MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rs186 | 2025-10-30 10:28:53+00:00
A small suggestion: ask a friend of yours who don't regularly watch anime to read your article for 20 seconds, and see if they can explain what it is about.

I spent quite some hours on CR, yet it was maybe until 30 seconds later before I realized what the "nosedive" refers to exactly. In fact, I kept thinking "quality" refers to "translation quality" and I was puzzled I could not see obvious issues.

It doesn't need to be that. Anyone given side-by-side screenshots without additional contexts should immediately tell you what's happening, and I've read lots of blog posts like that.

More specifically, the article provides 4 bad screenshots at fitst. I actually went through 3 of them. I kind of guessed what you meant but wasn't sure. Then there is another gallery of good ones. Why? Just provide good vs bad at the top, explicitly explain what's the expectation, and if needed, provide more examples. That'll be 200% better than this.
Learn-by-doing: connecting education with real projects and ROI
by radugalac | 2025-10-30 10:28:54+00:00
Most online learning platforms teach theory. EduTask is a simple concept: people learn new digital skills by working on real company projects — design, marketing, automation, data. Every task completed earns them experience and income. It’s not freelancing, it’s structured learning with measurable ROI.

I’d love to hear feedback from the community — how could we make this idea scale and help small businesses get affordable digital help?
by Rochus | 2025-10-30 10:29:01+00:00
There are quite many given that I only started using Sequoia a few weeks ago, and all happen only on Sequoia, not on my other macOS versions. A nasty one I discovered last week is e.g. that I have to delete and re-add an application (which generates key events for the operating system) to Privacy/Accessibility each time I re-compile it, otherwise the events are simply swallowed without any error. If you happen to be an Apple representative, we can continue by email.
by tuukkah | 2025-10-30 10:29:26+00:00
Thanks! Perhaps one of the sites that track train delays can give a statistic?

This list doesn't have anything that looks relevant: https://www.rijdendetreinen.nl/en/disruptions/archive?date_b...

The day does not appear as an outlier in the monthly statistics: https://www.rijdendetreinen.nl/en/statistics/2025/10

I don't find a detailed statistic on the overall delays, but the per-station statistics for Amsterdam Centraal say 5% of trains were cancelled and 17% were delayed by 5 minutes or more (mostly by 10 minutes): https://www.rijdendetreinen.nl/en/train-archive/2025-10-29/a...
by latentsea | 2025-10-30 10:30:27+00:00
With Roslyn Analyzers and things like ArchUnit I've found its possible to actually write linters that enforce a predetermined architecture with established patterns such as enforcing usage of particular base or framework level classes in specific layers/locations.

I agree with the assessment LLMs aren't great at novel architectural work. I'm merely reporting my experience that using LLMs to write analysers that enforce established patterns takes the output from random to well ordered and provides a nice productivity boost in a constrained, but valuable, set of circumstances. It's not a complete solve, but it's a big improvement over just prompting them and hoping for the best.
by boxed | 2025-10-30 10:30:27+00:00
Hmm.. flask shouldn't be a dependency. I tried to get iommi to work on flask/sqlalchemy many years ago, but that's somewhat abondoned...

> I am thinking about using it for some sections (a management/dashboard bit, and probably the admin) of a site, the rest of which is plain Django. Are there likely to be any problems doing that?

Incremental adoption and mix-and-match is also a fundamental design goal so that should work fine.
by jmaker | 2025-10-30 10:31:24+00:00
Yeah, second that. This is just release management best practice.

And it makes total sense to me, it’s a way of organizing your dependency graph by the lifetimes of your components.

This will also simplify testing, development, and audit. You won’t need to recompile autogen schemas as often as the business logic implementation anyway. Depending on artifacts pushed through a release pipeline is even more reliable. You can QA everything in guaranteed isolation while keeping it conveniently a workspace monorepo.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-10-30 10:31:57+00:00
>we confirm this result empirically through billions of collision tests on six state-of-the-art language models, and observe no collisions

This sounds like a mistake. They used (among others) GPT2, which has pretty big space vectors. They also kind of arbitrarily define a collision threshold as an l2 distance smaller than 10^-6 for two vectors. Since the outputs are normalized, that corresponds to a ridiculously tiny patch on the surface of the unit sphere. Just intuitively, in such a high dimensional space, two random vectors are basically orthogonal. I would expect the chance of two inputs to map to the same output under these constraints to be astronomically small (like less than one in 10^10000 or something). Even worse than your chances of finding a hash collision in sha256. Their claim certainly does not sound like something you could verify by testing a few billion examples. Although I'd love to see a detailed calculation. The paper is certainly missing one.
by xandrius | 2025-10-30 10:32:53+00:00
Alright, if anyone is still using AOL: get the hell out of it. Bending Spoons is probably one of the companies I loathe the most from what I know from outside and even more from insider's knowledge.

Anything they touch turns into dark pattern ridden turds.

I honestly wish there was a page with all the products they purchased, so that I can avoid them forever.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-30 10:34:27+00:00
About as helpful as his previous "solar PV isn't good enough, please invest in my wunderwaffe gadgetbahn ideas" approach.

Now it's "climate change won't kill us all, please invest in my wunderwaffe gadgetbahn ideas".

Both seem a net-negative to actually solving climate change and/or helping those affected by it. Impressively bad performance for an alleged genius.

Has he even made money from these investments? Even if we subtract the government money he's diverted from better ideas?
by panick21 | 2025-10-30 10:34:31+00:00
The leak you mention have killed no people and didn't involve civilan nuclear waste. I didn't even hurt anybody, and the envoirments isn't harmed by it basically at all.

And that would be an argument about reactor safty not civilian nuclear waste managment anyway.

> So acting like there's zero danger is stupid.

Danger is not zero but its incredibly small. As has been confiremd by every single topic on the subject. Saying 'its not zero' is literally always possible for anything humanity ever does.

> Not caring about the future generations is also how we got here, so theres that.

Usuing rational science based methods for evaluating safty and how figuring out what is actually the best is what I am advocating for going forward.

Instead of how we got here, witch was actually using feelings to pick something that is actually more unsafe and generally worse both for people and for the envoirment. That is what you are doing.

> But you know, if you were a rational person who cared, you'd google this stuff yourself

And if you were actually interested in real discussion or evaluating my actual argment you would more then just google for random nuclear incidents as if they proved your point. But clearly you don't care about that.

I was actually qutite specific in what I said, and you of course ignored, I said civilan nuclear waste. And Hanford does not apply, as it a completely different situation.

So nothing you posted actually address either of the questions I have posed to you. I suppose that is because you don't have an actual answer and instead you just try to distract people with links to random things you could google.
by mnky9800n | 2025-10-30 10:34:52+00:00
This sounds terrible and I would immediately not want to work with someone who cannot even be bothered to talk to me in person. I certainly would not appreciate a random phone call from a robot asking me personal questions about my work or ideas of my future. Also Having used an essentially identical product from jack and Jill I did not like discussing with their robot either. That being said Jack and Jill’s email agent is somewhat good at finding jobs I find interesting. But actually the best part of the jack and Jill interaction so far has been discussing with a real person who wanted to know why I stopped using their product. Sorry to be so negative but I prefer interacting with humans. Humans provide a level of trust in an interaction because you understand that they understand the human experience. A robot does not.
by thiago_fm | 2025-10-30 10:36:49+00:00
> Social security and pensions, for example, are structured not unlike a pyramid scheme: for every old person we should have more than one working young person.

I'm from a western country and I agree with your statement and have a similar fear. My country is doomed because of the pension system.

BUT this doesn't apply to China. Their system isn't structured this way, therefore this is mostly irrelevant for them.

As long as China have a working population bigger than most countries, as well such amazing universities, they will perform better than all those countries.

Even with the population decline, they'll still have more able workers than all western countries for at least the next 100 years.

Let that sink in.
by squishington | 2025-10-30 10:36:52+00:00
I think language does us a disservice here. I'm reminded of Korzybski's work in Science and Sanity. The interpretation of "truth" depends on which level of abstraction you are operating on. "Every statement is true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in some sense". The term "reality" implies a perceiver, and that perceiver is generating "reality" based on their neurological instrument, which has its own biases based on its prior experience and genetics.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-10-30 10:37:00+00:00
I find it hard not to suspect that some countries are using certain policies to subtly eliminate the elderly. Of course, I will also grow old, so the consensus is to rely on oneself—invest and save, just in case. Optimistically, household robots might change a lot. I often think of that example: in the past, people often imagined futuristic skyscrapers but could not imagine elevators. New technologies are always unpredictable. There is a Chinese saying: “Where the cart reaches the mountain, there will be a path,” so perhaps there’s no need to worry too much.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-30 10:37:16+00:00
> Most parents would consent, therefore we should not require consent

I don't see how that follows at all. Considering children can't consent and their parents consent is the only one that matters. The argument would simplify to

> Most people would consent to X, therefore we shouldn't require consent for X.

Which sounds ridiculous, imagine if we were all forced to do what the majority likes. Even without a tyranny of the majority (where the majority would be a homogenous group) that would be a dystopia.

> I personally think that it's not the government's place to say how much exposure I want to give my child to the internet, but I have rules and boundaries around that with my kid.

First, I am not necessarily talking about "The government" (what exactly is that anyways, judicial, law? state, federal?), for example it could be a site's policy, and in turn it could be determined at courts based on liabilities. If courts enforced more damages to kids that suffer from chatbots as compared to adults, then that would push the companies to limit minor's access without laws or executive orders (whether that is "the government" to you depends, but I find it more helpful to think in terms of more specific groups instead of talking/thinking of THE GOVERNMENT as a homogenous mindhive.)
by magarnicle | 2025-10-30 10:37:55+00:00
The Nebula apps are pretty bad. Vimeo white label has issues but the app experience is much better than whomever Nebula are using.

One reason Vimeo is a good deal is that they charge for video transcoding by the minute, not by the file size. So you can upload full ProRes 4K movies and it doesn't cost the earth.
by hoherd | 2025-10-30 10:39:37+00:00
Sometimes, yes, but I would say it depends a lot on your base image and project. If nothing else, it gives you a runtime environment that is identical to your development environment.

Using uv at build time can dramatically reduce your build times if you properly handle the uv cache. https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/docker/#caching

It's also easy:

COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/docker
by fransje26 | 2025-10-30 10:39:40+00:00
> It's also hard to balance afforestation without causing scarcity of water

Is that not a bit of a non-sequitur though?

From the reforestation reports I've read, bringing back trees was also coupled with bringing back springs, water and rain to the local environment.

Do you mean that it can cause water scarcity in the original planting and nursing stages before the biotope becomes self-sustaining?
by saispas | 2025-10-30 10:40:29+00:00
I'm not sure every era did think it was the apex of human progress, though, because sometimes they had physical or cultural evidence that previous generations could do things that they couldn't.

E.g. if you were a petty kingdom emerging in the centuries after the Romans left Britain, you'd be fairly sure that you no longer had the technology to build aqueducts, baths or villas. And for centuries after that, a large element of learning was trying to recreate / understand the classics - e.g. the influence of Galen and Aristotle.

Doesn't the modern idea of inevitable human progress really come in with the enlightenment?
by Tor3 | 2025-10-30 10:40:30+00:00
What's discussed in this subthread is running Windows applications under Wine. When it's running under Windows there's no discussion to begin with.

In any case, I'm not going to try to set up a Windows VM on my Linux computer, I don't have the room or if I had it would be better used for other things. And I just abhor using Windows, whenever I have to use the wife's PC it's hell. For her, too.. she can't find anything after she's saved something, for example. And I don't have a Windows license, never had, my computers are all bare when new. In any case, it defies the whole purpose of not having to run Windows. Now, with Windows 11, it seems to be even worse. And I have zero idea on how to install Windows from scratch anyway - in my case I would probably even have to install a Japanese version, as is installed on my wife's PC. Well, not going to happen.
by bombcar | 2025-10-30 10:40:32+00:00
That's all true now but none of it was true back in the alpha days.

And once there were mods and mod loaders built on the obscured source, it became easier to not disrupt the toolchains than to bite the bullet; I think Mojang now wants to make moving mods easier (someone somewhere has to be a bit sad that there are famous modpacks running old versions of Minecraft because it's easier to backport everything to 1.7.10 (including running on newer Javas) than it is to update mods).
by ghoul2 | 2025-10-30 10:40:46+00:00
I asked this question on another post and was downvoted, trying again: don't we lose the "contextualization" that LLM embeddings do (embedding on Token X contains not just information about X, but also of all tokens that came before X in the context, causing different embedding for "flies" in "time flies like an arrow" vs "fruit flies like a banana")?

The image embeddings, as I currently understand, are just pixel values of a block of pixels.

What am I missing?
by nabla9 | 2025-10-30 10:41:15+00:00
The statement lacked any detail. It's just attention whoring.

The US is conducting nuclear tests periodically just like other nuclear powers. Subcritical nuclear testing is allowed. The last one was in 2024 https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-completes-subcriti... "NNSA successfully executed a subcritical experiment in the PULSE facility at the Nevada National Security Site. The experiment was executed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."
by _jsmh | 2025-10-30 10:42:04+00:00
The most brutal part of distribution I've seen is finding people who care about trying things out.

Maybe something like https://smallbets.com is better than Product Hunt in finding that group of people. PH doesn't allow signups with only a username/email and password.

I'm starting to believe a different community is needed for building in public that isn't HN or PH though it might be smallbets, I didn't try it.

It worked for me to be highly uncompromising on what I want to have while at the same time highly accommodating to what people want. Also to indulge in things I like that others don't.

Another thing that worked in the past is to have a mobile app because it gets you users simply because the app store puts it in front of people.

What didn't work is emailing people asking for feedback. People mostly don't care.

I want a showhn.com where builders commit to try each other's stuff.
by bombcar | 2025-10-30 10:43:09+00:00
1.7.10 is definitely obfuscated, and 1.7 had one of the longest "lifespans" of a Minecraft version.

The best thing to happen to Minecraft is 1.7.10 backporting; the second best thing has been breaking the Forge monopoly on modding.

(The code quality of mods back in the 1.7 days ranges from "pretty decent" to "absolutely horrendous" mind you.)
by pjc50 | 2025-10-30 10:43:47+00:00
Exactly. I got this pointed out by one of the old school finance guys I've followed for years on Twitter/bsky; if you're a market participant of that size, other participants should expect to know who you are. If only because someone buying a billion dollars of bonds a week is useful to know if you want to unload some bonds.

USDC by contrast are open in their holdings, through Blackrock.

Large invisible "dark matter" financial holdings are the sort of thing that blow up badly during a financial crisis.
by Jackpillar | 2025-10-30 10:43:59+00:00
Yup the Tesla treatment. Can change HQ's all you want but the main engineering work, brains, and talent will be at a HQ in California no matter what. Sam will probably do this for brownie points with the current administration, it will be politicized news for a cycle, but after the dust settles the majority of non-admin people will still be working unchanged out of CA.
by hamandcheese | 2025-10-30 10:44:11+00:00
On this note... has anyone here used object storage directly as a queue? How did it go?

You can make a bucket immutable, and entries have timestamps. I don't think any cloud provider makes claims about the accuracy or monoatomicity of these timestamps, so you would merely get an ordering, not necessarily the ordering in which things truly occurred. But I have use cases where that is fine.

I believe with a clever naming scheme and cooperating clients it could be made to work.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-10-30 10:44:21+00:00
This is false information. Gender transition is legal in China. There are many cases on Chinese social media. We even have a celebrity who is transgender.

On Chinese internet there is even a joke. Because women retire earlier than men in China, people discuss whether they can exploit a loophole by changing their legal gender to female in the year before the female retirement age to retire earlier.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-30 10:44:43+00:00
You also can't hear your own voice like other people do, because what you hear when you are speaking mostly come from the vibrations in your bones rather than from sound waves going through the air.

And unlike with mirrors, something we always had, be it just a pond of water, the ability to hear your own voice like others hear it came with recording devices, and is therefore very recent (19th century).
by mrweasel | 2025-10-30 10:44:56+00:00
I'm confused about that as well. I don't see any reason for the US to not test the delivery mechanisms, i.e. the ICBM and missiles. The ICBMs are being replaced, so it would make sense to test those, but the Tomahawks and Trident missiles are tested frequently, the last Trident II being tested in September of this year.
by meowface | 2025-10-30 10:45:17+00:00
But... people who only speak English and no other languages watch shows and films in other languages all the time. That's what the subtitles are for. I would guess 99% of anime watchers who listen in the original audio don't know any Japanese.

I'm sorry but it's so strange to me. To me it's like putting on your favorite song, but it's in Spanish so it's dubbed by a much worse singer who sings it in English.

I also don't understand why one would watch a film or show on one screen while playing a game or something on another screen. Either the film or show is so boring and trite that you need something else to distract you - in which case why ever watch it at all? - or you're missing out by not focusing on something good.

If it's a 4-hour podcast or a random infotainment YouTube video, sure, it makes sense to put that on while playing a game or programming or whatever. But an actual polished show? I don't get it.
by philipallstar | 2025-10-30 10:45:19+00:00
> I don't want to be forced into foregrounding the project.

The advantage of being forced to do this is other people (including yourself on a new laptop) can clone your project, run uv install and get working. It's the death of "works on my machine" and "well it'll take them a couple of weeks to properly get up and running".
by Tarsul | 2025-10-30 10:45:44+00:00
I noticed that, too. If one only had the wikipedia article to go on, it would appear that they made way too much money with the covid app for Italy. Which is probably true, but probably not billions?! So, after reading another article[1] (which does not really give strong pointers but leads to) my conclusion would be that they simply somehow became a darling for investors and could finance all these big acquisitions.

[1]https://weeklysiliconvalley.com/bending-spoons-from-humble-b...
Show HN: Granola to Obsidian Sync Plugin
by tomelliot | 2025-10-30 10:45:45+00:00
I made a community plugin to get notes out of Granola and into Obsidian.

It syncs the transcript and the generated note.

Thanks to the AI coding robots for doing 90% of the typing.

If it's your jam contributions are welcome: https://github.com/tomelliot/obsidian-granola-sync
by qudat | 2025-10-30 10:45:48+00:00
IRC is having its second wind as far as I can tell. Libera is very active and it offers an experience that is unlike the over-stimulating chat apps like discord.

Some projects have both a discord and an IRC channel and when you compare the two chats the conversations are wildly different — IRC being a more focused, on topic chat without floods of gifs, emojis, and off-topic channels.

The hardest part about using IRC is getting chat history and mobile notifications. As part of https://pico.sh we run a soju bouncer (soju.im) for our members to use to help with that. We have a bunch of daily active users.
by dalbaugh | 2025-10-30 10:46:52+00:00
I've been reading everything I can find on HTTP API design the past few months. I'm particularly interested in learning about the finer details of great, human centered APIs. It's been surprisingly hard to find a lot of great resources on the topic. So, I am writing up some of the basics for my own reference but also for others who are interested in the topic as I progress in my research. This article goes over the basic semantics of HTTP. I know many here are much more experienced and have operated at a much larger scale than I have (I build APIs for smaller factories), so please point me in the direction of resources you believe would be useful as I continue to study!