MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tmpod | 2025-08-18 23:44:44+00:00
I've been interested in dictation for a while, but I don't want to be sending any audio to a remote API, it all has to be local. Having tried just a couple of models (namely the one used by the FUTO Keyboard), I'm kinda feeling like we're not quite there yet.

My biggest gripe perhaps is not being able to get decent content out of a thought stream; the models can't properly filter out the pauses, "uuuuhmms", and much less so handle on the fly corrections to what I've been saying, like going back and repeating something with a slight variation and whatnot.

This is a challenging problem I'd love to see being tackled well by open models I can run on my computer or phone. Are there new models more capable of this? Is it not just a model thing, and I missing a good app too?

In the meanwhile, I'll keep typing, even though it can be quite a bit less convenient to do; especially true for note taking on the go.
by jasonfarnon | 2025-08-18 23:45:33+00:00
"Scihub stopped updating the papers in 2022"

True but it matters a lot less in many fields because things have been moving to arXiv and other open access options, anyway. The main time I need sci-hub is for older articles. And that's a huge advantage of sci-hub--they have things like old foreign journal articles even the best academic libraries don't have.

As for mirroring it all, $2200 is beyond my budget too, but it would be nothing for a lot of academic departments, if the line item could be "characterized" the right way. To me it has been a bit of a nuisance working with libgen down the last couple months, like the post mentioned, and I would have loved for a local copy. I don't see it happening, but if libgen/sci-hub/annas archive goes the way of napster/scour, many academics would be in a serious fix.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-18 23:45:59+00:00
By presenting the summary at all, it is presumed to be accurate by good faith readers, but bad faith summarizers will take advantage of this knowledge gap to invisibly rewrite history, that is, they will present the summary as accurate and not tell you that they’re selective with the truth. The fact of the matter is the original content says what it says. Any summary is inherently subjective in comparison to the objective reality of what OP wrote when they wrote it. In this way, subjective summaries of the objective reality of the original subjective statements by OP have extra subjectivity due to the summarization. It has nothing to do with whether or not OP was making objective statements themselves, though that is also a factor in how much objectivity the summary can work with, but that is kind of a side point and not related to my original comment.
by MostlyStable | 2025-08-18 23:46:16+00:00
The lack of an immune system is not a health and safety risk, it's a business risk. An infected batch won't get served to humans it will just die/fail and need to be thrown out. Fighting infection is one of the reasons that lab-grown meats are so expensive. I have seen reasonably convincing technical analyses which claim that it would require pretty massive technological innovations (that are not anywhere on the horizon so far) to make any lab-grown meats economically viable. That's very likely the reason for the fact that (as pointed out in another comment), this is not pure salmon, it's salmon mixed with vegetable product. That was almost definitely a cost-saving measure.

My personal guess is that the first actually economically viable lab-grown meats will be of endangered/extinct animals that the extremely wealthy will be willing to pay the exorbitant costs that it takes to create them for the novelty factor.
by tonymet | 2025-08-18 23:46:33+00:00
The fact is you felt insecure because there was a risk. And with growing degradation means more of a buffer is needed. A 300 mi range vehicle is 192mi due to the buffer, and even that dwindles.

Only half of the non-Tesla EV chargers work, so your 200 mile charger now takes 6 hours to do the next 200 miles.

Even super chargers only function well over the bottom 50% of the battery . So the usable window is shrinking and shrinking.

All of these practical insecurities will need to be fixed before EVs expand beyond just a niche product.

You can dismiss them as silly or user error, but you won't sell any more vehicles that way.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-08-18 23:46:33+00:00
You can't enter Costco anymore without scanning your ID card and them checking your face because people were cheating. I asked one of the cashiers when they first rolled out more stringent ID checks and she said they were catching 5-10 people a day where the photo didn't match.

Likewise you can't enter a bar, buy booze or cigarettes, rent a car or hotel room without ID because no one can be trusted.

> it hasn't been a problem yet

This is a bit naive. The hackers of yore (think RMS) would refuse to set passwords on their accounts. Those days are over. Would you be open to having a blank password on your HN account? If not, why? It hasn't been a problem yet.
by mapt | 2025-08-18 23:48:47+00:00
Parasitic worms are huge, complex multicellular animals that co-evolved to sometimes survive the immune system response to their presence; Freezing kills them because they are huge and the scale of ice crystals severs important body parts. Living bacteria, living fungi, spores from these, viruses, and importantly heat-resistant toxins produced by these, are what I'm worried about.

One of modern humanity's oldest activities is fermenting carbohydrates in large bioreactors into alcohol, yogurt, and pickles, but there are a lot of things that turned out not to work in that history.

When we try to fabricate, say, monoclonal antibodies using large cultures of multicellular tissues for pharmaceutical work, the price ends up coming out to millions of dollars a kilogram.

I am implicitly skeptical of the protocols of a protein tissue culture that has to be produced at the ~$30/kg price level.

Could you eat it and not die? I'm sure!

But could you feed people with a billion meals worth of batches and have nobody die? I'm less sure! My understanding is that tissue culture failures are frequently the bane of a biologist's research program.
by gorpy7 | 2025-08-18 23:48:55+00:00
it’s peculiar because i love to use chat gpt to fill my knowledge gaps as i work through solutions to building and energy problems that i want to solve. i wonder how many people are doing something similar and, although i haven’t* read through all the comments, i doubt much is being said let alone giving credence to that simple but potentially profound idea. learning amplified.
by imankoma | 2025-08-18 23:48:56+00:00
We’ve built Famulor AI – a GDPR- and EU AI Act-compliant voice assistant platform. It can:

Answer inbound calls 24/7

Make outbound calls for sales or reminders

Transcribe and log conversations

Connect to your CRM and 200+ apps without coding

Think of it as a flexible AI “team member” on the phone. Curious what the HN community thinks: Where do you see the biggest use cases for Voice AI in business? What’s still missing in current solutions?
by madamelic | 2025-08-18 23:49:01+00:00
Yep! I was using their embedded player. I thought I was doing everything right but didn't read the ToS because in my mind, ToS is just blocking silly things like "please don't use our product to build nuclear weapons", not "please don't use our product to play videos on another site".

Struck me as very anti-user and BigCorpo.

It was the project that solidified never building on someone else's 'lawn' again.
by benjiro | 2025-08-18 23:49:34+00:00
Annual revenue is not profit. This is the money earned without all the costs of running the business.

For instance, the total revenue was 171m in 2024. But the cost of revenue was 86m. Then you need to remove the operation expenses, that are 153m. So in 2024, the before taxes net income was a loss of 69 million.

In 2025 they are currently at -30m because it seems they cut in their Operating Expense. Explains some of the anchors leaving in 2024 (the impact of big cuts are often only felt the next year)

Here is a very important titbit:

> Newsmax and Newsmax Broadcasting LLC agreed to pay Dominion and its affiliates over three installments, starting with $27 million that was paid on Friday. Newsmax will pay $20 million on January 15 and another $20 million on January 15, 2027.

In other words, they are not able to pay out the 67m in 2025, and are paying it off over 3 years. Given the negative income it has, combined with the now extra payments for then next 3 years...

They are going to be cutting even more staff, what will affect their ability to generate revenue. It may look like a good deal, only 1/3 of their revenue, a 3 year payment plan. But its more of a survival plan.

Why did Dominion accept this? Because its guaranteed money. Dominion is not out to destroy newsmax, no, Dominion wants cheese and a dead newsmax means no cheese. But the effect will be hard on the newsmax, do not underestimate this. Let alone internally...

Some people will see this as a newsmax win, because most people do not know the difference between revenue. And why payment plans are not good indicator. But in reality, the company was already on a bankruptcy route, and its not going to get better. So unless somebody Musk steps in with major $$$ to buyout and finance them for a long time, ...
by astrange | 2025-08-18 23:49:38+00:00
At least they get there.

I was thinking about two types of people; one gets distracted and starts writing their own UI framework and standard library and never gets back to the program. The other starts writing a super-flexible plugin system for everything because they're overly concerned with developing a community to the point they don't want to actually implement anything themselves.

(In this space the first was a few different mplayer forks and the second was gstreamer.)
by HaZeust | 2025-08-18 23:50:18+00:00
>"Server Browsers make sense in a world in which members of the community are self-hosting their own infrastructure for others to play on. While a great way to build community, it can be a problem when it comes to player retention and competitive mechanics."

This just isn't true. The average TF2 player had 3K hours long before any official matchmaking was introduced, and UGC (TF2) and FACEIT (CSGO) were their own renditions of community-hosted competitive servers - and were done with great success.
by Yhippa | 2025-08-18 23:50:21+00:00
It feels like after people were still flush with cash at the end of the pandemic, reality hit and as people were profit taking from the market, LLMs seemed to emerge from the æther as the next best thing to glom on to. So now the hive mind dumped all their money into that and we are riding an incredible bubble.

So cheap gaming hardware in the future (similar to when telecoms over invested in transcontinental undersea fiber-optic cables)? What's the hangover gonna look like after this? What's the next grift?
by Uehreka | 2025-08-18 23:50:23+00:00
This is another genre of AI article that annoys me: The one where the author starts by agreeing with you that AI is a definitely a bubble, and we’re gonna just “know” that for the rest of the article, no argument necessary.

I don’t feel like this article is trying to start a conversation, it wants to end the conversation so we can have dessert (aka, catastrophizing about the outcome of the thing “we know” is bad).
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-08-18 23:50:25+00:00
> Using it as a precommit hook in OSS projects makes it so that people can write code however they want.

That is the point of a formatter, so any formatter would do that (and there were many more active projects to allow formatting before prettier came around).

> quite some extent

Not really, and I have written prettier plugins to get around that constraint.

IMO, its not great, which is kind of how things work out when you try to do everything in one project.
by kurthr | 2025-08-18 23:50:31+00:00
What is missing even in this article is the install and expected failure rate of the dominant GB300 servers. Numbers I heard were, "~15% annual failure and it's not worth trying to swap/repair". That means in 5 years these entire installs are down more than half. Of course they can install the NEW GX500turbo servers which are 4x the compute, but 2x more power hungry. How much will that cost? What is the hyperscaler write down ~$200B/yr? Better have some income to make that up. They've got only 3 years to get there.

That still means All New data centers. They aren't being built for for this now, and so the old ones'll have to get ripped out and rebuilt (in place?) before they get the new servers. I do think they've planned the external power delivery, but not cooling or IP infra. It's a CF.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-18 23:50:35+00:00
No, not really, because the parent comment is freaking out about a problem that doesn't exist.

It's not going to be possible to grow a thing that looks like a piece of salmon but is secretly riddled with viruses and bacteria.

Either the lab gets their sterile technique right and they wind up with something that looks like salmon, or they get it wrong and you wind up with bacteria slop. Things that look like salmon can only become so if no bacteria and viruses are present.
by lioeters | 2025-08-18 23:50:39+00:00
> complete New York Times (pre-1930)

https://archive.org/search?query=title%3ANew+York+Times&sort...

> as a full PDF download set

I imagine it's possible to achieve this through torrents from Anna's, but you'd have to search and compile the list of all individual PDFs.

> something new with an AI-powered search

With enough time and willingness, someone could put all the old NYT issues through optical character recognition and convert them to text; then make it available to large language models for semantic search of some kind. Ideally public cultural funds could support the effort as academic research.
by derf_ | 2025-08-18 23:51:41+00:00
One time I spent a week carefully rewriting all of the SIMD asm in libtheora, really pulling out all of the stops to go after every last cycle [0], and managed to squeeze out 1% faster total decoder performance. Then I spent a day reorganizing some structs in the C code and got 7%. I think about that a lot when I decide what optimizations to go after.

[0] https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/blob/main/lib/x86/mmxl... is an example of what we are talking about here.
by doublerabbit | 2025-08-18 23:51:43+00:00
LAN parties were welcoming on so many levels. Never played DnD? Come join. One time I recall was an isle of misogynist folk who haven't showered in days playing WoW.

The smell... no comment and in one case I recall at one LAN where a delivery woman was scared to walk down the isles to deliver so she asked me nicely if I could. No problem, pizza is here boys.

But within reason, they kept to themselves and were there to game. You kind of respected that and they respected you as you were there too to do the same.

Outside of all that they were highly intellectual and I recall talking for hours about other highly intellectual topics: psychics, space mathematics, game characters. I didn't approve of their extremist views and you could tell something went wrong somewhere with their psyche but there was a mutual respect. Unfortunately I was too young (20's) to grasp the true vibe.

I just got back from a goth music weekend this weekend and felt completely cold shouldered. No one was really welcoming and it was very alpha gatekeepery.

Granted the audience were clique, everyone seemed to knew each other and the mean age would be 40-something but the attitude from some left me astonished compared to attitudes of some of the worse LAN gamers.

If I can hang out with folk who are of such and yet unable to hang with those who are not, I couldn't figure what I was doing wrong. It left me sour for my first major goth event, a sub-culture I've enjoyed since 17; 36 now kind of makes me want to hand in the towel.

Maybe I was craving wanting the LAN I once I enjoyed in my teens, but it was worse than that. It felt horrible being there by myself unable to connect with others. I left a day early. Yet all there for the same reason, music.

I do believe gaming has a power to bring others together but online games now just feel half arsed and are more released for money rather than fun.

Two different sects, yet the one you'd expect to be the worse turned to be more warm. It's weird to think that, but shrug. I really don't know what to think and has left me really perplexed.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-18 23:51:58+00:00
> “Invest like the 1%,”

> Klish told CNBC. “I lost $400,000 in Yieldstreet. I consider myself moderately financially savvy, and I got duped by this company

> To do so, it gathers funds from thousands of investors such as Klish, who typically put in at least $10,000 each for projects vetted by Yieldstreet managers.

I'm not sure you were duped necessarily. The 1% don't put all their money into 2 buckets. It's split amongst a bunch of different things so that ideally some of them do very well and cover the losses from the ones that did poorly.

That said, I suspect he actually has several million in not real estate so he is investing like the 1% but he just can't stomach any losses in his portfolio.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-18 23:52:02+00:00
Tremendous savings? I save less than 10% charging at home, at off-peak, vs a Prius for highway driving (3.8mi/kWh vs 50 miles/gallon):

You have: (0.28USD/kWh)/(3.8miles/kWh) You want: USD/mile * 0.073684211 / 13.571429 You have: (4USD/gallon)/(50miles/gallon) You want: USD/mile * 0.08 / 12.5
by _carbyau_ | 2025-08-18 23:52:34+00:00
Coming from UT/CS and a bunch of other games where skins were simple mods I hate that skins cost so much real world money and so I refuse to spend a cent in protest.

Game with cool mechanics and a universe to play it in, that is worth $$$. Making your shirt green is not worth $... it is worth a colour-wheel implementation.
by ajross | 2025-08-18 23:52:38+00:00
Nitpick: it's not cognitive dissonance, just "selfishness". Wanting others to take on burdens that you don't want to bear is a universal human desire, and not very surprising. It's just frowned on as a matter of moral philosophy, so you're not supposed to frame it like that in formal writing. The author's crime is poor editing, basically.
by hocuspocus | 2025-08-18 23:52:43+00:00
The overwhelming majority of 5G cells don't do any of that.

Even though modern cellular deployments have increased the positioning accuracy a bit, best in class network telemetry (either embedded or third party probes) that estimate positions from timing advances is still pretty crap in real life.

There are other tricks you can use such as "minimization of drive tests" that get the A-GPS position (which again, is not always that accurate, because it's cached), but this kind of telemetry is enabled only on small samples, because it has a non-trivial impact on the network performance.

Then I guess you could use straight up illegal ways such as abusing the E911 / E112 location tracking.
by leptons | 2025-08-18 23:52:45+00:00
I still don't see how having GenAI on the same platform as your database and APIs is somehow the "AWS killer". OpenAI isn't going to suddenly be hosting my APIs and databases. Nobody in GenAI is going to fill the position that AWS holds, except maybe Microsoft Azure, but even then nobody is moving large infrastructure from AWS to Azure just because Microsoft is friends with OpenAI (as of today). And most "cloud" projects don't require "AI", except to be buzz-wordy. "Cloud" and "AI" are two distinctly different businesses with vastly different use cases.
by tomhow | 2025-08-18 23:52:47+00:00
We've always discouraged summaries, TL;DRs, and now, LLM-generated digests of articles, and we don't seen any reason to change this position.

The main reason is the same reason for insisting that the original title be used (unless it is baity or misleading); it's not fair to the author or the community for someone to take it upon themselves to re-phrase the title or the article’s content into something different from what the author wrote themselves.

The community won't know – without reading the full version – whether the rephrased version is an accurate reflection of the author's original words or ideas. But some commenters will write comments in response to the rephrased version, rather than the original, which causes the discussion thread to be poisoned.

We prefer to maintain an expectation that people will read the full article before commenting. Of course, many won't, but at least if any misplaced comments are based on a mis-reading or non-reading of the article, it won't be due to an inaccurate summary that is tacitly endorsed by HN.
by westurner | 2025-08-18 23:52:58+00:00
"Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds" (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02326 :

> Abstract: [...] By leveraging a generalisation of the maximum entropy principle, we introduce curved neural networks as a class of models with a limited number of parameters that are particularly well-suited for studying higher-order phenomena. Through exact mean-field descriptions, we show that these curved neural networks implement a self-regulating annealing process that can accelerate memory retrieval, leading to explosive order-disorder phase transitions with multi-stability and hysteresis effects. Moreover, by analytically exploring their memory-retrieval capacity using the replica trick, we demonstrate that these networks can enhance memory capacity and robustness of retrieval over classical associative-memory networks [...]
by exasperaited | 2025-08-18 23:53:47+00:00
> That’s why being a fast follower is so valuable, you get everyone else to waste money on the wrong ways to build things. It also causes R&D to show much worse returns.

Frankly I think this is the big cultural change in tech generally, isn't it? People come up with ideas and everyone goes "oh I want to do that", so they replicate it off the back of the work everyone else has done. Uncritical FOMO.

But actually it's better to be an even slower follower, generally, as a survivor strategy. Apple and Nintendo shows this. It's better to go "I see what they are all doing, and I see where they think consumers are, but I think they are wrong, and I think it's not just a question of them going about it wrong, but that all of this evidence suggests consumers actually wish they were getting this other thing, and that is what we should build".
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-18 23:54:02+00:00
> Commercial/enterprise software has always been this way

All software is this way. The only way something gets fixed is if someone decides it's a priority to fix it over all the other things they could be doing. Plenty of open source project have tons of issues. In both commercial and open source software they don't get fixed because the stack of things to do is larger than the amount of time there is to do them.
by maximus_01 | 2025-08-18 23:54:54+00:00
I think that example wasn't the best as it's probably so obvious it isn't salmon it wouldn't fool anyone. But would you be comfortable if someone sold Hoki or Puffer Fish as Salmon? And then only in the fine print said it was actually Hoki that tasted like salmon or whatever. What if someone sold actual fish but called it Tofu, and only disclosed in the description that it was fish that tasted like Tofu?

That is a world I don't want to live in.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-18 23:55:26+00:00
You are welcomed to fix this. There is not a single Democrat anywhere in America who will be mad if you fix this. Everyone will congratulate you. The problem is that Republican-controlled states have arranged to systematically make it harder for urban people to get ID cards, and have systematically structured the system such that even born citizens cannot get one due to having never had a birth certificate (because they were born in Jim Crow jurisdictions that refused to record the births of Black people).