MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abhaynayar | 2025-09-23 08:13:21+00:00
I really like the web experience of Notion. (In terms of looks and feels). And it's probably the only note-taking app I like that syncs across everything automagically.

It would've really helped if they worked on improving their subpar mobile apps, but instead they are focusing on AI features.

(Which, I don't see much incremental benefit in paying for separately, if I already pay for other AI subs like chatgpt).
by lukan | 2025-09-23 08:14:25+00:00
"I don't think a jew would have gone back to Nazi Germany to visit family"

Then I recommend some history books. Family ties can be strong and the persecution of the jews was not always as violent and open as it was during the war. It was more systematic discrimination in the beginning, so of course people still travelled back and forth. Uprooting a whole family is not a simple thing.

"Some even line up to vote for sham Presidential elections of the Mullah regime"

What else they are supposed to do?

That is a small option of influence and they use it. You think the Mullahs would loose their power if people just would not vote for them? If that would be true, they would be a democracy.
by Jgoauh | 2025-09-23 08:14:53+00:00
has anyone figured out how to ask a question with text and have it speak the answer in the app ? i can generate text or talk but not jump between

i was lead to believe that it was possibly by the first image here: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=1f04779964b26eacd0025e68698258faacc7... that shows a voice output (top left) next to the written out detail of the thinking mode
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-23 08:15:26+00:00
Yes, casting in general is a code smell. (Not as in never use it, but as in use it as less as possible of course.)

The thing is, void was introduced exactly to represent this use-case without casting. The type to represent random amount of bytes, check which type and then cast is called char *. void * is for when you know exactly which type it has you just need to pass it through a generic interface, which isn't supposed to know or touch the type. The other use case is for when the object hasn't a type yet, like from malloc.

Previously everything was typed char *, then void * was used to separate the cases: casting from char *, don't cast from void *. Now in C++ both are the same again.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-23 08:15:30+00:00
Having seen this orgy of violence for years now, my impression is that Netanyahu can do whatever he likes.

He crossed so many red lines and nothing has happened - no sanctions, no diplomatic or military responses. Countries who would contemplate it know the US would retaliate against them - like the international courts that got sanctioned. Trump needs barely a reason to slap on punitive tariffs, I'm sure taking action against Israel would do it too.

And the US seems fanatically in support of Israel too - in particular, Republican voters seem to accept and support anything Israel does. This support seems so strong that even Kamala Harris didn't dare speak against Israel.

Until that changes, and while US runs the show, unless Netanyahu drops a nuke on the US, I can't see a force that will stop him.
by ksec | 2025-09-23 08:15:46+00:00
>But this paragraph settles it for me: PlanetScale as a company has a narcissistic personality which is fine for some I guess. Hopefully one day you will have a product that justifies that huge ego.

What you wrote earlier.

>Did any of these companies reach out to them and say "you know, we wouldn't have been able to scale beyond our previous limits without you, thank you so much guys you saved us". If not, this is so insincere that it is cringe.

I guess I will let the rest of HN be the judge.
by gt0 | 2025-09-23 08:15:59+00:00
I think developers overestimate how much everyday users care about local-first, or working offline.

At home and in the office, we have the Internet, so it's only on the move in places where you phone doesn't work where this matters and most of us probably don't work in those places enough for it to matter.

I worked on an app a while back, a synchronising drawing app, and ran into the issues mentioned in the article that synchronising is hard and is solving a problem very few people actually have, the need to work offline.

I'm a sort of "desktop app believer" in that I think you tend to get a better UX from native desktop apps than the web, but convincing enough people to believe you or give you money for it is another matter.
by xandrius | 2025-09-23 08:16:02+00:00
First let's start off that psychology is not like other fields, as it's often theories/opinions.

That statement is someone's way to describe what they found out to be best for them. Not an axiom for everyone.

And default doesn't mean always, it means that one's general state is happiness. For me, for that statement to make sense, the word "happiness" would be replaced with something like "being glad" (gladness?), as I always feel glad of myself/my life but I see happiness as something more active, like being sad. While I see this gladness as a passive state. But again, that's my personal take.
by stareatgoats | 2025-09-23 08:16:03+00:00
This is a rather meandering article, but it makes a cogent point: the concept of the "end times" has been a driving force for many of not most social movement history, and across most cultures. It has always been a useful tool for people with ulterior motives, be they political or economical, or both. And it does not come in an exclusively religious form either; even Marx with his telosity taps into this as well as the article points out. Recently one need not look further than the furor around the expected effects of climate change to get a sense of a "secular" end-of-times mentality.

But as this last point illuminates, just because the end of times prophecies have been crying wolf for thousands of years doesn't mean we can discard it. We may yet be obliterated, be it by galopping climate change, a meteor shattering our planet, have a lethal pandemic, or have nuclear war lay most of earth inhabitable. These are realistic threats, and people have probably always been aware that our exitence is fragile. All we can (and should) do is do our best to mitigate them.

What we definately should *not* do, is to try and make these things happen, just so that we may (or may not) live forever in a blissful afterlife. Or (and this is the main problem) suspend mitigating efforts because they are inconvenient in the short perspective. Just sayin.
by maplethorpe | 2025-09-23 08:16:27+00:00
I do agree a balance of pain and pleasure is necessary. But I also believe you can make your default state a gentle fluctuation between the two, rather than wild swings.

In my experience, this is largely a force of habit -- I one day found my default reaction to almost any event was to chastise myself, for example. If you can break this habit and return to a more tranquil medium, I think that's as close to being "always happy" as it's possible to get.
by marcyb5st | 2025-09-23 08:18:03+00:00
For me it is "how often" I get sick more than the length of ailments. Especially otitis(es ?). Studies [1] seem to support my theory, but it could be that I am just getting older and I am confusing correlation with causation.

Really annoying however, as every time I catch a cold I am afraid of having to face that dull but persistent pain that is an otitis.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019607092...
by jjav | 2025-09-23 08:18:11+00:00
> It's a sample size of 1, but I base this on my own driving record of 30 years and much more than 3000 miles where I never encountered an obstacle like this on a highway.

How is that relevant? You may not personally encountered this precise circumstance but that doesn't mean anything.

If you were to encounter this same scenario, however, it is a near certainty that you wouldn't crash into it. And yet the self-driving did. That's what matters.

> I would have liked to see the planned cross-country trip completed

I mean once the car significantly damaged itself, it's not like it can continue.

Big credit to the people running the experiment for letting it run and show failure. Many vloggers might've just interfered manually to avoid the accident and edited that part of the video out in order to continue and claim success.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-23 08:18:43+00:00
It isn't even a political bias but rather we can't deny that the economy feels like kissing the ring whether its us buying intel stocks or sort of forcing nvidia to buy some intel stocks and etc.

And I feel like its in a bull market because of AI Hype which was the main comment of the original parent to which you responded I think...

If this AI hype fails to deliver. Literally the magnificient 7 will have a huge loss of money which would then make the stockholders feel less wealthy which will spend less and it would have a drastic impact in the WHOLE economy.

Yes its in a bull market but I feel like I don't want to find out if I am in the peak of a bull market for an AI craze y'know?

And I am not advocating against stocks omg, I am just saying that world stocks are better in current landscape and I doubt if its poisoning my financial decisions.

NO I Don't want all of my saved money to go into an index which is going to be heavily dictated by the future of AI which I and many presume to be a bubble. I would much rather invest in index funds that target the world, heck maybe even index funds that target every country ex usa

My point is that the bubble will burst and then atleast S&P / nasdaq will definitely bleed.

Either we can talk about if you think its a bubble or not, since I am not comfortable investing in a bubbly situation no matter how lucrative it becomes y'know?

What are your thoughts on it?
by chabska | 2025-09-23 08:19:15+00:00
> Nobody should be expected to take that risk

I've seen this sentiment so many times from westerners. You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea, with the justification that by making their citizens lives horrific, you encourage them to rise against their government.

Their authoritarian militaristic government that doesn't care for human rights.

If you apply the same standard to the North Korean citizens, that they should not be expected to "take that risk", they your country's sanctions are pure collective punishment with no strategic value. You just tortured people for fun.
by chriskw | 2025-09-23 08:19:24+00:00
Nice to see another participant's thinking process for the puzzles! I ended up getting 5th place using dynamic programming for all of the scenarios, but I'm under the impression that almost everybody in the top 20 had almost equally good strategies and most of the variance in scores was due to luck with the sequence of people they got.

A quick sanity check is in Scenario 2, you needed 300 creative people each with a ~6.2% chance of showing up. The odds of getting a sequence of people where that's even possible for the first place score (2906 rejections + 1000 accepts = 3906 total people) is on the order of 1 in 10000, and that's without even factoring in the other constraints.
by constantcrying | 2025-09-23 08:19:47+00:00
"I am not responsible for the actions of my government, but you, the people who ban me, are responsible for the actions of your government, who made it illegal to transact with me."

Your country is sanctioned. You are asking people to put their own freedom at stake so that you can have a Notion account.

Iran is supplying Russia with drones to attack Ukraine. The sanctions against Iran might be hurting people who do not deserve it, but they aren't some unreasonable act of aggression and you are complaining about your Notion account?
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-23 08:20:58+00:00
Ironically the amount of sanctions the US put in place around the world is a large driving force for the decline of LIO and emergence of things like BRICS and SCO. I'm sure sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela are going to lead to regime change any moment now. The more you know, the more grotesque it all becomes, fortunately most know nothing.
by tgma | 2025-09-23 08:21:19+00:00
> If that would be true, they would be a democracy.

I am positing perhaps they are a democracy. Many of the "educated people" in question that the GP suggests "hate" the government, may say so but their actions nevertheless are directly and indirectly benefiting the Mullahs. Democracy does not mean good, or effective, or not evil. It might be a collective compromise towards mediocrity and stagnation.
by psychoslave | 2025-09-23 08:22:46+00:00
>“It’s not so difficult to be a buddha,” says Thich Nhat Hanh. “Just keep your awakening alive all day long.”

And it’s not too complicated to be a permanent tightrope walker either: just stay calm, still and balanced. While ninjas with ignited swords jump all around you and acid-proof sharks lurks at you from the sour sea waiting your fall.

Sleepwalking, that’s a perfect title for our current Zeitgeist indeed.

Ok, that’s a lot of "witty remark I could make regarding" the text (and avoid doing instead). So, let’s take a bit of these advices in practice. Thank you Edward Packard for sharing with us some final reflections on life after a long one, displaying humility while presenting a vibrantly human figure.
by redbell | 2025-09-23 08:23:11+00:00
That was a difficult and frustrating reading! I never imagined that sanctions could hit individuals this hard, especially on the digital side. You get banned from outside and blocked from inside. You can read about The Internet situation inside Iran here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025954

There was a lot of interesting stuff went into the article:

1. Microsoft:

> Back when I was a student, I got access to the Microsoft Imagine, and as a result, I got access to the Microsoft Store as a developer.

Then:

> Microsoft deleted my app, my developer account, and all those comments on my app supporting me and suggesting ideas on how to improve the program.. but I assume it's because of the sanctions.

Here, I got a novice question: Knowing this individual is from a sanctioned country, Why you are allowing him in the first place to put a lot of work to build an app but, after having some success, you destroyed him entirely?!

Also, suggesting ideas on how to improve the program after deleting my account is one of the most hilarious things I have ever read. It is a strong indicator that these emails are just templates built automatically with no soul or human touch. Yes, you heard it right: you are just a row in a table!.. but you still manage to have a PRIMARY_KEY!

2. Notion:

> Since It has been suspended permanently, there's still no option to get it back even by going outside those countries. Sorry for the Inconvenience. Take care.

Same as above! Why letting me build a base of data then one day, you delete it permanently without prior notice or the ability to export it then you apologize for the Inconvenience and tell me to take care of myself!

3. Mike Cardwell:

> I read hackernews on a daily basis

Oh, this made me relief a little bit! I hope Hacker News is neither being banned in any country nor blocking traffic from any country.

> Iranian IPs are blocked here, due to your decision to arm Russia with drones so that they can indiscriminately massacre civilians.

Blaming then punishing an ordinary citizen for arming a foreign country to kill civilians without clear evidence is so dumb.

Also, this reminds me of this post entitled Namecheap: Russia Service Termination (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812):

Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia.

4. GitHub:

> However, later, GitHub announced that github is now available in Iran

Good News! read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648585

5. TIL

TIL about this 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons status code. I won't ever return this code for my websites, everybody, from everywhere, is welcome :)

Finally, I have a dream.. the dream to live to the day where a true open internet sees the light where the entire world have unrestricted access to the same online resources.
by isolli | 2025-09-23 08:23:30+00:00
Thanks for sharing. This part resonated :)

"Today, it’s all too easy to see all of the limitations and infelicities of The Cave of Time and its successors: a book of 115 pages that had, as it proudly trumpeted on the cover, 40 possible endings meant that the sum total of any given adventure wasn’t likely to span more than about three choices if you were lucky. But to a lonely, hyper-imaginative eight-year-old, none of that mattered. I was well and truly smitten, not so much by what the book was as by what I wished it to be, by what I was able to turn it into in my mind by the sheer intensity of that wish."
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-23 08:23:34+00:00
Neither do I, but I know that in a few more years we have an open and free and trustworthy election where we can (and looking at the polls most likely WILL) throw these current idiots out and get a brand new group to ruin the country in their own unique way.

In countries like Iran, Türkiye and soon the USofA, you really can't do anything with your vote. Either there is no vote or it really doesn't matter.
by freefrog334433 | 2025-09-23 08:23:39+00:00
China knows NATO will turn on them if Russia is defeated. Also, the narrative that Russia launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine isn't strong outside the West. It's more complex, starting with Bush announcing Ukraine eligible for NATO membership, the Maidan coup, and 8 years of civil war against the 4 Eastern Oblasts that voted to secede from Ukraine.
by hamburgererror | 2025-09-23 08:23:49+00:00
Let's admit for a second that the problem around computational cost is solved and using FHE is similar to using plaintext data.

My question might be very naive but I'd like to better understand the impact of FHE, discussions here seem to revolve very much around the use of FHE in ML, but are there other uses for FHE?

For example, could it be used for everyday work in an OS or a messaging app?

Also, is it the path for true obsfuscation?
by vladgur | 2025-09-23 08:24:49+00:00
It depends. At my electricity cost, 1 hour of 3090 or 1 hour of Rtx 6000 would cost the same 0.45

Just checked vast.ai. I will be losing money with 3090 at my electricity cost and making a tiny bit with rtx 6000.

Like with boats it’s probably better to rent GPUs then buy them
by Llamamoe | 2025-09-23 08:25:14+00:00
I would consider it unlikely that airborne germs form a significant input to our microbiomes.

For example, the gut microbiome is in flux for about the first 3 years of life, and thereafter it's mostly only the relative abundances of different microbes that shift in response to diet, you need something like antibiotics or severe diarrhea to actually induce permanent changes (usually for the worse).

Compared to that, there really aren't many microbes in the air. For children, it could very possibly be bad, but even then I'd expect most of their microbial input to come from their parents, food, and surfaces. Which are already grossly deficient compared to old-school rural settings, but I'm not sure if germicidal UV would make it worse.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-23 08:25:24+00:00
Either people are broadly ok with being screwed (my personal experience suggests this) or there is a grand conspiracy to prevent anyone who is not screwing their customers from competing in the market.

Maybe it is the latter, who knows. But what I do know is that the non-screwing options exist, but are often less popular and more expensive (either in price, time, or effort).

And this annoys me to no end. Because _I_ don't want to be screwed. But whether I get screwed or not increasingly depends on how much those around me are willing to get screwed or not.
by gwd | 2025-09-23 08:25:42+00:00
What's exasperating is that this has been going on for literally 20 years:

> Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttleworth's laptop successfully suspend and resume using ACPI and that was the turning point in my entire career [1]

[1] https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111249766634985812

10 years after that I bought a Macbook Air, and haven't gone back to Linux on a laptop since.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-23 08:26:40+00:00
Well, the EU has about half a billion people, India and China about 1.5 billion people - all larger markets (by headcount) than the US domestic market, so nothing that any American company can just choose to ignore.

Either of these three markets can set rules on what device manufacturers have to do in order to be allowed to access the market, and they all use that power - China is particularly infamous (with Apple having had to set up a dedicated iCloud instance to which the Chinese government may or may not have a backdoor), India more focuses on the share of production that happens in China, and the EU is seriously tightening the screws on American companies when it comes to arbitrarily denying store access.
by m000 | 2025-09-23 08:27:04+00:00
The problem is that as West we (collectively) have double morality standards.

We call foreign governments regimes and their leaders brutal dictators (they might as well be, that's another discussion). But then we are also eager to extract punishment (like the OP describes) from the individuals who live under the regime/dictator, and often have very limited options to act.

Then we call ourselves democracies, shining example to all the world. But we fail to recognize our personal responsibility for the actions of our governments. Because when a warmonger, thug, wannabe dictator or international bully-extraordinaire comes into power in a democracy, we probably could have personally done a lot more to prevent it, with little fear of repercussions, and we didn't.

Democratic values should cut both ways.
by unanimous | 2025-09-23 08:27:16+00:00
True, that meaning seems to be typical now. The opposite is the original meaning though.

> Scores of authors use the phrase “steep learning curve” or “sharp learning curve” in reference to a skill that is difficult to master. . . . Nevertheless, from the standpoint of learning theory, these and other authors have it backward, because a steep learning curve, i.e., a curve with a large positive slope, is associated with a skill that is acquired easily and rapidly (Hopper et al., 2007).

Source: Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....)
by dvh | 2025-09-23 08:27:21+00:00
Few years ago I've read about some local non-monetary unit of work and they used term "kopa" which translates to "pile" or "a lot" in English. And it was if I remember correctly 1 hour of work. It may be related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopa_(number) or maybe it was just inspiration.
by psychoslave | 2025-09-23 08:28:30+00:00
Pleasure is not the same as happy. Probably no one, even the luckiest entity in the universe, can avoid to go through some painful emotion.

But how we handle raw emotions, within interpretation processes, is what makes all the difference.

Actually, an entity that would only go through an indefinitely long flow of pleasant emotions and still end up being depressed and feeling unsatisfied the whole time is perfectly conceivable.
by TejasMondeeri | 2025-09-23 08:29:09+00:00
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