MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by O1111OOO | 2025-06-12 02:38:43+00:00
It didn't know webarchive.me existed. What a great time capsule if you start here: http://webarchive.me/geocities/ (I wonder how much space this is taking up)

Quick search on google using site search (site:http://webarchive.me) produces only this site (that is - google is not indexing the site... sigh).
by sltr | 2025-06-12 02:39:04+00:00
Blount county native here. (How native? Almost got married in the church her nephew preaches at).

There was a joke that made its rounds here round about the time Queen Elizabeth died:

> Bob: "The queen's dead"

> Alice: "Dolly?!"

If you ride the train, be prepared for soot to get in your eyes.

I'm sure Dolly would be tickled silly to know a bunch of computer people were talking about her.
by tomhow | 2025-06-12 02:40:27+00:00
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by notavalleyman | 2025-06-12 02:41:26+00:00
My personal detector feedback is that this is slop, the images have the yellow fake sheen, none of the characters were drawn in an interesting way, and the text font is unreadable. The idea of submitting AI generated slop with 0% human input, and then burying it under 'making of' and not even admitting it here when asked, is a bad sign for me

Edit, to be less rude of me, clearly what you've worked hard on here is a chatgpt prompt which generates a fun comic. Why don't you submit that for discussion/comparison instead of a sample of model outputs without providing the prompt
by BeetleB | 2025-06-12 02:43:38+00:00
Does Plex TV Guide not work in Canada?

It's a simple solution, if you have a decent enough computer. Buy a TV tuner card (I have one with 4 channels). Plug the antenna in it, and buy a lifetime (or monthly) Plex subscription, and you're done. You can easily watch on your TV. You can watch local channels even while you're away from home.

It. Just. Works.[1]

I just don't know if they support EPG.

Never understood why people use Kodi.

[1] Well, it did before they decided to revamp the Android app.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-06-12 02:45:34+00:00
> The second half is incorrect. Since the time coordinate becomes spacelike in turn you'll still have 3 spatial degrees of freedom. Dimensions can't just vanish if you believe that spacetime is a 4D Lorentzian manifold (as physicists do).

Can we say that one of the spatial dimensions (the radial dimension) and the time dimension combine into a single dimension? After crossing the event horizon aren't they 1:1 correlated?
by tstrimple | 2025-06-12 02:45:50+00:00
Humans have created models for things they don't understand throughout human history. Certainly throughout any recorded history. We don't know, but we have a model that fits pretty well and we can guess at the underlying causes. We'll be wrong more often than right, but over time as we get more data and we can test more things, we get a more accurate model. Not necessarily the right model. We may never get that. But based on those models, "guesses" are far more reliable than "The Sun is a god who circles the world".

While we don't "know" how gravity works we can explain it and model it much more accurately now than when logos was the explanation. Providing those details is far more useful than a simple "we don't know."
by Intralexical | 2025-06-12 02:46:02+00:00
> Despite what I've said I for the life of me cannot understand why people trust Google with their data without first backing it up elsewhere.

Because most people are non-technical, most technically skilled people assume a basic level of good faith and transparency from society, and even people who are both technical and cynical have finite hours for setting up NextCloud.

And by non-technical, I mean "doesn't know what a folder is", not "might struggle with long Docker commands". OneDrive and Google Photos already describe themselves as a "Backup" in the UI, so why would you need another backup unless they're lying?

Big Tech can obfsucate their bad behavior behind technical complexity, simply not care about operating in good faith, and still attain market dominance through convenient offerings and manipulative practices.

Imagine your pizza shop taking back a pie they'd already delivered, or your local bank branch unilaterally deciding to incinerate your safe deposit box. They'd never get away with it. But Google can.

Instead of faulting people for trusting them, we should hold Big Tech accountable for not being trustworthy.
by kazinator | 2025-06-12 02:47:39+00:00
That's what I was wondering; the multiple times. If we have an ordinary definition : foo a b c d ; of course the "a b c d" is compiled once and tied to foo.

But the code after DOES> is repeatedly referenced in new definitions that are the result of executing the word which contains DOES>, like the CONSTANT example.

The original : CONSTANT CREATE , DOES> @ ; could be entirely compiled so that it contains a compiled sequence for the @ part. When DOES> is executed, it patches a pointer to that part into the word produced by CREATE, and then somehow skips the execution of that part.

How do you manage the storage? There has to be some refcounting or garbage collection. What if four words point to the same instruction sequence, and we FORGET three of them.

Ah, but FORGET works in a LIFO discipline; you can't just forget arbitrary entries. If B was defined using parts of A, then B is newer. You cannot forget A without forgetting B first. I think.
Show HN:I made a word translation plugin for language learning.
by Mantaa | 2025-06-12 02:47:50+00:00
hi I am Manta!

I'm a language learner (because I often need to use English in my job) and I've tried to use Doulingo, but I found that what I learned I couldn't use in my life at all, so I often forgot it.

After a month of doing English-related work, I found that my vocabulary improved by leaps and bounds (at least the vocabulary in our field was memorized), but I didn't use any language-learning software for learning, instead, the one that accompanied me the most was the Scratch Translator plug-in.

However, I found that none of the plug-ins on the market are suitable for language learners, as nothing is left behind after I have translated, which does not help me to memorize. Moreover, the probability is that I still don't recognize the translated word, and I still have to repeat the translation.

For me, repeating the translation is time-consuming and does not help me memorize the word.

So I developed a crossword translation plugin that records all translated words in the vocabulary book and highlights and visualizes them on all websites!

https://www.neonlingo.com/

I'm very much looking forward to everyone trying it out and would love to hear your feedback and voices!Hope you all have a great read!
by bhag2066 | 2025-06-12 02:48:14+00:00
Not the OP but I personally would be interested in people's perspective on the # of $10 subscriptions the average person can sustain.

Using Fermi estimation, is it: 1, 10, 100? I would say 1 because I don't believe businesses can create enough value (save them time or money) for the average person to justify spending $100/month on subscriptions.

Another thought is how CISO's found themselves with 20 cyber subscriptions and found themselves wanting to consolidated down. So I would make this the absolute upper limit.

So I have somewhere between 1-20 with the average across the consumer population being somewhere closer to 1 than 20.

The implication being that there is a lot of pain coming for the long tail of startups trying to make it with a $10/month subscription model.
by fn-mote | 2025-06-12 02:49:04+00:00
>> essentially when I do a Google search for something am I consenting to see ads for that thing?

> ... yes?

My problem with this isn't that I see ads when I do the Google search. My personal problem is that the information is then added to my advertising profile and I see those ads everywhere else, too.

Maybe I was brainwashed by too many Mullvad advertisements. [1] (joking)

[1]: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/advertising-that-targets-everyon...
by echelon | 2025-06-12 02:50:19+00:00
This space is getting pretty crowded.

If you're going to drop weights on unsuspecting developers (who might not be familiar with TTS) and make them think that they'll fit their use case, that's a bit of a bait-and-switch.

Chatterbox TTS is only available over API for fine tunes. That's an incredibly saturated market, and there are better quality and cheaper models for this.

Chatterbox TTS is equivalent to already-released semi-open weights from ByteDance and other labs, and those models already sound and perform better.

It'd be truly exciting if Chatterbox fine tunes could be done as open weights, similar to how Flux operates. Black Forest Labs has an entire open weights ecosystem built around them. While they do withhold their pro / highest quality variants, they always release open weights with training code for each commercial release. That's a much better model for courting open source developers.

Another company doing "open weights" right is Lightricks with LTX-1. They have a commercial studio, but they release all of their weights and tuning code in the open.

I don't see how this is a carrot for open source. It's an ad for the hosted API.
by dangus | 2025-06-12 02:50:52+00:00
The user doesn’t necessarily care but I think on-device enables certain experiences that can’t be done if you involve a cloud service.

For example, involving a network and data transfer will always toss in some latency that may not be acceptable or desired for a particular use case, even if you’re on a desktop plugged in with an Ethernet cable

I also think that in the long term the hardware that individuals own is far more powerful than the typical compute that can be allocated to a user who is using a free or cheap cloud service. Comparing a rented VPS to a cheap $400 server in my closet is like night and day, the VPS is just not a lot of horsepower and the typical smartphone has a whole lot of computing power to work with. In a very near future when the chips are even more AI-optimized, data centers might not be the most efficient way to go about this.

Example: imagine implementing an application like Final Cut Pro as a browser application where all the compute takes place on a remote cloud server. It’s just not plausible: too much data to handle, too much compute needed for processing, too much of a need for low-latency responsiveness of the app.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-12 02:51:06+00:00
I grew up around many different sorts of power tools. By my mid-20s I was comfortable using routers, table saws, sawzalls, jigsaws, jackhammers and more.

But nobody in my family had any gas-powered motors for anything at all.

I'm 61 now, and a volunteer firefighter. We have lots of gas powered chainsaws, circular saws, ventilation fans, and more.

I'm still extremely uncomfortable with starting these engines.
by xnyan | 2025-06-12 02:51:11+00:00
It's actually pretty hard to hurt yourself on the active blade of a push mower. I've only heard of one account of this happening first hand, someone 1) slipped while 2) gripping and not releasing the handle interlock switch as they slipped while 3) pushing the mower uphill and 4) wearing flip flops. Don't do that, and you'll be fine.

I don't have any data but I'd assume it's vastly safer to mow the lawn than drive a car.
by ovenchips | 2025-06-12 02:51:22+00:00
When you say that PlayCanvas is commercial, that's a little misleading. The PlayCanvas Engine (analogous to Three.js and Babylon.js) is free and open source (MIT). The PlayCanvas Engine is where you'll find all the cool 3DGS tech. There are two further frameworks that wrap the Engine (for those that prefer to use a declarative interface): PlayCanvas Web Components and PlayCanvas React. Again, both of these are free and open source (MIT). Only the PlayCanvas Editor (analogous to a browser-based Unity) has optional payment plans (for those that want to create private projects).

PlayCanvas Engine: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine

PlayCanvas Web Components: https://github.com/playcanvas/web-components

PlayCanvas React: https://github.com/playcanvas/react
by miki_tyler | 2025-06-12 02:51:33+00:00
Not my intention. I actually broke the process down by task and role in the themakingof/ section. If I had drawn the sketches myself, just the line work would’ve taken about 50% more time, before even getting to color.

As for the writing, the story, structure, dialogue, I’d say 90–95% of it is human-made. If there’s anything you’re curious about that’s not covered on the site, I’m happy to share more details.
by parpfish | 2025-06-12 02:52:58+00:00
i worry that i've job hopped a bit too much and have a series of 2-3yr gigs on my resume.

part of my problem is that I get unhappy (or bored) with a job but sit in denial for too long. so by the time I start looking for a new position, I'll desperately jump headfirst into a new gig instead of lining up the perfect gig.

Or maybe not. maybe it's impossible to tell if a place is a good fit from the interview.
by chucksmash | 2025-06-12 02:57:26+00:00
The "Who invented the steam engine?"[0] section of "The Book of General Ignorance" refers to a "brilliant essay" by Arnold Toynbee that imagines a global Greek empire enabled by a rail network derived from combining the aeolopile and the Diolkos. I'd love to read that essay but they don't cite it and I have yet to come across it myself.

[0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=1Mjd2GCRPmAC&newbks=1&newb...
by kouteiheika | 2025-06-12 02:57:59+00:00
> Adapter Modules and LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) insert new knowledge through specialized, isolated subnetworks, leaving existing neurons untouched. This is best for stuff like formatting, specific chains, etc- all of which don’t require a complete neural network update.

This highlights to me that the author doesn't know what they're talking about. LoRA does exactly the same thing as normal fine-tuning, it's just a trick to make it faster and/or be able to do it on lower end hardware. LoRA doesn't add "isolated subnetworks" - LoRA parameters are added to the original weights!

Here's the equation for the forward pass from the original paper[1]:

h = W_{0} * x + ∆W * x = W_{0} * x + B * A * x

where "W_{0}" are the original weights and "B" and "A" (which give us "∆W_{x}" after they're multiplied) are the LoRA adapter. And if you've been paying attention it should also be obvious that, mathematically, you can merge your LoRA adapter into the original weights (by doing "W = W_{0} + ∆W") which most people do, or you could even create a LoRA adapter from a fully fine-tuned model by calculating "W - W_{0}" to get ∆W and then do SVD to recover B and A.

If you know what you're doing anything you can do with LoRA you can also do with full-finetuning, but better. It might be true that it's somewhat harder to "damage" a model by doing LoRA (because the parameter updates are fundamentally low rank due to the LoRA adapters being low rank), but that's a skill issue and not a fundamental property.

[1] -- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685
by tomhow | 2025-06-12 02:58:09+00:00
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by mastazi | 2025-06-12 03:01:19+00:00
2-3 yr gigs in 2025 is completely OK, we're not in the 80's and people are not expected to work many years for an employer, especially in the modern workplace where the "normal" way to get a promotion is job hopping.

FWIW I have several shorter gigs in my resume. A combination of me being still young and not evaluating things correctly, and employers not being honest about working conditions. I even once stayed at one job for less than 2 months, but to be honest I have left that one out of my CV.

One more thing: I've been on the hiring side a few times and I have observed that candidates with very long gigs (5+ years in the same job) are often seen negatively (Why did they stay in the same job for 6 years? Do they lack ambition? Don't they like a new challenge? Etc.)
by jbm | 2025-06-12 03:01:42+00:00
I do recall advertisements being repeated ad nauseum up until I was a college student (after which I stopped watching TV for the most part). I don't know if it is something about the Canadian media landscape or what.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWleK1dvRF0

This specific advertisement used to play over TSN 10-12 times per hour, to the point where it became a pre-internet video meme for me and my friends.
by komali2 | 2025-06-12 03:02:33+00:00
I'm not suggesting anything, yesterday I was watching live footage and saw a tear gas grenade fall into a pile of junk near a car and light both on fire. I tried to track down a clip of it but the media is focused so much on waymos it's impossible to sort through the noise. Perhaps in a couple days it'll warrant a story.

Agitators unrelated to protests have been known to kick shit up, such as during black lives matter protests when white supremacists would break windows. https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-rio...

Anyway, if the cops weren't there, there'd be no fires. Ergo the cops shouldn't be there. Seems like a pretty simple algebra to me.

The "just submit" ideology that people seem to be touting demonstrates a lack of understanding of American psychology. The country was founded on revolution against a despot, that's the core American value. You can't deal with a population like that by sending in storm troopers, that will obviously just escalate the situation.

The government needs to be realistic about the situation and seek alternative measures if their goal is to deport the neighbors of people who love the 2nd amendment. Perhaps they could simply give up on that goal, that's what I would advise.
by latentsea | 2025-06-12 03:03:51+00:00
This right here is my exact take too.

Interestingly my current job I'm at the 48 month mark and sands definitely shifted after new management stepped in and slowly but surely gutted the culture, though I actually thought I wanted to leave almost immediately when I joined. It took me a little bit of adjusting initially to come to like the company at first, but it's been the longest place I've stayed since far.
by zahlman | 2025-06-12 03:04:13+00:00
> despite baby boys showing no superior sense of numbers or grasp of logic.

How would you tell, in principle?

> Boys and girls receive similar maths scores at the start of school, but boys pull ahead of girls after just four months

So, a divergence starts immediately as they start to learn actual concepts that could be tested?

(Also interesting to see in the detailed graph, evidence for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis in the pre-educated state.)

> “This paper suggests that the gender inequalities in children’s maths performance aren’t innate or inevitable,” says psychologist Jillian Lauer

The article repeatedly tries to make this point (plus there's a corresponding editorial that's extremely un-subtle about it), but I don't see it doing anything to evidence it.

Nor do the paper's authors seem to make that suggestion. The abstract simply claims: "These findings point to the first year of school as the time and place where a maths gender gap emerges in favour of boys, thus helping focus the search for solutions and interventions." It does not give any reasoning as to why effective solutions or interventions should exist. While the paper apparently finds a stronger correlation with time in schooling than with age, that doesn't deny an innate reason for a gender-disparate response to schooling.

> “Ethically speaking, we cannot do nothing when we see these results,” says study author and neuroscientist Pauline Martinot at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris.

I don't see how this follows, either. Especially since they haven't demonstrated that anything in the existing education process is actually discriminatory or otherwise to blame for the observed pattern.

> It confirms the finding across the whole country: the gap emerged in all cohorts, socioeconomic groups, regions of France and types of school.

If anything, I would expect that if it were the fault of the schooling rather than some innate predictable result, that there would be a strong effect from socioeconomic status. Like, if there's something bad about the schooling, why would it be bad in the same way, to the same extent, in both low-income and high-income schooling?

> The lack of average differences between the performance of boys and girls at the beginning of the first year suggests that the causes lie in the environment children experience once they start school

...The environment in which they're actually expected to acquire and develop the skills in question?

> “We all have this common core knowledge of mathematics,” says Martinot.

Do we really? I strongly doubt that. If that were true, then we shouldn't have gone through millennia of history with various civilizations re-discovering concepts like "zero" or having varying ability to work with them.