MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Kirby64 | 2025-09-27 15:13:23+00:00
Digital is digital, but you’re ignoring multiple places where things might not be the same:

That $30 CD player… if it’s connected to headphones, how were the headphones driven? Especially if you have nice headphones, it’s very easy for a cheap device to not be able to competently drive them.

Vinyl vs CD mastering is a thing. There could be differences there. Additionally, depending on how you ripped the vinyl (especially with a “cheap dongle”) that may introduce its own color to the record.

There’s a reason why music collectors differentiate between every single source, because often there are differences (sometimes small, sometimes big) between the various sources.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-27 15:13:39+00:00
The Mutex thing kind of makes sense. std::mutex came in at C++11, while Microsoft's CreateMutex call goes back to at least Windows 95. "Mutex" just means "a particular type of lock", it doesn't say anything about the implementation, nor about the performance. It'd be dangerous to assume the performance characteristics of C++'s std::mutex and Rust's std::sync::mutex are anything alike either.

fflush and FlushFileBuffers both just happen to have "flush" in the name. The fact someone decided that fflush doesn't actually flush the file buffer and added fsync to actually flush the buffers, does make for a very frustrating experience, but I find most of the POSIX API to be like that. See also: sync(void) vs fsync(int fd) vs syncfs(int fd).
by visarga | 2025-09-27 15:14:33+00:00
I think you jump from AGI to "human not needed" too abruptly. First of all, AGI might be smarter than you but you have to live with the consequences of using it. So you can't be removed from the loop. We need accountability, AI can't provide it, it has no skin. We need to act well in a local context, AI sits in the datacenter, not on the ground with us. Humans need to bring the context into the AI.

Hinton predicted 9 years ago that radiologists will lose their jobs, yet today they are better paid and more. Maybe AGI will make humans more valuable instead of less. There might be complementarities and mutual reinforcement between us and AGI.
by stacktrust | 2025-09-27 15:14:33+00:00
> I wonder why nobody has set up, e.g., a good Yocto CI/CD base image pipeline for custom hardware devices

The near-infinite flexibility of OpenEmbedded/Yocto is a blessing and curse.

The Yocto autobuilder [1] covers board families, but hardware-specific layers [2] and BSPs are maintained by vendors and consultants [3].

Wind River Linux [4] offers long-term commercial support for regulated industries, derived from Yocto LTS, https://www.windriver.com/products/linux

Some work was done on a "Reference Binary Distro" to make Yocto more accessible to new developers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plHWCHGv1c

Funding has slowly diversified beyond hardware vendors, e.g. https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/yocto

[1] https://dashboard.yoctoproject.org [2] https://layers.openembedded.org [3] https://www.yoctoproject.org/community/consultants/
by danaris | 2025-09-27 15:14:56+00:00
You are very clearly being sarcastic, but the only reason that UBI like this wouldn't work in the scenario being described is because the already-mega-wealthy owners of the AGI hardware and software decide that they want to have all the money instead of actually making the promise of automation real for all of humanity.

And to be clear, there is no conceivable universe in which that extra money would make their lives better in any meaningful way.

They could support high taxes on the money they earn through the AGI, to fund a UBI that would support literally everyone—because their products are doing literally all the work necessary to maintain a civilized society (barring some in-person tasks that it's hard to hand over to even a very smart robot) without any human actually needing to do any work. They could do so without making themselves poor, or even the least bit less comfortable.

The reason they would choose not to is because they're corrupt selfish "rugged individualists" who care more about their dollar-denominated high scores than about literally any other human being on the planet. And we know this because that's the case with the people in the closest-analog positions today.
by simonw | 2025-09-27 15:16:00+00:00
Yes - it's important to me that I understand the source of the data I've collected and if that source results in restrictions on what I can do with that data.

Especially when I'm building databases that I want other organizations to be able to use.

Fun fact: many geocoding APIs have restrictions on what you can do with the data you get back from that geocoder - including how long you can store it and whether you are allowed to re-syndicate to other people. That's one of the reasons I like OpenCage: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-compare-and-test-geoc...
by throwaway_7274 | 2025-09-27 15:16:03+00:00
Ugh, unfortunately it means "please note that I'm not an unserious person." Very often when you have opinions on software on the internet, trolls will jump out of the hedgerow and shout, "who are you to have an opinion?" And, sadly, that same sort of person will often be mollified somewhat by prestige.

Feels kind of icky to have written that, though, and maybe I regret it slightly.
by karmakurtisaani | 2025-09-27 15:16:26+00:00
Tangential question: is it ok to recycle any PET, or just bottles? Where I'm from, the recycling spots at stores emphasize they're taking bottles only, but PET is used in a lot of other packaging as well. To me it's a no brainer any PET should go to the recycling, but they seem strict about having bottles only.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 15:16:31+00:00
Anyone should be able to view it, even without an Apple account: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/three-cells-your-life-system/i... (bottom right):

> Three Cells Weekly $2.99

> Lifetime Access to Three Cells $29.99

> Three Cells Weekly $2.99

The ratio here feels a bit off, $155.48/y or $29.99 for life screams "trying to push you to pay a lot for an app I know you won't stick with" rather than "we've got great value options for any type of user". There is a 7 day trial as well, so even more confusing as to which kind of user is supposed to want the weekly payment.
by water-data-dude | 2025-09-27 15:16:48+00:00
The thing that would get me to actually go to Cracker Barrel would be if they brought back rosin potatoes. It's a weird method of cooking potatoes where you throw them in a CAULDRON OF BOILING ROSIN, and apparently it's quite good.

Idk, I read about them and I'm super curious now - but it's not like you can go to the store, grab a cauldron of rosin, and do them at home.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991352
by schiffern | 2025-09-27 15:18:01+00:00
Bingo.

Having them be "in order of preference" was always the intention,[0] but over time the other two got de-emphasized by the plastic industry. Reduce and reuse don't make anyone money (except savings for the consumer), but leaked internal industry studies showed that recycling gives people permission to consume more plastic.[1]

Surprisingly, the earliest media I remember calling this out was a chapter from Michael Moore's book Stupid White Men, which came out in _2001_. He provocatively said that in order to be a better environmentalist, he had stopped recycling (gasp!). This strikes me as being quite impressively far ahead of the curve on this issue...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_hierarchy

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-pl...
by Kirby64 | 2025-09-27 15:18:22+00:00
The message you’re describing sounds like it (and most devices) telling you nicely it doesn’t support the legacy, now removed from the spec, function to do direct analog audio over USB-C. I.e., the DAC is built into the phone instead of being built into the dongle.

Most devices do not support analog USB-C audio, and frankly I understand why given how affordable DAC based dongles are these days.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-09-27 15:19:31+00:00
> Don't you think the outrage would be real?

It would be real but only because people’s priorities tend to be incredibly silly. Like, giving children free school lunch is an original sin to probably a lot of the subset that gave a care about the Cracker Barrel logo… and for some reason there was a whole internet movement to remake a movie because a group didn’t like what was released (Justice League).
by stego-tech | 2025-09-27 15:19:38+00:00
I remain amused at classic Sci-Fi being reimagined as scientific papers. Authors have warned and celebrated the potentials of AGI on human society for decades if not millennia (if we include deities, gods, and other super-human machinations): we know full well that a post-AGI economy will be hell or paradise solely depending on the underlying civilizational structures when it is birthed into existence (hell if Capital reigns supreme and Nations remain in conflict, paradise if we get our species' collective shit together and consciously shift to a planetary societal mindset for economics and governance).

As for what humans should do when labor can be accomplished via AI? Man, if you're asking yourself that question in 2025, you're kinda late to the party in a lot of ways - and desperately need to read more books. AGI may eliminate the need for human labor in Capital terms, but it does not suddenly eradicate all value of human labor - only the value Capital ascribes to it. It's why, in a post-AGI fictional setting, you see so many more adventurers, artisans, explorers, researchers, engineers, teachers, and other roles often undervalued by Capital but highly valued by humans.

I imagine most humans will simply turn their favorite hobby into their new "profession", as a means to meet other humans and continue growing social bonds. Maybe that means painting full-time, or striking out on a photography journey. Maybe it's opening a retro game "store" to connect with like-minded enthusiasts. Maybe it's running your own museum for local artists and creators, sharing your tastes with other visitors.

A lot of "valueless" work under Capitalism suddenly becomes highly prized in a post-AGI, post-scarcity society. Most humans will figure that out to varying degrees, and the rest will be able to benefit from a wider array of fee-less services. Provided, of course, we begin changing society today to enable that future tomorrow.
by Volundr | 2025-09-27 15:20:09+00:00
> If you think it's silly because it's not a restaurant you go to

One can also think it's silly because... It's silly. The assumption that everyone who doesn't care must not be a customer is incorrect.

> imagine if Coca-Cola replaced their script logo with some generic sans-serif one.

I'm imagining it and find myself indifferent. Why would I have an emotional connection to the Coke logo?
by danaris | 2025-09-27 15:20:16+00:00
Oh, the attack itself absolutely comes from the right! The bland rebrands are 100% a product of right-wing corporate America trying to maximize profits at the expense of everything else.

I think my point is just that while you're right that there isn't really anyone on the left saying "this is a good thing that we should keep", the vast, vast majority of the people who are being animated by the perception that it is an attack are on the right.

Those people reflexively blame the left, because they have been conditioned to see anything that attacks the things they care about as coming from the left, but it is 100% a clash between the corporate wing and the rural-culture wing of the American right.
by maqp | 2025-09-27 15:20:25+00:00
Slightly unrelated, but the coolest audio-ethernet cable I've seen is one that goes inside an XLR shell

Socket: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Snake-Over-Ethernet/dp/...

Plug: https://www.gear4music.se/sv/G4M/Neutrik-NE8MC-1-EtherCON-RJ...

Professional Audio has zero time for snake oil, I bet these will never suffer from broken clips.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 15:20:27+00:00
>> It receives relatively little attention now, but in terms of sheer numbers the cuts to the USAID program have had and will continue to have the largest death toll of anything this administration does.

> The US is not responsible for fixing every world issue. Just because they've helped in the past doesn't make them morally responsible for every current and future crisis.

Your answer doesn't quite respond to the GP but instead feels like an expression of political opinion.

From a moral stance, the action of stopping something seems quite distinct from a position in which the thing had never occurred.
by prmph | 2025-09-27 15:21:11+00:00
Two things:

First, what you propose may work only if happenings in other countries don't affect the US, which I very much doubt.

Second, in most of these countries, it is actually the drip-feed of supposed western "help" that props up corruption and prevents any real change. The "aid" is a form of control, not actual help.

If western nations wanted to actually help, they would support the Grand Inga dam project [1] to actually lift people out of poverty. Instead, they oppose it on environmental grounds, never mind that their industrialization was built on the back of massive pollution.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Inga_Dam
by Intermernet | 2025-09-27 15:22:00+00:00
I just realised, and this could be red herring, that almost all of the domains I've administered were based in Australia. I suppose it's possible that the IP ranges I'm dealing with have a better reputation than those from other countries. I have administered a few domains from US companies and IPs, but they've often been based in known data centres which may help their cause. I can't really talk to the reliability of hosting a mail server on a consumer / small business IP in the US / Europe/ Asia. It's possible that all known, common IPs in these areas have a natural disadvantage when it comes to reputation. I suppose try running a tunnel from your server to a small VPS in a knwon data centre? Not ideal, but it may help.

It would be annoying if entire US/European/Asian ISP IP ranges were immediately blocked. We should have moved on from that for many reasons unrelated to email.
by zachmoore | 2025-09-27 15:22:10+00:00
Your affordance for sources is misleading and confusing. When I am viewing a dataset post schema creation then this link affordance makes me think that it's related to the number of results found in a cell where multiple results are expected. But when I'm adjusting the research plan, I do care about the sources. Suggestion is to introduce a "Review Mode" where the link affordance corresponds to data source, else it refers to number of links per cell. This will solve your problem and make it be less confusing. Currently, this as well as many other things make me just want to download to csv and edit in google sheets. it's too frustrating to work with.
by kurayashi | 2025-09-27 15:23:29+00:00
I recently had to setup my Denon Home Smart Speaker again after I moved. I’m pretty sure that I didn’t need a HEOS account the first time I set it up. On the second setup it was required to configure the WIFI. But the Ethernet Port worked fine without an account. I bought the speaker together with a Denon receiver ~3.5 years ago.
by beering | 2025-09-27 15:23:41+00:00
This article spent a lot of words to say very little. Specifically, it doesn’t really say why working towards AGI doesn’t bring advancements to “practical” applications and why the gazillion AI startups out there won’t either. Instead, we need Trump to step up?

More and more I feel like these policy articles about AI are an endless stream of slop written by people who aren’t familiar with and have never worked on current AI.
by bostik | 2025-09-27 15:23:42+00:00
Anecdote and personal observation - the odd Finnish brands essentially catapulted from niche obscurity to wider recognition 15-20 years ago. Until then in "the common mind" there was Genelec, and then a vast gulf before anyone else.

Sometime before 2010 Genelec started to focus their offering to two markets: the absolute top-end studio kit, and at the same time expanding downwards in the market towards the top end of consumer range. While they retreated from the space between the two, other local players[tm] were happy to cover the now vacant hi-fi enthusiast space.

For some reason the same locales that originate lots of heavy-metal bands also happen to sport a concentration of high-end audio equipment shops.

(Happy owner of a pair of Amphion monitors. Described by my audiophile friends as "unforgivingly accurate".)
by quietthrow | 2025-09-27 15:24:06+00:00
Because that’s what is configured as the “default” page to show when somebody goes straight to archive.ph. When you go to archive.ph/someurl the server then serves you a page that corresponds to that url (someurl in this example). When you go to YouTube.com/somerandomstring it takes you directly to the video. But if you just go to YouTube.com you get a bunch of “random” videos as the home page is configured to show that (grossly simplifying )
by nightpool | 2025-09-27 15:24:54+00:00
I haven't worked with Fedify before, but what I'm talking about is the difference between a service that has a "translation layer" between their own internal data model and ActivityPub, and a server that actually stores full ActivityPub object's in the user's inbox and outbox, and displays them unchanged to clients. 90% of deployed ActivityPub applications—like yours!—are the former, not the latter.

A true "ActivityPub server" is almost as simple as a Bluesky PDS—all it's responsible for is 1) storing blobs of data, 2) fanning out subscriptions and 3) collecting incoming data for you to view. In the original way ActivityPub was designed, all of the actual data presentation layers—Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed—were designed to be specialized clients that could communicate with the user's generic server. However, the first popular implementations cut out the client-to-server part of the protocol, so now we're stuck in a place where everyone thinks ActivityPub means you need a separate identity for every client application.

So, what I would recommend for your own username/password site is implementing an ActivityPub client, and recommending that users use it to connect to a third-party ActivityPub server. That way, the user owns the data, and they simply use your service to get access to (filtered version of) it.

Unfortunately, since this is a less implemented part of the protocol, the client APIs necessary to make this a reality haven't seen much development. And you're facing an uphill battle for user adoption. In practice, users don't seem to mind having separate accounts and identities for different clients. It reminds me a bit of the "key management problem" in e2e cryptography. Having a stable cryptographic identity is doable if you're technically minded, but most people just muddle along and don't really care about it that much—they create new keys every time they get a new laptop instead of trying to figure out cross-signing, and everything works itself out more or less fine.
by sebular | 2025-09-27 15:25:23+00:00
Congratulations! Beautiful design, very simple and appealing. The onboarding flow filled me with optimism, which I appreciated.

That said, I bounced off at the pricing. The $30 lifetime price isn’t something I find inherently too expensive, but I need to see if the app works for me before committing to it. It was weird that if I went forward with the free trial it would automatically put me on the exorbitant $3/week price. That option was repellent and got me worried about forgetting to either cancel or make the purchase. Compounding the issue was uncertainty about whether I even _could_ make the lifetime purchase after accepting the free trial.

Then I lost momentum and started thinking about how I was about to drop $30 on an app that’s just some HN poster’s 4-month project, and I have no clue how crippled it will be if (when) you decide to shut down the API.

If you’re confident the app itself is habit-forming, I’d recommend just letting people use it for a couple weeks and then hitting them with the paywall. And when you’re asking for that kind of money and using the word “lifetime”, I’d describe how you’re going to guarantee that to the user, even if they’re the only person who ended up buying your app.

Edit: Now I’m stuck on the payment options screen with no way to delete my account. Not happy about that.
by gottorf | 2025-09-27 15:25:40+00:00
We disagree on the unspoken missions of those agencies, I guess. From what I've seen, the unspoken mission is actually providing sinecures for political allies. Or have you forgotten about a worldwide pandemic that happened just a few short years back which revealed that the top priority of many authority figures in public health organizations was to make themselves look good and their opposition bad?

Why are so many people blind to the idea that the name and stated purpose of an organization can and many times do differ from the actual real-world outcomes that organization produces?
by roversx | 2025-09-27 15:25:43+00:00
That's not a good frame rate. My computer has this situation:

( ls /Applications/.app 2>/dev/null ls /System/Applications/.app 2>/dev/null ls ~/Applications/*.app 2>/dev/null ) | wc -l 730

For me, it was really slow at the beginning, but it got much better after that. I'm not sure why, but this at least shows that there are still big problems with the current performance...
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 15:25:49+00:00
This is a bad take, even if we step away from your comparison of a body of millions of people to a someone living in Brooklyn with a trust fund.

> Perhaps the American taxpayer could be incentivized to continue financially supporting the DR Congo in other ways? Maybe they could apply to become a protectorate or somesuch. You can't have your sovereign cake and eat it, too.

We weren't asked about the abrupt change. I am sure that the average taxpayer supports maintaining lives overseas at minimal costs. She also probably wants pandemics not to infect her children on US shores.

> In other words: if a country cannot actually exist without being propped up by another, at some point it may be better for everyone to just break the illusion.

On a geopolitical sense, this is absurd. Just consider Poland: do they wish Ukraine didn't exist because of the amount of resources they expend on Ukraine's defense?