (instead of manually) checks some selected feeds that I deemed extra interesting. The different articles from different sources are than presented to me in a newspaper. Every time I log in there are some newspapers waiting for me. I'm always looking forward to the one called 'Cars'. The rest is mostly work stuff. ;)

It goes without saying that Hey Homepage is not only an RSS reader, but that it also has functions for your own timeline of posts with accompanying RSS feed.

The open web is not dead. You neglected it for too long. It misses you. Give it some love back.
by mxmilkiib | 2025-06-26 18:09:24+00:00
aw I thought one of the advantages of Wayland is better DPI scaling

now where did I hear that, many years ago..

sad that corporate interests (or wetf) are blocking X11 updates, though I don't trust the quality of Xlibre given the regressions the dev introduced previously

was planning to go back to Sway once I finally get a 4K monitor..
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-26 18:09:51+00:00
> What was the nature of her illness

Psychosis, bipolar, BPD, NPD, pretty much all the *PDs. She switched it up.

> was it directly related to the kids

As in stemmed from? No.

As far as challenge related to the kids, it was 1) keeping the them as safe as possible when she was not and 2) proving some semblance of parenting. Both were difficult-to-impossible, given that kids are trapped at home, thanks to eradication of free range areas.
by leonidasv | 2025-06-26 18:10:15+00:00
Question: ChatGPT voice mode seems to have too much tolerance for mispronouncing. Sometimes, it understands you even you mispronounce something in a phrase, and it's not aware enough to correct you - it even says your pronunciation is correct if asked. It's good at grammar, though.

It makes me think the audio goes through a kind of voice-to-text model before the answer, so nuance is lost; or the model wasn't trained to distinguish between correct and incorrect pronunciations.

Does Issen have this issue too? Pronunciation vices are common when you're learning a new language.
by lucb1e | 2025-06-26 18:10:19+00:00
I read the general parts and skimmed the inner workings but I can't figure out what the high-level news is. What does this concretely do that Gemma didn't already do, or what benchmark/tasks did it improve upon?

Until it goes into the inner details (MatFormer, per-layer embeddings, caching...), the only sentence I've found that concretely mentions a new thing is "the first model under 10 billion parameters to reach [an LMArena score over 1300]". So it's supposed to be better than other models until those that use 10GB+ RAM, if I understand that right?
by crazygringo | 2025-06-26 18:11:01+00:00
If anything, this just makes much clearer and provable what damage occurred. It's clearly evident in the photo, and yes you need to pay for damage.

On the other hand, this does make me wonder if there ought to be a threshold for damage. A small scratch to a panel can result in a very expensive panel replacement, and the car is still totally driveable and most people renting won't notice or care.

It would be one thing if minor damage could just be "buffed out", but it can't. But when the only repair option is an entire expensive replacement of a component, is that really fair? Do people really need their rental cars to be perfectly pristine? Are they willing to pay these exorbitant damage fees in order to ensure that?
by haswell | 2025-06-26 18:11:44+00:00
For what it’s worth I’ve been using an RTX 3090 and it’s been mostly smooth sailing for a couple years now.

Running NixOS with a pretty vanilla configuration and it has been hassle free.

I did have to disable power management at the system level because framerate suffers severely if the system sleeps and wakes back up, but I shut the system down when I’m not using it, so this was a non factor for me.
by tempestn | 2025-06-26 18:11:51+00:00
From what I've seen, the AA batteries with built-in USB-C charging port are generally lithium-ion. I think they tend to include the port because they can't be charged in standard NiMH chargers. Also, because Li-ion cells are > 1.5 volts, they consist of a single cell plus a voltage converter. Since they already need integrated electronics, there's less sacrifice to make the voltage step-down bidirectional to integrate charging.

You can get Li-ion AA batteries without the integrated charging though; just means you need a charger made for them.
by thrashh | 2025-06-26 18:11:55+00:00
I don’t have ADHD but I did the test. My answers would vary with amount of sleep:

4 hours/night - Poor executive function, can’t figure out what order to do things in, lose keys and random things, forget to lock doors and not even realize it

6 hours - Mild executive dysfunction, never sure if I locked the door but I did

8 hours - Zero problems

10 hours - I’ve never actually experimented
by lotharcable | 2025-06-26 18:12:04+00:00
> So if I understand correctly, you're suggesting that in essence the VM lied to Windows to improve performance?

Pretty much. Just speculating because I don't know how your systems was configured back in the day.

But all of what I said applies to most VM solutions.

If you are dealing with enterprise-grade hardware it isn't a bad things. Keep in mind that typically OSes are going to assume that they are the only things operating on storage. So if you have like 30 windows boxes all trying to write to shared disk at the same time it can lead to some bad behavior if you are not using a write cache.

The system has battery backup and typically they expect you to use shared SAN or NAS with multipath and/or bonded network interfaces for redundancy as well as having backups. So the chances of data loss is a lot less then typical consumer hardware and it gives the hosting OS better chances at optimizing and scheduling writes properly.

Also remember the guest OS still has the option to send a 'flush' command to disk, which would ensure the writes complete regardless.

> It's been many years, but I don't imagine I would have chosen an option like that. I am very surprised VMWare would default to such behavior.

This is pretty normal. You'll see the same sort of options with hardware RAID devices and such things with their own internal battery-backed cache.
by Velorivox | 2025-06-26 18:12:34+00:00
A fundamental problem with language learning built around an LLM is that the one thing you can guarantee is that no two people will have a consistent experience, nor is there ever going to be a 100% freedom-from-error. That makes it very hard to predict and therefore market what or how people will learn.

I think this company will end up pivoting into a B2B context before long. Hopefully they will still stick to the mission, but who knows (and I wouldn't fault them if they don't – survival comes first).
by fisherjeff | 2025-06-26 18:12:40+00:00
I had this issue with Sixt, but fortunately they were very easy to deal with (i.e., they were not Hertz).

The scanner found some damage that simply was not possible for me to have incurred, and I just explained that in the webform they sent and the charges went away a few days later. Makes me wonder if this whole process is worth actually worth it to the rental companies.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-26 18:13:09+00:00
> You can absolutely mix and match lots of different binaries from different sources on one Linux system. That's exactly what we're doing now with TCL modules.

Doing this across different Linux distributions is inherently prone to failure. I don't know about your TCL modules specifically, but unless you have an identical and completely reproducible software toolchain across multiple linux distributions, it's going to end with problems.

Honestly, it sounds like you just don't understand these systems and how they work. TCL modules aren't better than containers, this is like comparing apples and organgutans.
by bloomca | 2025-06-26 18:13:10+00:00
i think it is the opposite. Users don't care about the backend, so as long as security is fine and DB queries are not too bad, it will be okay. You still need somebody oversee it, but the endpoints can be generated easily.

Any UI client, though, needs to look authentic or people will hate it. Maybe generic stuff like dashboards or internal tools is fine, but any premium product needs to have good looking front, and that is really tricky.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-26 18:13:17+00:00
I'm skeptical that the US Government can't manage to renovate a building.

That said, I've no deep concern with HUD moving. The larger story here is the NSF's displacement; coupled with the grant revocations and the proposed slashing of their budget, this seems more a story of "they want to get rid of NSF" than "they want to move HUD".
by KenoFischer | 2025-06-26 18:13:30+00:00
Funny to see this come back and see my write-up linked. I did this 8 years ago and think I was the first on this particular board (although others had done similar on other boards). I still have a pile of them sitting on my desk because I accidentally kept bricking them by being ... not careful. That said, even at the time this board was already old, so I guess it's positively prehistoric at this point. I eventually stopped working on this because I thought that others were making sufficient progress. It hasn't really fully materialized yet, but between openbmc, opensil, DC-SCM and the work the oxide folks are doing, I'm still hopeful that we'll get out of server firmware hell eventually.
by sandreas | 2025-06-26 18:13:33+00:00
Besides taking care of you health (sleep, exercise, food, relax) I recently got back into reading tech books (yes, not blogs, Videos or tutorials).

Good books are well researched and help you build knowledge from the ground up... Although they might age pretty quick, it is by far faster reading than watching Videos where the creators Main purpose is mostly to market a campus membership while keeping the really useful stuff behind a paywall.
by psunavy03 | 2025-06-26 18:14:19+00:00
That's the same as the genesis of the question I asked above. SSTOs are a concept, but given their complete lack of market share, I assume as a non-aerospace engineer that there are valid reasons smart people have not been able to design a competitive one yet.

Similarly, I assume there are valid reasons SpaceX has chosen not to use aerospike Raptors, especially given their well-earned reputation for innovating things everyone else swore couldn't be done. If even they haven't been able to make it work, that's a strong data point as to the state of the art.
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-26 18:15:57+00:00
I don't have any numbers I hugely trust, but this report has been doing the rounds: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-millionai...

Apparently UK is losing twice as many millionaires as China and while, granted, there may be restrictions on leaving, but still, the population is about 20x bigger.

The article seems to be paywalled for me, so sadly I didn't get to their hard evidence bit.
by alwa | 2025-06-26 18:17:14+00:00
I mean… perhaps, but is it really the police’s job to scrutinize the company’s records substantiating its claims of theft?

“The big well-established company is straight-up lying to me about this supposed crime that happened, and fabricating the documentation that proves it” seems like a heuristic that would not normally be the right one…

I’ve personally had to pursue cases where somebody just took a fleet rental vehicle across the country and started driving Uber with it. It was basically written off as “shrug guess we lost it” (!) until the org got a recent speed camera ticket in the mail. Somehow I feel like the default case that makes it to the police turns out to be closer to that situation than to “the organization alwa was working with just fabricated this bizarre tale on a lark.” It’s so much easier to just write it off as a loss, or handle it without LE.

I feel like it’s not just the US system that’s ill-prepared for well-reputed large institutions to fabricate tales of victimhood and extensive paper trails to “back it up.” Well… “paper” trails from poorly-implemented computer systems, anyway…

The UK police (and also their courts) were similarly ill-prepared when the Post Office and Fujitsu straight-up lied about missing money in the Horizon scandal.
by olalonde | 2025-06-26 18:17:23+00:00
I disagree. Open source projects routinely deal with far greater risk, like employees contributing open source code on company time without explicit authorization. Yet they generally allow code from anyone without much verification (some have a contributor agreement but it's based on trust, there's no actual verification). I stand by my 2022 prediction[0]: no one will get sued for using LLM-generated code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31849027
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-26 18:18:18+00:00
It's called caching layers bruv, container images do it. Plus you can stagger registries in a tiered cache per rack/cage/etc. OTOH, constantly re-copying the same executable over and over every time you execute or access it over a network filesystem wastes bandwidth and time, and a network filesystem cache is both inefficient and runs into cache invalidation issues.
by phren0logy | 2025-06-26 18:18:41+00:00
I'm a psychiatrist, so I obviously have a bias, but I have been pretty alarmed by the caviler attitude to the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD and Autism-spectrum disorders.

This is not specifically directed at this product launch, rather a general observation, but we have evidence based instruments to aid in diagnosis (that still requires a contextual clinical interpretation!) and evidence about what works and what doesn't. Most of the stuff I see is pretty squarely an evidence-free affair. Wether it's a cash grab or a well-intentioned effort, both can be harmful.

Marketing interventions to a specific diagnosis with known treatments should not be taken lightly. Non-medical interventions can be effective, and therefore they can be harmful.
by the_real_cher | 2025-06-26 18:19:17+00:00
I think almost anyone on earth would pay an extra money per month for Apple level battery life on a modular, repairable, hardware up gradable, Linux box.

Apple at the moment has zero competitors for upscale laptops and this would make System76 the only other alternative for a quality hardware machine.

The rave reviews alone would be free marketing worth well above the money invested in the software engineers.

It would be the default goto box for a modern alternative to Mac much like Lenovo used to be a decade ago before MBA enshittification set in there.

Battery life is the ONE thing preventing myself and many others from pulling the trigger on a System76 and I would gladly pay much more above and beyond a macbook pro for an alternative to a macbook with equivalent battery life but linux.

Plus PopOs is open source so there could be cross pollination with the Linux team on battery life optimization which would reap massive benefits for the Linux ecosystem as a whole and push more people towards Linux.

Something like this would be myself and many other peoples literal dream computers and withing a year or two's time almost any Linux user would be on System76 laptops, guaranteed
by joshstrange | 2025-06-26 18:19:28+00:00
Well, managing subscriptions for other services requires something like privacy.com (personally not for me, not saying it can't work for others but I'm not a fan of that style) whereas charitable donations can be "proxied" without needing (research needed) needing each organizations approval/integration.

I always imagined non-profits would be easier since they just want the money, they don't /need/ to know who gave it for purposes of providing services. Maybe they want it for records/marketing but some of that I'm not a fan of. Just because I gave/give you $5/mo you don't have a right to sell my info or spam me with other things. This service (that I'm imagining in my head) would not hand over more info than needed, giving you a firewall between you and the charity. Easy to give, easy to stop giving, no spam, no guilt trip, no selling of your info. At least that would be the goal.
by turtlebits | 2025-06-26 18:20:08+00:00
Changing your usage pattern isn't simpler.

When I mean simplest, I meant a solution that doesn't rely on doing anything. If/when Solar isn't enough or your batteries deplete, it just falls back to grid. Power outage? Your critical items automatically are backed by solar/battery.

Having to think about your what high draw appliances are running and using additional power adds mental load (ie complexity) and is an immediate no for most people.