MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by t-writescode | 2025-10-20 07:34:24+00:00
I think it's also worth mentioning - that hasn't been mentioned yet, Erlang (which Gleam is built atop) is ... *the* language that facilitated the nine nines (99.9999999%) uptime; and one of the major components of its ability to do that came with the robust supervising and cross-machine infrastructures that inspired the actor systems later on.

This is, quite literally, Erlang's job. It's one job. And it is proven *excellent* at it.
by gethly | 2025-10-20 07:36:47+00:00
OK Cupid was the best in its approach to match people based on how they answer various questions. The problem here is that every dating web/app always turns into Instagram anyway because digital "dating" is all about looks and nothing else.

Another problem with OKC approach is that you will run out of people you match with pretty quickly. This is why people still use Tinder, even after they liked everyone on the app - there are always more people profiles to go through.

So the business aspect for something meaningful if very limited.
by ktpsns | 2025-10-20 07:39:27+00:00
The website also has a fresh unconventional UX.

It runs on LaMDWiki which seems to be a self-developed Wiki installation that looks a bit like microblogging. Described at https://www.wellobserve.com/index.php?post=20211107011347 Code seems to be available at a Forgejo instance at https://www.wellobserve.com/repositories/chengdulittlea/ but the repo link gives a 500 right now https://www.wellobserve.com/repositories/chengdulittlea/LaMD...
by sthlmb | 2025-10-20 07:40:08+00:00
Realistically, I don't think any of the tests I have would run on something like that, I'd need to look at different types of tests, and then they wouldn't really be comparable with the rest. Though, I don't think most people would really be thinking "Hmm should I get a Luckfox Pico Mini A, or a Raspberry Pi" but the feedback surrounding these smaller boards has been interesting, so never say never, but I don't think it's within the scope I had in mind just yet.
by bobmarleybiceps | 2025-10-20 07:41:09+00:00
A personal guideline for a lot of stuff is that a function may be too long when people add comments to mark what sections of it do. (ofc not really a hard rule). I just think it's easier to see "oh this is calling the load_some_stuff function, which I can easily see returns some data from a file." Rather than <100 lines of stuff, inlined in a big function, that you have to scan through to realize it loads some stuff and/or find the comment saying it loads some stuff>. That is to say, descriptive functions names are easier to read than large chunks of code!

smaller functions are also usually easier to test :shrug:
by sthlmb | 2025-10-20 07:42:21+00:00
About 65 boards in I realised there was a slight error with how the idle power consumption was being recorded, so I had to scrap all of that data :( The last 15 or so do have this, but I made the decision to backfill that data as and when I need to check something on those boards, or just on the next round (I plan to update every X months or so, assuming there are worthwhile updates)
by krackers | 2025-10-20 07:42:24+00:00
>with one vision token you have one vector of N elements, but with textual tokens you have M vectors of N elements

Each vision token represents a 16x16 patch, but to fully cover a word you might need multiple vision tokens. So assuming that the embedding size of the vision token and text token is the same `d` (which I think has to be the case for multimodal models), then wouldn't the fair comparison be `x * d` elements for a sentence in terms of vision tokens, and `y * d` for the same sentence in terms of text tokens? I don't see how you could see a priori that x << y (especially by a factor of 10 as quoted in the paper).

That said, if I do experimentally try this by shrinking this very comment down to the smallest font size I can read it at, then seeing how many 16x16 tokens it takes, you can fit more text than I expected in each "vision token". So I can maybe buy that x is at least not greater than y. But it can't be as simple as "each vision token can cover more text", since that only enables better compression if the encoder can actually uncover some sort of redundancy within each token. (And presumably the type of redundancy it uncovers probably isn't something that "classical" compression techniques can exploit, otherwise it seems like it would have been tried by now?).
by ammo1662 | 2025-10-20 07:42:36+00:00
It has already been done this way.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...

In China, WPS has a longer history than Office. The first release of WPS, as a Chinese word processing software, was released in 1989. It wasn't until 1996 when Microsoft reached a format-sharing agreement with Kingsoft that Office entered the Chinese market. After Microsoft tolerated piracy, Office's usage surpassed WPS.
by fspeech | 2025-10-20 07:43:11+00:00
Google is closer. This is from a famous essay expressing tbe author's desire to bear the burden for the world. Essay is 岳阳楼记 by 范仲淹 in year 1046 https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/%E5%B2%B3%E9%99%BD%E6%A8%9...
by sammy2255 | 2025-10-20 07:44:03+00:00
Can't resolve any records for dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

However, if you desperately need to access it you can force resolve it to 3.218.182.212. Seems to work for me. DNS through HN

curl -v --resolve "dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:443:3.218.182.212" https://dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
by sureglymop | 2025-10-20 07:45:37+00:00
Same and I like it too so far!

Some thoughts so far: Installing gleam installed about 50 packages on my system (possibly all erlang/elixir related). But what if I just wanted to transpile to js? Perhaps this is a packaging issue on my system though.

What I really wish is that Lua would be considered as another transpilation target. I think gleam could shine for DSLs in other programs but embedding Lua is 3x easier than embedding a js runtime imo.

In general, I find the nicest thing so far the community. And I want to say that the quality of libraries and resources in the gleam community seems exceptionally high. It reminds me of the rust community insofar as that for most hard problems someone smarter than me has already worked on it and published a good solution (e.g. lustre, squirrel). Then I would say you can also expect a lot of creativity and experimentation, the things that may fly under the radar in larger language ecosystems stand out here due to the growing and welcoming community.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-20 07:45:57+00:00
The fact this is probably misinterpreting or typo-ing is that they met their 2030 target for deployment of solar and wind 6 years early in 2024.

That goal was set in 2019.

So, fast progress, and even China is needing to update its goals in response to the unexpected success of solar.

You are right that their net zero goal is by 2060, though they recently stated that they intend to have peaked GHG emissions and be 10% below peak by 2035.

Some observers feel they may have peaked this year or last which might also be influencing what he was trying to say.
by gethly | 2025-10-20 07:46:18+00:00
You say newsletter but you describe blog. So which one is it?

Given you go on to mention Substack, I will assume you are talking about a blog, so no e-mail is involved.

Well, I have created Gethly.com platform, which is what you are talking about, but the Google thing will always be a problem for paywalled content, by nature.

You have to pick whether you want audience or customers. If you want to build a brand, pick audience and write content freely and fully available to anonymous visitors and focus on SEO. In such case your own blog and domain will be the best solution, as you have everything fully under your control. Using Wordpress, or another SSR CMS, will be the best for indexing and search engines to process.

If you want customers, there is multitude of paywall platforms for it, you just pick one and that is about it.

But in both cases, the actual writing part is the least important one as you need to also put on the advertising and marketing cap on and do the actual work - lure in customers/visitors. You have to be a salesman first and foremost, no matter which approach you're interested in. This is what people don't get. They think they are this unique eloquent content creators that out of nowhere thousands of people from all over the world will flock to their page. Well, no. That is absolutely not how this works. You will need to put months and years of work and hard labour to get your name out and attract users, somehow. So, be ready for that and good luck.

Lastly, soon I'll be releasing a new feature for Gethly - paywall as a service, where you have full control over your content as you can host is outside of the platform, and Gethly will just handle payments+access to your content, giving you the best of both worlds. So, stay tuned :)
by turboponyy | 2025-10-20 07:48:19+00:00
It's quite nice for the following reasons:

- Image previews (for file management with dired/dirvish)

- PDF viewing

- In-buffer images (e.g. profile pictures in git log with Magit)

- Browsing simple HTML pages (e.g. API docs)

There's probably more I've yet to discover.
by renatovico | 2025-10-20 07:48:34+00:00
docker hub or github cache internal maybe is affected:

Booting builder /usr/bin/docker buildx inspect --bootstrap --builder builder-1c223ad9-e21b-41c7-a28e-69eea59c8dac #1 [internal] booting buildkit #1 pulling image moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1 #1 pulling image moby/buildkit:buildx-stable-1 9.6s done #1 ERROR: received unexpected HTTP status: 500 Internal Server Error ------ > [internal] booting buildkit: ------ ERROR: received unexpected HTTP status: 500 Internal Server Error
by robocat | 2025-10-20 07:48:41+00:00
The issue is personally clearer with friends: most of us have friends (or ex friends) who are comparatively much better off or much worse off. It leads to weird strains, especially if the friendship is between male and female.

Different people have different norms about money. It becomes especially fraught if there is any sort of status contest going on.

I can see why people tend to group their friendships by their income (not just due to selection effects). As you get wealthier it is just more effortless to hang out with other people with similar means. I doing think it is just a status issue (although presumably that has song influence too).

The article talks about wealth differences, but it would have been more interesting to also look at what happens with large status differences (artist musician sportsperson etc).

https://archive.ph/vZsiX
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-20 07:49:49+00:00
The problem they are alluding to is environmental regulations - it's outright impossible or very very expensive to do certain manufacturing processes, especially silicon and medicine, due to the substances involved. And that is valid for both the US and EU actually, there's a reason Silicon Valley is the densest concentration of Superfund sites in the US, and there is a reason why most of SV production has left for China and Taiwan.

An additional problem is, both the US and EU have been pretty happy to just ship off the environmental damage to Asia to the tune of "out of sight out of mind". We got cheaper products (especially in medicine, our healthcare systems would outright collapse if it weren't for Chinese and Indian generics and precursors), but the total amount of environmental damage in the world hasn't shrunk, it has grown.
by raincole | 2025-10-20 07:50:21+00:00
It's a very famous (classical) Chinese phrase.

Both translations don't catch the meaning well though. It means: "worry before the rest of the world (notice that they have something to) worry." The next part is 後天下之樂而樂("be happy only after the rest of the world is happy.")

I don't know why it's a prompt example.
by dist-epoch | 2025-10-20 07:50:52+00:00
Is this an elaborate joke?

> Use GitHub Copilot and CodeCarbon for greener code

> Computational tasks, especially in AI, have a growing carbon footprint. Learn how CodeCarbon, an open-source Python library, helps measure CO2 emissions from your code. This video demonstrates how GitHub Copilot assists in seamlessly integrating CodeCarbon into your projects, allowing you to track energy use and optimize for sustainability.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-20 07:51:05+00:00
The person I was responding to here claimed that the diacritics, even if they don't help people in the USA or Europe to get a better idea of the pronunciation, should help speakers of other tonal languages to do so.

So, I investigated what a Chinese speaker who is not familiar with Vietnamese writing might make of the diacrtics, specifically the tone markers since this is what I was replying about. Since the regular Chinese writing system doesn't include tone markers, I looked at Pinyin, which sometimes does. The conclusion was that no: even a Chinese speaker would not recognize the meaning of the Vietnamese diacritics, so even for them, it would not be useful.

This was just intended as a refutation of the previous poster's point, not anything broader.

Also, none of what I am saying is in any way a criticism of the Vietnamese writing system or language. The only thing I'm criticizing is the idea that it helps in any way for a non-Vietnamese audience to include language-specific diacrtics in a non-Vietnamese article (and I have the exact same opinion for my own language's diacritics, and for any other - Vietnamese just happens to be the topic here).
by pjmlp | 2025-10-20 07:51:09+00:00
You are missing a step there, before Windows Forms there was WFC, Windows Foudation Classes (not to mix with the other WFC from .NET), used in J++, one of the reasons for Sun's lawsuit.

Alongside events, and J/Direct the percursor to P/Invoke.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/1998/03/10/microsoft-visua...

It was WFC that was the rip off, WinForms is basically WFC redone in C#.
by Wurdan | 2025-10-20 07:52:01+00:00
Just the mention of pieces of hardware we don't really need anymore (sound cards, modems, etc) triggers a flood of nostalgia. I used to spend DAYs poring over PC part catalogues dreaming of my ideal rig. And brands like Hercules, Creative, Matrox all trigger the same feelings.

Crazy contrast to me having spent the past weekend wondering if cloud gaming services like Geforce Now are matured enough that I can fully move to a thin client - fat server setup for the little bit of gaming I still do.
by ozgune | 2025-10-20 07:52:08+00:00
OmniAI has a benchmark that companies LLMs to cloud OCR services.

https://getomni.ai/blog/ocr-benchmark (Feb 2025)

Please note that LLMs progressed at a rapid pace since Feb. We see much better results with the Qwen3-VL family, particularly Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct for our use-case.
by Aachen | 2025-10-20 07:53:54+00:00
Self hosting is golden. Sadly we already feel like we have too many services for our company's size, and the sensitivity of vulnerabilities in customer systems precludes unencrypted comms. IRC+TLS could be used but we also regularly send screenshots and such in self-destructing messages (not that an attacker couldn't disable that, but to avoid there being a giant archive when we do have some sort of compromise), so we'd rather fall back to something with a similar featureset

As a degraded-state fallback, email is what we're using now (we have our clients configured to encrypt with PGP by default, we use it for any internal email and also when the customer has PGP so everyone knows how to use that)
by motiejus | 2025-10-20 07:54:33+00:00
When I was there at aws (left about a decade ago), us-east-1 was considered least stable, because it was the biggest.

I.e. some bottle-necks in new code appearing only _after_ you've deployed there, which is of course too late.

It didn't help that some services had their deploy trains (pipelines in amazon lingo) of ~3 weeks, with us-east-1 being the last one.

I bet the situation hasn't changed much since.
by simiones | 2025-10-20 07:55:42+00:00
Yes, diacritics are very helpful if you want to understand the language. But they aren't any help if you're trying to read a travel journal about a place whose language you neither speak nor want to learn, which will be the case for the vast majority of the target audience for this article - spelling the names of places with or without diacritics will not improve the reader's pronunciation.
by robocat | 2025-10-20 07:56:04+00:00
In my limited experience, successful women find it difficult to find a partner with similar success:

1. Many men struggle to deal with a women that is doing better than they are (see article)

2. Successful men are extremely sought after, so there are hurdles for a successful women that is otherwise an average women to "compete" for a successful man.

3. There's some fairly epic horribleness from others about the issue (I find your comment unpleasant). Society can have some mean stereotypes about successful women - even ignoring jealousy.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-20 07:56:11+00:00
SBI (State Bank of India) was honored with two prestigious awards by Global Finance, New York.

1⃣ World's Best Consumer Bank 2025

2⃣ Best Bank in India 2025

These honors reflect SBI's exceptional focus on customer service and its impressive strides in digital transformation.

According to Joseph Giarraputo, founder and editorial director of Global Finance, "Focused on customer engagement, digital transformation, and expanding accessibility, the State Bank of India has secured its leadership role in consumer banking. Investments in mobile banking, new offices, and cutting-edge technology have only fueled the bank's strong revenue and significant profitability growth."

This global recognition reaffirms SBI's commitment to serving its over 52 crore (520 million) customers with innovation, inclusivity, and excellence, delivering world-class banking experiences across every corner of the nation and beyond.

Global Finance, a recognised financial publication with readership of about 50,000 across 193 countries, has been a trusted source for corporate leaders, central bankers, and C-suite executives for nearly four decades.

The World's Best Bank awards evaluate institutions across over 150 countries and 11 global regions, based on a combination of editorial analysis and insights from financial professionals worldwide.

The scale, credibility, and audience of the magazine make this award a significant benchmark of global banking excellence.

State Bank of India is a major commercial bank in terms of assets, deposits, branches, customers, and employees.
by gudzpoz | 2025-10-20 07:57:36+00:00
This clause is usually used together with the next sentence in the original poem:

> 先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐

> (put the world's worries before yours, and put your happiness after the world's) > edit: this translation is wrong, and raincole has a definitely better translation

Since the model is a language model, they probably use this to demonstrate the model's language capabilities – the model should be able to complete the whole sentence pair. The paper also mentions this:

> To ensure the model’s language capabilities, we introduced 10% of in-house text-only pretrain data.

So I believe it is just a text-only demonstration.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-20 07:57:59+00:00
> Almost all ICE cars sold in the last 5+ years have as much or more electronics and software, including massively complex software engine control.

It massively depends on the manufacturer, model and country. So it not entirely true.

Even if it was true it doesn't make EV simple or simpler which was your claim as they are completely reliant on a huge amount of electronics.

There is no such requirement really for Petrol/Diesel vehicles as I drive a vehicle with no ECU and no digital electronics.

> For better or worse, that’s all cars now.

It is obviously worse. Things are less reliable, less repairable and more proprietary.

> The days of simple engines you can fix with a wrench are in the past.

No quite true either.

You can still do a huge number of jobs with basic tools. You may need some sort of code reader to help diagnose. You can still physically inspect things, and prod things etc. The fundamentals of how the vehicle works hasn't changed.
by aa-jv | 2025-10-20 07:58:42+00:00
The American government has already shown itself to be above international law.

The ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Putin demonstrates its legitimacy.

What it needs to do next is follow up with the long list of American war criminals, and the American people need to deliver them for prosecution in a court of law.

> I won’t argue America is better than Russia or China. But if you’re saying we’re in a different league from the USSR or China, you’re an unreliable narrator.

If you think the USSR still exists, it is you with the specious arguments. The USA is far worse at committing heinous war crimes, crimes against humanity and violations of human rights at massive scale, than any other nation. This Century!

I don't think you have the courage to look at the stats. That is the entirety of your argument: you don't know the stats, because if you did, you'd be calling for your own war criminals to be immediately shipped off to The Hague where they belong.

"But everyone also does it" is the argument of a kindergartener.
by teekert | 2025-10-20 08:01:32+00:00
These status pages... I guess they are just to tell us that the company is aware of issues, or perhaps not even that: At least one person has, amid the chaos, remembered to the status update page. I have yet to such a status page actually tell me it's not me. Why not automate this?

Also, the Signal desktop app reports that my internet connection is down. As in: We cannot fathom anything also being the issue :)
by modo_mario | 2025-10-20 08:02:06+00:00
>If I said comparing a new car's fuel efficiency to my old one was unfair, because my old one has a lot of problems, you might say that's very fair.

If it's a simple as not driving the old one with punctured tires and replacing those first to get a dramatically different comparison then no i'd say it's unfair.

Replacing a broken thermostat or fixing a rubber seal isn't a huge thing. Why else make the comparison? Who cares about this broken one?
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-20 08:03:37+00:00
You can't pack up a chemical factory and ship it overseas in a matter of weeks... in any case, BASF has let go hundreds of people last year and shut down part of said plant [1], partially due to staff cost but also due to a move to China planned to be finalized in 2030 [2]. They're aiming for 50% of gross income to come from China... utter madness if you ask me.

[1] https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/ludwigshafen/w...

[2] https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/wirtschaft-von-oben/wirtscha...
by DerThorsten | 2025-10-20 08:03:59+00:00
There are many more languages / kernels which run in jupyterlite via the same technology(ie the "xeus-stack" https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus):

* c++ * python * R * lua * javascript

Try them here:

* https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/lab/ * https://jupyterlite-xeus.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lite/lab/i...

Or create your own deployments by using this template repo: * https://github.com/jupyterlite/xeus-lite-demo
by seviu | 2025-10-20 08:04:08+00:00
I can't log in to my AWS account, in Germany, on top of that it is not possible to order anything or change payment options from amazon.de.

No landing page explaining services are down, just scary error pages. I thought account was compromised. Thanks HN for, as always, being the first to clarify what's happening.

Scary to see that in order to order from Amazon Germany, us-east1 must be up. Everything else works flawlessly but payments are a no go.