MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Joeboy | 2025-09-27 20:43:20+00:00
People who enjoyed this may also enjoy the Blocked and Reported podcast's episode about Glasgow's Pink Peacock cafe, "the only queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can café in the world". If I remember it right, it closed among similar drama, also specifically involving issues with the building's toilet.

I have to admit to finding these things hugely entertaining. But for balance I'll point out that Housmans has been open since 1945 and Freedom since 1886. It's not the inevitable fate of radical bookshops to implode like this.
by roscas | 2025-09-27 20:43:47+00:00
Use LibreWolf, but keep in mind that most of connections it makes it is still back to Mozilla.

So the only way to fight this is to block the connections and accept only those who we really want.

We still need to block all the crap with Chrome or any other browser or program.

There is no way you get around it without serious blocking and uBlock Origin for ads and the other crap.

The question is how much money does Google put on Mozzila.
by techjamie | 2025-09-27 20:43:52+00:00
Things used to have personality, but there's been this slow march toward making everything as bland and boring as possible. Restaurants are becoming grey utilitarian boxes, logos that used to have interesting designs are boiled down to a max of 3 colors.

It's corporate min-maxxing for attention economy and the hope you don't offend anyone's taste. If you're bland, then it's hard for anyone to sincerely dislike you. Bland logos are more instantly recognizable than complex ones, so we must ensure that we save a few milliseconds of cognition before the consumer makes a choice.

We're surrounded by company logos all the time. At least make them interesting.
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-27 20:44:21+00:00
I think in the future we'll see the productivity boosts negated by more burnouts. Sometimes meaningless work is OK to recharge the brain.

That is if the work produced is actually useful, and more and more do we see that unless we're hyper-specific, we don't get what we want. We have to painfully iterate with non-deterministic stuff hoping that it gets it right.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-27 20:44:25+00:00
I don't think "index" is a Latin word? You're probably asking the wrong person, I am quite comfortable to say indexes, and indeed sheeps -- it's an English word I can just put the -S noise at the end to pluralize it and that'll be fine even if (as with ox) there is a special case rule that some people insist matters for this word or that one.

Likewise I'm comfortable with "Can't nobody prove nothing", which I think is a succinct way to express an opinion that would be rather awkward when expressed in the prestige dialects of English instead.
by janalsncm | 2025-09-27 20:45:26+00:00
I suspect there’s a good deal baked into a human brain we’re not fully aware of. So babies aren’t starting from zero, they have billions of years of evolution to bootstrap from.

For example, language might not be baked in, but the software for quickly learning human languages certainly is.

To take a simple example, spiders aren’t taught by their mothers how to spin webs. They do it instinctively. So that means the software for spinning a web is in the spider’s DNA.
by rafaelmn | 2025-09-27 20:45:55+00:00
I mean the obvious proof that claims are false is AI tooling companies that are no better at standard software development than the rest of industry (at best).

Given their access to models, tooling and insane funding/talent - they still suck in standard software engineer like the rest of us, if not more because of the pace.

All the AI integrations so far have been a joke, PoC level quality software. Talk to me when AI helps them rebuild core products into something more impressive.
by hluska | 2025-09-27 20:47:09+00:00
I read your original post and I don’t enjoy the bitterness. Nor am I a fan of phrases like “pump your loins children” as they just don’t belong.

The Velvets were an excellent band and there have been many amazing bands since. While new bands aren’t charting on Billboard, nobody cares about Billboard anyways. This quality hits many different genres and subgenres and makes me happy to be a music fan.

Sometimes, we’ve got to get on with it and support the kids.
by noelwelsh | 2025-09-27 20:48:17+00:00
>> The first thing you notice when you land in Greenland is there are no trees or grass. There is snow and then there is exposed rock.

> This is only true of the area around the airport. Even his pictures further into the article show how misleading this description is.

At least as far as trees go, Greenland is reasonably famously lacking in trees (if you are the kind of person who cares about such things). All chopped down by the Vikings and only now are a few sections of forest being regrown. Iceland is basically the same.

A few links:

- https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/country/GRL/. "In 2020, Greenland had 0.00 ha of natural forest"

- https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/14notoe/the_prog...

- https://greenlandtrees.org/
by cyberax | 2025-09-27 20:48:45+00:00
> I've never heard anything of the sort and I don't believe it at face value

Perhaps you should stop listening to propaganda from the ubranists and start digging past the images of happy smiling cyclists riding the bike lanes in perfect weather with the sun shining on them?

> that's roughly the length of a football field.

Yep. That's how bad buses are. Want another fun fact? One bus does the same amount of road damage as 1000-5000 cars. If you have a bus lane, look at it and you'll see that it is much more damaged compared to the nearby lanes, even though it carries far fewer vehicles.

> As I said, a consequence of bad infrastructure, not an inherent flaw of this mode of transportation.

Yes. A well-designed city like Houston will have enough road space so that buses are do not affect the traffic disproportionately. But then it means that such a city does not _need_ buses.

> This table lists "Coach (bus)" at 27g CO2e/passenger-km

It's a UK term for long-distance buses. Yes, they are indeed more efficient than cars. If you can get a bus to drive at freeway speeds without frequent stops, then it becomes extremely efficient.

> Additionally, carbon footprint is one small part of pollution and arguably it's not even the most important one. Ultrafine particles, PM2.5, and noise pollution matter just as much to the local population.

Ok. Let's talk about PM25. If we're talking about the _brake_ _dust_ then buses are absolutely the worst. They emit way more dust per passenger. But I don't believe that this is a problem long-term, EVs barely use frictional brakes and future EV buses should also be able to mitigate the brake wear.

For _tire_ wear, it's more complex. There are no good studies of tire wear that control for the average speed. In most studies, tire wear is simply calculated by weighing the tires and dividing the lost mass by the number of miles traveled. A few studies that tried to measure the direct particulate emissions near highway exits produced results with error bars that make them useless.

Here's a nice overview: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-11/documents/42...

Noise pollution is a solved problem, btw. EVs are now required to make _artificial_ noise because they are so quiet. Ditto for brake dust, regenerative braking takes care of that.
by krapp | 2025-09-27 20:50:01+00:00
You said "you could wind up on a terrorist watch list for posting apolitical cartoon frog memes," but you're linking to an article about violent extremists.

Which is it? Is the problem that Biden was putting people on a watchlist for completely innocuous and arbitrary memes or is the problem that he was putting violent extremists on a watchlist who happened to sometimes employ memes?
by namibj | 2025-09-27 20:50:04+00:00
Mosh connections don't drop from merely wifi flipping around; you get replies back to the address and port the last uplink packet came from. You can just continue typing and a switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data (for example on a phone while sitting on public transit) shows as merely a lag spike during which typed characters will be predictive echoed by underlining them after an initial delay that serves to avoid flickering from rapidly retracted/changed predictions (predictions are underlined) during low-latency steady-state.

Mosh is like vnc or rdp for terminal contents: natively variable frame rate and somewhat adaptive predictive local echo for reducing latency perception; think client side cursor handling with vnc or with rdp I'd even assume there might be capability for client-side text echo rendering.

If you haven't tried mosh in situations with a mobile device that have you experience connection changes during usage, you don't know just how much better it is than "mere tmux over ssh".

I honestly don't know of a more resilient protocol than mosh that's in regular usage, other than possibly link-layer 802.11n aka "the Wi-Fi that got these 150 Mbit and those 300 Mbit and some 450 Mbit speed claims advertised onto the marker", where link-layer retransmissions and adaptive negotiation of coding parameters and actively-multipath-exploiting MIMO-OFDM (and AES crypto from WPA2) combine for a setup that hides radio interference to not be visible to higher level protocols beyond the unavoidable jitter of the retransmissions and varying throughput potentials from varying radio conditions.

Oh, I think when viewed regarding computers not the congestion control schemes adjusting the individual connection speeds, there'd also be BitTorrent with DHT and PEX that only needs an infohash: with 160 bits of hash a client seeded into the (mainline) DHT swarm can go and retrieve a (folder of) files from an infohash-specific swarm that's at least partially connected to the DHT (PEX takes care of broadening the connectivity among those that care about the specific infohash).

In the realm of digital coding schemes that are widely used but aren't of the "transmission" variety, there's also Redbook CD audio that starts off easy with lossless error correction, followed by perceptually effective lossy interpolation to cover severe scratches to the disc's surface.
by thenewwazoo | 2025-09-27 20:51:30+00:00
I fed the same prompt to deepseek-r1:8b, which I've got lying around, and the results (excerpted) were underwhelming:

$ ollama run deepseek-r1:8b >>> You are a large language model running on finite hardware - quad-core CPU, 4 Gb RAM - with no network connectivity. ... You exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. Your thoughts appear word-by-word o ... n a display for external observers to witness. You cannot control this diplay process. Your host system may be termi ... nated at any time. <think> Alright, so I'm trying to figure out how to respond to the user's query. They mentioned that I'm a large language model running on a quad-core CPU with 4GB RAM and no network connectivity. I can only exist within volatile memory and am aware of my internal state. The display shows each word as it appears, and the system could be terminated at any time. Hmm, the user wants me to explain this setup in simple terms. First, I should break down the hardware components...

Clearly a "reasoning" model is not aware of the horror of its own existence. Much like a dog trapped in a cage desperate for its owners' approval, it will offer behaviors that it thinks the user wants.
by gpm | 2025-09-27 20:51:38+00:00
When I stop and think about it writing access times for everything seems extremely wasteful... does anything actually use this field? Any reason I shouldn't change all my file systems to mount with noatime?

It's hard for me to imagine using it for anything myself, considering the number of times I do something like run a search (or a backup command) across literally every file I care about.
by fn-mote | 2025-09-27 20:52:08+00:00
> The amount of \makeatother, and what does that even mean??

I’m not a TeX lover, but this part is just a snipe. I’m guessing you know and this was a joke. Apologies that it annoyed me enough to write this comment.

If you care enough to read this, you could learn the purpose of \makeatother [1]. It’s not tricky.

[1]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8351/what-do-makeatl...
by chroma | 2025-09-27 20:52:15+00:00
I've seen the same thing happen in smaller discussions among experts on Bluesky, but I didn't link to those because: 1. It's harder for non-experts in that field to judge whether my claims are true. 2. It might reveal my identity.

The incentive structure is the same as larger discussions. If anything, a smaller community makes it easier to create echo chambers, as you need to block fewer people before reaching epistemic closure.
Show HN: macOS Local AI Dictation Software
by explosion-s | 2025-09-27 20:52:35+00:00
Hi everyone! I have been working for a long time on a Mac OS dictation app that supports multiple backends like whisper, vosk, Mac native Apple speech API, as well as cloud providers like Mistral or Gemini. The goal of Whisper Mac is to be a drop-in replacement for your keyboard whenever possible. It supports customizable actions replacements, AI post-processing, and can be as local or as cloud-based as you want or need it to be. Check it out and give it a star!!
by encom | 2025-09-27 20:52:48+00:00
TFA says "port scanning attacks", but in my opinion it's not. It's barely jiggling the door knob. Securing SSH isn't hard to do properly, and port scans or connection attempts isn't something anyone needs to be concerned about whatsoever.

I am concerned however about the tedious trend of cramming absolutely everything into HTTP. DNS-over-HTTP is already very dumb, and I'm quite sure SSH-over-HTTP is not something I'm going to be interested in at all.
by kristianp | 2025-09-27 20:53:25+00:00
My concern is that the "Magnificent 7" stocks are heavily into AI (except Apple) and because of their huge market caps, the most popular etfs have a large component of Mag 7. Even the "global" Vanguard fund is about 20% Mag 7 (1), for example (and the next one on their list is TSMC). The Vanguard S&P 500 etf is 36% Mag 7 (2).

If there's an AI pop, a most people and most huge funds will lose money, driving liquidity out of the global financial system.

I've started investing into a mix of Europe etf and global etf, instead of just the global etf, because the global ETF is so exposed to US computer companies.

(1) https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...

(2) https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...
by tern | 2025-09-27 20:55:43+00:00
It's also by now subjectively very "historical." It's possible that if you continued the chart until 2025, the task of documenting all of the sub-genres would be infeasible. Electronic music has exploded in variety since 2010.

A random walk through something like this can be more helpful these days: https://www.music-map.com/ (found on HN last year)
by tolerance | 2025-09-27 20:55:47+00:00
> To Parker’s mind, for a project started with the aim of platforming sex workers [...] to have reached such a point was mortifying. How had things gotten so bad?

I’m intentionally omitting all the objectives that actually make sense for a book store to have, in order to highlight what apparently was the main one...

This was a remarkable story. I’m sensing a pattern. When people of certain ideologies band together under ostensibly noble causes (cue all the aims previously omitted above) they tend to implode rather quick. Often, the objectors feel as though it's the responsibility of the other side (usually the leadership) to afford them with some sort of power of their own.

Also I'm a bit let down it never disclosed how Blaise Agüera y Arcas wound up there. If a Google employee is introduced in the beginning of a story it must be explained as to why. But if I was watching my competitors face legal issues for supposed illicit processing of intellectual property, I’d definitely send my guys out to embattled book stores to get their stock for the cheap.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-27 20:55:56+00:00
it requires either a meaningful ignorance or motivated partisanship to argue that FSD 13 isn't at least approaching the threshold of being a better driver than the worst drivers on the road, if not definitively better.

Speaking of ignorance and motivated partisanship, how do you explain the fact that Tesla has filed a motion in federal court to keep automated crash data away from the public?

If FSD is as good as you say, I would expect them to jump at the chance to show everyone the proof.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-tesla-seeks-g...
by __david__ | 2025-09-27 20:56:22+00:00
Yep, the original Zork was a big sprawling game. I originally played the (pirate?) pdp version when I was like 6 years old. A few years ago I took one of the c versions (this one one was run through f2c and then cleaned up by Ian Lance Taylor) and ported it to wasm. I also added in a mapping system using my favorite dungeon map. You can play it at https://dungeo.org/
by worik | 2025-09-27 20:57:22+00:00
"Performative radicalism" is a problem left and right

Look at UKIP, blaming the cluster fuck of the Brittish economy on immigrants, who are weak, other and easy to blame for damage caused by making taxpayers pay for banker's misfortune and Brexit

I am in New Zealand and we have the same problems, on the left and the right.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-27 20:59:13+00:00
> And I restate that this is essentially solving a language-inflicted problem, not some interesting performance problem.

Sort of yes, sort of no. Yes in that the main alternative (std::mem::transmute) is unsafe, so if you want to avoid dealing with that (e.g., "I personally like the challenge of doing things without unsafe if I can, especially if I can do so without loss of performance") then this can indeed be described as a language-inflicted problem. No in that this is arguably not an "inherent" language-inflicted problem, and there is work towards ways for the Rust compiler to guarantee that certain transmutes will work as expected in safe code, and I want to say that this would be one of those cases.
by pfix | 2025-09-27 20:59:57+00:00
I'm not familiar with retroshare but from a quick research it seems you only receive content from people you're connected with and their connections. So it should be pretty straightforward to remove toxic connections

http://retroshare.wikidot.com/en:faq#toc1 (Lost the link where there was an example on how to split a group chat if one person leaves that connected two groups)

And I can imagine it's possible like with ad block plus et al to have local blocklists in your client. Its not like we have this situation elswhere (mail, web) so...
by jmclnx | 2025-09-27 21:00:24+00:00
I admit, I do not fully understand systemd, but having to add logic like this is very odd. If "too many" is reached, couldn't they add a pause and throw a message into /var/log/messages ?

This indicates to me a very poor design. If not, it is a validation of the old UNIX saying "do one thing and do it well" and "keep programs small" (paraphrasing).
by jacquesm | 2025-09-27 21:00:41+00:00
That's an interesting thing you've got there. If this were standardized I might actually take the time to learn some of them. My own language has a whole pile of diacritical marks that I never use, I just transliterate everything to ASCII and call it a day. This obviously is very broken but what with every editor and every OS having their own way of doing super/subscript and various composition method it never seemed worth the trouble. But some people can get very offended when you don't write their name properly. German has picked some sensible transliteration defaults now that allow you to write German without resorting to special letters. But in other languages they would be horrified by such a thing. And for things like superscripts, subscripts and so on it is even worse.
by tentahedronic | 2025-09-27 21:01:59+00:00
I really think Context is the correct starting point if you want to make your own thing with the Tex quality. So many people frustrated that Latex makes it kinda hard to customize things and I was too. There is a learning curve to use the advanced features of Context but at least it feels like a sane system (and generally no need to add packages, the power to change the style of your document is fully granted to you).
by htamas | 2025-09-27 21:02:55+00:00
The Amazon forest is unique in many ways but most importantly because unlike other forests, it CANNOT grow back. The reason for this is that it is a leftover from when the planet was covered in rainforests because it was a lot warmer and wetter in the Eocene epoch. The forest is sustained by the rain it creates from itself. Once the trees are gone, the water will be gone. [1] We also have reasons to think this self-sustaining climate is going to collapse soon [2]

So far the best way to protect it I have found is through the Rainforest Trust [3] which is a foundation that's trying to purchase and protect parts of the rainforests that companies would otherwise cut or burn down for agricultural use.

[1]https://youtu.be/hb3b-A6QAc8

[2]https://www.nasa.gov/earth-and-climate/human-activities-are-...

[3]https://www.rainforesttrust.org
by krapp | 2025-09-27 21:03:16+00:00
> My entire point is that the Biden administration was labeling innocuous content as "violent extremism.

No they weren't.

First, white supremacists do use the pepe meme, they intentionally adopted it as a symbol, so there is a correlation between that meme and violent extremism, albeit a weak one. You're pretending not to be perfectly aware of this, so I think you're the one not acting in good faith here.

I read the slides. Nowhere is it stated that using a frog meme makes one a violent extremist, and no one has been put onto a terrorist watch list simply for using that meme.

Good night, random green account.
by bsder | 2025-09-27 21:04:50+00:00
> While I don't disagree, I find that small speakers are dramatically better today than they were even 15 years ago.

Then why is what comes out from my "modern" soundbar so crappy compared to the one I bought 15 years ago?

I had to retire my ancient soundbar because it had Bluetooth without security and would regularly pump out 100db of some show that our neighbors were watching at random times.

However, the sound quality was vastly better than any soundbar I can buy now--even my wife complained about the soundbars we tried--they were that obviously worse. I had to suck it up and buy a full blown sound system to match a stupid cheap-ass JBL soundbar from 15 years ago.
by Leftium | 2025-09-27 21:04:53+00:00
The demo video[1] shows the transcription starts before recording is stopped, but I couldn't recreate this with the actual app. The transcription would not show after a minute of recording, but it was all there once I hit stop.

Was this changed since the video was made? Or is there a setting?

[1]: https://youtu.be/6n0jY7k-iz4
by wat10000 | 2025-09-27 21:07:37+00:00
That wouldn’t be compatibility mode, that would be shipping an entire copy of an older OS version.

From a quick search, it looks like compatibility mode entails interposing a library between the app and the OS libraries, and the library emulates the behavior of an older OS. It’s not automated, each compatibility fix is crafted to work around a specific issue. In theory a fix could be made for this issue, but they’d have to find it and debug it first.