MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pflenker | 2025-07-22 06:41:17+00:00
I find it mildly amusing that the article makes the following point regarding "Gegenstand":

> Objects aren’t just inert stuff – they do something.

...while many words in Germany are just "stuff" (Zeug). A plane is a Fly-Stuff (Flugzeug). A lighter is a Fire-Stuff (Feuerzeug). A vehicle is a Drive-Stuff (Fahrzeug). A toy is a Play-Stuff (Spielzeug). And the list goes on!
by vanschelven | 2025-07-22 06:41:21+00:00
This reads like yet another attempt to pathologize perfectly reasonable criticism as some form of oppression. Calling “AI could have written this” a classist slur is a stretch so extreme it borders on parody. People say that when writing lacks originality or depth — not to reinforce some imagined academic caste system. The idea that pointing out bland prose is equivalent to sumptuary laws or racial gatekeeping is intellectual overreach at its finest. Ironically, this entire paper feels like something an AI could have written: full of jargon, light on substance. And no, there’s no original research, just theory stacked on theory.
by x-complexity | 2025-07-22 06:42:54+00:00
> Why do you feel the need to be the devils advocate? What do you get from defending this crap?

To prevent this level of monopolar partisanship.

Is this action a net-negative for ISP subscribers (i.e. everyone)? Yes.

However, this doesn't give any leeway at all in ignoring the past failures of the other side when it comes to this space either. The only (legally advisable) path left is vocal advocacy for its restoration. Doesn't matter who it is, only that this goal is to be achieved.

---

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
by fluidcruft | 2025-07-22 06:43:31+00:00
The other option is a controlled ramp down where the field is dissipated over a few hours which is greatly preferred if possible. But generally the training is to hit quench if someone's life is in immediate danger ... which it obviously was in this case so I'm puzzled the tech hesitated. My overall impression is the site doesn't seem to be run to standard accepted practice for a variety of reasons (which is extremely bad news for them if/when this gets in front of a jury).
by bawolff | 2025-07-22 06:44:32+00:00
> It lost money consistently all the time.

> The only reason it kept flying for 33 years is a vanity project for national airlines.

Something that loses money, but not so much money that it can't be justified as a vanity project, seems like the sort of thing that could be profitable with tweaks and improvements.

Like it didn't work, but it was close enough to working that reasonable investors could say: second time will be the charm. Especially given how much more mature aeroplane technology is now vs the 1950s.

To put it in perspective, we first broke the sound barrier in 1947. People started designing the concorde in 1954 only 7 years later. It is now three quarters of a century later. Technology has improved a lot since then.
Show HN: Cargo-pup – ArchUnit-style linting for rust
by scottgg | 2025-07-22 06:45:20+00:00
Hey HN!

I’ve been working on cargo-pup, a Rust tool for defining and enforcing architectural rules in your codebase - like ArchUnit for Java, or Clippy, but for project-specific architecture constraints rather than linting.

It lets you write architectural assertions in Rust using a builder-style API. For example:

Enforce layering: "REST modules shouldn’t use SQL clients" Enforce consistency: "Types implementing MyTrait must be named MyTrait and live in Impl* modules"

Pup emits regular rustc lints (just like Clippy or cargo check) and runs either as a test or via a `cargo pup` CLI, the latter of which you can drop into your CI.

This is very early days! I work at Datadog, but this isn’t an official project — just something I built to explore what architectural linting might look like in Rust, and to scratch my own itch :)

Would love any feedback or questions!

Scott
by tcoff91 | 2025-07-22 06:45:29+00:00
First class conflicts are way better than modal states.

https://ofcr.se/jujutsu-merge-workflow/

I literally will have like 4 PRs in flight at once and have an octopus merge of all my separate PRs that I can then work on top of. JJ can rebase all 4 separate branches, the octopus merge, and the work on top of the octopus merge in a single command: jj rebase -d main.

If there are conflicts I can then resolve them whenever I want.

You have no idea what you are talking about if you think git’s interactive rebase holds a candle to what jj rebase can do.
by havanidea | 2025-07-22 06:45:53+00:00
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by w3abhishek | 2025-07-22 06:45:57+00:00
Got an email from Replit’s ops guy, Santiago Orozco, saying they’re shutting down Bounties on Sept 6, 2025. No blog, no tweet, just a quiet email. Devs need to wrap up open bounties by then, and Cycles can be cashed out or turned into Replit credits (per their ToS). They’re pushing users to Contra, a freelance platform, for future gigs.

This feels off. In 2023, Replit’s CEO Amjad Masad was all over Bounties as the next big thing for software dev (https://www.parttimetech.io/p/amjad-masad-future-of-software...). He talked up reducing transaction costs to zero, integrating Bounties into the IDE, and enabling solo devs to build massive projects. Now it’s just... gone? For a YC-backed company that raised $100M+, this silent shutdown is weird. Did Bounties not work out, or is Replit pivoting away from their “code for all” vibe? Anyone else caught off guard? What’s the play for gig-coding now—Contra or something else?
by ashoeafoot | 2025-07-22 06:46:34+00:00
The military industrial complex lies in ruins, the west is in full retreat while other empires expand in another great game and the CIA conspiracy theories where revealed as just left racism dogwhistles. Because of course , non-white people can not be bad acteurs , creating their own destiny and pursuit the original sin that is imperialism, racism and genocide. They are noble savages.

Meanwhile , the agents of centralized incompetence aggregated, rainmade the public behind this conspiracy facade, by hijacking the stories of local developments.

So tirrd of all this hyperbiased nonsense, that then turns out to be the narratives pushed by the working secret service of hostile nations.

If you willingly turn yourself into a propaganda asset of a hostile foreign power, you should leave the democracy you reside in .
by chithanh | 2025-07-22 06:46:34+00:00
> What UK Biobank is revealing, scan by scan and layer by layer, is that disease doesn’t arrive out of nowhere. It accumulates quietly, shaped by genes, environment, and habits.

I think that is already known for a while. It's called functional reserve, and was a big topic in HIV patients (and then again for SARS-CoV-2).

Like people with higher cognitive capabilities will be protected by those a bit longer before onset of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (or even dementia).

Same for kidneys: They have a functional reserve that you are born with gets used up during life, until it is gone. Acute kidney disease treatment is aimed at preserving whatever little function is left.
by Hackbraten | 2025-07-22 06:46:35+00:00
I wish there was a straightforward way to let VS Code pick up the venv that uv transparently creates.

Out of the box, the Python extension redlines all the third-party imports.

As a workaround, I have to plunge into the guts of uv's Cache directory to tell VS Code the cached venv path manually, and cross fingers that it won't recreate that venv too often.
by mcv | 2025-07-22 06:47:24+00:00
The article fails to explain why you shouldn't delete your DNA data at 23 and me. It does a good job explaining why the risks of letting them keep it are exaggerated, which might be true (I'm still skeptical), but what is the reason why you should let them hold onto this information? What is the advantage to me to let them keep my DNA data?

(Disclaimer: I never used 23 and me, so this is entirely hypothetical for me.)
by deredede | 2025-07-22 06:47:52+00:00
> This is excruciating in git if you ever need to make a fix to an earlier PR because you have to manually rebase every subsequent change.

Spreading the word about `git rebase --update-refs` that will automatically update any branches that point to commits along the path (very useful with stacked branches). It is less convenient than what jujutsu offers (you need to know the branches to update, where jujutsu automatically updates any dependency), but still a very useful if you don't want to or can't switch to another tool.
by Hobadee | 2025-07-22 06:48:10+00:00
Going Mac in an enterprise environment is a stupid move. Apple is constantly changing how MDM works. One week they'll go all-in on some method of doing things, and tell everyone they must comply or GTFO. The next week they'll completely change their minds and gaslight you, saying that old way is stupid and nobody should have ever used it ever. Then they will put in blocks to prevent it from working. This means all the work and tooling that people poured into it are just dead.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-22 06:48:42+00:00
That’s backwards from my approach to economics

A high gini coefficient isn’t because of someone accumulating more wealth than everyone else, its because of low velocity of money movements in the economy

Fixing the speed of money movements solves the other problems and results in more people having wealth, or access to services. Note that its not completely arbitrary money movements, its into goods and services and investments. This has to be more attractive than passively holding money and assets, which is what most risk-averse people’s entire plan is.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-07-22 06:49:52+00:00
I've been shopping at Costco/price club since 1989. I've very rarely been led astray, and when I have their amazing return policy has more than made up for it.

Costco was just an example of curation. But yes, it's more of "good value on acceptable quality" not high quality itself.

Also, idk what marketing Costco does. They earned their reputation with me.
Ask HN: What Speaker Diarization tools should I look into?
by justforfunhere | 2025-07-22 06:50:12+00:00
Hi,

I am making a tool that needs to analyze a conversation (non-English) between two people. The conversation is provided to me in audio format. I am currently using OpenAI Whisper to transcribe and feed the transcription to ChatGPT-4o model through the API for analysis.

So far, it's doing a fair job. Sometimes, though, reading the transcription, I find it hard to figure out which speaker is speaking what. I have to listen to the audio to figure it out. I am wondering if ChatGPT-4o would also sometimes find it hard to follow the conversation from the transcription. I think that adding a speaker diarization step might make the transcription easier to understand and analyze.

I am looking for Speaker Diarization tools that I can use. I have tried using pyannote speaker-diarization-3.1, but I find it does not work very well. What are some other options that I can look at?
by aredox | 2025-07-22 06:50:18+00:00
Of course it is falsifiable, that is why they ask to review what is the algorithm, what was changed and why. Given how mercurial Musk is, you can be sure that he's asked his team to bias the algo - not least to boost himself. Again, perfectly demonstrable in a factual way.

X already complies with Germany's ban on nazi material. If that's not an lagorithmic change, what is?

>which is very much in the spirit of contemporary French politics.

Put your own (glass)house in order. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/us-free-spee...
by pjmlp | 2025-07-22 06:50:25+00:00
Not really, last year I was foolish enough to have bought a NUC without properly checking its Linux support, because I assumed usually the problems nowadays would only be laptop related, on desktop like systems we're pretty safe.

Never managed to find a distribution that supported the UEFI bios, booting from an internal SSD, only from external storage via SSD, after so many attempts across a few months, I also managed to burn something on the motherboard.

Conclusion, 300 euros thrown into the local recycling center.

I know Linux systems since 1995's Summer, do regularly manage Linux servers at work, and still this thing failed on me, now imagine regular people.
by TFYS | 2025-07-22 06:50:50+00:00
If people are still dying of hunger and preventable diseases in capitalist countries, then it has not lifted all of humanity. I wasn't saying some other system is doing better than capitalism, just that capitalism has not succeeded in bringing all of humanity out of absolute poverty.

Anyway, just because capitalism is the best we've come up with so far doesn't mean we can't do better. Would you look at the fastest car today and say "there's no example of a faster car you can provide, therefore this is the fastest car there can ever be". No, we can do better, especially with the technology we now have.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-07-22 06:51:08+00:00
Not in any realistic way, no. Because Chrome is by far the majority of the market, so what Google ships is what is available on the web. If Google unilaterally decides it is going to distrust a CA, it doesn't really matter who else does or not, the CA is dead.

Not that the other parties are that independent anyways: Microsoft's browser is a Google fork, and is wholly dependent on it. Mozilla's entire funding is Google. Apple is arguably the only somewhat independent party here, but that multibillion dollar annual search deal... let's say it incentivizes collaboration.
by mcv | 2025-07-22 06:51:48+00:00
Of course they don't store your entire genome; 99.9% of that is identical for all humans. That has no value to them at all. It's only the 0.1% that can vary between humans that's of any interest.

(Note that there are very different ways to measure that percentage and they can mean very different things. I'm not intending these percentages to be accurate, but I'm sure you get my point.)
by pepa65 | 2025-07-22 06:51:59+00:00
From the announcement:

Subscribers will be able to optin to short-lived certificates via a certificate profile mechanism being added to our ACME API.

We hope to make short-lived certificates generally available by the end of 2025.

The earliest short-lived certificates we issue may not support IP addresses, but we intend to enable IP address support by the time short-lived certificates reach general availability.
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-22 06:52:34+00:00
The concord was heavily subsidised. Those ticket prices didn’t cover the cost of the service.

It was also far less pleasant a ride than even most economy class tickets for long hall flights. The space was more cramped and it was much louder inside the cabin. Personally, Id rather spend more for nicer seats on a longer flight than worse seats on a shorter flight. And a lot of people with money felt the same.

Design changes might help with the passenger comfort problem but when the plane is already running at a loss, it’s a hard sell asking for more R&D costs (which would be massive) to redevelop the concord.
by AllegedAlec | 2025-07-22 06:52:56+00:00
It'd be interesting to look at some of the stuff Alan Kay talked about. With STEPS he was working on some interesting notions that might actually help here. The entire work they were doing with that was effectively based around creatign DSLs for whatever problem area they were working around at the time; GUI; hell, iirc they implemented TCP by writing a DSL taht was able to read the ASCII images and tables in the TCP RFC and use that to implement packages.
by globular-toast | 2025-07-22 06:53:06+00:00
I tried it and didn't switch. The funny thing is I immediately recognised that it was forcing me to use git in basically the same way I use it anyway. I have more than 15 years experience with git at this point. I never had to do the "delete repo and reclone" thing after the first year. In other words, I actually understand git, so I don't really need Jujutsu.

I also already use very good tooling for git, namely Magit. IMO Magit is a much better git frontend than Jujutsu. It guides you down the right path but doesn't take away any of the power of git at all. It's quite remarkable.

Maybe I should recommend jj to some of my colleagues, though. Trouble is I'm already on the hook for helping them with git, but I don't have the experience with jj.
by monero-xmr | 2025-07-22 06:54:50+00:00
Capitalism is not a designed system, it is an emergent phenomena. Even in the most restrictive, communist societies (North Korea) the black market is the primary way the common people don’t starve. As they accumulate wealth they continue to invest in their black market enterprises.

There is no alternative to letting people trade, which results in successful traders accumulating more than others. That’s it. There is no other system because it goes against human nature
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-07-22 06:54:59+00:00
I got what I ordered. A cheap remote controlled relay. That works. Do I expect it to be waterproof? No. Do I expect it to handle it's max rated load? Maybe, I'd check how hot it was after 10 minutes.

Do I trust it to work safely in my use case? Yes.

Other than people that buy from actual specialty stores, that's basically how buying anything works these days. You use your best judgement and continue on.
by ezquerra | 2025-07-22 06:55:10+00:00
I recently found a small issue with `uv run`. If you run a script from outside the project folder, it looks for the pyproject.toml on the folder from which you are calling `uv run`, not on the folder where the python script is located (or its parents)! Because of that scripts that store their dependencies in a pyproject.toml cannot be run successfully using a “bare” `uv run path/to/my/script.py` from outside the project folder.

You can work around this surprising behavior by always using inline dependencies, or by using the `--project` argument but this requires that you type the script path twice which is pretty inconvenient.

Other than that uv is awesome, but this small quirk is quite annoying.
by Kon5ole | 2025-07-22 06:55:48+00:00
I want to highlight two things as counterarguments - 1) nuclear waste is not comparable with solar panel waste and 2) Land use for solar is not comparable with land use for nuclear.

Solar panel waste does not require army supervision to prevent it being used for terrorist acts. The US army has personell permanently stationed at plants that have been closed for several decades by now. They keep costing money for decades after they stopped producing any power.

As of 2025 there isn't a single nuclear site that has ever been in operation that has stopped costing money for the population of the country it is in, simply because of the waste. And there is no end in sight.

As for land, solar panels are usually deployed on land that can still be used for other things. (Rooftops of homes and office buildings, grazing grounds for sheep and farmland for crops that need shade).

The last point is of course why many countries have been able to deploy solar that matches the output of their nuclear generation in just a few years. You have hundreds of thousands of carpenters and electricians that can work simultaneously on building solar panel installations and they get approved by homeowners without any bureaucracy.

Looking at China, the US, the EU, Japan and even a nuclear pioneer like Canada, you see that Solar adds the equivalent of several new nuclear power plants per year, and the power is available immediately.

The only argument with merit is that nuclear works at night and during winter - but so do many other things, much cheaper things, things that don't take a decade+ to build and don't require eternal expensive vigilance.
by jve | 2025-07-22 06:56:30+00:00
> when more secure (Linux-based) options are far cheaper and widely deployed

Hold on, we are talking about SharePoint here. I don't know any software that could replace it, that is allowing office suite to collaborate in a way SharePoint Server does it (versioning, concurrent editing, online editing, workflows, customizations, OneDrive, IRM, compliance, search etc.)

Even in a windows environment. Can you name more secure, cheaper and widely deployed alternative?
by Global_Sushrut | 2025-07-22 06:56:41+00:00
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by ozim | 2025-07-22 06:58:02+00:00
I don’t have the link but somewhere in last 3 years I read article found on HN.

It was about the fact that lots of people actually struggle reading.

Bad parts are that they don’t even know or they won’t admit it. Then they make people who are fluent at reading angry because those people will expect reading a paragraph is not noticeable effort and will think everyone is fluent at reading.