MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andrybak | 2025-07-02 09:49:16+00:00
> In this second test, the word error rate was 43.75 percent, meaning participants identified a bit more than half of the recorded words correctly.

> [...]

> “We’re not at the point where it could be used in open-ended conversations. I think of this as a proof of concept,” [Sergey Stavisky, a neuroscientist at UC Davis and a senior author of the study] says.

The ability to produce sound without a use of a dictionary sounds awesome. It is an interesting result, a proof of concept as the author of the study says, but the title is editorialized at best and effectively clickbait at worst, because most readers will assume that "near instantaneous speech" means "clear intelligible speech and ability to communicate".
by johnisgood | 2025-07-02 09:50:31+00:00
I called him out in another thread. It makes absolutely no sense. He is talking against himself, judging by his comments.

To answer your question, he modified my comment (see the parentheses):

"> The point is, who gives a damn about (doing an illegal thing) in reality, on their (private property where nobody is likely to see that)?"

So... at best what he said is purely theoretical. He admitted it himself: "nobody is likely to see that". Though I am not sure I agree with it, but then again, in reality, no one gives a fuck, at least not in Europe.
by mettamage | 2025-07-02 09:51:30+00:00
The year is 2100. The brain of the Eurasian president got hacked by the Antartic Federation. While humans have hard coded a moral code since birth, there are illegally born babies that do not undergo brain modification treatment. Moreover, the South Pacific Whale Society has no moral code. We should’ve never implanted this stuff into whales. The world will never be the same again.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-02 09:53:20+00:00
I think (futurology / science fiction) that they will make some kind of brain link, but there won't be any translations happening in between, just raw brain signals from one to the other, like an extra sensory input; there won't be any encoding or data that can be translated to speech or images, but the connected brains will be able to learn to comprehend and send the signals to / from each other and learn to communicate that way.
by roenxi | 2025-07-02 09:54:02+00:00
> They work for countries that kneecap themselves by being at the whims of capital and the market.

Typically it actually looks like the opposite. When I look at, eg, North Korea or Iran - if I were going to try and make them wealthy it is mostly internal policies that are the problem and not external ones.

If North Korea set itself up with single digit % company and income tax combined with a strong rule of law, local education programs and a liberal economy it would barely matter what sanctions were imposed on them. A tide of money would flow in and they'd eventually be wealthy under their own power anyway if not. Although it isn't obvious why anyone would sanction a small well run country; there is a correlation between sanctions and incompetent governance.
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by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-02 09:54:30+00:00
Why not HN? And what's your product? Can we see it? The auto posting to social, might seem trivial, but I am guessing is a huge pain (selling point) for most people.

Also get out in the real world, go to meetups, or wherever you might meet potential clients and show them your app up close. They will probably be cordial and kindly dismissive, but you might get some real feedback. It's harder to ignore someone when they are standing in front of you.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-07-02 09:54:47+00:00
The topic was previously discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628 and the moderators have said that generated comments are not permitted on HN: "They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated comments. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either!"

Why they've never updated the guidelines page is a mystery.
by _stillmind | 2025-07-02 09:54:51+00:00
I haven't used Flame engine, but I know it already exists as a way to make games in Dart. So, if someone like me is curious about making a game in Dart, it would be nice to know the pros/cons of using this versus using Flame. Maybe remaking Flame's Klondike tutorial, or one of the others, using Bullseye to help show the distinct advantages that this engine brings over other solutions? It's not very obvious to me when this would be the right choice for me over Flame.

Nevertheless, it's cool to see something new come to the scene for game dev in Dart. Thanks for making this!
by ta12653421 | 2025-07-02 09:54:55+00:00
back then the web (or prior networks like Gopher, Usenet) were used and filled mainly by professionals working in the one or another field; and if you were online, you demonstrated already a basic tech undertstanding, since it wasnt as convenience as today. Sure, porn existed early on; but the "entertaining web content" was just not existing as today.
by coldtea | 2025-07-02 09:55:45+00:00
>Who cares about 35% inflation when you got your own drones to bomb Kurds, am I right?

Orthogonal. You can have 35% inflation AND no drones or good arms in general.

Which is worse, especially if this lack makes it easier to get invaded or "regime changed" into a failed style.

>Which btw. was the original reason why Obama didn't want to give Turkey combat capable drones.

The welfare of the Kurds, or using them as a proxy force against Syria, Iran, and abandoning them whenever convenient?
by Y_Y | 2025-07-02 09:56:33+00:00
I presume you're talking about Turkey/Türkiye.

If so, do you think it makes a difference that Turkey is a NATO member, and on (relatively) good terms with the Western powers?

For all the ideological differences and geopolitcal nervousness I don't think the US or EU see themselves as potentially fighting against Turkey, and so they don't feel the need to go to the trouble of strict sanctions or sabotaging local tech.
by pyrale | 2025-07-02 09:56:55+00:00
There are plenty of companies that don't immediately qualify as "the bad guys".

For instance, of all companies I've interviewed with or have friends working at that developed tech, some companies build and sell furnitures. Some are your electricity provider or transporter. Some are building inventory management systems for hospitals and drug stores. Some develop a content management system for medical dictionnary. The list is long.

The overwhelming majority of companies are pretty harmless and ethically mundane. They may still get involved in bad practice, but that's not inherent to their business. The hot tech companies may be paying more (blood money if you ask me), but you have other options.
by j45 | 2025-07-02 09:57:15+00:00
There is a scale somewhere in these types of articles that will emerge.

It might be something being actually new (cutting edge) vs new to someone vs the human mind wanting to have it be novel and different enough as a comparable percentage of the experience of the first time using ChatGPT 4.

There is also the wiring of non-deterministic software frameworks and architectures compared to the deterministic only software development we're used to.

The former is a different thing than the latter.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-02 09:58:18+00:00
No, but it did teach her you can't just blurt out words like that, teaching self-control. In theory anyway. And she was aware of it - the fact she removed herself etc taught her not to be a casual swearer.

The trick isn't to hide them from bad words - no matter how much censorship you apply to TV, film, youtube, whatever they will learn them. But it's to teach them when to (not) use them. If done right, they'll know they shouldn't just casually use it.

Anyway, love seeing people without kids chime in.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-07-02 10:00:51+00:00
> My annoyance is that sometimes things are necessary regardless of their being an alternative

Sometimes things that are necessary arent done.

> "Herp derp unless you have a solution then shut up" isn't very helpful

Saying something is necessary when it wont be done without a replacement isnt very helpful either.

> They are starting to work, in some countries, where it has been realised that these things are incompatible with sustainable fisheries.

My understanding is that China is by far the biggest culprit when it comes to bottom trawling and they will not stop without an alternative way to feed 1.4 billion people seafood.

Of course its right to point out the problem but I think it is also necessary to go beyond that. The problem will not be fixed without a solution, and eat less seafood unfortunately is not on the table.
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-02 10:00:58+00:00
This is not quite right. Time-reversibility means that solutions to your differential equation are invariant under the transformation x(t) -> x(-t). It's pretty easy to verify that is the case for simple differential equations like Newton's law:

F = mx''(t) = mx''(-t) since d/dt x(-t) = -x'(-t), and d/dt (-x'(-t)) = x''(-t)

Navier-Stokes is only time-reversible if you ignore viscosity, because viscosity is velocity-dependent and you can already see signs of that being a problem in the derivation above (velocity pops out a minus sign under time reversal). From my reading the OP managed to derive viscous flow too, so there really is a break in time-symmetry happening somewhere.
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by lelanthran | 2025-07-02 10:01:25+00:00
> If your task fails, yet you sent an email that it succeeded, that is bad. You should wait until all your subtasks finish before sending the email.

A common sequence is "Send email, then update DB with the new count of emails sent". Doesn't matter which way you reorder them, there is no advantage to queuing those two tasks to go at the end because if the first success and the second fails you have still done half an atomic task.

> The point is this: any subtasks that can cause your main task to fail should be processed BEFORE any subtasks that cannot cause your main task to fail.

Do you have any examples that aren't IO? Because IO can always fail, and I am still wondering what sort of workflow (or sequence of tasks) you have in mind where you will see any advantage to queuing all the IO to run at the end.

If you have pure computation subtasks (such as checking a hash or signature), then sure, do the IO only after you have verified the check. Have you any idea how rare that workflow is other than for checksumming?

What workflow have you in mind, where we see a practical advantage from queuing IO to run at the end?
by yorwba | 2025-07-02 10:02:24+00:00
You cannot just point to some amount of a sanctioned good being manufactured to claim a sanctions backfire, you need to look at the difference between with and without sanctions, and also consider the cost.

Huawei was going to work on GPUs anyway, SMIC was going to fab chips anyway. How much of the total GPU compute is the result of increased investment after sanctions, and how much was already planned? And how does it compare to the alternative of importing Nvidia GPUs for the same amount of money?

Unless Huawei is getting better performance per dollar than Nvidia, this is them implementing a costly workaround, which is the point of sanctions: increasing cost.
by coldtea | 2025-07-02 10:02:41+00:00
It's probably the inverse:

they might license it to companies in the US, but don't want to have to deal with the changes and bureucracy needed to support individuals.

The statement's purpose is to say the equivalent "if you're a European and do run it, it's on you, this is not a product we release or support for the European market, don't expert support, liability, etc".
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-02 10:03:26+00:00
>You can have 35% inflation AND no drones or good arms in general.

I guess you can always be worse off as a country, no argument there.

>if this lack makes it easier to get invaded or "regime changed" into a failed style.

I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying it would be better if a country gets US weapons while being under threat of being "regime changed" into an enemy? Because that somehow seems even worse. And that's literally what the US was afraid of in Ukraine.

>The welfare of the Kurds

I suppose they don't care if the bombs are dropped by Turkish or US drones. But at least the sanctions delayed it by ~half a decade, so there's that.
by pradeepodela | 2025-07-02 10:04:56+00:00
I faced the same problem myself — traffic was the main issue. Even if the product is great, it won’t matter unless people can actually find it. Another thing I realized: the intended user and the actual user can be very different.

In my case, I built an app called foundersmail.xyz, which gives users access to founders' official emails and other details. I got the idea after seeing someone else build a similar tool for investors — it worked well for him, but he already had an audience and reputation.

For me, I promoted it across various subreddits and platforms and got around 100 users. I noticed that only 20–30% actually used up their free credits. While debugging this, I discovered most of my users were students cold-emailing founders for summer internships. I thought at least one of them might convert — but unfortunately, none did (still trying to figure that part out).

My two biggest mistakes:

No traffic — not enough eyeballs.

Target audience mismatch — students using it instead of founders or professionals.

Interestingly, there are competitors making money with similar products, so I know there’s potential. I’m still figuring out what’s missing in my approach.

That said, I’m okay with the outcome so far. I haven’t spent a single rupee — free domain, free hosting, and I built it in my spare time and vibe coded. It was an experiment rather than an actual business.
by kaibee | 2025-07-02 10:04:59+00:00
> You'll have to explain that more. Ship builders aren't competing with plumbers.

Sure, on any given year. But the current economic organization of society wasn't born yesterday. On a longer timescale? Absolutely are.

> Well, that's a drop in the bucket. But you could apply this reasoning to any form of luxury goods.

Yes.

> Where do you draw the line? Nice clothes? Fancy watches? Sports cars? Five-star restaurants? Are any of these "the most productive/ROI generating activity for society at large?" Who decides what goods and services are worthy?

The neat thing about market economies is that you don't actually have to draw a line anywhere. You can just reduce income & wealth inequality via taxes and markets will sort it out. If you had taxed capital gains such that Bezos would have had to liquidate 10x - 100x in Amazon stock to buy his yacht, he likely would have settled for a smaller, but still perfectly acceptable yacht, and so on down the wealth ladder.

> You think people are having fewer children because luxury yachts are being built?

Yes I think income/wealth inequality + the amount of labor hours demanded from people to just stay in place is why people are having fewer children.
by Quarrel | 2025-07-02 10:05:02+00:00
For those that would not remember, this was a real thing in the late 80s and 90s relating the cryptography.

There were serious laws limiting the export a "modern" cryptography software from the USA.

Some of us had to face up to the serious challenge of connecting to an FTP server and downloading PGP and risking violating US law to download a software package.

A few years later we had to decide "Do you want the secure Netscape, or the insecure Netscape?".

I'm sure we all chose the ethical choice.
by AndreasMoeller | 2025-07-02 10:05:15+00:00
It is definitely going to be a challenge for some designers I am not going to lie.

But at least in the case of Nordcraft you can start small. Have the designer only focus on the visual styling while learning the platform. Then as they get more comfortable they can tackle more complex tasks.

A lot of designers are already very capable when it comes to HTML and CSS so they are not going to see a big learning curve
by atleastoptimal | 2025-07-02 10:05:47+00:00
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by selfhoster11 | 2025-07-02 10:05:57+00:00
$1 is not a micro-transaction, it's just a regular transaction. It's not micro until it's only several cents at most.

I'm not the parent, but when I use the OpenAI API (not ChatGPT API, that stuff is very cheap in comparison), I do keep an eye on my spend. For the more variable models like o3, o3-pro, GPT-4.5, expenditure can quickly exceed what you decided to spend. I'm glad you can set spending limits if you choose to do so.
by coldtea | 2025-07-02 10:06:15+00:00
It's not exactly "plausible deniability" in the common sense of the term.

It's not supposed to make them appear as plausibly denying that some European can download and use this.

It's role is to signal that if someone does, it's on him, not them, and he wont have any support, liability claims, etc as if they could if it was a product intended for their use.
by jdvh | 2025-07-02 10:07:37+00:00
In theory you can have these "zero cost abstractions" but in practice I don't think so. The user manual gets thicker. Concepts like 'delete permanently' and backup/restore get more complicated. Users will get confronted by scary "advanced users only" warnings in the interface. Some enthusiast blogger or youtuber will create content highlighting those advanced features and then regular users will get themselves in trouble. Customer support gets way more complicated because you always have to consider the possibility that the user has (unknowingly) used these advanced features. If you put buttons in the interface users will press those buttons. That's just a fact of life. Advanced features always come at a cost. Sometimes that cost is worth it, but only sometimes.
by i_don_t_know | 2025-07-02 10:09:11+00:00
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by shirro | 2025-07-02 10:09:19+00:00
Yes. As usual people commenting based on their biases instead of comprehending the text. This is a proposal made by predominantly US companies (a country that actually has mandatory proof of age to access digital services in several states) to a US born eSafety commissioner who previously worked for Microsoft, Adobe and Twitter.

Not really sure what this has to do with the Australian government or Australian people. We can't even properly tax these foreign companies fairly. If we did try to regulate them the US government would step in and play the victim despite a massively one sided balance of trade due to US services being shoved down our throats. We need to aggressively pursue digital sovereignty.
by al_borland | 2025-07-02 10:10:21+00:00
The feed reader I use (NetNewsWire) lets me simply put in the YouTube channel URL and it finds the feed.

I added all my subscriptions once, but it quickly became overwhelming, so I deleted them all. I’m not sure if bundling them all in a single feed would be better for me or not. I could bookmark my subscriptions page for the same effect. I find I’m in a very different headspace when I’m looking to watch YouTube vs reading my RSS feeds.
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by somtom | 2025-07-02 10:11:16+00:00
I needed to print 50+ personalized letters for my local fire fighter department. Most tools made this harder than it should be:

* Word Online (M365) doesn’t support mail merge * Google Docs never did * My old Apps Script broke

So I built a browser-based tool over the weekend:

* Upload a .docx template * Upload a .xlsx (or .csv) file with recipient data * Download a .docx with personalized letters — all locally in your browser, no cloud involved

It’s open source and privacy-friendly. Works well for quick offline letter runs or any task where email isn’t viable.

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Maybe this helps folks out there with a similar problem. Would love feedback and ideas for improvement!
by dale_glass | 2025-07-02 10:11:32+00:00
One interesting thing there is that we may treat a robot differently than a dog.

A dog will walk around the house, look at everything, smell everything, and touch many things. It makes things like finding slippers much easier.

I'm not sure we'd enjoy a robot doing the same, randomly wandering around the house and poking at stuff for some unspecified and uncommanded purpose.