MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by platevoltage | 2025-08-19 00:08:23+00:00
Should ID's be free and easy to get, because if not, this would amount to a poll tax, which has been deemed unconstitutional.

We are also not required to have or carry ID to carry out any of our constitutionally protected rights.

We would need to set up a service where a representative from the government would come to your house on demand, verify your identity, and issue you a free ID whether you live in downtown DC, rural New Mexico, or somewhere in Puerto Rico. Otherwise this is a non-starter.
by abalaji | 2025-08-19 00:08:34+00:00
This seems useful for folks who use Obsidian as a personal CRM. I got some queries with data view that I'm going to see if this can replace:

https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/

I often want to answer questions like:

- When was the last time I chatted with this person - What did we talk about - Who haven't I spoken to in a while
by throw0101a | 2025-08-19 00:08:56+00:00
> Matt Levine

I was curios for the exact source, and the link is:

* https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-03-31/senato...

* https://archive.is/9WcxD

He referenced / quoted it recently:

* https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-04-01/is-...

* https://archive.is/B7yvw
by computerdork | 2025-08-19 00:09:10+00:00
Yeah, usually, have also read that the only ones to make music on Spotify are major artists. They take a huge chunk of the the money distributed to musicians. At least for me, have never heard of any musician making a living off of their Spotify sales, not even close.

And Bandcamp does seem nice, wish it took off more.

And yes, I do completely agree with you that there are some big positives with today's music landscape. The rise of Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) to create your own music was a revolution, as is youtube for getting your music to the masses. Seems like a ton of musicians got their break from this these days... ...So as we talk, am thinking, maybe piracy has become a unimportant aspect of the music industry?? Hmm... Well, one aspect is missing, the seasoned engineers, producers, marketers and managers who can get your music created, promoted and performed all without the musician's needing to learn all this themselves. It really is a lot of work!
by throwaway29246 | 2025-08-19 00:09:20+00:00
> Nobody is getting rich off of donations.

I'll believe that when they publish financial statements.

> Everything points to the Anna's Archive team being passionate ideologues as opposed to some criminal enterprise focused on profit motives.

"Passionate ideologues" who make you pay if you want to download anything at speeds greater than 10KB/s, how nice of them. I would rather just support the author, thank you.

I generally support piracy, but these piracy-as-a-business vultures who've been showing up in the shadow library scene need to go.
by stackskipton | 2025-08-19 00:10:47+00:00
It's very possible they have good reason to do so. Phone app needs contact access to display CallerID and Microphone access to allow me to answer my call

This got flagged because you have not proven anything.

System Level Daemons and preinstall Apple developed applications are bypassing standard app level permissions. Are they doing anything nefarious with the data like sending it all to Apple or just using it to do the work people expect? You are running around acting like SystemD is doing nefarious stuff because it's bypass file permissions. Ok, it's a system daemon, not shocked, is it doing anything bad with that or just trying to make my system work out of the box as I expect.

Apple makes OS on the iPhone, they are in privileged spot.
by cj | 2025-08-19 00:10:49+00:00
> Lawyers would tell you that water isn't wet

Sure, but do you really think the Fox News anchors honestly believed what they were saying?

I’d venture a guess: no. They said what they said because that’s what they had to do to get their paycheck at the end of the day.

Yes, lawyers will say whatever to win a case. But I highly doubt those news anchors really thought the election was stolen. It’s all for ratings. Let’s be honest.
by coderenegade | 2025-08-19 00:10:57+00:00
I don't think the bottleneck for charging is in the batteries, it's in electricity as an energy vector. By its very nature, someone is either instantaneously dispatching it from somewhere, or it's already being generated and curtailed. I just don't see that being cheaper than even biofuels in the long run, because time arbitrage matters. Making fuel with overcapacity that is worth zero (or less!) probably scales better than trying to store it all in batteries, because holes and containers will always be cheaper and easier to expand.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-19 00:11:19+00:00
There is no "other guy". They're both me.

> this is not case of hypercatabolism as result of starvation

This is an assertion made by the Israeli government, an interested party with a history of lying. "Israel's government denies there is malnutrition in Gaza" is a claim even the Trump administration contests (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62nr9rglm9o).

> this is one of symptoms of diabetes

To be clear, they asserted untreated diabetes. Its untreated nature is also something related to the war, Israel having bombed every hospital in Gaza and blockaded all supplies including food.

A diabetic's body eating itself in a blockaded war zone with no food or medicine is… unsurprising. Starving people in a slightly roundabout way is still starving people, even if they have existing medical conditions.
by woopwoop | 2025-08-19 00:11:53+00:00
I do not, and have never, understood why absolute R&D investment is compared to relative growth rate in this literature. It would make sense to compare R&D spending as a percentage of GDP to relative growth, or to compare absolute R&D spending to absolute per-year growth, but I remain mystified by the comparison of absolute R&D spending with relative growth.
by CharlesW | 2025-08-19 00:12:31+00:00
> There is no public data about successful fraud.

The notoriously liberal (/s) Heritage Foundation maintains a public database of all known election fraud cases in the U.S., finding less than two-dozen cases since 1979. Many independent studies come to the same conclusion. Physical voting fraud is statistically negligible, if not perfectly non-existent.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't be cautious about fraud, but impersonation fraud will not be how it happens unless we centralize and digitize voting. With that will come the inevitable centralization and digitization of new systemic risks at scale.
by starik36 | 2025-08-19 00:12:38+00:00
I never heard of the site. But looking at it now, I can't see how it's anything else other than piracy.

I looked up one of my favorite authors ( https://annas-archive.org/search?q=scott+sigler ) and you can download practically his lifetime's worth of work in 5 minutes. This is not some author who lived 200 years ago - he is living and writing books now and this is his livelyhood.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-19 00:12:52+00:00
I believe seastar uses it and that is the base of scylladb storage engine: https://seastar.io/

I believe the next generation ceph OSD is built on seastar as well: https://docs.ceph.com/en/reef/dev/crimson/crimson/

With something like ceph, latency is everything as writes need to be synchronously committed to each OSD replica before the writing client is unblocked. I think for ceph they are trying to move to nvme-of to basically bypass the OS for remote NVME access. Im not sure how this will work security wise however as you cannot just have any node on the network reading and writing random blocks of nvme-of devices.
by h4kunamata | 2025-08-19 00:12:57+00:00
I run Linux only at home and all my devices including WiFi6 router. That alone prevents you from getting malicious thing, you only get a Linux system infected if you have zero common sense.

The way how the permissions work on Linux prevents that from happening unless an user did an user thing.

With Windows, all you need to get malicious crappy is to use Windows. When the system itself is collecting sensitive information aka Microsoft Recall.

You cannot access the internet, have VIRTUALLY no problems with virus AND have privacy while using Windows. That is like saying you have an umbrella with a EF5 tornado passing by.
by braden-w | 2025-08-19 00:13:02+00:00
Yeah I agree, I neglected to update the docs and demo. This post was made anticipating the local transcription feature to drop earlier but it took some time due to some bugs. Before, the default option was using Groq for transcription, but that was admittedly before I figured out local transcription and wanted something to work in the meantime. Will be changing local as the default strategy in the documentation.
by tamimio | 2025-08-19 00:13:48+00:00
I will just reiterate what I posted before about using the term "engineering."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855157#44860128

It's about time that there should be a distinguished difference between an engineer who went through engineering school and another who went to a bootcamp/computer science/etc. Not only is it confusing for people like me whenever I see the word engineering - the first thing that comes to my mind are engineering topics, only to find it's just full stack, JavaScript, prompt "engineering" jobs- but it also disturbs the market for both seekers and employers. When an employer posts a "systems engineering" job and gets bombarded with people who had some JS and DevOps work, meanwhile the employer is after systems with hardware and the like, you are making it worse for both sides. And this kind of "relaxed" approach is only in engineering professions for some reason; even as a plumber you need an apprenticeship, let alone being a lawyer, nurse, or doctor.
by jonahbenton | 2025-08-19 00:14:01+00:00
Interesting telling but not really satisfying. The narrative ignores the fact that "money" is a thing governments decide on. The "experiment" of peer to peer microtransactions existed before BTC and continues apace. That use case was a motivating factor for BTC but its enablement was not the innovation.

The actual innovation in BTC, the byzantine fault tolerance solution, is world historic. It did not exist before Satoshi, and now it does.

That BTC itself is not the platform for eventual zero day instant microtransaction settlement with dialup/dialdown on a whole host of properties does not in the least diminish the achievement that BTC- and its market cap- represents.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-08-19 00:14:20+00:00
Not at all.

There are mainly 2 forms of AD: forward mode (optimal when the function being differentiated has more outputs than latent parameter inputs) and reverse mode (when it has more latent parameter inputs than outputs). If you don't understand why, you don't understand AD.

If you understand AD, you'd know why, but then you'd also see a huge difference with symbolic differentiation. In symbolic differentiation, input is an expression or DAG, the variables being computed along the way are similar such symbolic expressions (typically computed in reverse order in high school or uni, so the expression would grow exponentially with each deeper nested function, and only at the end are the input coordinates filled into the final expression, to end up with the gradient). Both forward and reverse mode have numeric variables being calculated, not symbolic expressions.

The third "option" is numeric differentiation, but for N latent parameter inputs this requires (N+1) forward evaluations: N of the function f(x1,x2,..., xi + delta, ..., xN) and 1 reference evaluation at f(x1, ..., xN). Picking a smaller delta makes it closer to a real gradient assuming infinite precision, but in practice there will be irregular rounding near the pseudo "infinitesimal" values of real world floats; alternatively take delta big enough, but then its no longer the theoretical gradient.

So symbolic differentiation was destined to fail due to ever increasing symbolic expression length (the chain rule).

Numeric differentiation was destined to fail due to imprecise gradient computation and huge amounts (N+1, many billions for current models) of forward passes to get a single (!) gradient.

AD gives the theoretically correct result with a single forward and backward pass (as opposed to N+1 passes), without requiring billions of passes, or lots of storage to store strings of formulas.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-19 00:14:57+00:00
> state constitution to enfranchise felons, legislatures will invent procedural reasons to re-disenfranchise them

"Funnily", Donald Trump, a convicted felon, was allowed to vote in Florida, who typically bars convicted felons from voting, because "he had not yet been sentenced, therefore the conviction was not yet complete".

I guarantee any other Floridian in the same position will be laughed at if they try to vote using this (non) precedent.
by borroka | 2025-08-19 00:15:13+00:00
The article is way off base. Dorsey's playbook, if it even exists, isn't something to be ashamed of, especially in the context of Silicon Valley culture. Has the author never heard of Burning Man (obviously, she has and might have been more than once)? Zuck and Dorsey are two of the most common archetypes among tech company founders: the super nerd who only thinks about technology, and then money, and power, and the more romantic nerd, who seems to have some spiritual goals that technology only partially fulfills.

A more curious case, although it became prominent years after this post was published, is that of the Bidens. Their son Hunter was a big liability, and even the most staunch Democrats, if they thought about it outside the context of the cultural battle between right and left, would have admitted it. But by all accounts, the whole issue became entangled in the cultural battle between left and right, and people took sides depending on where their vote was going.

The same thing happened in Italy with Berlusconi and his interest in younger women whom he paid to have sex with him. He neither explained nor justified his behavior much (just dinner with friends, he said: can I relax the way I want after long days of work?), and the subject became one of many that his friends and enemies discussed daily.

Zelensky allowed himself and his wife to appear in what I consider to be an incredibly misguided and glamorous photo shoot published in Vanity Fair, a shameless strategy, but he had cover from criticism, as any criticism of the photo shoot would have been interpreted as openly siding with Putin.

But shamelessness doesn’t always save you. Strauss-Kahn, a prominent figure in French and European politics up until some 15-20 years ago, failed to weather the storm, but not because of his infidelity or his passion for escorts, but because he, a socialist, had treated some immigrants and low-status people with vicious contempt (in addition to allegations of sexual misconduct). If it had been just about the escorts or vanilla misconduct, the shameless strategy would probably have worked (after all, who doesn't like escorts?).

Although it is always a matter of circumstances, I believe that the shameless strategy works for people of very low status, who do not fear criticism because they have little to lose, or for those of high status, especially when they manage to make it seem normal, that it has always been done, but that it has now become a problem because their enemies want to make it so, for political, financial, or cultural reasons. For mid-level managers in the tech industry, on average, it doesn't work very well.
by triceratops | 2025-08-19 00:15:27+00:00
> Hogan (Thiel) vs Gawker and Sandy Hook vs Alex Jones provided a blueprint to weaponize defamation law for political change

Sandy Hook v Jones was not "political". It was deeply, profoundly personal.

The Gawker lawsuit was also about settling personal scores. Obviously Hogan wasn't as sympathetic of a plaintiff as the Sandy Hook parents. But it was more odious because Thiel wanted to punish Gawker simply for hurting his feelings, not lying about him.

> So all we need now is an angry left-wing billionaire

Is there such a thing?
by byronic | 2025-08-19 00:15:35+00:00
Polling places aren't open during a plurality of hours in which people who work irregular hours can vote -- the Alabama example above affected me personally but generally is true in most of the southeastern United States. We don't get the day off, there isn't a means of transport unless you already live in a city that provides "rides to the polls," and lines are often long and slow to move.

I'm not saying that to deride your instinct here that a polling place being a private booth is kind of Cool™, just that providing accessibility (or, if I had my druthers, making voting _mandatory_ and giving everyone the day off to do it) sometimes requires we open the idea book and consider how we can make sure everyone who has the right to vote can do it.
by yibg | 2025-08-19 00:15:43+00:00
Taken in isolation this might be true, but these types of relatively small monetary damage don't seem to provide a good deterrent in general. Newsmax (as well as fox etc) is still airing provably false or at best misleading information and classifying it as "opinion". e.g. the other country pays the tariffs.

On a more society scale, if the damage from outright lies about an election costs on the order of 67m, what's to deter any of the billionaires from funding orgs like Newsmax to help win elections by spreading lies? It's a fraction of what Musk spent for 2024.

I don't have a good answer though that doesn't also have abuse potential the other way.
by bowmessage | 2025-08-19 00:15:51+00:00
> Why not actual collagen as a matrix, or maybe, say, gelatin? Why not ground-up shrimp as a colorant instead of beta carotent + lycopene? Why vegetable oils instead of animal fats?

Simple answer: they're cutting corners -- increasing shelf life, decreasing production costs, and overall increasing profits, like many of the big food corporations operating today.
by mandeepj | 2025-08-19 00:16:21+00:00
> holding these "news" networks responsible for brazen repeated lies that are hugely damaging to our society

But that moron in WH is still spreading lies about that election; he has no shame, no remorse, no nothing. On the contrary, he was successful in portraying himself a victim and win people’s sympathy. Even though he’s the one who called insurrection. There’s no accountability for him.

Look at South Korea, who indicted their politician who did same act. As well at Brazil, who’s rogue politician is in house arrest. But, fking only here, they are awarded with a 2nd term.
by braden-w | 2025-08-19 00:16:40+00:00
Diarization is on the roadmap; some providers support it but some don't and the adapter for that could be tricky. Whispering is not meant for meeting notes for now; for something like that or diarization I would recommend trying Hyprnote: https://hyprnote.com or interfacing with the Elevenlabs Scribe API https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text
by mapt | 2025-08-19 00:17:44+00:00
To willingly lie about something you need to be able to differentiate truth from fiction. Defamation hinges on either this willing lie ("malice") or on negligence (and the expected due diligence for a self-professed news organization is high). There is a little performative middle ground here, but WHATEVER is argued in court does not moot the things argued at every commercial break about trusting their news institution to report the facts. Fox news is not, and never has been, intended as satire.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-19 00:18:04+00:00
It's that distribution costs are zero, and there's more extremely high quality "content" out there offered entirely for free than anyone has time to digest. Interested in physics? You can read Feynman for free. Interested in chemistry? MIT OCW has you covered with a dozen courses, probably 450 hours of lectures. Or if you want computer science, you can watch lectures from people like Sipser! Want to really get serious about a science? There's the arXiv.

I've also already got dozens of hardcover books that I'll probably never even get through as it is. Mostly acquired from thrift stores while I was in university.

Then there's the classics. It'd take years to get through just the very best highlights of the public domain literature, religious texts, and philosophy. Project Gutenberg has 75,000 books. My wife spent at least months (maybe years? I don't remember) just reading Proust (at the end she said it wasn't worth it).

This is without even needing to get into the fact that frankly I don't see copyright on things older than me or especially older than my parents as valid at this point. Most modern works I'd be interested in qualifies for that treatment. The authors are retired or dead.

This is all also speaking to pure consumerism as ways to pass idle time. I've got instruments to play, a computer to program/tinker with, an endless list of possible home improvements, and a family to spend time with.

I don't think I'm the only one who ends up in this state. There's a whole meme about people having hundreds of games in their steam backlog.

The best piece of content ever written is just not a compelling hook. Nothing in the content industry is. First of all it's an entirely generic description: the best X ever written is not going to be described as "content". That's like calling it "copy", and immediately betrays its low value/the way the author thinks of it.

So yeah generic "content" is going to be a very hard if not impossible sell.
by prisenco | 2025-08-19 00:18:48+00:00
My rule of thumb as a contractor is to take the hourly rate x2100 to get an equivalent full-time salary plus benefits, 401k, vacation, etc.

Fractional CTO | $368k - $420k

Senior AI Engineer | €179k - €210k

Senior Full-stack Engineer | $263k - $315k

Staff Frontend Engineer | $252k - $378k

AI Engineer | $210k - $263k

Given that the rates are decent. Not the best out there but decent. I'd consider this before Upwork where contract rates are criminally low.
by metalman | 2025-08-19 00:20:10+00:00
there are electric cars made more than 115 years ago with the original nickle iron batteries that still work, less capacity than lead batteries, but essentialy idestructable and imortal. there is no reason to equate high power density and low weight with a short life span, and in.the case of capacitive electrical energy storage, we are only waiting for higher energy density, ss it is a true solid state battery, though as every substance that can exist will.hold a charge, the number of possible candidates numbers in the trillions, more, but whatever, and there is an absolute inevitability to creating batteries that will serve humanitys transportation needs. thousands and thousands of smart people work on that every day.