MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akoboldfrying | 2025-08-18 22:04:20+00:00
I agree with everything you said. Favouring non-paywalled content is reasonable and sensible, and lots of interesting HN content was made for free. I'm only arguing that, in those cases where an article is being charged for, we should not attempt to duck that requirement through technology -- that's trying to get something for nothing.

And yes, this would in general mean fewer or perhaps zero such articles on HN. (For content producers, this is the flip side of paywalling your site: Less word-of-mouth on sites like HN.)

This is already a niche view, but even more controversially I think it applies to ad-supported content too: If a site offers free access to content but shows ads, we should not block those ads. It doesn't matter that pages encrusted with ads are annoying -- viewing the ads is part of the contract.
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-18 22:04:32+00:00
The simplest way in which crypto solves forex, at least in a narrow sense, is by the vendor accepting payment in a stablecoin, such as in one that matches the price of USD or EUR 1:1. Examples are USDT and DEUR. The transaction fees are very low, and there are no pumps and dumps. Swap fees between different stablecoins also are a lot lower than what a bank would charge as a forex fee.

One is of course always free to use real cryptocurrency too, e.g. BTC and XMR, although they are subject to pumps and dumps, although the price rises over time.
by tonymet | 2025-08-18 22:04:55+00:00
Electric owners under-value the last 20% of their battery. That is the most important 20%

If you are running out of "gas" , every lost mile is a mile walking (or being towed). that last 20% of range is the difference between making it to the next charger or being dead on the road. And with electric it's a bigger burden because they can't be refilled with gasoline.

As a practical example, my recent charging forecast dropped from 12% to zero % during the drive (this was controlled for consumption, ambient temps, driving speed etc). We finally arrived with 3% on the battery. So that means in a year, we will not be able to make that exact same drive. That is a problem needing addressed.

I've also not heard great things with the warranties. It seems people struggle to redeem compensation via warranty. And the qualifying conditions are not helpful for most customers experiencing poor performance.

I'm happy with my electric car, but I don't think more of the market will adopt them until this issue is directly addressed. "only 20%" dismisses the most critical and insecure experiences with the car.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-18 22:05:01+00:00
Libraries have to replace paperback books after ~20 checkouts on average. (This number is from memory but I'm quite sure it's in this range.) Hardcover books last a bit longer but of course are also more expensive.

I agree the industry would have a hard time surviving off library sales alone, in the same way that most businesses rely on multiple revenue streams to make ends meet, but I think library revenue is much more significant than you're making it out to be!
by echelon | 2025-08-18 22:06:12+00:00
This is beyond slick.

I'm finally able to kill Notion (good riddance - I never liked it!), and if it can handle larger tables then I'll stop using Google Suite as well.

My last request of the Obsidian team is a better git plugin. Their official built-in sync product is fine, but I'd still like to manage my own versioning so I can use automations.

The currently available git plugin is extremely dangerous (!!!) if set up incorrectly. I would consider myself an advanced user of git, and Obsidian's git plugin has on several occasions blown away my history and notes. It has frustrating and opaque behavior for how it consolidates change sets and diffs.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-18 22:08:13+00:00
> When Trump says "America First" he means whatever is needed for America to "win".

When Trump says "America First" he means "Trump First". Insofar as this administration is concerned about winning a purported AI race, it's so that they can make money off of it. Trump views money collected by the government as his own personal slush fund, so this 10% of Intel is about him personally getting ownership of the AI race now. It has nothing to do with setting America up for the future, let's be clear.
by lurking_swe | 2025-08-18 22:08:53+00:00
OK, so why not have a customer support bot add the “operation description” into a message queue (SQS, Kafka, whatever) if a formal API doesn’t exist for that operation? The csrs can then handle that task async and the customer can get a sms / email when their request is fulfilled? Why force things to be synchronous and irritate the customer?

It’s not exactly a difficult design problem. Unless I’m missing some thing.
by brikym | 2025-08-18 22:09:00+00:00
I have a cheap 2nd gen Nissan Leaf. It's one of the worst cars for battery degradation since it has no thermal management. I'm in a temperate climate so that helps. After 6 years it's now at about 84% state of health. Not great but it's not catastrophically bad like some anti-EV people will have you believe. I believe the first year experiences the steepest drop in health. Maybe after another 6 years it'll get to 70% and it'll probably get sold to a person who drives shorter distances.
by instig007 | 2025-08-18 22:09:21+00:00
> I prefer list/set/dict comprehensions any day. It's more general, doesn't require to know a myriad of different methods

It's the opposite, your knowledge of the standard set of folding algorithms (maps, filters, folds, traversals) is transferable almost verbatim across a wide range of languages: https://hoogletranslate.com/?q=map&type=by-algo
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-18 22:10:18+00:00
That difference matters only to the institution. To the user, however, the risk and damage from the leak of any type of serious PII is one and the same in that it is a risk to be avoided.

In other words, the technicality you state is the difference between the user getting punched in the guts versus in the gonads. Both are to be avoided.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-18 22:10:26+00:00
> The research, led by British lawyer Trevor Asserson, also found that Israel was associated with genocide more than 14 times more than Hamas in the corporation’s coverage of the conflict.

That hardly seems surprising, given the way the war is going.

> It cites several examples, including a podcast last November in which Mr Bowen stated “Hamas ...an Islamic resistance movement...we’ve seen in the past few weeks has a military strategy” and a News at Ten report last October in which he said: “Hamas will try to use hit-and-run guerrilla tactics against a much more powerful army.”

Every word in that last sentence is accurate. Where's the bias?

> It claims Mr Bowen has also compared Israel’s offensive in Gaza to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including in a BBC article in November last year in which he stated: “Israel is on course to have killed as many Palestinian civilians in just over a month as Russia has killed in Ukraine since February 2022.”

Again, entirely accurate?

> In one example, the report cites Ms Doucet stating in a radio dispatch in February this year: “And from the beginning of this Israel Gaza War, which erupted on October 7, it has been clear that both the United States and Iran do not want to be dragged into a direct confrontation”

Accurate again?
by dottjt | 2025-08-18 22:10:45+00:00
As much as I like the idea of Obsidian, I just can't get over all the additional functionality that Notion provides due to the integrated nature of it.

In particular, I love how you select text/blocks in Notion and how every line is a "block". I really wish other editors did that as well. In fact, it's probably the main reason why I haven't moved away from Notion.
by FakeFind | 2025-08-18 22:11:32+00:00
Amazon reviews have become harder and harder to trust. Many products with thousands of 5-star ratings turn out to be low-quality because of fake or manipulated reviews.

I built FakeFind.ai as a simple way to check review authenticity before you buy. No extension or account needed, just paste in an Amazon link and get results in seconds.

What you get:

Trust Score (1–10) showing review authenticity

Adjusted Rating (corrected star rating based on genuine reviews)

Trust Summary explaining the reasoning

3 trusted alternatives in the same category

In the past week, FakeFind has already run 10,000 scans, and over half of them flagged signs of manipulation.

Our goal is to make Amazon shopping safer and more transparent by helping people see past fake reviews. Would love feedback from the HN community.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-18 22:12:47+00:00
Right, this is what's so amazing to me. The American conservative party spent the last 30 years taking a victory lap over the fall of the USSR, extolling the evils of socialism wherever they could, only to run in the opposite direction so hard, they ended up proving horseshoe theory by emulating everything that made the Soviets government dysfunctional.
by dahauns | 2025-08-18 22:13:08+00:00
I can't help it, the first thought that came to mind was "Huh...talk about sheer senseless brute force." Why use a Large Language Model on something as clearly defined in scope as a game instead of a model designed and trained for the task/ruleset? Sure, there's the argument of not having to train that model, but OTOH, "decent harnesses" does some very heavy lifting there...
Ask HN: Why AI companies so limited?
by piratesAndSons | 2025-08-18 22:13:37+00:00
You’d think with all the hype and money flowing into these companies, they’d actually come up with something revolutionary. Instead, we see yet another note-taking tool. Another rent-seeking middleman. Another iteration of something that already exists—just with fewer people employed, because costs were cut.

Where is the equivalent of building semiconductors for this era? Where is the leap from a horse to the Model T? And if that’s too hard, why not go after industries everyone hates—like U.S. health insurance? Where are the AI companies burning billions to make healthcare as cheap and accessible as an iPhone?

Setting aside the industrial copyright theft issues, it would be one thing if “AI bros” were actually delivering something that changed society for the better. But instead, it feels like AI is not only large-scale copyright theft, but also, for the most part, useless.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-08-18 22:14:23+00:00
Lol, I'm not much of a "content creator" (though I'd recommend wanderloots' intro series on bases[1]), but here's a quick gist of what I extracted from my for one of my campaigns:

https://gist.github.com/LordDragonfang/d826cb686c64d582afbe2...

This is a combined view of the players and npcs from one campaign with the portrait gallery in the second view.

I've got the official template plugin bound to ctrl-shift-2, so I just hit that to pre-populate the frontmatter whenever I create an npc/pc/etc note with the appropriate template.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4NDvVhlZMk...
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-18 22:14:45+00:00
Hospitals are obligated by law and building code to have backup generators with multiple (at least 3) separate backup power feeds for critical branch, life safety branch, and equipment branch. These are defined as ‘essential loads’ by the National Electrical Code. They can all be fed from the same generator but must use separate overcurrent protection and automatic transfer switches.

Critical branch is defined as loads that are used for direct patient care, plus ‘additional task lighting, receptacles, and circuits needed for effective hospital operation.’

Life safety branch is the fire alarm system and emergency lighting, plus elevator lights and controls, medgas alarms, PA/notification systems used during building evacuation, and some generator accessories.

Equipment branch has some require items including OR cooling, patient room heating, and data rooms. Some hospitals will add MRIs, non-patient care HVAC, and chillers (for air conditioning) on the generator backup system as well.

There’s typically a fourth system for everything else (‘normal’ power) that is not backed by a generator. Non-emergency lighting, convenience receptacles, and other non-essential loads are on this system.
by montebicyclelo | 2025-08-18 22:14:57+00:00
> the Python code in the previous example is still readable

Yes, I agree with the author, list comprehensions are readible, and I'd add, practical.

> it gets worse as the complexity of the logic increases

len(list(filter(lambda line: all([abs(x) >= 1 and abs(x) <= 3 for x in line]) and (all([x > 0 for x in line]) or all([x < 0 for x in line])), diffs)))

Ok, well this is something that someone would be unlikely to write... unless they wanted to make a contrived example to prove a point.

It would be written more like:

result = sum(my_contrived_condition(x) for line in diffs)

See also the Google Python style guide, which says not to do the kind of thing in the contrived example above: https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html

(Surely in any language it's possible to write very bad confusing code, using some feature of the language...)

And note:

x = [line.split() for line in text.splitlines()]

^- list comprehension is just a convenient shorthand for a `for loop`, i.e.:

x = [] for line in text.splitlines(): x.append(line.split())

Just moving the `line.split()` to the front and removing the empty list creation and append.
by line-27 | 2025-08-18 22:15:03+00:00
If you prefer jumping to other moments: • Honest Court (Ch.2): https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf#p... • Energy Market (Ch.4): https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf#p... • Constitution refresh (Ch.10): https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf#p...
by mamcx | 2025-08-18 22:15:10+00:00
Even assuming that this is plausible way a user could think about it (that can be understood) it shows why is bad

Think: I have 20 tables with the column `id`

"I want 'id,id,id'"

is bad UX, and is what here is being argued, then when the syntax guide you: "I want 'FROM a: id'" is better
by dns_snek | 2025-08-18 22:16:49+00:00
> Because if I don't do it, who will?

Hopefully nobody? Defending anti-competitive practices of corporations is generally a really odd thing to do.

> Chrome is not a monopoly as it compete against the apps I previously provided.

Google the company, not Chrome.

> The changes are not hostile. Their goal is to improve the web.

Please don't insult me with corporate PR. Their goal is to take control away from their users in order to empower their customers - advertisers.

To deny that is plainly dishonest, they've been engaging in the same practices on every property they own - Android as the most direct comparison.
by monkeywork | 2025-08-18 22:16:52+00:00
It's not a discord problem it's an online culture problem. People now are addicted to trying to find things to be upset about and put people on blast for - make an off coloured joke in the old days and you may suddenly find your new best friend, now it's being clipped and shared on twitter and some one is calling your boss to try and get you fired.

It's not the tools it's the people
by calmbonsai | 2025-08-18 22:17:09+00:00
As an avid hiker and weight-trainer, I couldn't agree more. Limiting exposure to these algorithmically curated (ultra-processed) stimuli is the best general advice.

It's just that, sadly, the economic drivers (atm) for social media, food, news, and (most) traditional media are at odds with creating products for healthy consumption.

In the interim, we can counter that exposure when requisite interaction is mandated with tech (ad-blocking, nutrition information, etc.).

I do have hope that many of these economic drivers are starting to wane and there's still a chance of avoiding "Idiocracy" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy ) as a documentary.
by zoobaloo | 2025-08-18 22:17:54+00:00
I did as well! @rimunroe I don't remember my handle, but you took me down a nice little path on memory lane.

The Warcraft mod was a little goofy, but as a younger kid who couldn't appreciate the hardcore competitive scene I liked the variety and silliness it brought.

I spent way too much time finding custom skins online to keep things interesting. Good times.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-18 22:19:00+00:00
The six of us had to move (together) during the 2020-2022 housing crisis (400 new applications per available rental per day).

After that, I am wholly fine with some empty housing around here. Being razor-close to homelessness (w/ money in the bank) sucked beyond measure. We beat long odds to find housing; a lot of people didn't.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-08-18 22:19:06+00:00
I've never had it wipe anything before[1], but I do have a stretch of 200+ commits in my personal vault where my laptop and desktop were fighting back and forth on the contents of one setting file.

One caveat is that the obsidian android app DOES NOT seem to save files to storage until the note unloads, which can break things if you pull in the middle of making changes.

[1] Though I have had to fix my termux clone of the vault enough times that I now just nuke it and re-clone instead of bothering with git - but that's more of a "termux likes to break git" issue than anything
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-18 22:19:56+00:00
> It’s really cheap. Ive done it for a grand total of $2000 most of which was to get a real beefy generator so I could just power my whole house instead of only a few circuits.

Are you talking about something like a 7.2kW portable with a 60A manual transfer switch? I could see that costing around $2000, which is substantially cheaper than a Generac. I found a portable Kohler with 7.2kW for ~$1500.

Instead of a transfer switch, you could shut off the main circuit breaker or pull the meter and backfeed the panel through a 60A 2P breaker, that would save some dollars.

Just make sure that you disconnect from utility power before backfeeding and be absolutely certain to disconnect the generator before switching back to utility power, you don’t want to find out what happens when a generator isn’t in sync with the utility frequency :) Rapid unintentional disassembly, lol.
by softwaredoug | 2025-08-18 22:20:01+00:00
I used to do homework while waiting for the next round to start. Homework, round, homework, round. The game was perfect for a few minutes of excitement than enough time to solve the next math problem.

I don’t know but it was less intimidating than trying to focus JUST on the homework. It’s always made me wonder if there are kinds of multitasking that actually work to overcome the when to work feels intimidating.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-18 22:21:11+00:00
Yeah, the Mars Liberation Front may use it to attack City 1!

It‘s the battery tech, which is classified military stuff. I presume it’s a thing you put in submarine detectors deep in the ocean, or compact spy satellites.

But indeed, it’s the type of radioisotope that’s dangerous to just be around, where minuscule amounts could fuck up the whole village. But terrorists would probably rather get their hands on emitters from the medical field than fly to mars.
by kixiQu | 2025-08-18 22:22:20+00:00
https://maya.land/blogroll.opml

My blogroll's better-known than my actual site, and it's feed-reader compatible OPML that I've just made fun with additional attributes and XSLT. A server-side transform to vend duplicate OPML and HTML would be a bummer. I'm not an Important Web Platform user or anything, but I wish more people would share their feed-reader exports – and I've thought about trying to share tooling to extend/display them like this. It'll be sad if that ends up impossible.
by gambiting | 2025-08-18 22:22:23+00:00
>>Also the early Nissan Leafs, pioneers in the mass-market EV space, had batteries with only air cooling and which experienced significant degradation.

Volkswagen e-Ups, Seat Mii Electric and Skoda CitiGo EV(same car really), all have an air-cooled battery, been on the market for 13 years now and there's no significant degradation reported(not in a systematic way like with the Leafs). I think it's just different chemistry to what the Leafs were using.
by brettgriffin | 2025-08-18 22:22:28+00:00
What I find interesting about this article is that the author is the founder of Cloudera. Cloudera was one of the pioneers of the Hadoop ecosystem (and de facto data lake movements).

For the uninitiated, data lakes are used to centralize vast quantities of data - often consumer data - usually by large organizations and governments to provide insights and inform decisions within the organization. Some call this surveillance capitalism.

Cloudera IPO'd somewhere around $2B and was taken private in a deal led by KKR for around $5B.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-18 22:22:37+00:00
Not a fan of high resource use or reliance on proprietary vendors/services. DeepSpeech/Vosk were pre-AI and still worked well on local devices, but they were a huge pain to set up and use. Anyone have better versions of those? Looks like one successor was Coqui STT, which then evolved into Coqui TTS which seems still maintained. Kaldi seems older but also still maintained.

edit: nvm, this overview explains the different options: https://www.gladia.io/blog/best-open-source-speech-to-text-m... and https://www.gladia.io/blog/thinking-of-using-open-source-whi...
by qingcharles | 2025-08-18 22:22:43+00:00
I keep this bookmark in Chrome which lets me open an editor in a tab and Chrome maintains the state of the textarea even through reboots as long as you don't close the tab:

data:text/html,<html><head><title>Notepad</title><style>html,body{margin:0;padding:0;}textarea{padding:10px;font-family:Courier;font-size:16px;height:100%;width:100%;border:none;outline:none;}</style></head><body><textarea style="height:100%;width:100%;font-size:16px;padding:10px;"></textarea><script>document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0].focus()</script></body></html>
by line-27 | 2025-08-18 22:22:56+00:00
Three artifacts we built into this world:

• Invariants (unchangeable guardrails). Example: “Reversibility before heroics.” If an action can’t be safely undone, it must wait for a quorum.

• Quorums > charisma. Risky actions require threshold signatures; witnesses before power.

• Museum of Errors. Blameless postmortems as public exhibits; kids add lesson-cards.

If you had to add one invariant to your real city/org, what would it be?
by tbird24 | 2025-08-18 22:23:56+00:00
I realize I should probably comment links to some of the better engineering roles we're currently featuring right now. BTW I should also note we don't take a % commission like Upwork, Toptal, etc. So if you get hired you'd work with the company directly and get paid by them direct.

Fractional CTO @ A Consumer Healthtech Marketplace 20 - 40 hrs | $175 - $200 / hr | Remote (USA only) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/chief-technology-officer-...

Senior AI Engineer @ A European Insurtech Startup 20 - 40 hrs / week | €85 - €100 / hr | Remote (CET +/- 6hrs) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/senior-ai-engineer-at-a-e...

Senior Full-stack Engineer @ A Consumer Social Startup 20 - 40 hrs / week | $125 - $150 / hr | Remote (EST +/- 5 hrs) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/senior-full-stack-enginee...

Staff Frontend Engineer @ An HR-tech Analytics Platform 20 - 40 hrs / week | $120 - $180 / hr | Remote (USA / Canada only) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/staff-frontend-engineer-a...

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by lapcat | 2025-08-18 22:24:25+00:00
> Your other points are answered in the guidelines, news guidelines, and/or comments by mods, which are also considered part of the guidelines.

If you'd kindly point exactly where, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I still have no idea what you're talking about. I have of course read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html