MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bko | 2025-10-03 13:14:15+00:00
The thing that stuck out to me was this:

> The 2,890-metre-long structure, which took more than three years to complete, reduces travel time between the two sides of the canyon from two hours to two minutes.

Pretty impressive. I feel like things in the US take a lot longer and cost a lot more. The prime example is the second avenue subway extension which has been planned since 1920. But I just searched for a few significant bridges like the Gordie Howe bridge which took about 7 years and 6.4bn Canadian (connects US and Canada). And this bridge which seems a lot more of an engineering feat took 3 years and 8 months and cost between $280 to $292 million

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

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

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3553875/the-new-tallest-...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-03 13:14:28+00:00
Parts of Russia face gasoline shortages after Ukraine struck refineries - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/parts-russia-face-ga... | https://archive.today/piaEM - August 21st, 2025

https://x.com/ukraine_map/status/1967448817902444790 | https://archive.today/lrWMt
by tipseason | 2025-10-03 13:14:34+00:00
Writing prompts for Sora 2 is harder than creating video itself.. Here is a workaround :-)

One thing I’ve noticed after playing with Sora: writing good *video prompts* is way tougher than the video generation itself.

With images, even a half-baked idea can give something usable. But with video, if you don’t clearly define *scene, style, and camera work*, the results can feel random or chaotic.

The pain points I kept running into:

* Too vague → jittery, incoherent clips * Overstuffed → Sora ignores half the details * No structure → I’d rewrite the same prompt 10 different ways

The turning point was realizing video prompts need a *template-like structure* (scene + style + camera + movement). Once I started approaching it this way, my outputs felt way more cinematic and consistent.

For example, instead of writing “a car chase,” a structured prompt becomes:

>

Much better results.

I’ve been experimenting with this free tool above that helps break down prompts into those sections.

Has anyone else found a good framework for writing video prompts?
by jacooper | 2025-10-03 13:14:46+00:00
The conversation around tiktok is so politicized and biased to the point I just can't take such results seriously.

If this was Instagram nobody would care.

> Global Witness, a climate organisation whose remit includes investigating big tech’s impact on human rights, said it conducted two batches of tests, with one set before the implementation of child protection rules under the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) on 25 July and another after.

Also why the hell is a human rights / climate org doing research on tiktok?
by criddell | 2025-10-03 13:14:49+00:00
The problem with showing the local ads is that they sometimes only pay for rights for a certain region. If they hire musicians for the jingle and the audience is only NYC, then the fee would generally be less than if it were for a global audience.

I think that's why they show all the baseball zen stuff rather than ads for whatever feed they are broadcasting.

My preference would be for them to pull back to a whole-stadium view and just let the ballpark sounds play. The stuff the MLB inserts is all pretty bad.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-10-03 13:15:30+00:00
NetNewsWire, great open source client on ios, good for mac too.

Though I feed it via tiny tiny rss with the freshrss api plugin so I can have saner filtering and curation before it gets to the reader.

The 'awesome tiny tiny rss' docker image is pretty decent setup for getting it running if you have any interest, though personally I ended up rolling my own static binary using frankenphp somewhat based off their setup. The core dev of tiny tiny rss is a bit, opinionated lets just say.
by ericmay | 2025-10-03 13:15:32+00:00
> I want to see English become mor fonetik and mor regular

I don’t. The complexity and history is what makes life fun, and makes English one of the most interesting languages read, written, and spoken today.

Similar to Imperial versus Metric. Yes the metric system is better (aside from temperature ranges - Fahrenheit is superior) but it’s not nearly as fun. Why 12 inches in a foot? Who knows!
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-03 13:15:52+00:00
> "SPVs mean companies like Meta do not need to show the debt as their debt," Perkins writes in a note. He likens today's financing tactics to the subprime era when firms shifted risk off the books to reassure investors.

The article doesn't explain how Meta are actually using SPVs. The suggestion is that the debt is in fact Meta's debt but the use of an SPV somehow means they don't need to show it on their balance sheet. Traditionally if you're using an SPV it genuinely means it's not your debt, in that you won't go bankrupt if the deal flops and the assets are underwater. (And they're not your assets, either.)

There are valid concerns about debt fuelling outsized investments in AI, but this article isn't really saying anything of substance. Plenty of non-bubbles attract significant debt investment as well.

Ultimately, debt is a way to transfer risk. It becomes an issue if it results in a lot of risk being transferred to parts of the economy that can't really afford it (like retail investors, or systemically important banks). As long as the people taking on the risk know what they're getting into and we won't need to bail them out if they lose their shirt, it's not really a problem.
by diggan | 2025-10-03 13:16:05+00:00
> It’s a completely different approach for data representation, offering precision and repeatability which is not possible with Blender's data model.

How exactly? And why not?

You need useful measurements/units, reproducibility, parameters, constraints, and I guess something more? As Blender can give you those things, it's not impossible in Blender. Want to have 3D objects automatically created based on values from CSVs together with constraints? Blender can already do that today, just as one example.

I don't really mind if Blender has a chance of replacing CAD apps or not, more curious about why exactly people find it so fundamentally impossible for Blender to be a useful alternative, and I have yet to hear any convincing arguments.
by mbesto | 2025-10-03 13:16:40+00:00
> The startups ecosystem will suffer extensive and catastrophic damage.

These a feature, not a bug of how the startup ecosystem works.

> The funding ecosystem will be set back years as this wipes out a bunch of VCs and investors.

Once again, a feature. There's too many VCs and too many funds.

> the likes of which we haven’t seen since financial firms imploded in 2008.

Institutional financials firms dwarf VC private capital. This alarmist comment makes it sound like a nuke going off in a Nevada desert is going to kill a major US city.
by infecto | 2025-10-03 13:16:46+00:00
Dismissing an entire technology because you personally haven’t figured out how to make it useful is a cope, not an argument.

Am I rich? What are you even on about.

I can now spend a few dollars and classify a large dataset that would have taken me real time before. I can again spend a few dollars and turn unstructured data into structure. There absolutely is value to be found in the current gen of tech. Comparing it to crypto is a weak argument. Just because you don’t find value does not mean other organizations and people are not.
by ducktective | 2025-10-03 13:16:51+00:00
Like imagine editor is on ws2, you open a terminal to /tmp/ to check something quick, it scrolls to the right, then jump to ws3 for your file manager and other stuff and go back to your editor.

Now you want to access that terminal on /tmp/ again. Where was it?

In i3, I just spam-switch workspaces in this case, but at least I can find them. With scrollable wms, every ws can potentially hold that target app.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-03 13:17:36+00:00
> Do you sincerely believe that both situations are comparable?

How are they not? In both cases US government officials applied pressure and implied legal action to force private companies to act in ways that enabled law enforcement to act with less resistance. It’s why we should always push back against government overreach and bullying. Because the “slippery slope” might be a logical fallacy, but that doesn’t stop it from also being the most likely outcome of the government pushing the boundaries.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-03 13:18:02+00:00
If any other country in the world was doing what Israel is doing, there would be international sanctions against them and talk of military intervention (if they had oil or natural resources to grab). The fact that Israel can get away with this is almost entirely due to the US' "unwavering" support for political (a strategic military ally in the Middle East) and religious (Evangelicals and the "Promised Land") reasons.

As an American, I'm disgusted that my tax dollars are actively supporting genocide.

And let's not fall into the trap of telling ourselves that this only started in response to Oct 7. The Palestinians have been severely oppressed for _decades_ -- which is why it's almost impossible to root out something like Hamas, because the next generation of boys will be more than willing to sacrifice themselves to break and/or avenge the oppression of their families when they get old enough to carry a gun.
by vslira | 2025-10-03 13:18:14+00:00
> Calling it a bubble just because the numbers are big is the weakest of financial journalism

Yeah, exactly. The current AI investment wave could be a bubble. Or not. If anyone knows, there are millions to be made in the stock market. The answer depends on the actual expectations for those investments and how actual business metrics are tracking them.

But pointing to ambiguous “evidence” just adds noise. If someone screams fire in a movie theater journalist should report if there’s a fire or at least smoke, not write articles showing concern about how flammable all the furniture is
by jbn | 2025-10-03 13:18:42+00:00
My daily driver in 1998-1999 was a 43P (see http://www.ibmfiles.com/pages/rs6000type7043150.htm ), an earlier model of this. With AIX, it was slowish, swapping to disk very easily (i.e. not enough RAM). I don't miss AIX much, though.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-03 13:20:00+00:00
On their website Quarto look just like normal JupyterLab notebook interface. Does it do anything extra?

One advantage of org-babel is, that one can not only to segmented code execution, but one can specify the dependencies of source blocks and thus doesn't have to run them top to bottom or choose how to run them manually. One simply includes blocks by their name in other blocks and everything will run in the specified order. It shouldn't be too hard to build that into IPython Notebooks, but somehow no one has properly done that yet, or it completely bypassed me, while I still worked with ipynbs for years.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-10-03 13:20:08+00:00
It does need some additional SEO work but this is a great name for what this product is IMO.

I'm thinking the SEO work is not insurmountable because if you were to draw a Venn diagram of std lib meanings:

- libc? - libstdc++? - any of the other standard library of any of our languages (python, java, go blah blah - many langs have rich standard libraries) - ...

There's zero overlap with this specific case.

Maybe worded differently: When you say stdlib, it already depends on the context today. This new context has zero implementation overlap with those existing contexts but it is the same concept.

Yeah I think this is a great name and worth the small SEO battle.
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-10-03 13:20:19+00:00
>Am I rich? What are you even on about.

The only people I find harping on about some amorphous "value" floating around in the air are typically people with portfolios.

>I can again spend a few dollars and turn unstructured data into structure.

Saving 5 seconds on a 10 second task using an infinite amount more energy is not "value", it's garbage propped up by VC money and regular people are going to be paying for it when it inevitably goes tits up. Like we've paid for everything. There's your "value".
by biofox | 2025-10-03 13:20:40+00:00
For those wondering, here's the excerpt:

"There's been a big debate about the very use of the word Anglo-Saxon, so much so that people in our field of scholarship are not using the word [...] because of the connotations that Anglo-Saxon now has with the far right"

Soon we won't be able to use the word "right" to indicate direction. It'll be left and not-left.
by nicholasbraker | 2025-10-03 13:21:03+00:00
The challenge of implementing this for internet routing is that you'll probably need a whole new protocol implementation as part of either BGP (currently the protocol responsible for Internet routing between networks) or something entirely new. Let alone that BGP is a path vector protocol and not a link-state protocol that uses Dijkstra (like OSPF and IS-IS).

It might optimize internal routing but getting this standardised across vendors etc. is not impossible, but probably takes a long time to standardise/govern etc.
by xucian | 2025-10-03 13:21:25+00:00
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by mothballed | 2025-10-03 13:21:53+00:00
The genius of georgism is it's just land communism where the government charges you rent for the land, disguised as a tax.

But don't take it from me, read George himself:

[LVT would] “accomplish the same thing [as land nationalization] in a simpler, easier, and quieter way." []

Of course George plays a little slight of hand game where he uses "tax" and capitalist mechanisms and only defends communism for land, which enables a lot of his supporter's arguments to play make believe about what it is. But George betrays this secret to those who actually reads his books.

Beyond that, there's serious inefficiencies in Georgism

- No incentive for efficient allocation of land (price is zero)

- The incredibly important role of land speculators, who help assign time preference to land by delaying its introduction in the market to when its value can be better captured, is basically destroyed

- People will all grab the "best" land as fast as they can with allocation basically left to favoritism or queueing

- Undeveloped land value can be impossible to separate from improvements

[] Henry George, Progress and Poverty p. 404.
by kiba | 2025-10-03 13:22:11+00:00
Anyway, aphorisms shouldn't be treated like mathematical theorems. Their validity isn't as "hard" as that of maths, but in human society, nothing is. Aphorisms are the sort of model which is "wrong, but sometimes useful".

I am not treating them as mathematical statement, I just don't take it for granted that these "aphorism" are in fact historical truth.

Cursory search of "winners write history" already reveal to me a far more complex and nuanced reality. Indeed, such a statement is considered harmful.
by ydlr | 2025-10-03 13:22:14+00:00
I opened the article expecting to agree with headline, but after reading it, I think, based just on the one short example it gives, it is wrong.

The first poem that the author points to as a masterpiece is a tortured exercise in formal meter. I had to read it out loud, very deliberately leaning into the meter to hear any musicality. It is difficult not because the feeling communicated are necessarily hard to communicate, but because the author enjoys the puzzle.

The second piece just flowed effortlessly. The rythym and meaning were immediately grasped, in complete silence, while still rewarding someone who sat with it a little longer.
by vergessenmir | 2025-10-03 13:22:20+00:00
Moved onto Niri yesterday after having to reinstall my PopOS and it just clicked. Like i3wm did all those years ago.

I can focus for hours on end and spend zero mental energy on resizing a window. I had less of that with i3wm but you had to always readjust after a few windows were tiled to your workspace. That final bit of cognitive overload was removed with Niri.

EDIT: Spec: RTX 3090, Pop OS 24.04 (beta), 4K 43" Monitor,

Niri Installed from cargo build, super easy install, make sure you install xwayland-satellite so that you can run VS Code, Obsidian, Zoom, Blender and other strictly X11 applications
by soderfoo | 2025-10-03 13:22:26+00:00
There was no need to hold real estate expos because the ethnic cleansing was a bit more direct during the Armenian and Assyrian genocide.

It was atrocious then and it's atrocious now. There's almost something worse about zionst making it a business now. It's one thing to ethnically cleanse an area out of hatred, it's sick on a whole new level to try and turn a buck in the process.
by bsoles | 2025-10-03 13:22:40+00:00
Not the OP. I have been happy so far with Proton Mail over the last 3 months. Moving my logins took some time, but I am pretty happy with Proton Pass for now and their other tools.

The only dilemma that I have now is whether to use my own domain name or proton.me, pm.me, etc. I currently use the latter.

Reducing the number of emails in my Gmail inbox to zero was a happy day for me. "Do no evil" my ass.
by bccdee | 2025-10-03 13:22:43+00:00
If you're willing to invest ten minutes and a tenth of a cent, you can spin up a virtual server in an American server farm and set up a SOCKS proxy with `ssh -D 8080 -nNT <user>@<host>`. Then in the Network Settings dialogue (at the bottom of General Settings), Firefox will let you proxy your traffic through it.
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-03 13:23:00+00:00
Both Apple and Google start stripping apps out of the store once they stop shipping updates. And Apple in particular deprecates APIs like they are going out of business.

Not to mention things like the whole 32->64bit transition that dropped all previous iOS apps (and on the MacOS side of things, we've had 4x of those in the past 25 years - classic->OSX, powerpc->intel, 32->64bit, intel->M series)
by ivape | 2025-10-03 13:24:08+00:00
You think thirst traps are okay for kids? If we rewind time, the Girls Gone Wild commercial is not supposed to be even remotely possible on certain channels.

We’re a derelict society that has become numb, “it’s just a thirst trap”.

We’re in the later innings of a hyper-sexualized society.

Why it’s bad:

1) You shift male puberty into overdrive

2) You continue warping young female concepts of lewdness and body image, effectively “undefining” it (lewdness? What is lewdness?).

3) You also continue warping male concepts of body image
by saurik | 2025-10-03 13:24:15+00:00
I wonder when this study happened? FWIW, there was some pretty intense bombing of full-on nudity content to TikTok a month or two ago--it all looked like very automated bot accounts that were suddenly posting scenes with fully nude content cut out of movies--that I saw a number of people surprised were showing up in their feeds. It felt... weaponized? (And it did not last long at all, FWIW: TikTok figured it out. But it was intense and... confusing?)
by inetknght | 2025-10-03 13:24:28+00:00
No keypad, no pageup/pagedown/home/end/delete (I use all of them very frequently), arrow keys are misplaced and tiny (also use them a lot), no F1-F12 keys, no screenshot button, funky command key instead of using control key like any sane OS, and the command key is where the option key belongs, blah blah.

Yes, inane.
by infecto | 2025-10-03 13:25:29+00:00
You’re confusing your frustration with some half-baked React scaffolding with the entire field. “Saving 5 seconds on a 10 second task” is just a strawman, there are workloads where it saves weeks, even months. If you can’t see that, fine, but don’t pretend your blind spot is universal truth.

And spare me the VC boogeyman. The fact that capital flows into bad bets doesn’t erase the actual wins. We’ve had garbage propped up before, railroads, dot-coms, mobile apps but guess what? Railroads exist, the internet exists, mobile exists. Same pattern here.
by bluGill | 2025-10-03 13:25:46+00:00
The old IBM model Ms were often washed in a dishwasher - don't use soap, but hot water cleaned them out. Most circuit boards are (or were - I haven't looked in 20 years) washed in hot water near the end of their assembly. Just air dry for a day before use. Ideally you should was in deionized water (or at least rinse with distilled), but if you don't do this often most regular tap water is good enough)

The old model M's also had easy to replace keycaps so you could take them off and wash as often as you want. Only downside is the need to put them back on in the right place each time, which is tedious.

Not all electronic components are water safe, but most are. I have no idea how you figure out if your device is or not without taking it apart. If you do this "often" expect that screws will rust, or minerals will build up - each causing problems. However if you just wash once a year you can get a lot of junk out.