MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyphar | 2025-10-07 03:16:25+00:00
Some of the issues you often run into with Japanese subtitles are:

* Almost all Japanese subtitles include subtitles for every noise made as well as including SDH-like information about sounds. This means that a naive attempt to just match up subtitle timings won't work -- the English translation will have fewer subtitles and you will have to skip Japanese lines that do not have an equivalent in the English transcript. * Most translated subtitles simplify things and have to re-organise sentence structures to match the target language, which means that you often have to pick different timings for how a sentence is broken up in English than in the original Japanese. Sometimes a very short Japanese phrase requires two sentences to accurately translate, sometimes a long Japanese sentence can be translated into a fairly short English phrase. * Higher-quality subtitles will also provide translations for signs and other on-screen text (ASS supports custom placement, fonts, styles, and colours -- it is powerful enough to the point where some of the really good fansub jobs I've seen make it look like the video was actually localised to English because all of the signs look like they have been translated in the original video). The original timings don't help with this.

I should mention that I have used tools like alass[1] to re-time subtitles between languages before (including retiming Japanese subtitles to match English ones) so this is not an unreasonable idea on its face, but those tools mostly work with already existing subtitle tracks that have correct timings. My experience is that if you have tracks with very different timings (as opposed to chunks of subtitles with fairly fixed offsets) you start getting rubbish results.

[1]: https://github.com/kaegi/alass
by directevolve | 2025-10-07 03:17:10+00:00
We should factor medical tasks into a larger number of specialized roles akin to phlebotomists and dental techs.

These roles should perform highly in-demand, relatively straightforward and repetitive tasks that don’t require complex medical decision-making, where training can be efficiently scaled up.

An example that currently doesn’t exist would be a specialist who can prescribe short term courses of drugs like methodone for opioid addiction as a bridge to longer term care by a doctor. This would enable us to have bridges to treatment readily available all over cities whenever an addict walks in ready, perhaps only for that moment in time, to start treatment.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-07 03:18:03+00:00
> Advocating? What? No, I'm not "advocating" for crime.

I didn't think so, but had to ask in order to ensure we have a common baseline.

> I'm just pointing out that there are ways for crime to happen, to even be encouraged, without really risking the investors. Your "no such thing" comment, while maybe true in a nonexistant legally ideal reality, does not reflect how things play out in real life.

I agree, there is always a way for criminal acts to be perpetrated, sometimes for years on end. My disagreement is with the encouragement portion having no risk to investors. As mentioned previously, criminal activities pierce the corporate veil[0], which can and do ensnare investors as well.

The complete quote to which I made my "[t]here is no such thing" comment is (with my initial quotation being the post-hyphenation fragment):

They've checked with their peers and lawyers, and decided it's a perfectly acceptable risk to have the founders and staff of a company they're already invested in do illegal things and potentially end up in jail, if it makes the odds of that company being a 100x exit - so long as the investors and their staff are all insulated from the illegal behavior and jail time risks.

Call me naive, but I do not consider my interpretation as being "a nonexistant legally ideal reality" that "does not reflect how things play out in real life."

Prosecutors are not stupid, nor are they robots incapable of reasoning and deduction. Quite to the contrary, they share many of the problem solving skills software engineers possess. And given a "big enough" problem, they will solve it via investigation and prosecutions.

As to what is chosen to prosecute and when, well, that is an entirely different discussion of which I am wholly unqualified to have.

0 - https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/03/27/the-three-justifi...
by tokioyoyo | 2025-10-07 03:19:57+00:00
I have very normie and not-so-normie friends that ask ChatGPT almost anything. My parents consistently make use of it, and they're almost 70, and not that tech-literate. There was a fun release from Anthropic about the type of queries that they're receiving, and code-gen is minority. I think we're, once again, not the average user.
by m_fayer | 2025-10-07 03:20:03+00:00
This article brought up the sickening memory of taking my frail elderly mom to the er with similarly severe-but-general symptoms.

The er was crowded and the hospital was crowded. The er clearly couldn’t treat her beyond basics, she needed to be admitted and monitored. But, as a sympathetic resident told me before mysteriously disappearing “there’s no space upstairs, I’ll try to get your mom in somehow”.

I worked with EHRs at the time and knew how to advocate. They kept trying to discharge my deeply ill mom without explanation and bumping into my objections, I was talking to a different nurse or social worker or resident every 3 hours round the clock. I felt scared to leave even for a short time lest they expel her.

In the end, I needed to go home to sleep and they discharged her at 6am, and when I arrived they had her bundled up and already waiting to be taken home, shivering and ashen. All they told me was that there’s no diagnosis, no reason to admit her and no beds anyway, she just needs to rest and have fluids, try urgent care if needed.

Multiple social workers sympathetically assured me and my mom’s aide that we were good people for being up to taking care of my mom at home, so they could tick a discharge box. We emphatically were not.

In the end, eventually, she was ok. The experience was harrowing. Many people talked to me but no one engaged with us, the interest was clearly in getting my mom out. It felt cruel and uncaring.

I’m surprised the article doesn’t address the “refusal to admit” angle. It used to be that you could admit patients for care and monitoring without a diagnosis, but this simply isn’t a thing anymore. So, deeply ill people who for whatever reason don’t have access to adequate care and monitoring from a caretaker at home are simply surrendered to their fate.
by cyphar | 2025-10-07 03:20:05+00:00
> I think there's a reasonable chance to have groups emerge with a reputation to defend

This already exists today -- translation groups rush to be the first to translate a new series, and some fans have strong preferences around which groups provide the best translations (both in terms of accuracy and style). You can see the set of groups doing translations on the AniDB page for any Anime you like.
by RHSeeger | 2025-10-07 03:20:22+00:00
> If they don't work the way you want, you just keep refining it. This is easy if you actually test your regex in real data.

There can be edge cases in both your data and in the regular expression itself. It's not as easy as "write your code correctly and test it". Although that's true of programming in general, regular expressions tend to add an extra "layer" to it.

I don't know if you meant it to be that way, but your comment sounds a lot like "it's easy to program without bugs if you test your code". It's pretty much a given that that's not the case.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-10-07 03:20:39+00:00
>I am aware of researchers who use a technique where they get funding for a project that is basically finished, and use the funds for more speculative research. TTheir sources of funding expect more predictability than they can realistically provide. Wouldn't you say that represents a gap in the public's visibility?

Yes, I would say that represents a gap between a public who want to see a science factory in which not one single blueberry muffin is ever wasted on an unworthy grad-student's wasteful seminar, and the actual reality of how science works. The problem is that going, "aha, gotcha, you were HIDING these ILLICIT SEMINARS on SPECULATIVE WORK!" doesn't educate the public on how science really works and also doesn't make the seminars unnecessary. If you eliminate all the scientific processes that don't conform to an uninformed popular image of white-collar "efficiency" (eg: Office Space), you won't have any good scientists left, because they'll fuck off to private-sector jobs where you don't have to justify a blueberry muffin to a hostile Senate subcommittee.

(For anyone wondering if I'm hungry or something, in January 2025 my lab's parent university forbade us from providing lunch during lab meetings because they were informed that the incoming Administration was going to start looking for efficiencies in scientific grant funding.)
by sureglymop | 2025-10-07 03:20:58+00:00
I agree that it's a bad default. So is their iptables meddling when nftables exists.

However, can't you just use e.g. `-p 127.0.0.1:8000:80` since you're aware of the issue? Pretty sure both the CLI and compose support this.

What I do is to only use rootless docker/podman and then forward the ports with nftables rules.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 03:21:31+00:00
> You wanted to see the computations, I provided you with them

No, you didn’t. I asked for evidence this had happened. I read the ‘23 paper two years ago. It’s neat. But it’s a model. We don’t have great model parameters for high-atmosphere nanoparticles. We also have great surveillance of the ozone layer, and aren’t seeing damage.

> other then some NSF science grants to study potential solution

Yeah, I agree with this. (It may have been DOGE’d.)

We need to know what we’re up against. We need to know if it’s a problem that call for a pause, or a mandate that aluminum structures to transitioned to steel and carbon, or if the problem goes away as satellites get bigger and burn up less.

> When you are disputing this you are disputing top engineers and scientists in astronomy

I really am not. I’m taking them at their word that this is a potential problem. Again, if you have evidence this is currently a problem, the language I originally objected to, I’d love to see it.
by sert_121 | 2025-10-07 03:21:34+00:00
I see your point in user trust, and that's fair, but the same concerns have been prevalent since GPT3 rolled out , that no one would trust these tools to write or edit anything. However, since then users are growing to be more and more attuned to filter and distinguish the quality of the responses (doing invisible A/B testing of these responses), so maybe that's what providers want to capitalize on.

ChatGPT has become one of the top-most browsed websites, and they want to capitalize on it even if 2% of the people actually trust the new integrations.
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-07 03:21:47+00:00
Years ago (in the age of flip phones, think pre 2001) I worked at a bank.

When we launched our mobile banking platform, one of the PM's there swore up and down that we should be piloting banking by text message. He was fabulously wrong at the time and in the end got a lot of things right.

There are a lot of applications that could fit in a text box provided that your not doing the work rather that your delegating it.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-07 03:22:21+00:00
We need something better than TLS, a non-standard

Maybe an stunnel for CurveCP, or something like PQConnect

History has shown djb is usually right

He has been far more productive at writing software and developing cryptography that has avoided security vulnerabilities than any of the IETF WG members. The best part about his software IMHO is that it is small with low resource requirements and can primarily serve ordinary individual computer users, as opposed to large, complex, steep learning curve software primarily serving corporations like the ones that publish RFCs and send people to IETF meetings

Anyone reading this comment is probably using djb's cryptography in TLS. His contributions to today's internet are substantial

It really says a lot about "IETF" and other Silicon Valley pseudo-governance that a talented and trustworthy author, who has remained an academic when so many have sold out, gets treated like a nuisance
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-07 03:24:09+00:00
I hope not. As with everything, YMMV. As an experienced paramedic, I have not any issue with experienced nurses going the route of NP.

But there are also zero-to-hero schools that will take you out of high school and have you as an NP in 5 years, able to prescribe medications (in many states, without any physician supervision).

There's a happy medium. I have the same feeling about zero-to-hero paramedic strip mall schools that will turn you out in under a year and 1,000 hours whereas others will require you to have 2,000+ patient contacts as an EMT before they'll even admit you to a 1,800 hour course.
by GolDDranks | 2025-10-07 03:25:32+00:00
There is something off with the explanation.

At first, there is 16 fetches per row x column, 1024 in total. Then, it is observed that an input row needs to be fetched only once per output row, reducing the amount to 8 fetches per row, plus 8 per row x column, 8 * 8 + 8 * 64 = 576 in total. This requires the same amount of 16 numbers to be kept in registers.

But then it is claimed that by doing one quadrant at a time, all that is needed is 64 fetches per quadrant or 256 fetches in total. But that assumes we can keep 4 rows and 4 columns, 8 numbers per row or column = 64 numbers in registers! If we can only keep 16 numbers like above, each row of the quadrant is going to take 40 fetches, and we get 160 fetches per quadrant or 640 fetches in total, a pessimization from 576 fetches!
by chii | 2025-10-07 03:25:54+00:00
i think you've counted it in a way that makes it sound cheap, but in reality isnt.

$100k per month is extra revenue, if they do a half-assed job. A customer actually has no competitor to move to - crunchyroll has a defacto monopoly (barring piracy).

The price of the subscription is already adjusted to be the maximum of what the market would bear for maximum revenue - presumably raising that price higher would lead to lower subscribers and revenue.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-10-07 03:26:01+00:00
>Yes American science as a family of organizations deserves scrutiny and critiques. Funding these organizations is not an absolute public good.

They deserve scrutiny and critique from an informed point of view on what science can accomplish for the public, that is, what science can do for the absolute public good. "This doesn't work like I thought it did!" is not necessarily, in and of itself, an absolute public bad. It is, unfortunately, a cost of doing business in employing specialized labor to do specialized work.

Driving a truck doesn't work how the broad public thinks it does, either.
by evil-olive | 2025-10-07 03:26:17+00:00
live feed of the KBUR Tower frequency (which in the absence of controllers is just the pilots coordinating with each other): https://www.liveatc.net/hlisten.php?mount=kbur3_gnd_twr&icao...

and here's a screenshot I took from https://globe.adsb.fi/ - a news helicopter filming B-roll, a United 737 on final approach, while a Southwest 737 taxis for departure: https://i.imgur.com/5pK6zEv.png
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-07 03:26:56+00:00
> That’s why the best subs, are always fan subs! Because a business will never put in 8x more time on an episodes subtitles than “bare minimum.”

Cannot overstate this enough. Fans are the ones who actually care. To an almost pathological degree.

Anime fansubbing is a major reason why our video players even have excellent subtitling support to begin with.

Many music fans will obssess over ripping quality and lossless encodings to the point of delusion.

I've seen people care so much about some film they they somehow spliced together two different blu-rays to make the ultimate version because some parts were better on the disc from a specific region.

Star Wars fans cared so much they spent tens of thousands of dollars and years of their lives to resurrect negatives from the 70s that even the creator himself had disowned:

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/Project-4K77/

Always bet on guys who care. Corporations will never be able to compete. They simply do not give a shit. They want money for minimum viable products. These guys do it out of love.
by scythe | 2025-10-07 03:29:49+00:00
The paper mentions that finasteride passes through the blood-brain barrier and affects the conversion of progesterone to allopregnanolone, where low levels of allopregnanolone are associated with depression. Together with the correlational evidence for depression and suicidality, this presents a reasonable picture for concern.

Since there is a known central activity, it also raises the question -- in fact the article explicitly mentions it -- of whether a brain-sparing analogue of finasteride might not show the same side effects.

The apparent connection to "masculinity" or "feminization" may be a red herring. Excessive concern about "sex" effects in biological systems kind of reminds me of the alchemical theory of the four elements. It's not a great way to analyze the complicated effects of medicines.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-07 03:30:10+00:00
Shame on you for promoting libel by spreading unverified claims as fact. Have you even paused to consider what it's like for those on the receiving end of such harmful lies? Or do you, like JKR, revel in it even more after you've thought about it?

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c4gp8evl009o

https://www.dw.com/en/algeria-condemns-baseless-imane-khelif...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/11/20/imane-khelif-medical-...
by lenkite | 2025-10-07 03:30:32+00:00
> If Google doesn't characteristically fumble the bag their dominance with ChromeOS in schools has potential pay major dividends in 10-15 years.

There will be no ChromeOS anymore - just Android - and it will soon be locked down hard so that you need to pay Google or host ads/harvest data for every app.

You just need to make your choice of Tyrant landlord.
by cyphar | 2025-10-07 03:30:43+00:00
I agree there appears to be very little interest in subtitles in Japan from most Japanese people, but it is absolutely not true that Japanese subtitles are as haphazard as you say. The overwhelming majority of official Japanese subtitles I have seen (having studied Japanese for more than 5 years now) are not only word-accurate transcriptions, but also include transcriptions of noises (like あああああ for screams) as well as SDH-like notations for sound effects. Most include furigana for new/uncommon words as well. This has been the case for all anime, dramas, and movies I have watched with subtitles for the past 5 years (too many hours to count).

Funnily enough, the complaints you have here actually apply more to English subtitles in my experience. Modern English subtitles tend to accurately transcribe what was said, but if you look at official subtitles from the mid-2000s and earlier you'll see that most subtitles are made much shorter than the original text. Tom Scott's video on subtitling talks about this historical practice and how it is different today[1].

Are you sure that the subtitle services you used are actually using official subtitles, and that they aren't actually translations or from some other source? How old are the shows you're watching (I believe some movies from the 70s I watched were character-accurate but that might not have been as common in the past)?

[1]: https://youtu.be/pU9sHwNKc2c?t=124
by chii | 2025-10-07 03:31:30+00:00
> Rightsholders seem like a bigger problem than licensees to me.

completely agree - i think the gov't regulatory body should change the landscape to what film and cinema have; such that distributor of media cannot own and monopolize the broadcast rights on their own platform, and publisher of media be forced to sell/license at the same price to all distributors.

This way, a streaming service can always know and pay for a broadcasting license for _any_ media, and all media must be license-able for any streaming service (at the same price), thus no monopoly can exist under this system.
Show HN: I made a free tool that tells you the hairstyle that suit you the best
by pabloschz | 2025-10-07 03:31:53+00:00
Hey HN,

I always have have found really difficult to see how to style my hair and thanks to LLM's that task is now possible.

So I built this free tool where you can upload your selfie (client side, we don't store anything) and we suggest you hairstyle that would suit you according to your face shape and features.

Hope you enjoy it! Any feedback is highly appreaciate :)
by fooker | 2025-10-07 03:32:12+00:00
'American' companies have moved on to Fintech, hedge funds, real estate, and private equity. No big tech company now is run like an 'American' company. Take a look at the C suite and other leadership positions.

Yes, AMD was doing that as long as Nvidia was mostly avoiding high performance CPUs.

But with The Nvidia-Intel partnership all bets are off, hence you're seeing this deal now.
Alternate explanation of red shift of distant stars
by naveen99 | 2025-10-07 03:32:18+00:00
I was thinking about an alternate explanation of red shift of distant stars: Infinite universe would have 0 average gravity by symmetry.

We only see the near side of distant galaxy clusters contracting towards their centers away from us. Light from far side (which would be blue shifted) is relatively blocked by the near side.

Farther away objects need to be brighter for us to see them directly. Which means they are further along in their contraction, which makes them move faster, increasing red shift.

So , can we get rid of the Big Bang theory, dark matter, and dark energy ?
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-07 03:32:29+00:00
> Sepsis is hard to spot.

What? It's simple enough that it's taught to EMTs with ~160 hours of education (I'm a paramedic and EMS instructor and evaluator):

Temperature <96.8 or >100.4

Heart rate >90

Respiratory rate >20

WBC count > 12000

Add confirmed or suspected source of infection. Simplified, each additional match increases the suspicion.

The issue, as described later, is not that it's hard to spot, or the SIRS criteria tool didn't flag it, it's that the doctor didn't do their job or document correctly.

"VS were ordered and not taken"? What kind of ER is this?
by MR_Bulldops | 2025-10-07 03:34:42+00:00
Doctors, especially young doctors, are not the wildly greedy people you paint them to be. There are dozens of easier paths to riches these days than medicine and we all know it. My medical school is "cheap" and tuition + cost of living is ~$90k/year. Then, we have 3-7 years of residency before we start making the real money which is less than any generation of doctors in 100 years. I could become a senior software engineer at a Fortune 50 company in less time than it takes to graduate medical school and be better off financially than most doctors. Ask me how I know.

"But even a very small percentage of wildly greedy people can damage a system severely."

You are close to placing the blame in the correct place. My emergency department was just bought by a private equity group. There were 28 doctors. Most of whom worked there because they could spend adequate time with patients and work a reasonable schedule. After the PE company bought us, they mandated less of EVERY position from CNA to MD. The MD headcount is now 11, and the 17 physicians who are looking for jobs are having a tough time (relatively) because most other emergency departments in the area are also owned by PE firms who care about money over health outcomes. Those are the greedy people damaging the system you are looking for.