MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hunglee2 | 2025-08-28 10:07:43+00:00
UK is becoming a canonical example of one of the major flaws of representative democracy - bad policy positions can nevertheless be politically rewarding, if the consequences of the policy be misattributed to somebody else.

Farage campaigned against non-white immigration, fuelling the Brexit movement which was predicted to increase non-white immigration. Now he is reaping further political dividend from the issue his policy position exacerbated. It's all about narrative, and people are easily persuaded if the narrative is resonant
by DanielHB | 2025-08-28 10:07:51+00:00
> I see 100s-1000+ people work on software product development and very little happen with the product for YEARS while there are tons of obvious (to me) improvements possible

I worked in an org with about 60 engineers all working on the same product and I have to actively _not_ fix small issues to keep my sanity. Whenever I see a small issue I would have:

0) If it changes anything visible to the user discuss it with UX or PM (very annoying)

1) Fix it (easy part, usually)

2) Create PR and explain issue

3) Get someone from the other overworked team to look at it (not as bad if it is from my own team)

4) Get comments for often trivial things (depends a lot on the changes)

5) Get asked to refactor some related functionality because the fix is a bit messy without it (workaround) or to address the root cause of the issue (this is usually a big deal)

6) Possibly several rounds of reviews

7) Someone break my fix next time anyone makes a change to that part of the code

All to get something done that wasn't asked of me, that my manager will probably not see or know about unless I bring it up, that if I do bring it up my manager will probably tell me to not waste time on it since "it is the other team's problem".

So I would either ignore the issue or create a ticket that will probably be ignored. Only if it is a really trivial uncontroversial change would I bother to actually proactively do it.
by elric | 2025-08-28 10:08:06+00:00
Some anecdata: I have a buddy who runs a smallish consulting firm, and another buddy who's a software recruiter. Both are telling me that they've stopped hiring developers except for senior developers. From this limited sample size, the market seems to be convinced that it no longer needs or wants junior developers because their tasks can be outsourced to LLMs.

Outside of tech, my eulogy writer friend got fired and replaced by ChatGPT. So when gramma dies, someone will now read a page of slop at her funeral instead of something that a person with empathy wrote.
by qwertox | 2025-08-28 10:08:37+00:00
According to Wendell from Level1Techs, the now-launched Jetson Thor uses a Linux Kernel built by Nvidia, on Ubuntu 20.04 [0]. So I assume getting upgrades will have the same feel as those Chinese SBC's like from Radxa or cheap Android devices.

I wonder if this also applies to this DGX Spark. I hope not.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnKUUcCKcs&t=669s
by ggrelet | 2025-08-28 10:10:09+00:00
Not GP but all I’m seeing is « contact us » which will open the Mail iOS app.

Since I don’t have that app on my phone I’m met with an error message and cannot know what address of yours I need to use to send a feedback.

Btw my feedback is that I tried to create an app which needs camera access. The prompt and code creation worked. However the app does nothing since I believe the permission for camera access are not handled on bitrig
by iamcalledrob | 2025-08-28 10:11:22+00:00
The underappreciated .url file / [InternetShortcut] format seems like a much better fit for this:

1. 20+ years of OS support for double-click to open

2. It already supports an embedded title.

3. It's basically just INI/TOML, so you can add custom fields that get ignored by parsers. Want to embed a screenshot? Just append Screenshot=B64(data). Want to add tags? Same deal.

You can also organise them as files in...folders.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-28 10:11:38+00:00
> Sure, and there are people who can array thousands of pages of evidence that vaccines cause space reptilism and chronic nosehair. Doesn't mean it's good evidence.

But what if the citations are valid? What if they are, at least, credible? That's how it tends to be. Flippancy doesn't correct this.

> Your argument seems to be that the very existence of any doubt, no matter how implausible or infrequent, means we might as well all give up on the rule of law and return to monkey. Which seems a rather nihilistic take for a system that works quite well, despite the difficult trade-offs inherent in it.

Nobody said anything about "returning to monkey" -- the claim is that systems of binding precedent tend to collapse under their own weight, and eventually come to burden courts more than they help those courts. In the end, you're no better off than you are with Civil Law that isn't bound by precedent. This isn't exactly "monkey" -- it's just a different way of administrating the law, and I think time is showing that it is a superior way of administrating non-criminal law.

> The vast majority of this is lower court decisions that won't be binding precedent almost anywhere.

All the same, I think you'd be surprised how often lower court decisions are cited when they can help a case.
by Shorel | 2025-08-28 10:12:01+00:00
Now I see your point. You are an absolutist. If something is not 100% perfect and works for all possible cases, then it is immediately worthless. Language being in that category.

I also disagree with your point and your arguments. So many sentences in your response are blatantly false. You can win the Olympics of jumping to conclusions.

Let's start with CS. CS is the set of first principles that are then applied to software. This is because CS is another branch of mathematics, starting with Boolean logic and discrete mathematics.

Language relevance is shown here. We are using it right now. It is not a complete system because some ideas can't be expressed in language and some sentences in a logical system can't be proved or disproved, but the overwhelming majority of sentences are useful.

And everything I have written is based on first principles, you can read about Gödel incompleteness theorem for a start. It applies to LLMs because it applies to all uses of language. Nothing is specific to neural networks.

In fact, go and read about Gödel, because it proves that no logical system is complete, and your worldview seems to be dependent on the outdated assumption that there should be such a complete system. This includes all reasoning systems and all of mathematics.
by gloosx | 2025-08-28 10:12:03+00:00
On my machine Slack is taking 100MB of memory and 0.1% CPU to do nothing. Maybe we are using different Slack or one of us is lying about the "doing nothing" thing.

It's possible I'm wrong about bandcamp using react but your guess is far from reality as well – react itself does not prevent or discourage loading pages very quickly.
by kace91 | 2025-08-28 10:12:52+00:00
I’m curious about this (I’m not a native speaker). What alternative would you use when you want to emphasize a cause-effect relationship, in an engineering context for example?

“Most times A happens before B, but this order it’s not guaranteed. Therefore, there is a possibility of {whatever}.”

Alternatives that come to mind are “as a consequence”, “as a result”, “this means that”, but those are all more verbose, not less.

A simple “so” could work, but it would make the sentence longer, and the cause-effect relationship is less explicit I think.
by YuriiDev | 2025-08-28 10:13:21+00:00
Thank you for the feedback — I fully agree with the "Zero Trust" principle. Users should never run executables without verification.

This is an early-stage MVP prototype, built in Python and packaged with PyInstaller, which often triggers false positives on VirusTotal because of how standalone binaries are analyzed. For those familiar with Python apps, 4/72 detections is typical for PyInstaller builds, not an indication of malware.

The project is currently in concept validation stage, and the encryption logic requires balancing transparency with the need to keep certain modules private to prevent misuse during early testing.

Source code: I plan to publish it (with a clean structure and documentation) in the next iteration, once the core approach is stable.

In the meantime:

If you’re not comfortable running the EXE — please wait for the open version (coming soon).

Or run it in a sandbox/VM if you want to explore the concept now.

I’ll also add a clear note on the website about this being a closed-source prototype. Thanks for raising these important points — transparency and security are top priorities for me.
by willgax | 2025-08-28 10:13:44+00:00
i am not talking about people who just do job to survive there comes a point where you achieve all your needs you need something intangible like pursuit of truth/power/authority to validate your existence. I could blame the people in the institutions, but they were once a student who wanted nothing but to achieve great things, world-changing research. But along the way they tasted power and authority. Science has inherent quality of giving power and control, realizing that every action has consequence, and in this godless world only actions you take matter. If anyone who has experienced the authority knows that it is addictive and it is hard to let go. If anyone (young budding scientists) can challenge that authority you would go to any lengths to prevent that i think this is what is happening here.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-28 10:14:10+00:00
Ok. Thank you for the answer and the exchange in general. I suspect one part of the issue here is that some people are more sensitive to stuff like this than others.

For instance:

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

Never fails to give me gooseflesh every time I listen to it. And where it gets interesting is that that is a cover of a piece by another composer, so it serves as a very high level commentary and compliment rather than an original and still manages to maintain a lot of the emotional content and adds new elements. The original is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2O_yfgtBU

Adagio starts at 3:32.

See if you get a different take away from each. I find both beautiful but as different as jam and cheese.

There are drawings and paintings that move me in a similar way. And I'm sure there are people who are not touched by any of this. I've been steeped in art pretty much since I was a toddler, my dad was a painter (in my opinion not a very good one but that did not stop him from endlessly trying) and our house was always full of music, antiques and conversations about that stuff. This probably sensitized me in a way that I would not have been if not for that environment.

The interesting thing is: even bad art is still art.
by darkwater | 2025-08-28 10:15:30+00:00
> It's other people's software, so it's very rich of Bitnami to accuse anyone of freeloading when their only contribution is adding config options to software

I'm not going to defend a corporation but this sentence feels very entitled. They were providing it for free, you could use it. They are not going to provide it for free anymore, you migrate to something else or self-maintain it and say "thank you for the base work you did I can use now"
by habibur | 2025-08-28 10:16:02+00:00
Did the same, with the following differences :

- tab separator instead of space. you don't need cut -d with tabs. tab is the default separator for cut.

- use xsel -b to capture clipboard data while adding. Copy the URL into from browser to clipboard. And then run on console

$ url.add hn bookmark script # all parameters are keyword tags.

The script fetches the URL from clipboard $(xsel -b)
by bloak | 2025-08-28 10:16:54+00:00
I totally agree. "kWh/year" might be what people in the industry use (some people still use British Thermal Units, in the USA ...) but for a scientifically literate lay person "about 100 kW" is far easier to understand than "about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year". (I hope I calculated that correctly.)
by landdate | 2025-08-28 10:17:59+00:00
It seems like the pay isn't that bad, the median being $50,730 per year in 2024 [1].

I wonder why this field is so understaffed. The obvious thing that pops into my mind is the stress and work/life balance of the job.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/po...
by drbacem | 2025-08-28 10:18:45+00:00
I just launched RealiWrite, a tool designed to transform AI-generated text into natural, human-like writing.

Why I built it:

AI detectors are increasingly flagging machine-written content, even when it’s high quality.

Many AI outputs sound too "polished" or robotic, making them easy to spot.

Writers, students, and professionals need text that feels authentic and flows like real human writing.

What RealiWrite does:

Human-like writing flow

Publication-ready output: Refines text so it reads naturally and professionally.

AI detector bypass: Boosts perplexity and burstiness so text avoids being flagged.

You paste in your AI-generated text, click Humanize, and instantly get a rewritten version that feels authentic.

I’d love feedback from the HN community on:

Use cases you’d find most useful

Features you’d like to see added

Concerns or suggestions around ethics, accuracy, and applications
by tomsmith033 | 2025-08-28 10:20:00+00:00
IQrate is Singapore’s first mortgage fintech platform, dedicated to improving the mortgage loan experience through smart technology. We are a team of mortgage specialists who recognize the problem, and are committed to transforming challenges faced by users in the mortgage space, and turning it into an opportunity.

We all face issues of varying degrees when we purchase our own homes: the mortgage loan application process is often tedious, confusing, and requires several hours of research. We thought: If only this could all be automated. Buying a property is one of the biggest investments in anyone’s life. When purchasing a property, we would have to consider a mortgage loan.

We want to empower users to be at the heart of the mortgage journey. To help homeowners take control of the mortgage loan process, and save time and effort, with an all-in-one mortgage app at their fingertips.
by SCdF | 2025-08-28 10:20:56+00:00
No, not surgery. Surgery wasn't gotten to by way of working really hard on a magic trick. I'm also reasonably sure surgery is not at a point where you can cut someone entirely in half and put them back together.

Since you brought up Penn and Teller, take the bullet catch. They are not actually catching a bullet. No matter how hard they work on perfecting their bullet catch trick, this will not allow them to catch a real bullet shot from a real gun in their real teeth. Working on the trick is not the journey where the end point is doing the actual thing you're representing in the trick.
by bullen | 2025-08-28 10:21:22+00:00
A fully kitted "gaming " machine draws minimum 150W at 60 FPS, most people have 120+Hz monitors so even an indie game draws minimum 300W.

The 3588 that can play HL2 at 300 FPS draws maybe around 10-15W.

Windows is 99% of the market today so if you don't support it you don't exist, in 5 years I'm hoping Windows will be around 50% because people will grow tired of the violent AAA games and electricity prices will rise.

Playing a couple of hours will soon cost more than the game costs to buy.
by latexr | 2025-08-28 10:21:36+00:00
> Genuine question, do you actually use the formal emdash in your writing?

I’m not the person you asked, but I do.

> the proper emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it

The spaces around it depend on style guide, it is not universal that they should not exist.

> That's because most keyboards don't have an emdash key

Nor do they have keys for proper quotes and apostrophes or interrobangs, yet it doesn’t stop people from using them. The keys don’t need to exist.

> That's what makes it such a good giveaway.

It’s not. It might be one signal but it is far from sufficient.

> I'm happy to be told that I'm wrong, and that you do actually use the proper double long dash in your writing

I do use the proper em-dash in my writing—and many other characters too—and my HN history is ample proof. I explained at length in another comment how I insert the characters, plus how simple it is if you use any Apple OS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45003650
by Shorel | 2025-08-28 10:22:06+00:00
¿Effective? I don't understand your point.

The sensation induced by binaural beats are based on brain waves synchronisation, basically we get control of the stick shifter of the brain, and we perceive the changes strongly, as they are much faster than usual.

TLDR: you definitely feel them, and it feels a bit like getting high.

Chemical induced states of altered consciousness are of a fundamentally different nature. Keeping the car centric metaphor it would be like switching the type of fuel you are giving to the engine. It feels different, for different reasons.
by dale_glass | 2025-08-28 10:22:16+00:00
But what's actually happening? There seems to be a lack of technical information.

And why does the SSD allow this to happen? A SSD has its own onboard computer, it's not just allowing the OS to do whatever it wants. Obviously the OS can write way too much and reach the endurance limit but that should have been figured out almost instantly, with OS write stats and SMART stats.
by galaxyLogic | 2025-08-28 10:24:06+00:00
Here's a trick I've used: After I breathe in I don't breathe out intentionally, I just observe and enjoy the breath going out on its own. It is an enjoyable sensation not unlike what you experience diving under water and coming back to surface to breathe again. Same after I breathe out, I feel the natural desire to breathe in again and I just let it happen.

Not really pausing between changing the direciton of breath, but just observing how it feels good to breath in and out naturally, automatically. This means I am actually being aware that I enjoy breathing. And when you enjoy something, you don't need to think too much. Just enjoy it. It is also a great realization that I can enjoy life as long as I'm not in pain and I can breathe, and have enough time that I can focus on and experience that.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-28 10:24:52+00:00
The local clock [in this HW] is synced to PTP, cf. https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/O...

There's only one clock in HW, not two. And you really want PTP time in HW for PPS/timestamp IO. (And gPTP uses 1588 HW, there are no special 802.1AS HW implementations that I'm aware of.)

Whether this matches the spec — no idea. My knowledge is from implementations… there could of course be ones that have two clocks. Can you link one?
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-28 10:24:56+00:00
>But what's actually happening? There seems to be a lack of technical information.

That's also what I want to know. All the information on this topic seems to be just circular anecdotes like a snake eating its own tail: a bunch of anecdotal reddit posts, quoting a Tom's hardware article, that's quoting more anecdotal reddit posts, that's quoting one Japanese tweet of someone's speculation.

Like how many of these SSD deaths can actually be pinned on this update, and how much of this is just "Havana syndrome" of people's SSDs dying for whatever other reason, then they hear about this hubbub in the news and then they go on reddit and say "OMG mine too", then clickbait journalists pick up on it, and round and round we go, further reinforcing the FUD, but without any actual technical analysis to verify.
by sokoloff | 2025-08-28 10:25:18+00:00
I’m sorry for your friend’s job loss, but reading a page of fairly generic eulogy written by someone who knew nothing of grandma beyond what the family said and basic obituary facts doesn’t seem massively different from a page of fairly generic eulogy written by an AI based on the same inputs.

If you can find a workable way to put the family in the improvements loop, the AI eulogy could be far better at expressing the family’s sentiment about grandma. (I’m not going to want to go 3 rounds of edits over 2-3 days with a human to get it just right, but going 8 rounds of tweaking/perfecting with an AI in a 20-30 minute sitting is appealing and would give a better result in a lot of cases.)

Under those conditions, how much more am I willing to pay for a human-written eulogy? $0 at most, and probably a negative amount.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-28 10:25:43+00:00
For me bookmarks are this "I know I saw this somewhere..." thing. Sometimes searching All of Internet for that one specific source isn't efficient.

Which means that spending 10 seconds tagging and categorising a link before saving it becomes really useful.

If I suspect even a little that the site or content might disappear (completely or behind a paywall) later, I use Obsidian's Web Clipper to save the whole text locally.
by db48x | 2025-08-28 10:28:09+00:00
My apologies if I wasn’t clear enough. I was only intending to make a statistical statement that the number of erasures is of similar order to the number of transistors, not that every single transistor changes its state exactly once per cycle. Some don't change their state this cycle, others end up changing multiple times before settling. In fact, some are completely powered off! (Because you’re not using the built–in GPU right now, or you’re not doing AVX512 right now, etc, etc.)

Note also that discharging the internal capacitance of a transistor, and the heat generated by current through the transistor’s internal resistance, are both costs over and above the fundamental cost of erasing a bit. Transistors can be made more efficient by reducing those additional costs, but Landauer discovered that nothing can reduce the fundamental cost of erasing a bit.
by eru | 2025-08-28 10:30:10+00:00
> There’s not good ways to extinguish these fires once they start.

If one battery pack catches fire, you can start moving the others away from it.

If you normally keep 0.5m between them, you have plenty of buffer space to eat into.

Basically it would start as . . . X . . . with X being the pack on fire "." being a battery pack not on fire, and " " being the half metre between them. Then you move them to get:

... X ...

Where the dots now have perhaps only 30cm between them, but the space to the X is increased.
by latexr | 2025-08-28 10:30:50+00:00
It depends on the keyboard layout. Some (US) do have it like you described, but others have the dashes reversed.

Both make sense, to a degree. On the one hand you can argue that the em-dash—being longer—should require and extra key, but on the other hand it has more uses so it should not have the extra key to be more accessible.
by justlikereddit | 2025-08-28 10:30:58+00:00
In your fantasy world both poles are ice free, snow is non existent in Britain and the Gulf Stream already stopped working 5 times, all of that before 2020.

That's the official and much hyped past predictions, but this time it's different? Who's really the one crying wolf here?

Maybe you boomer-brained types would get scammed a little bit less often if you tried thinking just a little bit for yourself instead of uncritically swallowing the pre-chewed fecal mass that media spits into your mouth on a daily basis.
by eadmund | 2025-08-28 10:32:00+00:00
> It's basically just INI/TOML

That’s a dealbreaker for me. I like something that I can use grep and other Unix utilities on. There’s a reason that the tabular style formats of /etc/passwd, crontab and inetd exist.

> You can also organise them as files in...folders.

+1 on this concept, though. For some reason folks forget that the filesystem is a pretty decent hierarchical database!