MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zucked | 2025-10-30 18:36:30+00:00
This was one of my (as a layperson) irritations with this process. Words matter -- the fact that this was rolled out as a "vaccine" gave a lot of people the initial impression that once they got the shot, they'd be immune. Myself included.

I believe that the word vaccine was misunderstood on a large scale, much to our detriment. I don't know what it should have been called otherwise, but I think the messaging around the mRNA treatments was handled poorly.
by sebastiennight | 2025-10-30 18:37:02+00:00
You just replaced "buying a house" with "buying an apartment", proving my point about cultural bias :-)

I meant, for many people (especially young ones), taking that same deposit to purchase an investment property (which could be a house or apartment, but has a tenant who lives there rather than being for oneself) can be a better deal than buying for themselves.

In the end, buying a place to live in is very much an emotional choice, which is totally valid. But in some locales and for some lifestyles, being a landlord who pays rent elsewhere can be a better financial decision.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-30 18:37:04+00:00
> If you didn't know, there's a formal name for this: Lemon Markets[0]. Which yes, I agree. I think it is an accurate description of tech.

Well, but I'm saying it's not just tech, it's becoming everything. (Unless by "tech" you mean "tech has made all markets act this way".) I guess one way to look at what I'm saying is that online marketplaces are inherently more "lemon-leaning" because the buyer's ability to assess the quality of the good is inherently limited (since they can't actually see, touch, or use it).

Interestingly the "solution" that e-commerce seems to have settled on is "free shipping with free returns". This limits the damage of buying a lemon, since the customer can just send it back. But it creates a sort of moral hazard for both buyers and sellers: the buyer has an incentive to essentially operate like a spammer, selling crappy goods just on the off chance that a few won't get returned; and the seller is encouraged to just buy willy-nilly since they can just return anything that turns out to be crap. This generates an enormous amount of waste and churn and exacerbates the downward spiral of the lemon market.

> But we also get confused with thinking the goal is "to make money" and not differentiate it from "to make money by producing a useful product.".

This is the crux of the issue. I don't see that as an issue of "management" really though. I mean it is an issue of management but at a higher level, in the way the executives manage the whole company, or the way the board manages the executives, rather than the way mid-level managers manage actual workers.

But ultimately it's an issue of values. As you say, too many people have drifted away from any value system that would place any kind of constraints on "the goal is to make money".
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-30 18:37:14+00:00
> There is a trade off there between frequency and temporal precision

Sure, and the FFT isn't inherently biased towards one vs the other. If you take an FFT over a long time window (narrowband spectrogram) then you get good frequency resolution at the cost of time resolution, and vice versa for a short time window (wideband spectrogram).

For speech recognition ideally you'd want to use both since they are detecting different things. TFA is saying that this is in fact what our cochlea filter bank is doing, using different types of filter at different frequency ranges - better frequency resolution at lower frequencies where the formants are (carrying articulatory information), and better time resolution at the high frequencies generated by fricatives where frequency doesn't matter but accurate onset detection is useful for detecting plosives.
by altruios | 2025-10-30 18:37:31+00:00
Some people can project the image of an apple into the real world. As in, they are able to imagine an apple on the table that they see with their eyes. They 'see' it, but see that it's a projection. It's a lot like when you have two very similar images (except one change), and you cross your eyes such that they overlap to highlight the change (it's ghostly, as it's only seen in one eye). Same Idea, only instead of the other eye, that projection is coming from your brain.
by reenorap | 2025-10-30 18:37:41+00:00
This is false and has never been proven. This was the propaganda that was spread after the vaccine was openly no longer working.

What stopped the pandemic was omicron that was so explosively contagious that 98+% of the world got it at the time. After that everyone had natural immunity that caused decreasing symptoms every subsequent time you got infected with a new variant.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-30 18:38:25+00:00
The niche Next dominated before they started chasing the RSC dragon was scaling SPAs with complex frontend state.

React Query and atom based state management offered nice alternatives to Redux/Context hell, and Next could have just hung up major architectural refactors for QoL updates.

They want to dominate the headless Shopify/CMS niche, but that doesn't have to mean dragging Next.js along for the ride. It was a business/branding decision, not one that actually benefits most users of what they had already had.
by goodells | 2025-10-30 18:38:55+00:00
It's interesting how different standards for behavior on public transit are over there compared to the US. The €100 fine for playing music out loud introduced by Irish Rail sounds heavenly. Here in Dallas, half the trains I get on have someone openly smoking (cigarettes, weed, meth) on them and the rare transit security officers supposed to be doing something about it are the ones playing loud videos on their phones!
by seized | 2025-10-30 18:39:17+00:00
Not really, those people go to a hospital where there is a duty of care. Hospitals don't get to just say "Nah, not gonna help you" and close the door for people showing up in the ED.

So those vaccine deniers get sick, lose their commitment, go to the ED, get some level of treatment/help/etc, and suck up resources and impact help for the guy who got vaccinated then got hit by someone running a red light....
by the_af | 2025-10-30 18:39:18+00:00
> A common exercise while being in the back seat of a car while I was young was to imagine someone in a skateboard riding along the power lines on the side of the road, keeping pace with our car.

Oh, I've done this! I think many kids have. I remember a moment in my childhood when it was ninja turtles riding on those hoverboards, while I was bored watching outside the window of the back seat. Riding along the power lines, and occasionally katana-cutting something in the way.
by user_7832 | 2025-10-30 18:39:22+00:00
I think it depends on the field or industry. I seem to remember seeing commercial TVs by Samsung when we were buying ours. Similar display specs, almost twice the price, no smarts, and 5 years warranty. They were designed for hotels I believe and came with a few features for that. Similarly hospitality aimed brands often are designed to withstand more abuse and cost a bit more. If you like whatever product you encounter or use in a commercial setting, just ask about it. There’s a decent chance you’ll be able to buy something similar.

Oh also, for vacuums at least, shop vacs are apparently the way to go. And for audio, DIY beats the pants off anything commercial (unless you don’t mind spending thousands of dollars more).
by silisili | 2025-10-30 18:39:41+00:00
As a data point, my experience with the shot was a sore arm and chills for a couple days.

When I got Covid later, it was slightly worse chills for 3 days. By the 4th time I got Covid, it was just chills for a day.

If I knew that would be the experience, I'd probably have skipped it. That said, it's completely possible it was having the vaccine that made getting real Covid not so bad.
by benatkin | 2025-10-30 18:39:53+00:00
They fully intend to put the metaphorical kibosh on F-Droid. This could start with some employee who knows that, somewhat independently doing what they think will please their employer and know will not get them into trouble, followed by feigned apathy from higher ups. Or, perhaps it's just a simple mistake. What we do know is that Google is not to be trusted.
by ourguile | 2025-10-30 18:39:54+00:00
I have seen it and unfortunately, I'm a 5. I quite literally cannot picture an apple in any form. I understand what I'm supposed to be picturing but when I try there's nothing that appears. It's fascinating to me too, since I typically have quite vivid dreams and I've been able to lucid dream on a number of occasions.

Now, I've chatted with friends, and my one friend is close to a 2, or maybe a 1 from how he described it (being able to visualize the apple and rotate it 3-dimensionally).
by mike_ivanov | 2025-10-30 18:39:56+00:00
Not the OP - I think it's the same process. The difference is in what my inner narrator is doing. When I asleep it is almost always gone, and this is when I typically see things in full color. When awake, my attention is split between listening to its storytelling and the mental imagery, which I believe makes the latter more dull. I noticed that the narrator is more loud when I'm in a minor mental state, like tired or annoyed. When happy/refreshed - there is no voice in my head and I can "see" things very clearly, especially their colors. So, I started looking for ways to divert my attention from the narrator. The most effective seems to keep the narrator busy with commenting on my breath ("in" and "out"), got some boost of mental clarity from that.
by rpdillon | 2025-10-30 18:40:03+00:00
Yeah, the article is quite good at summarizing some of these issues.

> The convention has been heavily criticized by the tech industry, which has warned that it criminalizes cybersecurity research and exposes companies to legally thorny data requests.

> Human rights groups warned on Friday that it effectively forces member states to create a broad electronic surveillance dragnet that would include crimes that have nothing to do with technology.

> Many expressed concern that the convention will be abused by dictatorships and rogue governments who will deploy it against critics or protesters — even those outside of a regime’s jurisdiction.

> It also creates legal regimes to monitor, store and allow cross-border sharing of information without specific data protections. Access Now’s Raman Jit Singh Chima said the convention effectively justifies “cyber authoritarianism at home and transnational repression across borders.”

> Any countries ratifying the treaty, he added, risks “actively validating cyber authoritarianism and facilitating the global erosion of digital freedoms, choosing procedural consensus over substantive human rights protection.”
by runarberg | 2025-10-30 18:40:10+00:00
You notate the operation with * and $ (in mathup I use .* and .$ to make the operator invisible). Literal π is used both as a constant and as a function identifier depending on context so π(1 + n) can either be e.g. the (n+1)th prime or pi times one plus n. It is usually clear from context which one the author meant but if it is a problem explicit notation could help for sure.

I have also heard that the invisible operators help with accessibility. I haven’t tested this on my screen reader, but I suppose <mi>π</mi><mo>&af;</mo><!-->...<--> would read something like “Pi of ...” whereas <mi>π</mi><mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo><!-->...<--> would read something like “Pi times ...” all the while <mi>π</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo> would just read “Pi [open parenthesis] ...”.
by bigyikes | 2025-10-30 18:40:30+00:00
Not the parent, but I relate to their experience.

It depends on what you mean by “see”.

It’s nothing like seeing with my eyes, and it’s nothing like dreaming.

When I “see” it is abstract. There are impressions and sensations. I can recall the qualities of something - even the visual qualities - but it doesn’t feel like sight.

Can you remember what something smells like? I can recall a foul smell, but I don’t recoil because it doesn’t actually feel like smelling. Still, I have an impression of the smell. Sight works the same for me.
by abetusk | 2025-10-30 18:40:33+00:00
I think this is a typical response for someone with aphantasia.

To see why your take might be false, many people dreams have a fidelity of images that is comparable to reality, even for people with aphantasia. Do you dream with this fidelity? Can you recreate that fidelity while awake?

There are also testable differences that support the claim that people can actually visualize, in photographic detail, images while awake [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856239/
by dingaling | 2025-10-30 18:41:16+00:00
> and let him pick a couple stocks to put some money into

And yet we complain that corps today are too focused on their market valuation over everything else; customer experience, longevity, worker conditions, R&D are all being neglected in order to make the needle go up.

'Investing' in stocks in order to flip them when the price goes up is feeding this insanity. Teaching kids that this is perfectly rational seems selfish and short-sighted.

Our children should be encouraged to invest into something like bonds which actually help promote economic growth.
by devmor | 2025-10-30 18:41:29+00:00
> You can still get a chicken burrito which has 60g of protein and 1000 calories for just about $10.

I am not sure where you live, but here in Atlanta that's about 30g of protein (still about 1000 calories depending on free additions) at almost $15 after tax. Or I could go to a local mexican place and get a similar burrito for less than $10.
by bitwize | 2025-10-30 18:41:31+00:00
Implementing objects as closures interpreting messages passed as parameters is exactly how many Scheme programmers (myself included) wrote "babby's first object system" in Scheme. Such an object system is also presented in SICP.

Finally we have the following Scheme Koan:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...
by MayeulC | 2025-10-30 18:41:49+00:00
Agreed. I imagine that obsidian surface must have been as polished as my smartphone screen in its prime, and probably as useful as a mirror (screen turned off). I am not sure of the flatness they were able to achieve though, so the reflection might not have been perfect. In theory a perfectly flat surface is achievable if they used the same tool to polish multiple mirrors at the same time!
by hinkley | 2025-10-30 18:42:04+00:00
The odd thing is that the US has been teaching math using the “in your head” heuristic (New Math) for almost 20 years and yet young adults cannot make change without the machine to save their lives.

God help me if I hand someone $25 for a $14.75 total. I’m getting small bills back.

I wonder what they teach in Germany.
by hondadriver | 2025-10-30 18:42:09+00:00
Same here. I can't see, hear nor smell anything apart from what is really there.

I can 'imagine' in great detail, have a good visual/ auditory memory, but there is no real picture or sound. It is black / silent. I never forget a face just can't picture them.

I found out about this via an article posted here when I was 45 years old, now 4 years ago.

It never felt and does feel like a disability in any way.

Dreams in contrast are a full sensory experience for me, so the route back from memory to senses is there, only it is blocked when I am awake.
by nicolashahn | 2025-10-30 18:42:16+00:00
Sad but at the end of the day Waymos are significantly less dangerous drivers than humans. If all cars on the street were Waymos, cats (and everyone else) would be much safer.

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/05/waymo-making-streets-safer-fo...

Though, Waymo should absolutely be responsible for this and be treated as if it were a human who hit the cat.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-30 18:42:17+00:00
> Hitting a pet / animal should be treated the same as hitting a child? No

I think the point is you don't know for certain what you hit if you hit and run. The car should have enough collision detection to know when it's hit something.

That said, this story is sending up red flags with the "allegedly" in the title and lack of evidence beyond hearsay.
by reenorap | 2025-10-30 18:42:18+00:00
It is/was a vaccine, I think the terminology is correct. It just didn't work effectively because the variants mutated too quickly because you're not supposed to vaccinate in the middle of a pandemic. This cause an explosion of variants and they couldn't make vaccines that tracked the new variants fast enough.

So instead they decided to change the goalposts and said "This vaccine that worked on the variant 2 years ago will still protect from severe symptoms" when in fact it did nothing and people kept getting infected.

It wasn't the vaccine itself it was how it was sold to us by Pfizer, Moderna and the politicians.
by WillAdams | 2025-10-30 18:42:35+00:00
Thoughts on opensource alternatives?

- Inkscape is an obvious one --- there's also https://cenon.info/, perhaps Gravit Designer? Any word on Graphite.rs 's stand-alone desktop version?

- GIMP, Paint.net, Darktable and Krita

- Scribus or LaTeX or Typst
by jdlshore | 2025-10-30 18:42:45+00:00
At first I said no, but… maybe. The GDPR requires a lawful basis for processing PII. The lawful bases are all fairly narrow, except for “the user said I could,” which is the “consent” lawful basis and can be applied to just about anything.

Consent must be opt-in, non-compensated or coerced, and (this is the important one) provided for each type of use. Which this does seem to violate.

It’s been a long time since I read the GDPR, and IANAL, but I think you might be right.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-10-30 18:42:48+00:00
I hate to say it but some of the newer PS features have become indispensable in my usage - mainly smart objects. nondestructive layer effects are a godsend when you want to tweak and retweak stuff that would otherwise require a ton of time and effort to undo/redo or duplicate layers/groups to A/B changes.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-30 18:43:08+00:00
> more solar means they can sell more gas/oil to everyone else

A glut in supply drives prices down. Oil extraction and refining doesn't have constant costs, as it is heavily dependent on geography as well as the physical characteristics of oil itself.

This is why there was a 3 way gas price war between the US, Saudi Arabia, and Russia in the 2010s.
by vladgur | 2025-10-30 18:43:26+00:00
If we take "Israel" out of the equation to remove much of controversy, i dont understand why wouldnt any actor, especially government actor, take every possible step that their data remains under their sole control.

In other words, im curious why would Israel not invest in making sure that the their were storing in third-party vendor clouds was not encrypted at rest and in transit by keys not stored in that cloud.

This seems like a matter of national security for any government, not to have their data accessible by other parties at the whims of different jurisdiction where that cloud vendor operates.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-30 18:44:05+00:00
I can no longer rotate or even imagine 3d objects.

My lexical memory is very high, and I have long running echoic memory so I can post process audio but a 0.1 second visual flash?

Unless my brain picked it up and had time to parse out the numbers into lexical storage I would not be able to go back and recall it at all.

I don't have congenital aphantasia and it's clear to me that there are certain kinds of background processing still occurring in my subconscious, it's like a unidirectional connection between parts of my brain that was once bidirectional.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-30 18:44:10+00:00
This is a rather long-winded way of saying "unreliable means it doesn't retransmit for you, it doesn't mean it's shit." Which, duh? I don't know, maybe there are people out there who need to hear this, but I'd think that anyone who knows what UDP is at all will also understand the sense in which it's "unreliable."
by dang | 2025-10-30 18:44:27+00:00
> This is a bizarre remark

> makes it sound like you're just insecure

> instead of just sitting down + learning it you would rather compensate

Can you please edit out swipes like these from your HN posts? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be fine without those bits.
Show HN: Sourcetable – Operational spreadsheets that can read/write to any API
by dioptre | 2025-10-30 18:44:48+00:00
We built what we're calling "operational spreadsheets" – spreadsheets that can actually execute actions across external systems, not just calculate and display data.

The core idea: spreadsheets have been passive tools for 40 years. You put data in, formulas process it, you export it, manually move it somewhere else, repeat. We added bidirectional API integration with natural language commands, so the spreadsheet itself can send emails, update databases, orchestrate workflows across services – autonomously.

Think of it as the evolution from VisiCalc → Excel → Google Sheets (multi-user) → Sourcetable (operational). The spreadsheet stops being just a calculation layer and becomes an execution layer.

How it works:

- Natural language commands: "send emails to column A using data from column B" executes across connected email APIs - Three integration modes: pre-built connectors (Google Ads, Shopify, Stripe, Postgres), generative connectors (AI writes the integration code in real-time for any API, Database or MCP), and a credential vault - Full audit trail in cells – every action logs back to the spreadsheet - Excel-compatible (formulas, A1 notation, etc.)

Technical stack:

- Python/FastAPI backend with Ray for distributed execution - React frontend with DuckDB WASM for client-side analytics - Apache Arrow for data interchange - LiteLLM for multi-model AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Custom Models Based on Granite 4)

Example use case:

Instead of manually exporting Shopify orders, importing to Excel, calculating reorder quantities, and emailing suppliers, the operational spreadsheet monitors Shopify, detects inventory changes, calculates reorders, and submits purchase orders to suppliers automatically. The spreadsheet becomes the workflow engine, not just documentation.

We're live at https://sourcetable.com/superagents

Blog post on the email automation example: https://blog.sourcetable.com/email-from-a-spreadsheet/

Happy to answer technical questions. We know HN will have strong opinions on whether this is the right abstraction layer for automation vs. traditional workflow tools or code.

Key decisions we made that HN will likely debate:

1. Spreadsheet as the orchestration layer (vs. Zapier/n8n/Airflow) 2. Natural language commands (vs. formula DSL or Python) 3. Generative connectors that write integration code on-demand (quality varies by API docs) 4. Excel compatibility as a constraint (limits some interactions but keeps it accessible)

Founded by Eoin McMillan and Andrew Grosser. Backed by Preston-Werner Ventures (Tom Preston-Werner from GitHub), Long Journey, Bee Partners, NextView.
by mullingitover | 2025-10-30 18:45:43+00:00
> We love the idea of buying organic, environmentally-friendly technology that makes us part of the solution

Telsa sells a huge number of vehicles to Americans who couldn't care less about the environment but do care about buying a car that can rip through 0-60 in under 3 seconds.

ICE vehicles are simply inferior for most use cases now. They're only holding on because a huge number of people would be out of work if we abandoned obsolete transportation technology. Continuing ICE mass production is an actual socialist make-work scheme at the end of the day.