MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strogonoff | 2025-09-13 09:58:53+00:00
Personally, I think discussions should happen organically over any channel; a tool like Github only gives a false impression that everything happens there, but really it usually doesn’t. Regarding dashboard for maintainers, there are tools that do it well, but usually they are dedicated to that; I don’t think using PRs or issues gives a complete exhaustive picture of what needs to be done, and forcing every maintainer to use one lowest common denominator tool like Github is these days doesn’t seem like a good idea.

As far as checkout, doing it with an emailed patch is one command, actually.
by close04 | 2025-09-13 10:00:29+00:00
We can make nuclear safe (enough) but after one big incident nobody wanted the political career suicide to push for this. So we are stuck with criticizing stone-age level nuclear power because we never took it further. The West never stopped doing something just because the USSR didn’t do it properly.

If we did the same with commercial air travel after the first disasters we’d still cross the oceans in boats. Car accidents kill 10-15 times more people every year worldwide than Chernobyl did but we don’t give up on cars either. Heck, smoking kills 7-8 times more people than cars every year (that’s 80-100 Chernobyls worth every year) and we still allow it.

The reasons are political not technically or financially insurmountable obstacles. We didn’t shut down nuclear in Europe for “green” reasons or because we can’t improve it, or because it kills too many people, but because enough Russian money went into politicians’ pockets to do this.
by diggan | 2025-09-13 10:00:52+00:00
> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature

Exactly how I feel about AI art today, and doesn't make me super hopeful for the future. Hopefully there been cases where that hasn't been true?

But then I remember seeing datamoshing as weird the first times I saw it used as a transition in the "Off the Air" TV series/anthology, nowadays I think it makes me fuzzy and almost nostalgic instead?
by sterlind | 2025-09-13 10:00:55+00:00
the problem is that technology has changed so much that it's legitimately hard to apply 18th-century laws to 21st-century life:

- does the plain view doctrine allow TSA to look under your clothes with mmWave sensors? or to peek through your walls with IR cameras? to use laser microphones to listen in on a conversation? to use EM emissions from your computer to conduct a side-channel attack?

- does the third-party doctrine allow police to read your emails (unlike actual letters) without a warrant? or your papers on Google Docs? to access streaming cloud backups from your home security cameras? to buy your location data from data brokers?

- does your fifth amendment right against self-incrimination protect you from confessing your passwords? from taking a polygraph? from measuring your P300 signal as you look at a lineup? from using fMRI to reconstruct images from your visual cortex?

- does the right to bear arms include AR-15s? machine guns? loitering munitions? tactical nukes? ICBMs?

there's a scale from textual pedantry to handwavy analogies. courts are increasingly going on vibes and hacking together post-hoc justifications because the source material is too abstract and too dated to allow any straightforward reading.
by realusername | 2025-09-13 10:00:57+00:00
Because while the failure of the nuclear plants could be solved by sending more workers, the renewable failure couldn't (and it was even more severe).

Nobody could say "you had to build more renewables" at the time because they produced even less than the nuclear plants.

> Why isn't that instead a call for more storage, in general?

There's nothing which is appropriate for a winter load yet.

As a result of this incident, France pushed for more nuclear investments and dropped the mandatory renewables share.
by strogonoff | 2025-09-13 10:01:57+00:00
If they were truly built-in I would not mind, but I found a bunch of third-party stubs in a dependency tree of the virtual Python environment VSC created (and ran obviously unsandboxed). What’s worse is that stubs, in addition to not being specified by me, were often pulled at the wrong version compared to the package I was using, leading to typing mismatches and runtime errors.
by throw101010 | 2025-09-13 10:03:45+00:00
> Even for their website they demand a phone number just to read anything.

Does it currently? I have a couple Discord accounts that never got tied to a phone number and can still use them.

Telegram on the other hand does that, I've never managed to get my own account for it without a phone number... and all the anonymous (pay for temp number) end up giving you a shared "account" that anyone can take from you if they get attribued the same number (and they will).
by flomo | 2025-09-13 10:04:18+00:00
Yep, me (and my politician Weiner) have some great public transit, so that's certainly true of some places.

Those folks that he is up-zoning out in the avenues, they are driving. Different culture out there. Downvote reality to the left.

GOOD transit it obvious, and it certainly is not a gigantic tunnel deep under downtown San Jose which is 400% over budget. Do not claim there is a lack of money for any of this. The political machine is just totally malfunctional.
by pjjpo | 2025-09-13 10:06:15+00:00
As far as I could tell, the article seems to be specifically about founders, not "everyone".

Personally I don't agree even for founders since I've seen too many that end up just grinding the gears without producing value - when that leads to meetings etc reducing the productivity of the entire team it's a problem. But committing to a stressful life as a founder in itself doesn't seem that bad as long as it's not propagated poorly to the team.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-13 10:06:16+00:00
Historically, China backed the monarchy (the royal family excluding Gyanendra never really forgave Nehru and Indira Gandhi for abolishing and then nationalizing royal property, as the Shah family continues to only marry Hindu royalty within their caste along with their historic antipathy to a monarchist Hindu Rashtra leading to the INC backing the Nepali Congress and Vanarasi-raised and ideologically Gandhian Koirala brothers) and KP Sharma Oli's Marxist communist faction, while India backed the Prachanda Path communists and the Nepali Congress (NC).

After the move to democratization, India continued to back NC and Prachanda (eg. He and his wife are/were devoted followers of BJP-aligned Baba Ramdev [0][1][2]), but KP Sharma Oli's faction continued to lean pro-China, as he and his peers started their revolutionary path during the Naxalbari uprising [3]. The monarchists (RPP) on the other hand switched to being more India leaning after Yogi Adityanath - the religious leader of the Gorakhnath Math which is heavily patronized by the royal family and Pahari Hindus from Kathmandu to Kashmir - became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Last year, the NC surprised everyone by collapsing Prachanda's government and making an alliance with KP Sharma Oli.

Based on how prominent Maoist Center (Prachanda), RSP, and RPP party workers have been during the protests and even within the discord, I am starting to suspect this was a repeat of the Rajapaksa-Siresena episode in Sri Lanka in the sense that a significant faction was used to undermine the China leaning Oli government.

Sushila Karki is viewed as fairy pro-India - the town she's from is for all intents and purposes Bihar, and she studied at the PoliSci department at Banaras Hindu University during the JP Andolan and when several future Indian political leaders were studying at BHU as well. China also hasn't congratulated her yet but the Indian government did almost immediately after the announcement. Of course, we will only find out once Karki's cabinet is announced.

[0] - https://english.khabarhub.com/2019/20/63249/

[1] - https://english.makalukhabar.com/ramdev-arrives-at-prachanda...

[2] - https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/prachanda-fellow-maoist...

[3] - https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b959a806-fd27-4c20-bfb3-a2...
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-09-13 10:07:40+00:00
> How much of the core parts of the kernel do you think have been rewritten since?

Does refactoring count as rewriting, though?

I've poked-around the NT kernels for XP, XPx64, Vista, 7 SP1, and Win10 22H2[1] in Ghidra as part of a personal quest to find out why my Intel motherboard's XHCI (USB) controller drops random mouse HID packets, and even though the overall structure noticeably changes between releases after zooming-in I'll eventually find the same familiar blocks of code or patterns-of-blocks-of-code all referencing each other like before... just with even more new layers of indirection added in each Windows release.

A good example of this is to compare the disassembly for ntosknrl before - and after - Microsoft added Virtualization-based-security and "Virtual Trust Levels" to the kernel (I forget the exact version, but I think sometime in 2017?): prior to that, Windows' kernel-mode handling of its USER-component's hardware IO (mouse, keyboard, etc) was still fairly recognizable compared to even Windows XP; but post-VTL I saw how the "useful" program-code for processing local user input is wrapped in massive amounts of redirection back-and-forth through the hypervisor when VTL is enabled - it left me feeling like they moved a mountain just for this one single, Enterprise-y, feature while accepting the runtime overhead of all the extra branches and virtual-calls going on (which are trivial and of no consequence on modern hardware); so while I can't fault anyone at MS on the kernel team for their approach, it's a reminder that progress does not come cheap - or without compromises.

I wonder if Microsoft wrapped all the indirection gubbins in #ifdefs to elide it all from their gaming-edition build of Windows 11 for their Steamdeck compete ("ROG Xbox Ally") - I'd like to poke around that OS at some point to see (or maybe they've gone all-in on hypervisor-based security because that's how the Xbox now works?)

[1] Remember kids, keep your own backups of pdb symbols! Microsoft doesn't offer ISO downloads of PDBs to match your install media; now they're all download-on-demand with no guarantees of future availability of symbols for any binaries shipping today: it means debug symbols are now ephemeral and will be highly treasured by collectors in the distant future.
by perching_aix | 2025-09-13 10:07:42+00:00
Having read that article, I'd say this is not really an honest takeaway. I mean, I guess it is lossless, it just really flies in the face of what I'd consider reasonable baseline expectations.

They offer three "solutions" to the issue of partial blocks:

- cut them off and stop worrying about it

- show whatever the original JPEG encoder put there and stop worrying about it

- replace whatever the original JPEG encoder put there and stop worrying about it

I cannot imagine anyone honestly considering these and then shipping them. It's fine if the user manually consents, but automated, this is pretty objectionable. Extending the image in arbitrary ways or cutting off of it is really not what I'd expect from a codec to do when I ask it to perform a lossless transformation, particularly specific ones, like flip and rotate, which I'd expect to be outright periodic. And periodicity is violated immediately with the dimensions changing.
by diggan | 2025-09-13 10:09:04+00:00
> In the discourse about social media, the term "algorithm" is exclusively used to refer to purposefully-maligned algorithms engineered to addict and abuse people.

But I feel like it misses the point. What about a service where you can design and use your own "algorithms", and it's built into the platform?

Such a platform would have thousands of algorithms, but none of them designed for chasing money or engagement, just different preferences. But Mastodon could still claim "We don't use The Algorithm and is therefore better than other places" while a platform with custom user-owned algorithms could get the best of both worlds.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-13 10:09:26+00:00
This wasn't to "impose rule". It was only to select an interim leader who will oversee elections. They've gone for a 73-year-old former chief justice who is famous for being steadfastly anti-corruption.

It was an open discord server that anyone sufficiently motivated with an internet connection could join. So not representative of everyone, but obviously more democratic than if the military had just appointed someone by themselves
by hvb2 | 2025-09-13 10:11:24+00:00
> Tons of people getting employment based green cards hold jobs that could easily be filled by an American.

Could be filled by an American, sure. Is the American willing to do the work? Probably not...

This is not a uniquely American problem.

In tech, I've always felt it was hard to hire Americans because it seems there's such a push for degrees in business/law etcetera as opposed to engineering.
by Hilift | 2025-09-13 10:14:49+00:00
"Bring dense housing" misses the plot. It prevents 50% of all development projects (in recent years) from being thwarted for no reason under the veil of environment laws. Some municipalities also had requirements to "get your neighbors approval", which resulted in bizarre interactions where residents would actually ask developers for things that cost millions of dollars. "Can you build a ground floor office for my dentist husband"? (Actual question).

For those wondering, 80% of Palisades/Eaton fire residents will not rebuild and will sell. The process will take over three years and is frustrating even with the new legislation. This could result in some interesting multi-tenant developments in those areas.
by pzo | 2025-09-13 10:15:23+00:00
electricity is only one power source - you not gonna use it for e.g. heating because its expensive. When you look at graph with energy consumption by source german situation is bad and solar provides less than 6% and wind less than 11% [1]. Now go compare with france where nuclear provides 37% of energy.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
by skydhash | 2025-09-13 10:15:24+00:00
Social media existed before social media. We had forums for permanent collaboration (lecture hall style), and we had IRC for quicker ephemeral discussions (bar style). What we didn’t have was the focus on individuals. To have a brand means you were working on something useful for a group.

Today’s social media heavily focus on the individual, not the group, which is ironic. It’s a lot of people clamoring for attention while also consuming only through the algorithm (aka the echo feedback).

The old social media was more like going out. Instantly you feel that not everything is about you. But you still have familiar place you can hangout and useful place when you need something.
by Agraillo | 2025-09-13 10:15:35+00:00
I like challenges like this. First, the edit that introduced the "five-seven ascii" is [1] (2010) by Pete142 with the explanation "add a name for the PDP-6/10 character-packing convention". The user Pete142 cites his web page www.pwilson.net that no longer serves his content. Sure it can be accessed with archive.org and from the resume the earliest year mentioned is 1986 ( MS-DOS/ASM/C drivers Technical Leader: ...). I suspect that he himself might have use the term when working and probably this jargon word/phrase didn't survive to a reliable book/research.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=36-bit_computing&...
by pjmlp | 2025-09-13 10:17:13+00:00
Maybe adding some Xerox PARC, Oberon, NeXTSTEP / NeWS style, Powershell ideas could also be interesting, on how the shell, UI, and dynamically loaded code (or OS IPC), makes the whole OS customizable, , just throwing another set of ideas into your bucket.

Overall it looks interesting, all the best.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-13 10:17:22+00:00
So this is interesting. Because Eurovision is of course just citizens, and punishing citizens for the actions of their state is considered racism. And Israel is hardly alone in having a conflict. The same could be said about the many universities.

So do we now get to refuse to hire Afghans because of the Taliban too? Or Turkish citizens? Much the same principle, after all. These countries are at war and purposefully attacking large population groups. Or is this yet another kind of "only Israeli" get this treatment rule?

Of course, in reality just about every muslim country I look up has conflicts with population groups in territory they claim. Morocco in Western Sahara. Algeria with the Tuareg (especially the non-muslim Tuareg). Tunisia is still in civil war and at war with it's own citizens. Libya has been caught driving black immigrants into the desert and abandoning them to die of thirst ... AND is at war with it's own citizens. Egypt and Egyptian Christians. Saudi Arabia is at war with it's own citizens ... Or you can go south, and well all know about Sudan. You can keep going until you arrive at Indonesia, even PNG.

And of course, what makes it truly bad: Palestine is at war with it's own citizens. They're at war with Palestinian Christians (near extinct) or Palestinian Jews, who the Palestinians have hunted to extinction ...

And plenty of non-Muslim countries do this. Russia (obviously, and not just Ukraine) for example, or China (the list is long. Nepal, Uyghurs, Mongols, ...). Myanmar. Thailand. Just about every even lightly authoritarian nation is at war with it's own citizens, either with groups of their own population, or just outright their own citizens (state vs anyone else).

And we haven't even mentioned the more dangerous conflicts and countries like North Korea, or Iran.

But of course, this only applies to Israel and Jews. Even that Palestinians do the same to their own population will not count.

In war, nothing changes until BOTH parties genuinly want peace. Obviously Palestinians (justified or not) do not want peace. So stopping the fighting ... just isn't the solution, it will simply restart.

So now it is justified to boycott muslims in general, and refuse to deal with them, because of what the states they belong to are doing? Glad we got this update.
by itake | 2025-09-13 10:18:11+00:00
The problem is the inconsistencies. Fine, if a company wants to source talent from a news paper, great! But to only make postings in hard to find places, away from where the 'good' talent looks is bad.

The problem is its not a free competition. I applied for one of these jobs 2 years ago, but a company was trying to sponsor a green card for an internal employee. The recruiter said I can't interview for that team, but I could interview for another similar, but different role. These companies aren't even offering interviews for these jobs!

> many foreign students

Schools limit how many people can attend. Foreign students take seats away from American students. These programs deny American students a chance to compete for American jobs before they even start college. An American student, rejected from Stanford, will not have as strong of a job application as the foreign Stanford graduate.

Maybe the foreign student was more qualified and wasn't an affirmative action case. Maybe the university doesn't select % of students to be foreign to help subsidize the costs of american students. I don't know.
by realusername | 2025-09-13 10:19:14+00:00
I'm not sure I get your comment, France has 2 years worth of uranium ready to use + 5 years of uranium not enriched.

I don't think there's any other form of energy in the country which has a 7 years emergency reserve.

> As we switch to BEVs repurpose that for grid duties while ensuring the inputs also decarbonize.

BEV will make the storage problem worse because they consume more in winter and you can't tell people how to use their own cars.
by jijijijij | 2025-09-13 10:20:02+00:00
So, what level of evidence would it take, to change your mind? You see, I won't spend any more time on this, if you are going to deflect any evidence provided. There is public record for the things I stated above. Would this make you concede here? Failure to bring forth an argument after provided with evidence, eg. not replying at all, will be considered concession.

Oh, and the scope is the genocide happening right now, not the fight for "Palestinian liberation", if this includes the dissolution of the state of Israel. "Palestine 43" and similar doesn't fly in Germany. And any celebration of the October attacks, in particular the festival massacre is considered antisemitic and glorification of illegitimate violence in nature. The paraglider is a symbol of this attack. Deal?
by rand846633 | 2025-09-13 10:20:21+00:00
This fits the Nordic society and political style. If police can stop pedestrians (not vehiclists) just for having red eyes and then draw their blood to fine them for THC use, that’s already a direct violation of personal freedom and bodily autonomy. Once that’s normalized, extending similar logic to monitoring communications is hardly surprising, it treats both your body and your mind as open to state inspection.

Src: https://wfad.se/blogs/per-johansson/drug-testing-for-swedish...
by phototovideoai | 2025-09-13 10:21:29+00:00
I recently built PhotoToVideoAI as a small indie project. The idea is simple: upload a photo, type a short prompt, and get a cinematic video back in a few seconds.

No editing skills needed — it’s browser-based, fast, and free to try with credits. I’d love to hear feedback from the HN community: Is this useful for creators/marketers? What features would make it more valuable? Any thoughts on improving video quality or UX?

Thanks for checking it out.
by pxoe | 2025-09-13 10:21:48+00:00
If you're not logged in, the evil algorithmic trending feed is literally the first thing you'll see being pushed onto you. (seems like it's a default setting, because it's that way across several different instances.) So what's the truth? Seems like an incoherent position to me, especially given how mastodon itself advertises it as "no algorithms". It doesn't hold true when you can immediately see algorithmic feeds, at most charitable it's confused, at worst it's just a barefaced lie.

So it's literally just "bad algorithms" (the ones other platforms make) and "good algorithms" (the good algorithms good platforms make, like us). Which is kind of literally how it is, there are good ones and bad ones, except both of these kinds of platforms employ "bad" engagement driving discovery algorithms, so it's really just 'us vs them'. The trending and news algorithms are literally just driving engagement and discovery, and top hashtags feed is proudly clamoring how much engagement there is. Doesn't seem like they're not "chasing" it.
by danhau | 2025-09-13 10:22:05+00:00
The max code point in Unicode is 0x10FFFF. ceil(log2(0x10FFFF+1)) = 21. So yes, a Unicode codepoint requires only 21 bits.

297334 codepoints have been assigned so far, that‘s about 1/4 of the available range, if my napkin math is right. Plenty of room for more emoji.
by full-stack-dev | 2025-09-13 10:23:08+00:00
This piece makes a great point about needing "architectures of intention." The default social media experience is pure passive consumption, and I felt my own intentions for the day slipping away.

As a personal project, I built an extension to create my own little architecture of intention. It introduces a 20-second pause before I enter distracting sites, and during the pause, it nudges me with a positive micro-habit, like fixing my posture or taking a deep breath.

It's called The 20s Rule (Chrome/Firefox) if anyone else finds that idea useful.