MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-27 13:32:49+00:00
> > Maybe we should categorize sciences based on the spatial scale at which they operate.

> That would not be very useful, because there is no boundary. Nothing in general relativity says "below this everything is Newtonian". As a matter of fact we need to consider relativistic effects in quantum chemistry calculations that involve some heavy elements, at length scales smaller than 0.1 nm. Similarly, they just gave a Nobel prize for work on "Quantum properties on a human scale".

You are just saying "well ackshually". I dare you to build a cabinet using the Hamiltonian. I double-dog-dare you.

> > For example, quantum scale, human scale and cosmic scales have their own physics, logic and causality.

> That is not at all how these frameworks are built, and that is not the dominant epistemological approach.

Again, 99.999% of all functional mechanics don't involve epistemology.

> The mainstream view is that there is a theory of everything that exists but is unknown to us, and that our various theories are approximations of that theory under different assumptions.

Oh! You're so close to seeing the point... There are multiple levels of approximation (at least two), and the one we all experience is Newtonian. Perhaps more accurately, our senses mostly believe pre-Newtonion approximations, which is why it took until Newton to realize how inaccurate they were.

> Also, I don’t see how the logic is fundamentally different between e.g. quantum mechanics and general relativity.

You're pretty radically moving the goalposts here. GP was talking about Newtonian mechanics, not Hamiltonian.
by anthk | 2025-10-27 13:33:03+00:00
Nethack/Slashem and DCSS, maybe.

The levels are made to fit under 80x24 terminal with maybe a max of 7/8? -can't remember- rooms per level.

The worlds from Cataclysm DDA:Bright Nights are pretty regular, and you have an overworld, labs, subways...
by Findecanor | 2025-10-27 13:33:06+00:00
During the Cold War, the train on the Trelleborg-Sassnitz ferry went to West Berlin ... through East Germany with no getting on or off over that stretch.

BTW. I was on the Hamburg-Copenhagen train on the Puttgarten-Rødby ferry in 2015 during the height of the Syrian refugee crisis. I had changed my booking to earlier trains because of expected delays. It and connecting trains were packed, as were the train stations, also with immigration officials and volunteers. Brings tears to my eyes to this day.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 13:33:07+00:00
Emacs, which still uses CUI-incompatible keybindings and even key names from a keyboard that hasn't been made since the 01980s.

Videogames.

Excel still supports MS-DOS Lotus 1-2-3 "/" commands, although it certainly doesn't look like Lotus for MS-DOS.

Basically any software people care about is an exception to your rule.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-27 13:33:17+00:00
> But as soon as that assumption goes out the window - and if it's just you going into the garden to check on some weeds where the wifi doesn't reach - the task suddenly becomes so, so much harder:

Exactly. There are a lot of comments in this thread from people who are either non-parents or who haven’t lived in a situation where they didn’t have perfect WiFi coverage of their entire living area.

Being able to visit the neighbors or go out in the yard without worrying about missing baby monitor events is a huge advantage that many parents will pay for.

I think this entire comment section is a prime example of HN not understanding non-technical audiences.
by rhdunn | 2025-10-27 13:33:40+00:00
Speech to text and text to speech typically operate on the audio spectrogram, specifically the Mel-scale spectrum. This is a filtered spectrogram that decreases the noise in the data. Thus, they are not working on the images of these spectra but the computed values -- each spectral slice will be a matrix row or column of values.

The theory is that vowels and voiced consonants have a fundamental frequency and 5-6 frequencies above that. For vowels the first two frequencies are enough to identify the vowel. For rhotic vowels (r-sounding vowels like American stARt) the 3rd frequency is important.

By converting the audio to the Mel-scale spectrum, it is easier to detect these features. Text to speech using the Mel-spectrum works by modelling and generating these values, which is often easier as the number of parameters is lower and the data is easier to work with [1].

[1] There are other approaches to text to speech such as overlapping short audio segments.
by artursapek | 2025-10-27 13:33:44+00:00
It seems like trading applications tend to be what demands the performance to push R&D like this for Rust GUI. My team at Kraken worked on https://iced.rs/ which powers https://www.kraken.com/desktop, a very similar application. You can definitely feel the difference in a Rust GUI vs. a web view. It can maintain high frame rates doing so much on the screen at once.
by lisbbb | 2025-10-27 13:34:08+00:00
I like the "gray man" concept, but can't predict when you end up on the radar or why. As a young graduate student, I once wrote an article that rebuffed the government's "Total Information Awareness" trial balloon and suddenly found myself embroiled in much unexpected controversy, including some big name journalists e-mailing me and asking questions. You just never know when you stumble into something that you're not supposed to know about and what might happen.
by torginus | 2025-10-27 13:34:46+00:00
I am not a good writer or artist, yet I can tell that AI generated pictures or prose feel 'off' compared to stuff that humans make. People who are professional writers and artists can point out in a lot of cases the issues with structure, execution and composition that these images have, or maybe if sometimes they can't they still have a nose for subtle issues, and can improve on the result.
by reify | 2025-10-27 13:35:01+00:00
Bird flu

The article says:

The risk of bird flu for humans remains low, with most people infected having been in close contact with infected animals, but the virus needs to be monitored as it increasingly spreads to mammals, the World Health Organisation said.

"remains low" yet the scare mongering continues!!! WHAT CRISIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

About 3-4 years ago posters started to appear along where I walk along the river thames in Surrey UK.

Some psycho-fanatic has been putting up posters on trees and lamp posts warning passers-by of the dangers of bird flu.

DO NOT FEED OR APPROACH THE SWANS, GEESE OR DUCKS.

fuck me!

Yet, a few miles down stream there are families and children feeding the swans, geese and ducks every single weekend without any warnings.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-27 13:35:29+00:00
> When I would tell her just to listen, she would give me a look of perplexity. She couldn’t conceive music as an entity on its own, without a video to go with it.

I started noticing this many years ago. Even worse, it seems that the idea of just sitting down and doing nothing but listening to music has become mostly an alien concept. Music is no longer standalone, it seems, but is a soundtrack to accompany some other activity.

It's such a shame, as people who aren't willing or able to just sit down and listen to excellent music are depriving themselves of a very powerful and important experience.

> For kids these days, music is dead because they’ve never truly experienced it. We made it irrelevant through videos and overabundance, and diminished the experience with terrible speakers.

Hit the nail on the head here. Preach it, brother.
by bamboozled | 2025-10-27 13:35:41+00:00
I went on this trip too, and while yes asbestos is bad, white asbestos (by far the most common type, mined and used) is way less likely to cause the type of damage you're describing, brown and blue asbestos are more inline with what you describe. But even then, people who lived in Wittenoom, WA are still alive today.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-27 13:35:42+00:00
Then get a law passed. Today.

Or… acknowledge this is a fear of a future 30, 40, 50 years away that may never happen, which is never an argument.

It’s like saying the government, because they have power, and the SCOTUS, because they have power, could decide to kill all children. Yes, they could. No, it’s absurd to let that power keep you up at night, or say the solution is to abolish their power.
by bborud | 2025-10-27 13:35:49+00:00
Making it illegal is a few steps too far. It leads to situations where you can end up doing more harm than good. In reality this is is a very complicated question and any attempt at "solving" it with absolutes will only complicate matters further.

Here's an exercise you can do. Go to a library and look at books by photo journalists who have covered poverty, conflict, disaster etc. There are many, many iconic photographs that helped shape our view of the world, and not least, contributed to making us aware of what was going on. From Dorothea Lange's work in the 1920s covering poverty and suffering in the US, to photographers covering everyday life, and reporters covering anytihing from famine to war.

Now ask yourself how many of the subjects in those photos signed releases or otherwise had an opportunity to give consent.

Should we erase this history? If not, why should the subjects in those photos have fewer rights than people should have today? If so, why?

Before you think that something should be illegal you have to think about what that would actually mean.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-27 13:35:51+00:00
Unfortunately, those Japanese manufacturers are located here because of the American market, because even though there's a healthy domestic market... 80% of what they produce is exported to the US through NAFTA, etc. And they're also here because of the auto-parts supply chain that moves freely back and forth across the border.

The markets are heavily intertwined and have been for decades. E.g. Ford Canada is just as old as Ford in the US.
by jimnotgym | 2025-10-27 13:35:52+00:00
Electric tractors aren't a thing. That is because a battery big enough to power a tractor pulling a plough all day is infeasibly large. Pulling a constant load is a very different thing to a car that coasts most of the time.

Humans are not strong enough to pull ploughs. You could grow food and feed it to draught animals, but as you point out, that is horribly inefficient.

Mythical Electric Tractor or not, you still have carbon being released from the ground by ploughing to control weeds. You can avoid ploughing to control weeds with glyphosate.

When a better solution for weed control comes along we can say goodbye to glyphosate too, I believe it is about as far off as Desktop Linux, as in 'next year'.

Just remember, glyphosate costs farmers money. They wouldn't use it if there was a better way
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-27 13:36:03+00:00
> Your users want the file-dialog, window-chrome, menus etc consistent too. But for them consistent means consistent with the 20+ other applications they use on a daily base. So native.

I don't think what you posit is true at all, at least not in 2025. Windows itself has abandoned consistency between its native applications, with more custom and modern styling that looks nothing like what you get out of the box with Windows UI frameworks. Almost every piece of software currently running on my computer has custom chrome: the web browser, my VPN, VSCode, Discord, Steam, mouse driver, keyboard driver, laptop fan driver. The only one that doesn't is qbittorent, and it looks like a complete eyesore. It is quite literally the odd one out, so much for "consistent with 20+ other applications".

Maybe it's different in MacOS land, but from my perspective you're 20 years behind if your application is trying to blend in with the OS in any regard other than the corner in which the X button is located. That way of thinking went out of fashion decades ago, and good riddance to it because things look much better now. What I mentioned above is a pretty good representative sample of my daily use, and the more I think about other software I occasionally use, the more I am grateful that nobody else still thinks like this. LiveSplit and Asesprite come to mind as two applications that strongly benefit from having bespoke chrome and wouldn't be nearly as nice to use if they looked anything like a native Windows application. Of course, my own software uses custom chrome as well, because looking nice makes it more pleasant to use, wouldn't you know it.
by the_duke | 2025-10-27 13:36:08+00:00
Even in Dioxus the usefulness is somewhat limited right now though.

(dioxus-7-rc.3)

It usually only works when reordering elements, or changing static values (styles, attributes, etc).

Which, to be fair, does speed things up a lot when tinkering with small details.

But 70%+ or so of my changes still result in recompiles.
by adventured | 2025-10-27 13:36:25+00:00
> Markets don’t reward long term investments. Everything has to be short term, and if it’s not paying off instantly, short term investors get no value and want it stopped.

The AI investment bubble is almost entirely about making long-term, extremely expensive investments. That's what the gigantic datacenter build-out is about, not short-term investments and short-term returns. They're telling everybody, persistently, that they're making huge long-term bets, and the market is rewarding them like crazy. See: Oracle's run due to long-term bets on AI (it's certainly not short-term results causing the stock to do that, their short-term growth has been mediocre).

Amazon for two decades repeatedly told investors they were making extremely expensive, long-term investments in build-out (eg their fulfillment build-out era), where the primary payoff would be far into the future. The market bought into the long-term on the basis that it was attached to Bezos at the center (that he'd be there to deliver that long-term result). The same is true about Elon Musk with Tesla: they have endlessly made outlandish long-term proclamation to drive their stock. Tesla: robot super business, self-driving taxi business, et al - these are 10-20-30 year long-term claims by Tesla and the market has aggressively rewarded it. That's because they think Musk will/might be there to guide it to actuality. In most cases investors don't buy in because they know the CEO & team won't be around even seven years from now.

Markets (investors) reward long-term if they can be made to believe in the long-term. The issue is that most companies are not believable on long-term statements, they don't have a leadership that will be around for any long-term delivery. Buffett, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg were/are long-term attachments so the market has been willing to buy in on various long-term bets.
by vacuity | 2025-10-27 13:36:37+00:00
A change in mindset must happen, but the proper mindset in which to change one's mindset is elusive. Even if my mindset today is flawed, what specifically should stay and what should go to make myself a better person? It feels like leaping from a safe harbor into the unknown. Can you convince a person to kill themselves and let a near-copy-but-not-quite live their life instead?

That being said, I think some positive change can be produced with diligence and care, even if the methods and details are hazy even to the person enacting them.
by vhantz | 2025-10-27 13:36:53+00:00
Yes, put words in my mouth and then ask me to defend them. Clearly I expressed support for the view that humans have a "magic soul that is too important beautiful to ever be equalled by a machine"...

On the other hand, you are clearly stating that intelligence is computation. But you're right, it would be too easy to ask you to define what any of those words mean AND to back that claim.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-27 13:37:59+00:00
Yeah, same.

The journals pay reviewers $0, and they pay authors $0, but they charge huge sums for access to the information they gatekeep. They also squat on the copyrights to the works they publish. And if an author wants to publish "open access," they'll charge that author anywhere from $1k to $10k for the privilege.

For all that, they do very little. Arxiv's overall level of quality is actually higher than the average paper in one of Nature's many journals.

The social justice thing is extremely obnoxious, but the business model is what really gets on my nerves...
by lisbbb | 2025-10-27 13:38:11+00:00
That's stupid. It's not all an illusion. The scale definitely matters. If you are buying stocks you can make a profit as a little guy that if the big guys tried to do it they would quickly become the "market maker" and the strategy would not scale up. It's the same with criminal activity or insurgency--small mosquitoes are ignored while the major threats get swatted hard.
by Bender | 2025-10-27 13:38:12+00:00
The codes exist but I think what they are saying is that in some places codes are not enforced or even checked. I live in somewhat of a "middle ground" where codes do exist and electrical is checked on a brand new build. They will also nag about septic inspections but will never actually get off their butts and do the inspection. Many such places do exist but they are usually places I would never want to reside. I know of places that I can literally build anything and never once be nagged by inspectors or state/county governments. They are happy enough and lazy enough to receive the property tax revenue.

I have mixed feelings about unenforced regulations. Having unenforced regulations opens up the possibility of targeted abuse of any individuals that are not a cultural fit in the eyes of the government offices and being very relaxed regarding anyone that fits in. This also drives the need for very detailed and expensive inspections prior to purchasing a home and that is a loaded topic all by itself.
Show HN: Content quality analysis that finds what SEO tools miss
by timsul | 2025-10-27 13:38:19+00:00
Hi HN! I'm Tim! We rejected 73% of our AI-generated content last month. Not because of grammar, but because it was substantively empty. AI made content production 10x faster, but quality checking didn't scale. I built FluffFilter to catch this before publishing.

Content teams went from producing 25 posts/week to 250+, but were publishing a lot of generic fluff—phrases like "in today's digital landscape," unsubstantiated claims, surface-level analysis.

Existing tools (Grammarly, Clearscope, etc.) focus on mechanics and SEO keywords, not substantive quality.

What FluffFilter Does:

* Analyzes content against 20+ specialized evaluators * Automatically detects content type (blog post, case study, email, etc.) * Returns 3-5 surgical fixes with exact locations and suggested replacements * Batch processing for reviewing 50+ documents at once

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* Rails 8.0 + SQLite: Decided against starting with Postgres + Redis to launch with zero-dependency stack. Deploys in 30 seconds, is cheap to host. * Solid Queue replaced Redis: One less service to manage, job processing works identically. * Claude Sonnet 4.5: ChatGPT did pretty well too, but found Claude's analyses felt better. * Turbo Streams for real-time updates

Example Analysis:

I analyzed an AI-generated "marketing trends" blog post. It would score well on SEO tools (good keywords, readable), but FluffFilter found: * Zero concrete examples or verifiable data * Vague audience (unclear who it's for) * Ends with "Would you like that?" like a personal email

See the full analysis: https://flufffilter.com/examples/blog-post

More examples: https://flufffilter.com/examples

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Built this nights and weekends. Would love HN's thoughts on:

1. The technical approach 2. Whether the AI feedback quality is genuinely useful vs. generic 3. What other content types would be valuable to evaluate

Launching on Product Hunt today as well, but genuinely curious what HN thinks.
by kgwgk | 2025-10-27 13:38:24+00:00
https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/us/en/pwc/accounting_guides/fin...

26.5 Common related party transactions

In order to comply with the related party disclosure requirements, a reporting entity must identify all of its transactions with related parties.[…]

26.5.1 Disclosure of related party equity method investments

Equity method investees are, by definition, related parties of the equity holder.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-27 13:38:31+00:00
It was a manufacturing problem with the lineset:

https://minisplit-services.com/blog/f/why-is-white-line-set-...

> The white insulation material, typically made of polyethylene or similar compounds, was found to degrade prematurely when exposed to UV radiation.

According to my contractor, this was a problem with lineset manufactured in 2016 and a little after. All of the HVAC companies that I called understood the "white lineset" problem.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-27 13:38:36+00:00
Full self driving obviously does not exist, but I think Autopilot is just as valid of a name for what it does as smart lane assist.

> People cut naps behind the wheel of teslas far often than they do behind the wheels of Volvos of Peugeots, despite both of them sporting very advanced adaptive cruise systems.

Need a source on this one. You’d have to be a suicidal maniac to cut a nap on Autopilot, it doesn’t change lanes, it doesn’t stop for traffic lights or red lights or construction signs, and the Tesla very clearly tells you it won’t.
by skywhopper | 2025-10-27 13:38:50+00:00
There’s some poor logic in this writeup. Yes, images can contain more information than words, but the extra information an image of a word conveys is usually not relevant to the intent of the communication, at least not for the purposes assumed in this writeup. Ie, pre-converting the text you would have typed into ChatGPT and uploading that as an image instead will not better convey the meaning and intent behind your words.

If it gives better results (something that there’s no evidence presented of), that’d be interesting, but it wouldn’t be because of the larger data size of the uploaded image vs the text.
by close04 | 2025-10-27 13:39:17+00:00
Here is an example of how video can work with "user friendly" E2EE: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/icloud-homekit-secure...

> It’s all end-to-end encrypted

> The video is privately analyzed by your home hub using on-device intelligence to determine if people, pets, or cars are present.

You can use a cloud provider's infrastructure without giving it access to your material. My devices generate the content, my devices do the processing and analysis, I consume the content. The cloud just coordinates the data in flight, and stores it at rest, all encrypted. It's possible but most companies don't bother because they have to put effort and their "payoff" is that they can't monetize your data anymore.
by kccqzy | 2025-10-27 13:39:33+00:00
Conceptually a feature similar to Recall doesn't have to involve sending any data to third parties. It should not need to be a service just a piece of software running locally, doing OCR and full text search indexing using local compute.

Incidentally I often tell my friends I run an app on my phone that captures my location 24/7 and they would initially sound horrified. But then I tell them all my location data is not sent to anywhere on the Internet, and ask them specifically what is horrifying about it. There is none.
by dominicrose | 2025-10-27 13:40:28+00:00
Avoiding a car accident has a low cost, you just have to take it slowly and be 1 min late to your meeting or whatever, but deciding wether you should attack first based on a small suspicion, that a hell of a problem, because if you're wrong, you're seen as the bad guy. And maybe even if you're right and can't prove it.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-27 13:41:01+00:00
But that maintenance burden has been paid off for things like 64-bit time_t on 32-bit ABI's. One couod argue that this changes the calculus of whether it's worth it to deprecate the old x32 (as has been proposed already) but also propose more general "ABI-like" ways of letting a process only deal with a limited range of virtual address space, be that 32-bit, 48-bit or whatever - which is, arguably, where most of the gain in "x32" is.