MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Daiz | 2025-10-30 01:26:23+00:00
Both services explicitly disallow this by default in their delivery specifications, unfortunately.

Netflix: https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/215...

> Netflix requires a non-subtitled version of the content. Netflix defines “non-subtitled” as the presence of main titles, end credits, location call-outs, and other supportive/creative text, but no burned-in subtitled dialogue, regardless of the language in the primary video.

Amazon: https://videocentral.amazon.com/support/delivery-experience/...

> Video

> Global packaging requires component asset packages to be delivered with a semi-textless video file that can be localized with discrete subtitles and audio dubbing.

> Also known as “Texted with no subtitles,” “Textless with main, ends, and graphic text,” and “Non-subtitled”, Prime Video defines semi-textless as a video master without burned-in subtitles, regardless of the language.
by thesmtsolver | 2025-10-30 01:26:49+00:00
Great quality comment.

We shouldn't consider the fact China did much more deforestation to start with and even after all this reforestation China has lesser forest area than the US despite being larger in size:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_forest_ar...

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54719577

> The US claims: "China is the world's largest consumer of illegal timber products." > And, according to studies, that is true.

> The Environmental Investigation Agency says: "The immense scale of China's sourcing [of wood] from high-risk regions [of the world] means that a significant proportion of its timber and wood product imports were illegally harvested." And research by Global Witness last year said there were "worrying" levels of illegality in countries from which China sources more than 80% of its timber.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-10-30 01:27:08+00:00
I play games like Gloomhaven and TI4. Not sure how this product would simplify anything. Far too small for any of the more complex board games. I guess I could scroll around but then what does physical piece detection give me? Then it’s $500USD. My game group and myself got Gloomhaven from Epic for free and played through the campaign together. BGA subscription is cheap. So many games have online implementations that are free. And I can buy a lot of boardgames for $500.

What’s the draw here?
by ixxie | 2025-10-30 01:27:25+00:00
I know its disturbing to many, but there is something nice about the post-truth moment: it feels like more people are actually questioning things more than when I grew up in the 90s/00s.

I think we need to shift towards a socionormative understanding of knowledge; as Rorty put it: "a fact is just something we can't be bothered to argue about". I agree with him that talking about truth isn't so useful for moving our culture forward.

We should be talking about how to negotiate the diverse vocabularies of discursive communities as they increasingly clash in our globalized culture. Dialectical exclusion is the cultural catastrophe of the day.
by coldtea | 2025-10-30 01:27:26+00:00
The average american mind can't comprehend this works out to a huge number of them having to commute by car 1-2 hours per day to get to work in some ungodly urban sprawl while living an alienated existence in crappy suburbs, and destroying the environment while doing so. At the same time working far more, slaving year round with laughable paid vacation time or sick day provisions, while being subjected to far worse homicide rates, and being treated as subjects by cops.

Such "freedom"...
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-30 01:27:35+00:00
Horribly bad, and also bad precedent, but:

"The ads experience, though, seems to have improved somewhat from the earlier pilot testing in that users can use their fridge’s settings menu to opt out of seeing ads. If users set their Cover Screen to show integrated Art or Album themes, then the display won’t show ads."

So at least for now tech savvy, aware users can opt out. But I don't like where this is going.

Maybe we can tape cardboard over the screens?
by metmac | 2025-10-30 01:27:44+00:00
UV and the crew at Astral really moved the Python packaging community forward.

I would love to see them compete with the likes of Conda and try to handle the Python C extension story.

But in the interim, I agree with everyone else who has already commented, Pixi which is partly built atop of UV’s solver is an even bigger deal and I think the longer term winner here.

Having a topologically complete package manager who can speak Conda and PyPi, is amazing.

https://pixi.sh/latest/
by jrflowers | 2025-10-30 01:28:55+00:00
> Can you please at least look at any of the major offerings of the past three years before being both snarky and wrong?

All of the examples on that website are from the last three years.

Can you clarify about how I’m wrong about LLMs not reliably citing sources? Are the 490 examples of made up sources appearing in court filings not valid? Is the link you posted where you asked chatgpt how many people there are (that included a broken link in the sources) valid?

Perplexity for example, kind of famous for citing sources, is currently in litigation over… inventing sources. https://www.wired.com/story/dow-jones-new-york-post-sue-perp...
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-10-30 01:29:29+00:00
I use LLMs all the time and have since they first became so I don’t hate them. But I do know they are just tools with limitations. I am happy that ChatGPT has better sitarions these days, but I still do not trust it with anything important without double-checking several places. Besides, the citation itself can be some AI generated blog post with completely wrong information.

This tooks have limitations. Sooner we accept it,sooner we learn to better use them.
by galagawinkle489 | 2025-10-30 01:30:12+00:00
The atmosphere has so far barely changed in temperature compared to natural variations in temperature over time that had smaller and lesser effects than the effect we are seeing.

The abnormally rapid rise in CO2 levels we are seeing is unusual and accords better with the unusualness of rapid global greening. It isn't climate change that is causing it. It is CO2, directly.
by thesmtsolver | 2025-10-30 01:30:23+00:00
>If China is the factory for all of these products sold in the US (and elsewhere of course), then isn't China just accounting for even more US emissions?

China can't have it both ways, they are glibly blaming the rest of the world for their emissions while reforesting due to importing timber from rest of the world illegally.

> The Environmental Investigation Agency says: "The immense scale of China's sourcing [of wood] from high-risk regions [of the world] means that a significant proportion of its timber and wood product imports were illegally harvested." And research by Global Witness last year said there were "worrying" levels of illegality in countries from which China sources more than 80% of its timber.

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54719577
by bonecrusher2102 | 2025-10-30 01:30:26+00:00
Those vendors likely won’t accept hardsubs, because it would mean 10 video files for 10 languages, instead of soft subs where you get 1 video file 10 languages (10 different subtitle files).

But here’s the other thing - CR could have used the ASS subs on their website and given the less-dynamic sub files to their vendors. You can save a master subtitle file in whatever format you want.
by kfterrg67 | 2025-10-30 01:30:55+00:00
>"bit-banging" typically means using the CPU

This is significant. It's using a hardware peripheral that is designed and intended for high frequency IO manipulation without CPU intervention. This isn't bit-banging, lest we start calling it "bit-banging" any time an FPGA or ASIC or even a microcontroller peripheral handles any kind of signalling.
by caconym_ | 2025-10-30 01:31:47+00:00
When I need to build an established project written [mostly] in C or C++, even if I don't have the dependencies installed, it's typically just a matter of installing my distro's packages for the deps and then running configure and make, or whatever. It usually works for me. Python almost never does until I've torn half my hair out wrapping my brain around whatever new band-aid bullshit they've come up with since last time, still not having understood it fully, and muddled through to a working build via ugly shortcuts I'm sure are suboptimal at best.

I don't really know why this is, at a high level, and I don't care. All I know is that Python is, for me, with the kinds of things I tend to need to build, the absolute fucking worst. I hope uv gets adopted and drives real change.

My last dance with Python was trying to build Ardupilot, which is not written in Python but does have a build that requires a tool written in Python, for whatever reason. I think I was on my Mac, and I couldn't get this tool from Homebrew. Okay, I'll install it with Pip—but now Pip is showing me this error I've never seen before about "externally managed environments", a concept I have no knowledge of. Okay, I'll try a venv—but even with the venv activated, the Ardupilot makefile can't find the tool in its path. Okay, more googling, I'll try Pipx, as recommended broadly by the internet—I don't remember what was wrong with this approach (probably because whatever pipx does is totally incomprehensible to me) but it didn't work either. Okay, what else? I can do the thing everybody is telling me not to do, passing `--break-system-packages` to plain old Pip. Okay, now the fucking version of the tool is wrong. Back it out and install the right version. Now it's working, but at what cost?

This kind of thing always happens, even if I'm on Linux, which is where I more usually build stuff. I see errors nobody has ever posted about before in the entire history of the internet, according to Google. I run into incomprehensible changes to the already incomprehensible constellation of Python tooling, made for incomprehensible reasons, and by incomprehensible I mean I just don't care about any of it, I don't have time to care, and I shouldn't have to care. Because no other language or build system forces me to care as much, and as consistently, as Python does. And then I don't care again for 6 months, a year, 2 years, until I need to do another Python thing, and whatever I remember by then isn't exactly obsolete but it's still somehow totally fucking useless.

The universe has taught me through experience that this is what Python is, uniquely. I would welcome it teaching me otherwise.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-10-30 01:31:54+00:00
> LLMs are good at indexing and digesting documentation, up to and including actual source code, and answering questions about it.

Requires citations not in evidence. Source code and documentation rarely co-exist, and even the best source code is not even close to well-described by documentation of the software it is a part of. I basically call BS.
by wizhub | 2025-10-30 01:32:12+00:00
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by themafia | 2025-10-30 01:32:12+00:00
> 2003: The goal of the 100×100 project was to create communication architectures that could provide 100Mb/s networking for all 100 million American homes.

Well you failed horribly.

> The project brought together researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Berkeley, and AT&T.

I think I see why.

> This research led to the 4D architecture for logically centralized network control of a distributed data plane

What? How was this meant to benefit citizens?

> Datacenter owners grew frustrated with the cost and complexity of the commercially available networking equipment; a typical datacenter switch cost more than $20,000 and a hyperscaler needed about 10,000 switches per site. They decided they could build their own switch box for about $2,000 using off-the-shelf switching chips from companies such as Broadcom and Marvell

What role did the NSF play here? It sounds like basic economics did most of the actual work.

> The start-up company Nicira, which emerged from the NSF-funded Ethane project, developed the Network Virtualization Platform (NVP)26 to meet this need

Which seems to have _zero_ mentions outside of academic papers.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-30 01:32:18+00:00
You make a good point, I'm still a bit stuck on the conflict part since you can have multiple names. but i can envision where multiple teams want to use db.local or something, and if you're providing services internally, that could be hard to scale for sure. I'd like to think that those people avoiding pesky tickets and all that end up causing outages by moving their conflict to DNS? but what do I know.

In the end, I trust your experience over my opinion. Thank you.
by btown | 2025-10-30 01:33:07+00:00
Per the article, on top of this, the Crunchyroll subtitle authoring tools and the Crunchyroll player both use ASS. So the directive to have the “master” copy be the more widespread and limited TTML… means that many new shows are doing ASS-to-TTML-to-ASS conversions! Quite literally the lowest common denominator of shared functionality.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-30 01:33:17+00:00
The point is that it wasn't just possible, they flat out were giving malicious instructions. Not sure why there's resistance when we all know there's shit like this on YT. I'm not asking anyone to remove it or ban it or report it. I'm just retelling the story of the first time I heard something so blatant that my jaw dropped on this not being some random story from the internet. It was just shocking the first time I experienced it. There's nothing to be done other than try to inform others it happens, especially when it's someone/a parent that doesn't know what it means.
by rustystump | 2025-10-30 01:34:25+00:00
Rarely do startups fail because of a decision like self hosting or not. In many cases it isnt even a few bad decisions but a long series of them plus outside factors which are uncontrollable.

In my experience the aws problem isnt so much that aws is that costly relative to bare metal but that most people do not execute well on aws over provisioning like mad to solve design issues.

There is a perverse benefit to sales at aws to push nonsense product too because of incentives. But people forget that aws isnt even as bad as a ton of other company spend. I have seen a fortune 100 add a few mm to their annual salesforce contract “for funnzies” because at their scale it wasnt that much money.
by solid_fuel | 2025-10-30 01:34:26+00:00
They aren't wrong, though.

At best, the sources cited by an LLM system would be a listing of the items used for RAG, or other external data sources that were merged into the prompt for the LLM. These items would ideally be appended to the response by a governing system around the LLM itself. I don't know of any major providers that do this right now.

The median case is having the LLM itself generate the text for the citation section, in which case there really is no mechanism tying the content of a citation to the other content generated. IF you're lucky and within the bounds the LLM was trained on, then the citation may be relevant, but the links are generated by the same token prediction mechanism as the rest of the response.
by Daiz | 2025-10-30 01:36:31+00:00
> CR could have used the ASS subs on their website and given the less-dynamic sub files to their vendors.

This is exactly what CR was doing for the past couple years, though you can't just automatically convert a fancy ASS file with typesetting into the limited kind of TTML subtitles that general streaming services expect, which is why Crunchyroll has been paying its subtitling staff extra to make those conversions semi-manually.

Though Crunchyroll could definitely improve its standard ASS workflows in ways that would make that conversion process significantly more automated with minimal extra effort on the subtitling staff's part. It wouldn't even be that hard, I've done something like that myself when I had to mangle ASS into limited WebVTT for some streaming work I did at one point.
by davorak | 2025-10-30 01:36:36+00:00
> The rest of the Spotify podcast covers Jessica's side, but I think you've missed the subtext.

Link's? Timestamps? I skimmed the much of the podcast now and I did not hear anything like this from Jessica.

> prioritized diversity over merit in their hiring goals; quotas in layman's terms

Quota is specifically a fixed share of something. "prioritized diversity over merit in their hiring goals" is not a quota, but an approach like that could be motivated by a quota.

I think quota has specific legal ramifications too so when the term was used in the comment but not used in the link I thought it was important to point it out.

> prioritized diversity over merit in their hiring goals;

I have only fully watched the video you linked to as of yet, not the full podcast. The companies Harj talked about wanted diversity in that top TripleByte metric pool, something that Harj said they were not able to supply. To me it sounds like the companies are clearly saying what they want but Harj/TripleByte was not able to supply.

Harj's says the companies would not explicitly ask for lowering the metric cut off for diversity. My attempt to transcribe what he said "noone would actually want to explicitly say that".

> He was annoyed that many companies refused to acknowledge the trade-off and instead blamed TripleByte for (in my words) real-world, supply-side scarcity.

Most clients in my experience are annoyed when they want something, want to pay you for it, and you can not provide it. The details and complexities often do not factor in, they want a black box they stick money in and get a solution out so they can focus on their companies core competences.

> IMHO, the part that rankles from that interview into this thread is the dishonesty around that trade-off. The comforting lie ...

You seem to making a big claim, but it is not detailed in a way that I can respond to. I do not see TripleByte or Harj claiming they are doing science or demographic research about the world populations I do not think an large or sweeping claims can be built off what they are saying.

> This comes up in other fields, like Music. "Blind auditions are merit, therefore DEI" was once espoused, until the more dedicated DEI supporters realized that focusing on the fruit of work wasn't creating enough diversity https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...

The article you link to here is a particular persons opinion and advocates for change that person wants, it does not document anything more general than that like your statement implied. It does not document a trend in the field of moving away from blind auditions, I don't follow the field closely so I would know if there is one, but this article does not document it.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-30 01:38:11+00:00
There are so many problems with human mods. For one, they have lives and sleep. A community server should ideally be run 24/7 (because otherwise finding new servers all the time sucks and massively degrades the experience relative to the convenience of matchmaking), but when there are no mods around, the server is liable to be ruined. This can lead to the long-term stagnation or even death of the server.

And human mods suck. Really, really suck. They don't have perfect information, and their false positive / negative rate is probably an order of magnitude worse than an anti-cheat. Even a perfectly neutral moderator is bad at judging. And perfectly neutral moderators don't exist. It was not remotely uncommon to be banned from a server for killing the admin too many times.

This is exacerbated by the fact that moderating itself sucks. Moderators are there to play the game. Actually moderating on the side of that is a burden. This leads to the same incentive structure that you see all over the internet, where volunteer moderation mostly attracts people who are interested in power tripping, because otherwise there's very little appeal, and bad actors are more common than people willing to do it out of the goodness of their heart.

There are great points about private server browsers, but it's also just a massive pain to find servers that both have a gameplay configuration you like and also have decent moderation. Improving anti-cheat systems was the obvious way forward rather than relying on humans who are much more fallible. Kernel anti-cheat should fortunately only be a stopgap solution and not something that is here to stay in the industry. Kernel anti-cheat was a result of the failure of Windows to provide sufficient security features themselves. Riot's Vanguard doesn't rely on kernel access for macOS, and Microsoft is actively working on improving the kernel security such that it shouldn't be necessary on Windows in the future either. With any luck we'll be able to forget this era of anti-cheat in a few years.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-30 01:38:47+00:00
How do you suppose an LLM can cite it's sources when it doesn't have one?! It's a language model, not an encyclopedia. The LLM doesn't even get to choose what it outputs - it just gives next word probabilities and one of those is selected AT RANDOM by the sampler.

So, maybe words 1-3 of the LLMs answer are some common turn of speech that was predicted by 1000s of samples, word 4 came from 4chan (a low probability random pick from the sampler), and word 5 was hallucinated. So, what's the "source" for this "fact"?
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-30 01:39:29+00:00
GenX were the last cohort to have a childhood without the internet, but the first to be raised entirely by TV.

We GenX were also the last to be allowed a childhood. I grew up with hours and days of adult-free time to roam, w/ and w/o my peers.

Conversely, my kids gen were the first to grow up fully imprisoned. Every minute was spent in adult-populated, adult-curated boxes. If they defied the lie-based hysteria about kidnapping risk and went outside, there was nowhere to go. In every direction are roads and trespassing risks.

As near as I can tell, this growth-killing hell is a permanent fixture of childhood. With most joy placed beyond reach of kids and parenting time up 20-fold, our modern declining birth rate is the natural, reasonable response.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-30 01:39:41+00:00
Source code and documentation rarely co-exist

They may not co-exist in real life, but in a million-dimension latent space you'd be surprised how many shortcuts you can find.

Requires citations not in evidence.

If you didn't bother to read the foundational papers on arxiv or other primary sources, it'd be a waste of time for me to hunt them down for you. Ask your friendly neighborhood LLM.
by nxobject | 2025-10-30 01:39:52+00:00
I’m always curious how these projects come about and survive: why go to all of the effort to port for a dead-end product line? As technically sweet as it is? I imagine they would’ve found a decent market if they’d ported to Power Mac.

(Also, was the x86 emulation implemented in-house? I wouldn’t be surprised if some niche small company had a x86 emulator for PPC product that they could be paid to port.)
by fluidcruft | 2025-10-30 01:39:53+00:00
I don't think that's actually true? That's like insisting all useful functionality would have to be moved to a smartcard/yubikey/bitcoin hardware wallet/TPM etc. The main reason this is an issue is to prevent emulated hardware tokens. If you can disable secure boot, you can emulate secure elements and then things that others (i.e. your bank, government, etc) believe are carefully controlled secrets are not.