MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by edcapit | 2025-08-13 20:35:57+00:00
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by latexr | 2025-08-13 20:38:10+00:00
> But to say elon doesn't understand his companies deeply is pure stupidity.

And it wasn’t my argument. You can understand your company without understanding every intricacy of your products. A good example is Tim Cook, who understands operations but not design or programming (and doesn’t pretend to) and yet helms Apple into greater heights (even if I disagree with the direction). A company is not a single person, that’s why you hire.

Furthermore, I wasn’t rude or aggressive towards you, and would thus appreciate the same courtesy. Especially when your vitriol comes from a place of misunderstanding and strawmanning. That is not what HN is about.
Show HN: Videolangua – end-to-end video translate and subtitle/ dub
by 3Sophons | 2025-08-13 20:38:20+00:00
What it is A practical pipeline to go from video → transcripts → bilingual subtitles (A/B at once) or voice dub (choose female or male). It targets lectures, tutorials, tech talks etc

Current constraints (honest version)

No speaker diarization yet → one TTS voice for the entire video

Voice choice: female / male

Bilingual subtitles (e.g., EN+JP, EN+ZH, EN+KR) with length-aware line breaking

You can add customized terms and translations in front of the listening model and the translation model to get the best accuracy

Long videos: we re-anchor timestamps periodically to fight drift

Pipeline (condensed)

ASR with word-level timestamps

Segment cleanup + merge tiny fragments

MT twice → produce A/B subtitle tracks; constrain length to reduce overflow; have multiple language model to supervise/double check the translation quality

TTS → single voice (female/male) for the full track

Mixback → keep ambience, duck original, SRT (mono or dual-lang) + dubbed MP4

Why post this now It’s not “magic studio” quality, but it’s dependable for many real-world cases: course videos, onboarding, webinars. We found being explicit about limits (no diarization) actually speeds teams up.

What we’d love feedback on

The current User experience

Acceptable subtitle overflow rate on 30–60 min content

TTS pacing rules that feel most natural for multilingual reading speed

(If there’s interest, we’ll extract a minimal CLI with the exact steps and corner cases called out.)
by VinLucero | 2025-08-13 20:38:22+00:00
If AI enables the personalization of apps for individuals, wouldn’t it also be good at doing so for families?

Maybe there is an opportunity to create vibe coded products that fit into the rhythm of a given family.

Collective emotion as a construct for a bigger family goal is an interesting optimization problem.

Mint for tracking your family’s mental and emotional health.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-13 20:38:39+00:00
Excluding others only in a way that is not dissimilar to you locking your doors/windows to exclude others from freely entering your house.

Yes, some of the premiere radio observatories have radio transmission exclusion zones around them, but they are also typically away from that exclusion zone impacting as few as possible. Starlink on the other hand is not attempting to do anything of the sort. It would be interesting of Starlink could respect a geofence kind of idea so that they stop broadcasting when over certain areas, especially since they do this over geopolitically exclusion zones.
by pkaye | 2025-08-13 20:38:51+00:00
You may want to look at this study. Its preapproval expanded access. There is an email and phone numbers for the company which is running the study. Usually the further along the drug trial is they more the loosen the criteria. Wouldn't hurt the ask if its suitable for your father.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06877676?intr=TAR-200&ra...
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-13 20:39:51+00:00
> If astronomy is not able to cope with additional regulation without additional funding, then for-profit companies should not be expected to do so either. It's that simple

So your belief is that for-profit companies should not be required to comply to regulation put in place after they start business in any field.

And for-profit companies who later join to compete with them? They should, because it's not "additional"? Or also not, to ensure a competitive market?

So basically no regulation of any kind shall happen, because companies should not be expected to cope with new regulation if it incurs additional effort for them.

Congrats.
by general1726 | 2025-08-13 20:39:52+00:00
Tesla Dinner is essentially trying to reinvent a gas pump convenient store with facilities. Somebody maybe asked why gas pump had the facilities around them with an employee who can help you if something does not work, sometimes even in 3am?

Maybe Tesla dinner has been a brainchild of somebody who actually drove BEV and got into charging problems in the middle of a night in a bumfuck nowhere and not enough charge to get to a different point? I have been in that situation, that feeling of helplessness while you are essentially holding your salvation in your hand, yet it does not work, can be really crushing.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-13 20:39:56+00:00
> But if they take it, then package it, then make money? That is different

But still, also legal.

You can't copyright a recipe itself, just the fluff around it. It is totally legal for somone to visit a bunch of recipe blogs, copy the recipes, rewrite the descriptions and detailed instructions and then publish that in a book.

The is essentially the same as what LLMs do. So prohibiting this would be a dramatic expansion of the power of copyright.

Personally, I don't use LLMs. I hope there will always be people like me that want to see the original source and verify any knowledge.

I'm actually hopeful that LLM reduction in search traffic will impact the profitability of SEO clickbait referral link garbage sites that now dominate results on many searches. We'll be left with enthusiasts producing content for the joy of nerding out again. Those sites will still have a following of actually interested people and the rest can consume the soulless summaries from the eventually ad infested LLMs.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-13 20:40:10+00:00
This move feels inevitable. I expect we'll come to see an all-time high in "vibe-coded" apps and services/products built with surface-level understanding by creators and used by people with even less technical awareness.

Most developers in this new wave don't fully grasp the systems they're building, and end-users operate in total opacity. I have personally used AI to generate code scaffolds, and spend hours debugging edge cases, printing GitHub issues, and feeding API docs back into the system to stair it right enough times that I end up understanding a lot more what it is I plan on implementing as I reach a solid implementation. The average user wouldn't even know where to start with that.

Google's policy isn't an overreach; more like a reaction to the coming tsunami of superficially functional but fundamentally fragile tools. This is just the first domino. Expect more platform-level interventions as poorly understood tech stacks meet real-world consequences.

The era of "move fast and break things" is colliding with domains where broken things ruin lives. I wouldn't want any family members/close friends getting to swallow the latter pill.

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└── Dey well; Be well
by joshmarlow | 2025-08-13 20:40:21+00:00
It's been a few years since I've touched OCaml - the ecosystem just wasn't what I wanted - but the core language is still my favorite.

And the best way I can describe why is that my code generally ends up with a few heavy functions that do too much; I can fix it once I notice it, but that's the direction my code tends to go in.

In my OCaml code, I would look for the big function and... just not find it. No single workhorse that does a lot - for some reason it was just easier for me to write good code.

Now I do Rust for side projects because I like the type system - but I would prefer OCaml.

I keep meaning to checkout F# though for all of these reasons.
by Terretta | 2025-08-13 20:40:42+00:00
> If you destroy the economics of sharing with other people

OK...

Someone needs to find the best cafes in Berlin and document their fix for a 2007 Renault Kangoo fuel pump. Someone needs to try the gadget and feel the carefully designed clicking of the volume wheel. Someone has to get their heart broken in a specific way and someone has to write some kind words for them. Someone has to be disappointed in the customer service and warn others who come after them.

None of those people get paid, three decades ago most of them* shared just fine on BBSs and usenet, while paying to do so, not to mention geocities, Tumbler, on whatever, happily paying to share. For a long time, your dialup connection even came with an FTP site you on which you could host static web pages from e.g. FrontPage or any number of Windows and Mac tools. Not to mention LiveJournal and then Blogger, followed by MoveableType and Wordpress...

People were happy to pay to share instead of get paid, before ads.

You cannot really destroy the economics of sharing that way, it remains too cheap and easy. Unless, you were to, say, invent a giant middleman replacing these yahoos that prioritized "content" that works well to collect and send clicks when ads are wrapped around it, then ensure whatever anyone shares disappears unless they play the game, so more ads can be sold both on the middleman and on the content.

At that point, your sharing becomes gamified, and you're soon sharing not to share something important, but for the points....

Oh.

> the livelihoods of those who built them

But it was never supposed to be about a new class of livelihood. Imagine, if you will, some kind of whole earth catalog hand curated by a bunch of Yahoos...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

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* Those who had anything useful they felt compelled to share for the good of others, not as scaffolding content for ads to surround. Getting paid to say any of those things tends to be negatively correlated with the quality of what's being said. Those who share just because "you need to know this", there tends to be something to what they put out there.
by nickff | 2025-08-13 20:40:53+00:00
Many companies encourage employees to go home and relax or engage in other rewarding activities; it can be very beneficial for the employer. For one thing, it encourages people to separate their work lives and home lives, which can decrease stress (often encouraging productivity and increasing tenure), as well as encouraging people to treat their office as somewhere to focus on work (to the exclusion of distractions). Additionally, in many fields it can be helpful to get a fresh perspective on your work every day, rather than getting tunnel-vision, which can happen from having your 'head down' all the time.
by jopsen | 2025-08-13 20:41:03+00:00
I think this book makes a solid argument that communism is evil.

And moreover that comparing the two is irrational and causes false equivalences.

I think the book makes a solid argument that Communism, Marxism or socialism whatever you call it is absurd. And invariably leads to absurd outcomes.

Granted I think it was pretty enlightening to point out that our free western economies are not without planning. We have subsidies, tax policies, social programs, etc. But that doesn't mean we're trying to do away money or private ownership.
by soulstrop | 2025-08-13 20:41:12+00:00
The pace of change in AI coding right now is dizzying. I have a fair amount of time devoted to keeping track of advances in support tooling from LLMs, but I feel perpetually perpetually out of touch. The syllabus says that they'll have weekly news updates, so I wonder how much will have changed by the end of week 10. Which part of the course content will be obsolete by 12/5?

What would be most helpful to me is a guide to what is going to remain hard for a software developer to accomplish regardless of LLM assistance. What are the skills one should invest in to be a centaur instead of a fungible meat puppet?
by bobthepanda | 2025-08-13 20:41:21+00:00
All those things get saturated much more quickly during high traffic times, whereas the freeway has substantially higher capacity to work with.

In particular most intersections on the now D809 are roundabouts, continuing on the D809 often requires making a turn on the roundabout, and roundabouts are notorious for gridlocking with high turn volumes. Let that gridlock cascade across multiple intersections and you now have rapidly deteriorating travel times.

At other times, traffic is less high so this gridlocking is less likely to occur.
by fakedang | 2025-08-13 20:41:30+00:00
I mean, look at the quadrants - they all can be spun positively.

- we have been named an "Industry Challenger"

- Gartner calls us an industry-focused "Niche Product"

- "Visionaries"

- "Leaders"

Like another comment stated, you get placed in different brackets based on how much you pay them to list your product. Niche guys didn't pay enough while the leaders are your usual suspects.
by JeremyNT | 2025-08-13 20:41:46+00:00
I used to be like you and then I decided to get up to speed on where things stand a couple of months ago.

I hate using it but I can write issues in gitlab, send them to aider, and it will spit out working solutions complete with test coverage.

Right now I think I'm maybe still faster just writing things myself but this feels incredibly tenuous. I'm certain that in a year vibe driven development will be faster.

There is no programmer's union. When the industry decides it's time to get rid of developers because vibe coding is faster than mid level developers, there is no counter.

The only developers left will be either true 100x geniuses or vibe coders. I'm not the former so I am trying to make sure I can become the latter long enough to last a few extra years.

Regardless of how much you personally want to resist, this is what is going to happen.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-08-13 20:41:53+00:00
Anyone who knows filesystems would have said "No Duh". Caching on NVME will always be significantly faster than remote, simply because of network latency hops - Even at microseconds per! There's really not a huge difference between modern PCI-E Architecture and modern networking - but the length of the cables matters a lot at these latencies.

All that said - There's still a ton of room for NFS to be the backing store, but more importantly there's room for distributed filesystems with intelligent caching to displace all of this.
by slt2021 | 2025-08-13 20:41:57+00:00
one problem with replicating mutation changes to the data lake is it may lose historical data.

let's say e-shop customer changes his home address from WA state to CA, if you replicate this new address and delete old address in compaction process, all past transactions may now be associated with the new address, which can lead to wrong conclusions or distortions of past historical reports (WA sales from past month will not be attributed to CA sales)
by creesch | 2025-08-13 20:42:32+00:00
> If you are too slow at reading subtitles, you can either slow down the video or train yourself to read faster. Or you can just disable the subtitles.

That's just plain tone deaf, plain and simple. I was not talking about myself, or just youtube. You are not everyone else, your use case is not everyone else their use case. It really isn't that difficult.
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 20:42:52+00:00
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. However I will state that only religion offers any ability to save for after death - and not all of them do. If you want to save that is good, but get your religion in order (whatever that means - I don't want to open that discussion), then make sure your plan is to spend all the savings somehow. I don't care how you spend it, but enjoy life as best you can. I know some who lived a healthy active life to 104, and some who saved a lot of money for retirement but didn't live that long they were diagnosed with untreatable cancer the same month they retired). Pick your best balance between enjoying now and saving for the future.
by deepsun | 2025-08-13 20:43:52+00:00
Exactly. Why do we need to come up with clever formulas to estimate car CO2 production based on car's gross weight, wheelbase, engine displacement, efficiency ratings if it's much easier to calculate how much CO2 is produced from the car's fuel?

PS: electricity is hard as there's a lot of volatile renewables, but I bet is still way easier than clever formulas.
by exolymph | 2025-08-13 20:43:58+00:00
Honestly, I do think there are advantages to in-person work, in terms of team cohesion, serendipity, etc. That said, 1) I don't care, the advantages to me of remote work vastly outweigh the advantages of working on an irl team, 2) many organizations don't set up their irl work environment to effectively maximize the benefits. But I get why employers would prefer it.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-08-13 20:44:04+00:00
>Why would any company encourage that?

Exactly which is why this article is so useless and misunderstands capitalism and does not know economic law. Corporations can never be family friendly becasue it is antagonistic to profit and therefor in direct violation to shareholders rights.

See Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., 170 N.W. 668 (Mich. 1919)

“A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits or to the non-distribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes.“

EDITING TO ADD: Down voting this comment is typical the sociopathic world we are living in where you cannot even show the truth of the law lest it affect sociopathic sensibilities. If one person would explain why my comment, which is just a fact, deserves to be downvoted I would appreciate the conversation.
by myaccountonhn | 2025-08-13 20:44:04+00:00
That code is probably some of the hardest you'll encounter in Ocaml, but for me its quite obvious what it does and easy to read because I've worked with GADTs before. If you haven't then its you'll need to study and understand them to understand the code.

I actually really like the syntax of OCaml, its very easy to write and when you're used to it, easy to read (easier than reasonml IMO).

Double semicolons are afaik only used in the repl.
by trashface | 2025-08-13 20:44:30+00:00
I've had small, mid and S&P funds for a while. Small-cap hasn't done great this year. One idea I've heard in the past is that its more directly affected by consumer weakness as it has a lot of consumer staples companies (and also probably more exposed to risk from tariffs).

I've been slowly DCAing out into bonds, but I'm still over 80% stock total.
by zahlman | 2025-08-13 20:44:44+00:00
Will pyx describe a server protocol that could be implemented by others, or otherwise provide software that others can use to host their own servers? (Or maybe even that PyPI can use to improve its own offering?) That is, when using "paid, hosted services like pyx", is one paying for the ability to use the pyx software in and of itself, or is one simply paying for access to Astral's particular server that runs it?
by jchw | 2025-08-13 20:44:54+00:00
The voltage is always going to be the same because the voltage is determined by the transformers leading to your service panel. The breakers break when you hit a certain amperage for a certain amount of time, so by installing a bigger breaker, you allow more amperage.

If you actually had an electrician do it, I doubt they would've installed a breaker if they thought the wiring wasn't sufficient. Truth is that you can indeed get away with a 20A circuit on 14 AWG wire if the run is short enough, though 12 AWG is recommended. The reason for this is voltage drop; the thinner gauge wire has more resistance, which causes more heat and voltage drop across the wire over the length of it, which can cause a fire if it gets sufficiently hot. I'm not sure how much risk you would put yourself in if you were out-of-spec a bit, but I wouldn't chance it personally.
by martin-t | 2025-08-13 20:45:09+00:00
And that's just one part of it.

Part 2 is all the copyleft code powering the world. Now it can be effortlessly laundered. The freedom to inspect and modify? Gone.

Part 3 is what happens if actual AI is created. Rich people (who usually perform zero- or negative- sum work, if any) need the masses (who perform positive-sum work) for a technological civilization to actually function. So we have a log of bargaining power.

Then an ultra rich narcissistic billionaire comes along and wants to replace everyone with robots. We're still far off from that even if actual AI is achieved but the result is not that everyone can live a happy post-scarcity life with equality, blackjack and hookers. The result is that we all become beggars dependent on what those benevolent owners of AI and robots hand out to us because we will no longer have anything valuable to provide (besides our bodies I guess).
by potsandpans | 2025-08-13 20:45:26+00:00
> How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without any of the credibility or soul. Magic.

There are a handful of interesting critiques of technological advancement. But this essentially boils down to anti-commons, which I think is the wrong way to approach. It's necessarily a conservative, reactionary philosophy.

I dont know how to generously interpret the authors point. The central idea being that we're going to _credentialize_ the human experience. The ramen isn't good because it tastes good, it's because a person worked hard to imagine the combination of ingredients. That we could reproduce this with a novel tool somehow makes the ramen taste worst. Or reduces the qualia of cooking and eating it.

I predict a counter culture in the coming years around this. There's probably a way to make money off of it.