MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ccozan | 2025-07-30 09:05:57+00:00
I was wondered that. Like from movies or documentaries, etc. Very nice, clear, order, minimalistic. Then I was looking to buy a house and I found a site with "almost" abandoned house for sale.

My God. Everything , everywhre, no design ( haha ), no exceptions. People were actually living there.

Had a cultural shock.
by Someone | 2025-07-30 09:07:09+00:00
xargs was written to avoid that problem, so no, it won’t. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html:

“The command line for command is built up until it reaches a system-defined limit (unless the -n and -L options are used). The specified command will be invoked as many times as necessary to use up the list of input items. In general, there will be many fewer invocations of command than there were items in the input. This will normally have significant performance benefits.”

Your only risk is that it won’t handle inputs that, on its own, are too long.
by bjackman | 2025-07-30 09:07:16+00:00
Yeah I actively prefer diet drinks. Consuming 40g of sugar felt good when I was 10, but since around puberty it mostly makes my mouth feel sticky and my body feel dehydrated. Often it gives me a headache.

However despite my strong objection to this point in the post I'm still very sympathetic to the idea that this study is bullshit.

(AND I also think drinking sweetened drinks every day is likely a bad idea. I just think this is very hard to prove. I think almost all nutritional claims finer-grained than "eating lots of vegetables seems to be good for you" are probably poorly founded and we are mostly forced to operate on vibes).
by outadoc | 2025-07-30 09:07:22+00:00
> Me: What is 34234 times 554833?

> ChatGPT: 34234 × 554833 = 1,899,874,522.

> Me: That's wrong. The actual answer is 18994152922.

> ChatGPT: You're right, and thanks for the correction. Indeed: 34,234 × 554,833 = 18,994,152,922. Sorry for the earlier mistake!

How good of a teacher is that?
by lebski88 | 2025-07-30 09:07:36+00:00
There's a model aircraft club near to where I live (UK). They have a runway and people use it most days. In the summer they have a two day festival where people come and camp and do model plane stuff. Presumably it's the Glastonbury of model aircraft. It's quite fun to watch them fly around for a couple of hours.

Anyway, my point is that if I didn't live just around the corner, I would never have known it existed. I'd imagine there are similar setups around the country. You do need quite a big space and a runway is presumably helpful, so it probably makes sense for them to be collectively run.
by davidhyde | 2025-07-30 09:08:07+00:00
This problem is (so far) solved by the editions feature. Breaking changes can be made to the language without splitting the ecosystem (like python 2 vs 3).

https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/editions/index.html

Rust has a 6 week release cycle and a big complaint is that the language isn’t changing quickly enough so there is pushback from both ends to take into account here. My take is that there are only hard problems still to be solved given that that they need to be solved in a zero cost way.
by larodi | 2025-07-30 09:08:32+00:00
I think is the right way to do it. Produce with LLM, debug and read every online. Delete lots of it.

Many people fear this approach for production, but it is reasonable compared to someone with a single course in Coursera writing production JS code.

Yet, we tend to say the LLM wrote this and that which implies model did all the work. In reality it should be understood as a complex heavy lifting machine which is expected to be operated by a very well prepared operator.

The fact I got a Kango and drilled some holes does not make me engineer right? And it takes an engineer to sign off the building even thought it was archicad doing the math.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-30 09:09:10+00:00
The robots are even worse than the humans. Recently I got one when I called an ISP that insisted on calling back after restarting all the equipment and waiting 10 minutes. Never mind that the issue was entirely unrelated to the equipment. It had asked for a description of the problem but apparently couldn't actually do anything with that information. After refusing it enough times it simply hung up on me.

Obviously I don't do business with that company anymore.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-30 09:09:30+00:00
> Lightning had small pins inside the port that could be caught by debris and pulled out of alignment (or in worst cases, broken off altogether).

Lightning has 1.5mm of height in the slot, debris has to be pretty large to get stuck and usually it's enough to just blow some compressed air into the slot to get dirt to release.

In contrast, USB-C has only 0.7mm between the tab and the respective "other" side, so debris can get trapped much much more easily, and the tab is often very flimsy, in addition to virtually everyone sans Apple not supporting the connector housing properly with the main device housing.
by stolencode | 2025-07-30 09:09:42+00:00
I gave up sugar because of my poor tooth health. My taste preference also quickly changed. It's surprising how many American products have ridiculous amounts of sugar added to them, how difficult it is to find unadulterated products, and how little sweetener foods actually require to have their flavor perfectly enhanced.

The sweetest I can tolerate is the 1/4 tsp of raw honey I add to my oatmeal. There are very few restaurants I can eat at any more and most processed foods taste and smell horrible.
by samlittlewood | 2025-07-30 09:10:11+00:00
Have a look at the BMFA - http://https://bmfa.club. They have a directory of clubs and pointers for learning.

You will need insurance and CAA flyer/operator IDs. This can be arranged through club, or directly via the BMFA above.

Some of the clubs can be rather .... err ... clubby - older members whose hobby has become running the club the way see fit, vs. flying planes.
by brainwad | 2025-07-30 09:10:42+00:00
Maybe it's better to say that browsers just take what the OS tells them, rather than actually deriving a device pixel ratio from first principles according to the CSS spec. Because, yeah, there's some weird devices with DPRs like 2.625, though _most_ are multiples of 0.25: https://yesviz.com/viewport/. But note how the same DPR can give a varying CSS PPI, which makes using it useless for this purpose.
by throwaway150 | 2025-07-30 09:10:45+00:00
Not everyone is a soda connoisseur like you. I get it, some people refuse to drink anything but the original cola. But not everyone is like that. Some of us have a reduced ability to distinguish differences in taste, myself included. To me, the diet and regular versions taste exactly the same, whether my eyes are open or shut.

This thread is not about the differences in the taste between the real cola and diet cola. Many many healthy people with no health problems have the diet version!
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-30 09:10:47+00:00
My hunch is that you'll find more fans of Apple's color profile than detractors. This particular shot may have done it badly (to your eyes, some people prefer the more saturated look) but as a whole I have my doubts.

Color profiles vary per body at the least and are variable based on what post processing you do. I can load up Adobe Vivid and it'll look completely different than Adobe Portrait.

Shoot a Canon, Sony, and Fuji in JPG on the same scene (so same focal length and DOF) and auto white balance. Each body will output a different image.
by pmontra | 2025-07-30 09:10:51+00:00
The only 2FA I'm using is the one of my bank, because I must (there are regulations.)

I stopped logging in into GitHub since they enforced 2FA on my account. Luckily no current customer of mine is using GitHub. They are on Bitbucket and it does not require 2FA yet.

A number of services that I use ask me to enable 2FA. I skip the offer everytime.

The worst 2FAs are SMS based: not because of the (in)security of SMSes but because I don't receive SMSes when I'm outside of my country.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-07-30 09:11:40+00:00
Neural networks are a lot like brains. That they don't generally grow new neurons is something that (a) could be changed with a few lines of code and (b) seems like an insignificant detail anyway.

> the brain does not do back propagation

Do we know this? Ruling this out is tantamount to claiming that we know how brains do learn. My suspicion is that we don't currently know, and that it will turn out that, e.g., sleep does something that is a coarse approximation of backprop.
by rg12345 | 2025-07-30 09:12:39+00:00
Hey, I will add tutorial:

1. Look at the Word List: You'll see a list of words to find — usually 10–12 words per puzzle.

2. Search in the Grid: Words can be hidden horizontally, vertically, or diagonally — and even backwards!

3. Highlight a Word: Click (or tap) and drag across the letters of a word. If it's correct, it will get highlighted and removed from the list.

4. Finish the Puzzle: Find all the words to complete the game!
by throw310822 | 2025-07-30 09:13:26+00:00
We could argue about who started (certainly it didn't start on October 7, if that's what you mean), but that's beside the point, I think. We can assume the the cycle of violence has been going on forever, with no clear initiator (or with an initiator on the losing side, for what matters).

Would you be relieved to know that they're taking your home and killing your innocent family because someone on your side did something bad before? Or would the sense of injustice push you to more violence against the other side? And how would you deal with the knowledge that the other side is actually gaining ground at each further round of violence, unilaterally deciding what's fair for them to take, and that even if you can swallow your pride and stay put, someone else from your side eventually break and provide more reasons for the next persecution?
by sonichigo | 2025-07-30 09:14:08+00:00
We’ve been reevaluating our Git strategy for database changes. Historically, our team maintained one branch per environment—dev, qa, and prod. While it gave us some flexibility, it created a lot of overhead: merge conflicts, forgotten hotfixes, and inconsistent deployment behavior.

Recently, we adopted a trunk-based model paired with Liquibase for change management. Instead of branching per env, we:

Keep all changelogs in a single main branch Use Liquibase contexts to control env targeting Promote via automated pipelines Apply GitOps principles for traceability and rollback

Curious—how are others approaching Git branching for DB changes? Is anyone still using GitFlow or feature/env branches? Anyone managing this at scale with other tools like Flyway or Atlas?

Would love to hear real-world stories.
by stolencode | 2025-07-30 09:14:48+00:00
> Not everyone is a soda connoisseur like you

You need not be a connoisseur to notice that they're not _exactly_ the same.

> This thread is not about the differences in the taste between the real cola and diet cola.

Yea, my message, it's a quote from the musical "Rent." Was this whimsy worth your rudeness?
by chrismorgan | 2025-07-30 09:15:33+00:00
“Taking whatever the OS tells them” is rather different!

It also gets multiplied by the browser’s zoom, which in both Firefox and Chrome include values like 80%, 90% and 110%.

So for me on HN at 120% on my 1.5× laptop display, devicePixelRatio is… 1.8181818181818181. Huh. Wonder why it’s not 1.8. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by NoahZuniga | 2025-07-30 09:15:54+00:00
Seemingly this didn't make frontier models (gpt-o4, gemini-2.5-pro, etc) more likely to give a wrong answer (no stats are reported for failure rates on these models, but slow-down-rate is for similar models), however it does make them think longer sometimes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01781
by ThatMedicIsASpy | 2025-07-30 09:18:01+00:00
I ask: What time is {unix timestamp}

ChatGPT: a month in the future

Deepseek: Today at 1:00

What time is {unix timestamp2}

ChatGPT: a month in the future +1min

Deepseek: Today at 1:01, this time is 5min after your previous timestamp

Sure let me trust these results...
by nadof | 2025-07-30 09:18:12+00:00
I've been using XMPP since about 5 years for family texting, file/video sharing, and video calling. It works great, and I would highly recommend it.

What works for us (all android) is Prosody + Conversations app (or Blabber is a free version). There are a few guides online for how to install & configure the prosody server. It's fairly non-technical.

Honestly, it works just as well as whatsapp - except there's actual privacy between users. Family messaging is a great use-case as everyone can be on the same server.
by Quarrel | 2025-07-30 09:18:32+00:00
I am amazed at the eye professional photographers have. A shot of a building that is suddenly really interesting, versus my shot of that building. Colour. Angle. etc.

I just don't have the eye for it, despite having a decent amateur setup.

BUT, yes, lots of people might look at a random photo on their phone and not notice skintones, or the fisheye etc. If you then give them a pile of 10 photos from a pro, versus 10 from an amateurs phone, they'll notice. Particularly if they're blown up a bit on a print or a decent screen.

It might not matter if you are just flicking through 20 shots on your phone, but as the article implies, we have perception of these things, even when it is the subconscious.
by sonichigo | 2025-07-30 09:18:39+00:00
We're validating our approach for database GitOps and noticing that traditional branching-per-environment models often introduce significant friction:

1. Merge conflicts across dev, qa, prod branches 2. Inconsistent baselines and forgotten hotfixes 3. Broken audit trails and configuration drift

We shifted instead to a trunk-based approach with Liquibase contexts:

1. All changes stored in one main branch 2. Environment-specific behavior driven by context metadata 3. Promotions handled via pipelines, not merges 4. Full GitOps traceability and one-click rollback support
by Srobbin01 | 2025-07-30 09:19:00+00:00
We’re excited to launch Rustic AI - the AI Design Editor. We created Rustic AI because we felt most generative AI tools stop at generation. They give you beautiful outputs, but little control beyond that. RusticAI is like Cursor for design - generate visuals with prompts, then refine them with Canva-style editing.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-30 09:19:04+00:00
Well, since I know that a lot of people are actually creating businesses, based on chatbots, $200/month is probably an acceptable price.

From the article, it says that it’s a money loser, though, so I suspect that a lot of AI-based businesses run just fine, from the lower-tier price point.

They might want to consider adding an “in-between” pricing tier.
by tiniuclx | 2025-07-30 09:19:25+00:00
I love synths, and this is an incredibly impressive collection! My studio for the most part used synth modules, chiefly due to space constraints - and everything was set up for automation & recording from within the DAW. Unfortunately I had to take it down due to moving house to someplace where there just wasn't really the room. But I'm sure I'll put another studio together in the future, and it will be much better than my first one.
by ccozan | 2025-07-30 09:19:28+00:00
This autopilot works very well with a car and a very well known road ( like a daily commute).

Recently I was thinking of a very hard problem and I cannot absolutelly recollect approx 30 minutes of the drive home. Apparently my body and some part of the brain took over the driving, while my cortex was busy with the problem reserving the short term memory completly. I snapped out of the situation when apparently a stronger break was needed, and this intrerupted my flow and popped my attention to the road. Fascinating!
by imtringued | 2025-07-30 09:20:12+00:00
I personally am quite disappointed by the abstract:

"Building on existing literature, we clarify that SFT can be understood as maximizing a lower bound on the RL objective in a sparse reward setting."

uh no? SFT is maximizing the RL objective in a dense reward setting. The entire point of RL, specifically actor-critic and Q-Learning, is that the RL method turns the sparse reward into a continuous dense reward against which a model can be trained on with classic gradient descent.

I mean look at the definition of Q-Learning and the bellman equation it uses. It maximizes the current reward by choosing the current action based on whether it maximizes the predicted reward, not the actual reward, which doesn't have to be continuous or produce a gradient. You can build an RL based maze solver where only the goal gives a reward to the model and it would work, albeit it would train extremely slowly.

Meanwhile supervised fine tuning always produces a continuous gradient on every single token.
by airspresso | 2025-07-30 09:20:18+00:00
> The only thing keeping Anthropic in business is geopolitics. If China were allowed full access to GPUs, they would probably die.

Disagree. Anthropic have a unique approach to how they post-train their models and tune it to be the way they want it. No other lab has managed to reproduce the style and personality of Claude yet, which is currently a key reason why coders prefer it. And since post-training data is secret, it'll take other providers a lot of focused effort to get close to that.
by cess11 | 2025-07-30 09:22:36+00:00
The perpetrator, Yinon Levy, has sanctions put on him by a few countries. The current regime in the White House lifted the US sanction a while ago.

Arguably it's worse than what is usually meant by terrorism, i.e. civilians or paramilitaries attacking a state by actions against civilians, since it's a state exterminating stateless civilians.
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-07-30 09:22:59+00:00
But you replied to comment that specifically pondered about flagging and moderation. There are enough users (though still in minority) to submit and upvote the stories for the opposite view. There are comments supporting "wrong" view that survive. There is no downvote so the only way to suppress the submissions is to flag then and this is indeed what happens.

Political stories are usually getting flag enough by people who don't want politics on HN, people disagreeing with it/believing it's not good content and eventual mod interventions. So if "accidental" framing bothers you, I can rephrase.

Either mods are not intervening, and HN consensus is strong enough to overcome the flagging on this specific topic. I would expect more stories on main in this case, but it is an option (what I called accidental).

Alternatively, mods do intervene, either by manually unflagging some stories, or manually demoting some, but not all of them (what I called intentional). In this case I'd want to know what's the argument [1] for it

And the sun either rises by design of whoever designed our universe or because the solar system appeared by accident out of initial conditions of the big bang.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993906
by _shadi | 2025-07-30 09:23:21+00:00
> I am guessing that no-one ever gets convicted for this murder.

He was arrested by Israeli police for questioning, but was later released on house arrest while an investigation continued.

About a dozen Israeli soldiers raided the mourning tent, pushing those attending out while keeping a thumb on the pin of a stun grenade. Soldiers declared the area a closed military zone and said only residents of the village could be present. They arrested two activists and threw stun grenades at journalists who were too slow to leave.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/palestinian-aw...
by tdeck | 2025-07-30 09:23:30+00:00
This is the second time someone on HN has used this line as a "gotcha" to me and I honestly don't understand the mindset that leads to them thinking this is a good reply. Everyone should get to do genocide as a treat, and they haven't had theirs yet? Do they not realize that the genocide of indigenous Americans is widely seen as wrong and unacceptable? The genocide of American Indians inspired the Nazis; I guess it continues to inspire some Zionists to this day.
by sangeeth96 | 2025-07-30 09:23:51+00:00
Ah, dang it! Thanks! Now that I read it, even *-local ones won’t do what I thought they did? valueAsDate isn’t a thing there. Wish I could unvote myself or that comment. Note to self: never comment on HN when you’re groggy and on a phone and never trust Date APIs lol.

Can’t wait for Temporal to get here which hopefully irons these out better.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-30 09:23:53+00:00
>We hate reading code and will avoid the hassle every time, but that doesn't mean it is easy.

Speak for yourself. I love reading code! It's hard and it takes a lot of energy, but if you hate it, maybe you should find something else to do.

Being a programmer who hates reading code is like being a bus driver who hates looking at the road: dangerous and menacing to the public and your customers.
by pmontra | 2025-07-30 09:24:16+00:00
I never received a SMS from Italy when I was on vacation in Australia in 2019. Apparently my phone contract would allow them but either the phone company did not honor its terms or banks didn't send SMSes to roaming customers. I ended up using Italian payment services that either had their own app or other methods to perform 2FA. I also had an Australian SIM but there were no chances to associate it to my accounts. I guess that it's fair, because a foreign number all of a sudden is a red flag for a stolen account.

And nobody sent SMS to me, everybody used WhatsApp or similar services.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-07-30 09:25:27+00:00
Solar and wind are cheaper in most of the world, TCO on EVs is lower too.

So, paying more to poison your children may not win in the market.

This is mentioned in the article:

> But the EPA's own regulatory impact report says limiting emissions for cars and trucks is expected to generate more than $2.1 trillion in net benefits over the next 30 years, including $820 billion in fuel savings and $1.8 trillion in public health and climate benefits.
by superkacper4 | 2025-07-30 09:26:40+00:00
I tried the Witcher and that’s cool I had this option.

I started as in book entering Vizima to hunt down Striga, but instead of following main path I decided to go to the bar. Then I asked the barkeep about Striga, he didn’t know anything, so I hit him. He draws weapon, I do the same and then I see suggestion „Ask about Striga” and I clicked it.

Everybody ignores all what happened and the barkeep starts to give me information about the Striga… I mean I just hit you and we almost got into fight on swords…

But idea is great I would love to see how good you can make it.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-30 09:26:50+00:00
>I'm saddened that it kind of seems like another hobby, like R/C planes or model rocketry, that has fallen by the wayside.

I think physical hobbies like modelling find it hard to compete with the instant gratification of online dopamine fixes. However RC planes and model rocketry are still a thing. If you know any school age kids interested in engineering or rocketry and they are in the UK, point them at:

https://www.ukroc.com/

The US, France and Japan have equivalent competitions.
by michalu | 2025-07-30 09:27:13+00:00
I read the paper. Have you ever done a study like that? How would you feel if after 14 years it found no surprising result that would warrant some media attention? You adjust then you adjust, Spearman let's try Pearson instead etc.

Actually show me a 10+ year study that found no surprising result.

If the fact that bunch of foundational Alzheimer's studies were found to be faked recently by a guy who profited from them for 20 years and many such cases doesn't make you more realistic then well ... you must have an exceptionally good heart :)