MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adastra22 | 2025-10-30 01:10:57+00:00
But you can't use it as one. It has a very small selection of native apps, and can of course run iPad apps in an emulation mode. That's it.

Most of the people actually using it for daily work are using the Mac Virtual Display. I work on my couch or bed, touch typing on my MacBook while my entire vision is filled with a projected, wraparound virtual display.

Immensely productive. But I'm basically coding on my MacBook while using a $3.5k external monitor, just in an unusual form factor.
by crq-yml | 2025-10-30 01:11:13+00:00
That's verisimilitude. We were doing that with representational art way before computers, and even doing stipple and line drawing to get "tonal indications without tonal work". Halftone, from elsewhere in the thread, is a process that does similar. When you go deeper into art theory verisimilitude comes up frequently as something that is both of practical use(measure carefully, use corrective devices and appropriate drafting and markmaking tools to make things resemble their observed appearance) and also something that usually isn't the sole communicative goal.

All the computer did was add digitally-equivalent formats that decouple the information from its representation: the image can be little dots or hex values. Sampling theory lets us perform further tricks by defining correspondences between time, frequency and amplitude. When we resample pixel art using conventional methods of image resizing, it breaks down into a smeary mess because it's relying on certain artifacts of the representational scheme that differ from a photo picture that assumes a continuous light signal.

Something I like doing when drawing digitally is to work at a high resolution using a non-antialiased pixel brush to make black and white linework, then shrink it down for coloring. This lets me control the resulting shape after it's resampled(which, of course, low-pass filters it and makes it a little more blurry) more precisely than if I work at target resolution and use an antialiased brush; with those, lines start to smudge up with repeated strokes.
by jimbokun | 2025-10-30 01:11:23+00:00
Assigning blame and guilt is pointless. Just look at how well it has worked to motivate the US to change. That is to say, not at all.

The only thing moving the needle is renewables and nuclear generating power more cheaply than fossil fuels, so it becomes stupid to not switch to them even if you have no regard for the long term health of the environment.
by al_borland | 2025-10-30 01:11:36+00:00
> However, this not only means losing all purchased apps, but more importantly photos and videos which may represent many years of memories.

The photos and videos are very easy problems to solve. This feels like needless emotional manipulation by the author.

As for the apps, they’re a sunk cost. Is the price of rebuying a few apps worth dealing with the ex?

I’d also question if the courts can compel the father to release the kids from the group, especially if he is essentially stalking the kids with it.
by eevmanu | 2025-10-30 01:12:29+00:00
indexes your repository

is it possible to know at high level how do you generate that index?, from this:

• Your AI knows your entire codebase before generating a single line • No more duplicate code that ignores existing utilities • No more styling that clashes with your design system • No more authentication logic that bypasses your user service • Real-time updates when you add or refactor files

looks like ast-grep + hyde to enrich the meaning of each node (could have different enrichment strategy per node type)
by codebje | 2025-10-30 01:12:53+00:00
On a Pico? No - the PIOs replace other peripherals a µC might be able to use to achieve this sort of bitrate, so you'd not really have the tools you'd need to change GPIO pin states once every 3-4 CPU clock cycles.

In a sense the PIO is a bit 'cheaty' when claiming "bit-banging", because the PIO is the ultimate peripheral, programmable to be whatever you need. It's no mean feat to make the PIO do the sorts of things happening here, by any stretch, but "bit-banging" typically means using the CPU to work around the lack of a particular peripheral.

From that perspective, there's precious few µCs out there that could bit-bang 100MBit/s Ethernet - I'm no expert, but I _think_ that's a 125MHz IO clock, so if you want 4 CPU cycles per transition to load data and push it onto pins, you're looking for a 500MHz µC, and at those speeds you definitely have to worry about the bus characteristics, stalls, caching, and all those fun bits; it's not your old 8-bit CPU bit-banging a slow serial protocol over the parallel port any more.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-30 01:13:25+00:00
This is not in the spirit of this law, and will probably irk some, but...

If a kid thinks like an adult, behaves like an adult and can't be distinguished from an adult from their online presence, let them use the chatbot. On the other end, I wish they'd flag immature adults as kids as well.

18 is an arbitrary number, and if we have more appropriate ways to judge if someone is ready or not (assuming their check is worth its salt), it should be fine to defer to that.

It's not like they're going to a bar to do tequila shots or scam retirees for insurance money.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-30 01:14:21+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

> Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been previously published in a reliable source before you can add it. If reliable sources disagree with each other, then maintain a neutral point of view and present what the various sources say, giving each side its due weight.

Wikipedia cares that its contents are taken from reliable sources, which can be independently verified. Not all news media are reliable sources, and in fact academic papers and journals and published books are generally more reliable than news media.
by chris_wot | 2025-10-30 01:14:36+00:00
You cannot get upset about someone saying that they would sack you if you were working for them when you did the same to someone else.

I would not work for you because you exhibit all the qualities of a bully. You've been exhibiting this behaviour for decades now. Every time I see you say that you needed to "teach the hardware guys a lesson", or you write a blog post that you would sack a non-employee, or you resort to invective when you could calmly address the issue without going full nuclear, then it confirms my opinion of you.

I'm not following you around HN, incidentally. You just happen to comment on posts that I'm also interested in. I know, however, that if I ever did work for you or worked in the same organisation as you, I'd likely become your target.
by tguvot | 2025-10-30 01:15:37+00:00
link from sentence that you copy pasted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

The data was collected through an app called "This Is Your Digital Life", developed by data scientist Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research in 2013.[2] The app consisted of a series of questions to build psychological profiles on users, and collected the personal data of the users' Facebook friends via Facebook's Open Graph platform.[2] The app harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook profiles
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-10-30 01:15:42+00:00
As I said,sometimes, especially if you ask some simple question that is pretty easily verifiable fact pn any search engine. Claude gave me nonsense links whole summer after some update and nothing says ChatGPT won’t do the same after some future ”improvement”. Besides, more you veer towards questions that ate not so cleacut (”I want to make an LLM application that mimicks sounds Brazilian sounds make running on open source model, how many parametres does it need and what model should I use and should I use React or Svelte for frontend”) more fuzzy the resukts. And more longer the the chat, more tighter its context window becomes and more it hallucinates.

Point being: no you cannot trust it withput double checking its information from elsewhere. Same as with anything else.
by otterley | 2025-10-30 01:16:01+00:00
I’ve been thinking about this problem for decades. Load feedback is a wonderful idea, but extremely difficult to put into practice. Every service has a different and unique architecture; and even within a single service, different requests can consume significantly different resources. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to provide a single quantitative number in response to the question “what request rate can I send you? It also requires tight coupling between the load balancer and the backends, which has problems of its own.

I haven’t seen anyone really solve this problem at scale with maybe the exception of YouTube’s mechanism (https://research.google/pubs/load-is-not-what-you-should-bal...), but that’s specific to them and it isn’t universally applicable to arbitrary workloads.
by weddpros | 2025-10-30 01:16:14+00:00
It's very rare. I was a migraine sufferer, but this is how that time it was different:

- I was under severe stress at work - I woke up with aura, realised it when looking at the mirror, I had only one eye - visual symptoms (aura) didn't go away after 1 hour. That's the limit where you MUST seek medical advice - having "a migraine" that day raised my stress level... because work... - symptoms persisted... and after getting better over a year, what was left became permanent (blind spot where the migraine started in my field of vision)

DO NOT take triptans during the aura. DO NOT take any vasoconstrictors during aura, since it's a phase where blood flow is restricted. That could have caused my stroke.

When a migraine hits, I take aspirin, stop all stressors, ALL stressors, try to calm down (I've used anxiolytics occasionally), breathe and rest. I'm often off for 2 days. It happens about once a year.

Again, migrainous infarcts are VERY rare. You'll be fine, just let the aura pass, and know to seek medical attention if it doesn't.
by acdha | 2025-10-30 01:16:14+00:00
Also, I kinda feel dirty criticizing an open source project but Poetry seems to be struggling with technical debt. I hit bugs which have been open for years or stuff which is WONTFIXed, and while they truly do not owe me anything, it’s a lot more rewarding to use uv where I hit fewer issues in general and the stuff I do hit is usually fixed quickly.

There’s a bigger conversation about open source maintenance there, but if I have to get my job done it’s increasingly tempting to take the simplifications and speed.
by tzs | 2025-10-30 01:16:24+00:00
It is not meaningless.

The meaning is that when things that should not be political questions because they have objectively correct answers do become political in recent years most of the time it is liberals whose positions match the objectively correct answer.

Note that this doesn't necessarily mean that liberals are more often correct than conservatives on how to deal with those things--that often is something that does not have an objectively correct answer and so is something that people can reasonably disagree over and so can reasonably become political.

For example consider climate change. How to address climate change is something that does not have an objectively correct answer and so you can't say that any given political group is right or wrong on that.

However, the question of whether or not the increases in the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere since pre-industrial time are most due to human activity is a question that does have an objectively correct answer. The C in CO2 comes in several different isotopes, and by looking at changes in the ratios between those isotopes in the C in atmospheric CO2 it is possible to determine that most of the increase has come from burning fossil fuels.

If a political group is taking the position that the rise in CO2 is not due to human activity they are objectively wrong, and the phrase that reality has a well known bias against that group is a way of highlighting that.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-10-30 01:18:24+00:00
> With such typesetting-hostile standards to deal with, Crunchyroll had basically two choices for how to make sublicensing to Amazon and Netflix work with their existing subtitles that feature actual typesetting: Either 1) try to negotiate with the services for permission to make use of more TTML capabilities (that the subtitle renderers of said services should already support!) or 2) start mangling subtitles with typesetting into something compatible with the awful subtitling standards of the general streaming services.

Couldn't they also provide Amazon and Netflix a version of the video stream with baked in subtitles?
by gessha | 2025-10-30 01:18:51+00:00
What doesn’t help the community is that “hallucinate”, “cite sources” still doesn’t capture what the LLM is doing. LLMs were pre-trained to do one thing, trained to do another and maybe fine-tuned for yet another thing. Do they hallucinate? From our perspective they do because we know true and false but from the tool’s perspective, it’s “just interpolating the text crammed inside of it”.
by scythe | 2025-10-30 01:20:15+00:00
>The purpose of the model is to show that we can reproduce the survival rates we see in reality, even if there are no effective treatments.

That's a great argument in the abstract, but it ignores the fact that there are effective treatments for colon cancer. The fact that we can reproduce real survival rates in a counterfactual world where there are no effective treatments for colon cancer does not actually give us a model of the real world because the counterfactual explicitly contradicts known scientific facts.

What you have to do in order to make this argument is to show that there are Markov models where early detection does not work despite the fact that some cancers will cause death if untreated and not if treated. You cannot simply rely on models that have clearly impossible transition probabilities. You need possible models. Or you have to show that the absolutely massive amount of scientific literature and clinical experience about how to treat colon cancer is somehow flawed.

Some people are defending this because the blog post is attacking a specific argument, but I don't see how that can work. I am pretty sure that Nassim Taleb and most other people who are capable of putting together a coherent statistical argument (even a flawed one) understand that colon cancer can be treated sometimes.
by virtue3 | 2025-10-30 01:20:16+00:00
I worked at crunchyroll.

Keeping the "hard subs" content is a lot of videos as the subtitles were encoded into the video stream.

This makes CDNs and other systems more difficult to utilize because we have a ton of video streams with just caption changes as opposed to just the Japanese audio source + caption files.

It's one of those things that doesn't seem that problematic till you include all the video_qualities to support streaming bandwith. So you also get a #hardSubLanguages * #videoQualities
by frozenseven | 2025-10-30 01:20:30+00:00
>The fact that there's real hardware and a paper doesn't mean the product is actually worth anything.

I said you can't dismiss someone's hardware + paper + code solely based on insults. That's what I said. That was my argument. Speaking of which:

>disingenuous

>sizzle

>oversell

>dubious niche value

>window dressing

>suspicious

For the life of me I can't understand how any of this is an appropriate response when the other guy is showing you math and circuits.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-30 01:20:51+00:00
I am saying that they can get away with lower quality subtitles in such places because the average user does not care that much about it. The target audience is not the same as when they first started doing subtitles and it doesn't make business sense anymore. Anime is not special. If the rest of the video streaming industry can get away with simpler subtitles, then Crunchyroll can too.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-30 01:20:53+00:00
It's also very highly customisable without being monetized out the wazoo, allows you to host your own servers, and in general avoids the incredibly bland corporate image that meta projects.

(Meta, I think, fails to understand that the people that most want a virtual space to interact with, to the point of putting up with the limitations of VR tech, mostly want to not look like regular people in that space, because they keep pushing a vision that seems to be a uniform 'normality' even more extreme than the real world)
by scorpioxy | 2025-10-30 01:21:59+00:00
Interesting question. For me, resting was similar to exercising an antagonist muscle. Or oversimplifying it, do the opposite of what you were doing. So if your day is full of focus and concentration and sedentary then do something physical that doesn't require a lot of focus and concentration. Doing something physical all day? Then relax your body by reading a book on the couch.

You'll probably need to experiment to see what works for you and come up with your own answer.
Show HN: Eintercon – Global Connections in 48 Hours
by abilafredkb | 2025-10-30 01:22:05+00:00
I had 3,000 LinkedIn connections. When I actually needed help, I realized I didn't know who to turn to. The connections looked impressive on paper, but they didn't feel real.

That's why I built Eintercon. What it is Eintercon pairs you with someone from anywhere in the world. You have 48 hours to connect—chat, share experiences, find common ground. After that, the connection expires unless you both decide to continue.

No likes. No followers. No feeds. Just you and one other person in a shared private space.

Why 48 hours? I've watched too many social platforms turn into infinite scrolls and dead inboxes. People collect names on a list but never actually talk.

The timer creates urgency and focus. It means you both show up. You make the time count. How it works

When you match with someone, you get a private, mutual feed—just for the two of you. Share photos, thoughts, moments. Set challenges for each other. Play games. Unlock deeper conversations.

The algorithm intentionally matches you with people from different countries. This isn't about local networking. It's about crossing borders and discovering perspectives you'd never encounter otherwise.

What I learned Connection isn't about abundance. It's about intention. Many people quietly share the same frustration with social platforms. They want authentic human interaction, not an endless chase for validation.

The biggest challenge was resisting the urge to follow established patterns. Likes, feeds, and followers are easy defaults. They provide instant gratification. Designing without them meant thinking differently about what keeps people engaged.

Where we are Live on iOS and Android. People in 150+ countries using it. Still early, still evolving. The vision is simple: social media should help us feel more human, not less.

Website: eintercon.com I'd love to hear your thoughts.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-30 01:22:19+00:00
And in practice it usually ends up being 6 different machine-global pools that all weirdly intersect, and some are python2.

I started using NodeJS more after lots of Python experience. Packages make so much more sense there. Even imports. You know how hard it is to do the equivalent of "require '../foo.js'" in Python?
by IgorPartola | 2025-10-30 01:22:24+00:00
Very cool way to visualize it but I will be honest the threshold map doesn’t make sense. This didn’t seem to explain how to form the map, how to choose the threshold values, and so on. It showed grey pixels passing through white, black, and grey pixels and moved onto generalizing this pattern.

Is this just me being dumb or the curse of knowledge where something is so obvious to the author that they don’t even bother explaining it?
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-30 01:22:29+00:00
There was this thing called "yellow journalism". It was very much not trying to be unbiased.

Most US 20th century journalism tried to be better than that. And, by trying, they were better than yellow journalism. Yes, there was still bias. But the difference between, say, 20% bias and 80% bias made a real difference.

So maybe today we're at 40% bias instead of 80% bias. It's still worse than it was, and the difference still matters. (And, by the way, one of the ways it matters is in peoples' trust of the media. We don't need people who are obviously trying to manipulate us; we already have enough of those.)
by duxup | 2025-10-30 01:22:57+00:00
Most every family sharing type system is somehow clunky. I sign my kids up as adults for most things as child controls are never clear until you get into the app and realize nothing works, or inexplicably fine content is unavailable. (With the note that my young kids don't use electronics monitored anyhow..)

Having said all that, Apple's family sharing has been the easiest for me to use of all of them at this point.

As for the story I'm wondering if the court can help, no it's not fun to involve them, but it seems like they possibly could order the ex to release the kids accounts.

If not and the ex is unreasonable, then maybe it is time for new accounts, even as disruptive as that might be. Even safety wise that might be a good choice.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-10-30 01:23:40+00:00
They are most often effective if you can afford them was my point. I have ADHD as well and boxing (waking up before work to run in cold November morning, 9 rounds with a heavyweight who had nobody his size to spar, thousand ab movements afterwords and hey it’s only Tuesday) helped me tremendously with focus, staying of the booze and so on, but if I had not done years of therapy and had meds as well as found more varing environment, I prob would no be hete. And I was lucky to have a god job to pay for all that.

I do think you need tremendous mental effort, or grit, even to fight serious addiction. But it is only a start.
by collinmanderson | 2025-10-30 01:24:08+00:00
> AI/ML

The Machine-Learning world, especially "Google Brain" research team figured out that NumPy was an awesome piece of software for dealing with large arrays of numbers and matrix multiplication. They built "TensorFlow" on top of it around 2015 which became very popular. Facebook followed suit and released PyTorch in 2016.

IPython/Jupiter notebooks (for Julia, Python and R) from 2015 were another factor, also adopted by the AI/ML community.

The alternative data-science languages at the time were Mathematica, MATLAB, SAS, Fortran, Julia, R, etc, but Python probably won because it was general purpose and open source.

I suspect Python would not have survived the 2/3 split very well if it wasn't for AI/ML adopting Python as its main language.

> when the tooling was so inferior

Since 2012, Conda/Anaconda has been the go-to installer in the SciPy/NumPy world which also solves a lot of problems that uv solves.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-30 01:25:37+00:00
I don't want to downplay the network effects here, but it's in CA entirely by coincidence. SV is in CA because William Shockley's family is there, which is why he founded Shockley Semiconductor there. It could have been somewhere else. The 2nd largest tech hub is in Seattle. It's there because that's were Bill Gates is from. Is SF the best place to start a startup if you want in office talent in 2025. 100% yes, but that has nothing to do with the Bay Area and everything to do with accidents of history.