MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frostburg | 2025-08-13 12:38:15+00:00
You're probably thinking of a 75%, which is a questionable layout, yes. A typical TKL keyboard is spaced like a fullsize, just without the numpad cluster.

Smaller layouts (even 40%) have their advantages in minimizing how much you have to move your hands and fingers but there are tradeoffs (and a learning curve due to the necessary layers in the smallest ones).
by whstl | 2025-08-13 12:39:15+00:00
I actually find them to be extremely popular in C and C++, and also in some Lua communities.

They just have an extremely vocal opposition.

This is not too dissimilar to static builds and unity builds, which also "make your life easier" but people will write tirades about how dangerous they are.

I wonder if C++ modules (which I'm loving) will also get the same treatment, since they make a lot of clunky tooling obsolete.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-13 12:39:37+00:00
> Every single application used to have a more powerful version of that by default

Kinda. Having tried to use various dark themes before in that era of theming, it was always a mess of broken applications, since you could easily get a dark-against-dark or a light-against-light contrast if one part of the UI picked up the theme but another part did not. If careful use of the theme colors is not enforced or tested, then themes will tend to be broken in enough cases to not make them worthwhile.

(I'm very pro themeing and customisation, but it's a lot of effort that everyone needs to be on board with to make it work, it's not enough to just make the tools available, you need to actively push them into use, and I think very few people have found that worthwhile: there's just about enough utility to dark modes for enough people for some developers to consider it worthwhile, but I think the longer tail becomes very unpalatable in terms of cost/benefit tradeoff)
by cx42net | 2025-08-13 12:40:39+00:00
(next part):

Option 4: Buy an appartment in a skiing station We are at about 4 hours drive of the French alps and we frequently go to the same place that we really appreciate. Buying a flat there would make sense but this one is on the extra budget (I would have to take a bank loan for about 45% of the price). But this could be rented, shared with the family. I could still go do some remote work isolated from time to time even though the drive would be longer, but the view would be much better. On the cons side, this might be a risk bet in the future because of climate change, I'm anticipating there could be a house crisis in these places when snow won't be there.

Pros: Renting - Can be shared with the family/kids - Can do remote work - Nice weekends too Cons: Cost! - A bit far away - Risk of house crisis that could kill the investment

Option 5: Buy a house in brittany! This is the most extravagant option. We live at the total opposite of Brittany. It takes around 1000km and 10 hours drive to go there, but we absolutely love the region. We frequently go on vacation there (but not at the same place) and I know this is a place I would love to have a house and share it with the family and kids, spend some nice time with them, etc. The big issue there is that we couldn't be present a lot, and any issues where we need to come would mean a lot of constraints (it takes one tiring day to go there).

Pros: Something I'd really love - Could be shared to the family and kids - Can be rented - Can do remote work there Cons: Too far away

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These are the various options I'm considering, but all of these bring their cons that makes me stop and think they might not be the right choices. I'm also thinking about not investing in a house, but maybe acquire a SaaS project online and work on it, but I already manage two SaaS and they can be time consuming.

One disclaimer; I hope I don't come out as pretentious with my current situation. If that's the case I apologize. I know HN has quite a few people that are making a decent living and could have faced this situation in the past and I'm hoping to have some good advices on my choices before I make any stupid decision.

Thank you for your help !
by nativeforks | 2025-08-13 12:41:02+00:00
There are even some "Unknown problem" on IzzyOnDroid repo for app publishing, even ensuring reproducible build, izzy says >>Not necessarily "your fault" – baseline often has such issues: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/90

Seems like he is talking about the developer being responsible for that also!
by glenstein | 2025-08-13 12:41:04+00:00
This is the best and clearest explanation I have yet seen that describe a tricky thing, namely that LLMs, which are synonymous with "AI" for so many people, are just one variation of many possible types of machine intelligence.

Which I find important because, well, hallucinating facts is what you would expect from an LLM, but isn't necessarily inherent issue with machine intelligence writ large if it's trained from the ground up on different principles, or modelling something else. We use LLMs as a stand in for tutors because being really good at language incidentally makes them able to explain math or history as a side effect.

Importantly it doesn't show that hallucinating is a baked in problem for AI writ large. Presumably different models will have different kinds of systemic errors based on their respective designs.
by azangru | 2025-08-13 12:41:58+00:00
> In particular I think what confused people was that the standard blue surgical masks are somewhat effective at stopping an infected person from passing on covid (and various other things), but not hugely effective at preventing the wearer from contracting covid

Yes, exactly.

If we look at guidelines about influenza, we will see them say that "surgical masks are not considered adequate respiratory protection for airborne transmission of pandemic influenza". And as far as I understand, it was finally agreed that in terms of transmission, Sars CoV-2 behaves similarly to the influenza virus.
by danaris | 2025-08-13 12:43:15+00:00
LLMs are not going to take over the world.

LLMs are not remotely comparable to the Internet in terms of their effect on ordinary people (unless you want to talk about their negative effects...).

People keep trotting out this comparison, and as time goes on it makes even less sense, as we come to see even more clearly just how false the promises of the AI bros are.

If progress stops with these models, we will be left with some interesting curiosities that can help with certain tasks, but are in no way worth the amount of resources it costs to run them en masse.
by croon | 2025-08-13 12:43:22+00:00
> The whole point of the constitution is for people to be able to do that. Trump moreso than any recent President got on stage with the people who was going to help run the country if you voted for him. That’s the constitutional design! That’s democracy!

No one has argued differently. My argument stemmed only from your, to me previously unfamiliar, definition of merit.

> But if voters have lost faith in Harvard Medical School, then education is actually contrary to “merit.”

> In this context, RFK is the most qualified HHS Secretary in recent history

I take this to mean we agree that the current cabinet is the polar opposite of the previously historically stable definition of meritorious, but are wholly merited appointments under your clarified definition.

Though to be nit-picky, RFK Jr would not be the most qualified HHS Secretary in recent history, but rather ranked based on either voting results or approval rating as merit is then simply a function of the elected representative appointing them.

What distinction would you make between the terms democracy and meritocracy? Are they functionally the same under your definition of merit?
by _mlbt | 2025-08-13 12:43:33+00:00
It’s funny you bring up Colbert on this topic. His own narrative of why his show was cancelled is a lie that felt true to his fans.

It felt good to martyr him and say that he was cancelled for saying truth to power against President Trump. The truth is that his show was losing $40 million a year and only had traction with viewers that were outside the target advertising demographics.
by galangalalgol | 2025-08-13 12:43:36+00:00
Wouldn't having them already up give a lot less warning in a first strike situation? Also redundancy if all your subs, silos, and bomber bases got hit first by their satellites. It doesn't even have to be rational though, combinations of graft and brinkmanship would be enough. It seems really optimistic to think they haven't all already done this.
by jowea | 2025-08-13 12:44:10+00:00
> A similar situation occurred with Minix - to the extent that it's creator Andrew Tannenbaum had no idea it's install base was arguably bigger than Linux until 2017. Intel had put Minix into the Management Engine on their professional grade CPUs for years. The BSD license allowed Intel to put it everywhere without the knowledge of the wider Minix community.

Off topic question, but wasn't that a violation of the BSD license? It does require a copyright notice.
by jimkleiber | 2025-08-13 12:44:31+00:00
not all social media will show subtitles/captions tho, which is the challenge. YouTube Shorts, TikTok videos, IG reels, FB reels, Whatsapp statuses, and more. I think some allow cc but some don't, and if someone reshares to another platform, it may not be there, so some of us burn them in begrudgingly :-)
by yellowpencil | 2025-08-13 12:44:46+00:00
A friend of a friend has been in a rough patch with her spouse and has been discussing it all with ChatGPT. So far ChatGPT has pretty much enthusiastically encouraged divorce, which seems like it will happen soon. I don't think either side is innocent but to end a relationship over probabilistic token prediction with some niceties throw in is something else.
by _fzslm | 2025-08-13 12:46:09+00:00
I totally see what you mean - with minified js bundles and mobile walled gardens we've probably already been in that stage for a good ten years - and AI-driven development that we don't even monitor is likely going to make that worse in the short term...

But I do wonder if LLM-driven code analysis might actually increase code comprehension and agency for laymen?

I've been quite impressed with AI's ability to decipher and visualise code and system relationships in e.g. mermaid diagrams.

Perhaps the representation of code will become more elastic (i.e. you have literal code, or AI-produced translations you can directly manipulate)
by JohnKemeny | 2025-08-13 12:47:11+00:00
Related, a blog article by the author of the patch:

Run Whisper audio transcriptions with one FFmpeg command

https://medium.com/@vpalmisano/run-whisper-audio-transcripti...

Posted here, with 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869254
by seba_dos1 | 2025-08-13 12:47:18+00:00
I love how in the world of LLMs "reasoning" means having the model write out things like "I'm collecting a list of resources" just so it can then better cosplay someone who did that.

I'm eagerly waiting for the next big breakthrough when someone trains a model that switches between "thinking" and "outputting" modes mid-answer :)
by ttd | 2025-08-13 12:47:30+00:00
If you're not restricted to Bezier for graphics (it's a very common choice as the path primitive for vector graphics), there are other classes of curves that you may find are a better fit. In particular, I think animations typically feel better if they move at constant speed - which is nontrivial with Bezier curves because they do not have an exact closed-form arc length parameterization. Something like pythagorean hodographs could be a better fit for your application.

I am not a mathematician though, so if you have other insight I'd be glad to hear it.
by franktankbank | 2025-08-13 12:48:05+00:00
Isn't it directly influencing prevailing wage? When H1-B dominates a sector then I'm competing with H1-B and am forced into that existing wage not the other way around. If I don't want to work in that environment because it fucking sucks well guess who's getting a green card? Whole thing is rotten and software industry is going to become the new "going postal".
by rcxdude | 2025-08-13 12:48:11+00:00
This. I fully get the in-theory argument that a thick SPA can make for a smoother experience, but that just makes it all the worse that all but the most exceptional SPAs are significantly worse in terms of responsiveness than a series of server-side rendered pages. (even gmail, which is pretty good they go, is laggy and can easy eat up 1GB of RAM)
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-08-13 12:48:54+00:00
I don't know what you're hoping to hear, but I have no idea. All I know is that with loads of Go projects I've used I can go to the releases page, download a binary and run it.

And that for every .net project I can remember, which are far more rare, there's been some complicated installer that does a bunch of stuff. Or it fails to launch telling me I need to install some runtime separately.
by teekert | 2025-08-13 12:48:55+00:00
But it really erodes trust. First couple of times I felt that it indeed confirmed what I though, then I became suspicious and I experimented with presenting my (clearly worse) take on things, it still said I was absolutely right, and now I just don't trust it anymore.

As people here are saying, you quickly learn to not ask leading questions, just assume that its first take is pretty optimal and perhaps present it with some options if you want to change something.

There are times when it will actually say I'm not right though. But the balance is off.
by michaelsbradley | 2025-08-13 12:49:30+00:00
These drawings were made by different artists living at different times. Some of them are related to:

Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity (2003)

https://archive.org/details/anthony-peratt-characteristics-f...

Part II of Characteristics For The Occurrence Of A High Current Z Pinch Aurora As Recorded In Antiquity Part: Directionality And Source (2007)

https://archive.org/details/characteristics-for-the-occurren...
by Fluorescence | 2025-08-13 12:50:24+00:00
It makes me curious about how human subtitlers or even scriptwriters choose to transcribe intentionally ambiguous speech, puns and narratively important mishearings. It's like you need to subtitle what is heard not what is said.

Do those born profoundly deaf specifically study word sounds in order to understand/create puns, rhymes and such so they don't need assistance understanding narrative mishearings?

It must feel like a form of abstract mathematics without the experiential component... but then I suspect mathematicians manufacture an experiential phenomena with their abstractions with their claims of a beauty like music... hmm!
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-13 12:50:58+00:00
It goes along with the "taking ideas seriously" part of [R]ationalism. They committed to the idea of maximizing expected quantifiable utility, and imagined scenarios with big enough numbers (of future population) that the probability of the big-number-future coming to pass didn't matter anymore. Normal people stop taking an idea seriously once it's clearly a fantasy, but [R]ationalists can't do that if the fantasy is both technically possible and involves big enough imagined numbers to overwhelm its probability, because of their commitment to "shut up and calculate"'
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-13 12:51:31+00:00
> and proven to be buildable by someone other than the app developer

Yup. That's a huge, huge issue - IME especially once Java enters the scene. Developers have all sorts of weird stuff in their global ~/.m2/settings.xml that they set up a decade ago and probably don't even think about... real fun when they hand over the project to someone else.
by johnecheck | 2025-08-13 12:51:39+00:00
As if our only options between dysfunctional bureaucracy and corporate absolutism.

It's not the formal processes and openness I take issue with. IPV4's ubiquity and the damage it does (funneling real money away from all of us towards ISPs) is a failure of governance.

Though in a way it's not. It's failing me, but it wasn't designed to represent me. It's failing our species, but it wasn't designed to represent us. Who do you think it was designed to represent?

The outcome speaks for itself.
by weitendorf | 2025-08-13 12:51:44+00:00
> not sale! you cannot own IP addresses

True, but I mean, I don't own my own body either I suppose, I am just borrowing its particles from the rest of the universe. That's only a useful distinction to make if you plan on killing me.

My personal situation is probably not very representative of most Internet users or entities interacting with the organizations that control the Internet, but I think as wireless technology improves and end-users' ability and incentive to self-host grows, they will run into the same problems that I do.

Bottom line: I don't want to spend unreasonable amounts of time and money dealing with the idiosyncracies of the Internet Protocol and related technology, when I'm trying to do something that should be easy, like get an IP address that I can move between ISPs and cloud providers, or run an internet service from my home. It just feels incredibly wasteful to have to pay significant amounts of money to rent a number when it should be possible to claim or cheaply register one of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 such numbers.

Then once I nut up and pay for a small slice of the infinitely many numbers available, I have to deal with completely avoidable, godawful technical debt that only exists because the people I'm supposedly paying to govern me were so lazy that they allowed an obvious slow-motion trainwreck to play out with IPv4 over decades. They're still so lazy or cowardly or incompetent that after 20 years IPv6 availability is still only around 50%. Good thing there is an unnecessarily complicated organizational model between ICANN/IANA/RIR so that everybody can point fingers somewhere else.

I don't want to pay for conferences and subcommittees and elaborate ceremonies for electing Vice Treasurers of RIRs, nor do I want to play tamagotchi with ranges of numbers. I just want a fucking number that allows other Internet users to connect with the stuff I put behind that number.

I would prefer a more functional system for acquiring said numbers than one that feels all warm and fuzzy about letting the people profiting off renting numbers elect the leaders of the organizations with the authority to end rentiership of the numbers.
by 1dom | 2025-08-13 12:51:46+00:00
I instinctively want to agree with you here and bemoan the state and directions of the world. But if I really think about it, it's been happening my entire life. I'm mid 30's now. I assume someone older than me would have had the same experience of it happening their entire life.

You're right though, it's crappy and merits a lot of geopolitical reflection. But I suspect it goes back millenia and is a manifestation of basic evolutionary biology with the business world, rather than anything that can be solved/fixed.

And we've gone full circle about the balance of working for/against humanity in the name of progress.
by yorwba | 2025-08-13 12:51:51+00:00
The author is using SBERT embeddings, not an instruction-following model, so the "ignore all previous instructions" trick isn't going to work, unless you want to outrank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignore_all_rules when people search for what to do after ignoring all previous instructions.

Of course a spammer could try to include one sentence with a very close embedding for each query they want to rank for, but this would require combinatorially more effort than keyword stuffing where including two keywords also covers queries including both together.
by hgomersall | 2025-08-13 12:52:30+00:00
How can the private sector magically do it without all those things you describe? In any case, the point is to employ people doing something useful - tending public gardens, removing graffiti, repairing roads etc etc.. this will all take place local to the unemployed. Indeed, being local is part of the point since it directly impacts neglected areas.

The objective is to make use of the lost resource that comprises the unemployed, whilst also removing the social problem of having long term unemployed. It has the final benefit of anchoring the value of the currency against a unit of unskilled labour.
by ForOldHack | 2025-08-13 12:52:39+00:00
It was one of the first, things t was the fastest, the other was Intel RTX, but it only ran on their hardware,and a very few others. QNX booted on anything PC, they were out soon after the Compaq 386. Their demo was late 1980s WindRiver did not get rolling until the early 90s, HP was doing Forth.
by ethan_smith | 2025-08-13 12:53:03+00:00
Whisper can indeed transcribe Japanese and translate it to English, though quality varies by dialect and audio clarity. You'll need the "large-v3" model for best results, and you can use ffmpeg's new integration with a command like `ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -af whisper=model=large-v3:task=translate output.srt`.
by evanjrowley | 2025-08-13 12:53:48+00:00
Links 3 through 6 in my comment touched upon this. My point is that even companies behind commercial Linux products are trying to resist the GPL.

In 2021, it appeared that Google was planning a pivot to their own BSD/MIT-licensed OS named Fuscia.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smar...

This pivot seemed to end around the same time tech layoffs were occuring in 2024.

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringi...

Since then, Google has chosen to limit the amount of open source development done for the Android OS.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-...

Keeping Android kernel development internal creates greater risk of binary blobs polluting the source code. Binary blobs might be a practical solution to bring products to market, but they are also a mechanism to circumvent the GPL. I doubt Google will take this problem seriously, but other Linux distributions have.

https://lwn.net/Articles/655519/

The move by Google mirrors the choice by Red Hat to keep RHEL source code private.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/

The common trend is product managers for these companies view the GPL as a bug instead of a feature.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-08-13 12:53:54+00:00
Single pixel imaging is a well known method that depends on injecting known information (light patterns) and capturing the same scene multiple times in order to reconstruct.

Audio is by definition a time varying signal. If you cannot sample it fast enough, the information is gone. The fundamental Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem has proven the concept of the critical (Nyquist) frequency. There are ways around this in special cases: for band limited signals undersampling is a method to reconstruct them using sampling lower than the critical frequency, and for sparse signals compressed sensing can be used. Real life audio is neither band limited (as sampled by any device on the phone), nor sparse. I think it is a physical impossibility with the current sensors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...