MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mcramer | 2025-10-06 15:13:45+00:00
I wrote about my motivation at https://mdcramer.github.io/apple-2-blog/motivation/, which is obviously tongue in cheek. Tl;dr, I refurbished my Apple ][+ to try to recover a game I wrote in high school (https://mdcramer.github.io/apple-2-blog/recover/). After being unable to find the floppy with the game, I thought I'd try something just for giggles.
by ilikepi | 2025-10-06 15:13:47+00:00
There have been several releases with incremental but still notable performance improvements. The overall cadence has been pretty steady, intentionally targeting roughly one minor release per year since 2019-ish, with handfuls of quality of life improvements in each. Arguably RubyGems and Bundler are infrastructure, so the major feature is stability. What sort of big feature are you imagining is missing from your dependency management system?
by wongarsu | 2025-10-06 15:13:48+00:00
I think that is what the article is saying, just with a very misleading phrasing. The phrases are from adult websites, and likely entered the training data via Github (lists for content blockers etc). Just like "to be or not to be" is from Hamlet, but you just read it on HN. At no point does the article actually say that adult websites were in the training data
by gspencley | 2025-10-06 15:14:15+00:00
autism warning

As most people understand the word "dolphin", Orcas are not technically dolphins though they belong to the same family.

I've heard the claim that Orcas are a species of porpoise, like dolphins, but I can't even corroborate that since Wikipedia is claiming that porpoises are distinct from dolphins.

The clearest explanation I've been able to find comes from this article: https://nextlevelsailing.com/relationship-between-orca-kille...

> The classification of orcas as dolphins stems from their scientific categorization. Both orcas and dolphins fall under the family Delphinidae, which encompasses oceanic dolphins. Despite their formidable size and fearsome reputation, orcas share more in common with their smaller dolphin relatives than with other whale species.

So Orcas and dolphins are both categorized in the family Delphinidae which is colloquially referred to as the "Oceanic Dolphins" so, depending on what you mean, yes Orcas are technically dolphins but then ... so are dolphins. Meaning that "dolphin" and "delphinidae" refer to two distinct things even though all dolphins are delphinidae and the colloquial term for "delphinidae" is "oceanic dolphin." But it's important to recognize that the oceanic dolphins is a pretty wide family that includes several species that have the word "whale" in their name, such as belugas and narwhals, in addition to orcas.
by toyg | 2025-10-06 15:14:24+00:00
Unrelated, but: if you are a fan of comics/graphic novels, Ken Parker by Berardi & Milazzo [1] is an awesome Western. It's a series of short stories bound by a coherent but loose continuity, following the eponymous character as he moves across late-1800 America.

Having started in the '1970s, it features topics of social justice and the fate of Native Americans to a literary level rarely found in comics, but it's particularly good in how it depicts realistic characters - often conflicted, incoherent, and of uncertain morality. Parker himself is hardly a saint, and definitely not a hero to start with.

As far as I know, it has only partially been translated to English from its native Italian, but even the smallest nuggets is worth experiencing IMHO. There is something about Italians doing Westerns (see also: Sergio Leone) that brings the genre to epic levels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Parker_(comics)
by nerdix | 2025-10-06 15:14:27+00:00
The models running on $50k GPUs will get better but the models running on commodity hardware will hit an inflection point where they are good enough for most use cases.

If I had to guess I would say that's probably 10 or 15 years away for desktop class hardware and longer for mobile (maybe another 10 years).

Maybe the frontier models of 2040 are being used for more advanced things like medical research and not generating CRUD apps or photos of kittens. That would mean that the average person is likely using the commodity models that are either free or extremely cheap to use.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 15:14:33+00:00
I don't know. I guess that for all intents and purposes I'm what you would call a suit nowadays. I'm far from a big shot at my admittedly big company but 50k$ is pretty much pocket change on this kind of project. My cloud bill has more yearly fluctuation than that. Next to the cost of employees, it's nothing.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-06 15:15:14+00:00
when my family used matrix for a couple years the e2ee features would randomly fail to decrypt history and would present my non technical family with that "match these emojis to unlock your account" screen all the time.

between that and the unwanted features (federation, spaces) that aren't useful in a texting context, no way to search message logs, and a server to maintain.

...

I went back to RCS
by piltdownman | 2025-10-06 15:15:19+00:00
"The democratisation of information has destroyed more young minds than Syphilis and Pinball combined!"

To put context on your 'Gen Z' assertion, as of Q3 2023, the average global screen time is approximately 6 hours and 40 minutes per day for users aged 16 to 64 - with most of that wholly attributable is due to a shift in the consumption from legacy to digital media, rather than an across the board increase in consumption.

The percentage of 12th graders who read a book or a magazine every day declined from 60% in the late 1970s to 16% by 2016, and 8th graders spent almost an hour less time watching TV in 2016 compared with the early 1990s. Trends were fairly uniform across gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000203.pd...

In the grand scheme of things, the Victorian invention of 'childhood' has been effectively pushed up to about 21-25 in most of the Western World as a consequence of ladder-pulling and the increasing training necessary for the Information Economy. It's a societal rather than a generational thing reinforced from multiple angles.

Conversely, its the digital natives keeping boomer companies alive in the *aaS era. The hardships younger people face economically are almost entirely due to the collapse of any semblance of trade unionism or collective bargaining in the information and tech economies, combined with a cost of living crisis predicated on predatory housing policies.

Blaming screen-time is just a digital avocado-toast argument; trivialising the fact that this is the first set of generations to arguably have it worse off than their parents from an equality of outcome perspective, and attributing it to a problem of digital self-indulgence on the part of the youth.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-06 15:16:02+00:00
For backups, latency is far less an issue than bandwidth.

Latency is defined by physics (speed of light, through specific conductors or fibres).

Bandwidth is determined by technology, which has advanced markedly in the past 25 years.

Even a quarter century ago, the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes was pretty good, even if the latency was high. Physical media transfer to multiple distant points remains a viable back-up strategy should you happen to be bandwidth-constrained in realtime links. The media themselves can be rotated / reused multiple times.

Various cloud service providers have offered such services, effectively a datacentre-in-a-truck, which loads up current data and delivers it, physically, to an off-site or cloud location. A similar current offering from AWS is data transfer terminals: <https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/01/aws-opens-physical-locatio...>. HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293969>.

Edit to add: from the above HN discussion Amazon retired their "snowmobile" truck-based data transfer service in 2024: <https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowm...>.
by Bender | 2025-10-06 15:16:14+00:00
Yes. Many of the forums from the early 2000's and still very much in use today do not have have native voting functions. Some of them have addons/extensions that can add voting. My favorite has always been phpBB [1]. Demo [2]. Instead many of them focused on ranks which are mostly transparent here at HN. New accounts here are green but there are other account related variables behind the scene that make determinations about submissions at HN.

[1] - https://www.phpbb.com/

[2] - https://www.phpbb.com/demo/
by sandstrom | 2025-10-06 15:16:23+00:00
I understand forking is sometimes needed, but it's also somewhat discouraging to see that the differences couldn't be reconciled.

As long as people are aligned on advancing the Ruby ecosystem, I think it should be possible to cooperate even if there are disagreement in other areas [which political party you support, differences in personal opinions, etc].

Maybe it'll be resolved eventually, just like Merb <> Rails, Bundler <> RubyGems and RubyTogether <> RubyCentral were eventually merged. That's what I'm hoping for!
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-10-06 15:16:23+00:00
Here's an interesting result of that: whales that have developed “internal antlers” (https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/113/2/5...). Mostly invisible to eyes but perfectly visible to ears.

Abstract:

Skulls of many living and extinct beaked whales (Ziphiidae) contain various bizarre bone and tooth structures. Many of them show sexual dimorphism in their skull anatomy: males have bizarre skull structures, whereas females do not. Opinions differ as to what the function of these structures might be. Some believe that these are weapons; others, that they are sound transmitters. This article argues that these structures are the means of visual display. Many of the bizarre bone structures of beaked whales are not exposed like ‘visuals’ of terrestrial tetrapods, but are located deep in soft tissues. Nevertheless, toothed whales recognize objects (including three-dimensional bodies), using echolocation. So, along with visual means, they can ‘see’ and ‘show’ their internal bone structures with echoic imaging and use them as informational sources in social interactions and in individual or species recognition.
by shagie | 2025-10-06 15:16:38+00:00
Its changing. Bellular News : Gamers Are Dying out(*) https://youtu.be/_80DVbedWiI

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ign-launches-gaming-trends-pla...

> The prominence of mobile among younger players probably won't be a huge surprise to anyone reading this – 93% of Gen Alpha prefer playing on mobile, according to IGN's segmentation study. But preference for mobile is actually growing for Millennials, too, with 32% calling it their preferred device.

> ...

> Daily concurrent user numbers have grown in Roblox from 3.8 million in June 2022 to more than 25 million in June 2025. Over the same period, Fortnite has grown from 1.2 million to 1.77 million concurrents – with occasional blips, like when 15.3 million players logged on for the Marvel Galactus event.

Steam charts: https://store.steampowered.com/charts show 36,647,144 online now (as I write this)
by tjjfvi | 2025-10-06 15:16:40+00:00
> requires trusting a server to rate limit attempts on brute-forcing that short password

This isn't true. Particularly, if an attacker attempts to connect with the wrong password, this will be seen by the client, which then aborts the connection. So an attacker can only try one password. You can test this yourself:

A: $ wormhole send foobar A: Wormhole code is 1-whimsical-klaxon B: $ wormhole receive 1-klaxon-whimsical # wrong password B: ERROR: Key confirmation failed. Either you or your correspondent B: typed the code wrong, or a would-be man-in-the-middle attacker guessed B: incorrectly. Try sending the file again. B: <exit> A: ERROR: Key confirmation failed. Either you or your correspondent A: typed the code wrong, or a would-be man-in-the-middle attacker guessed A: incorrectly. Try sending the file again. A: <exit>

So if you receive this error (potentially repeatedly), you learn that there is an attacker trying to guess passwords. You can then choose to increase code length or simply stop using that channel.

The CLI also has an option to further mitigate MITM attacks with the `--verify` flag -- this shows to both clients a hash of the transcript, which can be verbally verified before proceeding with the transfer. This allows detecting an attack even if the attacker gets the password right on the first try (which has probability 1/65536).
by ajross | 2025-10-06 15:17:12+00:00
It's just absolutely mind-boggling how the "But Nuclear!" refrain persists as a mind worm in this community. Every story on renewables, every single one, has a giant sub thread up near the top of the discussion screaming, again, about the clearly-must-be-important-because-everyone-says-so hypocrisy behind opposition to nuclear power.

It really just doesn't seem in good faith. It's been going on for a decade at least. Every win, every positive story, every bit of evidence that just maybe this part of the climate puzzle is actually being solved[1] gets met not with celebration, but with indignant tut-tutting that it was done with boring stuff and not Nerd Friendly power.

When does it stop?

[1] Doesn't take too much Googling to find coverage claiming that ~90% of new electricity generation capacity globally is renewable. This problem is solved folks. It's time to start looking at the higher hanging fruit.
by ilikepi | 2025-10-06 15:17:58+00:00
Er...FYI, your [2] link is to a discussion about an article written by the person to whom you are responding.

Personally, I think the reason this post about gem.coop has been flagged is that we've reached the point at which new HN threads about things related to the recent RubyGems shake-up quickly devolve into people rehashing the DHH "aspect" of it all. So it has become less about flagging the actual target of the post and more about flagging the parts of the discussion that seem to go nowhere.

EDIT: expanded
by LarsenCC | 2025-10-06 15:18:07+00:00
You are right, I did edit the comment since after I read it again I found it too defensive, so I rephrased it a little. Hope you don't mind!

The reddit page you posted was made quite some time after the initial post that went "viral" (https://www.reddit.com/r/sheets/comments/178kf81/tracking_fi...). I also haven't put much effort in growing it, sadly.

I understand you might think these people are fake but I am not here to try to prove you wrong. I know what I've built, I know how many people have signed up and requested a copy. What I will do however is fix the landing page so that less people think this is some sort of trick to get people to buy.

In any case, I really do appreciate the feedback!
by qwertox | 2025-10-06 15:18:38+00:00
I'm running ejabberd in my home network and together with Conversations (Android app) it is my solution to have all devices report their status to my phones, tablets and pc. Easy to upgrade (when used with Docker), never complains.

It's a bit the same feeling like RabbitMQ, which I'm no longer using that much, but I also always thought that it is a reliable software. I've wondered if it is related to them being written in Erlang.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-06 15:18:43+00:00
30 years lifetime (if there are no heavy storms), 5-10 years to recoup energy, that's 3-6 EROI. Then you also need to include inverters which are energy-heavy. If we're talking of any meaningful scale, then you also need to include batteries because without them panels get shut down during sunny hours lowering the EROI even further.

In the end you're lucky if you get EROI of 1.5-3. That's an extremely bad deal. All other sources of energy, renewable or not, are in the 20-100 territory. The purpose of the energy production system is not to barely sustain itself but to actually produce usable electricity for everything else you want to do. It's the means, not the ends.

Solar panels have very solid benefits of course, you can buy them for your house to be more autonomous -- I would do that if I had a house. But from the energy/CO2 perspective what you're doing is buying a sort of "battery" that was charged with cheap coal-based electricity in China and shipped off to US/Europe. This makes sense in certain situations but presenting this as a green solution or as future of humanity is just delusional.
by PabloMolina | 2025-10-06 15:18:46+00:00
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by fauigerzigerk | 2025-10-06 15:19:47+00:00
You're right. It's not really money printing, at least not directly. Only banks can print money.

What these recent deals do is inflate asset prices by making (future) revenues appear higher or perhaps just more certain than they really are.

Assets can be used as collateral for loans. If someone were to use their AMD shares as collateral for a loan at a commercial bank (not a margin loan), that would be money printing and you could print more of it today than before the deal was announced.
by Scea91 | 2025-10-06 15:19:55+00:00
Right at this moment Germany's electricity mix has 364gCO2eq/kWh carbon intensity, France is at 21. That is because 37% of Germany's production comes from gas and coal.

Even from an environmental standpoint, France is doing much better than Germany and that is thanks to nuclear.

Also, by closing operating power plants, Germany weakened European energy production at the time when we geopolitically need it the most.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/live/fifteen_min...
by xphos | 2025-10-06 15:20:05+00:00
This is a misleading judgment the expectations out of the stock market being that the investments produce money generally speaking are expectation positive. Gambling is expectation negative always. That's the defining difference in my opinion.

Can you lose money in both absolutely but only actual investments have historically positive expectations. The stock market has had net growth of 7%+ on average in the last 100 years. Gambling has not increased the gamblers pockets at all its only shrunk there pockets
by coef2 | 2025-10-06 15:20:37+00:00
I found the news hilarious. Orcas used to wear salmon hats back in the 80s, then the trend disappeared, only to make a comeback in recent years. It really feels like they have their own version of human fashion trends or group behavior. The funniest part is that their fashion statement is a dead salmon instead of clothes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251001135117/https://www.natio...
by Rendello | 2025-10-06 15:21:03+00:00
> do you think there would be real demand for something like this?

Possibly. I've used HelloTalk, a free language exchange, and Italki, 1-on-1 paid tutoring where users can sign up as a student or a teacher. With the latter, you get what you pay for and can talk with qualified teachers for more money, or unqualified for less.

How would your platform differ from Italki?

https://www.italki.com/en/teachers/korean
by whs | 2025-10-06 15:21:15+00:00
We acquired a company that use EB and they have no dedicated DevOps engineer. It was bad because every deploy is a full VM boot which takes a long time and you can't do things you can do with Argo Rollouts. We migrated them to EKS.

I casually asked our account manager "Do you know any local customer with EB success story?" Their answer was "Do you want to be one?"
by rurp | 2025-10-06 15:21:32+00:00
The open source models are already heavily censored in ways the CCP likes, such as pretending the Tianamen Square massacre never happened. I expect they will go the TikTok route and crank that up to 11 over time, promoting topics that are divisive to the the US (and other adversaries) and outputting heavily biased results in ways that range from subtle to blatant.
by gizmo686 | 2025-10-06 15:21:38+00:00
I don't see how to solve the problem while keeping it as a plug-and-play product.

For obvious reasons, we need it to not backpower the grid during an outage. In theory, we could have the owner shut off their main breaker, then override the inverters lock-out. However, any inverter that allows that cannot be allowed on the market, because someone is going to flip the switch on the inverter without flipping the main breaker.

We would need the switch on the breaker to communicate over to the inverter to allow for safe operations in an outage. We could probably do that communication over the existing power lines, but you would still need an electrician to modify the fuse box to do so; which defeats half the point of plug-and-play solar.
by johnmaguire | 2025-10-06 15:21:46+00:00
> Clearly you are being told that Iryna Zarutska and Jordan Neely are different.

This is no longer coming from a place of curiosity, but a presumption of superiority. If you assume I am simply brainwashed and have nothing worthwhile to say, there's no point continuing this discussion.

Feel free to message me off HN if you change your mind.
by legacynl | 2025-10-06 15:22:39+00:00
> Our survival, not hypotetical, but actual, on an individual basis is tied directly to how much value we personally can extract from others.

Is it though? I think that's way too simplistic to even come close to being true. Is it even possible for all individuals in an ecosystem to be parasites? Doesn't a parasitic relationship not imply the existence of hosts?
by spongebobstoes | 2025-10-06 15:22:52+00:00
Only since 1979 has copyright been longer than life.

Copyright stifles cultural evolution and suppresses creative expression by preventing ordinary people from subverting, reinterpreting, and otherwise reusing cultural icons.

The original 28 years of copyright would be enough for everyone from small artists to Disney to see massive ROI on works of art.

Art from 1998 is irrelevant or has already made the creator rich, so it's clear that even 28 years is an overshot.

Refusal to share when it costs nothing is simply greed. Let the people create and innovate. Let our culture evolve.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-06 15:22:57+00:00
Well, you don't present much more than an argument from credulity, which isn't all that convincing either.

Even if I accept your premise (AI continues to improve at the existing pace), I don't see how AI is going to replace, say, welders, in a year. Or even bankers. (Yeah, an AI might be able to do the financial part. But bankers - as opposed to tellers - are about relationship with customers, and the AI isn't going to substitute there.)
by xorcist | 2025-10-06 15:23:00+00:00
FWIW, NetApps were generally pretty solid, and they should have no problem keeping in sync across datacenters. You pay handsomely for the privilege though.

Failover, latency, and so on are something you need to think about independently of what transfer protocol you use. NFS may present its own challenges with all the different extensions and flags, but that's true of any mature technology.

That said, live code updates probably aren't a very good idea anyway, for exactly the reasons you mention. Those are the reasons you were right at the time, not any inherent deficiencies on the NFS protocol.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-06 15:23:15+00:00
In practice I haven't found that I can do a 7-8 hour flight in two 4-4 flights. My most-frequently flown route direct is 5 hours even. The shortest-duration non-direct flight is 4:23 with a 67 minute stopover and then a 1:32 flight. And I effectively lose 20 minutes off the start/end of each flight where I can't use my tablet/laptop with headphones.