MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alphazard | 2025-08-03 15:53:10+00:00
This is an incredibly bad take on a hard social problem which is hard for reasons that are well understood.

Scientific research is often not immediately applicable, but can still be valuable. The number of people that can tell you if it's valuable are small, and as our scientific knowledge improves, the number of people who know what's going on shrinks and shrinks.

Separately, it's possible to spend many years researching something, and have very little to show for it. The scientists in that situation also want some kind of assurance that they will be able to pay their bills.

Between the high rate of failure, and conflicts of interest, and inscrutability of the research topics. It's very hard to efficiently fund science, and all the current ways of doing it are far from optimal. There is waste, there is grift, there is politics. Any improvement here is welcome, and decreasing the dollar cost per scientific discovery is more important than the research itself in any single field.
by HelloImSteven | 2025-08-03 15:53:51+00:00
I’ve lived on both sides of this in different areas of the US. Overall I’d say there’s a lot of places that have what you’ve described, but there are many that don’t, even in more urban locations. Sometimes roads lack sidewalks, parks/skateparks/etc close for repairs but never reopen, local events stop getting funded for one reason or another, or high crime rates make people weary about leaving patio furniture out. All of those contribute to a lack of stable third spaces and associated connections with people.

Other countries have similar issues, of course, but often (not always) they have more cultural factors keeping third spaces alive. In my experience traveling Europe and Africa, community and familial ties generally have a more active role, so there’s just more opportunities for stable third places to develop. It’s not that the spaces are different, imo, but they do seem more common.
Ask HN: How do you track your time for productivity and well-being?
by ednite | 2025-08-03 15:54:13+00:00
Whenever I start feeling overwhelmed with too many priorities, not enough focus, I fall back on a habit that’s helped me for years: tracking my time in 15-minute blocks. I’ll stick with it for weeks, sometimes months.

It’s one of the few practices that consistently boosts both my productivity and peace of mind.

I’ve reflected a lot on why it works for me, but I’m curious if others here do something similar? Do you track your time continuously, or only when you feel the need to reset? Any tools, methods, or small rituals that have worked well for you?

Thanks for your comments. I really enjoy hearing different perspectives and learning how others approach things.
by bullen | 2025-08-03 15:54:21+00:00
I have been using qTox for voice for a while and it works well enough.

The problem is getting people over and making them understand their mic is terrible.

The only way to do this is a "replay the voice of your peer" feature which nobody has.

For chat anything goes, my multiplayer system is probably the simplest way to get scalable chat going: http://fuse.rupy.se

Soon with secure registration without HTTPS.
by ksec | 2025-08-03 15:54:48+00:00
HDD isn't any different. Peice per TB has been flat for many years. You get higher capacity for Hyperscaler, but those are not intended for consumers and you need to pre book in advance to get them.

SSD price may have fluctuating for the last few years but their cost model are now similar to HDD. And so is DRAM.

Mainly cost to produce GB of DRAM / NAND / HDD are roughly the same for many years. You may get better performance or lower energy usage. But cost hast changed. And all fluctuations in market are supple and demand dynamics, which is why many saw 4TB for $150 in 2023 and thought things will drop soon. But that has not been the case.

We need breakthroughs to further reduce the cost per GB. Although one could argue we have half the cost already if we accounted for inflation for the past 20 years.
by sgc | 2025-08-03 15:54:57+00:00
Your comment makes much more sense if you also want to have a desktop,and only in some network configurations. It's most likely the minority use case, but worth considering if it might fit.

A lot of people just use laptops and tablets / phones with limited storage expansion space at home, and want a dedicated device for a firewall/router anyways (no worries about reboots or other interruptions due to personal work on that computer, etc).

One more powerful computer to use as both NAS and firewall (and for various shared services...) makes a lot of sense much of the time - hence the popularity of proxmox.
by benreesman | 2025-08-03 15:54:57+00:00
Sure, and a counter-argument of the form "acquisitions from such valuation to such valuation were down such percent, we interviewed the following founders and these Corp Dev lawyers spoke on the condition of anonymity..." would be an interesting one. But AFAICT at everything but Goliath scale, M&A was actually up over the period.

So as usual here we are with the epic showdown of Data and Vibes...and in an obvious landslide Vibes takes it home.
by johngossman | 2025-08-03 15:55:13+00:00
I've always assumed they tell you to arrive early in order to account for the chance it will take you longer than you guess to get there, just like doctors do. I've never had it take 2 hours from arrival to gate, but I have been 90 minutes late because of traffic and would have missed my flight (not a big deal) if I hadn't aimed for being there two hours early. In any case, the assumption that this time is wasted is spurious whether you're a road warrior catching up with e-mail or a tourist researching your trip, you're not sitting in a lounge chair like a zombie.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-03 15:56:19+00:00
IMO it would be better to subsidize this at the government level than the employer level.

We definitely don’t want to create a situation where parents are less desirable to employ, right?

And, most people have kids (even in places countries with highly developed economies and lower fertility rates). So, we shouldn’t think of this as an extra perk (some special case benefit). The treatment of folks who have had kids is the average case. The special case is whatever we for people who don’t have them (we shouldn’t make a special negative case, right?)
by NoLinkToMe | 2025-08-03 15:56:41+00:00
I'm curious what the population size is of the place you live (order of magnitude). I fully appreciate not every place in the world has such companies with rental offerings.

If you own a boat, jetski or horse trailer etc, and live in a small metropolitan area with few rental offerings, those I think owning a car makes sense. And if it's a large enough boat (so not a jetski, which a regular car can tow), a medium/big SUV or truck is the most sensible choice.

Meanwhile only about 10% of the US population lives in a metropolitan area of less than 100k people. About 65% lives in an area with >1m people for example, where I'd be quite surprised you can't find regular rentals to tow things, my city has plenty and it's <1m people.

And only about 10% of households own boats, and only a fraction of those are stored on-land, and a fraction of those are larger boats that require a sizeable car (SUV/truck).

Meanwhile 80% of cars are either trucks, vans or SUVs.

So statistically the vast majority of people that own SUVs/trucks, do not own a boat or something equivalent that needs an SUV/truck to tow, or who live in a place where there are rentals that allow you to tow whatever you want if the car is rated for it.

And even then you get to the point where the question is still whether you need to own one, or know someone with one.

So I think the point stands: most truck/SUV owners don't own because of their use-case, but because of other reasons (mostly personal style / branding / feeling). Yes of course non-ownership of an SUV/Truck is not an option for 100% of SUV/Truck owners given their use-cases. But the vast majority of SUV/Truck owners statistically don't own something that needs an SUV/Truck to tow, or live in a place where you can find rental alternatives.
by mjevans | 2025-08-03 15:56:53+00:00
Have you tried looking for the 'more vegetables' option?

It effectively doesn't exist. "Salads" are nearly all BS lettuce leaves with some sugary condiments and overly sugary dressing to make up for the complete lack of flavor.

Sides are a hit/miss even if you do ask for a vegetable option.

I have not seen a vegetable forward, optimized for taste and texture option on _any_ menu I've looked at all year. Professionals can't figure out how to do this. How am I, a non-chef with very little time, supposed to do better?
by AndyNemmity | 2025-08-03 15:57:14+00:00
Because I gave examples, and details, and thousands of people read them from a pastebin i used to share.

I didn't release it as open source or anything, just sharing. I don't want to take questions concerning it so I can focus on moving it forward.

Today's goal is to try to build self healing agents that automatically fix the problems they encounter so they only happen once, automating a manual process I successfully use.

Perhaps if that works out well, that is something releasable I can do in a real way as opposed to paste bin.
by massung | 2025-08-03 15:57:34+00:00
This feels very similar to the “radio” or “restaurant” problem:

You’re driving down the street trying to decide which restaurant to stop at (or scanning through the radio trying to decide which song to stop on).

If you stop at the first, there’s a good chance something better is ahead. But if you wait too long then you risk getting stuck with something you don’t really like (the problem assumes you can’t go back).

If I remember correctly, mathematically you skip the first 1/3, but keep track of your “best”. Then stop at the next option that’s >= than your current best or maybe the next thing you like.

With respect to skis, I have the same issue every year with a ride on lawn mower. Do I just pay someone weekly or buy one outright and do it myself? In this case I loathe mowing, so I don’t mind paying. But with skis it’s a question of just how much I’ll ski after this stretch, regardless of whether or not this stretch is 1 or 20 days. Because there are additional costs (and benefits) to ownership beyond the initial purchase.
Show HN: AI Privacy License – Open License for AI (EU AI Act Compliant)
by nabanita | 2025-08-03 15:57:49+00:00
Yesterday, EU AI Act’s General-Purpose AI requirements went into enforcement, mandating machine-readable rights reservations for training data, models, and content.

Last week, the U.S. AI Action Plan also made open-source and open-weight AI a national priority, framing it as key to staying competitive with China.

One problem: There’s still no standard way for creators to enforce their rights over data and models after they’ve been scraped and reused in AI training.

I built AI Privacy License (patent pending) to fix this, think Creative Commons for the AI era. Robots.txt but for AI and Data Governance. • Free & open-source licensing framework. • Machine-readable & enforceable under the EU AI Act’s new requirements. • Embeds cryptographic fingerprints so license terms travel post-crawl. • Works across websites, apps, datasets, models, online content, platforms and code. No central gatekeeper.

It’s already live here → https://www.aiprivacylicense.com

We’re curious: • How do you see governance evolving in open-source AI now that the EU AI Act is live? • What’s the best way to balance openness with creator protection in this new regulatory era?

Would love your feedback from the HN Community on this!
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-03 15:58:19+00:00
This article is about a team of mathematicians digitizing a proof that will take several years to realize. Lean itself is about computation.

So all the libraries they build up will have these holes in them that make it harder to do things like treat two isomorphic objects as the same -- something mathematicians do implicitly on a daily basis.

You can probably get a long way in Lean with the soundness axiom. But what I don't know is what happens when you build up a decade of software libraries in a system that adds a lot of manual and cognitive overhead when you want to use them.

My gut instinct is that by cutting corners now, they're creating a form of technical debt that could possibly escalate quickly and force mathematicians to reformulate their tools in a nicer way.

This actually happens continuously throughout the history of math. Sometimes it leads to errors like the so-called Italian school of algebra. Sometimes it just leads to pauses while we go back and figure out what the objects we're working with actually are before we can make more progress.

Take all this with a grain of salt: I haven't worked with Lean so I don't know how much this crops up in practice, and I don't know how large Lean libraries are at this point. This is all gut feeling.

But my sense is that what you really want is to get the foundations right, then build abstraction layers on those foundations that are nicer to use. Lean tries to build a "good enough" foundation and historically the gap between what we know is correct and what is seen to be "good enough" tends to show itself sooner or later in math. If you are just working in natural language then you can just forget it was a problem as soon as a fix is found. If you're working in software, though, you'll likely need to do a major rewrite or refactoring.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-08-03 15:58:31+00:00
I lived in Norway for a few years, and something I thought was interesting is everyone who went on a walk would wear a hi-viz vest/arm band.

The kindergartners were cute, they'd all where hi viz overalls on their afternoon walks and be tied together like sled dogs.

Another thing in Norway, at least in the town I was in, it was almost a guarantee that you'd be breathalyzed on a early saturday/sunday morning if you were driving and leaving main arteries of the town.

And I was told even if you were .02 you'd lose your license for a year, and 10% of you salary as a fine. This is only one drink. Many Norwegians would drink NA beer at lunch because of this (get wildly drunk once home in the evening). Think of how easy it would be to stop drinking at 2-4am and sleep until 10am to go to breakfast, and still be at .02. They take it really seriously.

While I was there also, the cops only fired a gun once the entire two years (for the whole country).

People say Norway is able to have a society like this because of their size. I disagree, its definitely cultural (they were mostly egalitarian up until this last century) and has nothing to do with size.

Another weird thing, in the town I was in you couldn't mow your lawn on Sundays, or do anything that was super loud. This town was very Christain, but throughout the whole country they took their rest on the weekends extremely seriously, annoyingly so.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-03 15:58:46+00:00
> and you can lament that public needs don't make profits, or you can deal with the reality of the situation and accept that things aren't ideal.

Ah, so we have to "deal with the reality of the situation and accept things"? You know who also was being told that? French peasants and middle class, by their king Louis XVI, who told them that they had to accept plummeting living standards and wages. You know how it ended up, right? The king had to deal with the reality of a guillotine.

Some people might accept being used and abused by the capitalistic system as a "natural order of things", but there are people who can envision a world where not everything is about profit, and there are such things as public goods, services, resources, housing, benefits, etc.

> Decreasing energy demands isn't going to happen though, and energy should not be thought of as a profit generator

Says who? Not everything is about profit. The fact that so many in today's society are thinking of capitalism is the natural order of things doesn't make capitalism less fragile, especially if it continues not serving society. When something doesn't serve society, society gets rid of it (usually violently) and replaces it with something else. Many CEOs and oligarchs nowadays forget that, just like the kings before them, until a Luigi comes and reminds them.

> lament that public needs don't make profits,

Whatever the public needs, eventually the public will get, with or without profits involved, and with or without the agreement of the "ruling" class.
by Tohsig | 2025-08-03 15:59:14+00:00
I'll add on to this that per-user channels could work well in teams where everyone is comfortable sharing, but could be absolutely paralyzing in other situations.

My personal preference is to have some kind of "Off-Topic" or "Open Discussion" channel that is communal. I'll then make a point of consistently posting half-developed ideas to that channel. Especially the ideas that I know are going to morph as the team discusses them. I find that helps do two things:

- Helps create a culture of collaboration rather than one of "whatever the lead dev says goes".

- Provides Cover For/Reduces Pressure On anyone that is less comfortable putting their thoughts out there for discussion.

As the parent comment said, the fundamental idea in the post isn't bad, but the mechanism may need tweaking for a given team.
by localghost3000 | 2025-08-03 15:59:38+00:00
I worked in health care tech for about 5 years. AI driven before it was cool. Took processes that normally took years down to a couple hours. Cutting edge stuff.

What struck me over the years was the open hostility we faced from the staff. The admins would buy our product, then have us come do trainings. The clinicians seemed to resent every second of it and would just never use the tool.

Towards the end of my tenure there, a PM said to me “the last thing these people want is to have to learn yet another workflow”. Which is when the penny dropped for me that our tool was just one of a bazillion being force fed to these poor people. They want to spend their time with patients not a screen.

Despite it being the most mission driven I have ever felt about a product (we were literally trying to help cure cancer lol). I’ll never work in health care again. Like education, it’s a quagmire.
by MattDamonSpace | 2025-08-03 15:59:54+00:00
It wasn’t the outcome, it was the bad reasoning and the overall desire for interference

Does it really matter if Figma was bought vs IPO? No of course not. Khan just needs a poster child for her overall intervention philosophy.

Pointing at Figma as a success for her overall world view is like the religious who say “oh god saved me from that flood” while ignoring the hundreds who did die. The Almighty wanted them to die? Or…?

If you’re gonna claim the successes you have to claim the failures
Show HN: Open-source Voice Cloning at 16x real-time: Porting Chatterbox to vLLM
by RandomBK | 2025-08-03 16:00:08+00:00
Chatterbox TTS from ResembleAI (https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox) is one of the most accessible and highest-quality Voice Cloning models available today. However, its implementation via HF Transformers left a lot of performance on the table.

This is a pet project I've been building on-and-off. It ports the core of Chatterbox - a 0.5B Llama-architecture model - to vLLM. A lot of ugly hacks and workarounds were needed to make it work, but the end result works.

Outputting at around the same quality level as the original implementation, this port is roughly 5-10x faster, generating a 40min benchmark output in around 2min30s wall time on a 3090 (or 4m30s on a 3060ti). That's almost 16x faster than real-time.

High throughput like this can be itself transformative, enabling scale and efficiency that unblocks new use-cases. I look forward to seeing what the community can do with this!

Disclaimer: This is a personal community project not affiliated with ResembleAI, my employer, or any other entity. The project is based solely on publicly-available information. All opinions are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.
by serf | 2025-08-03 16:00:12+00:00
>and they know it's a judgement free zone.

that's the thing that's so inorganic about this whole thing : it's not a judgement free zone, it's a zone that tricks people into presuming that.

If some underling somewhere says something that exposes their ignorance or naivety to either a policy problem or a technical problem you'd better realize that it's going to trigger a 'review mechanism' somewhere down the road within the organization; to think otherwise would be pure fantasy.

Similarly : if you go drinking with the boss, you do still have to remember that the drunk puking slob who you're carrying to their hotel room is going to wake up and be your boss tomorrow.

very few humans actually disconnect this stuff from their internalized judgements of people.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-03 16:00:24+00:00
Systems thinking is my superpower, and funny enough, I'm convinced I started doing it to deal with a brain that seems to easily become overwhelmed. As an example, it can be overwhelming to try to individually understand the participants in the US economy, their motivations, and the consequences of their actions. Some people excel at ingesting, memorizing, and understanding large amounts of information like this. For me, the solution was to compress this information into something I can hold in my mind's eye by understanding the underlying systems and realizing that something that seems complex is actually a beautiful and relatively simple machine. Do this enough, and you start to think like this by default and quickly realize that everything is a machine of sorts, and some of them could benefit from a few new parts.

For anyone who wants to read more about this skill and work to develop it on their own, "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows is a great book on the topic.
by hollerith | 2025-08-03 16:00:35+00:00
It is pissing in the wind, but at least I'm not contributing to the catastrophic outcome by cooperating or doing business with Apple.

It's not my fault that the reality in which humanity find itself turned out to be more dangerous than almost anyone suspected. My only moral obligation is to do what I can to make the future turn out okay even though what I can do is very very little.
by liamdgray | 2025-08-03 16:01:10+00:00
Abstract: "Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities but suffer from apparent precision loss, reframed here as information spreading. This reframing shifts the problem from computational precision to an information-theoretic communication issue. We address the K:V and V:K memory problem in LLMs by introducing HDRAM (Holographically Defined Random Access Memory), a symbolic memory framework treating transformer latent space as a spread-spectrum channel. Built upon hypertokens, structured symbolic codes integrating classical error-correcting codes (ECC), holographic computing, and quantum-inspired search, HDRAM recovers distributed information through principled despreading. These phase-coherent memory addresses enable efficient key-value operations and Grover-style search in latent space. By combining ECC grammar with compressed sensing and Krylov subspace alignment, HDRAM significantly improves associative retrieval without architectural changes, demonstrating how Classical-Holographic-Quantum-inspired (CHQ) principles can fortify transformer architectures."