MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-14 13:19:35+00:00
>Her version turned out controversial because Gollum is a giant compared to Bilbo. Turns out Tolkien hadn't described Gollum's size anywhere

Cain and Abel, whom Deagol and Smeagol (Gollum) parallel, may have been giant themselves, given that Adam (their father) is specified in certain religious /apocryphal texts as being 60-100 cubits tall, or 90-150 feet.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-14 13:20:03+00:00
A VPN’s encryption is different than a streaming platform’s encryption. The streamer’s encryption is their form of rights management. So the device/app decompressing the video very much is the point of decryption. If not, the rights management is very broken. If the small edge gateway is somehow decrypting the video stream, you’d have a very rogue device that lots of people would be curious to learn more
by treetalker | 2025-08-14 13:20:26+00:00
In other words, "We have no good way of measuring desired employee outputs — and in fact we can't describe which measurable outputs we desire in the vast majority of cases — so this is a performative substitute to make us feel like we're on top of things. Next quarter employees will need to ask for a bathroom pass, which will have strict usage limits. Usage will be tracked with a Semaphore Dashboard™: employees using the bathroom pass fewer than 5 times per quarter will be marked spring green; 5–8 times, cautionary amber; and 9 or more times, blood red."
by throw10920 | 2025-08-14 13:20:36+00:00
> Good tutoring will essentially be practice and worked problems with instant feedback

Yes, but then we're conflating the two things we're trying to separate - one-on-one instruction, and worked practice.

I was using "tutoring" to mean specifically one-on-ones. I completely agree that a good tutor will have you practice what you're learning, and that's definitely much closer to optimal than the educational mess we're currently in.
by dizhn | 2025-08-14 13:21:45+00:00
This here is how it's done, where you have a wildcard dns entry for subdomains of secret.domain.com.

{ acme_dns cloudflare oWN-HR__kxRoDhrixaQbI6M0uwS4bfXub4g4xia2 debug }

*.secret.domain.com {

@sso host sso.secret.domain.com handle @sso { reverse_proxy 192.168.200.4:9000 } @adguard host adguard.secret.domain.com handle @adguard { reverse_proxy 192.168.200.4:9000 } @forge host forge.secret.domain.com handle @forge { reverse_proxy http://forgejo:3000 } # respond to whatever doesn't match handle { respond "Wildcard subdomain does not have a web configuration!" } handle_errors { respond "Error {err.status_code} {err.status_text}" } }
by brandonb | 2025-08-14 13:21:55+00:00
This Deep Learning textbook by Ian Goodfellow is a good intro to the fundamentals: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

It does require some math, but has an appendix with a refresher.

Then, read through this list from Ilya Sutskevar: https://github.com/dzyim/ilya-sutskever-recommended-reading

Be patient. It might take a couple of years to get up to speed. :)
by vinc | 2025-08-14 13:22:37+00:00
Edit: I checked the date and this server has been running since 2012 with just one re-installation a few years ago because it seemed faster than dealing with the issues I had after many years without upgrades. 13 years, nice!

Between late 2010 and 2012 I was playing with OI in a VM, and I can read a lot of excitement about it in my old emails :)
by PKop | 2025-08-14 13:22:58+00:00
> free movement of goods, capital, services, and people across borders

What in the world are you talking about? The US has all of this internally. If on the one narrow point you want to claim that EU has open-borders to the rest of the world, no you don't and that's not something that's good to have anyways. Both US and European citizens are fighting their own governments to decrease immigration as polling shows large opposition to current immigration levels for many years now. A big part of the crackdown on speech in the UK is to restrict criticism of immigration policy.
by slightwinder | 2025-08-14 13:23:31+00:00
> As you said you can follow the thread of conversation in chronological order.

But it's not chronological, it's posting order. It's pretty common to have sub-threads with different focus and timeflow emerging in the middle of linear threads

> Another big thing for me is that it doesn't have comment karma.

Implementation-detail. And Linear boards can also have karma-systems.

But on the other side, it supports a community-driven moderation.

> It becomes an "I disagree with your opinion" button.

Yes, that is a problem. There should be more options available, maybe a limited set of emojis to communicate the impression of something, instead of bland down/upvotes. It kinda works well on Github and Discord, but has less usage by the systems there.

> Also, threaded discussions encourage people to just highjack one of the top voted threads instead of replying to a more relevant person later down the line.

Which is not bad? At least you can ignore them. Linear has no option for this, all is the same mess.

> Also on the topic of moderation, I feel like less is more.

Depends on the topic, community and size, also the country. Illegal content has always to be moderated by law. And in general, offtopic has to be moderated.

> "I support <Republican candidate> and here's why..." results in a ban

Again, on or offtopic? Each subreddit has a focus, and if it's out of this focus, it's justified to remove it. For example, I would not like to see discussions about PHP in a C-Subreddit, this is simply a waste of my time and attention.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-14 13:23:37+00:00
It's not a problem, it's just a fact. I personally don't care about the compensation either, but not everyone is motivated the same about developing software.

On the other hand, I believe requesting somebody's time for free is unethical, esp. if you are a company and wanting something from other parties at a certain quality at a certain time.

Somebody using your code and getting business done with it might not feel exploitative, and it might be true for you, and me. However, if they demand support from you, in X hours, at Y quality, and expecting you to "stop, drop and roll" for them, now that's exploitative. This is what I'm trying to say.

Many young people, who happened to write good code and their good code picked up by corporations are exploited like that. Not all of them know the better or have the gravitas to tell "go fix yourself", and this allows exploitation to continue.

I'm very grateful for people who write this code to enable this massive and wonderful ecosystem. I try to help them by filing high quality bug reports, submitting patches if I can and monetarily support a couple of them. I'm not against open source, but prefer Free Software more, because it's fairer towards the developers and the users. I don't like companies running away with someone's effort and come back and low-key threaten for free work.

Also, again talking about Microsoft, there's the WinGet/AppGet saga, which is ugly in its own right.
by const_cast | 2025-08-14 13:24:07+00:00
Smoking, too, also has useful functions related to socialization. It was a product and drug first, but a social tool second. Half the reason people smoked is because other people did. They wanted to go outside, have a chitchat, and have a smoke.

Now that smoking is gone in the US, a lot of that is dead, and for the worse. A lot of places now don't even have balconies or other outdoor sections. Every piece of area is dedicated towards productive activity, whether that be shopping, working, or eating. There's very little "just sit around" places in modern businesses and workplaces. The joy of random encounter has been significantly decreased. Everything is now in passing.
by throw0101a | 2025-08-14 13:25:06+00:00
> It is only relatively recently that computer hardware has gotten powerful enough that cryptography isn’t a serious bottleneck for production systems.

Or we've had enough "spare" transistors and die space to devote some to crypto, hashing, and checksumming instructions. I remember the splash Sun made when they announced on-die crypto hardware in 2007 (as well as on-die 10 GigE):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2

* PDF: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/do...
by thecupisblue | 2025-08-14 13:25:20+00:00
Oh definitely, I recently bought my mother a similar Garmin - it is elegant, looks lady-like and is basically a physical watch with smart features integrated. The way the display is integrated into the dial is actually supersmooth and really surprised me, did not expect it from such a relatively cheap watch (vivomove). Definitely check out their offer, as it might be what you're looking for.
by wodenokoto | 2025-08-14 13:25:56+00:00
I did a summer of khan academy over a decade ago.

I was switching from liberal arts to NLP and wanted to train my math muscle. I went with their “world of Math” which was a feature to go over all math problems “in order”. When stuck you could view the associated video.

I don’t think they have that feature anymore.

As khan Academy goes from preschool through high school, you start out by counting pictures of elephants and other exercises meant for young children to get comfortable with numbers, which was definitely too early a place to start.

I thought it was fun to see how such exercises looked and I didn’t really now how far I wanted to skip so I just powered through.

I think it was really good with the above caveat. My other two cents are: going from way too easy problems to problems you actually have to work on is jarring in terms of pacing. All in all I enjoyed it.

It’s love to know how it compares to MathAcademy. I think Khan Academy is of really high quality and to go from free to $50/month requires a lot of added value.
by tw04 | 2025-08-14 13:25:58+00:00
SPARC hardware is also dead.

Their core reference platform moved from SPARC to Linux + X86 almost a decade ago. They pushed Exadata down everyone's throat at the time with their "it'd be too bad if we have to audit you unless you buy this new hardware" approach.

https://www.oracle.com/engineered-systems/exadata/
by devmor | 2025-08-14 13:26:07+00:00
Per Gregor Dolinar, President of the IMO:

> “It is very exciting to see progress in the mathematical capabilities of AI models, but we would like to be clear that the IMO cannot validate the methods, including the amount of compute used or whether there was any human involvement, or whether the results can be reproduced. What we can say is that correct mathematical proofs, whether produced by the brightest students or AI models, are valid.”
by datax2 | 2025-08-14 13:26:32+00:00
I am not a fan of their initial "Global Income Distribution" curve. if you take the actual data at the bottom of the article and plot it; it does not make anything the resembles a standard distribution as portrayed. It could be an infographic, it could be different axis, who knows, but portraying a standard distribution is wrong if you have an outlying skew in your distribution. Everything under $40 is a standard distribution, but above $40 represents the same volume of people as the average skewing any sort of plotting.

For 2025 only

Global People | Dollars

1,183,873,832 | above $40

389,144,677 | $30-$40

681,087,495 | $20-$30

1,647,364,177 | $10-$20

1,134,291,724 | $7-$10

1,170,170,455 | $5-$7

1,185,828,184 | $3-$5

700,440,541 | $1-$3

107,765,635 | <$1
by mystraline | 2025-08-14 13:26:51+00:00
> You forgot to mention those people are holding placards in support of an illegal "terror" group whose objective is to protest the unnecessary human loss of life in Palestine by spray painting British military equipment.

Yet more false equivalence.

You can be for Palestine.

You can be for Hamas.

You can be against ethnic cleansing.

You can be against genocide.

These are all different things. And note, this smearing of things like equating 'genocide to Hamas so they deserve it' doesn't make genocide better.

This smearing terms together is also being done by Israel as well, by trying to equate Israel with Judaism, and all Jews across the world. And that any denouncing of actions done in a genocide or ethnic cleansing is somehow antisemitic.

All of these false equivalence arguments are basically just motte-and-bailey fallacies.
by quaristice | 2025-08-14 13:27:15+00:00
Snopes confirmed that McMahon began by referring correctly to “AI development,” but in the same response, twice said “A1 teaching,” clearly meaning artificial intelligence. Not steak sauce. Multiple outlets including Gizmodo, Newser, Yahoo News, Mediaite, and Cybernews all reported the slip-up as genuine: she erroneously said “A1” when she meant “AI”.
by dataflow | 2025-08-14 13:27:44+00:00
I think the only way you can alleviate people's concerns here is by legally binding the company in a way that would adequately address those concerns. Which I don't recall ever seeing any company attempt in such a scenario, probably because it obviously devalues the company as it restricts what a potential future buyer could do with it. Which is exactly why some people don't buy such pinky promises.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-14 13:28:09+00:00
> I find the question: "Is tutoring better than practise?" useless.

Yes, on further reflection, you're right. My statement was spurred by the claim that practice had "exaggerated significance" in the article relative to practice, which is kind of a hard thing to quantify and argue about.

And I definitely wasn't trying to say that theory isn't important! I love theory - I don't actually like working the problems - and think that it's important, it's just that I've realized that lots of theory is much less effective without practice, even in a highly abstract field like math.

The interplay between abstract (abstract explanation; theory) and concrete (concrete examples in the course of explanation; practice) is fascinating to me.

Based on your experience, do you have any insight for whether, in the course of verbal/written instruction, it's better to start with concrete instances of a concept, and then give the abstract concept itself, or vice versa?
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-14 13:28:14+00:00
I find the plots of distribution of global income here very illuminating - https://www.gapminder.org/income-mountains-dataset-v2/

Because the nicely shaped bell curves used in TFA are not at all what the distribution actually looks like. There is a significant right-skew. Don't miss the log-scale on x-axis in the first few graphs as well.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-14 13:29:22+00:00
Nobody said subtitles are commentary tracks.

And official subtitles aren't made by random strangers. They're made by people who do it professionally.

It's not "contamination" or "opinions", like somebody is injecting political views! And certainly not "reinterpretation". Goodness. It's about clarity, that's all.

Also there's no such thing as the "most accurate" translations. Translations themselves are an art, hugely.
by lukan | 2025-08-14 13:29:47+00:00
"Sharing what? This is about open source?"

About sharing information in general.

Wikis work in a open way, if they are niche, to not attract trolls or spam too much, otherwise they work by restricting guest rights, banning ip, etc. Usually pragmatically.

"No, it's not. We're talking here about moderated Knowledge bases. Of course, if it's a poor or even unmoderated wiki, this would be a problem. But I've never got the impression that Arch-wiki had this problem."

And arch wiki (and wikipedia itself) is a outlier, not the average wiki, that usually is outdated or plain wrong with no one caring.
by Dropoutjeep | 2025-08-14 13:30:02+00:00
I forget where I originally saw this, but someone put together a document titled "How to Take all the Math Classes You Need." (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G-hSdO5Tm9Nc6E4GobZZlwD0...)

While it assumes a level of competence of basic algebra, it essentially mimics a self-study math major and provides links to lecture recordings, widely used textbooks, problem sets, and answer banks to said problem sets. You obviously have to be self-motivated, but it beats paying $50 per month for the service OP's post links to.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-08-14 13:30:08+00:00
The referenced study is from the New England Journal of Medicine, which is pretty respectable, and is a large study. It says the wealthiest 25% of Americans have a worse mortality than the poorest 25% of Europeans.

They have health insurance managed by government, not for profit industry.

Nothing to do with communism, as some of the hacker bros are venting. That's just propaganda to keep people slaving at shitty jobs for less pay and lousy benefits.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-14 13:30:27+00:00
While I agree with you that it is wrong, I can assure you it's quite a common stance among our 68-influenced priests, referents and teachers inside the "catholic" church. They will happily contradict the official stance of the catholic church and still claim to be true catholics (and everyone else is just from yesterday). But then again, I think that is a large reason, why church membership is shrinking drastically in my country, while in our also western neighbors it is rising again.
by jvanderbot | 2025-08-14 13:30:31+00:00
I'd love to go to defcon, but I fear it'll end up like every other conference I go to: wandering around, watching a few talks, ending up at a few semi-boring cocktail hours, etc. Maybe I'm that anti-cool enough to get auto-filtered?

I joined a local discord / defcon chapter, and it was mostly reminiscing about the good old days and most people saying they weren't going this year.
by cml123 | 2025-08-14 13:30:49+00:00
Just last week I was fiddling around with a tangentially related idea. I made some modifications locally to my setup so that when browsing a .org file in eww, org-html-export-as-html would render it in the buffer as HTML directly. eww doesn't really support much styling via shr, so I was working on adding some basic css parsing to expand the range of expression for an org-based blog approach.

Many people export their org file based blogs to HTML and then publish them, but my thought would be to skip that and instead provide a path for eww to directly render org files, cutting out my html export stopgap.
Show HN: Infra from Code for Streaming, Storage, and APIs (Rust+TS+Python) [video]
by cjus | 2025-08-14 13:30:59+00:00
For just over a year now I've been contributing to an open source project called Moose. Moose is written in Rust and supports building applications in TypeScript and Python that lets you define your complete analytical backend—streaming, storage, and APIs—all directly in your code. It’s an "infrastructure from code" approach; you define your data models, and Moose automatically provisions the underlying infrastructure.

Checkout our Moose repo on Github at 514-labs/moose
by codedokode | 2025-08-14 13:31:03+00:00
The problem is not that credit card companies charge large fees. The problem is that they do not allow to pass the fee on the customers. Because of this I don't like European regulation - instead of capping the fees they should just make clauses that not allow merchants to set a card acceptance fees, illegal.

The clause that doesn't allow passing fees on the customer is the only thing that makes market non-free.

I think it would be only fair if people paying with a card were charged more. They get the cash back from the bank anyway.

Also I know that there are super-discounted stores in my country that do not accept cards for this reason.
by 9rx | 2025-08-14 13:31:18+00:00
> I have read a few articles or blogs that make the argument that if government inflation figures in the US were calculated as they do in Europe, then our reported US inflation figures would be much higher.

Do you mean the other way around? The EU headline inflation rate doesn't include costs of owning a home like the US' does (owner's equivalent rent), which, as you might have guessed if you have ever wanted to own a home, is a component that has been quite inflationary, at least as far as recent memory goes. Or maybe those blogs were talking about some point a long time ago when that component pulled the US figures down (e.g. during the last housing crash)? What specific details did they give?
by dudeinjapan | 2025-08-14 13:31:28+00:00
There should be a universal human standard to define what extreme poverty is--i.e. the amount needed to secure food, shelter, and clothing--and then that amount should be assessed country-by-country (or region-by-region) by an independent body. The number of $3 per day is well above the "basic needs" threshold in some of the poorest countries, and well below it in the US, for example.
by rkozik1989 | 2025-08-14 13:31:42+00:00
You do know that amphetamines have a different effect on the people who need them and the people who use the recreationally, right? For those of us with ADHD their effects are soothing and calming. I literally took 20mg after having to wait 2 days for prescriptions to fill and went straight to bed for 12 hours. Stop spreading misinformation about the medications people like me need to function the way you take for granted.
by mattmanser | 2025-08-14 13:32:00+00:00
Depends what you mean by liberty. If you mean the sort of American Libertarianism that's popular in tech circles, then no. That's never really been a thing in Europe.

If you mean liberty as in Human Rights, it waxes and wanes. Broadly speaking in the EU in the 90s/00s human rights were improved and expanded. The European human rights courts were strengthened, more laws passed aimed at opposing discrimination. And the Human rights act in the UK was codified into law in 1998, for example.

The pendulum is presently swinging the other way, mainly due to a populist revolt against mass migration to Europe. It also doesn't help that mass surveillance has become so cheap and an easy way for politicians to be 'tough on crime'. Plus American tech treats privacy as a revenue model rather than a right, and that bleeds into policy expectations via lobbying.
Ask HN: Is your Open-Source project's traction real or noise?
by imilev | 2025-08-14 13:32:28+00:00
Hey all, I've been working on an open-source project for the past few months. It became open-source 2 weeks ago. In the first few days the project got lot's of traction by just launching here on HN and few sub-reddits we got up-to 500 stars in 2, 3 days (I thought it was mostly Reddit, as on HN we got 6 upvotes).

Our project is technology specific so we share only with the relevant communities, started with python. Now we added support for TypeScript and so posted at few subreddits relevant to type-script. We got a lot of up-votes there, currently the hottest post on vuejs, however no stars on github.

I was wondering does this mean that people actually don't care, as it seems they up-vote but don't really check the project. A question for all open-source people, how do you measure these different sources of traction as I also got nice discussions under the posts. Is it that the profile of people who star repositories is very different from those who are just kind of interested but do not really about the open-source aspect?

I also thought it could be as the repo is written in Python and TypeScript people don't like that. This is our project, maybe also we don't put enough effort in the readme: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding

Looking forward to hear what you would suggest and your general opinion on the topic!